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Gualimole wrote:http://www.thatsmags.com/image/view/201605/queen-china.jpg

That's boggin.

Nuremgard wrote:That's boggin.

What the hell is a boggin?

Nuremgard wrote:I'm surprised the UK has the most paid days.

Gualimole wrote:This proves that the UK is a commulist country.

That chart is actually wrong. Every employee (regardless what they do or how long they do that job) in Germany has a guaranteed minimum amound of paid vacation of 24 days per year. (§3, Sec 1, Federal Holiday Act)

Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:That chart is actually wrong. Every employee (regardless what they do or how long they do that job) in Germany has a guaranteed minimum amound of paid vacation of 24 days per year. (§3, Sec 1, Federal Holiday Act)

The chart could be outdated. Did Germany recently extend its paid vacation time?

Penguania And Antarctica

Chernarus State wrote:Penguania And Antarctica, I'm willing to buy the Chernarus card off you

I created an offer.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:That chart is actually wrong. Every employee (regardless what they do or how long they do that job) in Germany has a guaranteed minimum amound of paid vacation of 24 days per year. (§3, Sec 1, Federal Holiday Act)

I don't need no days off. I go to school 18 hours a week and work about an average of 36 hours a weeks split between two jobs. I don't need no days off.

Gualimole wrote:The chart could be outdated. Did Germany recently extend its paid vacation time?

Not that I'm aware off.

Gualimole

Gualimole wrote:What the hell is a boggin?

It's a Scottish slang word for disgusting.

Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:It's a Scottish slang word for disgusting.

Don't assume I know your slang.

Gualimole wrote:Don't assume I know your slang.

Well sor-ray.

Jaslandia

Sulania wrote:I don't need no days off. I go to school 18 hours a week and work about an average of 36 hours a weeks split between two jobs. I don't need no days off.

I'm very sorry for you that you have to go through so much pain. :(

Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I'm very sorry for you that you have to go through so much pain. :(

God's got my back, I've learned to settle into my position quite nicely.

Sulania wrote:God's got my back, I've learned to settle into my position quite nicely.

I never thought I'd see the day

Vista Major wrote:I never thought I'd see the day

What?

Gots me a Legendary Nuremgard card.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Sulania wrote:What?

God makes you go reverse cowgirl on him

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:That chart is actually wrong. Every employee (regardless what they do or how long they do that job) in Germany has a guaranteed minimum amound of paid vacation of 24 days per year. (§3, Sec 1, Federal Holiday Act)

Does that include part-time employees? If not, maybe they're finding an average between PTEs who just have stat holidays off (Christmas, New Years), and FTEs who also have paid vacations beyond holidays?

But, if that were the case, then the amount shown for the UK would seem a bit unrealistic.

Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Does that include part-time employees? If not, maybe they're finding an average between PTEs who just have stat holidays off (Christmas, New Years), and FTEs who also have paid vacations beyond holidays?

But, if that were the case, then the amount shown for the UK would seem a bit unrealistic.

That includes all employees. That law doesn't differentiate between full-time and part-time.

Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:That includes all employees. That law doesn't differentiate between full-time and part-time.

Your PTEs get 24 days paid vacation? That's nuts!

Jaslandia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Your PTEs get 24 days paid vacation? That's nuts!

Well, depends. If you work the full week but just some hours a day you get your 24 days at least. But if you work just 3 or 2 days a week this amount is proportionally reduced to 16 or so.

Jaslandia

Sulania wrote:What?

You sound like a Baptist from Mississippi. *tears up*

Vista Major wrote:You sound like a Baptist from Mississippi. *tears up*

Well, I'm neither Baptist nor I'm from Mississippi, so alright.

Sulania wrote:Well, I'm neither Baptist nor I'm from Mississippi, so alright.

I mean, of course.

Geez, I can't joke a little?

Vista Major wrote:I mean, of course.

Geez, I can't joke a little?

I just can't tell sometimes.

Sulania wrote:I just can't tell sometimes.

It's April Fool's; I'll give it a pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1taC3JjIOkM

Jaslandia

Yesterday was the centenary of the Royal Air Force, "The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Edible Book Day

What even is this holiday!?! Since when are books edible!?! Don't eat books, people! Other people might want to read those!

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Fossil Fools Day

Okay, this is a clever name, I'll give it that.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.

- 0325 – Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.

- 0457 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army.

- 0527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.

- 0528 – The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was made the "Emperor" as a male heir of the late emperor by Empress Dowager Hu, deposed and replaced by Yuan Zhao the next day; she was the first female monarch in the History of China, but not widely recognised.

- 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

- 1318 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.

- 1340 – Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.

- 1545 – Potosí is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.

- 1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

- 1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.

- 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.

- 1826 – Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine."

- 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin

- 1854 – Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.

- 1865 – American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.

- 1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

- 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opens.

- 1873 – The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.

- 1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.

- 1889 – The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.

- 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

- 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.

- 1895 – The Indian Army is established.

- 1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

- 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

- 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.

- 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

- 1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.

- 1935 – India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.

- 1936 – Odisha becomes a state in India.

- 1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony.

- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.

- 1937 – Royal New Zealand Air Force is Formed as an independent Air Force.

- 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.

- 1941 – Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.

- 1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.

- 1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.

- 1945 – World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.

- 1946 – The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.

- 1946 – Formation of the Malayan Union.

- 1947 – Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.

- 1947 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.

- 1948 – Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.

- 1948 – Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.

- 1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 43 and 44 are adopted in response to growing violence in Mandatory Palestine.

- 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.

- 1949 – The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.

- 1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

- 1955 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece.

- 1959 – Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.

- 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.

- 1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.

- 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.

- 1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.

- 1974 – The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.

- 1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.

- 1978 – The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

- 1979 – Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.

- 1986 – Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.

- 1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.

- 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.[1]

- 1999 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

- 2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.

- 2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.

- 2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.

- 2004 – Google announces Gmail to the public.

- 2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

- 2016 – Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on April 1.

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These events are a lot more fun if you put "April Fools!" at the end of them. Like: "Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. April Fools! That guy named Bob was actually Justin's successor and co-ruler." Or: "Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. April Fools! Robert Winchelsey was actually consecrated as Vicar of Dibley!"

Gualimole wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1taC3JjIOkM

https://youtu.be/hKmDGWv9gRk

https://youtu.be/5D2VdaM8OcM

Gualimole wrote:http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2012/05/18/news/economy/unused_vacation_days/chart-paid-vacation.top.gif

Yet another thing the United States should be #1 in, but is actually last in. Alongside test scores, parental leave, and universal healthcare.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole

Jaslandia wrote:Yet another thing the United States should be #1 in, but is actually last in. Alongside test scores, parental leave, and universal healthcare.

Alright, so we're actually closer to the middle than last in test scores, but I stand by the other two!

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Alright, so we're actually closer to the middle than last in test scores, but I stand by the other two!

But we are doing well in military spending and the percentage of adults who believe in angels.

Gualimole wrote:But we are doing well in military spending and the percentage of adults who believe in angels.

The first one is to be expected due to our status as world police, but even then our military spending is bloated. We should be #1, but not #1 by THAT much. As for #2, that depends on your perspective I suppose; I'm agnostic, so I don't really have a dog in that fight.

Jaslandia wrote:The first one is to be expected due to our status as world police, but even then our military spending is bloated. We should be #1, but not #1 by THAT much. As for #2, that depends on your perspective I suppose; I'm agnostic, so I don't really have a dog in that fight.

We are also doing well when it comes to stupid political Facebook posts and the political rants of old men who watch Fox News.

Jaslandia

Jaslandia wrote:The first one is to be expected due to our status as world police, but even then our military spending is bloated. We should be #1, but not #1 by THAT much. As for #2, that depends on your perspective I suppose; I'm agnostic, so I don't really have a dog in that fight.

Highly depends on what you want to do. Arguably, we've cut the military by as much as it'll go while keeping effectiveness up. In fact, it's not much of a stretch to say that Peace Dividends -and the subsequent murder of multiple companies in the MIC- actually only made the cost problem worse. No competition -and let's be honest, it's not really a big pool to begin with- means that prices stay higher than strictly needed, this only compounds when certain sections of our Gov like the GAO shoots any program with a problem in the head before authorizing a new replacement that then gets shot in the head because it got the same problem ad-nauseam till the end of days because of the early 90's.

Frankly, we're already operating at lower numbers than we really need to secure the different zones without significant time spent in Sealift operations to bring men anywhere, but that's something we could handle after breaking out of the Spirograph of decay we so dearly love. If we want to remove more men than we have to bite the bullet on paying more tho since automation in the military has some pretty steep dropoff in returns without pumping more money in.

Huh... got Hyderbourg's card. Nice.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Gualimole wrote:We are also doing well when it comes to stupid political Facebook posts and the political rants of old men who watch Fox News.

Political Facebook posts aren't unique to America, although Fox News ranting probably is.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard got your card. You are a foucking legendary card.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Nuremgard got your card. You are a foucking legendary card.

OMG! I got a second legendary Nurem card!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton

Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!

Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4

The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]2 April 2018

(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)

16:00 The Chancellor hols his weekly conference with the Vice Chancellor

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

[spoiler=Today is April 2 and today are:]

Today is April 2 and today are:

- Dyngus Day

- Easter Monday (Christianity)

- Family Day (South Africa)

- International Children's Book Day

- Malvinas Day (Argentina)

- National Ferret Day (United States)

- National Love Your Produce Manager Day (United States)

- National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (United States)

- National Reconciliation Day (United States)

- Nature Day (Iran)

- Pascua Florida Day

- Peeps Day

- Tator Day

- Thai Heritage Conservation Day (Thailand)

- Unity of Peoples of Russia and Belarus Day (Belarus)

- World Autism Awareness Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0670 – The second Shia Imam Hassan ibn Ali passes away after being poisoned

- 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.

- 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

- 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

- 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.

- 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: The British capture the Danish fleet.

- 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

- 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.

- 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.

- 1885 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.

- 1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.

- 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.

- 1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.

- 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.

- 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.

- 1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

- 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.

- 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.

- 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.

- 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

- 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

- 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.

- 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.

- 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.

- 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

- 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.

- 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.

- 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.

- 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.

- 1992 – Forty-two civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina.

- 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

- 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.

- 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.

- 2011 – India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

- 2012 – A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.

- 2014 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.

- 2015 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 0742 – Charlemagne or Charles the Great, Frankish king

- 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator

- 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author

- 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist

- 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic

- 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet

- 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist

- 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler

- 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet

- 1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor

- 1925 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio and television host

- 1926 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver

- 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director

- 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter

- 1945 – Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter

- 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1971 – Elton, German television host and comedian

- 1977 – Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor and producer

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Quote of the day

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, 1900-1944) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton

Taking a placement test soon. This is a bizzare process.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=Today is April 2 and today are:]

Today is April 2 and today are:

- Dyngus Day

- Easter Monday (Christianity)

- Family Day (South Africa)

- International Children's Book Day

- Malvinas Day (Argentina)

- National Ferret Day (United States)

- National Love Your Produce Manager Day (United States)

- National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (United States)

- National Reconciliation Day (United States)

- Nature Day (Iran)

- Pascua Florida Day

- Peeps Day

- Tator Day

- Thai Heritage Conservation Day (Thailand)

- Unity of Peoples of Russia and Belarus Day (Belarus)

- World Autism Awareness Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0670 – The second Shia Imam Hassan ibn Ali passes away after being poisoned

- 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.

- 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

- 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

- 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.

- 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: The British capture the Danish fleet.

- 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

- 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.

- 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.

- 1885 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.

- 1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.

- 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.

- 1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.

- 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.

- 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.

- 1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

- 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.

- 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.

- 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.

- 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

- 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

- 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.

- 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.

- 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.

- 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

- 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.

- 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.

- 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.

- 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.

- 1992 – Forty-two civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina.

- 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

- 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.

- 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.

- 2011 – India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

- 2012 – A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.

- 2014 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.

- 2015 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 0742 – Charlemagne or Charles the Great, Frankish king

- 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator

- 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author

- 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist

- 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic

- 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet

- 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist

- 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler

- 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet

- 1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor

- 1925 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio and television host

- 1926 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver

- 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director

- 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter

- 1945 – Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter

- 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1971 – Elton, German television host and comedian

- 1977 – Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor and producer

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Quote of the day

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, 1900-1944) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

It's also my birthday, but I guess that doesn't matter.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Gualimole wrote:It's also my birthday, but I guess that doesn't matter.

Oh, I didn't know about that. Otherwise I would have mentioned it.

Happy Birthday, my friend. How old did you get?

Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Oh, I didn't know about that. Otherwise I would have mentioned it.

Happy Birthday, my friend. How old did you get?

I am finally 18.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Gualimole wrote:I am finally 18.

Welcome in the world of adults. I hope you enjoy this very special day with friends and family. :D

Jaslandia, Percyton, Gualimole

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Welcome in the world of adults. I hope you enjoy this very special day with friends and family. :D

https://www.herinterest.com/10-things-you-can-do-at-18/

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Taking a placement test soon. This is a bizzare process.

Good luck!

Gualimole wrote:I am finally 18.

Happy birthday!

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

Today is April 2 and today are:

- Pascua Florida Day

This day in history:

- 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.

And that's how Florida got its name.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Gualimole

Jaslandia wrote:Good luck!

Happy birthday!

And that's how Florida got its name.

I took it and got pretty OK scores considering my two algebra classes were in my first and second year of high school. Arithmetic and Reading Comp were perfect thank god.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:I took it and got pretty OK scores considering my two algebra classes were in my first and second year of high school. Arithmetic and Reading Comp were perfect thank god.

Good to hear. What is the placement test for anyway?

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Political Facebook posts aren't unique to America, although Fox News ranting probably is.

The UK has the Sun, the Daily Mail, and other absolutely sh!t mags so their media isn't too great either.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole

Alruniea wrote:The UK has the Sun, the Daily Mail, and other absolutely sh!t mags so their media isn't too great either.

I would argue Fox News is something a bit more powerful and insidious than those media sources, but I see your point.

Penguania And Antarctica, Great Britain And Her Subjects

Alruniea wrote:The UK has the Sun, the Daily Mail, and other absolutely sh!t mags so their media isn't too great either.

Yeah but these are largely ignored by most of the population and are just newspapers with online outlets. Their readers are ridiculed and it’s widely acknowledged they’re sh*te sources. Fox News is a media conglomerate with control of various sub-companies and other news organisations.

Jaslandia

Great Britain And Her Subjects wrote:Yeah but these are largely ignored by most of the population and are just newspapers with online outlets. Their readers are ridiculed and it’s widely acknowledged they’re sh*te sources. Fox News is a media conglomerate with control of various sub-companies and other news organisations.

That, and the fact that Fox News has the President of the United States as its biggest watcher and advocate.

Great Britain And Her Subjects

Jaslandia wrote:That, and the fact that Fox News has the President of the United States as its biggest watcher and advocate.

Yeah all those papers mentioned are bought solely by builders from Grimsby as far as I know haha. Plus British TV news is regulated by Ofcom and has to be impartial by law, therefore the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are great institutions

Jaslandia

Jaslandia wrote:Good to hear. What is the placement test for anyway?

It's basically to assess whether you need remedial classes or not.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:It's basically to assess whether you need remedial classes or not.

Where?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Great Britain And Her Subjects wrote:Yeah all those papers mentioned are bought solely by builders from Grimsby as far as I know haha. Plus British TV news is regulated by Ofcom and has to be impartial by law, therefore the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are great institutions

Yeah. Being American, I am concerned about free speech and government regulation of speech. However, seeing stuff like Fox News and RT makes me wish we had an equivalent regulatory body in the U.S. We have NPR and PBS as our equivalents to the BBC, but they don't have the same reach and money.

Kalaron wrote:

It's basically to assess whether you need remedial classes or not.

My friend took theirs the other day, actually

Penguania And Antarctica

Alruniea wrote:Where?

Collage, BCC to be exact.

Jaslandia wrote:Yeah. Being American, I am concerned about free speech and government regulation of speech. However, seeing stuff like Fox News and RT makes me wish we had an equivalent regulatory body in the U.S. We have NPR and PBS as our equivalents to the BBC, but they don't have the same reach and money.

Eh, RT is literally cancer but the Russian Gov's propaganda is a lot more insidious than RT could ever hope to be. One look at the old Active Measures should be enough to really sell it, honestly. Fox is deffo smelly trash tho, alongside certain groups that follow this to a lesser extent like Vice and CNN.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Yeah. Being American, I am concerned about free speech and government regulation of speech. However, seeing stuff like Fox News and RT makes me wish we had an equivalent regulatory body in the U.S. We have NPR and PBS as our equivalents to the BBC, but they don't have the same reach and money.

Well RT is a foreign news agency so that would be a different situation.

The fact is that news under capitalistic organization is inherently going to be sensationalized and skewed because they are going for profit toward certain demographics and from certain situations. State media on the other hand can very easily be rendered a vehicle for propaganda.

Jaslandia, Gualimole

Kalaron wrote:Collage, BCC to be exact.

Boston Community College, I assume?

Penguania And Antarctica

Alruniea wrote:Boston Community College, I assume?

Close enough :P

Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Close enough :P

Bristol?

Percyton

Alruniea wrote:Bristol?

Yush

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Yush

Decided university was too expensive? Or are you starting at a community college to reduce costs and transfer to a bigger college later?

Penguania And Antarctica

Alruniea wrote:Decided university was too expensive? Or are you starting at a community college to reduce costs and transfer to a bigger college later?

Second option probably. It's a nice place to start given my current goals and it'll make it easier to get along later :>

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Alruniea wrote:Well RT is a foreign news agency so that would be a different situation.

The fact is that news under capitalistic organization is inherently going to be sensationalized and skewed because they are going for profit toward certain demographics and from certain situations. State media on the other hand can very easily be rendered a vehicle for propaganda.

True, but there are ideal middles in both situations. Local news outlets (barring Sinclair-owned stations) are able to deliver reliable and useful news despite being profit-oriented, and outlets like the BBC and CBC show that state media could work as long as the media organization has some independence from the government.

Kalaron wrote:Second option probably. It's a nice place to start given my current goals and it'll make it easier to get along later :>

What are those current goals, if you don't mind me asking?

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:True, but there are ideal middles in both situations. Local news outlets (barring Sinclair-owned stations) are able to deliver reliable and useful news despite being profit-oriented, and outlets like the BBC and CBC show that state media could work as long as the media organization has some independence from the government.

Local stations are generally better because they just that - local. They aren't really trying to reach a national demographic or in most cases push any real agenda because they understand people mostly watch local news for weather and local happenings. And that is true with those examples but its still very easy to abuse.

Jaslandia

Alruniea wrote:Local stations are generally better because they just that - local. They aren't really trying to reach a national demographic or in most cases push any real agenda because they understand people mostly watch local news for weather and local happenings. And that is true with those examples but its still very easy to abuse.

Fair enough.

Jaslandia wrote:What are those current goals, if you don't mind me asking?

Become a police officer or something to that effect.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Fair enough.

The same thing is true of small business, but you get the point.

Jaslandia

Kalaron wrote:Become a police officer or something to that effect.

You know, I learned about the requirements to become a police officer in criminology and honestly its extremely easy outside of psychological stuff.

Alruniea wrote:You know, I learned about the requirements to become a police officer in criminology and honestly its extremely easy outside of psychological stuff.

Yeah, it's a nice job as well from everything I've seen.

The other thing is that I quite want to continue educating people about the military, so maybe I'll eventually make a book or something but probably not I'd rather just make posts :V

Speaking of which, I might post something I've been working on in a while if people here want to read it.

Kalaron wrote:Yeah, it's a nice job as well from everything I've seen.

The other thing is that I quite want to continue educating people about the military, so maybe I'll eventually make a book or something but probably not I'd rather just make posts :V

Speaking of which, I might post something I've been working on in a while if people here want to read it.

Could join the military.

Alruniea wrote:Could join the military.

I could but I'm basically a chubby soiboi and have relatively little willpower for stuff like heavy exercise or tours of duty or not-sh!tposting so it's problematic :V

Kalaron wrote:I could but I'm basically a chubby soiboi and have relatively little willpower for stuff like heavy exercise or tours of duty or not-sh!tposting so it's problematic :V

You could go for a desk job but okay.

Also you may be the first person I've seen to use the term "soiboi" or any variant of it.

Mercunova

Alruniea wrote:You could go for a desk job but okay.

Also you may be the first person I've seen to use the term "soiboi" or any variant of it.

Always gotta do PT tho.

Kalaron wrote:Always gotta do PT tho.

Yeah true.

Kalaron wrote:I could but I'm basically a chubby soiboi and have relatively little willpower for stuff like heavy exercise or tours of duty or not-sh!tposting so it's problematic :V

Join the Mass SDF when it gets reactivated once again in a few years

Chernarus State wrote:Join the Mass SDF when it gets reactivated once again in a few years

If it gets reactivated :<

It's only amazing if it get's F-35Bs :p

Kalaron wrote:If it gets reactivated :<

It's only amazing if it get's F-35Bs :p

It probably will: it only took 3 years when it got deactivated in 2008, and the longest period of deactivation is less than 20 years

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- International Children's Book Day

Very nice! Of course, I feel on a day like today, I have to promote The Railway Series, the series of children's book that served as the basis for our well-known TV series. The series consists of 42 books, published between 1945 and 2011. The great Reverend Wilbert Awdry wrote the first 26, and then his son Christopher wrote the rest. While the TV series has done a great job of telling our stories and bringing those stories to children all over the world, we'll can never forget the originals that started it all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Railway_Series_books

https://youtu.be/5Gd-xBQSJYg (the very first Railway Series story!)

https://youtu.be/cJYgMWL-Pvc

Alruniea wrote:Bristol?

Duck: Bristol! You're going to school in Bristol, Kal? Wonderful! I hope you enjoy yourself, and please tell me what it's like! I remember back on the Great Western, Bristol was one of our most important stations, and our original main line ran between London Paddington and Bristol. I used to shunt coaches for the big engines at Paddington, and those big engines would go to Bristol all the time, and tell me how great it was! All those fancy Castles and Kings going on journeys to faraway places. I wish--

Hank: Uh, Duck?

Duck: Yes, Hank?

Hank: You're thinking of Bristol in England. Kal is American, so he's probably talking about a place in America. I'm guessing Kal is talking about Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Duck: Oh. That's a shame.

Hank: It's a nice area, from what I've heard. My Driver's cousin from my Pennsylvania Railroad days lived in Fall River, though he never went to Bristol, since I had already been retired by the PRR by the time Bristol was established.

Duck: Yes, I'm sure that Bristol is nice and all, but nothing could compare to the real Bristol. Or, so I've heard at least; I've never actually been there. You should go there too, Kal.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:It's also my birthday, but I guess that doesn't matter.

Of course it matters! Happy birthday, Gualimole!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- World Autism Awareness Day

I feel very silly for forgetting this! On World Autism Awareness Day, I want to give a shoutout to all of our franchise's autistic and autism spectrum fans! [I]Thomas has always been popular among children with autism, because of our slower pace, calmer mood, and in the model series, the fixed faces on our models helped many children with autism learn facial expressions. So thank you to all of our autism spectrum fans, and we hope we've been able to make your childhood brighter!

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Percyton wrote:Duck: Bristol! You're going to school in Bristol, Kal? Wonderful! I hope you enjoy yourself, and please tell me what it's like! I remember back on the Great Western, Bristol was one of our most important stations, and our original main line ran between London Paddington and Bristol. I used to shunt coaches for the big engines at Paddington, and those big engines would go to Bristol all the time, and tell me how great it was! All those fancy Castles and Kings going on journeys to faraway places. I wish--

Hank: Uh, Duck?

Duck: Yes, Hank?

Hank: You're thinking of Bristol in England. Kal is American, so he's probably talking about a place in America. I'm guessing Kal is talking about Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Duck: Oh. That's a shame.

Hank: It's a nice area, from what I've heard. My Driver's cousin from my Pennsylvania Railroad days lived in Fall River, though he never went to Bristol, since I had already been retired by the PRR by the time Bristol was established.

Duck: Yes, I'm sure that Bristol is nice and all, but nothing could compare to the real Bristol. Or, so I've heard at least; I've never actually been there. You should go there too, Kal.

I knew as soon as you liked my comment you were gonna do this.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Whew, this permit test is double spooky dudes.

Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

OK they hyped it way above it's punching weight I literally took four minutes to complete it successfully :V

Massachusetts w h y

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Jaslandia

Kalaron wrote:OK they hyped it way above it's punching weight I literally took four minutes to complete it successfully :V

Massachusetts w h y

To fück with you

Also, what was the permit for?

Chernarus State wrote:To fück with you

Also, what was the permit for?

Driving.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Driving.

Was it a paper test or a computer test. Vermont gives you the option of which one, though I believe the computer one is shorter.

Penguania And Antarctica

[spoiler=Today is April 3 are:]

Today is April 3 are:

- Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day

- Easter Tuesday (Tasmania)

- National Chocolate Mousse Day (United States)

- National Film Score Day (United States)

- National Find a Rainbow Day (United States)

- National Tweed Day (United States)

- Pony Express Day

- SAAM Day of Action

- Southland Anniversary Day (Southland, NZL)

- Weed Out Hate, Sow The Seeds of Greatness Day

- World Party Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 503BC – According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines.

- 0686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

- 0801 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.

- 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

- 1077 – The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

- 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

- 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

- 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

- 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

- 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

- 1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

- 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

- 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

- 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.

- 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

- 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

- 1948 – United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

- 1948 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.

- 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

- 1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

- 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

- 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

- 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

- 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

- 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

- 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

- 1991 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 is adopted in an attempt to reduce tensions between Iraq and Kuwait.

- 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

- 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

- 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

- 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

- 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

- 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.

- 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

- 2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

- 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

- 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

- 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.

- 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 10 and injuring several more people.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1783 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian

- 1863 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer

- 1893 – Hans Riegel, Sr., German entrepreneur, invented the gummy bear and founded HARIBO

- 1922 – Doris Day, American singer and actress

- 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor and director

- 1929 – Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center

- 1930 – Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany

- 1934 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist

- 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host

- 1958 – Francesca Woodman, American photographer

- 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

- 1966 – Michael Mittermeier, German comedian

- 1973 – Dagur Sigurðsson, Icelandic handball player and coach, head coach for the German national handball team

- 1978 – Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player

- 1982 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

- Philip Sidney (English Soldier, 1554-1586) -

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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Driving.

It isn't driving unless you have to shift gears manually. :P

Au Minbo wrote:Was it a paper test or a computer test. Vermont gives you the option of which one, though I believe the computer one is shorter.

Twenty five question computerized test. All touchscreen as well.

The touchscreen was the literal worst thing ever :V

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:It isn't driving unless you have to shift gears manually. :P

Lies, manual is worstual

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Twenty five question computerized test. All touchscreen as well.

The touchscreen was the literal worst thing ever :V

How many can you have wrong to still pass it?

Kalaron wrote:Lies, manual is worstual

If you ever come to Europe or Germany in particular (which I think will be unlikely since you don't have no interest in the weak continent) I will make sure that no automatic cars are available. :P

Jaslandia, Mercunova

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:It isn't driving unless you have to shift gears manually. :P

Manual is best.

I wish my car was a manual :/

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Great Britain And Her Subjects

Au Minbo wrote:Manual is best.

I wish my car was a manual :/

And with that statement you got a rank up on my friends and favourite persons list. :D

Au Minbo

Imo, I've always just preferred automatic cars. I'm sure if I drove a manual as my first car, maybe I'd be different, but I've always driven automatic so that's what I'll always generally prefer.

I don't care if it's automatic or manual. If it's a Mercedes or a Mercury I'm all for it.

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