Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

Brigadier General Clarence Potter, 1941
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How did you create these faces, its too realistic to me.
Faceapp and paint.net, mostly. Potter is just an aged down version of an obscure British chemist, while La Follette and Bliss were far more involved, with repeated processes of de-and-re-aging, face mixing, erasing, and some good old fashioned editing and collaging.

Its far more complex than the old method most other people here have been using, which seems to just be using unedited historical photos and calling it a day, but the benefit is that they generally look completely unique, and unlike any actual historical figures.
 
Faceapp and paint.net, mostly. Potter is just an aged down version of an obscure British chemist, while La Follette and Bliss were far more involved, with repeated processes of de-and-re-aging, face mixing, erasing, and some good old fashioned editing and collaging.

Its far more complex than the old method most other people here have been using, which seems to just be using unedited historical photos and calling it a day, but the benefit is that they generally look completely unique, and unlike any actual historical figures.
For LaFollette, did you use a photos of the real LaFollette in the process?
 
I'll be honest I like the idea of a Little Moscow district in Atlanta

though I imagine given the circumstances of the TL that Little Yerevans should be a lot more common.
Even though there's a policy of silence regarding the Armenian Genocide by the US ITTL during the war as Central Power, there'd be plenty of relief agencies and diplomats working to take them as refugees to the US alongside other persecuted groups. Thus that would lead to your point there.
 
Didn't they also have more far-left and libertarian left factions as well? E.g. Marxism, libertarian socialism, syndicalism, agrarian socialism.
They would’ve left or been forced out of the party. By the 2020s, the most radical faction of the party is not to the left of OTL Eurocommunists. Even in the 1910s, Flora Hamburger mentions that the majority of the party weren’t marxists.
 
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Olga, Queen, and then Queen Mother, of the United Kingdom (1895-1990)

Olga Nikolaevna was borne into one Empire, married into another, and lived well beyond the dissolution of both Empires. While not as notorious as her sisters the Grand Duchesses Tatiana or Anastasia, her 1929 marriage to King Edward sealed the "Imperial Pact" between London and St. Petersburg to relitigate the results of the First Great War, with even more disastrous consequences. Edward and Olga may have been initially distant due to a wide cultural and personality gap (Parliament had to grant her a dispensation to remain in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the controversial second of the Churchillian Acts, though her daughter Victoria was raised Anglican), but the King and Queen grew closer during the SGW, and the tragedies that came with it, and followed.

Loss. Perhaps that would be the most consistent word to describe Olga's life. Her father, Nikolai II, was executed during the abortive First Russian Revolution. Her brother Alexei died of hemophilic complications in 1922. Her mother Alexandra died in 1925, a bitter and disappointed woman. Her sister Tatiana, active in the Pan Slavist and Pan Indo-European movement, was assassinated in 1934 during a Nuremberg volkisch rally by Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, in retaliation for Russian anti-semitic policies, and her defense of such atrocities. Another sister, Maria, died during the atom bombing of St. Petersburg, along with her children. Grand Duchess Anastasia was the most noticeable female defendant in the Kiev Trials; she was executed at the gallows for numerous crimes against humanity, including leadership roles in the persecution and genocide of Russian (and citizens of occupied territories) Jews, Muslims, Old Believers, Buddhists; drafting the infamous "Lustration Decree" which saw the wholesale murder of German and Polish officer prisoners of war who refused to respectively join the collaborationist Grand Teutonic Ducal and National Democratic Armies; and purging of Baltic, Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian clergy and intelligentsia. None of Olga's nieces or nephews survived past the Second, and successful, Russian revolution.

Olga never did set foot in her native Russia again after 1938, but she was instrumental in saving the British Crown even as its Empire disappeared. When Edward was ill and on death's door during the 1962 Crisis, it was Olga's meetings with British politicians from across the political spectrum (as well as the American and German plenipotentiaries) that prevented a British turn to Republicanism. Olga out lived her husband, and died in 1990 at Windsor Castle, with her daughter and grandchildren, as well as her nieces Elizabeth and Margaret, at her bedside.
 
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