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[lord caedus]

The Minnesota Highway 35W bridge collapse was the biggest tragedy to occur so far in Minnesota in the 21st century, rivaled only by the Red Lake shooting in 2005. The busy Highway 35W bridge (the third-busiest in the entire province) over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed suddenly in rush hour on August 1, 2007 with 111 vehicles and 18 construction workers on the bridge at the time. Almost 150 people were injured and dozens more (including an entire bus full of schoolchildren) narrowly escaped plunging into the river that RCMP dive teams were soon spending hours in, looking for possible survivors while their counterparts were rescuing nearly 100 people trapped on the fallen sections of the bridge. In the end, 13 people were found to have died in the collapse. An investigation by both federal and provincial authorities determined that several gusset plates had been under-sized and had ripped apart when the added weight of construction materials was placed at one of the bridge's structurally weakest points. The collapse upended traffic in Minneapolis until the completion of a replacement bridge on the same spot nearly a year later. Despite governments of both parties having reports of the bridge's structural weakness and (obviously) doing too little about it, the bridge's collapse would hurt the governing Progressive Conservative Party after a public outcry to raise funds for the Ministry of Transportation in the wake of the collapse was not heeded by the government of Premier Tim Pawlenty. The issue of an increase in transportation funding would ultimately be one of the issues the Liberals under Mark Dayton would run on in the 2010 election that saw the Progressive Conservatives swept out of power.

The largest local police department in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) serves as the law enforcement agency for the city of Minneapolis, employing nearly 1,200 personnel. The department is one of the oldest extant police departments in Minnesota, having served Minneapolis since 1867. The MPD, unlike most other municipal police agencies in Canada, employs a decentralized command structure, with precinct captains given significant authority. While this has allowed for much more effective community policing in different neighborhoods, this has also led to it being difficult for elected officials and central command to halt troublesome trends within the department. Notably, the MPD has been cited by several agencies at all levels of government for disproportionately targeting black Canadians at an extremely disproportionate rate for petty crimes compared to whites, as well as having several high-profile instances of using excessive force on black suspects. The department has also been criticized for inserting copious amounts of undercover officers into peaceful political protests, most notably for demonstrations on behalf of both the Idle No More and Black Lives Matter movements in the mid-2010s.

Unique to Minnesota are tribal license plates. Beginning in the 1970s, recognized First Nations tribes could sign agreements with the provincial government to register vehicles and provide tribal license plates for enrolled band members in exchange for sharing registration information with the provincial government and paying small filing fees for each plate or registration. Currently, five of the ten registered First Nations reserves in Minnesota offer registration and license plates to their members with the largest being the White Earth Reserve (with nearly 20,000 enrollees) and the smallest to the Grand Portage Reserve (with just over 1,100 enrollees). Despite the entreaties of First Nations groups in other provinces and territories, no other province has agreed to implement a tribal license plate system.

Baseball has a long history in Minnesota, and the most notable part of history was probably the rivalry between the Minneapolis Millers and the St. Paul Saints. The two minor league teams were fierce rivals for over 60 years, playing each other in double-headers every season from 1901 until the collapse of the American Association (AA) in 1962 that saw both teams folded. Major League Baseball, however, was expanding in the 1960s and so the Saints were revived in 1969 as part of the new North American Association (NAA). The Saints would do very well in the NAA, winning 9 championships and honing the game of future Hall of Famers Sandy Alomar and Tony Gwynn, having improved the games of Duke Snyder and Leo Durocher in the old AA. When the NAA folded in 1998, the Saints were shifted to the International League, becoming the westernmost team there. Currently, the Saints are the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, although they have served that role for 10 other teams (not including those who have relocated or changed names) since they were added to the Chicago White Sox organization in 1936.

The Mesabi Range strike of 1916 is one of the most interest labour disputes in Canadian history. The iron ore miners of the Mesabi Range, made up primarily of immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe, had nine years earlier attempt to strike in order to unionize the mines, but this was foiled when the strike was broken with the appeal of Premier John A. Johnson to Ottawa for support, citing the strikers' "threat to law and order". The resulting years had seen the companies destroy every opportunity for unionizing, but the poor working conditions, high housing prices and low and unreliable pay caused the workers to continue with their radicalization. In 1916, the dam finally burst as miners in a mine in Aurora protested against the contract labour system (which paid miners by how much ore they extracted), and began agitating for a strict wage system. This snowballed into a range-wide strike. With mainstream unions in both Canada and the United States shying away from the strikers, who notably did not demand unionization, the strikers reached out to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies") who agreed to send speakers and agitators to aid the workers. The strike set the entire Iron Range on alert and both striking miners and Dominion Police constables were killed or injured in clashes brought about by the high tensions between the two sides. The government in Ottawa, viewing the strike with alarm and the beginnings of a possible communist subversion (as the strike was led by, and made up of, radical European immigrants or their children) of the war effort, moved swiftly to crush it. Citing the state of war that existed and the provisions of the War Measures Act, the Borden government sent troops via railroad to Duluth and the miners quickly agreed to end the strike once news of the troops' deployment reached them. Of the miner's demands, only an increase in pay was granted, although much of that was to do with the scarcity of labor with immigration from Europe cut off by the war. Many strike leaders were jailed and several foreign-born leaders were deported. Most notably, George Andreytchine, a Bulgarian-born mining clerk who joined the IWW as a result of the strike, later fled to the Soviet Union after a failed attempt to deport him and would be one of the many Trotskyists imprisoned and eventually executed. It would take decades for the miners' demands to be met, coming about after the mines were unionized during the Second World War.

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Minnesota general election, 1943
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[Zioneer]

The four in the middle prove that Ezra Taft Benson perfected the practice of cloning.

Those would be Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B Lee, Spencer W Kimball, and Ezra Taft Benson.

And polygamy tends to produce clones...

 

[Gonzo]

And polygamy tends to produce clones...

But it's worked for Iceland![/fraukepetry]

Oh wait... wrong thing...

 

[LeftsideLock]

LYLE’S LEGACY
Long after humanity is gone, Edward Lyle will still leave his mark on the cosmos

Jorge Sunwoo – Senior Correspondent, Science and Technology Bureau, The Dublin Sentinel

October, 2163

“There can be no doubt that, after its period of safe usage, the Lyle Drive is the invention most hazardous to human health since our ancestors first chipped stone to fight each other at the watering hole.” - Nedir Awad, Ph.D., lead materials scientist for Project HERMES, in an interview to the Atlantic Observer, 2131, after the MSV Krafla disaster

ACCRA – Last March, at a lightly attended press briefing in front of the Adwoa Dubango Building in uptown Accra in the early hours of the morning, a Department of Energy spokesperson announced the existence of a joint DoE and Department of Defense project, LWIC, underway in the Delos System. This announcement, greeted disinterestedly by a sleepy press corps, garnered a few scribbled notes, no follow-up questions, and the briefing quickly moved on.

But this largely ignored announcement was perhaps one of the most significant revelations since Javier Vega went in front of the United Nations and announced the invention of the Lyle Drive in the 2080s, opening up the stars to Earth’s teeming billions.

Mankind’s current golden age of colonization and expansion along the Orion Arm owes its existence to Doctor Edward Lyle and his Project HERMES team. Dozens of populated garden worlds and ten times as many space stations, with thousands of ships forming the link between them, each with a Lyle Drive at its heart. It is perhaps the key to modern civilization, the enabler of interstellar exploration and settlement, and the driving force behind the interstellar economy. Its importance to humanity cannot be overstated.

The universal symbol warning of Lyle-branch radiation, a familiar sight to spacers.

And yet, aboard any starship, the loud yellow sign with its swirling black vortex is ubiquitous, the universally understood warning of the potentially deadly hazards of the Lyle Drive, of which Tereshchenko radiation is but the most well-known. Other dangers, some understood and some distressingly mysterious, abound. The exact causes of the destruction (and disappearance of well over half) of the MSV Krafla, are still virtually unknown thirty-two years later – except that at its root was an issue with an aging Lyle Drive, past its window of safe use.

The fusion reactors that help power the Lyle Drive produce highly radioactive waste – even more dangerous and longer-lived than waste produced in their fission predecessors. This is due, among other processes, to the interaction of the reactors’ deuterium fuel with Tereshchenko radiation. The “dirtiness” of this waste is compounded by the waste produced by the Lyle Drive itself, when the internal hesperium atoms have electromagnetic charges passed through them to create the Drive effect that produces faster-than-light speeds. The blanket term for all the byproducts of the Lyle process is Lyle-branch hazardous waste.

Taken all together, a Lyle Drive produces perhaps the most hazardous radioactive waste known to man. After the thirty-year “safe” period, the hesperium degrades at increasingly energetic rates, spiking its lethality considerably and destabilizing the Drive, producing more toxic materials. And as the Krafla incident continues to be studied, perhaps more unsettling facts will be revealed about the effects the Lyle process has on the universe around it.

Current Alliance regulation about the drive is strict. At the twenty-eight year mark, ships are mandated by law to go through a period of refit during which the aging Drive is stripped from the ship and replaced with a newer, less dangerous model. The aging unit is then shipped to the 112th Space Vehicle Maintenance and Regeneration Group at the Porphyrion Naval Installation in the Delos System, for long-term isolation and storage. As per long-standing policy, “isolation and storage” means piloting drones carrying the drives deep into Porphyrion’s atmosphere. This is certainly a way of isolating them far away from where humans, or any far off successors, can reach them.

But just how safe is this? And how sustainable?

Study has been limited, as much from Porphyrion’s isolation as Alliance foot-dragging over allowing proper scientific study of just what introducing thousands of radioactive, unstable drives into the atmosphere of a gas giant does. To be fair, PNI is a sensitive military site; it is the sole repository of all government space vehicles, including the Navy’s powerful warships. Old war horses to be sure, but still a significant force to be reckoned with. And in the wake of the bloody PNI terrorist attack in December of ’61, security in the system has been increased to levels that would make Umar Awate blush.

But what data exists is disturbing. Storms cells on Porphyrion larger and more powerful than any previously recorded; storms emitting Tereschenko radiation at distressing levels. Telemetry indicating changes to the very core of the gas giant as hesperium interacts with molecular hydrogen. Shades of possible danger we don’t comprehend.

And all this makes no mention of how Lyle-branch waste other than the drives themselves is stored. Currently, much of it wasting in repositories in deep space. Isolated, but not out of reach and not as secure as recent events demand it should be.

So what does all this have to with a joint DoE-DoD project named LWIC?

LWIC stands for Lyle Waste Isolation Complex. And it just might be the solution to the problem of where to store highly hazardous materials without destabilizing a gas giant. The goal of LWIC is the long-term, and final, storage and isolation of Lyle-branch hazardous waste, including Lyle Drives themselves, in a stable, secure repository that will keep the waste isolated for ten thousand years – the outside estimate for the period of time it will take all the hazardous materials to degrade into harmlessness.

Enter Jaheem, one of Porphyrion’s thirty-seven moons. Geologically speaking, it is dead – no volcanism, no tectonic activity of any kind. It is ideal for the construction of a geologic repository designed to stand for ten thousand years. It’s a daunting challenge – no human structure has ever proved that resilient. But the construction happening in an environment such as Jaheem’s presents an opportunity to build a structure unaffected by many of the factors that prevent longevity on a planet like Earth. But the challenge remains – building a structure that will outlast natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal change.

Once LWIC is complete, it will become the primary repository of all Lyle-branch hazardous wastes. There are certainly no plans to recover the drives entombed in Porphyrion’s atmosphere, but current repositories of fusion and hesperium waste will be transferred there; and all future waste produced by the Lyle process will be interred there until there is no storage space left. Once that transpires, LWIC will be permanently sealed and buried, hopefully to never be disturbed. There are already plans for ‘LWIC II’ and ‘LWIC III’ once the original is filled up in 2210, by current projections.

Construction on the facility started in 2158, and has been ongoing since. So far, Phase One of construction has been completed – the excavation of a large access tunnel that will lead to the main facility. The tunnel is thirty meters in diameter and reaches to a depth of one kilometer. Phase Two of construction is ongoing – the construction of a ‘hub’ complex, containing maintenance and security centers, LWIC power sources, and several modules dedicated to warning off future descendants. There are four more planned phases of construction, including the final Phase Six, which will only occur after the underground complex is sealed. Phases Three through Five entail the construction of over two dozen “isolation wings,” some of which will be at a depth exceeding 1800 meters.

Phases One through Five are certainly key to the well-being of humanity. The isolation of waste from vulnerable peoples, and securing it against possible abuse, is a matter of pressing importance in the here-and-now. But it is Phase Six that is important not just in the here-and-now, and not just to humanity. The effects of Phase Six will reach, hopefully, thousands of years into the future, and preserve and protect humanity, its descendants, and all other potential inhabitants of our corner of the Orion Arm.

Phase Six is uniting nuclear physicists, linguists, materials scientists, engineers, astronavigators, archaeologists, anthropologists, futurists, and even science fiction writers and more, in a singular effort – to prevent the intrusion of future peoples into LWIC and potentially unleashing the harmful materials contained within. As one lead scientist on the project put it, “We have to prevent our descendants from thinking they’ve stumbled across some hidden treasure of our time – prevent them from thinking they’ve found sacred burial grounds or palatial ruins or any other number of archaeological finds that would pique the interest of future scientists.”

There are several methods through which this will be accomplished through Phase Six construction. One of the key methods is hostile architecture – both on the approaches to Jaheem and on the surface itself surrounding the LWIC. Navigational hazards will be installed in Jaheem’s neighborhood, and distributed throughout its orbit so as to make approach and landing by space vehicle difficult and dangerous, in order to discourage exploration. These navigational hazards will be a combination of artificially constructed and natural ones – in other words, asteroids propelled into position in Jaheem’s orbit. These hazards won’t simply function as impediments to transport, but more on that later.

Further applications of hostile architecture will be used on the surface approaches to LWIC. Movement towards LWIC, from all directions, will be impeded by “canalization zones,” a region of narrow, winding paths carved into large irregular blocks of rock. Surrounding this canalization zone will be another region of berms carved into the surface, that when viewed from the sky, will appear to be radiating outward from the center of the area in an unsettling, irregular pattern. Other measures of hostile architecture are still being considered, such as fields of granite spikes, slabs, and pillars, in a combination of regular and irregular geometry.

Complementing the hostile architecture will be warnings and warning signs either etched or bolted onto the structures, both on the surface and in space. These warnings will be in binary, every human language, and several alien ones, with space for future translations and new languages. Pictograms will also be etched into the rocks, and pictographic warning signs constructed out of tough, wear-resistant synthetic materials will also be present. Additionally, in addition to the text and pictographic warnings, several structures, both terrestrial and in orbit, will broadcast warnings in binary, and human and alien languages.

One of the long-time hazardous waste warning messages developed for LWIC.

These warnings are known as long-time hazardous waste warning messages, and will be of varying complexity. The most basic type of message will simply convey “there is great danger here.” The most complex will go into great detail into the science of what is stored at LWIC, why it is harmful, what it does to organic creatures, and more. All types of warnings and information will lay in between. And all these warnings will be repeated across the entire complex, including in a dedicated granite room that will be constructed atop the entrance to the access tunnel.

Beyond hostile architecture and the physical warnings, LWIC’s team is making further efforts to warn off any future populations from disturbing the complex. Linguists, anthropologists, futurists, and other experts are working on dispersing information about LWIC and what its grave purpose is throughout explored space, in information archives and libraries and more. They are working on models of how to integrate the information into society itself, so that this information can be passed from generation to generation – working to make this information entrenched in collective cultural memories and the race consciousness of mankind. They are working on further efforts to seed this information into future cultures, so that Jaheem will forever be known to our descendants as a place of grave danger.

There are a few ‘spiritual predecessors’ to LWIC spread around the Earth, facilities designed for the long-term interment of fission waste from days gone by. One of these predecessors is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the United States. One of the messages included at this facility, over and over again, is “This is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.”

Perhaps this is the case for LWIC as well. But while perhaps not a place of honor, the importance of the complex to safeguarding humanity and its descendants can not be overstated. And perhaps more than anything else, Edward Lyle and the drive he invented and pioneered will be our lasting legacy to the stars.

 

[Archangel Michael]

Fascinating stuff, @LeftsideLock

Far-future civilizations have to deal with the same stuff as us

And they still struggle with nuclear semiotics

 

[Angry_scottsman_1989]

Yucca mountain IN SPACEEEEE!

 

[LeftsideLock]

Fascinating stuff, @LeftsideLock

Far-future civilizations have to deal with the same stuff as us

And they still struggle with nuclear semiotics

Thanks, Mike!

Making sure future idiots don't fuck about with our waste will be a continual struggle.

Yucca mountain IN SPACEEEEE!

More this, but yes essentially

Like six American politics threads ago Georgepatton posted a link to that and I haven't been able to get away from this idea since.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

This is fascinating stuff, I'd never heard of Nuclear Semiotics before.

 

[Archangel Michael]

More this, but yes essentially

Like six American politics threads ago Georgepatton posted a link to that and I haven't been able to get from this idea since.

Ah, yes, that website

Fascinating and terrifying

 

[PachPachis]

The 2144 UN Secretary-General Elections were the most contentious in world history, with political dynasty frontman Guido Ghandi’s Order party losing to American Palestinian Mohammad Adams’ Progress Platform in a contested and divisive final counting. Guido refused to accept the results, but the induction process went on without his concession. Then, on April 15, as American WAVES arrived in the UN’s flying capital city of Atlantis for Adams’ swearing-in ceremony, Guido made his move.
The Atlantian WAVE Divisions were loyal to Ghandi, and opened fire on Adams’ bodyguard and foreign diplomats as he took the oath of office. Adams was immediately jetpacked to safety by his personal guards, and American WAVE commander Katskiller informed Washington that Unian WAVES were attacking her troops. Sam Matthews, American commander of a North Atlantic naval taskforce, immediately diverted course for Atlantis’ position. In a daring move, American WAVE Mary Adams, SecGen Mohammad’s sister, sabotaged Atlantis’ course software, causing the city to remain stationary long enough for American fleets to catch up and engage, though Adams fell into Ghandite custody afterwards.
Unfortunately, Ghandite WAVES had taken control of Atlantian atomic artillery, and the combined naval, air, and ground battle raged for the next ten hours. It was one of the first combined environment battles in history, with naval reinforcements using jetpacks to reach the city thousands of miles above them, Atlantian aircraft engaging in air-to-surface combat with navy ships, and opposing forces often encountering each other during vertical transit and engaging each other mid-air. The fighting was often extremely brutal, with neither side allowing bailing aircraft pilots to parachute unmolested, and fights between enemy bailed-out pilots were documented. After hours of block-to-block fighting in the city itself, Ghandi’s WAVES secured most of Atlantis and were able to destroy Adams’ field HQ, killing Adams with it. American forces withdrew, but refused to recognize Ghandi as SecGen, and were followed by the Soviet Union, French Kingdom, and, eventually, thirty-two other nations. The war of the Unian succession had begun.

The Union of Grande Europa was the historical Europan state that existed from 2014, when the Continental Union restructured itself, to its disestablishment and transformation into the modern United States of Grande Europa following its defeat in the war of Unian succesion.
Formed after a series of radical edicts transforming the predecessor federation of the Continental Union, the Union saw the manufacturing of a pan-European language for the purposes of building a supranational identity.

Grande Europa was one of the strongholds of support for the War Government during the war of Unian Succession, and so fought against most of its geographical neighbors in the Progressive Platform, including the Franco-British, Poles, and Soviets on behalf of the Atlantian regime.

 

[Camelopardalim]

The Christian-Republican Party

The Christian-Republican Party (Parti Chrétien-Républicain, PCR) is a French political party founded on the 7th of March, 1897, headquartered in a modest building on the Place Vandenpeereboom (OTL Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, named after a Christian-Republican Minister-President). The party identifies as centrist, promoting a 'third-way' ideology characterised by a subsidiarist focus on local self-government, a distributist focus on a wide distribution of capital, and a corporatist approach to the organisation of society. The PCR's use of the words 'Conservative' or 'Communitarian' sometimes confuse foreigners into thinking the party is right-wing or left-wing, but each term is interpreted in different ways, e.g. conservation of the environment, or a communitarian non-individualist approach to culture.

Jacqueline Gouralt has been the Secretary-General of the PCR since 2012. The legislative leadership consists of Jean-Luc Gricourt (the first deputy for the Maine-Anjou region), and Léo Albéric Breyne (the senator for Flanders). The party selects its candidates for Minister-President through an indirect primary, where the 330,000 party members vote for delegates, who then vote with the elected officials of the party to choose a candidate. The next primary will take place on the 5th of May, 2017.
The PCR is a member of the Congress of Subsidiarist Movements, an international alliance of third-way parties which mostly share a common lineage from early Social-Christianist thought and the Catholic Labour movement.

Chamois, closest to the English colour 'Buff', is the identifying colour of the PCR, however this is often simplified to or mistaken for the colours gold or yellow. The long-time symbol, or logo, of the party is a 12-pointed chamois sun, on a red and blue background, evoking both the national colours of France, and the ancient Oriflamme flag flown during the Hundred Years War.
The party has played an important role in modern French politics. On its debut, the party quickly rose to overtake the traditional Catholic-Paysan Party and the moderate Republican Union, thanks to a huge shift of working class and religious voters from the established parties. Christian-Republican legislators are kingmakers in the National Assembly, and, from the 1930s, had been the natural party of government till the 1970s, when the party's dominance began to wane. Today, the PCR is the largest party in opposition. The PCR has been credited with the design of France's modern social safety system, such as the system of health mutualities, widespread public housing syndicates, assisted living for the elderly, and the modern communal-religious cooperative school system.

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Instead of just translating it straight up, I tried to write some body text to explain what's going on. The sun in the logo is traced from the Ligue du Sud's logo, and the resemblance to the Oriflamme was a very happy coincidence. Also, no, that's not a typo in 'Distribuisme'. The French verb for 'to distribute' is 'distribuer' without a t, so I changed the word to French-ify it. I'm going to try making a proper wikibox next, this time in English and something totally different.

 

[BlackentheBorg]

 

[ElectricSheepNo54]

Fascinating, @LeftsideLock! Nuclear semiotics is a very interesting subject, and that was a very good read. Nice work!

 

[Accurateworldwar]

Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 –January 16, 2015) was an American film actress and politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States. She served as U.S. Senator from California from 1992 to 2000, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and First Lady of California from 1967 to 1975.

She was born in New York City. After her parents separated, she lived in Maryland with an aunt and uncle for some years. She moved to Chicago when her mother remarried in 1929, and later took the name Davis from her stepfather. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as The Next Voice You Hear..., Night into Morning, and Donovan's Brain. In 1952, she married Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. They had two children together. Reagan was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975, and she began to work with the Foster Grandparents Program.

Reagan became First Lady of the United States in January 1981, following her husband's victory in the 1980 presidential election. She was criticized early in his first term, largely due to her decision to replace the White House china, despite it being paid for by private donations. She aimed to restore a Kennedy-esque glamour to the White House following years of lax formality, and her interest in high-end fashion garnered much attention as well as criticism. She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as First Lady. More discussion of her role ensued when it was revealed in 1988 that she had consulted an astrologer to assist in planning the president's schedule after the attempted assassination of her husband in 1981. She had a strong influence on her husband, and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.

Reagan briefly retired after her husband's presidency, but came out of retirement in 1992 to run a campaign for the United States Senate to replace Pete Wilson, who was elected Governor of California that year. She successfully won the election against Dianne Feinstein, and went on to serve in the Senate until 2000. She ran for President in 2000, and selected her primary challenger, fellow Senator John McCain, as her running mate. She won the election against Vice President Al Gore, and was elected as the first female President of the United States, and the Reagans became the first couple to both be Presidents.

As President, Reagan oversaw the 9/11 attacks. She launched an invasion of Afghanistan, and overthrew the Taliban. Reagan also placed harsh sanctions on Iraq in 2003 in response to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's military policies in the region. Domestically, Reagan worked to expand the War on Drugs, which she had helped lead as First Lady. Reagan's presidency saw a sharp increase in incarcerations for minor drug offenses, which was heavily criticized by the Democratic Party. Reagan initially worked to run for re-election, but the death of Ronald Reagan led her decision not to run for re-election, and her Vice President, John McCain, won the 2004 election against Vermont Governor Howard Dean.

In her post-presidency, Reagan involved herself in Republican party affairs, donating heavily to Republican causes. She died of congestive heart failure at her home in Bel Air, California on January 16th, 2015.

 

[InfernoMole]

(infobox taken on March 19, 2017)

Pyotr Nochnoi (Russian: Пётр Ночной, literally "Night Pyotr" born March 17, 1963) is a Russian singer and a pioneer in the Russian dark technometal genre. Faced with both Yeltsinite and supernatural corruption (though they were often hard to distinguish between), Pyotr Stolbnyakov, who became an engineer following the years of study in the Moscow Polytechnic University, started to hunt down various monsters prowling the streets of Moscow, while maintaining his career as an independent singer. Pyotr Nochnoi's songs "Rats in the Veins" and "1905" are extremely popular among Russian people. In 2011, Pyotr was invited to the Gryozy Club (literally "Daydreams Club") to play at the "SPLINTER" Club Concert, which was criticized by non-human bloggers who were opposed to Pyotr's views on non-human opposition. Of course, Gryozy Club has often garnered scandal, like accusations of drugging young men and women with hallucinogens...

2017 Technomagic Horror:
Fishing Troops and Anna Colleen Bowchild
Battle Buryats and Lich Poroshenko
Laura Jantunen
Pyotr Nochnoi and the Gryozy Club (YOU'RE HERE)

 

[Neoteros]

A little spin-off of the Motor Sports World Championship TL by @Spam78: the POD is the requirement for the chassis and engine to be made in the country represented by each car:

The "Big Four" - France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom - have dominated the Auto Racing World Championship from its very beginning; however, Japan has become everyone's second-favourite underdog due to the aggressive driving of its representatives, and Monaco (everyone's favourite underdog) has been punching far, far above its weight ever since its debut in the championship. Australia, Brazil, Finland and Spain have been getting progressively better, with drivers such as Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa being recognized as excellent drivers held back by mediocre cars.

The championship's second tier, here not shown, is home to fallen giants such as Argentina and rising stars such as South Korea.

 

[TheHolyInquisition]

Y E T • A N O T H E R • S E C R E T • S E R I E S​

This is a adaptation of a parody of an Israeli copypasta about why you shouldn't celebrate cetrain christian holidays becuase the cristias used to use them as an excuse for killing jews I found on Reddit.​

Past Boxes:
The Federally-Administered Mountain Territories
Chief Ministers of Equestria
Assassination of Pathfinder Kenneighdy-Tart, Red Bolt
The Slovenian Gem Genocide, Hosni Mubarak
The 2024-5 Canadian Constitutional Crisis
Queen Elizabeth II, The Lake Malawi Buddha
Butter F. Tart, Jr., Pathfinder E. Kenneighdy-Tart (Soon with Write-ups!)
Dustin the Turkey
Pathfinder's Funeral, Cromwell's Island
Grigori Rasputin; The Beatles and incomprehensibly malevolent eldritch abominations and other demonic beings
New Cork
Rise of the Very Happy Jew-Murdering Batshit Moroccan Sheikh Special Mimouna Post Thingy

So, this is pop-culture references on drugs, the timeline?

 

[Glide08]

So, this is pop-culture references on drugs, the timeline?

Yeah, preety much this and a plain ol' Bizzaro universe.

I mean, seriously, there's an Equestria not quite like the one in MLP:FiM hidden away in the Canadian Rockies, Dustin the Turkey ruling Ireland (Which has the third-smallest martian colonies in the whole european union!) as a Virtual Dictator, the third buddha of Bamiyan being sapient, animate, and buried deep in lake Malawi, Queen Elizabeth being a reverse fursuit for her Corgis, and Human supremacist terrorists who constantly make bad font choices, killed every gem (Yes. Like in Steven Universe.) in Slovenia, and will add the Omnics and Turians to their list in the 2050s.

 

[Hālian]

A little spin-off of the Motor Sports World Championship TL by @Spam78: the POD is the requirement for the chassis and engine to be made in the country represented by each car:

The "Big Four" - France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom - have dominated the Auto Racing World Championship from its very beginning; however, Japan has become everyone's second-favourite underdog due to the aggressive driving of its representatives, and Monaco (everyone's favourite underdog) has been punching far, far above its weight ever since its debut in the championship. Australia, Brazil, Finland and Spain have been getting progressively better, with drivers such as Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa being recognized as excellent drivers held back by mediocre cars.

The championship's second tier, here not shown, is home to fallen giants such as Argentina and rising stars such as South Korea.

What about the USA?

 

[Utgard96]

What about the USA?

IOTL at least the US has its entirely own auto racing sports and doesn't really take part in the international ones.