I Am From History

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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]

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? 

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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? 

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Via Raveled - some place names for that AU with no Europeans in the Americas. 

[EternalPhoenix]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

Flatteners 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]

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. 

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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.

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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. 

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http://www.wdl.org/en/item/581/view/1/1/

 

This one speaks for itself

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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]

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!)