Recent content by David bar Elias

By 2024, the class system in the United Kingdom is still present, though in a social and political landscape where the Labour Party was the most successful political for much of the post-Second Great War years. - By 2024, the painting The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries is...

By 2024, there have been multiple US documentaries and games related to the North American Wars. - The failure of the regime of People’s Friend Himura Tamiko to properly respond to the devastation of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami was the breaking point for a population that already despised...

The military of the Russian Republic generally performed well during the Fourth Pacific War against the Japanese Empire, although the Russian military was still in a process of reform that was intended to address of failures of the military under the Russian Empire during the Second Great War...

By 2024, Yankee Cola is sold outside of the United States, but has to compete with different brands elsewhere in the world. After the end of the Second Great War, the dominance of Yankee Cola in the US market was not significantly challenged by either domestic or foreign competitors.

The analogue to Frank Richards in TTL was Anson Richards, born on a slightly different date compared to our world. Richards, like others of his generation, was subject to a mandatory period of service in the US military. In 1914, Richards was drafted into the US Army. He was killed in action in...

By 2024, Blenheim Palace is still the home of the Dukes of Marlborough. As in our world, Blenheim Palace is open to visitors.

There were individual Japanese soldiers, especially in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, who tried to hold out against different national governments after the end of the Fourth Pacific War. These holdouts gradually faded after the war, with some surrendering and others disappearing altogether.

It seems like an interesting alternate version of Japan. I don’t think that I can offer significant commentary on the plausibility of such a scenario. - I don’t know about any timelines that feature better diplomatic relations between the USA and USSR. However, one series of future history and...

I will attempt to address some of the criticism of this timeline and to clarify why things developed with this TL as they did. The writing of this timeline was shaped by different processes. Initially, the timeline was not very extensively planned out. This is reflected in the first part of the...

The analogue to Friedrich Ebert in TTL, of the same name, was born on a slightly different date compared to our world. As in our world, Ebert trained as a saddle-maker and travelled to different cities as part of his trade. Unlike in our world, he never became involved in politics. Ebert...

The analogue in TTL to Matthias Erzberger, was born on a slightly different date in comparison to our world. Erzberger, as in our world, eventually worked as a journalist for a publication of the Centre Party in Stuttgart. Unlike in our world, Erzberger was never elected to the Reichstag...

Not really by 2024 in TTL.

By 2024, Dokdo is controlled by the Republic of Korea.

Lucas Braga was born in Curitiba in the Empire of Brazil in 1924. Braga, from an early age, developed a strong interest in science and the natural world. He was academically gifted, and eventually studied biology and zoology at the Imperial University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. In 1955, Braga...

By 2024, the Senkaku Islands are part of the US state of Ryukyu Islands.