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By 2024, Norfolk has a larger population than Richmond, with a population of almost 200,000 people.

That might be the case. In general, if someone is not specifically mentioned as existing in the series, I will assume that someone might exist either as an analogue to their OTL counterpart or having been butterflied away.

By 2024, Richmond is smaller in population and size compared to our world, with some 100,000 people altogether. The city still has a bad reputation in the rest of the United States as the former capital of the Confederacy, though unlike Charleston, Richmond was eventually rebuilt, albeit under a...

By 2024, most people in the Russian Republic would be appalled at how the USSR developed under Stalin. Most people in Russia would also be surprised at the idea of their nation being in a Cold War with the United States for over four decades.

The Japanese American community was not detained by the US authorities during the Fourth Pacific War, but did face social prejudice during and immediately after the conflict. The response of many Japanese Americans to social hostility during the Fourth Pacific War was one of fear. Unfortunately...

Yes, though the motives for former Confederate veterans joining the US military in the first postwar generation could be wildly different, depending on their respective backgrounds and circumstances. The US military did not welcome anyone who was discovered to have a background as a war...

I don’t know if there was an analogue to Helen Keller in the TL-191 series. There’s nothing really analogous to the play The Miracle Worker in TTL.

By 2024, there are games in different nations that are analogous to the Civilization series from our world. Some of these kinds of games have nationalist themes, while other games have themes rooted in the genre of spec-fiction, the analogue in TTL to the genre of alternate history from our...

Aldershot, as in our world, became a center of activity for the British military in the late 19th Century. The British Army maintained a strong presence in Aldershot until after the end of the Second Great War. As in our world, there was an annual Aldershot Military Tattoo, which came to an end...

There were attempts by the Australian government to cull the emu population of the nation in the Interwar years. These attempts were not successful.

Is this question about the town of Aldershot?

Raymond Pinkard never acknowledged the truth of the crimes that had been committed by his father. He never had a family of his own.

By 2024, the world population is just over seven billion people. The overall population of this world is the result of several devastating 20th Century wars, as well as lower rates of population growth compared to our world. More nations compared to our world have gone through a demographic...

By 2024, there has been decades of research and development on railguns in several nations, though no military has yet introduced them. Drones are not as widespread among the militaries of the world compared to OTL. However, more and more nations are beginning to use them, including in all of...

Yes, this part of the timeline and the independent nations of Central Asia should be considered retconned.