History Fridge / SixteenthirtyTwo

* What happened to the woman who ran off in the woods fleeing the raiding soldiers when the Grantville citizens arrived in 1632?

* Remember the beginning of the novel, where the Abrabanels get rescued by the Americans? This [[CaptainObvious obviously]] doesn't happen in the original ("our") timeline. There, the Imperial soldiers ''caught them''... (Likewise, the biography of most other downtimers who did find a save haven in Grantville would probably be a far more gruesome read in the original timeline.)

** Presumably, an equal-size chunk of 17th-century Thuringia wound up in TurnOfTheMillenium West Virginia. Presumably there were some, if not many, people on it. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to]] ''[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse them]]''?
*** They were all dead before the RoF, per the prologue to 1632. Seven bodies were found in the Ring, which seems about right; it weas sparsely populated farmland in a warzone.
*** ''TimeSpike'' strongly implies that the US government has them in custody and is trying to hush the whole thing up so they can blame the incident on terrorists. It also strongly implies that the coverup is going to be blown out of the water in short order after the Illinois incident.

* In ''1633'', when he learns that his navy is going to have to engineer the defense of Wismar against the incoming Danish fleet, Admiral Simpson assigns Lt. Cantrell to determine what resources are available to send. Somehow Lt. Cantrell is able to do this all the way from Magdeburg, presumably by radio ... presumably because he ''already'' visited every town in the house in "Curio and Relic" as Paul Santee's Assistant Weapon Scrounger, and therefore already has a sense of the social landscape of uptimers in Grantville that's far more detailed than almost anyone's.

* In ''1633'', a young Richard Cromwell is killed during his father's arrest after his outburst at the men who'd just murdered his mother. It's not mentioned in the book itself, but a quick Google search will tell you that Richard Cromwell was ''six''.

* Is it just coincidence that the 'new Americans' of Grantville come from two ethnic groups that mad massive contributions to the Original America? Germans and Scots that is. Whatever the horrors Germans got up to in their own country in this dimension they made ''great'' Americans.

* FridgeLogic: The only military threat Grantville could fear was a cavalry raid, (as the slow-movig tercios had no chance against modern guns). So why don't they build at least a wooden palisade around the town? Or at least around the power plant and other important buildings? And why don't they make at least rudimentary flamethrowers? In a world dominated by close combat, they would be much more useful than even the best modern hunting rifles and shotguns.

* FridgeLogic: If the "Ring of Fire" the town is in is at a depressed altitude from the land around it, why doesn't it just turn into a lake?

* FridgeHorror: Remember the beginning of the novel, where the Abrabanels get rescued by the Americans? This [[CaptainObvious obviously]] doesn't happen in the original ("our") timeline. There, the Imperial soldiers ''caught them''... (Likewise, the biography of most other downtimers who did find a save haven in Grantville would probably be a far more gruesome read in the original timeline.)

** Presumably, an equal-size chunk of 17th-century Thuringia wound up in TurnOfTheMillenium West Virginia. Presumably there were some, if not many, people on it. [[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to]] ''[[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse them]]''?

** The average elevation is about the same as before, but the topography doesn't match up, so there are cliffs where a hill on one side of the ring faces a valley on the other. Several of those valleys ''are'' drowned; you can see maps of the result [[http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/maps/ here]].