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 ====== Decades of Darkness ======
-An extremely extensive timeline (some call it more detailed than OTL *LOL*) made by [[offtopic:Jared]] in which the early death of the american President [[Thomas Jefferson (Decades of Darkness)|Thomas Jefferson]] leads to the Embargo Act never being repealed. This results in the secession of [[New England (Decades of Darkness)|New England]], and ultimately a rump [[United States of America (Decades of Darkness)|United States]] dominated by slave owners.
+An extremely extensive timeline (some call it more detailed than OTL LOL) created and written by [[offtopic:Jared]]. The early death of the US-American President [[Thomas Jefferson (Decades of Darkness)|Thomas Jefferson]] leads to the Embargo Act never being repealed. This results in the secession of [[New England (Decades of Darkness)|New England]], and ultimately a rump [[United States of America (Decades of Darkness)|United States]] dominated by slave owners.
-Popularity and longevity has led to the time winning [[alternate_history:turtledove_awards|Turtledoves]] in 3 separate years.
+Popularity and longevity has led to the timeline winning [[alternate_history:turtledove_awards|Turtledoves]] in 3 separate years.
-===== Important Events =====
+The timeline is commonly abbreviated to **DoD**.
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+==== Important Events ====
   * The War of 1811 results in the secession of the New England Republic and its alignment with the [[British Empire (Decades of Darkness)|British Empire]].
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   * In the [[Brazil (Decades of Darkness)|Brazilian]] Civil War shortly afterwards, royalist forces backed by the USA are defeated by German-backed republicans (ironically, as the governments of those two states are the reverse of the movements they are respectively backing).
-===== Terminology =====
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-A wide variety of machines and technologies in the Decades of Darkness world have different names to OTL.  Airships are important in the North American War and are known as '[[cloudship]]s'. Tanks are [[arlac]]s (from ARmoured LAnd Cruiser), cars are [[horst]]s (a colloquial shortening of horseless steam car), and radios/wireless sets are [[funk]]s (from the German word for spark). Submarines are known as 'sea wolves'.
+==== Terminology ====
-The words sky and cloud are often used in lieu of 'air' in OTL and each other, for example 'cloudscraper' for skyscraper and 'skycraft' for aircraft. Seaplanes are called 'skymarines'.
+A wide variety of machines and technologies in the //Decades of Darkness// world have [[alternate_history:alternate_terminology|different names than in OTL]].
-The timeline itself is commonly abbreviated to DoD.
+Airships are important in the North American War and are known as "cloudships". Tanks are "arlacs" (from "**AR**moured **LA**nd **C**ruiser"), cars are "horsts" (a colloquial shortening of "horseless steam car"), and radios/wireless sets are "funks" (from the German word for "spark" and "radio broadcasting"). Submarines are known as "sea wolves".
-===== Controversy =====
+The prefixes "sky-" and "cloud-" are often used in lieu of the OTL "air-" prefix. For example, "cloudscraper" for skyscraper, the aforementioned "cloudship" instead of "airship", "skycraft" for "aircraft" and "skymarines" for "seaplanes".
-The terminology of the timeline has met with opposition from some Americans, who dislike the fact that the slave-holding, highly stratified state is known as 'the USA' and its inhabitants as 'Americans'. Of course this is part of the point of a dystopia, to shock with familiar words in unfamiliar ways. However, Jared has compromised by using the [[asterisk method]] to help underline the fact that this USA is not that of OTL. It is also often referred to as 'the DoD USA'.
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+==== Controversy ====
+The terminology of the timeline has met with opposition from some Americans, who dislike the fact that the slave-holding, highly stratified state is known as 'the USA' and its inhabitants as 'Americans'. Of course this is part of the point of a dystopia, to shock with familiar words in unfamiliar ways. However, Jared has compromised by using the [[alternate_history:asterisk method]] to help underline the fact that this USA is not that of OTL. It is also often referred to as 'the DoD USA'.
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+==== See Also ====
-====== See also: ======
   * [[Nations (Decades of Darkness)#Nations]]
   * [[Elections (Decades of Darkness)#Elections]]
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   * [[Rulers (Decades of Darkness)#Rulers]]
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+==== External Links ====
+The timeline is posted on AH.com [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8170|here]] and has a dedicated website [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/decadesofdarkness/|here]]. It also has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DecadesOfDarkness|an entry at TV Tropes]].
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+==== Awards ====
-===== External Links ======
+At the [[alternate history:2008 winners|2008]] [[alternate history:Turtledove Awards]], the timeline won the **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/19th-century-png.48219/|"Best 19th Century Timeline"]]** category.
-The timeline is posted on AH.com [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8170|here]] and also has a dedicated website [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/decadesofdarkness/|here]]. It also has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DecadesOfDarkness|an entry at TV Tropes]].
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+==== Navigation ====
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