Hey, a President! That's really neat, definitely curious about this!! Nice job tying in OTL Bronson's ethical issues to his defeat, and I have to say the idea of Cohen being in the senate is quite impressive! It's pleasant to see in this timeline that Feingold priorities seem mostly the same and that twist on the campaign saying is *chef's kiss*. Have to say that I imagine he would be quite controversial in-universe, but out of it he appears to be doing a lot of grand work!
For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, MN, May 24 1941 - died near Woodstock, NY July, 29 1966) was an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan, in spite of having tragically passed away at 25 and having only been active for four years following his self-titled debut album in 1962, has been one of the most celebrated figures in American folk and swing music, with his songs “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “The Times They Are a-Changin’”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, “Desolation Row” becoming anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements, becoming a defining figure of the protest song and an inspiration for the burgeoning alternate culture.
Born in a Jewish family in Minnesota, Dylan had a passion for music from a young age and dropped out from the University of Minnesota in 1960, making his way to New York City to begin his career in clubs and meet his idol, Woody Guthrie (then seriously ill, but that Dylan would ironically precede in death), winning critical praise before signing on with Columbia Records. In only 8 albums (“Bob Dylan”, 1962 ; “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”, 1963; “The Times They Are a-Changin’”, 1964 ; “Another Side of Bob Dylan”, 1964; “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, 1965 ; “Highway 61 Revisited”, 1965 ; “Blonde on Blonde”, 1966 ; “Last Words”, 1968, posthumous), Bob Dylan became an iconic songwriter of American folk swing and blues, exploring different styles (to the dismay of some of his fans, with the use of electric guitar), modernizing underlying themes of Americana and incorporating a range of political, social, philosophical and literary influences, embodying a new meaning for the protest song in a politically charged era : he would participate, along with Joan Baez, in the fight for civil rights and against the Havana Organization. Topping the charts with his songs, his tours abroad being documented (such as “Don’t Look Back”, by D. A. Pennebaker, chronicling his tour of Germany and his confrontation to the corseted and antisemtic society), Dylan had become a household name at 25.
After the birth of his son Jesse (now a director) and the release of “Blonde on Blonde”, Dylan, who had been exhausted by his tours and experimented on drugs, was killed in the crash of his motorcycle near his home in Woodstock, New York. The ambulance came too late and had to pronounce the singer dead upon arrival.
In spite of his early death, Bob Dylan is still widely recognized as a major name of the American ‘60s and a defining artist in songwriting and protest song, still widely remembered as of 2022. Ranked high in numerous lists of best songwriters and singers, his songs are still widely used for pacifist rallies and are still the focus of studies ; he remains one of the defining spirits of the 1960s. “Had Dylan lived, he would have pushed for a revolution in 1968” famously said fellow singer and activist John Lennon.
It was the idea since the beginning !
Germany does have OTL Slovenia, but no ports on the Adriatic, the Italians would never authorize that.
The United States is much more progressive in this timeline, but a strong conservative element remains and loathes Feingold.
French-speaking officially, with Dutch residents having to master the language. They fought dearly for their right to use the language.
NICE STUFF! What are the Beatles doing ITTL? Are there any significant other musicians that you’ll cover in the future or have done so already?
Music will be covered, along with what happened with the members of OTL Beatles. You can already guess some naming changes here and here.
That happened after the World War, turning the Quebec independence movement a shade of red.
A Frosty Morning (essay)
A Frosty Morning (Ein eisiger Morgen) is a historical essay written by German historian Arno Mayer, analyzing the roots of the Danubian War by pointing out the various incidents of racial strife within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great European War (1916-1921) ; in a case study, the book focuses on the Hotin Mutiny, a massacre of German soldiers by a Galician company of the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Battle of Ukraine, that occurred on 24 April 1920 in Hotin (today Hotin, Romania).
Postulating that the stress of battle during the Great European War and the increasingly multicultural outline of Austro-Hungarian troops (that only increased as losses forced intendence to mix different nationalities) contributed heavily to post-war political violence and nationalism, the essay studies the lynching of an Austrian corporal, one Adolf Schicklgruber, by his Galician and Czech fellow soldiers, a savage beating, torture and hanging that sparked a massacre of all 18 German-speaking soldiers within the unit before their mass desertion in the Ukrainian countryside and return to home.
According to the author, the case of Schicklgruber is interesting, due to the profile of the victim : a German Austrian with nationalist ideas, he had been living as a vagrant in Vienna then Munich, unsuccessfully trying to enlist in the Bavarian Army before being expelled to Austria and serving gallantly in the Army during the whole war, on the western front. Schicklgruber’s lynching occurred after he had used a racial epithet towards a Jewish Galician comrade, turning all against himself.
The essay was controversial upon its release in Germany.
With the fate of TTL's Hitler, what became of Stalin and Mao ITTL as we know Mussolini ITTL was a socialist agitator? And on that note, what became of the other main figures in the Third Reich with how Hitler ended up a soldier who's death triggered the Hotin Mutiny?
Wasn't the name change to Hitler made in 1877 ? That predates the pod by almost 40 years.
Contrary of quiet common belief Adolf Hitler's last name wasn't ever Schicklgruber. His birthname was Adolf Hitler. Alois Hitler, more famous Hitler's father, took that surname long time before Adolf was born.
Mussolini, Stalin, Mao and prominent figures of the Third Reich shall have their update.
I know that, it was a way for me to insist how irrelevant Hitler is to this timeline : the historian made a mistake and assumed Hitler was a pseudonym and that his true name was Schicklgruber, looking at his father's birth certificate. So here, he didn't even managed to survive through history.
Around the tens of thousands, mostly in Europe.