Things that look like alternate history but aren't

[Time Enough]

Meanwhile, how the Soviet leadership actually covered the 1959 UK general election was Khrushchev saying "They're all the same, mate!" in a pub.

Fairly sure Kruschev famously said that if he lived Britian he’d vote Tory in like 1955 or something.

 

[Warthog]

Fairly sure Kruschev famously said that if he lived Britian he’d vote Tory in like 1955 or something.

True that, I remember from his memoirs.

 

[Beata Beatrix]

Meanwhile, how the Soviet leadership actually covered the 1959 UK general election was Khrushchev saying "They're all the same, mate!" in a pub.

Nikita Khrushchev must've been thrilled about the Orpington by-election then

 

[Warthog]

From a timeline of glorious southern African unification






Of course actually, it's a place named after the island, on the Botswana South Africa border

Tracks4Africa

Oasis Lodge (Zanzibar Border Post)

tracks4africa.co.za

 

[OwenM]

Fairly sure Kruschev famously said that if he lived Britian he’d vote Tory in like 1955 or something.

He had dinner with the Shadow Cabinet on an official visit and it went badly

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Fairly sure Kruschev famously said that if he lived Britian he’d vote Tory in like 1955 or something.

If I remember Red Plenty right, he felt very reassured meeting Macmillian because he was the first Western leader who actually looked like the pictures he'd seen of Western capitalists.

 

[Rasputin]

He had dinner with the Shadow Cabinet on an official visit and it went badly

Ah, there's that pride in my party I've been looking all over for with a magnifying glass.

 

[SpanishSpy]

This is in my hometown and I have seen it.

 

[SpanishSpy]

I met with a friend of mine I went to William & Mary with, and he told me this story.

My friend worked at one of the pubs in Colonial Williamsburg, and he told me that up until the 1970s all the workers at this pub were the members of the same fraternity (up until that point, they were all men).

Essentially, there was a medieval guild in this pub in Williamsburg.

 

[Radac]

Fairly sure Kruschev famously said that if he lived Britian he’d vote Tory in like 1955 or something.

I believe Stalin made a toast to the Conservative Party when meeting Churcnill

 

[Hendryk]

I believe Stalin made a toast to the Conservative Party when meeting Churcnill

"If you have your lower animals to contend with," he said, "we have our lower classes!" This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm.

And now, he said finally, he would ask the company to rise to their feet and make certain that their glasses were full. "Gentlemen," concluded Mr. Pilkington, "gentlemen, I give you a toast: To the prosperity of Animal Farm!"

 

[Indicus]

This is in my hometown and I have seen it.

This is an only tangential point, but it's an irony that, at the height of a Cold War about capitalism vs communism, the American government created the Internet in a highly centralized top-down manner with little input from private enterprise, while the USSR's attempts to make an information network of its own floundered due to infighting with rival factions who viewed it as a threat.

 

[RyanF]

This is an only tangential point, but it's an irony that, at the height of a Cold War about capitalism vs communism, the American government created the Internet in a highly centralized top-down manner with little input from private enterprise, while the USSR's attempts to make an information network of its own floundered due to infighting with rival factions who viewed it as a threat.

That's also how they won the space race.

All the major sports leagues are organised on Soviet lines too.

 

[IanBertram]

All the major sports leagues are organised on Soviet lines too.

I've often tried - and failed - to imagine the US football draft applied to the Premier League..,

In a different area, the behaviour, and powers, of Home Owner Associations (HOA) are astonishing, when compared to the UK situation. Quite tyrannical.

 

[Charles EP M.]

All the major sports leagues are organised on Soviet lines too.

Packers, Steelers, good solid worker republic names

 

[RyanF]

Packers, Steelers, good solid worker republic names

Cincinnati Reds

 

[Steve Brinson]

Packers, Steelers, good solid worker republic names

The Eagles are literally named after (the logo of) the government agency that centrally set wages, prices, and working conditions

 

[Thande]

Packers, Steelers, good solid worker republic names

This checks out, seeing as the Steelers are also in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire.

Come to think of it, I'd imagine only Pittsburgh use the name in the US, so this in itself might qualify as suitable material for the thread for US readers.

 

[Well]

As Mark says, I've definitely seen isolated uses [of shew] much later than one might imagine.

It's in the prayer book, despite the otherwise modernised spelling, and I've occasionally wondered why that should be.

Of course the recent prayer book briefly revived the claims to the French throne, which will give future historians of the post-Brexit period something to argue about...

 

[Hendryk]

It was while working as a chef's aide at the Carlton that Nguyen Tat Thanh decided to create what would become the world's first Asian fast food chain, Uncle Ho's.