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Explanation in universe: the High Kingship of Ireland has recently transitioned to simply the Kingship of Ireland through a complicated series of feudal reforms known as the Goidelic Revolution (Analogue to the OTL Davidian Revolution) the title “Lord of Ireland” is simply an irrelevant kingly style adopted by the Niall’s predecessor Donnchadh I.
Real explanation: I was using a template of King Henry VIII in Wikipedia sandbox to make this, and any time I tried to change to simply “King of Ireland” in the code, it messed it up so I was forced to leave that in there
Ah, that's clever of you.Explanation in universe: the High Kingship of Ireland has recently transitioned to simply the Kingship of Ireland through a complicated series of feudal reforms known as the Goidelic Revolution (Analogue to the OTL Davidian Revolution) the title “Lord of Ireland” is simply an irrelevant kingly style adopted by the Niall’s predecessor Donnchadh I.
Real explanation: I was using a template of King Henry VIII in Wikipedia sandbox to make this, and any time I tried to change to simply “King of Ireland” in the code, it messed it up so I was forced to leave that in there
Although the existence of vampires in the United States was only made public in the 21st century; vampire communities have existed in the United States since colonial days. The first vampires settled in New England in the 17th century. The Puritans launched anti-vampire campaigns which ultimately drove them underground. In 1718, a large coven of French vampires settled in New Orleans, seeking trade and fresh livestock. Vampires fleeing persecution in France and Germany would later flock to the safe haven of New Orleans, especially after the French Revolution targeted French aristocrats. America attracted vampires of numerous European nationalities. English vampires settled in Virginia in order to buy slaves to use as food. While vampires settled in the North, particularly New England and New York City; Vampire Americans concentrated in the south due to the large slave population providing sustenance. Vampires covertly provided backing to pro-slavery politicians and became one of the driving forces behind the Secessionist cause. New England abolitionists inherited from their Puritan ancestors a religious abhorrence towards the demonic vampires of the South. During General Sherman's March to the Sea, these abolitionist vampire hunters targeted vampire slaveholders, significantly reducing the population of American Vampires. A remnant community of the tidewater vampires exists today in Mystic Falls, Virginia. In the 20th century, Vampire Americans would later migrate to urban areas in California and Chicago. The small town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine was completely overtaken by vampires in the 1970s. Additionally, a large number of vampires migrated to the town of Sunnydale. By the late 20th century, a few vampires began to openly assert their identity as vampires, like rock star Lestat de Lioncourt. Following several incidents in California and an attack on London by a secret army of Nazi vampires; vampires were forced to reveal their existence to the public. The mass production of the synthetic sustenance Tru Blood allowed vampires to openly live among humans. While the Vampire rights movement has won legal protections for vampires; vampires still face enormous discrimination and suspicion from the vast majority of the American public. Liberals who would otherwise support minority groups have been reluctant to support Vampire rights since many contemporary vampires supported slavery and the Confederacy in their younger days. Additionally, vampires are widely disliked by the LGBT community due to their alleged involvement in spreading AIDs in the 1980s. Many conservatives despise Vampires for religious reasons; and anti-mutant groups have shifted to opposing Vampire rights in the 2010s. Despite the murder of Vampires being illegal, law enforcement and vampire hunters continue to target them. A few wealthy vampires continue to feast upon live humans and make large political donations to hide their habits. The largest population of vampires remains concentrated around Greater New Orleans. Since 2015, a large number of vampires and humans have become followers of apocalyptic cult leader Renesmee Cullen. Cullen claims to be the divine reincarnation of the ancient vampires who will lead her people to world domination.
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Antoine Pinay (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan piˈnɛ]; 30 December 1891 – 13 December 1994) was a French conservative (modéré) politician who served as Prime Minister between 1952 and 1953 and again between 1966 and 1968. He also served as Minister of Finances during his own premiership as well as under Prime Ministers Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury and Pierre Pflimlin between 1957 and 1960. Pinay also served as Foreign Affairs Minister in the second Faure government (March-September 1954) and as Public Works, Transportation and Tourism Minister between 1950 and 1952. Simultaneously, Pinay served as mayor of Saint-Chamond between 1929 and 1944 and again from 1949 until 1970. From 1949 until 1970 he also served as president of the General Council of Loire, under a commonplace French practice known as cumul des mandats whereby national politicians often hold executive positions at the local and departmental level.
Despite having supported Marshall Petain's takeover in 1940, after the end of the World War II, Pinay would become one of the most important players on the French right. Pinay's regional accent, pragmatism and common sense attitude endeared him to many Frenchmen, making Pinay one of the most popular French politicians of the post-war era. An Atlanticist and Eurofederalist politician, Pinay's first government signed ratified the 1952 Bonn and Paris Treaties, creating the European Defence Forces and recognising West Germany's independence. Pinay also oversaw the process of decolonisation, by negotiating the terms of Moroccan and Tunisian independence as Foreign Affairs Minister in 1955 and Algerian independence in 1967. A fiscal conservative, during his first premiership, Pinay undertook a deflationary policy to contain the inflationary pressures caused by the Indochina War.
Pinay ran unsuccessfully for President of the Republic in 1953. In 1968, he would try to run again until allegations surfaced linking him to the ballets roses affair, although these were never proven and were quickly dismissed.
The list and this infobox with a write up here are amazing. I really like this. Is CNIP slightly more centrist than RL or is it still the largest right-wing party in France as it was after the PRL folded into it?
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise which premiered on January 4, 2023, as a continuation of the 1990–2010 NBC series of the same name. Developed by Wolf following the 2021 conclusion of original Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the revival's first season consists of 18 episodes and premiered on NBC on January 4, 2023; the first season concluded on May 24, 2023. An ensemble of returning cast members appear, including Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan, S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren and Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy. On May 16, 2023, it was announced that Law & Order would be renewed for a second season.
Set and filmed in New York City, the series follows the same two-part approach as the original, with the first half-hour comprising the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and apprehension of a suspect by New York City Police Department detectives, and the second half comprising the prosecution of the defendant by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different.
As a continuation of the original series, Law & Order once again strove to hold the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television title it had previously held until being tied with and surpassed by its own spinoff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Its record of 21 seasons allowed it to surpass Gunsmoke (1955–75) to (once again) become the second longest-running live-action scripted American prime-time series with ongoing characters. Although it has fewer episodes than Gunsmoke, Law & Order ranks as the second longest-running hour-long primetime TV series, as Gunsmoke, for its first six seasons, was originally a half-hour program; upon the airing of the revival's second (and series' twenty-second) season, the show will once again tie with its own spinoff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in holding all three records (and should the revival be renewed for and air a third season (the series' twenty-third), it will hold all three records in its own right for the first time in the series' history).
Immediately following the original show's cancellation, Wolf stated that he was attempting to find a new home for the series and would also consider a "last resort" plan to conclude the show with a two-hour TV film to air on NBC. In July 2010, however, he indicated that those attempts had failed and declared that the series had now "moved to the history books". However, in February 2015, rumors started that NBC was planning to bring the series back for 10 episodes. In May 2015, former star Sam Waterston (EADA/DA Jack McCoy) announced to The Hollywood Reporter that he supports and would join a revival of Law & Order, saying: "You're darn right. Sure, I'd love it. Got to break the record." Creator Dick Wolf has expressed wanting to use a L&O revival to do a "ripped from the headlines" storyline surrounding the murder trial of Robert Durst, Wolf said "[Of all my past projects] I'd bring back Law & Order. Everybody who knows me knows it's something I want to do," he continued, "my only regret looking backward is all the great stories that we haven't been able to do for the past five years." At the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour, Wolf noted everyone wants a revival, "It is a question of...most of the people involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is much more difficult than it looks on the outside. I am always an optimist. I would love to do it if we can make it work." In August 2017, however, when asked where the status of the rumored revival stood, Wolf said, "nowhere," seemingly confirming that the revival would be unlikely to occur, if at all.
Finally, in January 2022, Deadline Hollywood reported that NBC was once again considering a revived, 21st season of Law & Order based on a concept by Wolf, following the conclusion of the Law & Order franchise's then-last remaining series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the previous year. The following week, NBC officially announced it had greenlit such a revived season as a mid-season replacement in 2023, with original cast members Chris Noth and Sam Waterston announced at the time as already being signed on to return, reprising their roles as Detective Mike Logan and District Attorney Jack McCoy, respectively. NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said that the series would, as before, continue to be focused on episodes often "ripped from the headlines" or loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention. As with the rest of NBC's push into event programming, the production was said to have "a big scope and top talent and top marketing budgets."
In February 2022, it was announced that Michael S. Chernuchin was signed to executive produce the revival. S. Epatha Merkerson was announced as the third official cast member in April 2022, reprising her role as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren. In June 2022, it was confirmed that Jeremy Sisto, Linus Roache and Alana de la Garza would return to fill out the remainder of the main cast, reprising their roles as Detective Cyrus Lupo, Executive Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter and Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa, respectively. Returning former cast members announced to be making guest appearances that would be aired throughout the season are Jesse L. Martin as former Detective Ed Green, Angie Harmon as former Assistant District Attorney (and now-U.S. Attorney) Abbie Carmichael, Benjamin Bratt as former Detective Rey Curtis, Anthony Anderson as Detective Kevin Bernard, Paul Sorvino as Sergeant Phil Cerreta, Carey Lowell as former Assistant District Attorney (and now-Judge) Jamie Ross and Elisabeth Röhm as former Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn. It was also confirmed in June 2022 that the series would premiere on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, and, following a 2-episode premiere, would continue to be broadcast in its formerly well-established Wednesday 10 p.m. timeslot.
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It still is the largest centre-right party in TTL's France, as such, it's Atlanticist, pro-European, economically liberal and socially conservative. I think it'd be closer to VGE's conservative-liberal position as opposed to Wauquiez's FN-lite positions. The more right-wing, nationalist elements within it, as well as from the MRP (like Bidault) and the Radicals (like Martinaud-Déplat) would separate over the policy to follow on Algeria. These elements got together in the Centre Démocratique party, which is soft Eurosceptic but quite conservative in most aspects of things.
If you want to think of what the CNIP would be in the 60s, picture Reynaud, Barre, Pinay or VGE basically. What I still need to clearly define is the profile of Mendes-France's Radicals (a sort of middle-class technocratic social democracy without Marxist language?), the UDSR (generic centrism?) and their differences with SFIO, and what to do with the groups that broke off from SFIO over Mollet's conduction of the Algerian War (Rocard & co. , aka the future PSU), perhaps they'll stay in giving the party new life in the late 60s, early 70s.
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Paul Coste-Floret (French pronunciation: [pɔl kɔst.flɔʁˈɛ]; 9 April 1911 - 27 August 1979) was a French politician who served as President of France between 1961 and 1968. Coste-Floret was a member of the Resistance during World War II and prepared the Allied landings in Northern Africa in 1944. After the war, Coste-Floret was one of the founding members of the Popular Republic Movement, a centrist and Christian democratic political party. Coste-Floret served as Minister of Overseas France under 5 successive governments between 1947 and 1949, again briefly in 1950 and lastly between 1958 and 1960 under Prime Ministers Pierre Pflimlin and François Mitterrand. Coste-Floret also served briefly as Minister of War in the second Ramadier government, and as Minister of Information in the first Faure government. Coste-Floret also served as deputy from Hérault from 1946 until 1961 and simultaneously as mayor of Lamalou-les-Bains between 1953 and 1959 and as mayor of Lodève from 1959 until 1961.
Coste-Floret played a key role in granting Vietnam's independence in 1949 within the framework of the French Community, through the signature of the Halong Bay Agreements of 1948 with Bao-Dai. As rapporteur of the Universal Suffrage Commission, Coste-Floret endorsed Gaston Defferre's loi-cadre, which he would enact and develop as Overseas Minister after 1958. Coste-Floret was also of the members who drew up the constitutional amendments of 1958, which reinforced the powers of the Prime Minister over the legislature as a way to limit executive instability.
Coste-Floret's twin brother, Alfred Coste-Floret, was also an MRP parliamentarian representing Haute-Garonne and mayor of Bagnères-de-Luchon from 1947 until 1971.
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The SDP was founded in 1905, as a merger between the various socialist and social democratic British parties of the late nineteenth century. The party first entered government in 1922 and, whilst in opposition during most of the 1930s, returned to power as a majority government in 1937. The party led Britain into the Second World War and its leader, Ernest Bevin, served as the leader of Britain's War Coalition. After spending a period in Opposition between 1954 and 1965, the SDP introduced the basis of Britain's welfare state, including the creation of its state-sponsored Medicare programme and nationalisation of key industries. The party spent considerable time in Opposition in the decades following this, known as the party's 'time in the wilderness' as it struggled with deep internal divisions. It returned to government in the early 1990s and last governed between 2007 and 2016. Between 2012 and 2016 it governed in a coalition with the Progressive Party.
The 2012 Imperial election for the Royal American Empire, saw the biggest divide with the electoral princes, with seven candidates receiving votes.
Prince John of Texas, from the Royal House of Bush, fights to share the same title as his father, Emperor George II and his brother Emperor George III, although not getting a majority, with military support he was able to becoming Emperor John VI, defeating:
- former Empress Consort Hillary Clinton, wife of Emperor William IV (1995-2001)
- Prince Joseph III (grand-nephew and grand son of Emperor John IV and Robert I)
- Lord-Duke Donald J Trump, who many accused of buying his peerage, rather than gain it.
Two states, had their princes vote for their independent royal family
- Prince Albert of Tennessee, former Chancellor to Emperor William IV (1995-2001)
- Prince Barack of Hawaii
The German Confederation is a confederation consisting of fifteen states. Despite having a bicameral parliament at the federal level that is able to make laws permitting to all states, the various states have a considerable amount of autonomy, being able to constitutionally to choose their own forms of government, electoral systems for national assembly elections, and more.
The creation of the German Confederation in 1815 was through the unification of 40 states as part of the Congress of Vienna. Initially, the confederation was made up of the Austrian Empire (only portions constituting modern-day Austria), five kingdoms (Bavaria, Hanover, Prussia, Saxony, and Württemberg), one electorate (Hesse), seven grand duchies (Baden, Hesse, Oldenburg, Luxembourg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Saxe-Weimar Eisenach), eleven duchies (Anhalt-Berburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen, Brunswick, Holstein, Saxe-Lauenburg, Nassau, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Saxe-Meiningen), ten principalities (Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Liechtenstein, Lippe-Detmold, Reuss-Greitz, Reuss-Gera, Schaumberg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and Waldeck and Pyrmont), one landgraviate (Hesse-Homburg), and four free cities (Lübeck, Frankfurt upon Main, Bremen, and Hamburg). However, conflicts among the various states and a need to match the strengths of Prussia and Austria, the two dominant and competing states, resulted in large-scale mergers. One of the more notable occurrences of this was the creation of the Rhineland Confederation through the merger of the Province of Westphalia and the Rhine Province.
Today, the states of the German Confederation vary in terms of chosen governments, though each state has its own elected assembly operating in a parliamentary manner. The Kingdoms of Austria, Bavaria, Hanover, and Prussia, the Grand Duchies of Luxembourg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Duchy of Holstein operate as constitutional monarchies, and the Republics of Baden, Bohemia-Moravia, Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony, and Württemberg, the Rhineland Confederation, and City of Frankfurt (the nation's capital) operate as parliamentary republics.
A more unified federal government has become an important concept throughout the German Confederation. Following the nation's victory with the British Empire against the Second French Empire and the Russian Empire in the Continental War (1904-1910), the Federalist Movement sprung up, seeing popularity in smaller states fearful of underrepresentation in the National Assembly. Conventions throughout the late 1910s and early 1920s resulted in the newly written Constitution of the German Confederation. While similar to its predecessor, it listed a greater number of powers for the federal government and clarifications of state powers. Later resolutions pushed states towards adopting proportional representation as part of national elections, eventually ending the use of "undemocratic," yet technically constitutional, practices, such as the King of Hanover's personal appointments of the state's representatives. States were still given some leniency in determining electoral procedures, seen through the Rhineland Confederation's equal splitting of its representation among its three Associated States of Berg, the Lower Rhine, and Westphalia and Austria's designation of two votes each to its Provinces of Carinola and Trentino and one to its Province of Istria. The states each have their own military forces that constitute the national Grand German Armed Forces and can establish diplomatic relations with other nations separately. Additionally, they may hold territory outside of the jurisdiction of the German Confederation, though currently Prussia, controlling its Provinces of East Prussia, Posen, and West Prussia, and Austria, controlling its Province of Dalmatia, are the only two.
Note #1: I wrote a lot about the electoral system since I was developing a national election infobox but then abandoned the idea.
Note #2: This format of doing the "States of the German Confederation" infobox was inspired by the "Texan states" infobox in @LeinadB93's Hail, Britannia.
The creation of the German Confederation in 1815 was through the unification of 40 states as part of the Congress of Vienna. Initially, the confederation was made up of the Austrian Empire (only portions constituting modern-day Austria), five kingdoms (Bavaria, Hanover, Prussia, Saxony, and Württemberg), one electorate (Hesse), seven grand duchies (Baden, Hesse, Oldenburg, Luxembourg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Saxe-Weimar Eisenach), eleven duchies (Anhalt-Berburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen, Brunswick, Holstein, Saxe-Lauenburg, Nassau, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Saxe-Meiningen), ten principalities (Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Liechtenstein, Lippe-Detmold, Reuss-Greitz, Reuss-Gera, Schaumberg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and Waldeck and Pyrmont), one landgraviate (Hesse-Homburg), and four free cities (Lübeck, Frankfurt upon Main, Bremen, and Hamburg). However, conflicts among the various states and a need to match the strengths of Prussia and Austria, the two dominant and competing states, resulted in large-scale mergers. One of the more notable occurrences of this was the creation of the Rhineland Confederation through the merger of the Province of Westphalia and the Rhine Province.
Today, the states of the German Confederation vary in terms of chosen governments, though each state has its own elected assembly operating in a parliamentary manner. The Kingdoms of Austria, Bavaria, Hanover, and Prussia, the Grand Duchies of Luxembourg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Duchy of Holstein operate as constitutional monarchies, and the Republics of Baden, Bohemia-Moravia, Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony, and Württemberg, the Rhineland Confederation, and City of Frankfurt (the nation's capital) operate as parliamentary republics.
A more unified federal government has become an important concept throughout the German Confederation. Following the nation's victory with the British Empire against the Second French Empire and the Russian Empire in the Continental War (1904-1910), the Federalist Movement sprung up, seeing popularity in smaller states fearful of underrepresentation in the National Assembly. Conventions throughout the late 1910s and early 1920s resulted in the newly written Constitution of the German Confederation. While similar to its predecessor, it listed a greater number of powers for the federal government and clarifications of state powers. Later resolutions pushed states towards adopting proportional representation as part of national elections, eventually ending the use of "undemocratic," yet technically constitutional, practices, such as the King of Hanover's personal appointments of the state's representatives. States were still given some leniency in determining electoral procedures, seen through the Rhineland Confederation's equal splitting of its representation among its three Associated States of Berg, the Lower Rhine, and Westphalia and Austria's designation of two votes each to its Provinces of Carinola and Trentino and one to its Province of Istria. The states each have their own military forces that constitute the national Grand German Armed Forces and can establish diplomatic relations with other nations separately. Additionally, they may hold territory outside of the jurisdiction of the German Confederation, though currently Prussia, controlling its Provinces of East Prussia, Posen, and West Prussia, and Austria, controlling its Province of Dalmatia, are the only two.
Note #2: This format of doing the "States of the German Confederation" infobox was inspired by the "Texan states" infobox in @LeinadB93's Hail, Britannia.
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You know, this gives me an idea, I'll probably flesh it out tomorrow. Very original and unexpected take on that election map by the way, but it's strange that the House of Kennedy didn't win in Massachusetts.
Well with the United States standing at 9,833,000 km², 12 times as big as Holy Roman Empire's mere 814,415 km². If you compared to the Holy Roman Empire, who had approximately 1,800 royal houses, I can assume that there are around 21,600 royal families.
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