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http://www.cracked.com/article_17298_6-random-coincidences-that-created-modern-world.html
Scary stuff. If Gavrilo Princip hadn't been at that café eating a sandwich when Franz Ferdinand's car passed by and the driver hadn't tried to reverse, which stalled the engine....well, what would have happened? All the other things....if they hadn't happened, the world would have been so different. There's so much fodder for alternative history right there in a comedy article!
I know, it's a comedy website, not the most reliable source for information. But it's got me thinking about alternative history again. The endless what-ifs of the pasts.
I should be working on homework, I've got three, yes, three projects due next week but instead i'm looking at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI A newsreel of what people in the 1930s thought fashion in 2000 would look like.
Pretty wild, eh?
Scary stuff. If Gavrilo Princip hadn't been at that café eating a sandwich when Franz Ferdinand's car passed by and the driver hadn't tried to reverse, which stalled the engine....well, what would have happened? All the other things....if they hadn't happened, the world would have been so different. There's so much fodder for alternative history right there in a comedy article!
I know, it's a comedy website, not the most reliable source for information. But it's got me thinking about alternative history again. The endless what-ifs of the pasts.
I should be working on homework, I've got three, yes, three projects due next week but instead i'm looking at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI A newsreel of what people in the 1930s thought fashion in 2000 would look like.
Pretty wild, eh?
