napoleon IV
Moo Deng Xiaoping
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- Washington, Douglass Commonwealth
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- he/him
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Things that look like alternate history but aren't
- Thread starter Meadow
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Well it makes sense: If you have large coordinated armies, you want to be able to tell units apart for C3 reasons.
Anyway, have a Dutch East Indies flag carrier 737 (actually a post-independence Indonesian airline)
- Location
- Arlington, Virginia
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- he/him
A tiny 'country' between France and Switzerland
In the Saugeais valley, there’s a tiny micronation with its own flag. It’s not recognised by the French state, but that hasn’t stopped locals from electing their own president.
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A weird little micronation of a few towns in eastern France.
Oh, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick had a revolution?A tiny 'country' between France and Switzerland
In the Saugeais valley, there’s a tiny micronation with its own flag. It’s not recognised by the French state, but that hasn’t stopped locals from electing their own president.
A weird little micronation of a few towns in eastern France.
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
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- Manhattan (originally Houston)
- Pronouns
- he/him
Arguably this doesn't look like alternate history, it's not as though Napoleon III wouldn't have expressed this opinion even though it feels anachronistic... but in the actual context this is T. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
Watching the cricket, I was surprised to learn that India's national cricket team still uses a logo clearly derived from the colonial era Star of India symbol/flag:
And the Oriental Insurance Company, a state owned public insurance company, even still uses the Heaven's Light Our Guide motto as well:
And the Oriental Insurance Company, a state owned public insurance company, even still uses the Heaven's Light Our Guide motto as well:
British Empire appropriating native symbols.Watching the cricket, I was surprised to learn that India's national cricket team still uses a logo clearly derived from the colonial era Star of India symbol/flag:
And the Oriental Insurance Company, a state owned public insurance company, even still uses the Heaven's Light Our Guide motto as well:
For AH purposes they should have appropriated another Indian symbol - the swastika.
I know you're joking, but as far as I'm aware the Star was not based on any native symbol - it was the Woke Liberal Victorians coming up with something vague that wasn't explicitly Christian so it would be acceptable to the Hindu and Muslim princes. (Of course it somewhat sends mixed messages when you put it on flags with the Union Jack's three crosses prominently displayed). Same as he vague ecumenism of the 'Heaven's Light Our Guide' motto. If it happened today you'd get the usual suspects railing against it as Surrender to Multiculturalism.
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- Boom-town-on-Thames
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I know I’ve shared this with a few folks offline, but I think this staggering bit of interbellum railwayana definitely qualifies for this thread:
There is an ethnic group in Central Asia, the Dungans, who are descended from Hui Muslims who fled China during a set of complicated Hui revolts. And they speak a language which is derived from (and mutually intelligible with) Mandarin, and written with the Cyrillic script. Which definitely seems like something from a timeline where the Russians colonized China and ran roughshod over its culture.
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- Arlington, Virginia
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- he/him
You should use this to pay for admission to Marx’s grave in London.The partner came back from Germany with this banknote.
That didn't used to be a thing you paid for
Ironic.
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- NYC (né Falkirk)
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- he/him
Henry George's grave in Brooklyn remains free to visit.
As a bonus there are also numerous mobsters buried there, some even with headstones.
As a bonus there are also numerous mobsters buried there, some even with headstones.
Admittedly I lasted visited in 1993
Not sure if this one counts as it is hotly debated by biographers and historians, but there are some claims that at the Battle of Megiddo (AD 1918), Edmund Allenby modelled his tactics on attacking through the narrow Musmus Pass on those that had been used by Pharaoh Thutmose III at the Battle of Megiddo (1479 BC), 3,397 years earlier. Of course, this is rendered even more surreal by the fact that Megiddo is also known as Armageddon, and those are far from the only times there were battles there. One might say its identification as the site of the last battle in the End Times could be argued from statistics as much as from prophecy.
IIRC Allenby chose to call the battle that even though Megiddo itself played a fairly peripheral role in it, specifically because it was such an evocative name.
As of this post, San Francisco has never had an acknowledged homosexual head of government.
Serbia has.
Serbia has.