Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Tobit]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

The "fire hedgehog" was a Soviet anti-personnel setup that consisted of 88 PPSH guns mounted in a grid in the bomb bay of a Tu-2.

Ok, so does this mean that the Soviet Union were basically the Orks from Warhammer? They paint their vehicles red and they believe in the tenant of "More Dakka."

[omega21]

I wonder how low the bomber needed to fly for the guns to have any effect.

[President Lenin]

The story of the Kakure Kirishitans of Japan sounds especially AH. Basically, the Japanese Christians persecuted by the Tokugawa Shogunate were forced underground, and their version of Christianity eventually 'went native', so to speak, and assimilated many features of Japanese Buddhism and Shinto. Here's a Kirishitan statue of the Virgin Mary:

[Plumber]

Originally Posted by President Lenin

Kirishitans

I like how as soon I saw that word I predicted exactly what you wrote.

[Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Tobit

Ok, so does this mean that the Soviet Union were basically the Orks from Warhammer? They paint their vehicles red and they believe in the tenant of "More Dakka."

I'm still waiting for videos of that damn thing in use.

And don't quote pictures.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by oshron

sorta :P i have all the info for it on a different site

Any plans to bring it here?

[oshron]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Any plans to bring it here?

eventually; its mainly because there's too much information to put in a word document like i do with the stuff im writing to eventually publish (the ASB ATL more or less cant because its based on Code Geass and few--but significant--shared content) because it quite literally covers all of human history (again, its ASB) and its simply easier to organize it all on a wiki-type site that only i can edit. its also intentionally being written to be both familiar and strange (the main driving factor behind it is to be used as the backdrop for an action RPG)

ive started lots of threads over the course of my membership here asking about things for the ATL (partly so that i dont overwhelm people with mountains of information)

but, in any case, this isnt the thread to talk about it

[Krall]

Originally Posted by President Lenin

The story of the Kakure Kirishitans of Japan sounds especially AH. Basically, the Japanese Christians persecuted by the Tokugawa Shogunate were forced underground, and their version of Christianity eventually 'went native', so to speak, and assimilated many features of Japanese Buddhism and Shinto. Here's a Kirishitan statue of the Virgin Mary:

I think that's been mentioned in here once before - as I remember it the Japanese Christians didn't have a Japanese language bible when the missionaries were all expelled, so they wrote a new bible using what they could remember. I think the immaculate conception evolved to involve Mary swallowing a butterfly, which was God's "seed".

Also, they sometimes depicted Christ as a Buddha-like figure:

[Beedok]

I wonder how popular Saint Josaphat was with them.

[Thande]

"Swiss army hat" from Popular Science, 1919. Not sure if this counts for this thread because it's obviously a far-fetched Popular Science concept, but I liked it nonetheless.

[Thande]

For some reason the version of the royal coat of arms on the Articles of Union has a motto of "Semper eadem" (Always the Same) rather than the more usual Dieu et mon Droit...

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Thande

For some reason the version of the royal coat of arms on the Articles of Union has a motto of "Semper eadem" (Always the Same) rather than the more usual Dieu et mon Droit...

Apparently it's Lizzy the First's motto. It is very English.

[False Dmitri]

Originally Posted by Thande

For some reason the version of the royal coat of arms on the Articles of Union has a motto of "Semper eadem" (Always the Same) rather than the more usual Dieu et mon Droit...

Propaganda directed at anti-union Jacobite types? "Move along, nothing happening here, just the same as always..."

[Beedok]

From the Wikipedia Page on Brantford Ontario:

Originally Posted by Wiki

Brantford - The coolest town in all of Canada. A place where you can learn to play guitar, go to the library, and buy crystal meth all on one street. The people are rude, the down town is a hole, and the high schools are breeding grounds for sluts. There's only one bookstore and the mall is shit. There are more Tim Hortons than gas stations. The kids are selfish brats, and you can get mugged walking your dog. More people smoke pot here than in Amsterdam. There are five high schools-no one counts tolgate-which are Assumption, BCI, North Park, PJ, and St. John's. The town has limited night spots, and these spots are trashy dumps. But still, Brantford is the coolest place in Canada. You have to live here to get it.
Person One: Give me your money. Person Two: Are you from Brantford? Person One: How did you know? Person Two: Because you're jumping me....and you're a vodka-obsessed, crystal meth loving, ford planter slut. Person One: You are correct. Good day.

[Iori]

The city of Xai-Xai is the capital of Gaza Province in Mozambique.

It makes me thing of a scenario where southern Mozambique gets massive amount of immigration of China and Palestinian refugees.

[Petike]

There's an actual Miss Gibraltar contest :

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

[Emperor Norton I]

Jeff Bridges Musical Career:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkvlw_vzEY

[LordInsane]

Originally Posted by Beedok

From the Wikipedia Page on Brantford Ontario:

That piece of vandalism was removed less than two hours after being added.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Beedok

From the Wikipedia Page on Brantford Ontario:

Wow... I guess they like their town.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Thande

"Swiss army hat" from Popular Science, 1919. Not sure if this counts for this thread because it's obviously a far-fetched Popular Science concept, but I liked it nonetheless.

I want one.

I like how the crown can be used as a cooking utensil. Also that it appears to be fired by a mouth tube, and it is meant to be fired using "instinctive vision".