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At first I thought this said Haitian elves.
The end of the Haltian War was messy. While the actual fighting had largely died down with the official cease-fire in 695, pockets of resistance held out until well into the early 700s.
The large number of human casualties during the war made certain elements in the White Army- especially those portions of the army native to the kingdoms of Arrowburn and Wintergrave (two of the several founding nations of the White Kingdom)- particularly interested in revenge. Mutegard was a final processing facility for many of the prisoners, most of whom were reassigned to their permanent domestic retentions straight out of the camp (though some were repatriated to the Bitter Rivers Reservation, alongside a number of alfa refugees).
To this day, the very name Mutegard often recalls bad memories for a significant portion of the elvish population, though their human hosts have long since forgotten much about the war in the intervening millennia. The Haltian elves are remnants of a past long forgotten, interesting relics of ages past, retained largely by noble estates as caretakers.
(while these links should work, previous lists on other boxes listed here contain links to certain boxes that won't work because links contain page numbers, some page numbers have changed slightly, and I'm far too lazy to go back and change multiple links in multiple posts)
House Atlantic
'97 (Sprague County Impact)
King William VII Celadon
George Bush
4233 BC in spaceflight
John Lockwood
Sylvestrian fever
Star sword
Styan Prairie Bush War
Peace Obelisk of Avalon
CAP Trade Unit
I kinda figured that. To be honest, if I still found Cheers ITTL, I'd be pretty annoyed, too.
I'm now picturing massive hordes of Cheers fans (Cheershirts?) stalking Glen and Les Charles at conventions for twenty years after the cancellation continuing to demand they revive the show with all of the original actors.
Ask and ye shall recieve: George Lewis, a crazed, avid fan of the 1982-83 sitcom Cheers stalks James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles over the course of twenty years. While the show had become a cult classic by 1993, obsession never reached Lewis's level. By the end, he had convinced himself that the only way to get Cheers back on TV is to make martyrs out of Charles/Burrows/Charles, pulling a pistol on them in 2003. Glen caught a bullet in the arm, Les in the hip, and Burrows in the head. Burrows died two hours later from complications of the bullet. Lewis avoids the chair and has been serving life in prison since 2004.
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Marybelle is the clearest case of human-caused planetwide geological and ecological collapse in the known regions of space. While at one point, nearly a quarter billion souls clung to the thinly-atmosphered surface of the moon, carving out massive complexes of mines to access the abundance of otherwise rare elements contained in the crust, today, even the most generous estimates suggest the population below the surface is half that, and more reasonable estimates place the total at much closer to lower-eight figures.
Following the collapse of the Dandelion complex, and resultant withdrawal of the major industrial corporations (U.S. Steel, Yasuda and Mitsui, and the APOC were the largest investors, though the population was largely of Hinterworld, rather than terrestrial, stock), the people who remained behind following the mass evacuations seemed to be largely followers of certain extremist ideologies. While the One Big Union model had been tried, with some success, on several lower-population worlds, few had bought in to the idea as strongly as those on Marybelle seemed to prior to the collapse, and with the wihdrawal of outside investment, the union appeared to take on the fiction of revolutionary vanguard, with its leadership under the impression they'd driven out the foreign corporations and taken Marybelle for themselves.
Largely made up of isolated pockets of several tens to hundreds of thousands of individuals that often report membership figures many times their true populations in an effort to maintain ostensible 'growth rate' parity with their comrades, and safe in the knowledge that travel between units is largely impossible without specialized excursion equipment, the UWM chapters on Marybelle have become the object of an astounding number of studies by astropsychologists, to the degree that the term 'pilgrimage to Marybelle' has entered even the general lexicon as an attempt to do something new that has, indeed, been done by many before.
Mutegard South • House Atlantic • '97 (Sprague County Impact) • King William VII Celadon • George Bush • 4233 BC in spaceflight • John Lockwood • Sylvestrian fever • Star sword • Styan Prairie Bush War • Peace Obelisk of Avalon • CAP Trade Unit
The 2028 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 7, 2028 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of New York, concurrently with the 2028 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 27.
Incumbent Democratic Senator and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decided against running for a seventh term in office and announced in January 2027, after the 120th Congress took office. Early frontrunners for the Democratic nomination included Congressman Ben Kallos, who went on to succeed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in 2030, Congressman Corey White, and Congressman Ralph Salamanca, but all withdrew their names from consideration when Congresswoman Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former New York Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton declared her candidacy. The unwillingness of Democrats to challenge Clinton was harshly criticized by many, including Democratic and Republican officeholders and New Yorkers who saw echoes of the 2016 presidential election. Clinton easily secured the Democratic nomination against several fringe candidates. On the Republican side, Lt. Governor Elise Stefanik also had a clear path to the nomination.
Immediately after securing the Democratic nomination, Clinton's campaign received a major shock when the Working Families Party did not cross-nominate her as usual, instead nominating activist Charles Platt. Congressman James Donnelly, the keynote speaker at the 2024 Democratic National Convention and chief strategist for President Kennedy's re-election campaign, announced that he and a group of New York Democratic donors (as well as the Trump family) were firmly opposed to a Clinton using New York as a stepping stone to the presidency again and promised that a Clinton presidential campaign would be ruin for the Democratic Party again. The "Anyone But Clinton" campaign raised millions of dollars for Platt and Green Party candidate Lucinda McCloskey to weaken Clinton support in the New York City area. The Clinton campaign responded by using their deep resources to support Donnelly's Republican opponent in his home district. Donnelly was also dropped from the Kennedy campaign for damaging the party's prospects in a high risk election year.
The race was regarded as a tossup by all outlets in the leadup to the election, despite being held in one of the bluest states in the nation. Although the President and both New York Senators campaigned extensively for Clinton, Stefanik won a narrow plurality in on Election Day. However, President Kennedy received 68% of the vote in New York, while Congressman Donnelly was re-elected with 76% of the vote in his district. The Clinton campaign called for a recall, which ended on December 16 and resulted in Stefanik winning by 2,067 votes. The race between Clinton and Stefanik, adjusted for inflation, is to this day the most expensive Senate race in history, with over 370 million dollars being spent in total.
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Inspired by my first thread on this forum, here is an impromptu take on a rarely-used POD: Ičko's Peace goes through in 1806/1807, and the Administering Soviet manages to talk some sense into Karađorđe's more absolutist tendencies, thus allowing for republican values to seep into the country longer. By the time he attempted to once more gain the powers of a monarch, the opposition had grown large enough to challenge his attempts at establishing tyranny, forcing him to abdicate from power. In his place, Teodosije Maričević, who had rejected the position of Grand Vožd during the Uprising (believing that, as a prince/duke, he was obligated to protect the people in the case of a failed revolution, which he couldn't do if he had received the position), accepts the position this time around due to the peace in the region.
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President Kaine
Tim Kaine wasn't planning on becoming President, at least not this soon. This whole election really threw him for a loop. First he was chosen as part of the winning ticket, then he had to serve as VP with someone who he barely, if at all, agreed with politically. He didn't resent Paul much, but did his best with the compromise that he was given. With Paul's mostly Libertarian Cabinet, along with a few moderates and liberals to help balance it out and keep people from rioting, Kaine knew that this administration would be average. Not quite as good as Clinton, but way better than Trump. Kaine did his best to keep things from going too far to the right, hopefully leading to a moderate administration overall. Kaine figured he could always run for President during the 2020 election if he so wanted. Unfortunately, things were about to change.
With the death of President Paul, Tim Kaine found himself President of the United States of America. He'd spent the last 14 days trying to keep things from total chaos. He has tried to get a Vice President to serve with him, but Congress keeps blocking it. They say that they'll only agree if the Vice President has the same ideology as the former President. Time will only tell how history will view President Paul and President Kaine, but one thing is certain, the Libertarians are not going away anytime soon.
Tim Kaine wasn't planning on becoming President, at least not this soon. This whole election really threw him for a loop. First he was chosen as part of the winning ticket, then he had to serve as VP with someone who he barely, if at all, agreed with politically. He didn't resent Paul much, but did his best with the compromise that he was given. With Paul's mostly Libertarian Cabinet, along with a few moderates and liberals to help balance it out and keep people from rioting, Kaine knew that this administration would be average. Not quite as good as Clinton, but way better than Trump. Kaine did his best to keep things from going too far to the right, hopefully leading to a moderate administration overall. Kaine figured he could always run for President during the 2020 election if he so wanted. Unfortunately, things were about to change.
With the death of President Paul, Tim Kaine found himself President of the United States of America. He'd spent the last 14 days trying to keep things from total chaos. He has tried to get a Vice President to serve with him, but Congress keeps blocking it. They say that they'll only agree if the Vice President has the same ideology as the former President. Time will only tell how history will view President Paul and President Kaine, but one thing is certain, the Libertarians are not going away anytime soon.
I actually skimmed the thread to make sure before I posted. Must've missed that one.
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