Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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Hey, I'll take it. Could be a lot worse. You got a wikibox for one of its elections?
Here you go!
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Look to the West(ern Reserve)

Ever since Connecticut had acknowledged Pennsylvania’s ownership of the Wyoming Valley, the Western Reserve, abutting Lake Erie, had been in an awkward situation. Separated by two states and hundreds of miles, the territory was cut off from its own state. Elected officials had to spend time traveling between Connecticut and the Reserve to win statewide, and many Reservers felt isolated from their government. It was taken as a given that, eventually the two states would part ways. In the state capital this was discussed quite amiably. But then came the Missouri compromise. It was Maine that was chosen to be admitted with Missouri, and from then on pairings between slave and free were required. And new territories seemed to get priority, especially as the Reserve became a hotbed of abolitionist activities. Thus the Reserve remained attached at the hip to Connecticut.

As the reserve’s population grew, it became convention that the Lieutenant Governor would reside in Warren and be from the Reserve. This practice soon expanded and Connecticut would become the only state with Lieutenant Treasurers, Secretaries of State, etc. However tensions still remained. The Reserve’s population climbed, and would eventually surpass Connecticut proper. Industry came and Cleveland grew, dividing the state’s two halves further apart. Resentment grew, particularly as an understanding could not be reached as to dividing the state’s Senate delegation.

Thus, when a referendum was called in 1869 to divide the state, many expected the measure to pass easily. Both major parties supported it. Democrats could maybe win in Connecticut proper on occasion, but never with the fiercely Republican western reserve. Republicans would still have a good chance for power in Hartford, and would have free reign in the new state. Meanwhile the Reserve would have a chance to chart its own destiny, perusing policies to favor a Great Lakes Economy not an Atlantic one.

However, the “No” campaign proved surprisingly well organized, supported by farmers in the interior. For some, distance from central power was a blessing, not a curse. Worries were also raised that favor would fall towards the Lakeside industrial powers, not the common man. Supporters of Statehood did themselves few favors, trumpeting mainly the benefits to the cities, not the countryside. The biggest mistake was likely the position that Cleveland, not Warren, would be the new state capital. This sent many in the Southeastern Reserve into a feral panic.

Election Day came, and with it a shock rejection of statehood. Outside of Sandusky and Cleveland, citizens declared an intent to stick with Connecticut and the headaches that came with it. It was not the end of statehood fights, and many of the areas that had rejected the referendum would soon industrialize. But it was enough to call into question the long-standing assumption of inevitability surrounding the division of Connecticut.

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The four main countries in the Final Fantasy XII setting:
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This is the largest map available in the game:
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Many of the elements here are invented from information within the game or from elements in other games canonically in the same universe
 
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No one seems to have done one of those 'politician from one country but in another country' infoboxes in quite a while, and since I found out 'marchais' translates to 'walked' the wordplay of this one appealed to me. :p

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George Rene Lewis Walker was a British Labour Party politician and a major figure on the party’s left from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was born into a Roman Catholic family in Kent, and moved to London after the Second World War to join the Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1951 he was elected at a by-election to Woolwich East, the seat which had become vacant after the death of former Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.

Despite succeeding a major figure on the Labour right, Walker became well-known as an ally of the ‘Bevanite’ faction of the Labour Party, and due to its leader Aneurin Bevan’s declining health and Walker developing a respected record as an orator, he became a prominent spokesman for the faction. Satirists commonly joked during his initial emergence that the local Labour Party ‘got Bevin and Bevan mixed up’ when they nominated him for Parliament.

After Bevan’s death in 1960, Walker allied himself with Labour’s Deputy Leader Harold Wilson, and after Wilson became party leader in 1963 on the death of Hugh Gaitskell, he joined Wilson’s Shadow Cabinet. Throughout Wilson’s leadership, he and Walker shared cordial relations despite their political differences only growing during the 1960s and 70s, though Walker was only kept to fairly junior roles. Once Wilson resigned in 1976 and James Callaghan took over as party leader and Prime Minister, Walker left the Cabinet due to a much frostier relationship with the new leader (he had supported the leadership campaign of his left-wing opponent Michael Foot), and kept a fairly low profile during the remainder of Labour’s time in government.

He was elected Chairman of the Labour Party for the 1979-80 period, benefitting from the leftward shift of the membership, and again aided Foot in his second leadership campaign in the 1980 Labour leadership election. This time, Foot succeeded and Walker rejoined his Shadow Cabinet. Like Foot himself, Walker was lampooned by many as a left-wing extremist, particularly due to his public sympathies towards the USSR. Some figures even accused him of being a Soviet spy, though he strenuously denied this and little evidence to suggest he may have been has been found.

While Walker was comfortably elected for Woolwich East in every election he fought, he struggled more to hold the new Woolwich seat created in 1983 due to it containing more anti-Labour areas from the old Woolwich West constituency. Despite this, his divisive politics and the huge swing against Labour, he held the seat at both the 1983 and 1987 elections. With Labour’s move to the right after Neil Kinnock became leader, he never returned to the Shadow Cabinet.

After retiring from Parliament, he chose not to seek to become a member of the House of Lords due to his opposition to the chamber’s unelected nature, and was a vocal critic of Tony Blair and New Labour. In November 1997, seven months after Labour returned to power, Walker died.
 
Three Unrelated Family Guy infoboxes

These three infoboxes are kind of like a sequel to my Two Simpsons infoboxes I made last year.

Infobox #1: Brian Griffin stays dead
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This infobox is from a world where Brian Griffin stays dead after he is killed off in the 12th season episode "Life of Brian".
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Infobox #2: Lacey Chabert continues to voice Meg after Season 1

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This infobox is from a world where despite her busy schedule and school life, Lacey Chabert continues to voice Meg Griffin after the first season of the show.
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Infobox #3: Meg Griffin voiced by Cree Summer

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According to the DVD commentary on the season 1 DVD of the show "Drawn Together", Cree Summer claimed that she was offered to voice Meg, but was dismissed by the producers. This infobox is from a world where Summer is chosen to be Meg's voice actor and continues to voice her to this day.
 
Dhaarmik Raashtr (roughly “Rightious Nation”) is a proposed nation consisting of a state that unites all Hindus under its authority.

The concept was first articulated by Hindu thinkers in the mid-1800s, influenced by nationalist ideas floating over from Europe. The idea was initially largely theoretical, and also symbolic. Early Dhaarmik Raashtr advocates saw the nation is question as a set of unifying ideals for Hindus across national boundaries, rather than as an actual government. Dhaarmik Raashtr supporters were heavily involved in negotiating safe passage for pilgrims, temple upkeep, and efforts to keep the Ganges clean.

In the 1900s a shift began that saw the movement begin to expand on these ideas and move towards advocating for a truly united Hindu world. The 1934 Yanam Conference brought together representatives from across the world, and saw the designing of the flag still used by Dhaarmik Raashtr supporters to this day. However this would prove the high point for the ideal. There were serious disputes internally over what form of government the nation would have, republic, monarchy theocracy? The heterogeneous nature of Hinduism as harmed the movement, as differences in beliefs made it difficult to forge a national identity. Finally each nation saw itself as the dominant force of the Dhaarmik Raashtr. No serious efforts were ever made towards union, and Hindu nationalism today is generally splintered by country rather than seeking unification.

The concept of Dhaarmik Raashtr has also received criticism from outside the Hindu world. Critics note the large number of Muslims living in even majority Hindu areas, and wonder what status they would have in the nation, with similar questions emerging about Sikhs. Inversely there would also be many Hindus left out of the Union, both on the subcontinent and farther afield in places such as Bali. Finally there is the question of defining Hinduism. Proponents have tended to lump tribal groups into the Hindu umbrella, even as those tribes deny being Hindu.

Today, Dhaarmik Raashtr is largely a fringe movement. No elected party or clique anywhere supports a Hindu union. The largest contributions of the movement are the International Hindu Forum, the Temple Support Network, and the Holy Waters Cleaning Trust Fund.

Dhaarmik Raashtr is not to be confused with Hindivita, which seeks the union of Hindi speakers, or pan-desism which promotes cooperation and unity across sub-Himalaya.

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