Cory Albrecht @bytor@mastodon.xyz
I'm an long time geek and career IT worker who likes #science #sciencefiction #alternatehistory
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WELL YOU ARE GOING TO...
https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/167843374309/brucesterling-hey-hes-watching-hey-kids-want
I tried spiced coffee with curry spices a few months ago and liked it. Today I'm repeating the experiment with taco seasoning. #food #adventure
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Brothers No More
"Over the next four years the American Party and the Know Nothing movement fall apart for basically the same reasons the Whigs did, and when the 1864 Democratic convention falls apart, nominating three candidates (a northern one, a southern one, and a fringe one), Senator William H. Seward wins as the first president from the young, anti-slavery Republican Party in 1864 after gaining the endorsement of …"
#alternatehistory #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164636206342/brothers-no-more
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#Esperanto
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#AlternateHistory
#Reading
#Comics
#Fallout
#VideoGames
A Tense Situation
"In the United States, tensions over the place of slavery in the Union were rising as many Democrats and Whigs in the South wanted the new territories to be organised out west to be given “popular sovereignty”. That is, to decide for themselves whether slavery was to be allowed or not. As most of the territory was north of the Missouri Compromise Line of 36°30’, this angered many abolitionists. Fillmore’s …"
#alternatehistory #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164634492122/a-tense-situation
Flag of the Republic of Alta California
#alternathistory #vexillology #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164619960418/flag-of-the-republic-of-alta-california
Gold Fever
"The California Gold Rush starts, but after almost 15 years of increasing autonomy and home rule, the attempts to impose greater central control in Alta California to drain taxation- and economic-related monies from the gold rush back to the central government prompted Alta California to declare independence. Attempts were made to bring it to heel but were just as toothless and unsuccessful as all the bluster …"
#alternatehistory #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164618240890/gold-fever
America Moves West
"Henry Clay’s election as president of the United States was the death knell for the Jacksonian ideal of expansion and a domination of the Presidency by the Whigs until Mallard Fillmore’s handling of the Kansez-Nibraska question.
Clay’s American System had stimulated talks of a transcontinental railroad, especially after the organization of Oregon Territory from the American share of the lands of the Pacific …"
#alternatehistory #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164530308535/america-moves-west
Manifestly Different
"In the United States of America, James Polk becomes the dark horse candidate for the Democratic nomination because of Martin van Buren’s anti-slavery stance and picks up votes because of his support of Secretary of State Abel Upshur’s theory that Britain was pressing the Texians for emancipation. While this was enough for Polk to win the Democratic nomination he loses the election on the economic question …"
#alternatehistory #balanceofpower #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164523300379/manifestly-different
Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande
#alternatehistory #vexillology #balanceofpower #fiction http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164521748353/flag-of-the-republic-of-the-r%C3%ADo-grande
Salsa Dancing Partners
"Numerous other Mexican states revolted in 1835 against Santa Anna’s Siete Leyes though only the Texians were successful that time.
"On January 17, 1840 a meeting is held at the Oreveña Ranch near Laredo, Tamaulipas. A group of notables from the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas advocate a rebellion seeking secession from Mexico and formation of their own federal republic with Laredo as the …"
#alternatehistory #fiction #balanceofpower
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164520339478/salsa-dancing-partners
Balance of Power - 1849 - North America
#alternatehistory #maps #fiction
https://coryca.deviantart.com/art/Balance-of-Power-1849-North-America-581344257
A Texian Tango
"Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, the French chargé d'affaires whom Houston had sweet-talked into a favourable report when they met in New York City, returns to Texas in 1840 and sets up consuls in Austin, the new capital, and Galveston where the French loan made possible the building of new port facilities. By 1841, French trade, especially cotton, starts to flow through Texas, as well as from French citizens in Mexico moving to …"
#alternatehistory #fiction
http://tumblr.delta.cory.albrecht.name/post/164506351882/a-texian-tango
