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    VIGNETTE: Now More Than Ever

    From CBS News Election Headquarters in Washington, D.C., this is the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Tonight, a special report, as we look back on the presidential election campaign that was. Good evening. In Washington today, the 538 members of the Electoral College assembled for the...
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    The Battle of the Umlauts - a Short TL

    A short TL? Now you're just taking the piss. I know, I know, but I've got all kinds of other shit to do in the coming weeks, so I can't really afford to keep a schedule with this. Besides, it's not as though most people who set arbitrary time limits ever keep them anymore. Not like the old...
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    A House Divided: A TL

    Let the speculation commence.
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    A Streetcar Named Perseverance - A TL

    1. Introduction For all its poor reputation in past decades, it's undeniable that public transit is on its way back in America. From the Seattle Metro Subway to the Miami El, recent years have seen a number of large-scale transit projects, and several smaller cities have seen their streetcar...
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    TLIAW: För Storbritannien i Tiden
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Dear God in Heaven, what is that logo I swear I don't know what you're talking about. You've got the Three Crowns there, and it's all blue and yellow... but they're British crowns. Yes - the mixture is very much intentional, I assure you. So this is like what shiftygiant did a while back...
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    FPTP Sweden

    A small side project I've started - an attempt to map Sweden under the first-past-the-post (single-winner) election system. Chances are I'll never finish this, but I'm going to be pressing on anyway. *** BLEKINGE Electorate: 118,664 Number of seats: 5 Quota: 23,773 Lister Electorate...
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    VIGNETTE - The West Stanton By-Election

    For October, the weather was quite good. There were clouds, certainly, but no rain, and it had gotten warmer of late. The sun could be clearly seen rising in the eastern sky, the tower blocks of some distant council estate silhouetted against its rays, as a group of eight people in purple...
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    TLIAD: The Deadliest Meatball

    You're doing this again? Yes, yes. I know. But you can't do these. Again, I'm well aware of that. But practice makes perfect, as they say, and I had a cracking idea for one of these last night. So, for good or ill, I'm trying my hand at the TLIAD game once again. *sighs* Alright then. What's...
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    The Crown of the Baltic - A Map of the Month TL

    In 1680, with war euphoria still riding high from his defeat of the invading Danish army, King Charles XI of Sweden decided to found a new city. In any normal case, this would be nothing out of the ordinary - Swedish kings had practiced the mercantilist strategy of concentrating local trade by...
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    TLIAD: Fifty Glorious Years

    What's all this then? This is a TLIAD (or so I hope) about a... Hang about. You're doing a TLIAD? I know, I know. I normally can't finish a map in two weeks, but after some really poor decision-making I decided to try my hand at this. You're never going to pull this off, you know...
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    AHC/WI: Los Angeles subway in the 1930s?

    Before the Second World War, Los Angeles had what is probably one of the best and most extensive transit systems on earth, made up of the narrow-gauge Los Angeles Railway (the Yellow Car) running streetcars in and around downtown, and the Pacific Electric (the Red Car) running what we would call...
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    Swedish Fallout

    So, after walking past the entrance to the old fallout shelters under the square in Karlskrona (which is where I live) a few too many times (it's right between school and the bus station), I got an idea. A hell of an idea. This was the kind of idea that grows in your brain until it becomes brain...
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    A question about presidential succession in the US

    I won't mince words: the question I've been asking myself is, what if the President dies and there is no Vice President in office (pre-whatever amendment stated that there must always be a Vice President)? Does the President pro tempore of the Senate become President (as if a President without a...
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    Swedish nuclear bomb

    For those of you who didn't know, the Swedish military, with tacit support from the civilian government, tried to develop atomic weapons. The plan was to make about 20 small plutonium bombs (think Fat Man, and you'll have a rough idea of what we're talking) to use as defensive measures against a...
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    Stronger American labo(u)r movement?

    Is it possible for a proper labo(u)r movement to arise in the US (i.e. one that isn't just shot at by the police and then abandoned, but actually gets into the political establishment) in the early 20th century? Jello Biafra's TL seems to indicate that this is possible, but how likely is it on a...
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    DBWI: What if the Union had split over slavery in the 1850s?

    Pretty much as it says on the tin. The slavery issue was threatening to drive a deep, deep wedge between the North and the South, and the South did almost secede several times. Luckily, both Presidents Cass and Crittenden managed to make compromises that angered no one that much (although...
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    The Story of a Party 2.0

    OK, so I wrote in the thread that I would restart this timeline. I am now doing so. This new version of the timeline will use a different style, with longer chapters consisting of a mixture of 'book clips' and narrative, inspired by Jared and EdT. Things will also happen slightly differently...
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    Questions about Egypt during the ERE ("Byzantine") era

    Hello! I've been having some trouble finding info on Byzantine Egypt before the Muslim conquest. Eventually I thought 'why not ask on AH.com', and here I am. So in short, if anyone has the answers to the following questions, I'd be very happy. Thanks! - I assume that Egypt was mostly...
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    The Legacy of the Merovingians

    Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty is one of the most famous and legendary figures in European history. He formed a state that would last for centuries, but his untimely death would mean that his kingdom fell to his son Theodoric, who, although only eight years old at his coronation, would...
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    Alternate Colonial Scramble

    Hello please! I need help with my TL. Currently I am planning the post-Civil War era, and as I am not familiar with the late 19th century, I will need help with planning an alt-colonial scramble. With a PoD in 1856, is it even sure to happen? What would be the Great Powers' desires in Africa...
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