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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

c'mon man even ignoring the fact that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Hungarians died in the camps, Horthy's Hungary wasn't any less patently antisemitic for all the hagiography

me, but in the same way i """admire""" LBJ or Nixon for being brilliant and also a shit (in the words of Denis Healey)

this is so, so, so