Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)
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White House siege? Gore supporters go crazy in this tl?
It says that the siege was part of the 9/11 attacks so most likely an Olympus Has Fallen scenario.
I guess George W. Bush never went down to that Florida elementary school in that universe.
"Bush died in 9/11, war on terror led by Dick Cheney" is the most interesting ATL scenario to me
Anarcho-Occultist has a very great John Titor 2000s Civil War scenario was based on this premise (He/She abandoned it, sad)
Anarcho-Occultist has a very great John Titor 2000s Civil War scenario was based on this premise (He/She abandoned it, sad)
The New Frontier: Into the Landonverse
Note: Barbour is the running mate purely because I saw
and thought it'd be a fun extra divergence
Note: Barbour is the running mate purely because I saw
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – February 23, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician, who was elected to serve as the 16th president of the United States in 1860 but did not take office because of his assassination.
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, mainly in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois. In 1854, he was angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, causing him to re-enter politics. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the nation. During this time, the newly formed Confederate States of America began seizing federal military bases in the South.
As Lincoln was traveling to Washington to be inaugurated, he was surrounded by a mob in Baltimore. In the chaos, Otis Hillard, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln to death. Lincoln's successor as president, Hannibal Hamlin, encouraged reverence of the fallen president-elect during the First Southron Revolt and consequently Lincoln is remembered as a martyr and a national hero in the United States and abroad. His legacy is still seen in the United States with towns, counties, and a state named for him. Despite regime changes and political realignments, he remains popular in the United States. One son, Robert, would go on to be elected president and serve a single term from 1893 to 1897.
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On February 23, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, president-elect of the United States was assassinated by Otis K. Hillard at the Camden Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland. Lincoln was traveling to Washington, DC from Philadelphia for his inauguration. Lincoln had intelligence suggesting a plot against his life existed but chose to travel in public. As no line ran directly from Philadelphia to Washington, Lincoln had to switch trains in Baltimore. After alighting at the Camden Street Station, Lincoln and his party were surrounded by a mob. In the chaos, Hillard, a member of the paramilitary Palmetto Guards shot Lincoln four times in the chest. Lincoln died later that day of his wounds.
Despite rumors of the involvement by the newly-formed Confederate States of America, no evidence was ever uncovered linking the Palmetto Guards or Hillard with the Confederacy. Lincoln’s death was widely blamed on the Confederacy and inspired a surge in support for the federal government in the first months of the First Southron Revolt, which began just months later. Baltimore was occupied by federal troops for the duration of the revolt while Otis K. Hillard and a number of other plotters were put to death following quick trials at Fort McHenry.
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The Frederick Street Massacre was a violent disturbance on August 21, 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore had been under the occupation of the United States military since March 1861, in response to the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln in the city the previous month. Occupation was undertaken by state militia units from the northern states and they quickly were at odds with the pro-Confederate population of the city. The occupation had been turbulent, with several riots occurring in the city’s first year under military rule.
On August 16, 1862, a 17 year old Irish-American boy, Michael O’Brien, was beaten by Pennsylvania militiamen after being accused of filching a wallet from the troops. O’Brien’s beating brought Baltimoreans out in the streets and protests spread throughout the city. Despite this tense atmosphere, the city remained relatively peaceful. On the morning of August 21, as protests began to draw down, the unabashedly pro-northern German-language Der Baltimore Wecker published an article on O’Brien’s beating. The article was not overly biased but Baltimoreans with little knowledge of German misunderstood the text and converged on the Wecker offices on North Frederick Street.
By 12:30pm, the crowd on North Frederick Street was 500 strong and liquor had begun to circulate freely. There were no clear demands but rhetoric was increasingly violent and called for the Wecker’s editor, Wilhelm Rapp, to show himself. In response, a copy boy left the office through a backdoor and asked for the military to come to the aid of the besieged building.
At 1:15pm, elements of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry had arrived and formed a cordon in front of the newspaper office. Lieutenant colonel John W. Kimball ordered the mob to disperse, but the arrival of the army only made them more belligerent as bricks and bottles flew. Half an hour later, a bottle hit one of the militiamen in the head, creating a cut on his head and his face was soon covered in blood. Believing themselves to be under gunfire, the Massachusetts men opened fire on the mob. Within a minute, order had been restored, but by that time, twenty-seven men were dead and four dozen more were wounded.
Military governor Ambrose Burnside promised an investigation, but ultimately Kimball and his men were cleared of any wrongdoing, and their actions were deemed justified. The reading of the verdict in February 1863 touched off another round of riots in the city. The Frederick Street Massacre was widely utilized in Confederate propaganda for the duration of the war and is seen by the Southron diaspora as a tragic example of heavy handed northern rule.
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The next installment in my new Hamlinverse infobox timeline. This covers the POD. I took a lot of the text in the Lincoln writeup straight from Wikipedia. Other boxes are accessible below.
First Southron Revolt: Trans-Sabine Theater
1864 US election: National Union and Radical conventions
1864 US election: Democratic and Constitutional Union conventions
1866 Steuben gubernatorial election
Blue Custer stamp (1899-1905)
Alaskan Revolution (1907-1908)
James Aggrey, US Representative (1875-1935)
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, mainly in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois. In 1854, he was angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, causing him to re-enter politics. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the nation. During this time, the newly formed Confederate States of America began seizing federal military bases in the South.
As Lincoln was traveling to Washington to be inaugurated, he was surrounded by a mob in Baltimore. In the chaos, Otis Hillard, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln to death. Lincoln's successor as president, Hannibal Hamlin, encouraged reverence of the fallen president-elect during the First Southron Revolt and consequently Lincoln is remembered as a martyr and a national hero in the United States and abroad. His legacy is still seen in the United States with towns, counties, and a state named for him. Despite regime changes and political realignments, he remains popular in the United States. One son, Robert, would go on to be elected president and serve a single term from 1893 to 1897.
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On February 23, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, president-elect of the United States was assassinated by Otis K. Hillard at the Camden Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland. Lincoln was traveling to Washington, DC from Philadelphia for his inauguration. Lincoln had intelligence suggesting a plot against his life existed but chose to travel in public. As no line ran directly from Philadelphia to Washington, Lincoln had to switch trains in Baltimore. After alighting at the Camden Street Station, Lincoln and his party were surrounded by a mob. In the chaos, Hillard, a member of the paramilitary Palmetto Guards shot Lincoln four times in the chest. Lincoln died later that day of his wounds.
Despite rumors of the involvement by the newly-formed Confederate States of America, no evidence was ever uncovered linking the Palmetto Guards or Hillard with the Confederacy. Lincoln’s death was widely blamed on the Confederacy and inspired a surge in support for the federal government in the first months of the First Southron Revolt, which began just months later. Baltimore was occupied by federal troops for the duration of the revolt while Otis K. Hillard and a number of other plotters were put to death following quick trials at Fort McHenry.
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The Frederick Street Massacre was a violent disturbance on August 21, 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore had been under the occupation of the United States military since March 1861, in response to the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln in the city the previous month. Occupation was undertaken by state militia units from the northern states and they quickly were at odds with the pro-Confederate population of the city. The occupation had been turbulent, with several riots occurring in the city’s first year under military rule.
On August 16, 1862, a 17 year old Irish-American boy, Michael O’Brien, was beaten by Pennsylvania militiamen after being accused of filching a wallet from the troops. O’Brien’s beating brought Baltimoreans out in the streets and protests spread throughout the city. Despite this tense atmosphere, the city remained relatively peaceful. On the morning of August 21, as protests began to draw down, the unabashedly pro-northern German-language Der Baltimore Wecker published an article on O’Brien’s beating. The article was not overly biased but Baltimoreans with little knowledge of German misunderstood the text and converged on the Wecker offices on North Frederick Street.
By 12:30pm, the crowd on North Frederick Street was 500 strong and liquor had begun to circulate freely. There were no clear demands but rhetoric was increasingly violent and called for the Wecker’s editor, Wilhelm Rapp, to show himself. In response, a copy boy left the office through a backdoor and asked for the military to come to the aid of the besieged building.
At 1:15pm, elements of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry had arrived and formed a cordon in front of the newspaper office. Lieutenant colonel John W. Kimball ordered the mob to disperse, but the arrival of the army only made them more belligerent as bricks and bottles flew. Half an hour later, a bottle hit one of the militiamen in the head, creating a cut on his head and his face was soon covered in blood. Believing themselves to be under gunfire, the Massachusetts men opened fire on the mob. Within a minute, order had been restored, but by that time, twenty-seven men were dead and four dozen more were wounded.
Military governor Ambrose Burnside promised an investigation, but ultimately Kimball and his men were cleared of any wrongdoing, and their actions were deemed justified. The reading of the verdict in February 1863 touched off another round of riots in the city. The Frederick Street Massacre was widely utilized in Confederate propaganda for the duration of the war and is seen by the Southron diaspora as a tragic example of heavy handed northern rule.
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The next installment in my new Hamlinverse infobox timeline. This covers the POD. I took a lot of the text in the Lincoln writeup straight from Wikipedia. Other boxes are accessible below.
First Southron Revolt: Trans-Sabine Theater
1864 US election: National Union and Radical conventions
1864 US election: Democratic and Constitutional Union conventions
1866 Steuben gubernatorial election
Blue Custer stamp (1899-1905)
Alaskan Revolution (1907-1908)
James Aggrey, US Representative (1875-1935)
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You forgot to change Lincoln's death date in the first paragraph and Lincoln should not be recognized as the 16th President of the United States, just as the President-elect of the United States since he never took office on March 4, 1861. The wikibox should also include "(as president)" following the name of the president who preceded and succeeded Lincoln.
So, President-elect of the United States Died Before Assuming Office Preceded by: James Buchanan (as president) Succeeded by: Whoever (as president).
Since Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before become president, his VP-elect Hannibal Hamlin would have became the 16th President instead.
From a universe where Mary Kay Bergman doesn't commit suicide in 1999.
Hi, I'm Phil Hartman. You may remember me from shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and Futurama.
From a universe where Phil Hartman isn't murdered by his wife Brynn Omdahl in 1998. As a result, he continues to voice Troy McClure and Lionel Huts on The Simpsons and would later provide the voice to Zapp Brannigan for Futurama.
From a universe where Phil Hartman isn't murdered by his wife Brynn Omdahl in 1998. As a result, he continues to voice Troy McClure and Lionel Huts on The Simpsons and would later provide the voice to Zapp Brannigan for Futurama.
What is borders of the new state of Steuben?The 1866 Steuben gubernatorial election was the second gubernatorial election held in the American state of Steuben and the first to be held in peacetime. Incumbent Governor Edward Degener chose not to run for reelection, saying that by securing the state's independence from Texas, he had achieved his goals as governor. Since Steuben's foundation in 1862, its population had been swelled by the arrival of German-speaking migrants form other states and from abroad. Many of them were left-leaning Forty-eighters and they advocated for a socialist course for the new state. The dominant Republican Party was divided between a socialist faction and a more moderate mainstream. Neither side was willing to compromise and so the party split ahead of the 1866 election.
The mainstream of the party gathered in the state capital of San Antonio and nominated attorney Daniel Cleveland as their candidate. This faction had support from the Anglo-American, Texan, and German communities within the state. The largely-German socialist Republicans met in New Braunfels. There, they chose avowed Marxist Brigadier General Joseph Weydemeyer to lead their ticket. Weydemeyer, "the Red Butcher of the Brazos" was a newcomer to Steuben, having been a soldier in the Prussian army and friend of Karl Marx in Germany before emigrating to America in the wake of the failed German Revolution. Weydemeyer volunteered in Steuben's militia and rose through the ranks because of his prior military experience. His nickname came in the last months of the Southern Revolt when Weydemeyer openly incited slaves to revolt along the Brazos River and organized them into units that marched into battle carrying red banners. Weydemeyer was a polarizing figure, hated by anyone that had any sympathies with the Confederacy while being loved by Marxists. His backers hoped that his military record would be popular enough to give the socialists control of the state government. The remnants of the Democratic Party in Steuben nominated Thomas Hinds Duggan. Duggan had served in the Confederate Army and his campaign represented the interests of Confederate veterans and former slaveowners.
From the start of the campaign, it was clear the Democrats had no chance of winning so the real contest was between the two rival Republican factions. One of the principal issues of the campaign was the model for settlement of the plains. Since his arrival in the United States, Weydemeyer had been critical of westward expansion. He believed that in giving land to homesteaders, the United States was strengthening the capitalist class. Weydemeyer argued that, instead of granting lands to individuals for private farms, western land should be kept and farmed in common. In his campaign, Weydemeyer proposed that unsettled lands in the western part of the state should be organized into counties operating with no private land ownership and communal farmlands. In addition, he called for railroads in the state to be nationalized. Cleveland, on the other hand, ran as a fairly standard Republican and attacked Weydemeyer as a dangerous radical. Despite his personal popularity, Weydemeyer's Marxist rhetoric turned farmers against him as Cleveland surrogates spread rumors that Weydemeyer would engage in a campaign of land confiscation.
Ultimately, Cleveland won the election by nearly 3,500 votes and a margin of 20%. Weydemeyer retired from campaigning in the aftermath of his defeat, though his campaign would become legendary in Steuben's history. Many of the left-leaning politicians prominent in the later part of the 19th century regarded it as an inspiration and so, despite losing election, Weydemeyer actually remains more well-known than Cleveland in modern-day Steuben.
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The next installment in my new Hamlinverse infobox timeline. Other boxes are accessible below
First Southron Revolt: Trans-Sabine Theater
1864 US election: National Union and Radical conventions
1864 US election: Democratic and Constitutional Union conventions
Blue Custer stamp (1899-1905)
Alaskan Revolution (1907-1908)
James Aggrey, US Representative (1875-1935)
My first real wikibox! It's a bit bare-bones, but I'm still learning to edit using the sandbox.
Long story short, a timline where a resurgent Spain crushes America in 1898, delivering that country a national humiliation unlike anything before it, the offenses being Spanish forces capturing all of America's pre-dreadnougt battleships intact, then temporarily occupying Washington, D.C. after a successful naval invasion, capturing the entire government to end the war, and repeating the feat of the British nearly a century earlier by burning the White House to the ground for good measure.
The Cuban Missile Crisis in a Kaiserreich-based scenario I've imagined, where the authoritarian and conservative German Empire fights with the United Socialist States of America for hegemony following the Second Weltkrieg and the Second American Civil War.
Intresting altough not sure would surviving German Empire be very authotarian. And wouldn't Von Manstein and Dönitz are bit old for this already?
Well, William McKinley is probably losing the 1900 presidential election.