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Recent content by Ares96

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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    The vibes I get off cumulative voting as a system is very much “STV for people who don’t like maths”. Also, it was used in the Cape Colony for some (but IIRC not all) their parliamentary elections, and I believe some of British India had it as well, or at least considered introducing it in the 30s.
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    If you want, I could send you the basemap I drew for the 1973 election way back when. God knows it should get as much use as possible after all the time I spent tracing the islands.
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    Max's election maps and assorted others
    Threadmarks: Budapest 1878-1910

    So I made this map in 2022, just after my big trip, and it seems I never got around to posting it at the time - which surprises me a bit, I could've sworn I did, but it won't show up on a search, so I assume it slipped my mind. One of my personal holy grails of electoral cartography, along with...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    For those who don’t know, the outermost parts of the Metropolitan line (west of Rickmansworth) were unelectrified until the early 60s. These sections were operated using steam locomotives, and London Transport were adding new steam engines to their roster as late as 1963 - these were second-hand...
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    Erin's Erfurt III Experience

    Pretty sure they're meant to be agrarians - having Kretschmann as their leader is actually quite clever, because Württemberg was a stronghold of agrarian politics in the Weimar Republic.
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    Erin's Erfurt III Experience

    It’s odd to see Germany without a Centre/CDU equivalent - in my head I’ve always pictured them taking the place of the agrarian parties in the Nordic countries, because even names aside, they occupy kind of a similar space in the parliamentary landscape.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    IIRC Allenby chose to call the battle that even though Megiddo itself played a fairly peripheral role in it, specifically because it was such an evocative name.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I would assume it's a stand-in for Central Asia in general rather than any one specific country.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    It's a three-day crossing, so I'm fairly sure you can't book passage without one.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I want to go on the Norröna at some point in my life, but I'm genuinely not sure I have the sea legs for it.
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) is a Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and operating in the Eastern United States. Once the largest private enterprise in the world and the most trafficked railroad in the United States by far, the decline of short-haul...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    This Time Magazine cover uses an, um, interesting phrasing to describe J. B. M. Hertzog's job: (the U.S.A. in question is, of course, the Union of South Africa)
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    Actually it turned out to be easier than any previous step of this process - some guy on Wikipedia sent me a message asking if he could email me the full set. Turns out it's sometimes useful to be on there.
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    A minor update on the South African election front - I still haven't found any good map sources, but I have been able to get access to all general election results from 1910 onwards, so with that in mind, I've added some stuff to the set of Cape Town maps I made previously. The main addition...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others
    Threadmarks: Helsinki 1918

    And of course, as I was writing those maps up, I found the 1918 election results in an earlier report that also had boundaries. The difference, again, was not huge - though it is worth noting that this would've been one of the absolute last elections contested by the Finnish and Young Finnish...
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