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| __Feminism:__ **"Cythereanism"**. Derived from the Greek mythological story that Aphrodite (Venus), symbolic of femininity, was born from the sea on the Greek island of Cythera. | __Feminism:__ **"Cythereanism"**. Derived from the Greek mythological story that Aphrodite (Venus), symbolic of femininity, was born from the sea on the Greek island of Cythera. |
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| __Micromanagement:__ **"Passeridic management"**. //The notion that a single ruler would decide every such appointment, known as Passeridic management in the world of business, is a highly modern idea born of the dramatically increased easy access to information and organisational data that exists in the world we now live in. (from Counting Potsherds to the Heavenly Mandate: A History of the Voting Franchise” by Dr Daniel McCluskey and Prof Davina Fenworth, 1988)// | __Micromanagement:__ **"Passeridic management"**. //The notion that a single ruler would decide every such appointment, known as Passeridic management in the world of business, is a highly modern idea born of the dramatically increased easy access to information and organisational data that exists in the world we now live in. (from "Counting Potsherds to the Heavenly Mandate: A History of the Voting Franchise” by Dr Daniel McCluskey and Prof Davina Fenworth, 1988)// |
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| __Phrenology:__ **"Craniography"**. A form of pseudoscience attempting to survey the physical and mental health and social attitudes of a person by observing the shape of his skull. Like in OTL, it eventually died out during the 19th century. | __Phrenology:__ **"Craniography"**. A form of pseudoscience attempting to survey the physical and mental health and social attitudes of a person by observing the shape of his skull. Like in OTL, it eventually died out during the 19th century. |
| ==== Popular culture ==== | ==== Popular culture ==== |
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| __Alternate history:__ **"Speculative romance"**. More or less the OTL alternate history genre, but with a few twists. It's a broader category, and can include plots such as aliens landing on Earth in the present day (. Speculative romance is often considered the most ‘realist’ school of the three parachtonic romance branches, focusing on how strange events change the world as it actually is (or was), not how the author wants it to be to make a point, as is often the case in scientific romance (science fiction). | __Alternate history:__ **"Speculative romance"**. More or less the OTL alternate history genre, but with a few twists. It's a broader category, and can include plots such as aliens landing on Earth in the present day (Speculative romance is often considered the most ‘realist’ school of the three parachtonic romance branches, focusing on how strange events change the world as it actually is (or was), not how the author wants it to be to make a point, as is often the case in scientific romance (science fiction). |
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| __Comic books:__ **"Sequents"**, singular "a sequent". Nobody is quite sure if this is an abbreviation for 'sequential art' (see above) or a mistaken back-formation from less educated people assuming that 'sequence' was the plural form (i.e. thinking it was //sequents//) and therefore 'a sequent' is the singular. | __Comic books:__ **"Sequents"**, singular "a sequent". Nobody is quite sure if this is an abbreviation for 'sequential art' (see above) or a mistaken back-formation from less educated people assuming that 'sequence' was the plural form (i.e. thinking it was //sequents//) and therefore 'a sequent' is the singular. |
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| __Trick photography:__ **"Asimconic hoaxes"**. | __Trick photography:__ **"Asimconic hoaxes"**. |
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| ==== Geography, placenames and demonyms ==== | ==== Geography, placenames and demonyms ==== |
| **[[list of wars in look to the west|Wars (Look to the West)]]** | **[[list of wars in look to the west|Wars (Look to the West)]]** |
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