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* From ''The Grantville Gazette'', [[Gossip Evolution|the origin of the Sewing Circle's mutual fund]] (amusingly, titled "[[Other People's Money]]").
* In ''The Bavarian Crisis'', "[[The Trope Formerly Known as X|the prince formerly known as the Cardinal-Infante]]" has the idea for a bold action that will make great propaganda for his new regime. His advisors are aghast, since it involves him risking his life in one of the still-somewhat-crude airplanes. He points out, "Just think of the songs. The poems. The Harlequin Romances." (They're ''still'' aghast.)
* In the first book, the single casualty on the Grantville side to the Croat attack on the town was a woman injured when a black-velvet portrait of Elvis was shot off the wall and fell on her. The ''Ring of Fire'' short story "Between the Armies" reveals that a downtimer, Monsignor Giulio Mazarini, was in the room at the time. Not knowing better, he
* In "Diving Belle" from ''Ring of Fire II'', the story of the church bells of Delsbo.
* Eddie Cantrell getting drafted in "In the Navy".
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* In the first ''Grantville Gazette'', "The Rudolstadt Colloquy", Secretary of State Ed Piazza is attending the colloquy, bored out of his mind and doodling in the margins of his ''[[Doorstopper|Concordia Triglotta]]'' with a pencil when he meets Leopold Cavriani when he sees the latter was bored out of his mind and doodling in the margin in ''pen''.
* In ''1632'', when some of the mercenaries are put in WANTED-DEAD and advised to leave American territories before July 5, the mercenaries' commander complains about the fact that the "American territories" part is unclear. Mike Stearns just stares at the commander. [[Gilligan Cut|A few months later]], the commander has found a job. In Russia. He figures that it would be far enough.
* In ''1636: The Saxon Uprising'', as the authority and legitimacy of Axel Oxenstierna is slowly eroded, and he loses the support of the people, we occasionally cut to a group of Pomeranian fishermen commenting on events. In the beginning, they are all in support of Axel. The second time we see them, they say they should have voted for Stearns, not Wettin. The third time, they all claim they actually voted for Stearns, prompting the one skeptic in the room to comment that [[Lampshade Hanging|within a year, it will seem to have been magic how Wettin got elected, 'seeing as how no one seemed to have voted for him']]. The final time we meet them, only one person in their village, an old widow, claims to have voted for Wettin - they promptly remark that Stearns shouldn't have given women the vote, and that ''[[Refuge in Audacity|they almost didn't vote for him because of that.]]''
* "The Ram Rebellion" has Brillo, an unusually intelligent ram with terrible wool who becomes an in-universe [[Memetic Badass]] and [[Memetic Molester]] through broadsheet stories about his supposed exploits.
* At two different points in ''1635: A Parcel of Rogues'', relatives of Darryl McCarthy comment that since he's too far away for them to give him advice, they'll just have to hope Darryl knows what he's doing. Both times, another family member responds, "You do realize how crazy that sounds?"
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