Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Orville_third]

Speaking of the military, the USAF has a metal band...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008.../#previouspost

[Tyr]

Originally Posted by Readman

Lol, love how it's a Corporal and a Sergeant getting the surrenders of a way higher rank (cant make it it out probably like a Colonel or something)

Nah, the German guy is on the phone. I guess he's talking to the Canadian higher up. Those troops are probally just there to drive him to their leader to surrender once the arrangments are made or something like that.

[Spitfiremk1]

The first ever elections with full universal suffrage and female candidates occured in TSARIST RUSSIA!!!. Well, the Grand Duchy of Finland to be precise, but still...

[Coyote Knight]

Originally Posted by Tyr

Nah, the German guy is on the phone. I guess he's talking to the Canadian higher up. Those troops are probally just there to drive him to their leader to surrender once the arrangments are made or something like that.

Probably. The actual surrender of German forces in the Netherlands took place in an inn in Wageningen. Apparently, they couldn't find a typewriter anywhere so the actual surrender happened the next day after a typewriter had been found and the document typed up.

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

Govenor Arnold Swartzeneggar, the first openly homosexual US Govenor, attending the the Log Cabin Republicans* convention.


*= The Log Cabin Republicans is a branch of the Republican Party made up of Homosexuals/Bisexuals/Transexuals.

[m2thet5678]

If someone from an ATL were to look at OTL, they would probably wonder the following things.

1) Why "Prussia" doesn't actually control Prussia, and why Konigsberg belongs to Russia.

2) Why the UK controls only Ulster in Ireland, rather than it being an all-or-none deal.

3) Why Kosovo is independent, but not states like Southern Sudan or Abhkazia (note: I mean nothing political by this statement).

4) Come to think of it, they would wonder about the borders of Africa in general. They look like something drawn by a lab rat high on coke, without any regard to cultural, tribal, or religious boundaries. Which makes sense, since all the Europeans were concerned about was defining their spheres of influence.

5) Why Belgium hasn't split into Flemish and Dutch parts.

6) Why Pakistan has really odd-looking borders.

[SavoyTruffle]

Letters from an alternate Latin script?

[Glegg]

The oldest Jewish community outside Israel is located in...INDIA !

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

How about Jews in...CHINA !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._Jews_in_China


The first time my teacher told me about that, I thought he was joking...Funny, to my opinion

[Akkismat]

Synagogue next to a Mosque in Paramaribo, Suriname:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MoscheeSynagoge.jpg

[Thande]

Originally Posted by Glegg

The oldest Jewish community outside Israel is located in...INDIA !

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

How about Jews in...CHINA !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._Jews_in_China


The first time my teacher told me about that, I thought he was joking...Funny, to my opinion

I can top that. Jews of Nigeria.

[wilcoxchar]

According to the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the National Bureau for Economic Research, there was a period of economic expansion in the United States from June 1861 to April 1865. Now why would there be a period of economic expansion that coincides with the exact months the American Civil War started and ended?

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Thande

I can top that. Jews of Nigeria.

I've heard of the Beta Israel, but Nigera? What's next, that Mormon stuff turns out to be true?

[Whanztastic]

Originally Posted by Thande

I can top that. Jews of Nigeria.

Nigeria is okay. Try Jews of Zimbabwe.

[oshron]

Originally Posted by Whanztastic

Nigeria is okay. Try Jews of Zimbabwe.

i heard of that, too. isnt the location of The Ark supposed to be in that country?

[Beedok]

How about the Lemba?

[Polish Eagle]

Originally Posted by oshron

i heard of that, too. isnt the location of The Ark supposed to be in that country?

I thought it was Ethiopia?

[mowque]

Originally Posted by Polish Eagle

I thought it was Ethiopia?

Area 51, don't you watch movies?

[SavoyTruffle]

Originally Posted by wilcoxchar

According to the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the National Bureau for Economic Research, there was a period of economic expansion in the United States from June 1861 to April 1865. Now why would there be a period of economic expansion that coincides with the exact months the American Civil War started and ended?

Well, wartime frequently props up production - and considering that the ACW was arguably the first "industrial" war...

[Glegg]

Originally Posted by Polish Eagle

I thought it was Ethiopia?

According to the tradition, the Ark is located in Ethiopia. I watched a documentary about the church where it is conserved, but nobody can see it...

But the fact that Solomon's told his son to hide the Ark in Ethiopia seems alternate

[Keno]

http://www.va./

The fact that Chinese is on the main page, although China not even recognise them. (And it is the afaik the shortest valid URL)