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--- alternate_history:map_of_the_fortnight_topics [2015/08/15 00:47] – Up to date as of 15/08/2015. Krall
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 |**All In The Name**|Single country|Make a map showing a country, city, or region which has recently undergone a significant name change.|
 |**All Roads Lead Away From Rome**|-|Make a map showing the neighbors of a great power, be it on the rise or decline.|
-|**Always Look on the Bright Side of Life**|Single country, Conflict|Make a map showing a country after a war that has moved on and developed as though the war never happened.|
+|**Always Look on the Bright Side e of Life**|Single country, Conflict|Make a map showing a country after a war that has moved on and developed as though the war never happened.|
 |**Always Something New Out of Africa**|Divergence|Make a map showing a historically significant African nation that didn't exist OTL.|
 |**Always the Bridesmaid**|Single Country|Make a map showing a secondary power that is constantly overshadowed by a more powerful ally.|
+|**Antiquated Union**|Single Country|Make a map showing a nation that survived from Antiquity to the Present Day.|
 |**Art of Carving**|Single country|Make a map of a rump state that lost some if not most of its core territories.|
 |**Arthur's Empire**|Single country|Make a map showing the Empire of Arthur and his heirs, anywhere from 400 to 2011 AD.|
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 |**Boom 'til Bust**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a settlement, region, or country that experienced a major economic boom or resource rush after the boom has died down.|
 |**The Boys Are Back in Town**|-|Make a map showing a state that is descended from a state that no longer exists.|
-|**Bricks and Marble**|-|Make a map showing an alternate city or an alternate version of an OTL city.|
+|**The Brady Bunch**|-|Make a map showing a world in the present day with a very small number of independent countries.|
 |**Calculus Of Power**|-|Make a map showing the effects of political horse trades.|
 |**Catastrophe (Almost) Averted**|-|Make a map showing a world where a major "Horrible Event" was about to happen, but averted at the last second- but not before some significant damage was done. Examples: War of the Worlds: The Martians died before they could destroy the rest of the planet, but London and environs are an absolute mess. Deep Impact: Yeah, the big rock was blown up, but the little one still wiped out the Atlantic seaboard. Fail Safe: Nuclear war was averted, but at the cost of New York and Moscow.|
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 |**From Nothing to Nightmare**|Conflict|Make a map showing a once backwards, weak country that has become a powerful pariah state.|
 |**From the West**|Divergence|Make a map showing the western Americas being colonized by Asian countries.|
+|**Fry it Up**|Single Country|Make a map showing a country with a panhandle.|
 |**From The Worldweek**|Style|Make a map in the style of maps used in news media.|
 |**Gerry's Salamander**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a border (national or sub-national) designed to help or hinder a specific demographic group.|
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 |**Happy Holidays!**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing which holiday is most popular or the level of popularity of a single holiday in a specific region or the whole world.|
 |**The Hatters Parliament**|Divergence|Make a map showing a world or nation in which a benign OTL ideology has been taken to twisted extremes. For example anti-Racism leading to it being illegal for people to marry within their race.|
+|**Here be Dragons**|-|Make a map showing a major nation that hasn't been explored by Europeans yet.|
 |**Here be Dragons and Giants**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing the world or a region (as in the America's or Oceania) as imagined by medieval explorers with little to no information about it. OTL examples of this would be Terra Australis or the belief that California was a large island.|
+|**Hero of the Day, Vampire of the Night**|Conflict|Make a map showing the unpleasant effects of a war.|
 |**The Holy Elsewhere**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a pivotal holy place that is away from the main areas of the religion it is important to.|
-|**HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, BATMAN!**|-|Make a map showing an alternate Europe, North or South America, or East Asia that is very politically diverse and fragmented, with PODs no earlier than Columbus.|
 |**Hope and Change**|-|Make a map showing the results of a realigning election in a nation. Realigning elections for example is UK 1945, 1983, 1997 & USA 1860, 1896, 1932, 1968, 1980 , 2008.|
 |**Human Nature**|-|Make a map showing an attempt by humans to preserve the natural environment.|
 |**Humanity's Finest Hour**|-|Make a map showing the operations of an organisation dedicated to helping people. The organisation may be regional, national, or international, and you may show all or several of its operations or focus on its actions in one country or region or at one time. "Helping people" includes providing information (including organisations dedicated to scientific research and transparent journalism), providing healthcare, protected against disaster, protecting rights and liberties (both in general and those of minorities), etc.|
+|**Hunny, I'm Home!**|Social/Cultural, Single Country|Make a map showing a Nomad-based State.|
 |**If Stirling Never Stopped**|Conflict|Make a map showing a country analogous to the Domination of Draka, e.g. Large, militaristic China or over-expanding, hostile Raj.|
 |**Implausible Colonizers**|Single country|Make a map showing the colonial empire of a nation not known for it in OTL.|
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 |**The Little Apple**|Divergence|Make a map showing a settlement which became a major city in OTL but didn't in this timeline.|
 |**A Little-Known Fact**|-|Make a map about a person, place, or idea which is well known in OTL but only a footnote in the world of the map. (The campaigns of Alexander, the king of Macedon who got himself killed at the Granicus, surviving communities of that weird Jewish sect called Christianity, etc.)|
+|**Lo, How the Mighty Have Fallen**|-|Make a map showing a previously powerful nation being divided up.|
 |**Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair**|-|Make a map showing a successfully built megastructure, either showing the structure itself, its location, or the political or social conditions that caused its construction.|
 |**A Looong TL A' Windin'**|-|Make a map set in the modern day in an ATL with a PoD before 500CE.|
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 |**Lonely Light**|-|Make a map showing a country or region which is in a bad situation, that is still an improvement over their previous situation.|
 |**Lotsa Flowers Bloomed**|-|Make a map showing a world with 5 socialist great powers in it.|
+|**Make Others Do The Dirty Work**|Conflict|Make a map of a proxy war.|
 |**Manifest Destiny**|Conflict, Single country|Make a map showing a country with the belief that it is destined to expand and grow, and uses it to justify its own aggressive imperialist expansion.|
 |**Many Drops Making A Sea**|Conflict|Make a map showing multiple, separate conflicts taking place in the same region.|
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 |**The NEW New Zion**|Divergence|Make a map showing an alternate resettlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in a place other than Utah.|
 |**A New World**|Divergence|Make a map showing an alternate colonization of North America.|
-|**Nix the Notion of the Nation**|-|Make a map showing a sovereign political entity that is able to to maintain a significant degree of influence that is not, itself, a nation state.|
 |**No Industrial Revolution**|Divergence|Make a map showing what happens when, for whatever reason, be it economic, political, social or technological, the 17th century Industrial Revolution in Britain is derailed.|
 |**No One Does It Like You**|Conflict, Single country|Make a map showing a country divided by popular vote, then reunited by force.|
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 |**The Old Country**|Single country|Make a map showing a country that has survived in recognisable form for over 1000 years.|
 |**One for You, One for Me**|-|Make a map showing two or more powers dividing a region among themselves.|
+|**One Of Them Is Not Like The Other**|Single Country|Make a map showing a country that stands out compared to its neighbors.|
 |**One Small Step**|-|Make a map showing some aspect of space exploration or travel within the Solar System.|
 |**On the Run from the Science Police**|Social/Cultural, Divergence|Maps from a world in which rather than Communism, Technocracy was the major 20th century alternate to liberal Capitalism.|
 |**An Overlay of Universes**|Style|Make a single map showing the differences in borders between an ATL and OTL.|
 |**Pastures New**|-|Make a map showing an artificially created landmass.|
+|**Poland Can Into Space**|Divergence, Single Country|Make a map showing a much more powerful Poland.|
 |**The Price of Victory**|Conflict|Make a map showing a Pyrrhic victory.|
 |**A Premature Birth**|Single country|Make a map showing an independent Ukraine, Poland, Syria, USA, etc. or the formation of a Yugoslavia or an Israel or any other "created" nation earlier than when it was formed in OTL.|
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 |**They're Living Where Now?**|-|Make a map showing a large minority of a group that has migrated to an area no one would think of, an example of this would be a successful Green Ukraine that exists at the same time as Ukraine.|
 |**This is my Boomstick**|-|Make a map showing a rising world power in Sub-Saharan Africa.|
-|**This Too Shall Pass**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing the same region in two different time periods - one during a golden age of prosperity and power, the other during a dark age of regression and chaos. Which period comes first is up to you.|
 |**The Thorn in the Foot**|Conflict|Make a map showing a guerilla war or other form of asymmetric warfare.|
 |**Those Whose Walls Already Rise**|-|Make a map showing an alternate defensive wall, or other defensive fortifications.|
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 |**To Infinity**|-|Make a map set in the world of a comic book from an ATL.|
 |**To New Lands!**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing an alternate Migration period. Ethnic groups in odd places is encouraged. Map can be set any time after the Migration period.|
+|**To the Victor**|Conflict|Make a map showing a pivotal battle.|
 |**Together at Last**|Single country|Make a map showing a nation that encompasses an entire ethnic group.|
 |**Toxicity**|Apocalyptic/Dystopian|Make a map showing a world of rampant environmental collapse and destruction on larger scales than OTL.|
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 |**The War No One Saw Coming**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world at the beginning, middle or right after a war that no one foresaw and/or thought possible.|
 |**WTF or War The Fuck?!**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region or the world right before, during or right after a war the origins of which are so ridiculous that future generations spend time trying to figure out what the real reasons for the war with as 'certainly, people wouldn't start a war over something like that right...right?'; an example IOTL would be the War of the Golden Stool.|
+|**The War Unseen**|Conflict|Make a map showing a region before and after a devastating war.|
 |**Wars Worse Than Civil**|Conflict|Make a map showing atrocities committed during a civil war.|
 |**We Will We Will Rock You**|Conflict, Single Country|Make a map showing a militaristic nation that frightens its neighbours.|
 |**WHAT ARE THOSE!?**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a group of nations that are outstanding and envied by others.|
+|**What's 9 +10? 21.**|Single Country|Make a map showing a nation that's suffered due to an incompetent leader.|
 |**Where the Smiles Died**|-|Make a map showing a scenario where a single event drastically changed the regional or global situation.|
 |**Why Me?**|Conflict, Single Country|Make a map showing a country that is constantly tormented by other powers.|
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 |**Where the Green Grass Grows**|-|Make a map showing a national park, forest, or natural preserve.|
 |**Where the Streets are Paved with Gold**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a region as it is perceived in another part of the world.|
+|**Why Hello...**|Conflict|Make a map showing a nation launching a surprise attack against another.|
 |**With Great Power**|FPS-ASB|Make a map showing a world where superheroes exist.|
+|**The Womb of Nations**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a powerful tribe or group of tribes.|
 |**The World Factbook**|Style|Make a map showing the world from ATL textbook, encyclopedia, or atlas.|
 |**The World in its Darkest Hour**|Conflict|Make a map showing the world at what is commonly considered its lowest point.|
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 |**The Yankee's Legacy**|Personal|Make a map showing the long-term effects of a single person being ISOT- ed into a different time or place.|
 |**You Are Now Exiting The Comfort Zone**|Style|Make a map showing an area that you, as a mapmaker, have never explored in detail before.|
+|**You Think I'd Really Fall for T—**|Conflict|Make a map showing a surprise attack in the rear/periphery of an aggressive entity focused elsewhere.|
 |**Zamenhof's Land**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a world, region, or country where an artificial language is spoken by a majority of the population.|
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 |MotF 122|**And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth**|Social/Cultural, Single country|Make a map showing a nation of long oppressed people who have achieved independence in their own nationstate.|
 |MotM 3|**Encyclopedia Cartographica**|Style, MotM|Make an encyclopedia article for a country, province, international organisation or similar entity.|
+|MotF 123|**Bricks and Marble**|-|Make a map showing an alternate city or an alternate version of an OTL city.|
+|MotF 124|**On the Shoulders of Giants**|Apocalyptic/Dystopian|Make a map showing the world or part of it where society has redeveloped following an apocalyptic event.|
+|MotF 125|**HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, BATMAN!**|-|Make a map showing a continent or region that is very politically diverse and fragmented.|
+|MotF 126|**Nix the Notion of the Nation**|-|Make a map showing a significantly influential sovereign political entity that is not a nation state.|
+|MotF 127|**This Too Shall Pass**|Social/Cultural|Make a map showing a region during two different periods - one a golden age of progress and power, the other a dark age of regression and chaos.|