What was the Siege of Tangiers? Some sort of hostage crisis? Also, why were no Noble Peace Prizes awarded in 1931, 1968, 1982, and 1994?
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Quisling, Rand, and Jagger are all Nobel Peace Prize winners? This must be a Twilight Zone episode!
Question time: Approximately how many people follow Neo-Druidism globally? Does the movement attempt historical accuracy like Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Reconstructionist_Paganism
Question time: Approximately how many people follow Neo-Druidism globally? Does the movement attempt historical accuracy like Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Reconstructionist_Paganism
same as well for astaru and other germanic neo-paganism, suomenusko and rodnovery
French presidential election, 2021
The 2021 French presidential election was held on 1 May 2021 to elect the 25th President of France, its fourth under the Constitution of the Sixth French Republic, adopted on 2003. Incumbent President Hervé Mariton was un-eligible to run for a second six-year term. The President is elected by the 500 deputies of the French Parliament : Jean d’Orléans, Deputy for Dreux and Orléanist claimant to the throne of France, standing as the candidate of the ruling Régénération Party (Conservative-Integralist) was elected on the first ballot and took office on 16 May 2021.
As the Fifth French Republic had been criticized for the concentration of executive powers in the Presidency, the Sixth Republic had opted for a parliamentary republic, with the Prime Minister holding executive power and the President having only a ceremonial role, like in the Third Republic ; as previously and to stress the importance of the Parliament, the President of the Republic is now elected by the National Assembly, the unicameral chamber that forms the French Parliament. The election in 2015 of Conservative candidate Hervé Mariton had already been seen in the leftist Sixth Republic as a first alarm, the 2018 military coup ended all expectations. After two years without a parliament, the Prime Minister closely monitored the 2020 parliamentary elections, winning in a landslide with the Conservative-Integralist Regeneration Party, leaving only a few seats for a token opposition President Mariton had been compliant with the military takeover and a monarchic restoration was the final goal for Pierre de Villiers, determined in becoming the new French-style General Monk.
Jean d’Orléans, the claimant to the Orléanist throne and grandson to the last King, Henri VI, was nominated as Regeneration’s presidential candidate; his election by a fully-controlled Parliament and his eventual accession as King made the election look like a mere formality. The presidential office in France was totally devoid of power and all opposition figures were either detained or in exile ; as a token candidate for the left, former Education Minister Vincent Peillon, an uncharismatic career politician, was chosen by a destroyed French Social Movement ; Deputy Jean Lassalle from Béarn, an independent and regionalist deputy, much more known for his eccentricities than for his values, was also allowed to run for President.
On the first ballot, Jean d’Orléans obtained more than an absolute majority, obtaining 84,89 % of all votes, with Peillon only winning 8,56 % and Jean Lassalle 1,51 % ; with a 420 seats-majority in the National Assembly, Regeneration was certain that its candidate would be elected, even if having other candidates running prevented De Villiers from being considered a dictator. More noticeable was the importance of abstention, with more than 120 deputies choosing not to vote ; if some belonged to the so-called opposition and didn’t recognize themselves in either candidates, others expected the election to be already decided and didn’t bother to vote. But some observers thought that some members of Regeneration decided to mark their opposition to a phony election, that should be the very last presidential election ever held in France…
It was an international crisis sparked by the irrendentist campaigns of Morocco, aimed here at the International City of Tangiers ; it was handled by the World Council here. These years without awards are due to large conflicts occuring in these years (the Danubian War in 1931, worldwide protests and civil wars in 1968, terrorist attack on the Dome of the Rock in 1982 and the Vladivostok nuclear bombing in 1994).
Quisling here is seen as a good Norwegian Prime Minister, Rand was a major opposition figure in Russia and Jagger was British Prime Minister. How the butterflies fly !
As of Reconstructionist Paganism... Well, about Neo-Druidism, it's quite popular in Celtic Countries and North America, with something like 2 million followers. Nothing like the scale of Neo-Kemitism. They are a lot about Esoteric nationalism and supremacism, but others just wanted to reject the heavy presence of the Catholic Church in their lives and some are inclined to ecology, like Wandervogels on Acid. They tend to try historical accuracy. Some would have liked to burn virgins into wicker men, but they are a bit mental.
For Germanic Neo-Paganism, here well known as Asatru, it's much more of an ultranationalist and heavily racist undertone, in the likes of the most bonker Nazis. Rodnovery tried to launch itself in Russia but is heavily persecuted by the government. Suomenusko is a fringe movement.
He is fictional, he would be a legitimate son born on the same date than the illegitimate son of Carlos, Duke of Bourbon-Parma.
You don't have to do that. I always answer to all replies on my TL, it's just that I have been very busy lately.
Yes, under his birth name, but still.
Oops ! Thank you !
How many are there who follow the Ancient Egyptian theology? Would it not be considered a major religion at this point, seeing as how it's the biggest faith in Liberia, Hutuland, and others?
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Any achievements he did as Prime Minister of Norway and his political views here?
So, either it's an error in the infobox making, or something is going to happen before the Restoration happens. Else, why would there be a further presidential election in 2027?
Rome 2020 Summer Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiades (Italian : Giochi della XXXII Olimpiade) and branded as Rome 2020, was an international multi-sport event held from 31 July to 16 August 2020, in Rome, Italy. It was followed by the 2020 Summer Paralympics from 31 August to 13 September 2020.
The fourth Olympics held in Italy (after the 1956 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1956 and 1986 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo), marking the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Rome as the capital of united Italy, Rome was chosen as host city by the IOC in 2013. Rome’s bid stressed its use of ecological energy and optimization of existing facilities, with main events taking place in the already existing and rebuilt Stadio Olimpico along with the Foro Italico sports complex, the Fiera di Roma and the Stadio Flaminio, also using historical landmarks, such as the Piazza di Siena for horse jumping, the Roman Forum for archery and marathon, the Caracalla baths, the Circus Maximus for beach volleyball. Sailing and surfing events were held in Cagliari, Sardinia. The Olympic Village and Media Center, built near downtown in the Tor di Quinto quarter near the Tiber river, is to become a park of 40 hectares after the Games.
Harshly criticized in Italy as a propaganda move and a vanity project for both the Italian government and the Pyrist Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, arguing that Olympic funds were only funding a much needed and postponed urban renewal of the capital and such a move was irresponsible given the outrageous financial surcharge and the city debt, the Olympics’ future were thrown into jeopardy in early 2020 owing to the outbreak of the 2020 Wuchang Pneumonia, as Europe had been relatively spared from the disease. Following Hungary’s move about the 2020 European Football Championship, President of Council Lorenzo Fontana and Mayor Alemanno decided against postponing the games to 2021, against the advice of the Ministry of Health, the IOC, the World Council and most of the opposition, citing the expensive cost of a report, the commercial benefits of touristic affluence in Rome and downplaying the coronavirus threat. On 31 July 2020, on the promised date, King Emanuele Filiberto II officially opened the Olympic Games and the Olympic Flame was lighted in the Stadio Olimpico by legendary swimmer and 2008 200 m freestyle Olympic Champion Federica Pelligrini.
With 153 nations invited but less athletes than in 2016, the Rome Olympic Games were widely seen, in a sports perspective, as a tremendous event, with China winning the most medals, followed by the United States and Great Britain, Italy itself managing to be sixth on the medal table.
Healthwise, the Rome Olympics were seen as a disaster, as health prevention was kept at a bare minimum, freely allowing public attendance and the IOC leaving participating nations to deal privately with the issue (for instance, both Chinese and American teams enforced a full quarantine for their returning athletes) : the inflow of people, journalists and athletes from throughout the world in an already crowded city during Summer is now seen by scientists as one of the main catalysts for the exceptional outbreak of the Wuchang Pneumonia that infected Europe during the summer. As President of Council Fontana has only recently recognized his own poor decision but has praised the positive impact it had on the economy, Mayor Alemanno had already decided not to seek reelection for the 2021 municipal elections...
It is.
It's alright, I understood it, but yes, France is something of a big quagmire right now.
Well, it's the official religion in Liberia and Azania notably and was for a time in Kongo, it's widely followed by African Americans and many people in Sub-Saharan Africa (most noticeably, it has been thoroughly repressed in Egypt itself, even if the religion received a renewal since the end of the islamist regime). Neo-Kemetism is considered a major religion, I think the number of converts should be near the 100 million worldwide.
Succeeding Fridtjof Nansen, he continued the nationalist, corporatist yet socially progressive policies of his earlier predecessor, the main successes being leading Norway through the World War, forming the Nordic Pact with Sweden, remaining neutral during the Estonian War, successfully claiming Erik the Red's Land in Greenland from Denmark and building strong links with Germany.
It's just the date in which the next presidential election is scheduled, nothing more. France is still a republic... as of now.
So, what became of Benito Mussolini ITTL without his experiences in the Great War? Does he stay a socialist or does he still move to the right politically? Also, as Feng "baptized his troops with a firehose" Yuxiang became leader of China ITTL, how big is Christianity in China compared to OTL?
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I assume that these battleships were either obsolete or resembled beefed-up Kirov-class BCGNs or both.
Aside from France, what countries have epicly failed at handling the Wuchang Pneumonia/alt-COVID-19 compared to their OTL performance? Also, how have rogue states like Peru, Bharatvarsha, and Azania tackled the pandemic? I assume "poorly".