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Recent content by Beata Beatrix

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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Genuinely laughed out loud. This is amazing work!
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley (17 October 1769 — 19 February 1837) [1] was a politician and landowner who served as Member of Parliament for Cheshire and succeeded his father as High Sheriff of Cheshire. Although elected as an independent, Darcy was broadly allied to the Whigs, as he was also a...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    YES. YES. YES. YES. YES.
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    WI: Yuri Andropov lived 4 years longer?

    I have read Russians argue that had Andropov lived five more years or so the USSR would have been saved. I think that's optimistic, to put it mildly. But! I think his brand of reformism would have helped the USSR certainly. True, the heady brew that was economic inequality, nationalist...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Nikita Khrushchev must've been thrilled about the Orpington by-election then
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Was Vince involved in the creation of the X-Statix by any chance?
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I happened across these the other day, they were promotional pieces created by a bunch of people who were essentially just French eurofederalism hobbyists, but Pasteur is a really wonderful pick for "European federalism the French definitely aren't going to be running."
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    Comic Corner: Captain Britain (Moore/Davis)

    Aargh I missed this coming out! Yes, I think Jaspers and The Fury are two of the great comic villains – I remember audibly gasping at the sequence where Mad Jim changes his wine from red to white as an act of pure faux-aristocratic pique (his social signifiers are fascinating, aren't they?)...
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    the zaffre zone: title cards, joaos, and other oddities

    ok so you do have to end this with a president named barbara something
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Harrowing but great, great stuff.
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    Comic Corner: Master of Kung Fu

    I am always fascinated by the extent to which Shang-Chi Got Over when he is, uh. From these origins. And yet he was kind of good? If nothing else, Mike Zeck was very good at art! Extremely excited for the Captain Britain article, huge fan of that run and that character.
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    How much would Germany be beating the UK on wealth and happiness spreads in a no world wars timeline?

    Well what do you imagine this Germany looking like? Is it still a Kaiserreich? A republic? Even a socialist state? The German crown was headed for an immense crisis vis a vis the SPD and the Reichstag – like the one of 1918! – and I'm not convinced they were going to prevail. If they don't, you...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    VINAY PRASHAD IS REALLY GOOD FUCK
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    AHC: Fidel Castro takes power by electoral, not armed, means in Cuba

    I heartily agree – I think Fidel Castro is very easy to picture as a rather bruising, if, uh, heterodox Ortodoxo presidential candidate in the 1960s in a world where Batista's coup is averted somehow – and Prío probably could have averted the coup if he had been more proactive. In general...
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    A Few Seats More: Wilson Wins a Larger Majority in 1964?

    This was my thought as well – but Maudling is sort of his own burgeoning catastrophe of a man. On the other hand, I could see a 1968 election lost by Labour more than it's won by Maudling...
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