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* ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' has this: Knoxville, TN is the new * US capital Columbia, Equador is northern Brazil, New England is a much more extensive term, and colonial cities across Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas have different names. |
* ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' has this: Knoxville, TN is the new * US capital Columbia, Equador is northern Brazil, New England is a much more extensive term, and colonial cities across Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas have different names. |
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** Also inverted—The government of His Majesty, the Tsar of All the Russias, would like to make perfectly clear that it's Constantinople, not Istanbul. |
** Also inverted—The government of His Majesty, the Tsar of All the Russias, would like to make perfectly clear that it's Constantinople, not Istanbul. |
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== Western Animation == |
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* In the episode of ''[[Scooby-Doo|Scooby-Doo, Where are You]]'' where Jeannie (as in, from the animated version of ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'') appears, Jeannie makes reference to Persia; Velma, being the smart one, points out that it's called Iran now.<ref>Not technically true, actually, as Persia was a large empire which Iran was only a part of.</ref> |
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* In an episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' ("Jack and the Haunted House"), both Jack and the owners of a house he is a guest at refer to Tokyo by its old name, Edo. Justified, of course, as both [[Fish Out of Temporal Water| he and they are from the time period before its name was changed.]] |
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== Real life == |
== Real life == |
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