Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191
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Only Timeline-191 in general, but I fear that there is no uniform agreement as to which variation upon it is preferred - I would suggest regarding this as a thread for snapshots from every possible variation of Timeline-191, rather than a single specific one.
It isn't at all easy to capture images from other Timelines with mere Digital Age technology (as opposed to Quantum Mechanisms), so you'll have to forgive us if we continue to touch on the same thread, but are unable to ensure that it is from exactly the same weaving!
It isn't at all easy to capture images from other Timelines with mere Digital Age technology (as opposed to Quantum Mechanisms), so you'll have to forgive us if we continue to touch on the same thread, but are unable to ensure that it is from exactly the same weaving!
Not really. Most of the time, its jut users making their own events but sometimes a user or two bases it on a TL-191 TL here on the site.
ZGradt
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Nope. As long as it fits within the TL-191 universe, anything goes. For example:
An injured child soldier and his remaining squadmate making his final stand with Liberian Amy troops in the devastated streets of Freetown, former capital of Sierra Leone. When Liberia had forcibly annexed the former British colony in 1967 after talks for unification between the two nations failed, multiple armed uprisings within the latter sprung up to oppose the annexation. The First Liberian Civil War, or more commonly known as the Unlawful Annexation War by anti-Liberian groups, lasted for a year before U.S. Marines intervened on behalf of Monrovia to assist in eliminating rebel groups and loyalist Sierra Leone military units. To this day, this 'Expanded' Liberia continues to experience armed unrest from both former Sierra Leone rebel groups and Liberian rebels opposed to William Tolbert Sawyer's 45-year one-party totalitarian rule backed the African Defense League, one of the Democratic Party's key lobby groups in favor of the party's 'New Rememberance' platform.
Generally considered to be the earliest authenticated photograph of Jacob 'Jake' Featherston, this image is thought to have been taken as part of his Election Campaign in 1921 (the first year in which he stood for the highest office in the Confederacy), hence his uncharacteristic choice of outfit.
It is probable the suit was worn to emphasise his standing as a legitimate candidate in the eyes of a Confederacy where the social forms, if not the substance of the society underpinning such niceties, remained unchallenged even in the wake of War and Rebellion.
This sartorial experiment does not seem to have been a success as the Freedom Party and (more significantly for observers at the time) the Radical Liberal Party were left in the rearview mirror by the unexpectedly-succesful race run by the Whig Party ticket headed by Senator Wade Hampton V (SC) and C. Burton Mitchell III (AR).
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A poster for the 2015 film "No Escape" where a US businessman and his family and his family living in the Ottoman Empire in the late 1980s must escape to the US embassy in Constantinople during the violence that occurred during the "Ottoman Tempest" of the late 80s.
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A gentleman called Mr Sean Harris; he's building a career as an actor with the face of Mr Peter Cushing and the eyes of a criminal madman!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Harris
Gaius Julius Magnus
Gone Fishin'
Gary Sinise in a promotional image as Jake Featherston for the 1993 tv movie, Snake in the Grass. The movie details the resurgence of the Freedom Party under Featherston after the near implosion following the assassination of Wade Hampton V up to the election of Featherston as President in 1933. Sinise would return to the role two more times in 1995 for The Sarge (detailing Featherston's leadership in the Second Great War and his service in First Great War) and in 2000 for the King Cotton (detailing his rule of the Confederacy in between getting elected and the start of the Second Great War.
The fringe white supremacist New American Party holds a rally in Richmond, Virginia of only 30 people. Not pictured are the surrounding counter-protests led by thousands of anti-Freedomites and Civil Rights activists. The rally comes amidst a new wave of refugees fleeing the Middle East and immigrants from West Africa settling along the East Coast.
OOC: The image source is from a rally by the American Freedom Party, a far-right, white supremacist fringe party that is pretty recent - you may know them as the American Third Position Party or A3P. You probably didn't know this, amidst the discussion of the Democrat and GOP candidates, but the American Freedom Party is running in the 2016 election, and incidentally, their positions very closely mirror those of THE Freedom Party! Alternate history is becoming real!
Blue Moon
Banned
Great-so who played him in the Second Great War movie
Gary Sinise in a promotional image as Jake Featherston for the 1993 tv movie, Snake in the Grass. The movie details the resurgence of the Freedom Party under Featherston after the near implosion following the assassination of Wade Hampton V up to the election of Featherston as President in 1933. Sinise would return to the role two more times in 1995 for The Sarge (detailing Featherston's leadership in the Second Great War and his service in First Great War) and in 2000 for the King Cotton (detailing his rule of the Confederacy in between getting elected and the start of the Second Great War.
I suspect that besides the odd complaint from the truly pedantic that Mr Sinise was too old to play Featherston as he was during the Great War (along with the odd quibble about his accent) his performance as The Snake has generally been well-received (although while it has been popular in some quarters and generally blessed with strong critical reviews from the start, more universal acclaim has only made itself apparent since the release of KING COTTON allowed audiences to appreciate the Saga of the Snake as told in full).
A publicity photograph of Ferdinand Koenig thought to have been taken in the wake of the Knight coup as part of an attempt to reassure the startled Confederate Populace by conveying the message that the Freedom Party leadership remain accessible 'Everyman' rather than aloof and scheming 'Patricians' while also emphasising their physical potency through the chunky, powerful physique of Featherston's Number 2.
A 1936 political cartoon taking a cheap shot at Socialist U.S. presidential candidate Al Smith. Smith, a Catholic of Irish and Italian heritage, became a target of bigotry among those in the far right wing of the Democratic party due to his faith, and these people tried to stoke such bigotry among the U.S. population in order to prevent his election.
Some of this prejudice was rooted in traditional conservative American Protestantism, while other elements came from the more recent controversies surrounding the Catholic Church in the 1930s: overseas, the Action Francaise-ruled France, a strong enemy of the United States, had gone out of its way to court the support of the Vatican, creating an association between the pope and the Entente powers. Right-wing Democrats claimed that this meant that Smith would be taking his marching orders from Rome, and that, since the church was supposedly coming into the pocket of the Entente powers, he would be unable to stand up to the United States' enemies.
Such low blows were restricted to the fringes of political debate, however. Come November of 1936, Al Smith defeated Herbert Hoover in the election and went down in history as the first Catholic President of the United States.
