Snapshots from the World

[Luc]

Location to be used to post photographs of whats going on in our world. Players are more than welcome to post here too.

[Zar]

Soldiers of the Deutsches Heer eat lunch at a farm during training exercises.

[Coin]

A passenger liner carrying Europeans bound for a new life in South Africa steams into Cape Town, 1936.

[OYID]

Elements of the Sixth Cavalry Division of the Peoples' Combined Forces during exercises near the US-Mexico border.

[Flamelord]

Paraguayan troops parading through Asuncion following the overthrow of the old government by General Rafael Franco

[Serenissima]

Fuelled by a rise in social mobility and private car ownership becoming common, the Canadian automotive industry boomed, becoming the second-largest in the world after that of the United States by the middle of the decade, as this Toronto street scene shows.

[Zar]

This picture shows Chinese infantry at a shooting range during an exercise. They use German training methods.

[Smyg]

Two soldiers of the reformed Militia of the Valleys inspect a construction site in the mountainous Principality, dubbed "Fortress Andorra".

[Gesar]

Youthful volunteers of the newly-declared 'Fetyan' militias assemble on a Tehran street corner, surveyed by their religious commissar and their commanding officer in the Imperial Islamic Guard. Sources say they have been given both powers of self-defense and that of the religious police.

[Red John]

The Heavenly Son, as a Heavenly toddler. Born at the tail end of China's most humiliating century, an era of war, oppression, corruption, and moral degradation, he would travel a gruelling path as he rose to become the Emperor.

Wansui.

[Azagal]

The coronation of Austrian Emperor Karl von Habsburg as Károly IV of Hungary. The first ever photograph of the coronation of a Hungarian King.

[Coin]

Livestock being dosed by farmers of the newly established Drachten Cooperative, c. April 1936. Many Dutch and Scandinavian arrivals have taken advantage of improved borehole technology and government migration grants to develop the arid Karoo.

[Zar]

A rally for "Jobs and Labor" held in the Lustgarten.

[Smyg]

All territory currently, de facto, held by the founding members, and the first batch of applicants, of the "Concord of Nations". The map does not show legitimate territories or de jure claims.

[Gesar]

Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani, leader of the insurgent parliamentary faction dubbed 'Fada'iyan-e Islam' by the Iranian media. In recent months he has gained controversial press coverage for his militant support of the Shah's populist policies, while demanding further concessions to Shi'ite orthodoxy and an increasingly hardline stance against non-Muslim encroachment in the Middle East.