Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Leo euler]

Zouaves:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouave

"Zouave was the title given to certain infantry regiments in the French army, normally serving in French North Africa between 1831 and 1962. The name was also adopted during the 19th century by units in other armies, especially volunteer regiments raised for service in the American Civil War."



The uniforms seem like AH to me. The origins, especially the ones in the American Civil War, also seem kind of odd, don't they?



Picture:

"A French zouave from 1888 wearing white summer trousers instead of the usual red."

[Leo euler]

One from the Civil War:


"Sergt Francis E. Brownell, 11th N.Y. Regt, 1861"

[NomadicSky]

Originally Posted by Leo euler

One from the Civil War:


"Sergt Francis E. Brownell, 11th N.Y. Regt, 1861"

Why it looks fine to me, aside from the fact that he appears to be stepping on a US flag.

[Orville_third]

Marx & Lennon postage stamp from the Republic of Abkhazia.

A Cthulhu-like ride from Volgograd.

Donald Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam Hussein.

[False Dmitri]

Originally Posted by Orville_third

Marx & Lennon postage stamp from the Republic of Abkhazia.

That's got to be a joke. Is that a joke?

[catboy637]

Originally Posted by Benkarnell

That's got to be a joke. Is that a joke?

Lennon was a Commie? Awww...I like the Beatles.

[Orville_third]

Originally Posted by Benkarnell

That's got to be a joke. Is that a joke?

No, it's not. Abkhazia released this in 1995, only two years after it declared independence. (And 13 years before anyone recognized said independence...)
You can read this article to determine that the stamps are genuine, though unrecognized by the IPU.

http://social.moldova.org/news/abkha...77480-eng.html

(And yes, the stamps were based on the famous Firesign Theatre Album Cover...)

As for the last remark...
http://homepage.mac.com/languageismy...sCommies-1.jpg

(Can someone post that in this thread?)

And for some comment on that, go read:
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/bl...72294207911818

[Maharajah]

Originally Posted by maverick

Fascist Brazil stuff

I saw that on, uh, Wikipedia! I found it very fascinating, a non-expansionist and non-racist or hypernationalist form of fascism, and at the time of Hitler, too.

[MadAce]

Ending of ending credits of movie.

Foun the "alien" bit pretty AH, tho perhaps ASB.

It be a joke, if you were wondering.

[Orville_third]

A safety poster from the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant, circa 1980-something...

http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/h...rs/reagan2.jpg

[Thande]

The Japanese built war tubas as well:



They're not offensive weapons as some people seem to think, they're for acoustic location of incoming planes (next best thing if your country hasn't invented radar yet).

[Gonzaga]

Originally Posted by maverick

Fascist Brazil needs you!


And the traditional rally...

That's good. But they would to conquer the Nazi Amazon:

[Gonzaga]

They even left Nazi crosses:

[catboy637]

This looks like some TL where...I don't know.

[Grand Prince Paul II.]

Found here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...358362&page=31

[Leo euler]

Einstein with someone that looks like Rasputin.

http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel...e-einstein.jpg

[Hendryk]

Originally Posted by Leo euler

Einstein with someone that looks like Rasputin.

That's Rabindranath Tagore.

[Leo euler]

That green place in South America, French Guyana, is actually part of France. Kind of unusual, don't you think?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ane-France.png

[Qazaq2007]

Originally Posted by Leo euler

That green place in South America, French Guyana, is actually part of France. Kind of unusual, don't you think?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ane-France.png

French Polynesia is also administered as part of France as an overseas departement, same w/ French Guiana.

[Emperor Qianlong]

"Police officers of the East German Volkspolizei wait for the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989."

One might think this is an ATL where the fall of the Berlin Wall was delayed by a few months...