A Nebraska state legislator since the 70s. Far to the left of the state’s Overton Window, he’s famous for using his knowledge of the rules to frustrate the conservative agenda. Notable stunts include suing god. A sort of lion of the Nebraska senate, if you will.
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A Nebraska state legislator since the 70s. Far to the left of the state’s Overton Window, he’s famous for using his knowledge of the rules to frustrate the conservative agenda. Notable stunts include suing god. A sort of lion of the Nebraska senate, if you will.
Oh god. Fun fact he was planned to be VP in an earlier draft of my TL's lore, but I ended up changing it because it was too cursed
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Infobox for the 3rd most French state in Dixie and the quintessential bellwether state, correctly voting with the winner in every nationwide election since 1943.
Infobox for the 3rd most French state in Dixie and the quintessential bellwether state, correctly voting with the winner in every nationwide election since 1943.
2018 Missouri State Legislature Elections
In 2018, Missouri held elections for both chambers of its General Assembly. In Missouri, despite being a swing state between the Nationals and the Unionists in statewide elections, the Nationals have not held power in either chamber of the Assembly in nearly 20 years. Since the 2000 elections, the Assembly has been controlled by a power-sharing agreement between the Unionists, the Parti La Louisiane, and the Social Democrats, known as "The Coalition". The strength of the Coalition has largely been attributed to the PLL winning voters that would otherwise vote for the Nationals, despite the Missouri PLL being the most liberal state PLL party in the nation. The Social Democrats also do very well in Missouri elections, winning in the heavily minority areas in St. Louis and near the SDP ancestral base in and around Kansas City where the Socialist Party (the SDP's predecessor) first emerged.
In 2018, Missouri held elections for both chambers of its General Assembly. In Missouri, despite being a swing state between the Nationals and the Unionists in statewide elections, the Nationals have not held power in either chamber of the Assembly in nearly 20 years. Since the 2000 elections, the Assembly has been controlled by a power-sharing agreement between the Unionists, the Parti La Louisiane, and the Social Democrats, known as "The Coalition". The strength of the Coalition has largely been attributed to the PLL winning voters that would otherwise vote for the Nationals, despite the Missouri PLL being the most liberal state PLL party in the nation. The Social Democrats also do very well in Missouri elections, winning in the heavily minority areas in St. Louis and near the SDP ancestral base in and around Kansas City where the Socialist Party (the SDP's predecessor) first emerged.
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A parallel for OTL Brazil
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Following up the Antarctic claims, here's the first person to reach the South Pole in Hail, Britannia. Thanks to @Turquoise Blue for bringing his existence to my attention. I'd never heard of a Japanese Antarctic expedition IOTL, so it was interesting to hear about it.
Nobu Shirase (白瀬 矗, Shirase Nobu; 20 July 1861 – c. 17 January 1921) was a Japanese army officer, explorer and a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He led the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which became the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. He established the first Japanese claims in Antarctica on King Edward VII Land, now part of the Tominami Dependency. Shirase disappeared in 1921 in the Ross Sea, while leading a second expedition to consolidate Japanese claims to the area.
Shirase had developed a passionate and enduring interest in polar exploration since youth, inspired by tales of European explorers. In 1881 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army. During his military service, Shirase participated in the 1893 expedition to the northern Kuril Islands to establish a permanent Japanese settlement. Althought the venture was poorly organised and unsuccessful, it provided him with useful training for future polar exploration. He went on to serve in the Russo-Japanese War. Shirase had long intended to lead an expedition to the North Pole, but tensions between Russia and Japan, along with Roald Amundsen's planned expedition [1], caused him to switch is attention to the south.
Able to attract modest government support for his Antarctic venture, backed by Sigenobu Okuma, a prominent politician and advocate of scientific exploration, Shirase launched from Tokyo in the converted fishing vessel Kainan Maru, on 29 September 1910 [2]. Four months later, the expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, at the Bay of Whales, on 12 January 1911. Shirase established his base camp there, and using skis and dog sleds created supply depots along a line directly south to the Pole. Unbeknownst to Shirase and his expedition, Robert F. Scott was leading the British Terra Nova expedition with the intent of also reaching the South Pole. While Shirase was unaware of the competition, Scott was determined to beat him to the Pole, calling the Japanese expedition their "rivals". Favouring Inuit-style furred skins over heavy wool clothing, Shirase and a small group set out on 22 September and arrived at the South Pole on 3 December, two and a half months before Scott's group. Shirase renamed the Antarctic Plateau as "Emperor Meiji's Plateau" [3]. The team returned safely to base camp on 19 January 1912, making their way off the continent and to Sydney, Australia, where Shirase publicly announced their success and telegraphed news to Tokyo.
Shirase and his companions were treated as heroes on their return to Japan, given a triumphal parade through the streets of Tokyo and Shirase was inivited to give a personal acocunt of his experiences to the imperial family. Japanese national interest in Antarctica waned over the following years, but Shirase's memoir, published in 1914, kept the continent in the national conscience during the First World War. In 1919, Shirase began planning a second expedition, with the support of the Japanese government, to consolidate Japan's claims to Antarctica as part of the Nanshin-ron doctrine [4], and in July 1920 the Kainan Maru set sail for Antarctica. Shirase disappeared on or around 17 January 1921 while sailing in the Ross Sea. It is believed the Kainan Maru became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed, and that Shirase and his crew either died on the ship or when the sea ice disintegrated. The wreckage of the Kainan Maru has never been found. Owing to Shirase's significant accomplishment in polar exploration, several places in the Antarctic are named after him, notably the Shirase-Scott South Pole Station, operated by the British-Commonwealth Antarctic Program, which was jointly named in honour of Shirase and his rival.
[1] - A slight Point of Divergence, ITTL the expeditions of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary either never take place, fail, or never claim to have reached the North Pole. Therefore Amundsen doesn't feel the need to divert to Antarctica, and becomes the first person to reach the North Pole. Amundsen ITTL is remembered as an exclusively Arctic explorer and figure.
[2] - With government backing, Shirase's expedition is able to leave earlier, and hence arrive in Antarctica in time to make landfall and start his planned polar trek.
[3] - Yes this is a direct parallel to Amundsen's renaming to "King Haakon VII's Plateau" IOTL.
[4] - The Nanshin-ron doctrine is the main philosophy of Japanese expansion ITTL, especially with their gains from Germany after the First World War.
[2] - With government backing, Shirase's expedition is able to leave earlier, and hence arrive in Antarctica in time to make landfall and start his planned polar trek.
[3] - Yes this is a direct parallel to Amundsen's renaming to "King Haakon VII's Plateau" IOTL.
[4] - The Nanshin-ron doctrine is the main philosophy of Japanese expansion ITTL, especially with their gains from Germany after the First World War.
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I'm guessing in this universe CN were less prepared to incorporate LGBTQ characters in a kid's show so it went to Adult Swim? In any case, I kinda really want to see this iteration of Steven Universe now.
Nah I just noticed Patagonia lol. But now that you mention it...A parallel for OTL Brazil
This is what I was talking about, @Goweegie2:
That literally has never shown up for me. Are you using some kind of visual editor on Wikipedia that I'm unaware of? I've always used the source editor (which I presume is the default) so I've never seen thatThis is what I was talking about, @Goweegie2:
Does that "+ Insert paragraph" box go away when you publish the changes to the sandbox? When the cursor isn't hovered over it, there's just an empty space, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to make it go away in either form.
There are two ways to edit something on Wikipedia when the article isn't protected or if you copy/paste it into your Sandbox: the source editor, or the visual editor. I use a mixture of the two, because both have their advantages and you can switch between them on the fly. The visual editor lets you see what your page or wikibox will look like before you do anything concrete, and so I use that most of the time to get a feel for how I want things to turn out aesthetically.
And this "+ Insert Paragraph" box is a nightmare to deal with.
Thanks!
Generally, I don't edit much in visual mode outside of large chunks of text and positioning images.
The FV151 Hotspur is a fully-tracked armoured personnel carrier that was developed and produced by Sunshine Harvester of Australia. It was originally developed in the late 1960s to provide Imperial soldiers better protection on the battlefield, and it first saw combat during the Sudanese Civil War, beginning in spring 1971. Eventually, the Hotspur would become the most widely used armored vehicle of the British Army in Sudan, and it was used to great success during wars of succession in Saxony and Haiti later in that decade. The Hotspur is noteable as the first widely-produced aluminium-hulled vehicle, offering sufficient protection against small arms fire while being light enough to be transported by most military cargo aircraft.
It is estimated that over 100,000 Hotspurs have been produced in dozens of variants and derivatives. In addition to being used by the British Empire, it was exported to more than 40 different nations. In the British Empire, it has been withdrawn from service with the British Army, All-India British Army and the Constituent Armies, while it's still being used in support roles (such as ambulance, mortar carrier, engineer vehicle, and command and control vehicle) by some of the Territorial Forces of the constituent kingdoms. It has been replaced in Imperial service by the MV25 Timberwolf IFV in armoured formations and by the Common Wheeled Combat Vehicle for rear-echelon units, but it still remains a common armoured vehicle in the Near East and Southeast Asia, where it has seen combat in the Yemeni Mutiny and the Southeast Asian Drug War. Former Chinese Hotspurs have been used by all sides of the Chinese Civil War.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Rolls-Royce Ordnance Arsenal tested the Camelot APC, a variant of the Lancelot UCT. However, the design never progressed beyonf private prototypes due to the weight and expense of the vehicle. However, as the Hotspur was being withdrawn from service, the armoured infantry units felt that the proposed replacements weren't suitable. Even though MV25 Timberwolf did fill some of the gaps, American Harvester of Michigan began to develop a new APC based off the Lancelot entirely independent from the Rolls-Royce Camelot. The Conestoga was lighter than the Camelot and the Lancelot, but was quite heavier than the Hotspur and the Timberwolf. It provided more protection than either previous design, however. The Iron Brigade adopted the FV210 Conestoga as its basic APC, while the Timberwolf would remain used by by other armored units across the British Empire. Outside of the Iron Brigade, only the Grenadier Guards and Coldstream Guards adopted it due to cost and weight. It has seen limited service in Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier (for which it has been criticised as being a white elephant and a waste of money), instead being primarily deployed to forward bases in Prussia and Castile in the event of Austrian invasions. It has also been purchased by Hanover to outfit its lone armoured infantry brigade.
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