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Read this over and, apologies if this has been cited already, but you can cut it a generation above as Ralph Miliband was born-and-raised in Belgium as the son of Polish Jewish émigrés. Belgian PM Édouard or David Miliband in a world where Hitler's stopped at the Sudeten?

Chairperson of the Third International 8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai 9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos 10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan 11th World Congress (1975): Lin Biao 12th World Congress (1985): Joe Slovo 13th World Congress (1995): Jacques Chirac 14th...

Inspired by Vidal's excellent TL The President Lay Dying. Goldenrod and the 3H Stone [39] 1977–1977 | Senator Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (Democratic—MN) / Fmr. Governor James E. “Jimmy” Carter Jr. (Democratic—GA) [39] 1977–1977 | President Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (Democratic—MN) / vacant [39]...

Lazarus; or: The Whale Political Career of John S. McCain III 1977–1978: Navy Liaison to the U.S. Senate 1978: Candidate for House for Florida’s Florida’s 3rd District, Republican 1978: Defeated by Charles E. Bennett (Democratic) 1978–1979: Private citizen 1979–1980: U.S. Under Secretary of the...

I've been feeling rather inspired by @Steve Brinson 's Tomorrow, Perhaps the Future as of late, which concerns an America with guided social democracy under the SPA after a tumultuous 1910s. This has got me thinking about what other developments and divergences could lead to a similar...

The Wolfram framing device, maybe of all time

This is really fascinating. Also apologies about the map, I got it from Howe's book. How do you guys figure the territories will proceed with statehood? I know of post-statehood efforts to split the state, but up to initial statehood I find it hard to imagine a substantially large Southern...

As out of my field of interest as this is, I've been fascinated by the implications of a slightly larger Mexican Cession as a born-and-raised Tucsonian. Let's assume that Trist is out of the way and Polk ends up securing a cession encompassing OTL's Northern Mexico from Tamaulipas to Baja...

For what it's worth I think he forgot about this lmao. Looking so forward to your ideas wrt American Caesar :)

Kenny Inouye of that Inouye family was a fixture of the legendary '80s D.C. hardcore punk scene, having been a guitarist for local band Marginal Man. The Elder Inouye was a part-time owner of one of their labels and even attended several of their shows. On a musical level, they brought a more...

Started a goofy wikibox collab with a friend. Here's part one.

Kathleen Hanna's a nice touch.

man i sucked at AH lol