What's the analogue here, for the record?According to Maurice Paléologue's diary, in December 1916 several Russian Grand Dukes were planning to carry out a palace coup, arrest Nicholas II with his wife, and declare Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich regent for the minor Alexei. Grand Dukes Kirill and Andrei tried to persuade Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich to lead the Guards, as they believed that the soldiers would follow him as a participant in the murder of Rasputin.
After a long mental conflict, Dmitri Pavlovich declined this offer, but let us imagine that he not only agreed, but seized power for himself personally. He probably would have married Nicholas II's daughter Olga, rumors of their wedding had been circulating since 1912, but what would have happened afterwards? Their son would probably have inherited hemophilia and would not have lived long, and Kirill's ancestors would hardly have been happy to be pushed aside in the line of succession...
Yeah, yeah, just an excuse for another analogue list, you guessed it.
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If anyone is interested in seeing the 2020, 2024, and 2028 election results, I posted them in my Test Thread.
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
- Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (1969 - 1977)
I had fun with this one. Don't yell at me.
Very interesting. Where you did you find the images for the tsars?According to Maurice Paléologue's diary, in December 1916 several Russian Grand Dukes were planning to carry out a palace coup, arrest Nicholas II with his wife, and declare Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich regent for the minor Alexei. Grand Dukes Kirill and Andrei tried to persuade Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich to lead the Guards, as they believed that the soldiers would follow him as a participant in the murder of Rasputin.
After a long mental conflict, Dmitri Pavlovich declined this offer, but let us imagine that he not only agreed, but seized power for himself personally. He probably would have married Nicholas II's daughter Olga, rumors of their wedding had been circulating since 1912, but what would have happened afterwards? Their son would probably have inherited hemophilia and would not have lived long, and Kirill's ancestors would hardly have been happy to be pushed aside in the line of succession...
Yeah, yeah, just an excuse for another analogue list, you guessed it.
Why would Nixon pick LBJ, Jackson, and Clinton as VPs during his presidency?
Thank God the Civil War didn't go nuclear.According to Maurice Paléologue's diary, in December 1916 several Russian Grand Dukes were planning to carry out a palace coup, arrest Nicholas II with his wife, and declare Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich regent for the minor Alexei. Grand Dukes Kirill and Andrei tried to persuade Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich to lead the Guards, as they believed that the soldiers would follow him as a participant in the murder of Rasputin.
After a long mental conflict, Dmitri Pavlovich declined this offer, but let us imagine that he not only agreed, but seized power for himself personally. He probably would have married Nicholas II's daughter Olga, rumors of their wedding had been circulating since 1912, but what would have happened afterwards? Their son would probably have inherited hemophilia and would not have lived long, and Kirill's ancestors would hardly have been happy to be pushed aside in the line of succession...
Yeah, yeah, just an excuse for another analogue list, you guessed it.
The logic (however bare) I was operating under was National Unity.
"And they bicker, scheme, and doubt all things."
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"None of the parties have a mandate from this election to take us into a federal Europe because they have all campaigned against it, and if they don't respect their commitments, we want to have people up and down the country who are angry and committed to ensuring that those politicians respect their words."
"And your personal chances here? Do you have any idea how they go?"
"Extremely low!"
"And your personal chances here? Do you have any idea how they go?"
"Extremely low!"
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Found this in my old Photobucket account - a Wikibox of the submarine Nautilus from the Jules Verne book 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo).
Specifications are largely based on what's in the 1870 novel. Realistically, they are quite ASB - the diving depth, which it reaches in one chapter, is far superior to even a modern nuclear submarine. But I still reckoned it belongs in this thread.
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The 1990 Hungarian presidential election was held at the same time as the first round of the 1990 parliamentary elections. They were the country’s first ever direct elections for the Presidency. Despite the anti-communist parties advocating for the adoption of presidential elections by the Hungarian parliament in the 1989 four-part referendum, the electorate narrowly voted against this, and incumbent President Mátyás Szűrös took this as a mandate to institute a directly elected semi-presidential system, which the Socialist Party (MSZP), the successor to the Communist Socialist Worker’s Party, had supported.
Szűrös chose not to run for election to a full five-year presidential term, and instead the Socialists put forward the very popular Minister of State Imre Pozsgay, a vocal reformist and advocate of democratization. The Alliance of Free Democrats and Fidesz refused to participate in this election due to their ardent opposition to direct presidential elections and belief that they could not defeat Pozsgay, with the nationalist Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) nominating Lajos Für and the agrarian Independent Smallholders Party (FKGP) nominating Ferenc József Nagy.
Poszgay won a resounding victory with 60.1% of the vote to 29.2% for Für and 10.7% for Nagy; this was a stark contrast to the Socialists’ poor performance in the parliamentary election. In his victory speech, Pozsgay called for peaceful cooperation with the democratically elected government and pledged to work cooperatively ‘despite the ideological differences of our parties’ with the Prime Minister once he was decided (ultimately this was József Antall of the MDF).
Presumably she's designed closer to a bathysphere than a normal submarine with that crush depth. Also in a world where other known subs are essentially hand powered boats running ten feet under (like the one the CSA used on the USS Housatonic) they don't have to worry about speed or stealth so everything can go into strength.
Also presumably comfort as 70 people in that space with less than 1m2 between them for months at a time might not go so well if people get...unhappy...
Considered doing a remake, cause why not?
A Totally Normal Dude V2: Electric Boogaloo: An SI Wikibox
(TW: For mentions of suicide/self-harm)
The basic rule of the SI is, I got to choose a new universe to live in, and chose a mirror world in the 1920s. Also, I can make wikiboxes for some of the novels if people are interested
A Totally Normal Dude V2: Electric Boogaloo: An SI Wikibox
(TW: For mentions of suicide/self-harm)
The basic rule of the SI is, I got to choose a new universe to live in, and chose a mirror world in the 1920s. Also, I can make wikiboxes for some of the novels if people are interested
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The second general election of the Nexus Force leadership took place on the second anniversary of the destruction of Crux. The chief executive of the Force was elected via instant-runoff voting, while the 60-member Administrative Council was elected via party-list proportional representation.
Assembly faction leader and incumbent chief executive Dr. Albert Overbuild was re-elected, achieving a strong victory over Duke Exeter, Sentinel leader and military commander of the Nexus Force. The unexpected cross-endorsement of respected Sentinel scout Epsilon Starcracker, who ran as Overbuild's running mate, was considered a key factor in his re-election. Overbuild had earned a reputation as a reliable administrator during his first term as executive and, alongside Starcracker, his ticket was able to reach beyond Assembly's traditional base, appealing to swing voters and non-faction members. By contrast, Exeter ran alongside fellow Sentinel Sergeant Brannan Landers, a safe pick which shored up the party's military base but brought little to the ticket. Hael Storm and Sky Lane of the Venture League placed third on 12%, managing to fend off the popular Overbuild and retain most of the party's coalition. Vanda Darkflame came fourth with 8.5%, running with researcher Wisp Lee; their campaign was characterised as obtuse and radical, and this combined with enduring controversy around Lee's role in the Avant Gardens Maelstrom outbreak alienated most voters beyond dedicated Paradox adherents. Overbuild was able to win the lion's share of preferences from third party voters by raising concerns about placing the power of both chief executive and military command in the hands of one individual, an angle which Exeter failed to adequately counter.
Conversely, in the legislative election, Sentinel put on a strong performance and overtook Assembly to become the largest party with 20 seats. Assembly and the Builders' League both suffered losses, while the other two major factions remained stable. The swings were attributed mostly to demographic changes that had taken place since the opening of Nexus Tower; an influx of soldiers to the front on Crux Prime bolstered Sentinel, while the completion of the Tower prompted many engineers and labourers to emigrate. Migration of displaced minifigures to the Tower from frontier worlds and Nimbus Station led to the rise of the Displaced List, which debuted at 5 seats.
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