Halloween street performance in Barangay Tondo, Metro Manila, Philippines on October 31, 2019. While most Filipinos go to cemeteries and back to the provinces to visit relatives, Halloween culture such as trick-or-treating, costume parades, and Halloween parties have been popularized due to the presence of the American diaspora.
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A mint condition Dacia 1300 in Croatia. This car is produced by a Automobile Dacia, a Romanian car manufacturer with its headquarters located Arges County, Romania. Just like all car manufacturers around the world, Dacia stopped production for roughly two decades before starting again in the 2000s-2010s.
U.S. Marines during the APA military intervention of the Hawaiian Civil War, 1987.
Evacuation of the Ogasarawan Islands in 1993. A total of 900 evacuees were relocated to Hawaii while a few remained to claim the islands on their own.
Puerto Rican 35th Independence Day street celebration in San Juan, June 26, 2019.
(Just ignore the smartphones and the go-pros)
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Tim Duncan (right) during a basketball practice with several athletes in St. Croix, USAR.
Tim Duncan, a native of the Virgin Islands in the East Caribbean Federation who played basketball and association football. Duncan was considered a mediocre goalkeeper in the East Caribbean Federation's football program, but a Puerto Rican scout discovered him playing pickup basketball one day, and gave him a chance to tryout for a San Juan club. Duncan went on to play club basketball in Puerto Rico for seven seasons, and led the East Caribbean team in three world championships.
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Basketball_(1983:_Doomsday)
The Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia is a site of pilgramage for both Sunni and Shia Islam. From 1983 to the late 2000s, majority of the world's Muslim population could not travel to Mecca due to the difficulty of travel. With travel being slowly restored, Muslims around the world can now return to Mecca.
A Commonwealth Air Force airman dressed in a Santa Claus costume takes part in Operation Christmas Drop above the integral territory of Micronesia, December 25, 2019. Started by the United States in 1952 when the region was still known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand has continued the tradition.
Australia and Brazil ringing in the New Millennium as January 1, 2000 arrives on their respective timezones. While the new millennium begins without any large festivals as apparently no one could enjoy firing rockets to the sky since a vast majority of the post-Doomsday survivors are still scrabbling for survival, there were celebrations taking place in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Two Soviet mercenaries (Formely Spetsnaz operatives) pose with American made M16A1 and a West German made (possibly Pakistani) G3A4 rifles used by Mujaheddin forces during the Afghan conflict; location unknown, circa 1990s.
a significant part of former officers and soldiers of the Red Army deserted after the nuclear apocalypse forming bands of mercenaries across Asia.
Jervis Bay, ANZC (July 21, 2019): Chamorros or Guamanian People celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of their island from the Japanese during World War II. Guam was all but destroyed during Doomsday by Soviet nuclear weapons since the island had an air force base capable of housing B-52s and a submarine base. Only a significant amount of Guamanians survived and settled in the territories ANZC.
Aerial photograph of Cebu National Administrative City, 2020.
Note: This is acutally a photo taken of Cebu in OTL 1995. Cebu today has buzzling skyscrapers starting from 2008 onwards and I figured Doomsday would have butterflied these skyscrapers from being built.
The city flag of Los Angeles flown in conjunction with the flag of the Soviet Union during the handover ceremony in the closing of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It was flown instead of the flag of the United States because of the U.S-led boycott. Los Angeles was supposed to be the venue of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Finnish Defense Forces in training exercises with their Scandinavian neighbors, 2017.
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