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    Tales from Development Hell: A Confederacy of Dunces

    One of the reasons I was motivated to write about his early death from substance abuse in TWR was because he had emerged so triumphant from those struggles that I thought it would be intriguing to remind everyone how close he came to meeting an early end, once upon a time. I mean, the...
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    These Are the Different Voyages...

    I really appreciate your candour, and thanks so much for offering to go to the trouble :) I'm blown away by how magnanimously you're handling my critique, it really speaks to the pride you take in your part in the site's articles (and rightly so).
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    These Are the Different Voyages...

    Although I've read that the other potential casting choices for the role of Number One were names added to obscure the preordained casting of Roddenberry's mistress, there exists a memo in which Jeanne Bal (who played Nancy in "The Man Trap") and Lee Meriwether (Losira in "That Which Survives"...
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    These Are the Different Voyages...

    You rang? Always nice to see an article about Star Trek, but given my proofreading tendencies, please forgive the cold, clinical nature of my critiques. Does the author also choose which images are displayed alongside the article? No objection to any but the first, which describes "the...
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    WI: President Mo Udall

    Paging @Electric Monk, he's been studying Udall in this context for years. (And he ought to finally de-lurk and post here anyway.)
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    Does the supernatural have a place in Alternate History?

    Technically, the POD of my TL That Wacky Redhead could be interpreted as a psychic encounter with the spirit world, since it's a dream a character has about the ghost of her dead friend coming back to visit her. This is based on the person in question (Lucille Ball) having a similar dream IOTL...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    I could. I might have to, although I'll see if I can do some recalculations based on successive censuses with the different boundary lines. My theory as to the apportionment is, many of the older guard on the Commission drawing the lines see this as a prime opportunity to re-create how...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    More excellent work! Thank you so much, the UK is really starting to come together nicely. However, Peterborough is still attached to Huntingdonshire when it should be attached to Northamptonshire. As it happens I did find what appears to be contemporary district maps of Glamorganshire (the...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Thank you very much - that is a beautiful map and I will do my best to find and compare it against county-level maps which purport to be more accurate to the turn of the century. Thank you so much! I'm totally blown away. Please feel free to continue with your compulsive helpfulness! Agreed -...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Thanks everyone for the positive responses to the latest update! I thought about trying to base a map on the Senate lines instead of the Commons lines, but my abortive efforts got ugly fast. Then I decided it would be better to be consistent anyway. They're a thing of beauty, yes, although at...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Basically. Quebec is weird because its divisions are based on the colonial seigneuries, which were long, thin strips extending from the St. Lawrence River into the hinterland. The borders of what was then Lower Canada are basically as far as the seigneuries went, which is why there's a small...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    These boundaries were drawn in 1903 (and first used in the 1904 federal election IOTL), but there's a clear continuity with the design principles used from Confederation.
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    My, the dust accumulates quickly, doesn't it... time to do some housekeeping! La Belle Province Quebec was one of the four charter provinces of the Dominion of Canada upon Confederation in 1867, and the only one with a majority French-speaking population, a legacy of the province's history...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Quebec helps pick up the slack on that front, as I've recently discovered. An advantage of STV is that Anglophone and Francophone minorities in their respective regions will both be represented so long as the constituencies are sufficiently large. In fact, Quebec will probably be one of the...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Toronto can indeed form a three-seat constituency all by itself (with a population of 208,040, it would return 2.81 MIPs, rounded up to three.) Creating a York County seat gives us 3.69 MIPs, rounded up to four. I agree that a Toronto-based constituency which encompasses all of York County would...
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    Feature requests

    I understand it's a very niche request. Thanks for looking into it; fortunately there are workarounds.
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    Feature requests

    Please don't consider this a formal request if it's at all cumbersome, but is there some way to have multiple indents in the same "line" or "paragraph" (similar to hitting TAB on a Word document) to replicate a table? Or barring that, some kind of table function? Just so I don't have to...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow Ontario was one of the four charter provinces of the Dominion of Canada upon Confederation in 1867, along with Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Since Confederation, it has always been the most populous of the provinces, a trend which continued in 1901...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    The Maple Leaf Forever The Dominion of Canada is the oldest, largest, and most populous of the British Dominions. As part of my sketches for the formation of the Imperial Federation I have Canada as the laggard, since at the turn of the 20th century it is governed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the...
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    Imperial Parliament STV Constituencies

    Much as I'd like to avoid them, it's probably inevitable in future decades. Speaking of Canada, I've finally made a breakthrough which will allow me to map Ontario and Quebec (as previously noted, all other provinces will each comprise a single constituency). At this time, Canadian census...
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