Quote from Thomas Dewey, 34th president of the US in his inaugeration speech in 1952.
Quote from the Inagaurational address of Thomas Dewey, a president most often associated with the infamous "Truman Defeats Dewey" headline missprint
Quotes from Jordan Peele’s 2027 sci-if horror film Schrödinger's Box. The movie centres on two African American M.I.T. physics grad students (one a wealthy Boston urbanite, the other a devout Baptist from rural Alabama) who stumble upon a way to travel to alternate timelines. The film features many Easter Eggs and references to Peele’s other works (e.g.: a radio broadcast in one timeline reveals that the Order of Coagula from Get Out was destroyed from within by Rose while in another reality the occulonimbus aliens (the “Phaetonians”) from Nope made contact with humanity in 1846). As with Peele’s previous blockbusters Schrödinger's Box carries heavy racial undertones, exploring issues around affirmative action and colourism in academia.
Thomas Dewey's Concession Speech after losing to Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Election
Excerpt from a textbook about WW2 in this alt-world.
Henry VI at the Battle of the White Cliffs, 1454, after the French invasion of England.
Quote from Emperor James MacArthur of America, speaking of America's great ally, The Great Mongolian Empire, restored by Romanus Genghisid, formerly Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg. The cold war was against the Antarctic Empire, a superpower made up of the united former British colonies of the South pole, Namely Sahul "The Land down under", Riverplate, South Africa, Rhodesia, New Zealand, Madagascar and Australia, the continent home to the south pole. The cold war ended when the American Empire, The Mongolian empire, the European Federation of Equalist Communes and the Republic of Britain and the Gaels warred with the Antarctic Empire in the World war. The war ended when a Mongolian campaign barreled down Africa, seizing Salisbury, causing the Antarctic Empire to dissolve into civil war.
Words of George Carlin on hearing the monty Python Sketch. In this he meant to counter the Iberian myth that Iberia was particularly savage by noting the presence of other Inquisitions.
Weyoun, during a "negotiation" at the end of 2375. As the Dominion War raged, the Founders attempted to open portals into parallel dimensions to bring in more help on their side. One of these portals opened on a realm of creatures known as Gargoyles who quickly came in on the Dominion side. However, the Romulans theorised that if the portal was collapsed the Gargoyles would be returned to their own realm; early in 2376 shortly after the disappearance of Benjamin Sisko this was ultimately achieved by a joint Klingon/Romulan task force while the Federation fleet continued the invasion of Cardassian space. The telepath turned out to be rogue Betazoid Tam Elbrun but he was too unstable to provide much help to the Dominion and was killed by the Jem'Hadar.
This was spoken at Secretary of Commerce G. Lincoln Rockwell, who after the Post-Atomic War (1965-9) and his campaign of getting rid of Jews and Latinos, decifded to allow refugees of those ethnivities in for cheap labour.
A passage from the history book "Albion: Life and the Gallic League" about the formation of Hadrian's Wall which divided Albion into the Gallic League to the North and the Saxon Kingdoms to the South. The Hadrian's Wall prevented further wars between the Saxon Kingdoms and the Gallic League-aligned Scottish clans that occurred once every decade or so in the region.
A quote about a famous documentary about the Pale continent. After the Great Mongol invasion that basically flattened all of Europe north of the Alps and Danube and east of the Rhine, the Bubonic plague killed 70% of Europe's population, allowing for Moorish, Chinese, Persian, and other settlers. Some nations, such as Scotia, England, Dutchland, France and Polonia survived longer, only to fall to industrialized Han rule in the 1700s. The documentary showcased the fall of the colonial rule, from Ruthenian cossack revolts against Persia, the Scotian Equalist Republic's expulsion of Han settlers from Alba (North Britannia), to the Girit Revolution (Which resulted in a Genocide of Egyptians and Turks in Helladia) and The Zhengian Civil war (Which saw Zhengia fall and replaced with Dutchland, under a brutal dictatorship lead by a Siegfried Müller).
Quotation taken from the series ‘Konpeki no Kantai’ an anime broadcast by South Japanese state television from 1989-1991. The series follows the exploits of a group of South Japanese sailors-turned-animators battling dastardly plots by Communalist North Japanese secret agents. In this scene Lelouch Lampered, a spokesperson of the United Animation Companies, dismisses the concerns of his advisors that North Japanese teenagers are pirating animated series made by his company.
Captain Anne Bonny, notorious Caribbean pirate captain (c.1700-disappeared after 1720 in OTL), regarding her rival James Johnston. Johnston had been an infamous pirate in his own right, and had been a close associate of Bonny and her partner/lover Calico Jack -- but he accepted the King's Pardon of 1717, becoming a licensed privateer and navyman. After he betrayed Calico Jack to the British Royal Navy, and Jack chose death rather than reveal Anne's location, Anne Bonny swore vengeance against James Johnston.
An anonymous British pilot in 1923 at the outset of the Second Thirty Years' War, fought between the British and German Empires from 1923 to 1955 after an economically devastated France invited the German Kaiser to take the vacant French throne.
A line from a now-lost Monty Python show, No Way In. For context, the show was a parody of Sartre's play, No Exit, where the cast played various historical characters trapped in a room, implied to be hell itself. Eric Idle, playing as Leonidas I, suggests to the Lucius, played by Graham Chapman, about Aristotle's disgusting habits. Footage of the show was lost during the BBC's wiping of videotapes dating back to the 1950s.
A line from a never made Jim Carrey movie, Ninja Kitty. It would have combined live action with CGI and the titular cat would have been voiced by Meryl Streep. It was scheduled to be released in August of 1999 but for contractual reasons never went beyond the scripting.
