Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II
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I admit, part of the reason I had Walker win was a parallel to how he's apparently got the right combination of luck (WI gubernatorial elections are in midterm years with low turnout that helps GOP candidates), lockstep devotion from his party and incompetent opponents ("Hey, let's run the same guy who lost two years ago in the recall election. Let's not even consider finding a better candidate or the fact that this looks suspiciously like a attempt to re-do the 2010 race.").
The other was to rub it in Wisconsin's faces that they elected that corrupt dipshit three times in four years.
Asami
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This means that Prince William is now Prince of Wales, correct? The way the Crown works is it befalls the buried Prince Charles, and since he is already dead, it goes down to his eldest?
That would be correct.
However, in the story that this infobox is from, Queen Elizabeth also died on the same day (from a heart attack caused by shock), so I believe the title would be on no one at the current point with William now King
Jumping on the Parliamentary America bandwagon. Apologies if there are any mistakes, I threw them together rather quickly.
Thanks!
Posted them as suggested.
The 1908 had been an upset for the National Union Party, with Socialist Governor of Sacramento Hamilcar Sinclair defeating Charles Taft. James F. Pershing, the Commander of the United States army did not want to hand over his country to the "Godless Communists." So he, and the entirety of the Army tried to launch a coup against Sinclair, and abolished the Constitution, but Sinclair was able to escape back to San Francisco.
From there Sinclair declared war against Pershing's dictatorship, along with 21 other governors. (7 of whom were Socialists, the others did not like Sinclair, but did not like the idea of overthrowing a Democratically elected President.) The Second Civil War was kicked off between the Second American Republic on one side and the Alliance of Freedom and the Second Southron Republic.
From there Sinclair declared war against Pershing's dictatorship, along with 21 other governors. (7 of whom were Socialists, the others did not like Sinclair, but did not like the idea of overthrowing a Democratically elected President.) The Second Civil War was kicked off between the Second American Republic on one side and the Alliance of Freedom and the Second Southron Republic.
That would actually be the third American Republic--the first American Republic was the Articles of Confederation and the second was the one created by the Constitution.
After the ugly situation with The Impostor, Dr. Payton Westlake seemed to be a nice, safe replacement. He was a respected researcher, with his name on a number of advancements in thaumaturgic practices to synergize conventional and magical medicine, with particular focus on mitigating physical and mental disabilities. He was relentlessly apolitical, and outside of a falling-out with his first deputy over the Bell Island Event, was a well-liked and competent administrator. Maybe he shirked his official duties a little to spend more time in the lab, but after tangling with playboys, depressives, and flat-out criminals, a decent hard-working guy seemed pretty alright to most people. He continued to produce medical innovations personally, and on a wider basis is credited with making reforms to healer residency and training programs, in cooperation with the Department of Health and the US military, the largest employer of magical physicians on the planet.
The, uh, incident, of May 21, 1990 sort of messed all that up. Westlake, supposedly on the cusp of a major breakthrough in a corrective ritual for the curing of quadriplegia, nearly burned to death in what was believed to be a tragic accident at his laboratory. Radical surgical magic saved his life, but at severe cost: his mental faculties, while intact, suffered a serious decline. He began to experience violent mood swings, bouts of aggression, photophobia, and paranoid delusions. Most of this was kept quiet at the time, but when Payton was found standing over the remains of Louis Strack, a real-estate developer who had plunged to his death from the roof of the Hiram Johnson Building, it wasn't possible for him to remain in office any longer. A grand jury declined to indict him after evidence came to light of Strack's possible involvement in the lab accident, and Payton died the next year of long-term complications of his injuries.
Grand Thaumaturgist of the United States
1. John C. Calhoun 1863-1934
2. Lamont Cranston 1934-1944
3. Dick Tracy 1944-1950
4. Randy Stone 1950-1952
5. Don Herbert 1952-1965
6. James J. Angleton 1965-1974
7. Francis Raymond 1974-1981
8. Russell Nash 1981-1986
9. Sam Castor 1986
The, uh, incident, of May 21, 1990 sort of messed all that up. Westlake, supposedly on the cusp of a major breakthrough in a corrective ritual for the curing of quadriplegia, nearly burned to death in what was believed to be a tragic accident at his laboratory. Radical surgical magic saved his life, but at severe cost: his mental faculties, while intact, suffered a serious decline. He began to experience violent mood swings, bouts of aggression, photophobia, and paranoid delusions. Most of this was kept quiet at the time, but when Payton was found standing over the remains of Louis Strack, a real-estate developer who had plunged to his death from the roof of the Hiram Johnson Building, it wasn't possible for him to remain in office any longer. A grand jury declined to indict him after evidence came to light of Strack's possible involvement in the lab accident, and Payton died the next year of long-term complications of his injuries.
Grand Thaumaturgist of the United States
1. John C. Calhoun 1863-1934
2. Lamont Cranston 1934-1944
3. Dick Tracy 1944-1950
4. Randy Stone 1950-1952
5. Don Herbert 1952-1965
6. James J. Angleton 1965-1974
7. Francis Raymond 1974-1981
8. Russell Nash 1981-1986
9. Sam Castor 1986
Not exactly a wikibox, but a preview of something I'm working on:
Format (and general idea) stolen from Thande's TLIAF:
Format (and general idea) stolen from Thande's TLIAF:
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[b]Massachusetts[/b]
Electorate: 4,342,841 Total Votes: 2,173,715 Turnout: 50.1% (-23.2)
Walker 1,280,319 58.9% (+21.4)
Clinton 439,090 20.2% (-40.4)
Stein 289104 13.3% (+12.7)
Johnson 21,737 1.0% (+0.0)
Other 143,465 6.6% (+6.4)
[b][COLOR="RED"]REPUBLICAN WIN[/COLOR][/b]
Maj. 841,229 38.7%
Swing Dem to GOP 30.9%
Well that got dark quickly. But I guess nearly burning to death and lengthy surgical magic would have an impact on someone mentally.
Eh, blame the historians. Which nation do y'all want to see next?
Crossposting from the Parliamentary America thread, since it didn't seem to garner much attention there.
Without further ado, here's Louisiana.
The Pelican State has been dominated by a single party since the end of Reconstruction. First it was the Democratic Party, dominated by a coalition of New Orleans businessmen and rural landowners, which was focused on maintaining the utter dominance of English-speaking whites at all costs, outlawing French as a language of instruction, maintaining racial segregation of all public and private facilities, and selling off much of the state's resource infrastructure to out-of-state big business. Huey Long and the People's Party arose in opposition to this last point, and managed to establish a modern big-government structure that kept the state going through and after the Depression, without doing an iota to improve race relations. The winds of change in the 1960s would see the People's Party booted out of government, replaced by New Orleans Mayor "Chep" Morrison and his National Party, who promised a gradual end to segregation and "the promotion or favoring of no one race or group, be it the English, the French, the whites, the blacks, the rich or the poor, over another".
Morrison died in 1978, handing the reins of power to his protégé Moon Landrieu, whose family has controlled both the party and the state ever since. Under the rule of the Landrieu family, Louisiana has been consistently rated among the lowest states in the Union in terms of average wealth, income disparity, disease prevention, imprisonment numbers, and government corruption, among other statistics. However, the National Party retains a strong rural base, centred primarily in the Florida Parishes and the north, and opposition forces often have trouble finding candidates to run against them in rural parishes. The strength of National dominance is further aided by Louisiana's electoral system, which assigns at least one seat to each parish, adding one additional seat for every 50,000 inhabitants. This means in practice that Tensas Parish's 5,000 inhabitants have one assemblyman, while Baton Rouge only has one for every 49,000. These apportionment rules do not, however, apply to New Orleans, which is given at least one seat for each of its seven municipal districts - this means heavy overrepresentation for Uptown New Orleans, another significant National stronghold. The opposition party in the National Assembly has traditionally been the Bloc Action Cadienne (Cajun Action Bloc), which arose at about the same time as the National Party, and has French language rights as their main plank.
The 2008 elections were dominated by the handling of Hurricane Katrina. The Progressive Democratic Party, led by New Orleans councilman Marc Morial, campaigned on a Long-esque big government reconstruction program, and managed to surge to power on the New Orleans city council, winning in addition over a fifth of the statewide vote. However, owing to malapportionment, this netted them only twelve seats in the assembly, and the Nationals maintained a comfortable majority.
Over the next five years, Governor Mitch Landrieu (Moon Landrieu's son, who took office after his father's retirement in 2001) saw his hold on power tremble as scandal after scandal wracked his administration. However, the PDP's hands were hardly clean either, and two New Orleans councilmen were forced to resign after the revelation that they'd taken bribes from construction companies in exchange for favorable contracts. This left a significant power vacuum, as Governor Landrieu's approval ratings hit all-time lows while his poll ratings stayed up for lack of an alternative. In the winter of 2013, however, an unlikely challenger would emerge: his older sister, Senator Mary Landrieu.
At a press conference in February, Mary Landrieu launched the Movement for New Democracy, a new political party consisting of defecting National members as well as faces new to politics. Most of the sitting assemblymen who joined New Democracy had been internal dissidents against Mitch Landrieu's rule for several years before, and had stayed clear of corruption investigations. This gave the party a much-needed image of cleanness, and the speaking tours conducted by Mary Landrieu, Ray Nagin and Don Casayoux throughout the spring and summer were seen as a breath of fresh air, presenting a clear option to another five years of National rule. New Democracy even managed the feat of fielding candidates against the Nationals in all 129 seats, something not managed by an opposition party since the Nationals themselves in 1962.
Everything seemed set for a takeover, but Mitch Landrieu went on the counteroffensive in the final month of the campaign, stressing the need for stable governance and pointing out his party's record. In the end, New Democracy scored a seven-point lead in the popular vote, but malapportionment saved the Nationals once more, and they were returned in 58 seats, seven short of a majority. The PDP were able to gain slightly on their popular vote result from 2008, gaining inner-city seats in Alexandria and Lafayette thanks to vote splitting between the Nationals and New Democracy. In a particular showpiece of the unfair electoral laws of the state, the PDP trailed the Nationals by no more than nine percentage points, but gained only a quarter of their number of seats.
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Nazi Space Spy
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My first attempt at an infobox. I had trouble changing party names and colors (I used to be able to do that, but for some reason can no longer do so). When I redo this infobox, I'll change the party names to reflect the state more.
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Add |colour1 = and then put in a HTML color. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp is a good way to get one.
And save as a PNG!
And save as a PNG!
Nazi Space Spy
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Thanks, I'll clean that one up and repost it. Where exactly do I place colour1? After party1?
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