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You know, for a non-American it's very odd what an American expansionist I am.
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If only...
You know, for a non-American it's very odd what an American expansionist I am.
MTTA-E1 Oranje is a command-operated Multifunctional Transportation and Armaments Mech with a distinctly elephant-like build, developed in the Ivory Coast by Yves Mamadou Sarpong and Maximilian Aislinn O'Moran. It is the originating weapon of the Elephant family, differing from other members of the series by its predominantly orange color scheme.
Although the idea of war elephants is as old as time, and arming animals with top-notch weaponry has been frequently discussed among military experts, the decline of the species in the 21st century and the enforcement of notoriously strict African Union animal protection laws by bleeding-heart bureaucrats from Gaborone has forced the Houphouëtist Society of Armaments, Transportation, Energy and Mechanisms (Société Houphouëtiste des Armements, des Transports, de l'Énergie et des Mécanismes), better known as SHATEM, to bedrudgingly reject this idea. However, Côte d'Ivoire has received enormous investments from abroad, and SHATEM, being the "vanguard of Ivoirian society", benefited from it. In 2076, SHATEM commissioned the creation of an animal-based robotic mech, specifically one large enough to overwhelm humanoid mechs, but small-enough to be inexpensive. The design was taken up by two young engineers, Yves Sarpong and Maxime O'Moran.
Sarpong and O'Moran were best friends, despite their radically different backgrounds; Sarpong, though Akan by ethnicity, was a third-generation Ghanaian immigrant, historically working as a taxi driver, while O'Moran was an Irish-French comics writer, born to Protestant minister Rory O'Moran and Bedelia Corne, a revolutionary chemist in both senses of the word. According to their coworker, Seydou Niangoran, Sarpong and O'Moran originally wanted to give the mech a different name, as both men were huge Babar enthusiasts, but their employer and supervisor, South African businessman and future mayor of Orania Franklin Botha persuaded them to name the mech Oranje.
Oranje has seen a lot of use in Africa and beyond. Hundreds of Oranjes were deployed to put down dissent in Mauritania, and the march of the robotic elephants was an integral part of the Fourth Azawad War, the Ugandan Civil War and the Mauritanian-Malian War. Since then, however, Oranjes have been used primarily in general transportation, with countless loxodontine mechs walking across Sahara and the Silk Path, though certain Oranjes are still used in battle, scouring the Australian outback and fighting the Elysian bloodrunners on Mars. Sarpong and O'Moran's creation has been applauded by countless people around the world, with Sarpong in particular being awarded the highest state order of knighthood in the Ivory Coast; O'Moran would settle down in Bismarck with his beloved Winona Harris, though he would be assassinated by an unidentified killer in 2097.
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The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Democratic nominee Al Smith, Governor of New York defeated the Republican nominee Herbert Hoover
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2008 and 2012 as 1860 and 1864 presidential election analogues. John Kerry won in 2004 but was so unpopular he chose not to run for reelection. Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination; but supporters of Vice President John Edwards walked out of the convention and formed their own party. In order to contrast with Senator Obama, the Republicans nominate Alan Keyes, Barack Obama's opponent in the 2004 Illinois senate election. If a failed senate candidate from Illinois suddenly being elected to the presidency seems ASB, its' happened before.
2008 and 2012 as 1860 and 1864 presidential election analogues. John Kerry won in 2004 but was so unpopular he chose not to run for reelection. Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination; but supporters of Vice President John Edwards walked out of the convention and formed their own party. In order to contrast with Senator Obama, the Republicans nominate Alan Keyes, Barack Obama's opponent in the 2004 Illinois senate election. If a failed senate candidate from Illinois suddenly being elected to the presidency seems ASB, its' happened before.
The Danforth disease is a viral feralizing disease of humans caused by danfortiviruses. Signs and symptoms include headaches and rash, followed by fever, blisters, nausea and hallucinations and culminating in pallor and necrosis of several body parts. On average, the disease kills about 60 percent of its victims, but the functions of the brain deteriorate so much during the evoluition of the disease that the infected become mindless, cannibalistic beasts, hunting down and infecting other humans over a span of two-three weeks before dying. The disease and the virus that causes it takes its name from Danforth, a fictional character from H.P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness, courtesy of Argentine scientist Adelio Rusakoff, who first studied a sample of the disease.
The disease was first identified in 2055 during an outbreak in Argentine Antarctica, where it prevailed due to the cold climate of the region preventing the feralized infectees from completely decomposing. The 2055 outbreak of the virus, although limited to the sparsely populated region of Antarctica, has been detrimental to the Argentine Antarctican population, which did not really grow until the 2070s. Although the Danforth disease has not breached Antarctica aside from a few cases of the disease on the Falklands and in continental Tierra del Fuego, the government of Argentina was quick to react, and Argentine Antarctica was quickly quarantined. AFOE units were sent in, and the groups of lurching "ferals" were successfully dealt with; the subject of the epidemic, however, was taken up by tabloids, with every news channel in Argentina discussing the sudden outbreak of the "winter's kiss" in Antarctica. It has been speculated, primarily by nationalists, that the danfortiviruses are actually biological agents created in the 2040s by the intelligence servces of Great Britain, which was ruled at the time by the infamously dictatorial Prime Minister, Henry "the Guillotine" Armisen, who may have ordered the creation of the agent to decimate Argentina following their shocking victory in the Second Falklands War. Since then, however, the Danforth virus has been successfully stopped by the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council, though the Argentine leadership's growing paranoia over biological warfare has led to a disastrous confrontation with Paraguay in 2070-2073.
The United States presidential election of 1932 was the thirty-seventh quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Democratic President Al Smith defeated Republican nominee John J. Blaine in a landslide.
The United States presidential election of 1952 was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman won a landslide victory over Republican Senator Harold Stassen from Minnesota.
The 2053 Lewis and Clark attack was the catastrophic deorbit of the Lewis and Clark space station carried out by the Martian League terrorist group against the United States on December 19, 2053. The Lewis and Clark was, at the time, the fifth-most populous extraterrestrial city in the Solar System and the fourth-most populous space station. It acted as a hub for all commercial and scientific traffic between the United States on Earth and its extraterrestrial territories. At 12:14 UTC, an unidentified spacecraft achieved rendezvous with the Lewis and Clark and used an onboard claw to grab hold of the space station. Then, the spacecraft burned its engines in a retrograde direction for nearly three hours, slowing the Lewis and Clark to the point where it was unable to maintain orbital velocity. In total all 18,490 residents were killed, as well as one attacker.
The attackers' spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 49 kilometers east of Hokkaido, Japan. One of the attackers, Alexandra Boughton, was trapped underneath the spacecraft and drowned. Shortly afterward, the three remaining perpetrators were arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard and then extradited to the United States, where they revealed the location of 18 others involved in the planning of the attack. The 21 attackers pled guilty to all charges and were sentenced to death via lethal injection.
The attack was the immediate cause of the First Martian War, the armed conflict between the United States government and the Martian League. Furthermore, the attack led to the enactment of a number of reforms in space station safety practices and the expansion of the police presence on American extraterrestrial colonies. The International Lewis and Clark Memorial began construction in Kushiro, Japan in 2057 and is expected to open to the public by the end of 2063.
The First Martian War (2054–2060), also known as the First Interplanetary War and the Martian Civil War, was a protracted armed conflict between the United States government and the Martian League, an insurgent organization founded two years prior.
Following the 2053 Lewis and Clark terrorist attack, President Allen Cassidy announced an anti-terror campaign targeted at the Martian territories of the United States. In response, Martian League leader Cedric E. Gabel released the New Years' Day Declaration, which announced an open state of war against the US government. The Martian League then launched Operation Red Dawn, in which commandeered spacecraft engaged in the kinetic bombardment of major US cities. The US government initially had no way to effectively respond to the attacks, as the US Air Force Space Corps consisted of only a handful of police officers at the time.
As the war progressed, the newly-formed US Space Corps pioneered many of the earliest methods of conducting warfare in space, and by the end of the war was the first fully-formed space force in history. The unique environments that the Space Corps operated in presented numerous difficulties to military strategists, and nearly 300 astrophysicists were recruited in order to help the Space Corps deal with the dangers involved.
While the Lewis and Clark attack was the immediate cause of the war, civil unrest had plagued American interstellar colonies for years prior. Settlers were often ill-equipped to deal with the unfamiliar environment, and fatalities were frequent due to poor safety conditions and workplace accidents. The territories, many of them under the management of private entities, skirted federal labor and safety regulations, leading to a number of worker abuses. While there were several legislative efforts to reform the management of the interplanetary territories, most notably the Extraterrestrial Settlement Act of 2047, none of them managed to pass both houses of Congress.
The war ended in November 2060 with the surrender of the last remnants of the Martian League in the George Washington Outpost. Following the end of hostilities, leaders of the Martian League and the Lunar Alliance (the League's sister organization on the Moon) were sentenced to execution via lethal injection by a military court, but a stay of execution has been ordered by the District Court of the Extraterrestrial Territories. The ruling was controversial within the United States, as humanitarian groups and activists questioned the fairness of the proceedings. A Special Counsel investigation into possible violations of the Constitution during the trial is ongoing, led by Former Attorney General Eva Foster.
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After dealing with almost a decade of the Conservative Party rule in Plata led by PM Pedro Aramburu, the sour relations with Latin American neighbors such as Chile and Brazil was getting worse under Aramburu's second term. During his second term he often blamed that Brazil was very responsible for sending in Marxist spies disguised as refugees escaping from Brazil's harsh regime.
Relations with other Commonwealth nations on the other hand have somewhat improved especially with Australia, seeing that both nations formerly apart of the British Empire shall rely on each other for being both located in the Southern Hemisphere. However relations with South Africa was often seen as a rarity, during Aramburu's two terms in official he absolutely hated the racist government that led South Africa and often was vocal on how he wishes to see the natives get equality. However many Aramburu's opponents especially Arthur Illia saw it being ironic due to the fact Aramburu was very controversial with the policies of the First Platans. Especially since First Platans often were still segregated by where they lived, however Aramburu was keen on getting rid of public segregation of them allowing them to work and interact with White Platans and Hispanic Platans.
He also had come under heavy criticism for his actions when it came to the relations between Anglo-Platans and Hispaniplatans (Spanish-speaking Platans), seeing that there would always be a great divide between those who spoke Spanish and those who spoke English. Aramburu also was very criticized for not helping and recognizing the Hispanic populations of the provinces of Santa Clara, La Rioja, Cordoba, Santa Fe, Juluy, and Chaco, as well as not even recognizing the growing majority of the Anglospanish people (people mixed with Anglo and Spanish ancestry).
As for Aramburu's policy on communism, he often feared the possibility of Chile or Brazil spreading communism into Plata and often paid heavy attention towards Angola and Mozambique becoming independent communist states from Portugal, in which he feared would create a domino effect in Africa and Latin America.
However Aramburu was faced with many difficulties especially with the struggling economy of Plata which was still recovering from World War II, and growing distance between Britain and Plata.
As a result his days were over being prime minister of Plata, and by numbers the Conservative Party of Plata were decreasing in parliament while some broke away becoming apart of Peron's National Party. As a result unsurprisingly this led to Platan Democrat Party and the Liberal Party of Plata forming a strong coalition lead by none other than Arthur Illia himself who saw better future for Plata.
As a result Aramburu lost and retired from politics shortly after and Arthur Illia became the new prime minister of Plata.
And his goals for Plata would guide the nation to a better path by getting rid of South America Policy, complete end for segregation of First Platans, increasing relations with other Commonwealth nations as well as Britain, and forming a strong friendship with the US.
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The Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Christopher Eccleston in the first four series of the revived show, which had previously been off the air since its cancellation in 1989 and its brief return as a TV film in 1996. Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a time travelling, humanoid alien from a race known as the Time Lords, hailing from the planet Gallifrey. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body; but in doing so gains both a new physical appearance and personality, and a new actor takes on the role.
Eccleston’s portrayal was distinctly different from that of his predecessors, with the character less eccentric and suffering from the fallout of Time War, a conflict between both the Time Lords and the Daleks, which concluded with the Doctor seemingly ending both species. As the series progressed, however, Eccleston's characterization shifted towards a more humorous depiction of the time traveler. To fit in with a 21st-century audience, the Doctor was initially given a primary companion, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), who was designed to be as independent and courageous as himself. He also traveled with a reformed con man from the 51st century, Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), medical student Martha Jones (Freeman Agyeman), fiery temp worker Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), and archaeologist and future companion River Song (Alex Kingston). He would eventually part ways with both Rose, Martha, and River, while being accompanied by both Donna and former companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) on his final adventure in The Doctor’s Choice.
In November 2013, Eccleston’s Doctor was voted “The UK’s favourite Doctor” in a survey held by the Radio Times Magazine.
Eccleston’s portrayal was distinctly different from that of his predecessors, with the character less eccentric and suffering from the fallout of Time War, a conflict between both the Time Lords and the Daleks, which concluded with the Doctor seemingly ending both species. As the series progressed, however, Eccleston's characterization shifted towards a more humorous depiction of the time traveler. To fit in with a 21st-century audience, the Doctor was initially given a primary companion, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), who was designed to be as independent and courageous as himself. He also traveled with a reformed con man from the 51st century, Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), medical student Martha Jones (Freeman Agyeman), fiery temp worker Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), and archaeologist and future companion River Song (Alex Kingston). He would eventually part ways with both Rose, Martha, and River, while being accompanied by both Donna and former companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) on his final adventure in The Doctor’s Choice.
In November 2013, Eccleston’s Doctor was voted “The UK’s favourite Doctor” in a survey held by the Radio Times Magazine.
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An alternative interpretation of magic in a universe that has "magic" but analyzes it as science. They still use Gothic architecture for university Departments of Sympathetics on occasion, but because they see Gothic architecture as "transcending" classical architecture in the same ed: way that "Gothic science" transcends classical science. Could be in the Age of Civs universe (where a lot of quantum weirdness creates an overall medieval fantasy ambiance) or an alternate Harry Potter universe. So instead of wizards you have scientists in lab coats and instead of Latinate spells ("Wingardium leviosa!") you have physicists carefully analyzing the frequencies and sounds necessary to get an object to levitate.
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I don't know what is context, so here's a man from Haiti.
My comrades, my friends, my people. Today marks a new age: an age when the continent of America, the downtrodden people of our land shall be united within one nation, a nation as great as a continent, the freest nation in this world. Today, my comrades, marks an era when all slaves will be free. I speak of slaves in a more general sense; before this day, we were all slaves to the tyrants from another coast, our nationhood and our freedom preyed upon by kings, governor-generals and their armies. The past decade was a decade of tears; a decade when hundreds of thousands of Americans perished at the hands of Britishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards... What unites them is a barbarian bloodlust and a carnivorous desire to keep us down, to keep the wealth of our homeland flowing into their pockets while we starve. We've lost countless great men, men that I've knew personally: Francisco de Miranda, James Monroe, the brave Andrew Jackson, and, of course, John Jay. Those were the four Universal Americans, those that gave their life to defend America from the chains of tyranny. Even now, Europe condemns us for standing up to the colonial imperialists of Britain, France and Spain, who grow weaker by day; but every second America grows stronger.
My friends. Today, Northerners, Southerners, Louisianans, Haitians and Canadians alike will go hand in hand to a greater America. Today is the day America unites to protect its begotten lands, to protect the riches of the New World from the slavers of Europe. By my God-given rights, I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully protect the Office of President of the American Union, and I will, by the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the American Union and the People of America.
My friends. Today, Northerners, Southerners, Louisianans, Haitians and Canadians alike will go hand in hand to a greater America. Today is the day America unites to protect its begotten lands, to protect the riches of the New World from the slavers of Europe. By my God-given rights, I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully protect the Office of President of the American Union, and I will, by the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the American Union and the People of America.
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Note: This is part of the universe of the Time Crisis Series, a series of light gun games developed by Namco Bandai. All properties go to them. Most information displayed here is based off official information.
The 2007 San Francisco International Airport attack was a biological terrorist attack on the aforementioned San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County, California, United States by the Biological Weapons Special Operations Unit a top secret US military special forces unit that went rogue. It was also an attempted assasination attempt as its main target was the VSSE agent group lead by Evan Bernard and Giorgio Bruno that had just arrived in the United States, and also included Captain William Rush of the United States Army and his Joint Intelligence Sqaud Five. The goals of the attack were to stop the VSSE agents from arriving, although the assasination attempt devolved into a massive shootout.
Ultimately, although the airport was cleared of any decontamination by the Terror Bites (since they left no poisionous remains) once they had been killed and the attack only lasted around an hour and thirty minutes before ending, it left 299 people dead and 844 more injured, most of the deaths being Hamlin Battalion soldiers. It resulted in the airport being shut down and the evacuation of thousands onto the tarmac.
The 2007 San Francisco International Airport attack was a biological terrorist attack on the aforementioned San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County, California, United States by the Biological Weapons Special Operations Unit a top secret US military special forces unit that went rogue. It was also an attempted assasination attempt as its main target was the VSSE agent group lead by Evan Bernard and Giorgio Bruno that had just arrived in the United States, and also included Captain William Rush of the United States Army and his Joint Intelligence Sqaud Five. The goals of the attack were to stop the VSSE agents from arriving, although the assasination attempt devolved into a massive shootout.
Ultimately, although the airport was cleared of any decontamination by the Terror Bites (since they left no poisionous remains) once they had been killed and the attack only lasted around an hour and thirty minutes before ending, it left 299 people dead and 844 more injured, most of the deaths being Hamlin Battalion soldiers. It resulted in the airport being shut down and the evacuation of thousands onto the tarmac.
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