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Line 88: Miskatonic University, frequently seen or mentioned in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], is modeled on Brown University. Harvard's Widener Library houses a copy of the ''Necronomicon''. * In ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'', [[Word of God]] [~~http~~https://web.archive.org/web/20190928074329/https://www.alternatehistory.com/~~discussion~~forum/~~showpost~~threads/decades-of-darkness.~~php?p=4980566&postcount=3843~~8170/page-193 holds] that the [[Alternate History]] Ivy League covers nine schools in New England<ref>In the ''DoD'' [[The Verse\|'verse]], New England includes the Canadian Maritimes, [[New York State]] [[Big Applesauce\|York]], [[Joisey\|New Jersey]], [[Michigan]] (minus the Upper Peninsula), and parts of northern Indiana and Ohio, in addition to the six states that make up the region in [[Real Life]].</ref> instead of eight in the US. Missing from the list are UPenn (Pennsylvania is part of the US), Princeton (which didn't survive [[World War I\|the North American War]]), and Cornell (which was founded half a century after the [[Point of Divergence]], and so doesn't exist in the ''DoD'' 'verse). According to the [[Standard Snippet\|early 20th-century pop song]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTZDJBP_kw&feature=youtu.be "Freddy the Freshman"], the titular Freddy "got bounced from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown". Line 102: * Author [[William S. Burroughs]], Harvard 1936. * Civil Rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois was Harvard 1890. * [[Horatio Alger, Jr.]], Harvard 1852. * [[Al Franken]], Harvard 1973. === Yale === Line 109: * George W. Bush attended Yale * Legendary OSS/CIA spymaster [[James Jesus Angleton]] was a Yale man. * [[Željko Ivanek]], class of 1978 === University of Pennsylvania === Line 116 ⟶ 118: === Princeton === * [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] attended Princeton. * As did [[Jimmy Stewart]], [[wikipedia:Joshua Logan\|Joshua Logan]], [[Jose Ferrer]], [[~~MASH~~MASH (television)\|Wayne Rogers]], [[Brooke Shields]], [[The X-Files\|David Duchovny]], [http://www.amazon.com Jeff Bezos], [[Lois and Clark\|Dean Cain]], and former First Lady Michelle Obama (nee Robinson). * In fact, the last five were all at Princeton during the ''same four-year span'' between 1982 and 1985. <!-- As was troper and admin [[User:Looney Toons\|Looney Toons]] (class of 1984), who had both Brooke Shields and Michelle Robinson in the outer reaches of his social circle. --> * The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) was an important rebel victory in [[The American Revolution]]. Damage from cannon balls can still be seen in Nassau Hall (Princeton's administration building). Line 123 ⟶ 125: * Bestselling author [[Jodi Picoult]] is Princeton '87. * Playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O'Neill, Princeton Class of 1910. * Musician/playwright Gene Lewin of the band [[GrooveLily]], ~~attended~~Class ~~Princeton~~of 1984. * [[Wentworth Miller]] Class of 1995. * Presidents Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, and James Madison went to Princeton. Wilson was also the President of Princeton from 1902 to 1910. * Ralph Nader, Princeton 1955. Line 129 ⟶ 132: * Former pro basketball player and former US Senator Bill Bradley is Princeton Class of 1965. * Syngman Rhee, first president of South Korea, Princeton 1910. * Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Princeton 1976 * ''[[WandaVision]]'' creator Jac Schaeffer, Class of 2000 * Author [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]] attended Princeton in the late 1970s, but never graduated. === Columbia ===