Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 I have decided to start a thread for historical tidbits I find that might serve as plot inspiration. Other people can post here too - but it must be from history!
Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Author Posted February 18, 2015 http://mashable.com/2015/02/06/radio-shack-catalog-1981/ For your Iron Age gadgeteering needs. http://mashable.com/2015/01/24/zardoz-sean-connery/ This seems like an interesting AU to visit. http://mashable.com/2015/01/12/suffragettes-vs-police/ There's a Victorian-era origin in here somewhere. http://mashable.com/2014/12/16/fbi-fingerprint-files/ What if they suddenly started getting matches?
Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Author Posted February 18, 2015 http://mashable.com/2014/11/15/acid-house-raves/ Are Thoughtspeed's parents in here? MAYBE. http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/distorted-celebrities-weegee/ Pictures of the first Grue invasion?
Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Author Posted February 18, 2015 '> Via Raveled - some place names for that AU with no Europeans in the Americas.
EternalPhoenix Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_PeoplesFlatteners of multiple cities. The ones who finished off multiple nations. Only stopped by the raw might of Egypt in her prime. And we really don't know who they were. Interested? I know I am. Time travel stories, awayyyyy.
Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Author Posted February 18, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_world List of the oldest buildings in the world - many are ancient tombs holding unspeakable secrets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._A._Nothnagle_Log_House The oldest building in New Jersey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egg_Harbor_Township,_New_Jersey The town that's closest to the real world location of Freedom City.
Avenger Assembled Posted February 18, 2015 Author Posted February 18, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola There's a story here about the Cuban super-soldier who became a super_hero_ in Angola.
Avenger Assembled Posted March 4, 2015 Author Posted March 4, 2015 http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/ada-kaleh-an-ottoman-atlantis-on-the-danube- what secrets lie on Ada Kaleh, down deep in the Danube? Secrets the old government thought the river could drown.
Avenger Assembled Posted March 29, 2015 Author Posted March 29, 2015 http://www.wdl.org/en/item/581/view/1/1/ This one speaks for itself
Avenger Assembled Posted April 28, 2016 Author Posted April 28, 2016 http://io9.gizmodo.com/j-k-rowling-shows-off-the-international-wizarding-worl-1756228214 I had a lot of skepticism about this - I wonder if there's a way to do a better version here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Herman OK, here's your alternate Zatara. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Beverly_Randolph His Victorian predecessor.
olopi Posted October 15, 2016 Posted October 15, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Madol Not exactly unknown, but I stumbled across this today, and - who doesn't like mysteries that are "how did they lift these things?". Some interesting history on it too, with lots of speculation and theory (bring in the time-travellers, I say!)
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