Recent content by Francisco Cojuanco

In my experience this is part of the reason Melkites (in the broad sense, both Orthodox and Catholic) often don't get along with non-Melkite Christians as much as you would think. Unlike say, Assyrians/Chaldeans, they're more likely to have no problem saying they have an Arab ethnic identity...

Yeah, agribusiness was (and to some extent still is) a force in Arizona as well, only instead of corn, it's cotton and alfalfa.

From what I got, the National Assembly was composed of the following: 10 members to be appointed by the King, 35 members (at least 3 of whom at any time should be women) elected by the House of Representatives on an STV basis, 15 members, 3 from each Development Region, elected by Electoral...

With the Second World War, of course, in Russia and its satellites especially it is known as the Great Patriotic War (Ukraine used to as well, before changing all references to "The Second World War" on the premise that it wouldn't do for Ukrainians to be patriotic about the Soviet Union). The...

Here they are, with constituency names, too.

None at the time of UDI, though one had been elected in the previous parliament for the UFP.

The problem is that Stalin justified his annexation of Eastern galicia and Volhynia as vindicating Ukrainian wishes to be re-united into one state. So deporting Ukrainians to Poland, well, doesn't look good. On that train of thought, Greek-Catholics had a disproportionate influence ob the...

I have one for the 1989 General election for an alt-hist South Africa RPG/EG. If @Ares96 is Ok with it I can share it in this thread.

Also, this was helped/hurt by the divisions of the pro-life movement between those forces (tacitly supoorted by the Catholic hierarchy) for rolling it back through vatious reforms and obtaining favorable judges, and a more radical wing (mostly led by lay activists, often to the exasperation of...

Not to mention just normal strategizing - in the books it's implied that Harry is unusually good at seeking, otherwise it might be possible to make it so that a team would win regardless of who takes the Snitch,

Though if it is a Soviet satellite not much will likely change internally in the postwar years prior to the fall of Communism. Once that happens though, they will likely be at the mercy of copper, zinc and lead prices, and while likely remaining independent it would be dependent on Russian...

I still think it would fire up the pro-choicers, kind of like the way it did to a limited extent with Dobbs. Even if legally it's the dead center of what your average American voter wants, by this time the fight over abortion is also a fight over cultural symbolism, progress vs reaction, "get...

Also IIRC in some parts of Western Ukraine the holiday is also controversial, partly for religious reasons (the aforementioned attempt to get rid of Christmas) and partly because it's seen as a Russian imposition.

IIRC sprogs earlier referred to green troops. So kind of a vicious circle of slang there. Though as a Yank, I find it funny that crayon-munchers refer to Army infantry. Here, that term is referred to Marines (or so my Navy friends tell me).

On the latter, I don't think the Peshmerga is going to just sit and take being invaded by the literal Turkish Army.