Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 7 May 2006) was a Soviet pilot, cosmonaut, and politician who served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1988 until his death in 2006, and became internationally famous for being the first human to orbit the Earth in 1961. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space Race he became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's highest honour.

Gagarin was born in the Russian village of Klushino, and in his youth was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base, near the Norwegian border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme with five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was later named after him. He also entered the world of Soviet politics becoming a deputy of the Soviet of the Union and a member of the Central Committee of Komsomol, the Communist Party's youth organization. Two years later he would be elected to the Soviet of Nationalities, the upper chamber, and gradually ascend in Soviet politics. By 1979 he was the heir apparent to Soviet leader Georgy Malenkov and was elected Malenkov's successor upon his death.

Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Fearful that a national hero might be killed, Soviet officials banned Gagarin from further spaceflights. After completing training at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in February 1968, he was allowed to fly regular aircraft. Gagarin nearly died five weeks later after the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting alongside Vladimir Seryogin began to spin after a Su-15 passed too close to Gagarin's plane. Gagarin successfully landed the plane with minor injuries. Following this incident, Gagarin never flew again.

Gagarin was elected to the Presidium, the Soviet Union's collective head of state, in 1974. Over this time he began to court Soviet leader Georgy Malenkov and Chairman of the Presidium Leonid Brezhnev. After Brezhnev died in 1982, Gagarin was appointed Chairman of the Presidium --- effectively the USSR's head of state. After Malenkov's death in 1988 Gagarin was elected General Secretary and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, becoming the de facto leader of the Soviet Union. Gagarin mostly continued Malenkov's industrialist and technocratic policies, although he focused more on spaceflight. He famously oversaw the successful Progress 4 mission, the first manned flyby of Mars. Privately saying that it was his dream to see a man on Mars within his lifetime, Gagarin funded the Soviet space programme heavily, resulting in the "Second Space Race," ultimately culminating with the Soviet Union landing on Mars in 2002. Gagarin remained invested in the Soviet Space programme throughout his life.

Gagarin is primarily remembered for the rebirth of the Soviet space programme, although politically his legacy is more nuanced. He's generally remembered as a moderate reformer. A social liberal, Gagarin was privately disgusted by the social conservatism of the USSR. Under Gagarin the USSR officially decriminalized homosexuality and homosexuals were allowed to create civil unions. He also lifted Malenkov's ban on unapproved electoral blocs, restoring a prominent section of the 1936 Constitution that was amended out of the constitution in 1962. Despite his social liberal ideology, however, Gagarin continued Malenkov's suppression policies, cracking down on antigovernmental demonstrations. Ailing health forced Gagarin away from public appearances in 2004. While not officially retiring, by mid-late 2005 most day-to-day operations were overseen by Deputy Chairman Viktor Afanasyev and Second Secretary Gennady Zyuganov. Gagarin died in 2006 due to complications from Parkison's disease, which was hidden from the public until his death.​
 
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So I've decided to start working on a science fiction graphics timeline that I'm tentatively calling Empires of Sol. The main conceit is that Venus and Mars were terraformed during the Permian by an ancient precursor race, and then seeded with life from Earth at various stages in its development. Meanwhile, on Earth, the early death of Otto von Bismarck means that Prussia never truly rises to power, and when they do attempt to do so they overextend themselves and are crushed by the allied forces of Austria and France. Now, in the 21st century, the still largely Victorian world begins to extend its reach to its neighboring planets as the empires of the world seek to outcompete their rivals.

These infoboxes aren't so much about the science fiction elements of the timeline, but to start out I wanted to show the leaders of the three great powers of the world - the British under Elizabeth II, the French under Napoleon VI, and the Austrians under Charles II. There are of course other prominent nations in the world, but these three are universally regarded as the most important and influential empires of Earth, with most of the planet being under the control of at least one of their states. All three states are constitutional monarchies, but while the Imperial Federation is mostly similar to the OTL British constitutional monarchy, with Elizabeth II acting as a figurehead, the French Empire and United States of Greater Austria are what would be referred to as executive monarchies, where there is still a powerful elected legislature and democratic norms but the monarch maintains actual executive powers (for OTL examples look at Liechtenstein or Jordan). The Imperial Federation and United States of Greater Austria are both federal states, while the French Empire remains a unitary state. All three states continue to possess extensive colonial empires, although the Austrians until recently have mostly been limited to Africa and a few territorial holdings in Asia.
 

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Recently I learned that George H. W. Bush almost fought for Canada in WWII. That immediately made me wonder: what if, after the war, Bush stayed in Canada?

This is obviously not a very likely scenario. For starters, as the article notes, RCAF pilots did not have a high survival rate— the odds are against Bush even surviving the war. Second, even if he did, it's a little tough to imagine the scion of a burgeoning American political dynasty choosing to emigrate. Still, even if it's a strech, it's not difficult to imagine a series of events that could have lead to it: Bush falls in love with both the country and a local lady, and facing the prospect of citizenship troubles back in the States— and always wanting to break away from his father to be his own man— decides to simply stay where he is.

So here's a quick infobox of where Bush's career could have gone in that scenario, as well as the careers of his two most famous kids.

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(I know that "Dubya as sports league commissioner" is kind of played out, but when I learned that the NHL was searching for a new commissioner in the same period that Bush was considering the MLB… I mean, how could I resist?)
 
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I tried to come up with a South korea that is more to the north than North korea, and a North korea more to the south than South korea...

No particular POD, instead
1) The chinese and american agree on a ceasefire along the defensive Line D of January 1951
2) the Jeju island uprising somehow succeeds, and the island is allowed to join north korea
3) the proposal of a Korean Autonomous Soviet Republic based on Vladivostok Okrug happens in the 1920s, a harsher collapse of the USSR allows it to become independent, in the late 90s the Republic of Korea-Daejeon (Daehan Minguk) and the Republic of Korea-Haesamwi (Golyeo Gonghwagug) decide to unite, since North Korea is not really an attractive alternative at the time.

In 1998, North Korea tests its first nuclear weapon, the same year South Korea gets control of former soviet nuclear weapons belonging to the now-dissolved Korean Republic, russia having not managed to negotiate their return iTTL

As of 2020, South Korea has a population of 42.6 millions, including about 1 million non-ethnic koreans from the former ussr (mostly russians and ukrainians). North Korea has a population of 42.9 millions
 
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Richard John “Dick” Grayson was an American businessman, diplomat, political advocate, and superhero. Grayson was born November 11, 1932 to circus performers John and Mary Grayson, with whom he'd serve as one of the Flying Graysons. At the age of 8, his parents were murdered by agents of gangster Tony Zucco, who had demanded extortion money from them and the circus. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, and became his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder.

In 1954, after the retirement of Bruce Wayne as Batman, Grayson took up the mantle, juggling between it and his original identity as Robin for many years. In 1964, he and two other former sidekicks, the original Kid Flash and original Aqualad, formed the Teen Titans, an organization meant for younger superheroes and sidekicks to fraternize and learn from one another. While initially thought of as a “junior Justice Society” or “Justice League for kids”, the Teen Titans (later the Titans) became one of the most prestigious and expansive superhero organizations in the United States.

In 1970, as a thanks to his father for his help in electing him, President Richard Nixon nominated Grayson, a Democrat, serve as the American ambassador to the United Nations, where he would meet his future wife, the then-Tamaran Ambassador to Earth, Princess Koriand'r. After the election of fellow Democrat Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Grayson retired for several months before being nominated to serve as the second United States Ambassador to post-Apartheid South Africa. As a private citizen, he managed his father's business, Wayne Industries, and remained a popular figure around the city. Like his father, he also spoke out for various political causes and candidates, with one of his last major public appearances being a speech at the 1992 DNC introducing Prez Rickard.

He died in 2006. Publicly it was said to be from a chest infection, but after the Batman Leak of 2020, it was revealed his death was caused in part by tortured-related injuries he had received from a kidnapping by Jeremiah Valeska, one of the Jokers, in 1988. After that incident, Jason Todd, his successor as Robin, also succeeded him as the Batman of Gotham City.

He is survived by his wife Koriand'r and their daughter Mari Grayson.

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Out of curiosity, whos the actor portraying Grayson?
 
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Forgive me if this is the wrong place, but there's not a "Fandom Wikiboxes" thread anywhere to my knowledge.

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David Stephen Rossi (/rɔsi/; born May 9, 1956) is an American author, Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, criminal psychologist, and instructor at the FBI Academy working for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). He is currently serving as the Unit's de facto chief of operations, having become the Unit's acting chief after the resignation of Emily Prentiss.

Born in 1956 to an Italian father and American mother, Rossi was born and raised on Commack, Long Island. According to his autobiography Criminal Minds (get it) Rossi spent his childhood as a troublemaker and spent a brief period of time running with local mafia members. He served in Vietnam, joining the military in 1970 after lying about his age; Rossi was never punished for this, although he commented that his commanding officer likely knew about it. Rossi received a Purple Heart in 1972 and an honorable discharge from the Marines in 1977.

Rossi was recruited by the FBI in 1980, at the age of 22. He became renowned in the field as an expert on hostage negotiation, becoming a major operative in the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, and along with his partner Jason Gideon was instrumental in the creation of the BAU in 1985. He served in the BAU for 12 more years before entering early retirement in 1997. During his retirement, Rossi became renowned nationally for his books on cases he'd tackled and his world-famous Hidden Killers series of crime thrillers. His best-selling book to date is Deviance: The Secret Desires of Sadistic Serial Killers, published in 1999.

Rossi returned to the BAU from early retirement in 2007. He is the longest serving FBI agent that is still active, serving for a combined total of 32 years. Rossi has been married four times, and has a daughter from his second marriage. He had a son with his first wife Carolyn, but his son James was born prematurely and died soon after being born. He has a stepdaughter with his current wife, Krystall Richards-Rossi.​
 
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