Techno Angel
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How much people outside of NYC knew that at the time? Unfortunately his last name and looks communicate other things
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Going to be a bit of a devil's advocate here and say that it doesn't really matter that much - American anti-Catholicism has only ever been secondarily about actual Catholicism as a religion and more about the perception of "white ethnics" as inherently foreign, and Fiorello LaGuardia is going to have to face that strongly because his name is Fiorello LaGuardia and he's from New York. There might be a little bit less rhetoric about listening to the Pope (though the whisper campaigns will say that he's only a Protestant in public anyway) and more about New York as a corrupt hellhole ruled by greedy backslappers, but the results likely won't be that different.
Techno Angel
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True, especially considering that American definitions of "white", " black", "colored" etc. have nothing to do with Anthropology or even some outlandish racial theories but only with just what person physically sees and considers to be bad or good, like if some American(especially at the time) sees someone with a darker hair and skin than his own he thinks "bad", and what descent the person in question actually has doesn't really matter
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I suspect the Pope might have some reservations about Henry IX marrying his brother.
Yeah. Sorry about that. I was stressed and forgot to delete it from the Mary wikibox. Henry was never supposed to be married.
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat George McGovern of South Dakota defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford of Michigan by a margin of 326 electoral votes against Ford's 212.
George McGovern had been the runner-up to the Democratic nomination in 1972 and thus had been widely regarded as a strong contender in the Democratic primaries. After facing a stiff challenge from 1972 vice presidential nominee Reubin Askew and Washington senator Henry M. Jackson, McGovern clinched the Democratic nomination and chose Ohio governor Jack Gilligan as his running mate. McGovern ran on a progressive platform and championed the need for reform and integrity in government, as made apparent by the Watergate scandal.
In the general election, McGovern won the popular vote by about 4 points. He performed strongly in the Great Lakes Region, sweeping every state except Indiana, and even narrowly winning Ford's home state of Michigan. He won every state in the Northeast except New Hampshire and became the second Democrat to win Vermont (after Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964). He also made significant inroads among farmers, winning Iowa, Montana and both Dakotas, all known for being farm states, for the first time since 1964. However, McGovern performed poorly in the South: he was the first Democrat not to win a single state there, a region that had previously been dominated by Democrats. This election is often regarded as a realigning election and the beginning of the Sixth Party System.
(apologies for the low-resolution map: I can't seem to make it look decent)
As long as Mel doesn't say anything anti-Semitic this should be a good movie.
Instead of "Why hire a comedian," it will be why hire someone "with a thick Australian accent." Don't think Gibson has Keaton's range so it might not be as good a movie.
What if Wikipedia was in Fallout?
In the 2050s, major resources across the globe would run dry, mainly Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas. The European Federation and Yugoslavia after years of failed negotiations would invade the United Arab Republic in 2052. Israel would support the EF and Palestine would support the UAR. Morroco and Iran would also support the UAR, and Turkey which was already in a state of civil war due to the crisis would see the factions choose between the EF and UAR. After years of war, the EF and UAR would collapse into civil war, the Turkish Civil War would continue, and Israel and Palestine remain radioactive waste. However, this war would only prove the catalyst for more wars in the future.
And then Europe and the middle east get hit by more nukes during the great war.
The 2016 Czechoslovak parliamentary election was held on the 21st February 2016 to elect the 300 members of the Czechoslovak National Assembly. Incumbent Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka was seeking his government’s re-election to a second term.
Sobotka’s government had initiated significant reforms in response to the policies of the Radičová government that preceded it, most prominently in working to tackle tax evasion and raising corporate taxes, conducting police reform, the depoliticisation of the civil service, and expanding welfare budgets and worker’s rights protections. On these issues, Sobotka’s government worked productively with President Zeman.
Despite this, the Prime Minister and President also clashed significantly on several major issues. Sobotka limited the scope of some economic policies to try to keep the Czechoslovak deficit from expanding and ensure the country was not in danger of dropping out of the Eurozone, despite Zeman vocally criticizing the European Central Bank for what he saw as reinforcing austerity economics. The government also saw foreign policy backlash over its stance on the annexation of Crimea (which Sobotka criticized and Zeman supported), its contradictory stance on the refugee crisis (Sobotka supported Czechoslovakia meeting its quota of refugees while Zeman opposed it) and its stronger relations with China (which the Prime Minister and President agreed on, but met backlash from the public, particularly on the right).
Significant clashes also emerged over domestic social policy when the Sobotka government tried to push through more stringent anti-discrimination laws for Hungarians and tried again to legally recognize civil unions. Zeman tried to veto both and made several anti-Hungarian and homophobic remarks about them; these backfired on him and they were ultimately passed by the Assembly in 2013, but they damaged the coalition and particularly the ČSSD’s image.
The main opposition party following the 2012 election, the PDS, had also started to fragment as its leaders started to conflict internally. Most notably, Tomio Okamura led his faction out of the party altogether in mid-2014 and formed the Czechoslovak Freedom Party (Czech: Czech: Československá strana svobody, Slovak: Československá strana slobody, ČSS), which quickly gained traction as part of the rise of far-right populism across Europe. The ČSS differed from previous far-right parties in Czechoslovakia in two major ways- it was still committed to direct democracy just as the PDS was, and was neither Czech ultranationalist nor Slovak ultranationalist but Czechoslovak ultranationalist, something Okamura vocally touted and which appealed to many right-wing voters who had previously eschewed the far-right as a separatist force but were drawn to it by issues like the refugee crisis and the marginalization of the OLS.
The PDS itself, though it was damaged by Okamura’s departure, continued to sustain momentum, particularly among the right after a corruption scandal ended the leadership of the OLS’s new leader Petr Nečas, and it ran ahead of the ČSSD in the opinion polls consistently from late 2014 onwards. After Karel Schwarzenberg stood down as leader to unsuccessfully run against Zeman for the Presidency in the 2015 election, Andrej Babiš succeeded him; he subsequently started to reform the party’s policy platform to make it more socially conservative, less pro-European and more populist.
This led some of the Schwarzenberg wing of the party (though not Schwarzenberg himself, in spite of him opposing its new direction in some areas) to leave it and ally with the Greens and another emerging fixture of Czechoslovak politics, the Pirate Party. The PDS dissidents’ leader Igor Matovič, Green leader Ondřej Liška and Pirate Party leader Ivan Bartoš announced they would be forming an alliance named Greens and Pirates (Zelení a Piráti, ZaP). This alliance was quite strongly libertarian, and though Matovič and some of his followers were quite Eurosceptic, the fact that Bartoš became the party’s main figurehead led ZaP to be associated with metropolitan social liberalism and moderate pro-Europeanism, helping it draw votes away from both the major parties.
The election saw a very fragmented result; the PDS emerged the largest party, but came far short of a majority (and indeed won fewer seats than in 2012). The ČSSD suffered its worst performance since 1948, though it still came out the second-largest party, and ZaP and the ČSS surged massively; as the press noted, the ČSS marked the biggest surge for the far right in Czechoslovakia since 1935; while every party in the National Assembly before the election lost seats.
The negotiations to form the new government were by far the longest in Czechoslovak history, going on for 85 days with both the PDS and ČSSD holding negotiations with the other minor parties. Observers believed an alliance between the PDS, ČSS, OLS and ČSL was the most likely outcome since these parties had a small majority (152 seats out of 300) between them, but negotiations proved more difficult than expected. Ultimately an agreement was reached on the 17th May once the ČSNS leader Michal Klusáček offered to back the coalition, giving Babiš the leverage to conclude negotiations and win a vote in the Assembly to form a government.
(By the way, this has nothing to do with the wikibox but I swear Bohuslav Sobotka looks uncannily like Colin Robinson from What We Do In The Shadows.)
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Non-Kennedies can only win presidential elections as Democrats if they're from states starting with T, I see.
List of US Presidents from my recent wikiboxes
What happened to Ann Richards? (I can see she died from the dates below her name, but was she assassinated?)
List of US Presidents from my recent wikiboxes
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