Technological progress took place far faster than in our timeline, and quickly surpassed the point we are at now.

Writer Sam Humphries revealed in an interview that Bishop would be back in our timeline and would be one of the first enemies of the new incarnation of Uncanny X-Force.

Although invoking the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, whereby events from his own timeline may differ from our own, Titor also expressed assurance that the differences were minimal.

The Anglo-French Empire was established by the Plantagenets, which dynasty has continued to rule ( and which continues to use the Palace of Westminster as a royal residence, with Parliament far weaker than in our timeline ).

The impression given is that Africa was not as heavily touched by colonialism as in our timeline.

This new figure elongates the established timeline: The Flight of the Noldor took 5 Valian Years (~ 50 of our years ); with the new figure this would be ' translated ' into ~ 700 of our years.

Gradually, the reader realizes that the plot does not take place in our timeline but in an alternate history-one in which the Superconducting Super Collider was built in Texas ( in our history, the project was cancelled in 1993 and never implemented ) and in which American forces invaded Baghdad and overthrew Saddam Hussein already during the Gulf war of 1991.

Genetic engineering is far more advanced than in our own timeline, and so Thursday has a pet dodo, Pickwick.

The United States, probably in reaction to their defeat in the War of Secession, appears to have sped up the conquest and settlement of the Great Plains relative to our timeline.

( In our timeline the Dakota territory split because of an ongoing debate about the placement of the capital.

The Austro-Hungarian Imperial Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife are both killed by a bomb ( whereas in our real timeline, they were shot to death ) while touring the city of Sarajevo in June 1914.

US forces also invade western Virginia, aiming for the rail junction at Big Lick, Virginia ( Roanoke in our timeline ).

In Europe, the war seems little changed from our timeline, with the exception of Verdun's capture by the Germans, and an apparently heavier use of North African infantry by the French Army.

On January 5, 1933, Coolidge dies before he could take office ( Coolidge died on the same date in our timeline ).

( In our timeline, the genocide occurred during World War I, ending shortly after the war.

( The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union — in our timeline — occurred on the same day.

At 3: 30 am on June 22, 1941 ( the same time that Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in our real timeline ), the North American war kicks off with massive bombing raids on Philadelphia and military installations all over southern Ohio.

( This is likely a reference to the Battle of Stalingrad in our own timeline.

The U. S. also holds criminal trials to punish crimes against humanity in a similar manner to the Nuremberg Trials of our timeline, executing the deposed Attorney General and Director of Communications, as well as numerous camp guards.

This more than twenty billion years timeline of our universe shows the best estimates of the occurrence of events since its beginning, up until anticipated events in the near future.

* Graphical timeline of our universe

The Church thus also controls the restive " New World " ( which approximates the United States in our timeline ), as well as " Australasia ", where James Cook planted the cobalt flag of the Vatican, instead of the Union Flag, in the 18th century.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

" When the Confederate Flag flew over the court house in Floyd, it was saluted by nearly everyone, but not so with our neighbors across the river.

Because we desire to perpetuate, in love and honor, the heroic deeds of those who enlisted in the Confederate Services, and upheld its flag through four years of war, we, the children of the South, have united in an Organization called the Children of the Confederacy, in which our strength, enthusiasm and love of justice can exert its influence.

Counterpart successor states to our world's United States include: a ( truncated ) United States ; the Confederate States of America ; the Republic of Texas ; the Republic of California ; a Communist Manhattan Island commune ( with Karl Marx as a leading light ); British North America ( analogous to Canada, albeit slightly larger in this world ); Russian America ( Alaska ); and terra nullius.

** The Preamble to the Confederate Constitution: " We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.

Kentucky, having been conquered by Confederate forces shortly after the Battle of Camp Hill, joins the eleven original Confederate states after the war's conclusion, and the Confederacy is also given Indian Territory ( our timeline's state of Oklahoma, later the Southern Victory Series state of Sequoyah ).

Our Bristol and Liverpool merchants, perhaps, helped to benefit the race when they transplanted some of them to America ; and our mistaken legislature has done the Negro race much injury by their absurd and unwarrantable attempts to prevent Africa from exporting her worthless or surplus population ... I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that slavery as understood by the ancients does not exist out of Africa and that the highest type of the Negro race is at present to be found in the Confederate States of America.

The March 1861 " Cornerstone Speech " of Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens even argued that Jefferson's words in the Declaration were mistaken, and that the Confederacy's new Constitution, establishing " our peculiar institution ", had rectified the error.

Also during the American Civil War, Crosby wrote " Song to Jeff Davis ", directed at Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, which expressed her belief in the morality of the Union cause: " Our stars and stripes are waving, And Heav ' n will speed our cause ".

However, a Confederate sergeant, in a letter written home shortly after the battle said that " the poor, deluded negroes would run up to our men, fall upon their knees, and with uplifted hand scream for mercy, but were ordered to their feet and then shot down.

Private Reginald Bartlett, escaping with a Confederate naval officer, heard U. S. soldiers singing a song, " Roll Out the Barrel " ( not related to our timeline's Czech polka Rosalinda, which became popular in 1938 and was given the English-language lyrics Roll Out the Barrel ).

We were absolutely isolated beyond any possibility of help from the Confederate authorities, and I did not feel warranted in exposing the garrison to the hazard of the blowing up of our main magazine -- a danger which had just been proved well within the limits of probability.

Edward Porter Alexander, the prominent Confederate artillery commander and postwar historian, lamented about the great lost opportunity at Glendale and White Oak Swamp: " When one thinks of the great chances in General Lee's grasp that one summer afternoon, it is enough to make one cry ... to think that our Stonewall Jackson lost them.

" Confederate Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill was even more direct: " Had all our troops been at Frayser's Farm, there would have been no Malvern Hill.

The Constitution framed by our fathers is that of these Confederate States ” and that it differed “ only from that of our fathers insofar as it is explanatory of their well-known intent …” Some scholars agree with Davis that the Provisional Constitution sought to clarify many of the ambiguities of the original Constitution.

As late as January 1865 Miles offered a resolution in Congress stating, " That we, the representatives of the people of the Confederate States, are firmly determined to continue the struggle in which we are involved until the United States shall acknowledge our independence.

When the state was invaded by Confederate forces, he drafted a famous resolution: " Resolved, that Kentucky expects the Confederate -- or Tennessee -- troops to be withdrawn from our soil unconditionally.

5: 15: 1 to 5: 15: 5 ... O People of the book surely has come to you " our messenger ".

During the final studio audience taping, Mattie's mom and Oprah shared memories of Mattie, discussed his life story in the " Messenger " book, and Oprah called him " a messenger for our times.

… Since our intention Canadiens was never to disturb the peace and harmony which exist between two friends as two Prince allies, but only to avenge the assassination of one of our officers, messenger of a summon, and of his escorts, to prevent any establishment on the lands of her majesty, the King of France, my master.

At 08. 30 a further messenger from Khalid declared that " We have no intention of hauling down our flag and we do not believe you would open fire on us "; Cave replied that " We do not want to open fire, but unless you do as you are told we shall certainly do so.

: When my sister was about to be summoned west to Chang ' an, we said our farewells at the imperial messenger station.