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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I'll never stop wondering what precisely the parents of American actress Carlson Young were smoking when they decided upon the name for their daughter.
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    WI: Madison's 'most important' Amendment goes through

    Perhaps? But I'm still rather annoyed with myself for managing to misremembering it so wrong. Yes, I agree that the whole "the Founding Fathers were all Deists" thing has been overstated. Granted, there were some high profile names who were either openly or closeted Deists. More I would say...
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    WI: Madison's 'most important' Amendment goes through

    You know, you're probably right. The dates and main characters all match. I have no idea why I remembered it as being about the income tax.
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    WI: Madison's 'most important' Amendment goes through

    Sure. Calhoun: American Heretic, by Robert Elder.
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    WI: Madison's 'most important' Amendment goes through

    Oh that was Madison's most important amendment? I do recall that towards the end of his presidency, it was debated whether the Constitution gave the federal government the right to collect a federal income tax, with many people (including John C. Calhoun) arguing that it did, and that for the...
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    Breaking the Mould Redux: A Wikibox Timeline

    So, there has been no referendum on electoral reform or anything, that was just something that the Alliance passed as a law and that was it? Considering that Tony Benn was a dogged opponent of proportional representation (when the Blair government introduced proportional representation for EU...
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    Alternative to Thatcher’s Policies?

    Depends on what you mean with alternative. I suppose instead of Thatcherism, you could have had a policy of making it illegal for any building of any sort in Britain to have any colour other than magenta. All buildings had to be magenta now. All of them. Every private home, every school, every...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    Good Lord! What an immense amount of effort! Bravo!
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I was thinking of whether you could do it with the Netherlands, but alas, all you get is Theodor and Frank van Rosenvelt, a long list of Apartheid era South African Presidents, and that most evil politician ever to be of Dutch decent, François Hollande...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    Folkpartiet är som bekannt ett socialliberalt parti, men där har alltid funnits interna motsättningar mellan dem som lägger vikt på social och dem som lägger vikt på liberal. Likalunda inom antisemitiska folkpartiet hade där alltid funnits interna motsättningar mellan dem som la vikt på...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    "Antisemitiska folkpartiet bildades sedan Judehatande samlingspartiet splittrades över frågan om alkoholsförbud, varvid förbudsmotståndarna bildade Judehatande Reichstagspartiet..."
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I don’t think the events of 1809 were ever referred to as anything other than a statskupp though. Granted it took a few decades to hammer out the reform of the Riksdag of the Estates and for government by cabinet responsible to the legislature to be properly established, but fundamentally, 1809...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Oh, it was called a revolution at the time, seeing Gustav III was indeed very much popular when it all transpired. As his popularity started to wane, it stopped being referred to as “the Revolution” and started being referred to as “the Coup d’État”. I would almost bet money on that the account...
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    2024-2025: Sir Keir Starmer (Labour) 2025-2026: Rachel Reeves (Labour) 2026-2027: Darren Jones (Labour) 2027-2035: Liz Truss (Conservative) 2035-2036: Wendy Morton (Conservative) 2036-Present: Michelle Donelan (Conservative)
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    Paleofuture. Part 2: Foundation

    Well, I have already partly touched upon this, but this is also why part of me dreads writing this essay, because, you know, obviously I want to talk about Keynes and Hayek and that particular brand of liberalism that came out of The Road to Serfdom. I also want to talk about James C. Scott's...
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