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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Vis, I'm the one that holds the information portaining to both Shirley and Argentum. I'm the Swami and the Protector. We don't even have the position of "Unholy Seer"
Jaslandia, Killdash, Lavan Tiri
shudders
Lavan Tiri
I like snow
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Humpheria Major
I also like snow
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Snow is evil.
Lavan Tiri
Nice flag.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Oelesa
Too bad we're not getting literally any this year.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
I live in Florida, so we never get snow. I did see snow back when I lived in New York, but I was too young to remember it.
Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
it's like flour but cold
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Do you know how snow feels?
Ever built a snowman?
Ever did a snowball battle?
Or are you scared by snow because you don't know what it is?
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo
Redneck American: "Y'all get snow in Ger-many?!"
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
No, no, no, and no. If anything, I'm looking forward to seeing snow, since I'll be seeing it in Switzerland when I go on a trip to Europe with some classmates this summer.
Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
And Microsoft lives on in our collective hearts, I forgot that.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
The Parlimentary Elephant Keeper wishes to weigh in on this debate.
*snickers*.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Of course. Who could forget Microsoft?
Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
It'd be difficult, considering that all regional love poetry is written about her.
In a Maryian sense, of course.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Merry Christmas Eve, ya rascals! And a Happy Hanukkah to those of us lighting the menorah tonight!
Jaslandia, Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
And Festivus for partyhards still greasing the pole.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
"Greasing the pole" must mean something entirely different than what I'd assume.
Unless it doesn't. In which case, good on those Festivus observers! Getting more than I am this holiday season.
Jaslandia, Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
https://youtu.be/6A9-lmQWhDY
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah, it's been a pretty romantically deadened Christmas for myself. Ballads are on the radio, but it's just me and a bottle of Schnapps tonight. Ah well, another day, another time, we'll see.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I hear that. It's been me and a few martinis each night this week. Don't get me wrong- martinis make great company. But still.
Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hold in their brother
Killdash, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Gin or vodka?
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
This guy is asking the right question.
Gin. Always gin.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao
Mead. Always mead.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao
Shoveling for 2 hours in -20 degrees (Celsius) is so much fun
https://media.giphy.com/media/103zwPKmLDfzfW/giphy.gif
Lavan Tiri
A mead martini, Rev?!
I hereby declare our Chief Justice insane. Insane.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm a little less picky. I'll drink any cocktail invented before 1950.
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Mead, straight, room temperature.
That is my drink of choice.
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao
Makes a good Civil War general. And a good reservoir.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra
And office supply company.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
And a good Chairman of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood_Mead
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao
Jas, for Christmas I may just organize for you a Wikipedia intervention.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao
How did you settle on mead as your drink of choice?
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths
We've been through this, my dear Mdogao.
Insanity.
But in all honesty, I too am curious. Beyond the fact that Rev is very much an old soul.
Lavan Tiri
Like 1000 years old?
Also, Rev = Tserra?
Lavan Tiri
Hey, "celsius"! Someone not from the US, Liberia, or Myanmar.
Yeah, Rev is Tserra. Seems most call him Tse now, but I know him from his Rev days.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't have a problem! I can quit whenever I want!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remixes:_Oso_Eho_Foni_%26_Aftos_Pou_Perimeno#/random
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-Baltic_Party#/random
Lavan Tiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-A0_O0vUo
Lavan Tiri
Because I drink mead all the time, and I enjoy the way it tastes. Its just...good.
Yes, I am Tse, but I am also Rev, because I am a christian minister, commonly called a Reverend, thus, Rev. There are other reasons behind Rev, but none that are more relevant.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Chance of rain over here... :p
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Merry Xmas!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Almost forgot: opossum's outside my house walking im circles
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Right back atcha
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey all, merry Christmas! :D
So, I have finalized my plan to ensure that conflicts of interest are kept to a minimum.
From Monday on, neither Monitors or the Admin (That's me! :D ) will have a job in any ministry of the Government, nor will they run for President.
As such, Unfallious and Tserra both (In my honest opinion, wisely seeing as they are literally the best in the Judiciary) have agreed to stop being Monitors (They will instead have Judicial roles) while Sulania has agreed to resign from the position of Minister of Justice effective immediately.
Next, I have decided to write a factbook detailing every action done by the Administrative team on Discord, it will be updated Monthly.
Anywho, I've already talked to Tserra about me resigning from the Supreme Court, so everything should be set.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Humpheria Major
Ever changing times, I see
Tis the season
Lavan Tiri, Andromitus
Why is it a conflict if they are ministers but not if they are judges?
Lavan Tiri
Wat?
He said all the judges (Kal, Unf, and Tserra) who are monitors would be resigning from either the Bench or being a monitor.
Lavan Tiri, Kalaron
Pope Francis is killing Christmas Mass in Rome!
Lavan Tiri
Shucks. I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one again :/
I mean, I was also Delegate for 419 days so it's not like my job was just being female. Not that I want the position here because honestly I'm way too busy irl now and after a year I definitely burned out and got tired of government work. Still though, I'll find something to do! You guys have a newspaper, maybe I can write for that in my free time.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Lavan Tiri, Magnatronia
If I didn't think it could, I wouldn't have resigned :P
Lavan Tiri
Yes, I had misunderstood.
Lavan Tiri
"61 minutes ago: Young money entertainment ceased to exist."
RIP Young Money. Though we didn't always appreciate it, you provided us with loads of entertaining music puppets. You will be missed.
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
It's been literally raining almost nonstop here for the past like five days.
It's Arizona.
It almost never rains here.
And now I'm starting to forget what sunlight looks like since it's been just endless rain this whole week.
Lavan Tiri
Also Merry Christmas!
Merlinton, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Merry Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYGb8VHjRI
:D
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
On another note, what are your guys favourite Christmas movies? Mine has to be The Polar Express
Lavan Tiri, Mdogao
All I wat for Christmas and the Polar Express is the two only things we hear and see every XMas.
It was cool when I was little but now it starts getting annoying.
Lavan Tiri
All I wat for Christmas and the Polar Express is the two only things we hear and see every XMas.
It was cool when I was little but now it starts getting annoying.
I would honestly love that: rain man over here. As of now however, there's a small patter of rain, enough for me to sleep off my hangover.
Lavan Tiri
Merry Christmas one and all!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Merry Christmas!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
5% most average. This is getting worse and worse
Lavan Tiri
Hello friends. I wish you all a merry Christmas. May peace be with you and all you love. And I hope that all your wishes for Christmas come true. :)
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Aphabet Day or No "L" Day
- Children's Day (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo)
- Christmas Day (International)
- Constitution Day (Taiwan)
- Grav Mass Day
- Hanukkah
- Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia)
- National Pumpkin Pie Day (United States)
- Quaid-e-Azam's Day (Pakistan)
- Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas Province, Peru)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 333 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
- 336 First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome.
- 496 Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
- 800 The Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 820 Emperor Leo V is assassinated in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople and is succeeded by Michael II.
- 1000 The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1025 Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland.
- 1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1076 Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.
- 1130 Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily.
- 1492 The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch.
- 1776 George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
- 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
- 1814 Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
- 1815 The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
- 1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
- 1831 The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
- 1868 United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
- 1914 A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
- 1935 Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
- 1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
- 1946 The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
- 1947 The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
- 1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
- 1962 The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
- 1963 Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
- 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
- 1989 Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
- 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
- 2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
- 2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
- 2004 The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
- 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
- 2012 An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1642 (OS) Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician
- 1821 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross
- 1870 Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist
- 1876 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1876 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan
- 1878 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, co-founded Chevrolet
- 1887 Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts
- 1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor
- 1904 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1906 Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1913 Henri Nannen, German journalist and publisher
- 1918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian lieutenant and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone
- 1949 Sissy Spacek, American actress
- 1952 C. C. H. Pounder, Guyanese-American actress
- 1954 Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1969 Nicolas Godin, French musician (Air)
- 1984 Alastair Cook, English cricketer
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Quote of the day
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Merry Christmas snowman and woman!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Die Hard
Lavan Tiri, The Land Of Golden Blobfish, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
^
Lavan Tiri
Merry Christmas, everyone!
https://goo.gl/nRrn5o
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Merry Christmas, everyone! I wish you all a merry and jolly day, and I hope you find lots of gifts and goodies from Santa under your tree!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to one and all! May your day be filled with love and grace and hot chocolate!
<3
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
In Percyton, is Santa an engine or a human?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I sharpen my candy canes so I can kill my enemies with holiday joy. Ho ho homicide
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
He's a human. Just after the Engine Revolution, Thomas and the Supreme Council tried to spread propaganda about an engine version of Santa, but it never really caught on, so the human Santa has remained.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
https://media1.giphy.com/media/Y2nbrJyAR6RiM/200_s.gif
Lavan Tiri
Clearly, a darker subplot to Percyton is revealed.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Have you read Percyton's factbooks? There's been a darker subplot this whole time.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Been a bit busy these past few weeks trying to keep everything fine between me and a few others, and enjoying the December Weather.
I try not to pay attention beyond the obvious, I'd hate to find out that Peng was really a confederation of enslaved kingdoms :P
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Slavery? Of course not! We haven't done that in decades!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
When Bear for some reason suppresses Lat's post e.e
Lavan Tiri
Decades? That's not too long ago.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm almost certain it was a scrolling accident, I'll ask him :P
Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland
>Enjoying December weather
>"December Weather" in Louisiana is 69-80°
>Becomes sad );
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
>Gets some money for Christmas
>Immediately goes on Amazon
Yep, I'm indeed a middle class millennial. :P
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
The Year without a Santa Claus, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Isle of misfit toys and Heatmiser galore <3
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I got a new keyboard and mouse for my computer because the other ones are old and gross. I also got a pocketwatch.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I got a new mouse, a nice MMO mouse with the hotkeys on it.
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Heatmiser? Snowmiser is where it's at.
Lavan Tiri
Got the rest of expansions for CK2, EU4, and got Vic 2 with all DLC and HOI4
This Christmas is great!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
RIP George Michael. Great artist that had to have fallen to the curse of 2016
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND OTHER GENDERS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME: CHRISTMAS EDITION!
OUR SNACKS: COOKIES, CARROTS (FOR THE REINDEER), AND HAM
OUR DRINKS: EGGNOG, RUM, AND MILK
OUR TOPICS: SNOW, CHRISTMAS CAROLS, AND THE 'WAR ON CHRISTMAS'
BONUS TOPIC: HOW DID YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS/WINTER HOLIDAYS THIS YEAR?
BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
So many initials.
Jaslandia, Baxten, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll have milk and cookies.
Snow: I don't remember my experience of it, and I haven't seen snow since I was 1 or 2. However, I will see snow when I go to Switzerland this summer, since me and my group will be staying on a mountain.
Christmas carols: I like them. 'Jingle Bells', 'Joy to the World', etc. I don't think these are carols, but I also enjoy songs like 'The Christmas Song' and 'Have a Holly Jolly Christmas'
War on Christmas: It's just a fake controversy whipped up by some evangelicals and conservatives. Thankfully people seem to be catching on to that.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-war-on-christmas-is-as-stale-as-last-years-fruitcake/
Bonus: I spent time with my family on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. On both days we opened gifts, and had a little dinner. I also watch Christmas specials with my parents to get in the Christmas-y mood, and I help set up some of the Christmas decorations.
Random links: https://youtu.be/FFym8JwlYxY
https://youtu.be/ce8H97Se6Gg
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
I'll just have water and coal, being an engine and all.
Snow: I love snow! Wearing a snowplow can be annoying, but the snow just looks so beautiful, and I'm glad that the children can play in the snow. However, when you get stuck in the snow, that's a different story.
Christmas carols: I love carolers! They always make the season merrier. I like 'What Child is This', 'Joy to the World', and 'Jingle Bells'.
War on Christmas: There's a war on Christmas? How awful! Is Santa okay? Is the UN trying to negotiate a peace treaty? Will all the good boys and girls still get their presents? Could Percyton join the war on the side of Christmas?
Bonus: Every Christmas, most of the engines get together at the Steamworks, Tidmouth Sheds, or Knapford Station, and we have a party. We sing carols, exchange gifts, chat, and generally have a merry and jolly time!
Random links: https://youtu.be/NBVDopuANTU
https://youtu.be/2648rVgzPNE
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Don't worry, Percy; the 'War on Christmas' isn't real. Santa is fine, the good boys and girls will still get their presents, and Percyton doesn't need to get involved.
Besides, if there was a War on Christmas, Jaslandia would be the first to intervene to at least protect Santa Claus and his workshop.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Christmas is winning. It's already eaten Thanksgiving and will come for Hallowe'en next.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Seconded
Lavan Tiri
I'll have the cookies and the eggnog, please
We didn't get snow this year in the Commonwealth :( A darn pity, we were buried in snow last year, as I recall. Welp, that's global warming for ya
I do like carols! But we don't get many carolers around this area :(
War! *huh* What is it good for? *absolutely nothing*
Lol "War on Christmas". The many popes and deacons rolling in their graves atm with that crap
Go out to the movies (saw Fantastic Beasts today), eat some dinner (Waffle House was the only place open this year :P), then eat dessert and watch more movies at home
Dear Santa,
I forgive you for not getting me that mate I always wanted
Sincerely,
A disappointed but optimistic youth
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Heyho, friends. Wish you a nice relaxed day.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Boxing Day (Commonwealth of Nations)
- Day of Good Will (Namibia, South Africa)
- Family Day (Vanuatu)
- Father's Day (Bulgaria)
- Independence and Unity Day (Slovenia)
- Junkanoo (Bahamas)
- Kwanzaa (United States)
- Mauro Hamza Day (Houston, Texas, United States)
- Mummer's Day (Padstow, Cornwall, England)
- National Candy Cane Day (United States)
- National Thank-you Note Day (United States)
- National Whiners Day (United States)
- St. Stephen's Day (Alsace(France), Austria, Catalonia (Spain), Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland)
- Thanksgiving (Solomon Islands)
- Wren Day (Ireland, Isle of Man)
- Zartosht No-Diso (Zoroastrianism)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 887 Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
- 1481 Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
- 1489 The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces .
- 1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 1793 Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
- 1799 Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
- 1805 Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
- 1811 A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
- 1825 Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I but are suppressed in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
- 1860 The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.
- 1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
- 1862 The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans died.
- 1871 Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
- 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
- 1925 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
- 1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
- 1944 World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- 1963 The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
- 1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- 1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
- 1975 Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service.
- 1976 The Communist Party of Nepal (MarxistLeninist) is founded.
- 1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
- 1994 Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
- 1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
- 1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage
- 2004 The 9.19.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting the coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is between 230,000280,000
- 2004 Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
- 2006 An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260 people.
- 2009 China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1194 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1780 Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author
- 1791 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine
- 1837 George Dewey, American admiral
- 1867 John Bradfield, Australian engineer, designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 1872 Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1891 Henry Miller, American author and painter
- 1893 Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- 1914 Richard Widmark, American actor
- 1946 Uli Stein, German cartoonist
- 1949 José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1956 David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
- 1963 Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1971 Jared Leto, American actor and musician
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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