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Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [ 1] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [ 1] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the ...
Counterfactual history. Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions. [ 1] Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen." [ 2]
A vast disc of land resting on four elephants which stand on a giant turtle. Setting of the Discworld series. The Colour of Magic. 1983. N V M G T. Draenor (Outland) Blizzard Entertainment. Homeworld of the orcs and ogres in the Warcraft franchise. Connected to Azeroth via the dark portal.
This series has made extensive use of alternative history, especially (but not exclusively) since its relaunch in 2005. These include Inferno, Day of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars (a brief glimpse of a dead Earth), "Father's Day", "Rise of the Cybermen", which follows into "Doomsday". 1966–2005. Star Trek.
Often an article relating to alternate history can benefit from a map to describe the political changes to the world. For an example of some maps go here: Maps of Alternate histories . If you would like a map created, post a request below and an interested project member may assist you.
The Kingdom of Navarre (/ n ə ˈ v ɑːr / nə-VAR; Basque: Nafarroako Erresuma; Spanish: Reino de Navarra; French: Royaume de Navarre; Occitan: Reiaume de Navarra; Latin: Regnum Navarrae), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (Basque: Iruñeko Erresuma), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic ...
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, [1] althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
Pixel art [note 1] is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. [2] It is widely associated with the low-resolution graphics from 8-bit and 16-bit era computers, arcade machines and video game consoles, in addition to other limited systems such as LED displays and graphing calculators, which have a limited number of ...