Speaking of Southern Africa, I wonder what's up with "Kafuestroom" capital "Bergharen" and "Grootmyn" capital "Theronberg." those are afrikaans or german sounding names. they are marked as "one party states" like SA Federation. Possible these are deeper Boer settlements that got independence for just the euro-settled areas?
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I'm guessing they probably have something to do with Niassa, which is also a one party state and almost seems like a Portuguese Rhodesia.
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While we are on the topic, how's Matt Groening doing ITTL. I know that @CosmicAsh doesn't like doing pop culture stuff, but here's the basics. He was born in Portland, OR, and wrote the underground comic Life in Hell before creating The Simpsons and Futurama.
Does every country look like they use Windows XP, or maybe 95. I'd like to see New England use interfaces that at least look like Windows Vista. Considering that the Gates family should be from either New England (as they settled in Rhode Island first IOTL) or Canada (as Canada got all of Oregon Country ITTL, and they are most associated with Washington.), it should reason that Microsoft is either a New English or Canadian company.
Paradoxical Liberty: The British Museum (By FossilDS)
Join museum curator and Americana expert Andrea Kelly on a tour of the newly-renovated American wing of the British Museum, showcasing the fascinating and troubled history of the American Republic. In this part, we will walk through the foundations of the country, told through objects highlighting the American desire for liberty- and their seemingly paradoxical practice of slavery. We will also explore the people whose stories are often forgotten: from the free black man in the Southern United States to an Oneida chief in the north, to the women who both opposed- and supported the rebellion.
Timestamps:
00:00 Early British settlement of the New World, from Roanoke to Georgia
02:20 The Plantation system and the root of American slavery
04:40 The Seven Years War, and the American desire to settle native land hindered by Britain, British taxation policies
06:00 America rebels!
07:10 Thomas Jefferson and George Washington- Freedom fighters and slave owners
09:20 Loyalists: from Native Americans to freed slaves
11:50 French intervention, rebels struggle to found a new country
13:00 Alexander Hamilton and the foundation of the United States
16:35 The slavery debate, American art post-independence
18:50 Art of the outsiders: plantation art, folk art, art of the common people
21:00 conclusions
See More!:
Visit the exhibition guide and catalogue using this link
Video: American Art in the 19th Century: Curator’s Tour
Video: How did the British Museum get its Americana collection?
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I posted the picture on the discord, and @CosmicAsh wanted to canonize it, so I did a quick writeup.
And for context: Ash said that during the Anglo-American war of the 1850s, Hamilton DC was ransacked and burned to the ground by British troops. They ransacked huge parts of America's heritage, including all the portraits of the founding fathers, the Bill of Rights, the President's china tea set, most Congressional records, Washington's sword, etc, etc.
Consequently, the British Museum has an massive collection of "Americana". In order to one-up the Americans, (and to justify the general pillaging of the American capital) the British (not untruthfully) place America's "peculiar institution" at center stage, which you can see from the exhibit title and descriptions.
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I can confirm this piece is canon material. The British Museum obtained their extensive collection during the 1850s during the sack of the District of Columbia.
You missed the opportunity to have the POD be the US getting their ass handing to them in a much more brutal War of 1812, with New England seceding from the Union and joining the British Empire as a protectorate.
Also, based and Hamiltonpilled.
Idk why but this genuinely made me sad. maybe i've been watching too much hamilton
Can I get a link to the aforementioned discord? The link in Cosmic Ash's signature isn't working.
Edit: I went back and had a look at the very first wikibox. What are the positions of the Republican, Socialist, Heritage, True Socialist-Marxist, and National Socialist parties?
And wouldn't the endorsement of George Pataki have (severely) hurt the Conservatives?
Edit: I went back and had a look at the very first wikibox. What are the positions of the Republican, Socialist, Heritage, True Socialist-Marxist, and National Socialist parties?
And wouldn't the endorsement of George Pataki have (severely) hurt the Conservatives?
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When did slavery end in this timeline's U.S.? It had to have been later than 1865, probably more along the lines of when Brazil ended it (1888).
Oh cool it gets worse. Again, isolationism is an understandable reaction to that! Eeesh! It's funny, I don't think I've ever seen a TL where America gets humiliated this way. See it destroyed, stillborn or become an awful dictatorship, but never had its cultural treasures looted like this! Very interesting!
I prefer the idea of an 1850 Anglo American war to be honest. It's more original and organic to have a different war in a different time than a repetition of the same historical beats.
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Is the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and books at the time when the British rampaged Hamilton D.C. gets looted?
In New York, I guess there will be a fewer skyscrapers than OTL and OFC with no Statue of Liberty.
In New York, I guess there will be a fewer skyscrapers than OTL and OFC with no Statue of Liberty.
I suppose the Chairman is the real one with power, I wonder what the president actually does at this time and how I has it changed since Hamilton.