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"...inbow Miriam Dash, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir 'Buying Back my Dignity', which you claim is a 'first-hoof account of a Deal with the Devil and its consequen'..."
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"...as Nicolae Ceaucescu was found among homeless beggars in Bologna earlier this week. President Claus Iohannis has requested Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni to repartiate the formerly-deceased dictator..."
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"...ome fringe conspiracy theorists refuse to believe that Soares died in his sleep. They claim that the Portuguese President-Elect was, in fact, abducted by aliens..."
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 20 February 1986) was a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985. Soares was elected as President of Portugal in the 1986 elections, but was unable to assume office before he disappeared in February 1986 and was presumed dead.
MEANWHILE IN SPACE WIKIPEDIA...
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(1) That what happens when you traded your ability to show up anywhere in public and all rights to your own identity and likeness to a Media Corporation for a considerable amount of money and the very vague promise of "the entire world will know who you are".
(2) I'm leaving the Alien Wikipedia article on Mario Soares open for your interpretations.
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"...as Nicolae Ceaucescu was found among homeless beggars in Bologna earlier this week. President Claus Iohannis has requested Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni to repartiate the formerly-deceased dictator..."
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"...ome fringe conspiracy theorists refuse to believe that Soares died in his sleep. They claim that the Portuguese President-Elect was, in fact, abducted by aliens..."
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 20 February 1986) was a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985. Soares was elected as President of Portugal in the 1986 elections, but was unable to assume office before he disappeared in February 1986 and was presumed dead.
MEANWHILE IN SPACE WIKIPEDIA...
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(1) That what happens when you traded your ability to show up anywhere in public and all rights to your own identity and likeness to a Media Corporation for a considerable amount of money and the very vague promise of "the entire world will know who you are".
(2) I'm leaving the Alien Wikipedia article on Mario Soares open for your interpretations.
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Rainbow Dash as an author? Nice. Wonder what else she's been up to.
Do the show's events take place in this universe, or is this an entirely alternate universe?
Prince Michael of Kent, who is apparently a major Russophile, becomes Emperor of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia becomes a parliamentary democracy.
Michael III (Michael George Charles Franklin; born 4 July 1942), is the Emperor of Russia, having been named to the position by the Russian Constitutional Convention of 1991. Michael was born as a member of the British House of Windsor and is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He is a great-great-grandson of Alexander II of Russia. Michael's accession to the throne of Russia was highly controversial as he was a foreigner and subject of a different nation. To resolve these issues, Michael renounced his British citizenship as well as his and his descendant's claims to the British throne. In addition, his son changed his name from Frederick to Michael to be more Russian. Over the course of his 25 year reign, Michael became much more popular in Russia and is now largely viewed as a uniting figure and important symbol of the nation. In addition, concerns of the Russian people about the potential dangers of a monarchy were quickly dispelled as Michael took a very limited role in government, modelling his reign after that of his cousin. He has enjoyed good working relations with many of his Prime Ministers, especially Anatoly Sobchak and the incumbent Ilya Ponomarev.
Spreading her "No(body/pony - depends on the species of whom she speards the meesage to) should be turned into a product like me and my friends were" message to the world, and being an olympic flagbearer in Rio (Equestria does have SAR-level autonomy. Its own Olympic and World Cup teams are not that much of a strecth... partially because of the phisyoloigcal differences obvious enough to require two types of oxygen masks in planes and earlier development of speech recognition technology).
Considering the show is peppered with very liberal amounts of half-truths and fabrications (which only increased as time went on), probably somewhere in between. Half of Equestria finds everything it handled wrong absolutely hilarious; the other considers it a gross misrepresentation that brought them a lot of unwanted attention, to put it very lightly. The fact that the producers turned a significant number of ponies into Background Characters without their consent doesn't help.
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Interesting infobox.
I believe that ITTL, Mário Soares, having been elected before dying, would have been succeeded, at least in the interim, until new elections, by the President of the Assembly (nº 2 in the state hierarchy), at the time, Fernando Amaral.
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…By the time testing for the two AMST candidates was successfully completed in 1977, the program was already under threat. As part of the post-Vietnam redevelopment of the United States military, there was a growing recognition of the importance of operations outside of the United States and Europe, where supplies were not already prepositioned and divisions already prepared to fight. Deploying soldiers and their equipment to locations as far-flung as Africa, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East would require aircraft with large payloads and long ranges, but not necessarily STOL capabilities, the exact opposite of the AMST requirements. Compounding this shift in direction was the aging of the C-141 fleet, procured in the early 1960s and worked hard since then, which needed to be replaced by a new aircraft. The Air Force Chief of Staff, David C. Jones, inquired as early as 1976 whether the AMST aircraft could be modified to handle the strategic mission as well as the tactical mission, and initially it seemed as though the program might be headed for the scrapheap of changes in military requirements.
However, this interest in a new generation of strategic airlifter quickly subsided. Since its introduction in 1969, the C-5 Galaxy had demonstrated its effectiveness in lifting heavy and oversized cargo, and although production had stopped in 1975 Lockheed promised that it could relatively cheaply resume building the giant aircraft. Although the C-5 would have relatively high operating costs compared to other aircraft, its load was large enough that it still seemed competitive on price with the alternatives of a modified civilian aircraft or an entirely new military design. With the decision to procure a second batch of C-5s in early 1979, the AMST resumed its attempt to decide between the Boeing YC-14 and the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 as an eventual replacement for the venerable C-130 Hercules. Although the decision was made difficult by the fact that both aircraft had met or exceeded testing requirements, ultimately Air Force leadership narrowly decided that the YC-14 was the superior choice in late 1979, awarding a contract to Boeing with the expectation that 500 or more aircraft might eventually be ordered. At the same time, the new aircraft was officially named the “Stratofreighter II,” after the earlier Boeing transport, the C-97 Stratofreighter.
Boeing, like the rest of the military-industrial complex, benefited greatly from the military build-up of the Reagan years. Although funding for new tactical airlifters was last in priority behind new fighters, bombers, strategic transports, and other assets, Boeing was nevertheless able to carve out a larger amount of pie than had appeared likely under Carter. Although there were accidents and incidents during the testing program, by and large C-14 development went smoothly, with the first production examples being delivered to the Air Force in late 1984, allowing the standing up of the first operational squadron in early 1985.
The C-14 has seen wide use since then, with the first combat usage being in 1989, during Operation Just Cause, when the type was used as part of the assault on Omar Torrijos Airport. The next major combat usage came during Operation Desert Storm…
…Originally slated for 500 or more orders, to completely replace the C-130 fleet, orders were slashed in the wake of the Cold War as part of the so-called “Peace Dividend”. Higher-than-expected acquisition costs, combined with relatively high operational costs associated with the complex lift augmentation systems, had led to diminishing enthusiasm for the type’s advantages over the Hercules. Plans for a complete replacement of the Hercules fleet were abandoned in favor of a smaller order of 110 aircraft intended only to supplement them with a faster, heavier, and more nimble aircraft.
To compensate for the loss of Air Force orders, Boeing immediately began to seek out foreign and commercial customers for the type. There was some interest among specialty firms in the possibility of using the C-14 to lift time-sensitive cargo to remote locations, such as oil wells, but the availability of much cheaper ex-Soviet An-72s, which failed to find much of a market, soon crushed the hopes of the Boeing 730. Instead, the first non-Air Force customer for the type was the Royal Saudi Air Force, which had been impressed with its performance during Operation Desert Storm and was less concerned with strategic range than the United States. Orders from other close American allies soon followed, then orders from other nations…
…By the mid-1990s, the initial euphoria that followed the end of the Cold War had begun to fade, replaced by a new awareness of continuing security challenges. In this environment, procuring more C-14s seemed to make more sense than it had in 1990, and a second batch of 27 aircraft was ordered in 1995. Further orders followed in 1999, 2001, and 2004, when shutdown of the production line was scheduled for 2009. Congress intervened and ordered a final batch of 9 aircraft, ultimately extending production until 2011. A total of 207 aircraft were purchased by the United States Air Force…
…The most common nickname for the C-14 in American service is “Mickey,” and crew members are often called “Mickeys” by the rest of the United States Air Force. Initially a derogatory reference to the plane’s frontal appearance, the name was soon appropriated as a badge of pride by pilots, who recalled Mickey’s ability to triumph over seemingly stronger and more powerful foes. References to other jug-eared characters are also fairly common, and the 155th Airlift Squadron has the unofficial motto “What, me worry?” in reference to Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of MAD magazine…
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This is a little idea I've had sort of noodling around my head for a long while but only got around to writing up after discussing it with @e of pi a few days ago. The PoD, which is not terrifically obvious from the write-up, is basically that C-5 development goes smoothly, with few troubles. Therefore, the Air Force decides to procure more C-5s in the late 1970s instead of developing an entirely new strategic airlifter, the C-17, to replace the C-141, as mentioned in the second paragraph. They sort of did this OTL, with the C-5B, but not quite as much as ITTL.
One of the best and most creative infoboxes I have seen in a long time. Well done.
That's... bascially what happened.Interesting infobox.
I believe that ITTL, Mário Soares, having been elected before dying, would have been succeeded, at least in the interim, until new elections, by the President of the Assembly (nº 2 in the state hierarchy), at the time, Fernando Amaral.
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As part of the "X-in-Canada" series, here's Maine. With my first shitty attempt at a SVG map (with the assist from @LeinadB93 ).
The 2016 Maine general election was the 43rd general election held in that province since Confederation. The Progressive Conservative (PC) government led by Premier Bruce Poliquin, went into the campaign in a relatively strong position. Poliquin was viewed as a competent premier, despite his government having several rough patches during his first few years in power due to inexperienced ministers, including controversial cabinet minister Paul LePage, who made federal news for going from cabinet minister to being suspended from the PC caucus after making several bigoted remarks to reporters. But by the time Poliquin went to Lieutenant Governor Dennis Blair, the Progressive Conservatives had finally got a hold of governing and their poll numbers had rebounded.
The Liberals, the main opposition party, hoped to copy the stellar performance the federal party had achieved in the province (although sweeping every provincial riding was never in question). New leader Terry Hayes oversaw the party's surges against the PC government for the first year and a half of her leadership, in large part because of the inexperienced ministers and public coverage of LePage's antics, and public association of the oafish MLA with the PCs even after his suspension. Poliquin and the PCs went on the offensive as it came closer to when he planned to call new elections, hammering the Liberals and Hayes (who had served as Finance Minister in the last Liberal government) over the unpopular last budget the party submitted while in government in 2012 and calls for reform that the Tories pointed out had conveniently become relevant in their first election out of government since 2003.
Of the minor parties, the New Democratic Party (NDP) seemed best suited to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly. Coming off a relatively strong performance in 2012, the party picked young lawyer Shenna Bellows to hopefully lead the party back into the Legislative Assembly for the first time in over a decade. The NDP and the Greens (who had gained representation in the assembly with the defection of retiring Liberal MLA Richard Woodbury), led by longtime leader John Eder, hoped to rally young and progressive Mainers and spearhead the opposition to the continued push from Premier Poliquin and many prominent Liberals to the federal government to allow the construction of the proposed Energy East pipeline. In addition, the parties were joined in an effort to reform the province's voting system, inspired in part by the push for electoral reform at the federal level, by the Maine Party, formed by businessman Shawn Moody. While the new party was much more fiscally conservative than either the NDP or Greens, it advocated changing the province's election system to the alternative vote, and the issue was frequently brought to the forefront as part of the Maine Party's plan to reform the provincial government.
Hayes proved to be a tough leader and campaigner, and debated Poliquin to a draw during the leadership debates. For his part, Poliquin drew criticism late in the campaign for his government's response to the fentanyl crisis in the province after excerpts of private government correspondence on the matter leaked, which arrested his party's rise in the polls and allowed the Liberals to claw within the margin of error as Election Day arrived.
The Progressive Conservatives won a narrow popular vote victory, but returned to government with a (reduced) majority. The Liberals could console themselves with a close-run campaign and significantly cutting into the PC majority, but the disparity fortunes led many in the party to reconsider their opposition to the minor parties' push for electoral reform. For their part, the minor parties were disappointed in the results, as none were able to win a seat (and the Greens losing the one they had gained during the life of the previous assembly as it returned to the Liberal fold). Bellows had failed to improve on the party's 2012 showing while the Green vote was halved between the Liberal resurgence and the (completely unsuccessful) push to vote tactically in favor of NDP candidates in key ridings. The Maine Party performed strongly in its first election, coming just shy of reaching the five percent of the province-wide vote.
With their strong independent streak, Maine's re-election of the only right-of-center premier in the Maritimes served as a reminder to the rest of Canada not to take the former "New Ireland" for granted. Similarly, the post-election push for electoral reform and more "good government" measures among the opposition parties has seemed to serve as a reminder for Premier Poliquin that he cannot rest on his laurels if he hopes to win a third mandate.
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The 2016 Maine general election was the 43rd general election held in that province since Confederation. The Progressive Conservative (PC) government led by Premier Bruce Poliquin, went into the campaign in a relatively strong position. Poliquin was viewed as a competent premier, despite his government having several rough patches during his first few years in power due to inexperienced ministers, including controversial cabinet minister Paul LePage, who made federal news for going from cabinet minister to being suspended from the PC caucus after making several bigoted remarks to reporters. But by the time Poliquin went to Lieutenant Governor Dennis Blair, the Progressive Conservatives had finally got a hold of governing and their poll numbers had rebounded.
The Liberals, the main opposition party, hoped to copy the stellar performance the federal party had achieved in the province (although sweeping every provincial riding was never in question). New leader Terry Hayes oversaw the party's surges against the PC government for the first year and a half of her leadership, in large part because of the inexperienced ministers and public coverage of LePage's antics, and public association of the oafish MLA with the PCs even after his suspension. Poliquin and the PCs went on the offensive as it came closer to when he planned to call new elections, hammering the Liberals and Hayes (who had served as Finance Minister in the last Liberal government) over the unpopular last budget the party submitted while in government in 2012 and calls for reform that the Tories pointed out had conveniently become relevant in their first election out of government since 2003.
Of the minor parties, the New Democratic Party (NDP) seemed best suited to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly. Coming off a relatively strong performance in 2012, the party picked young lawyer Shenna Bellows to hopefully lead the party back into the Legislative Assembly for the first time in over a decade. The NDP and the Greens (who had gained representation in the assembly with the defection of retiring Liberal MLA Richard Woodbury), led by longtime leader John Eder, hoped to rally young and progressive Mainers and spearhead the opposition to the continued push from Premier Poliquin and many prominent Liberals to the federal government to allow the construction of the proposed Energy East pipeline. In addition, the parties were joined in an effort to reform the province's voting system, inspired in part by the push for electoral reform at the federal level, by the Maine Party, formed by businessman Shawn Moody. While the new party was much more fiscally conservative than either the NDP or Greens, it advocated changing the province's election system to the alternative vote, and the issue was frequently brought to the forefront as part of the Maine Party's plan to reform the provincial government.
Hayes proved to be a tough leader and campaigner, and debated Poliquin to a draw during the leadership debates. For his part, Poliquin drew criticism late in the campaign for his government's response to the fentanyl crisis in the province after excerpts of private government correspondence on the matter leaked, which arrested his party's rise in the polls and allowed the Liberals to claw within the margin of error as Election Day arrived.
With their strong independent streak, Maine's re-election of the only right-of-center premier in the Maritimes served as a reminder to the rest of Canada not to take the former "New Ireland" for granted. Similarly, the post-election push for electoral reform and more "good government" measures among the opposition parties has seemed to serve as a reminder for Premier Poliquin that he cannot rest on his laurels if he hopes to win a third mandate.
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- Cushnoc is OTL Portland
- Phipps (part of Hayes' riding) is the OTL town of Jay (named after US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay).
- I definitely need to figure out a better way to keep the inset lines thicker in the future
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Was mainly calling it that to state the area that they annexed and couldn't find the correct name from that time
So, it can be deduced that Diogo Freitas do Amaral won in new elections, succeeding the interim president Fernando Amaral. This would have meant four different Presidents from different political tendencies in an year or so: António Ramalho Eanes (centre-left independent); Mário Soares (Socialist Party); Fernando Amaral (Social-Democratic Party); and Diogo Freitas do Amaral (Democratic and Social Centre).
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Here's an infobox for World War II in a world where Hitler was killed in World War I. We fight WWII against Stalin and communism instead.
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By 1978 Pennsylvania had been a solid Liberal state due to the incredibly powerful Scranton machine. However, Newton McPherson was trying to fix it with good old populism. McPherson gave speeches at shut-down factories and blaming the Liberal machine for shutting them down. In reality, the shutdowns were caused by a Conservative government’s inability to stop a recession. However, two weeks before the election McPherson was assassinated by Jack Petersburg* in a shocking moment. The Conservatives then nominated Bill Buckley, who had less of an ability to call himself populist, and Bill Scranton III, the Liberal nominee attacked him as being too conservative for Pennsylvania. Buckley lost the populist element to a write-in campaign for McPherson’s dead body and Populist Progressive mayor Pete Flaherty. While sympathy voting kept Buckley in second place, the election went easily to Scranton after McPherson’s death.
By 1978 Pennsylvania had been a solid Liberal state due to the incredibly powerful Scranton machine. However, Newton McPherson was trying to fix it with good old populism. McPherson gave speeches at shut-down factories and blaming the Liberal machine for shutting them down. In reality, the shutdowns were caused by a Conservative government’s inability to stop a recession. However, two weeks before the election McPherson was assassinated by Jack Petersburg* in a shocking moment. The Conservatives then nominated Bill Buckley, who had less of an ability to call himself populist, and Bill Scranton III, the Liberal nominee attacked him as being too conservative for Pennsylvania. Buckley lost the populist element to a write-in campaign for McPherson’s dead body and Populist Progressive mayor Pete Flaherty. While sympathy voting kept Buckley in second place, the election went easily to Scranton after McPherson’s death.
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What exactly did the Tories do to lose 341/343 seats? I really would wonder what kind of backstory could lead to that (would be entertaining though).
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