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December 3

Ruins of the Gambier Islands

I am trying to find a list of the ruins and churches (the names of the churches especially) from the mission era on the Gambier Islands like St. Michael's Cathedral, Rikitea? Rikitea#Landmarks lists some but doesn't go into the details.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:43, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I did not locate a decent book. Here is a point to possibly starting from, with some information. French Catholic missionary Père Laval came to the islands in 1834 via Valparaiso and built St. Michael's Cathedral as well as nine other churches and other buildings or compounds. He died in 1880. The link is in French but Google translate can be used with good results. Some other links in French: [1] (a travel blog with photographs), [2], [3], [4]. Air Tahiti knows about [5] "more than one hundred stone buildings" erected between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, counting chalk or backery ovens as well as some workshops etc,. --Askedonty (talk) 19:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Travel guides and other sources to the region might also provide some basic information on such churches. Also, at least for churches in those bodies which have a clear organizational structure, like the Roman Catholics, the archives of the local diocese or archdiocese might provide at least information on what churches have existed, their approximate era, and that sort of thing. John Carter (talk) 19:53, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stories that use the counterfactual that ww2 never happened,or happenned much later

Are there any stories that use the counterfactual of ww2 either never happening at all,or ww2 happening much later?Uncle dan is home (talk) 07:50, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Red Alert series of games begins with a time traveler assassinating Hitler in 1924. The writers then assume that with such a change, WWII basically still happens, but it's the Allies (including Germany this time) fighting the Soviet Union. Someguy1221 (talk) 07:58, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Worldwar series has aliens with Desert Storm-era equipment invade Earth during WWII. Rmhermen (talk) 18:48, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An enormous number. The genre is alternative history. --47.138.163.230 (talk) 23:28, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Century Rain has the invasion of France failing, Hitler being deposed, and the war ending before much of significance happened. Iapetus (talk) 15:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]