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Yeah, that's not remotely how medieval Sweden worked. We had a king get mobbed and killed for failing to take hostages, forcibly converting the country is going to fly for all of about five seconds.

That division continued until 1994, but with the new municipalities of Malmö, Lund, Helsingborg and Landskrona. So Lund and Hjärup were in separate constituencies, and Höganäs was in an exclave of the Malmöhus rural constituency.

A House Divided #30: In the Halls of Montezuma “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” *** From “The Mexican War” (c) 1999 by Spencer Gage III Athens: University of Georgia Press The Battle of Monterey [1] was, without a doubt, the most significant of the war. Before...

Because I'm a like-whore, have another preview.

Yeah, but you wouldn't want the Attorney General and the Governor to actually work together, now would you? The government might actually work.

Yeah, to be clear, you do have to be using an image editor for that.

I repeat: Ctrl+R. There's absolutely zero reason why those pictures need to be the size they are.

So yep. TL;DR: the Rike is a confederacy of kingdoms at about a 18th century tech level, running on Anglo-Saxon "feudalism by consent" principles. There's magic and supernatural ongoings of all kinds, but the high gods had a war a while before this map is set, which killed most of them, forced...

Try Ctrl+R.

me: so we should probably do some reading this morning, there's two lectures today and an entire book that needs to be read by wednesday me, two hours later:

So do they still use the same partial-birth abortion of an electoral system for the National Assembly?

So the PoD here is that the first referendum question fails?

Germans don't really love the letter Q, in general.

Yes. And Saudi-Arabien with a hyphen.

This is certainly unique - never seen a TL where a colony rebels on behalf of the colonial power before. Except arguably the very early phases of the Latin American revolutions IOTL.

To be fair, it's not as though the spelling and pronunciation of the vowels in German-American surnames bear any relation to each other.

Especially considering Hoover soft-started the New Deal while in office and Roosevelt spent a fairly substantial part of the 1932 campaign attacking him for wasting public money in a time of crisis.

A map of Denver's boundary changes from the original Congressional incorporation of 1864 right up to 1902, when the city finished a spate of annexations to end up in the familiar "T" shape that it would retain through the elevation to city-county the same year and right up to the 1940s, when...

I feel like "there was an apocalyptic event and now everyone lives in northern Alberta" was a less fun premise than "here's a fictional Canadian province".

That's how it worked in 1824, but it's not 1824, and the House is intensely partisan. Because it votes by state contingent, and small states tend to favour the GOP, it's almost certain that they'd elect the Republican.