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Presidents of the Confederate States: 1861-1867: Jefferson Davis / Alexander Stevens (Nonpartisan) 1867-1873: J. L. M. Curry / Lawrence O'Bryan Branch ("Dixie" Democratic) 1873-1879: Joseph E. Johnston / Alexander H. H. Stuart (Democratic-Whig) 1879-1885: Barzillai J. Chambers / William M. Lowe...

collab list The Century of Progress? President of the United States 1909-1913: William Howard Taft (Republican) 1913-1917: Hiram Johnson (Progressive) 1917-1925: Herbert Hadley (Progressive) 1925-1929: Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) 1929-1936: Robert McNutt McElroy (All-American)...

Leaders of the UK (post-American occupation) 1950 - 1951: Field Marshal Peter Kemp 1951 - 1955: 1955 - 1958: 1958 - 1964: 1964 - 1975: 1975 - 1979: 1979 - 1979: 1979 - 1979: 1979 - 1981: 1981 - 1987: 1987 - 1997: 1997 - 2001: 2001 - present:

The North American Community is separated into four divisions. The first three divisions are the Treaty Divisions, the three pre-existing international organizations that signed the Treaty of Chapultepec in 1937 to form the NAC; the fourth, the Non-Aligned Division, is made up of the many...

1908-1913: H. H. Asquith (Liberal) 1913-1918: H. H. Asquith (Liberal leading Wartime Coalition) 1918-1918: H. H. Asquith (Liberal) 1918-1919: John Simon (Liberal) 1919-1924: Max Aitken (Conservative) '19 (maj.) def. Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), John Simon (Liberal), Winston Churchill (Liberal...

The Commanding Heights Tallest Buildings of the 20th Century 1894-1908: Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, United States (167 m) 1908-1909: Singer Building, New York, United States (192 m) 1909-1913: Metropolitan Life Tower, New York, United States (213 m) 1913-1921: Woolworth Building, New...

The sixth-tallest statue in the United States (the Wikipedia article says fifth but I think they're leaving out Birth of the New World in Puerto Rico?) is this extremely socialist-looking guy: The eighth-largest is this statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (known locally as Quan Ân) in Đất...

Brewster’s Millions of Votes idk Really like how Douglas leads to a more academic/advocacy-ish Democratic idea of a President. Aaron Sorkin is in his personal heaven I don’t mean to be rude, but all these people have Wikipedia pages. (I assume Terry O’Neill is the former NOW president.)

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...

Carcinization, but for deer. Elaphization.

The Perils of Parliamentarism: A Decade of Dems in Disarray List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives (ex officio Chairs of the Executive Review Commission) ...-1989: Bruce Babbitt (Progressive-Arizona) 1989-1991: Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (Democratic-Massachusetts) '88 def...

I take it this means something like "Internet meme"? Love the callback to Andromeda Finance.

Distributed by groups including the Russian-American Fund for Justice, the "Basketball of Death" shirt was distributed extensively in the Anglosphere in advance of the 1996 Basketball World Cup to protest the revocation of Lithuania's ban from international sporting events. Though President...

You got it! Not really happy with the foreign analogues but so it goes.

1953-1957: Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) '52 (with Richard Nixon) def. William Orville Douglas (Democratic) '56 (with Richard Nixon) def. William Orville Douglas (Democratic) '57 assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald 1957-1965: Richard Nixon (Republican) '60 (with Sherman Adams) def. William vanden...