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A college basketball star blows out his knee in the big game and decides to go into the family business. Events proceed from there. NOTE: The PoD is earlier, hence some of the butterflies.

Contemporary Events in the Previous Half-century of American Life Open - Packets On Demand (CEPHALOPOD) #2 By Steve Brinson 1. This President signed Executive Order 11615 in response to actions by France, West Germany and Switzerland, implementing wage and price freezes that lasted into his...

Wasn't Hillary inaugurated as Senator a few days before Bill left the Presidency?

Fixed. Sometimes there are typos in databases, you know?

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Originally a collaborative list. Leaders of the United States: Washington Government 1977-1985: Senator John V. Tunney (Democratic) '76 (with John Glenn) def. Gerald R. Ford (Republican) '80 (with John Glenn) def. Howard Baker (Republican), Alexander Haig (Independent) 1985-1988: Senator...

Dick Lamm and John Silber were also up in there. Maybe Orson Swindle could be a hipster pick.

Probably, but I don’t think it’s impossible that the Sioux could get it done first and then have the Navajo be stymied by the Petition Reform Act. (Also, unlike the Sioux, there are no Arizona counties completely within the Navajo Nation.)

Which might be a divergence in and of itself - a Carter who wins in 1976 on Alaskan momentum might pursue policies in office more conducive to retaining that support. Alternately, maybe Ted Kennedy (or some other anti-Carter type) manages to win the 1980 caucus on Alaskan discontent and gets a...

I don’t know if he could have held out so long. My understanding is that he was having some serious health problems that were badly affecting his performance of duties, and that he didn’t want George Bush to pick his successor to begin with but felt like he didn’t have a choice. IOTL he died on...

How does a guy from Fort Bend County end up president of North Texas?

I don't know if this is really a map, but I'm posting it anyway. The planets and stars of the Ali-Pusi system (with names based on Tuvaluan mythology and legends) and their provisional names and designations. Sizes correct in order but not in magnitude (i.e. if something is larger than another...

I sort of imagined that a good number of the people who voted for Accra but against Tierra del Fuego either considered the latter too small to be a full dominion or, alternately, wanted to admit them as separate dominions.

"The Clements campaign needed a major burst of wind in its sails to beat the New Deal hegemony. One particularly strong breeze came as oil prices dropped to as low as half of their 1977 levels in 1979, and stayed there through 1980. A consequence both of the removal of price controls on oil and...

First Term of Robert Douglas Bullock (1989-1993) President Bob Bullock Vice President Dick Celeste Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke (res. 1990)* Anthony Lake (interim, res. 1990) Claiborne Pell Secretary of the Treasury Leon Panetta (res. 1991)* Dave Obey Secretary of Defense Charlie...

The Fill and Stroke menu in Inkscape.

Good luck with the move and with the new career! I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we're all rooting for you.