Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Thande]

The 1801 Russo-French plan to invade British India from the north. Despite the fact that they didn't even have any maps of the area they would have to cross to get there.

[Coyote Knight]

Originally Posted by NikoZnate

Anyone care to guess the story behind this?

Wong Family Crest. This is a perfect example of multiculturalism and assimilation in my opinion.

[Thande]

When Fiji became a republic in 1987, they kept the old motto of "Fear God and Honour the Queen"...and they still have it.

[whitecrow]

Originally Posted by DireSituation

The Magpul PDR (Personal Defense Rifle). It's by the same makers as the ACR and the FMG9, and they make crazy/innovative stuff that actually works really well. The reason I put this one here is because it looks like something out of your generic military sci-fi universe. And it works.

Got any photos?

[The Ubbergeek]

On a somewhat related note; as joked in the Double Dragons cartoon, I am amused that a chinese and american last name is the same.. 'Lee'.

How come it became an american name of 'whiteys'?

[Noravea]

Some sort of Future Capitol Building for Best Korea



It is just the North Korean embassy in Moscow.

[Codae]

Originally Posted by The Ubbergeek

On a somewhat related note; as joked in the Double Dragons cartoon, I am amused that a chinese and american last name is the same.. 'Lee'.

How come it became an american name of 'whiteys'?

Don't forget the common Korean names often Romanized as "Park" and "Kim". In fact, Lee (/Rhee/Yi) is found in Korea too.

[Iori]

This picture of the Fulani people has always looked very AHish to me.

[Thande]

Originally Posted by Iori

This picture of the Fulani people has always looked very AHish to me.

The Fulani's history is a bit odd as well. Only 200 years ago they were the fearsome Islamic conquerors of West Africa, now the other West Africans look on them like Europeans do gypsies.

[Lone Wolf]

What is so AHish about that photo?

[Eigenwelt]

Originally Posted by Iori

This picture of the Fulani people has always looked very AHish to me.

The Reverend Mother in the center looks like she's about to Gom Jabbar a b*tch.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Originally Posted by Thande

The 1801 Russo-French plan to invade British India from the north. Despite the fact that they didn't even have any maps of the area they would have to cross to get there.

Gee, guys, it's not that hard, just follow the sun until we reach the sea. We can bring a few cows with us: we can kill one every 100 km, and when the natives get angry at it, we've arrived.

[catboy637]

Oomoto, a Japanese religion from 1892 that encourages the use of Esperanto and reveres Zamenhof as a god.

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

[Orville_third]

A lot of rulers are alleged to descend from deities. The Japanese are allegedly descended from Amateratsu. The Merovingians were descended according to some from Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

Apparently a Romanian sect claims the Romanovs were descended from the Archangel Michael....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inochentism

[whitecrow]

Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove

Gee, guys, it's not that hard, just follow the sun until we reach the sea. We can bring a few cows with us: we can kill one every 100 km, and when the natives get angry at it, we've arrived.

ROFL

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[Umbric Man]

Originally Posted by The Ubbergeek

On a somewhat related note; as joked in the Double Dragons cartoon, I am amused that a chinese and american last name is the same.. 'Lee'.

How come it became an american name of 'whiteys'?

Lee is a spelling variant of 'Leigh/Ley', the obsolete, native English word for 'meadow'.

Granted, it is one of those hilarious language coincidences....reminds me of the line Kang and Kodos had from the first Simpsons Halloween special on Rigelian being exactly the same as English through an astonishing coincidence...

[Thande]

Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove

Gee, guys, it's not that hard, just follow the sun until we reach the sea. We can bring a few cows with us: we can kill one every 100 km, and when the natives get angry at it, we've arrived.

Brilliant

[DireSituation]

Originally Posted by whitecrow

Got any photos?

It's still in development, but there are some videos of it being presented on YouTube.

[Color-Copycat]

In the Tamil language, the noun "emdena" refers to a person who is particularly cunning. The word is derived from the harrowing escapades of the SMS Emden, a wildly successful German raider that operated in the Indian Ocean during WWI.

[Uriel]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

In the Tamil language, the noun "emdena" refers to a person who is particularly cunning. The word is derived from the harrowing escapades of the SMS Emden, a wildly successful German raider that operated in the Indian Ocean during WWI.

Well, within a few months they sunk ~ 40 enemy freighters (causing a temporary hold of the shippment of ANZAC forces to Egypt) and an Russian cruiser and shelled Madras.

Shortly before beeing sunk it had detached an landing party, that then proceeded to seize an decommisend schooner and escape with it to Arabia (there fighting their way through the arab uprising to Constantinopel).