Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

* Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, produces thoroughly researched reporting in the public interest

Nevertheless, we have researched the subject thoroughly — sitting through more than 2, 000 wretched films in the last few years — and we believe that our nominees and award winners can stand the test of time.

However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.

After the American deployment of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, the Swedish military leadership recognized the need for nuclear weapons to be thoroughly investigated and researched to provide Sweden with the knowledge to defend itself from a nuclear attack.

The most thoroughly researched of these sites are located in the country's Northeast, especially in the Mun and Chi River valleys.

It is also extremely important as a model organism in modern cell biology research, and is one of the most thoroughly researched eukaryotic microorganisms.

Menopause in the animal kingdom appears perhaps to be somewhat uncommon, but the presence of this phenomenon in different species has not been thoroughly researched.

From 1966 to 1977, the Mausoleum was thoroughly researched by Prof. Kristian Jeppesen of Aarhus University, Denmark.

The most far-fetched explanation of Charles ’ death comes from a folklorist Barbro Klein, who put together a thoroughly researched paper on his hypothesis in 1971.

A thoroughly researched history of these migrations is also contained in the book about one of their leaders called, " The Woman Who Defied Kings ", by the historian and journalist, Andree Aelion Brooks.

Vera Brittain in her thoroughly researched biography of Bunyan, identifies seven locations that appear in the allegory.

The boxed game also comes with a thoroughly researched instruction manual, which not only covers game mechanics, but also contains a large amount of information regarding ants and ant societies.

It is very probable that there is a genetic basis underlying the phenomenon ( young birds whose bills are still straight will give a cone-opening behavior if their bills are gently pressed, and the crossing develops before the birds are fledged and feeding independently ), but at least in the Red Crossbill ( the only species which has been somewhat thoroughly researched regarding this question ) there is no straightforward mechanism of heritability.

At 26, he set up his first " milk bar " in 1935, the Strand Milk Bar Ltd, in Regent Street, London, having thoroughly researched the location.

These guidelines have been thoroughly researched by scientists to determine the best methods for reducing the real threat of food poisoning from unsafe food storage.

Topics are thoroughly investigated and researched by host Kostas Chardavellas and his team of investigative reporters.

) He researched his subjects thoroughly, and, in the early shows, always had his list of questions to hand.

To date, these inclusions has not been thoroughly researched.

' Almanzor ' is a major character in the thoroughly researched, but extremely anachronistic, historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) by the Swedish author Frans Gunnar Bengtsson.

However, for Kets, neither dualistic organization of society nor cosmological dualism has been researched thoroughly.

George Ferencz, the world expert on Bennett and professor of music at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, who edited The Broadway Sound, has also written a thoroughly researched bio-bibliography about the composer.

He thoroughly researched Steller's life over the next few decades, a hobby which culminated in his only non-scientific publication, an authoritative Steller biography.

It specialized in intelligent, thoroughly researched, irreverent pieces targeting the American media and entertainment industries.

Groff Conklin found the novel to be " a richly textured and thoroughly mature tale.

Groff Conklin described the novel as " a thoroughly delightful job ".

For the downbeat tone of the novel, Adams blamed personal problems, saying " for all sorts of personal reasons I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background.

In regards to the triffids ' creation, some editions of the novel make brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist and would-be biologist Trofim Lysenko ; eventually thoroughly debunked, Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

In this sense, the novel can be viewed as thoroughly orthodox and traditionalist in its attitude to Jesus's role as redeemer.

Breen said that any screenplay, no matter how well done, would likely bring condemnation of the film industry " from decent people everywhere " because of " the fact that it stems from so thoroughly questionable a novel.

The issue of the insanity defense was more thoroughly explored in the novel, and a key scene in which Biegler destroys the credibility and professionalism of the prosecution's psychiatric expert for proffering an opinion without examining the subject is watered down in the film almost to insignificance.

* Pylon ( novel ) by William Faulkner Published in 1935, is the story of a group of barnstormers whose lives are thoroughly unconventional.

She also thought about plans for another Mary Westmacott novel and wrote to Edmund Cork saying that, as she was well ahead of her normal writing schedule, she had gone over the Miss Marple novel thoroughly, ‘ as a lot of it seemed to have dated very much ’.

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

F & SF reviewer Charles de Lint received the novel favorably, describing it as " a fine, thoroughly engaging story about real people in an extraordinary situation.

Despite being panned by numerous critics ( movie historian Leonard Maltin called it " a textbook example of how to do everything wrong in a literary adaptation ... Scott Spencer's deservedly-praised novel is thoroughly trashed.

Indeed, so thoroughly did the Stuart cause fail that readers of Oroonoko may miss the topicality of the novel.

Fantasy literature reviewer Patrick on his blog Pat's Fantasy Hotlist gave the novel a very positive review and a score of 9 / 10, calling it " the beginning of something truly special ", and concluding " Imaginative on a scale that's almost frightening to consider, absorbing, thoroughly complex -- that's Gardens of the Moon in a nutshell.

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel as " believable throughout and thoroughly frightening.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times commented that the movie " treats the novel as a thoroughly modern social comedy peopled with raging narcissists, opportunists and flat-out fools ".

In Neutzsky-Wulff's authorship the traditional novel form now appears to be cracking, as his novels grow in size and are thoroughly embedded with several subplots parallel to the main story.

Michiko Kakutani wrote ( 12 December 2003 ) that Wolff, best known for short stories and memoirs, " seems thoroughly ill at ease with the long-distance form of the novel: his book feels overstuffed and undernourished at the same time.