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Barry Goldwater wasn't Jewish. His father was, but he himself was raised Christian (I think Episcopalian, but don't hold me to that).

It's no good. You want to have a power-of-two number of bits; one byte is 2 hex numbers, but would be 2 oct numbers + 2 bits (and while data need not be organized in bytes, a power-of-two number of bits is a natural way to group bits). But let's wave a wand and say it happens. I'm not sure what...

Enterprise is actually one of the oldest ship names in the US navy. The first USS Enterprise was commissioned in 1776, and a captured British ship then named the Enterprise was operated by the Continental Army on Lake Champlain in 1775. There have 6 other ships of the name since, including the...

It was never discussed as far as I'm aware, but building a new capital somewhere away from the decadence of Paris would be very on-brand for the Revolutionaries. It might stick afterwards, or be readopted by future republics.

On the other hand, assassinating Sadat might scare future leaders who presumably don't want to be assassinated in turn.

Is the Great Glen a strait now? I can't tell.

My main question is what granularity you'll be doing. For example, there's a town in suburban New York called New Rochelle, named after La Rochelle, a large town/small city in Western France (New Rochelle was founded by Huguenot refugees from La Rochelle). Or will you limit yourself to provinces...

Utah is named for the Ute people. Indiana is named after Native Americans, not the Subcontinent. There should be some way to show that Wyoming belongs to Pennsylvania :D By the way, I'm not sure if Labrador should count by itself, since it's completely a part of Newfoundland and Labrador...

A famous and controversial biography of Heinz Guderian, Chasing the Austerlitz Ideal spends its first half as an apparent follow-on to Guderian's own self-aggrandizing memoirs before going on to apply the ideas of blitzkreig and schwehrpunkt more metaphorically to his engagement with the...

This competition was so amazing it was almost impossible to choose!

I do love a good North American tail wagging the British dog.

An amusement park built in 1968 just to the east of St Louis, the Pyramids of Cahokia carried a theme based on a somewhat eccentric version of Native American culture. Purchase by Six Flags in 1988, increasing public pressure led to the abandonment of the Native theme in 1992, resulting in a...

Originally, the island just east of Hispaniola was named "San Juan" and the town that would eventually become its capital was named "Puerto Rico", which honestly makes much more sense as a name for a town than an island. Apparently the switch took place shortly after foundation of the latter due...

I actually have a map of an alternative Middle East I made for a FATE Spirit of the Century game; I should polish it up and post it. It even has airships...that make sense! (They're for moving heavy loads over terrain that's very hard to build rail or roads through).

Turnabout is fair play. Very cool, I've never seen this scenario!

That's so awesome. I especially like the little hand-written annotations. Well, and או.ס.ס.ר. and וו.ס.ס.ר, showing the use of double Hebrew letters to represent a single Cyrillic letter (U.S.S.R - for Ukraine - and W.S.S.R - for Belarus, and no, I don't understand why Belarus is W.S.S.R.)

A well-known pop history book describing an interbellum attempt by several mining corporations (led by de Beers) to pressure the South African government into granting them what amounted to legal jurisdiction over their lands, property, and employees. Rather shakily citing the independence of...

Jews without the peculiar religion are just another bunch of Canaanites. It's possible that they'd be assimilated by the Phoenicians, and if not probably by the Hellenes (assuming not too too many butterflies). Monotheism isn't the only component of the ancient Hebrews' religion and identity...

The Northwest Passage only became reliably navigable in the 21st century. In 1870, people would be remembering a series of disastrously failed expeditions a couple decades earlier. The first complete traversal OTL would not be until 1906, using a tiny ship and tiny crew, and the second...

I really like how you've put cities in spots that are city-less (or small cities) OTL, but make as much sense as anywhere. Also, I enjoy how New Switzerland is very flat (it does have the Sangre de Cristo, which are pretty impressive, but it's still mostly prairie). Still, I guess it does have...