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* ''Literature/FireOnTheMountain'' has a successful slave revolt in the United States in 1859 split the country into the remnant states and independent Nova Africa, followed by a century of dramatically changed history. Despite this, a series of archaeological excavations that happened in the real July 1959 happened in the same way in the alternate July 1959 of the book (which at least allowed them to be described realistically).
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* ''Literature/FireOnTheMountain'' has a successful slave revolt in the United States in 1859 split the country into the remnant states and independent Nova Africa, followed by a century of dramatically changed history. Despite this, a series of archaeological excavations that happened in the real July 1959 happened in the same way in the alternate July 1959 of the book (which at least allowed them to be described realistically).
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* ''Literature/FireOnTheMountain'' has a successful slave revolt in the United States in 1859 split the country into the remnant states and independent Nova Africa, followed by a century of dramatically changed history. Despite this, a series of archaeological excavations that happened in the real July 1959 happened in the same way in the alternate July 1959 of the book (which at least allowed them to be described realistically).
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* The book ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin What Ifs? of American History]]'' is a collection of essays by historians on what could have happened had certain pivotal events gone differently. Most of them play ForWantOfANail straight (though most of them do point out the ultimate futility of speculating on "what could have been"), such as UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland not backing down from conflict with Britain in 1896 resulting in aversion of WWI (and presumably WWII too) thanks to America becoming a non-isolationist world power early on, but the one about what could have happened had the Japanese government called off the Pearl Harbor raid presents an outcome in which it takes America slightly longer to enter WWII - but only slightly, as the Japanese prove to still be so bitter toward America that they give the Americans their "day of infamy" in 1942 anyway, and the Axis powers are still defeated in the end, complete with two atomic bombings on Japan.
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* The book ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin What Ifs? of American History]]'' is a collection of essays by historians on what could have happened had certain pivotal events gone differently. Most of them play ForWantOfANail PointOfDivergence straight (though most of them do point out the ultimate futility of speculating on "what could have been"), such as UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland not backing down from conflict with Britain in 1896 resulting in aversion of WWI (and presumably WWII too) thanks to America becoming a non-isolationist world power early on, but the one about what could have happened had the Japanese government called off the Pearl Harbor raid presents an outcome in which it takes America slightly longer to enter WWII - but only slightly, as the Japanese prove to still be so bitter toward America that they give the Americans their "day of infamy" in 1942 anyway, and the Axis powers are still defeated in the end, complete with two atomic bombings on Japan.
