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    King Theodore's Corsica

    I've noted in the past--there will probably be a Napoleone Buonaparte because that was a family name but he's not going to be OTL's Napoleon, having at best a roughly similar father and nothing else even remotely in common.
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    TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    Ayyup. 1920s Oregon. "We were founded as a free soil state, and that is why we are so very fond of that sterling organization, the Klu-Klux Klan."
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    TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    That was literally their Gilded Age platform. Oh, and they insisted that their opposition to immigration... was tied philosophically to their opposition to slavery. In conclusion, the Gilded Age was terrible.
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    It's worth pointing out that the Rockefeller Republicans were a dwindling force when they first acquired the nickname 'Rockefeller Republicans'.
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    The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    You can do better. I've actually hit over 5% and 11 faithless electors. Yes, it goes to 11.
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    King Theodore's Corsica

    One is reminded how Marie Antoinette's reply when people were trying to get her to buy the Diamond Necklace on the grounds of 'prestige' that the price they were asking could purchase at least one and possibly two battleships, a purchase not only more practical, but better for prestige.
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    King Theodore's Corsica

    For that matter Joseph Bonaparte’s full name was Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. And that great-uncle was himself named after previous Napoleon Bonapartes. It was a family name.
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    King Theodore's Corsica

    "Napoleon" as we know him doesn't exist. Neither of his parents were born prior to the POD, and while a person very much like his father is probably hanging around Corsica and likely serving as somebody important's secretary or assistant, an equivalent to his mother was almost certainly never...
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    McGoverning

    New York State has always been the country in miniature.
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    McGoverning

    Just the 20th century? Remember, Boss Tweed's career came to an end in part because he failed to handle the tensions between the city's Irish and its Scot-Irish.
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    McGoverning

    Ahh, William Craig. A man who truly thought he could keep control of the beast he'd summoned up in any circumstances.
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.
    Threadmarks: THE OLD(ISH) GUARD

    And now it is time to consider the organization that about half the now defunct AAFC are joining. As noted, the NFL are as close to venerable as the world of professional football gets. This needs to be understood--professional football is in a strange, transitionary time. It is not the...
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    Bicentennial Man: Ford '76 and Beyond

    Because Ford has served seven years as President and thus is not eligible. To be eligible for a second elected term, he would need to have succeeded Nixon in 1975, not 1974.
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.

    Marshall will die eventually. And create a charitable foundation which will include the stipulation that none of its funds go to causes and individuals backing integration. That one will be stricken by the courts.
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.

    Oh, McCarthy's definitely getting a football team. I guarantee it.
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.
    Threadmarks: WRAPPING UP THE AAFC

    On December 26th, 1948 in Houston Texas, the AAFC played its last game, the first and last AAFC All-Stars Game, or, as it would also be known, "the Shamrock Bowl"[1]. An exhibition match dreamed up by notorious oil millionaire Glenn McCarthy, "King of the Wildcatters", the nickname came from...
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    King Theodore's Corsica

    It was always more complicated than that (and let's remember that the deal was for parts of the Austrian Netherlands). The places were expensive, but they also included some of Austria's wealthiest possessions.
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.
    Threadmarks: END OF AN ERA

    A few days after that fateful meeting, the AAFC and NFL would hold their respective 1948 championship games. In Shibe Park, in its first televised championship[1] NFL Eastern Division champion Philadelphia would win an upset victory over NFL Western Division and defending league champions the...
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    National-American: Tale of a Football League.
    Threadmarks: INTRODUCTION

    In the December of 1948, peace broke out in the world of American pro-football. The last three years had been dominated by the war between the National Football League, as venerable an institute as the sport had at 28 years old, and some change, and the insurgent All-America Football...
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    Right. It's easy to get sucked into Perlstein's rhetoric, to just say 'why, yes, yes, it's all so easy'--it's why you should balance him out with other writers. On the pop culture front, the most egregious failure is his reading of Altman's Nashville, where Perlstein not only misses the message...
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