Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Maponus]

From a TL were Labour and the SDP adhere to Democratic Centralism and align Britain with the Soviet Union (note the Soviet tanks 'invited by the legitimate government' in the background) after a violent revolution against Thatcherism and a civil war against the openly Nazi National Front?

Actually it's just Anarchists exaggerating things, as usual.

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Thande

I'm just linking to this as it's a huge picture, but you can easily imagine this as the shadow of the Death Star or something similar as it looms over the Earth. (It's actually the shadow of the Moon during an eclipse, but the shadow is significantly smaller than the Moon because of how the light travels).

Or maybe Sarah Palin farted.

*4 pages back, I know, but I had a joke.*

[Tocomocho]

Anglo-Islamic coins from the Dark Ages

[Petike]

Originally Posted by Tocomocho

Anglo-Islamic coins from the Dark Ages

Awesome find.

[LSCatilina]

Well, you had this design of coins quite evrywhere.

And now Crescent on a Tolosan coin

[Maponus]

A Taiwanese political party with such a strange name it must have come from one of our 'political ideology game' threads.

Fucking partisans, we want nothing to do with them.

[Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Maponus

From a TL were Labour and the SDP adhere to Democratic Centralism and align Britain with the Soviet Union (note the Soviet tanks 'invited by the legitimate government' in the background) after a violent revolution against Thatcherism and a civil war against the openly Nazi National Front?

Actually it's just Anarchists exaggerating things, as usual.

I'm more concerned that they're using what looks like a Matilda-Stuart hybrid tank.

[bobby501]

[Kuld von Reyn]

Originally Posted by LSCatilina

Well, you had this design of coins quite evrywhere.

And now Crescent on a Tolosan coin

Ave Azura!

[LSCatilina]

Originally Posted by Kuld von Reyn

Ave Azura!

Yup, a bit.


WI : Medieval cathedrals kept their colors?

[Fireaxe888]

Originally Posted by LSCatilina

Yup, a bit.

WI : Medieval cathedrals kept their colors?

Medieval Catholics: the original bling generation.

[LSCatilina]

Originally Posted by Fireaxe888

Medieval Catholics: the original bling generation.

Well...You had Ancient Greeks that went Village People before that.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by LSCatilina

Well...You had Ancient Greeks that went Village People before that.

What, you mean ancient Greek statues weren't all white?!

[LSCatilina]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

What, you mean ancient Greek statues weren't all white?!

Nah, that's known nowadays. But less acknowledged for cathedrals that were sometimes painted by Yoko Ono's on LSD.

[Alex Richards]

The River Pageant's been brilliant for this:

The Queen Celebrates her Diamond Jubilee as Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Cornwall. Following the row past of a contingiemt from the Viking Autonomy of Zetland and a salute by the Royal Maori Guard the contingient from the Protectorate of Venice passed the Royal Barge forming the last of the honour guard for the Royal Barge.

[BillyShears]

The commandeered ships of London make way down the Thames for the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk in the aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

[oshron]

Originally Posted by BillyShears

The commandeered ships of London make way down the Thames for the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk in the aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

is that a longboat at the front??

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by oshron

is that a longboat at the front??

That's... awesome.

[toby53]

Originally Posted by oshron

is that a longboat at the front??

Gloriana
Leading the 1,000-strong flotilla will be the Gloriana. The 94ft Royal rowbarge – the first to be built for more than a century – is unique among the participating vessels in that it is the only one specially commissioned for the event.

Originally it was was intended that the Queen or the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be on board but Her Majesty will now travel along the Thames on the Spirit of Chartwell

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1wnq8EmSk

[toby53]

During the pageant the lead boat carried a set of church bells that rang out and where replied by all of the churchs along the route