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Not to nit-pick but you have Tribles twice on Related shows (unless they are two diffrent shows that share the same name in which case ignore this), and you still have the external link saying Doctor Who at the BBC
The Trans-Himalayan Railway began construction in 1895 under the auspices of British, Russian and Chinese engineers alongside their Himalayan counterparts in a massive project that cost around 80% of the Himalayan infrastructure budget for ten years. This ambitious project saw the need for railway connectivity between the mountain regions of the Empire of the Himalayas, and after seventeen years of arduous construction, the railway was finished, laid with multiple protections against the elements of nature, and the railway is considered a timeless feat in engineering. The railway was inaugurated by Emperor Mahendra I on August 25th, 1912 from when the railway would carry commutters, and freighters both. The railway is still in operation today.
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Mississippi Constitution of 1890 initially set the terms of all state official at two years each, with no chance of consecutive re-election. A constitutional amendment passed in 1934 allowed the Governor to serve up to consecutive two terms maximum, with Menelaus “Pappy” O'Daniel, elected in 1935, being the first Governor seek immediate re-election.
O'Daniel, a flour businessman, represented the rural and commercial elements of the Mississippi Democratic Party. Despite his incumbency, his wide-reaching radio show The Flour Hour, and his support from many state planter elites, there was immense dissatisfaction among the general public. He was widely believed to be corrupt, with various opponents accusing him of taking money from saloons, granting licenses to businesses that supported him, selling pardons, appointing people who were either incompetent, family, or both, and, worst of all to white Mississippians, being lax on the issue of miscegenation.
Few people openly challenged O'Daniel, even fewer knowing how to run against an incumbent Governor. Eventually one emerged, reform candidate Homer Stokes. Campaigning around the state as the “friend to the little man,” based on an anti-planter, anti-elite, anti-corruption, anti-black, pro-reform, platform, Stokes was able to capture the hearts and minds of poor white voters, putting O'Daniel's re-election campaign at risk.
Despite an early blaze of popularity, with many newspapers being convinced he would triumph over Governor O'Daniel in the Democratic primary, a disastrous campaign dinner destroyed Stokes' chances of victory. Not only had Stokes announced himself as a Klan member (something that had fallen out of favor in the late 1930's, even among white Mississippians), and had even denounced his own entertainment of the night, (the then-immensely popular band, Soggy Bottoms Boys), but Governor O'Daniel was able to storm the party, endear himself to Stokes' voters, and get the endorsement of the Soggy Bottom Boys.
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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Mississippi Constitution of 1890 initially set the terms of all state official at two years each, with no chance of consecutive re-election. A constitutional amendment passed in 1934 allowed the Governor to serve up to consecutive two terms maximum, with Menelaus “Pappy” O'Daniel, elected in 1935, being the first Governor seek immediate re-election.
O'Daniel, a flour businessman, represented the rural and commercial elements of the Mississippi Democratic Party. Despite his incumbency, his wide-reaching radio show The Flour Hour, and his support from many state planter elites, there was immense dissatisfaction among the general public. He was widely believed to be corrupt, with various opponents accusing him of taking money from saloons, granting licenses to businesses that supported him, selling pardons, appointing people who were either incompetent, family, or both, and, worst of all to white Mississippians, being lax on the issue of miscegenation.
Few people openly challenged O'Daniel, even fewer knowing how to run against an incumbent Governor. Eventually one emerged, reform candidate Homer Stokes. Campaigning around the state as the “friend to the little man,” based on an anti-planter, anti-elite, anti-corruption, anti-black, pro-reform, platform, Stokes was able to capture the hearts and minds of poor white voters, putting O'Daniel's re-election campaign at risk.
Despite an early blaze of popularity, with many newspapers being convinced he would triumph over Governor O'Daniel in the Democratic primary, a disastrous campaign dinner destroyed Stokes' chances of victory. Not only had Stokes announced himself as a Klan member (something that had fallen out of favor in the late 1930's, even among white Mississippians), and had even denounced his own entertainment of the night, (the then-immensely popular band, Soggy Bottoms Boys), but Governor O'Daniel was able to storm the party, endear himself to Stokes' voters, and get the endorsement of the Soggy Bottom Boys.
I think you meant "dour". You must be a man of constant sorrow.....
I got inspired to make this after seeing King of the Uzbeks' old infobox about the platypus being a cryptid over on Thread 3.
The Okapi also known as the forest giraffe, Congolese giraffe, zebra giraffe, giraffe zebra and the African unicorn is a famous cryptid that supposedly lives in Northcentral Africa in the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The creatures features reportedly have it having the head similar to that of a giraffe, the legs, rear end and black and white stripping of a zebra and the brown fur of a donkey.
Most of the creatures fur is supposedly brown in color on its body, while having a brown and white head and having black and white stripped patterns on both sets of its legs and rear end.
The Okapi also known as the forest giraffe, Congolese giraffe, zebra giraffe, giraffe zebra and the African unicorn is a famous cryptid that supposedly lives in Northcentral Africa in the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The creatures features reportedly have it having the head similar to that of a giraffe, the legs, rear end and black and white stripping of a zebra and the brown fur of a donkey.
Most of the creatures fur is supposedly brown in color on its body, while having a brown and white head and having black and white stripped patterns on both sets of its legs and rear end.
I call this 'what if Colin Baker got an actually good story (or at least better than the absolute disastrous mess that was The Twin Dilemma) as his debut?'
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Snakeskin was the seventh and final story of the twenty-first season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Broadcast in four parts between the 22nd and 30th March 1984, it was the debut story of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. It was also the final story broadcast in the twice-weekly format and the last until Season Twenty-four in 1987 to be four parts long.
The story sees the newly-regenerated Doctor’s mind taken over by the Mara, a creature with the power to possess other beings, and summoned to the planet Kalpa, where it plans to use him to control the planet’s people by presenting the Doctor as the hero who conquered the Mara.
Part One
The story opens with archaeologists on Kalpa breaking a stone from which the Mara springs, possessing one of them, Sutt, who murders his colleague. On the TARDIS, the Doctor initially seems happy to the point of arrogance with his new form and picks out an extravagant and absurdly tasteless costume, much to Peri’s confusion and discomfort, but soon faces a bout of madness. The Mara draws the TARDIS off course and to Kalpa, which the Doctor blames Peri for; on exiting the TARDIS, Sutt attacks the Doctor and the Mara possesses him. The Doctor then tries to strangle Peri, who escapes him and tries to warn the inhabitants of Kalpa of the Doctor’s madness. They hail him as a hero, and when he reaches the town, they prepare to hand Peri over to him.
Part Two
It becomes apparent the Doctor has returned to normal; his pomposity about being the conqueror of the Mara was simply part of his new personality, which he admonishes Peri for. He starts to investigate affairs on Kalpa, while the Mara resumes control of Sutt to undermine the Doctor’s efforts by trying to burn down the library of books on the Mara’s history and murder the town’s mayor, Arhat. The Mara appears before Peri several times, but no one else sees it, including the Doctor. Ultimately, after a fight between Sutt and Arhat, Arhat sees the Mara and announces a ceremony where the Doctor must prove his identity or be killed for heresy.
Part Three
When the Doctor and Peri learn of Arhat’s plan, to Peri’s surprise the Doctor eagerly agrees to it. While he is helping with the preparations, the Mara finally appears before the Doctor and uses Arhat to challenge him for his existence; if he fails, the Mara will take over his body and conquer time and space. Sutt, now free of the Mara’s control, frees the Doctor and Peri, and the three escape, with Peri and Sutt trying to work out a plan to destroy the Mara, something the Doctor insists is impossible. After the three are tracked down again, with Arhat warning them that they will be arrested or killed, the Doctor gives in and allows them all to be arrested, to Peri and Sutt’s dismay.
Part Four
Imprisoned in the palace with no way to get out of the Doctor partaking in the ceremony, Peri admits to the Doctor she feels like he isn’t someone she has any respect for, and Sutt questions if the Doctor is the hero he’s claimed to be. Others on Kapla express the same doubts to Arhat, who (under the Mara’s power) asserts his certainty of the Doctor’s identity. When the Doctor is brought out for the ceremony and the Mara is summoned, the Doctor admits that he feels his previous self’s sacrifice to save Peri was a foolish decision as he could have saved so many others instead, but realizing the Mara will feed on his and Peri’s resentment, they forgive each other, allowing the Doctor to find the justice which allowed him to conquer the Mara in the past again, destroying it. After returning to the TARDIS, Peri questions whether the Doctor behaved the way he did because of the Mara’s influence or because that’s really who he is, which the Doctor answers noncommittally, before telling her, ‘Whatever else happens, I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not,’ a claim she returns with a smile.
Initially script editor Eric Saward had hired Anthony Steven, who had written many adaptations of classic novels for the BBC, to write the Sixth Doctor’s debut, but Steven proved very slow and his script, ‘The Twin Dilemma’, was considered unsuitable for use. As a result, Saward reluctantly commissioned Christopher Bailey, who had written two fairly well-received serials in the prior two series (Kinda and Snakedance), to write a third story for the programme. Saward later revealed he did this on the advice of producer John Nathan-Turner, who noted that Bailey would be likely to want to reuse the Mara from his two previous serials, and that reusing this prop would make the serial easier and cheaper to produce than one requiring a whole new monster.
Initially Bailey had wanted to have one of the two stories he had tried to submit as his third story (Man-watch and The Children of Seth) produced, but was given a strict brief on ideas of how to build up the Doctor’s regeneration balanced out by an opportunity to develop the Mara further. Interviews suggest it was mostly a mix of Saward, Nathan-Turner and Colin Baker who decided to make the Doctor’s personality more unlikeable, abrasive and bombastic, but that most of the key plot points about how this was used (besides the Doctor’s rudeness to and strangling of Peri) were Bailey’s ideas.
Snakeskin was largely quite positively received by Doctor Who fans at the time, though it was criticized for reusing the Mara; in a review of the story in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) #90, Gary Russell remarked that ‘at the end of the day, the Mara is just a snake with mind control powers’ and was sceptical of the show’s attempts to turn it into a recurring villain with so many return appearances. Due to the symbolism of the Mara’s use in its stories, Russell’s remark has been joked about multiple times by other Doctor Who fans.
The story has had more positive reviews from later critics; in The Discontinuity Guide (1994), Keith Topping, Martin Day and Paul Cornell concluded that ‘Snakeskin features a very compelling portrayal of the new Doctor that likens back to the First and Third Doctors by making him hard, but necessary, to sympathise with and contrasts him nicely with the amiable Fifth Doctor. It’s also very refreshing to see the drama of the Doctor’s sacrifice in The Caves of Androzani acknowledged and tied in with making us accept this new incarnation.’ In About Time 5, Lawrence Miles calls Snakeskin ‘a lost blueprint for a better Colin Baker era than we got’ and suggests that ‘if Season 22 had followed in this story’s footsteps instead of being a sea of continuity references, maybe Doctor Who would never have left our screens’. In polls of Doctor Who episode rankings by fans, it was ranked 73rd in the 1998 DWM poll, 78th in 2009 and 81st in 2014.
(The cast and director are the same as The Twin Dilemma (minus the titular twins from that story, of course) but playing different roles, since those would’ve been to do with the production team’s whims and not the writer’s.)
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Snakeskin was the seventh and final story of the twenty-first season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Broadcast in four parts between the 22nd and 30th March 1984, it was the debut story of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. It was also the final story broadcast in the twice-weekly format and the last until Season Twenty-four in 1987 to be four parts long.
The story sees the newly-regenerated Doctor’s mind taken over by the Mara, a creature with the power to possess other beings, and summoned to the planet Kalpa, where it plans to use him to control the planet’s people by presenting the Doctor as the hero who conquered the Mara.
Part One
The story opens with archaeologists on Kalpa breaking a stone from which the Mara springs, possessing one of them, Sutt, who murders his colleague. On the TARDIS, the Doctor initially seems happy to the point of arrogance with his new form and picks out an extravagant and absurdly tasteless costume, much to Peri’s confusion and discomfort, but soon faces a bout of madness. The Mara draws the TARDIS off course and to Kalpa, which the Doctor blames Peri for; on exiting the TARDIS, Sutt attacks the Doctor and the Mara possesses him. The Doctor then tries to strangle Peri, who escapes him and tries to warn the inhabitants of Kalpa of the Doctor’s madness. They hail him as a hero, and when he reaches the town, they prepare to hand Peri over to him.
Part Two
It becomes apparent the Doctor has returned to normal; his pomposity about being the conqueror of the Mara was simply part of his new personality, which he admonishes Peri for. He starts to investigate affairs on Kalpa, while the Mara resumes control of Sutt to undermine the Doctor’s efforts by trying to burn down the library of books on the Mara’s history and murder the town’s mayor, Arhat. The Mara appears before Peri several times, but no one else sees it, including the Doctor. Ultimately, after a fight between Sutt and Arhat, Arhat sees the Mara and announces a ceremony where the Doctor must prove his identity or be killed for heresy.
Part Three
When the Doctor and Peri learn of Arhat’s plan, to Peri’s surprise the Doctor eagerly agrees to it. While he is helping with the preparations, the Mara finally appears before the Doctor and uses Arhat to challenge him for his existence; if he fails, the Mara will take over his body and conquer time and space. Sutt, now free of the Mara’s control, frees the Doctor and Peri, and the three escape, with Peri and Sutt trying to work out a plan to destroy the Mara, something the Doctor insists is impossible. After the three are tracked down again, with Arhat warning them that they will be arrested or killed, the Doctor gives in and allows them all to be arrested, to Peri and Sutt’s dismay.
Part Four
Imprisoned in the palace with no way to get out of the Doctor partaking in the ceremony, Peri admits to the Doctor she feels like he isn’t someone she has any respect for, and Sutt questions if the Doctor is the hero he’s claimed to be. Others on Kapla express the same doubts to Arhat, who (under the Mara’s power) asserts his certainty of the Doctor’s identity. When the Doctor is brought out for the ceremony and the Mara is summoned, the Doctor admits that he feels his previous self’s sacrifice to save Peri was a foolish decision as he could have saved so many others instead, but realizing the Mara will feed on his and Peri’s resentment, they forgive each other, allowing the Doctor to find the justice which allowed him to conquer the Mara in the past again, destroying it. After returning to the TARDIS, Peri questions whether the Doctor behaved the way he did because of the Mara’s influence or because that’s really who he is, which the Doctor answers noncommittally, before telling her, ‘Whatever else happens, I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not,’ a claim she returns with a smile.
Initially script editor Eric Saward had hired Anthony Steven, who had written many adaptations of classic novels for the BBC, to write the Sixth Doctor’s debut, but Steven proved very slow and his script, ‘The Twin Dilemma’, was considered unsuitable for use. As a result, Saward reluctantly commissioned Christopher Bailey, who had written two fairly well-received serials in the prior two series (Kinda and Snakedance), to write a third story for the programme. Saward later revealed he did this on the advice of producer John Nathan-Turner, who noted that Bailey would be likely to want to reuse the Mara from his two previous serials, and that reusing this prop would make the serial easier and cheaper to produce than one requiring a whole new monster.
Initially Bailey had wanted to have one of the two stories he had tried to submit as his third story (Man-watch and The Children of Seth) produced, but was given a strict brief on ideas of how to build up the Doctor’s regeneration balanced out by an opportunity to develop the Mara further. Interviews suggest it was mostly a mix of Saward, Nathan-Turner and Colin Baker who decided to make the Doctor’s personality more unlikeable, abrasive and bombastic, but that most of the key plot points about how this was used (besides the Doctor’s rudeness to and strangling of Peri) were Bailey’s ideas.
Snakeskin was largely quite positively received by Doctor Who fans at the time, though it was criticized for reusing the Mara; in a review of the story in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) #90, Gary Russell remarked that ‘at the end of the day, the Mara is just a snake with mind control powers’ and was sceptical of the show’s attempts to turn it into a recurring villain with so many return appearances. Due to the symbolism of the Mara’s use in its stories, Russell’s remark has been joked about multiple times by other Doctor Who fans.
The story has had more positive reviews from later critics; in The Discontinuity Guide (1994), Keith Topping, Martin Day and Paul Cornell concluded that ‘Snakeskin features a very compelling portrayal of the new Doctor that likens back to the First and Third Doctors by making him hard, but necessary, to sympathise with and contrasts him nicely with the amiable Fifth Doctor. It’s also very refreshing to see the drama of the Doctor’s sacrifice in The Caves of Androzani acknowledged and tied in with making us accept this new incarnation.’ In About Time 5, Lawrence Miles calls Snakeskin ‘a lost blueprint for a better Colin Baker era than we got’ and suggests that ‘if Season 22 had followed in this story’s footsteps instead of being a sea of continuity references, maybe Doctor Who would never have left our screens’. In polls of Doctor Who episode rankings by fans, it was ranked 73rd in the 1998 DWM poll, 78th in 2009 and 81st in 2014.
(The cast and director are the same as The Twin Dilemma (minus the titular twins from that story, of course) but playing different roles, since those would’ve been to do with the production team’s whims and not the writer’s.)
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A Different 1980As election night began Americans flicked through the channels or turned their tuning knob to find their preferred news provider, most wanted to find results from TV coverage, some from Radio.
4 More Years
John Chancellor: Good Evening and welcome to NBC News' coverage of the 1980 presidential election. Our team of correspondents, panelists, pollsters and commentators are assembled here in New York and around the country to see if Jimmy Carter will win re-election or if George Bush will make it to the Oval Office.
NBC News
We've been polling around the country in the key states, NBC News and the Associated Press, and what we're learning in the key states is that makes us believe that Jimmy Carter will win an astounding re-election tonight, astounding, that's our belief at the moment based on polls in key states.
We can already say that in Kentucky NBC news can project that Jimmy Carter will win Kentucky, On our map we color Kentucky in Red for those watching in Color and Light Gray for those watching in Black & White...
ABC News... We project that New Hampshire will be won by Mr. Bush, his first electoral votes on our board, and you can see on our graphic that New Hampshire goes into the Blue Column. Blue is Bush, that's why we picked blue. Although I suppose we could've also chose Cyan for Carter but there you go...
... And if you look behind me and Mr. Brokaw you'll see that it is looking like a Jimmy Carter Map tonight, shown in Red.
The NBC map as of 11pm EST
NBC News
Jessica Savitch: Its looking like a Carter inferno has ignited across the Country! *both laugh*
The election was a bloodbath. George Bush had lost the electoral college just before midnight and had already called to concede to Carter.
"We claim victory tonight, knowing that our team can take give us 4 more years, 4 more glorious years!"Carter won 443 electoral votes and almost 10 million more votes than George Bush, he became the first democratic president to be re-elected since FDR. George Bush stayed under 100 electoral votes. While carter got 5 Million more votes than he did in 1976 Bush got about 5 million less votes than Geral Ford did. Republican turnout was low in key areas leading to a low turnout election. Carter was the first democrat to win White voters in over 20 years while Bush lost some suburban support
- Jimmy Carter in his victory Speech, November 4th 1980
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Carter won massively in Appalachia for his support of Coal and shockingly won Alaska due to increased Oil exploration. He won every county in Hawaii, Georgia and West Virginia and won a majority of Counties, as he did in 1976.
Presidential County map
The congressional elections resulted in another Democratic Trifecta with substantial gains. A race that could not be called for Months was the South Dakotan senate Election which was the campaign for Liberal senator and former presidential candidate George McGovern to be re-elected
McGovern was finally decleared the Victor with a measly 5 vote margin after challenge after challenge. James Abdnor claimed that corruption was behind McGovern's win and contested the election for years after, never truly accepting the victory. The victory was most remarkable considering McGovern outran Jimmy Carter in South Dakota despite being to the Left of him. He cemented himself as a political player for the next 6 years
For Carter, with a massive mandate he was well and truly to be the president for the 80s and he was confident his agenda would play out over the next 4 years.
Part 5Thank you guys for the interest you've shown in my first attempt at a series, I will keep doing updates hopefully but I will not post every little event on here, I will do that on my main forum on another website when it comes to the 1984 elections and onwards I may post just the election results here aswell.
Part 4: Deceit and Diffusion
Part 3: The Conventions
Part 2: Operation Eagle Claw
Part 1: The San Vincente Car Crash
Red for Dems and blue for Republicans. Just like the good old days.
"I've always felt that a member of Congress should go to Congress having had some real-life experience, having been successful in some pursuit. Al Bell was a success in business before going to Congress and he also rolled up his sleeves and served his party. Today, a lot of businessmen sit on the sidelines and complain and whine. Not Al. He served and he served with honor. For sixteen years he served in Congress, always voting his conscience but always serving the people of his district, never forgetting who sent him to Washington. Today, the political mood in Washington is not too pleasant. I sometimes blame the intrusive, unaccountable national press for this. But I think it is also fair to say that often people go to Congress not to serve but to get ahead. We need more Al Bells. As a friend, I am happy to salute him and to congratulate him on his flawless service in the U.S. Congress. He showed his state and nation a lot of class."
- George H. W. Bush (OTL)
A little sneak peek wikibox for a TLIAW/TL I have planned, in which the point of divergence is that S. I. Hawakaya does not run for Senate in 1976, leading on to Bell winning the nomination (and eventually winning the general election). Feeling ambitious after his win in '76 (according to his autobiography, Bell had his eyes on higher office when he ran for the Senate, so let's assume his want of higher office continues on), Al runs for President in 1980 and wins.- George H. W. Bush (OTL)
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