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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Don't worry, I patched up the hole and even added an anti-gay electric defense system.
How much to you want for such a system?
Percyton
Ahhh
'Pparently it wasn't strong enough to me out sunshine ;)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
You don't need to be a Maoist to be a CCP apologist. The party has moved away from the struggle for communism, and has gradually moved towards state capitalism.
1) While your statistic is true, it doesn't point out the lives of the poor in the US and the UK compared to the lives of the poor in China. You presented a number, but didn't really draw a conclusion from it. Tell me, who has a better quality of life, the poor of China, or the poor of the US and UK?
2) That "huge campaign against corruption" is more of a way for Xi to wipe out his political opponents, the Jiang faction.
3) Of course the West's was largely apathetic to the environment during the region's industrial development, but that's no excuse for China to do the same. Two wrongs don't make a right.
4) Just because the problem is worldwide doesn't mean that you can't criticize China for contributing to the problem of inequality. You can criticize both China and other countries for policies that lead to income inequality. Wow, how surprising!
Now go in the closet and lock it tight!
You seem to be this beautiful mix of hateful bigot and world class skeptic...And I don't know how to feel about your existence...*whispers* what are you
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Percyton
Post self-deleted by Constidor.
The hateful bigotry is a thing of the past. It's a joke for me now! And I'm going to use that joke on Cross and Davids, an actual hateful bigot!
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Le Response]
A debate is supposed to be a way to affirm and test your own personal belief, not be some sort of pissing contest about whose belief is better. You test your stances by having other people poke holes in them in a debate. That's how beliefs change over time, and why I've changed mine so often.
Personally, I don't give a damn if I can't convince people of my standpoint so long as I can defend it well. That said, you're right. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, I'm trying to tell you that I disagree with you on not spreading the ideal and explained why (hence the bit about how necessary it is to educate people about the ideology instead of doing nothing).
Since you got it all nice and broken down for me, lemme do the same:
Section 1- There's a reason I added in "Lemme get this straight". It was supposed to be a hint for you to correct me if I was wrong. And, the masochist bit was a sarcastic joke; it's not the first time someone didn't understand my sarcasm/hyperbole, and it won't be the last. Not sweating it one bit.
Section 2- I said what I said, and I stand by it. I don't like people that think sitting aside and not helping spread the ideology is preferable over nothing. That said, maybe you could have been more clear about your "ædenist" ideology, because it sounded like you rebranded environmentalism and socialism into one for a very, very long time.
Section 3- I was trying to say it without saying it directly that we won't be IC friends if you don't believe in spreading the ideal.
At the time of that statement, I was under the impression you were a socialist that preferred the moniker "Ædenist" and didn't like being associated with other Socialists. Now that you've made the distinction that you're not even generally associated with it, oh well. Time to reevaluate.
And I made it clear to point out that Kumania has no expansionist policy. He has literally said it himself that he wants to keep the USCS within itself. That is not expansionism, and that was supposed to be proof of it. Then I said I was the expansionist in case you were confused about who was the expansionist in the situation.
Section 4- That is what spreading an ideal is. Telling them what it is and explaining it to them is spreading the ideology. It may have been from a misunderstanding, but I was under the impression you were flipping out on Kumania for having a policy that was in favor of spreading an ideology.
Section 5- Read the earlier statements. I wasn't trying to convince you of anything. Had I wanted to, I'd do a better job at it. ;P [/spoiler]
Well, I'm glad to hear you've moved past your previous hateful words. As someone who remembers your first visit here, I'm glad we reconcile and focus on the future instead of the past.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Speaking of the future, I have some homework to deal with! See you soon!
Jaslandia, Percyton
1) Curbing those numbers to make it sound better than they actually are was purposeful. I was hoping nobody would point that out tbh.
2) I've never heard of that. More info plz!
3) Sarcasm and snarkiness, man. That's all that was.
4) But making it out to sound like the problem is worse in China as opposed to elsewhere is not right. How can one single a single case out of a trend and make a point but not make a point about the entire trend?
Ok then. See you later!
Here's a brief overview/introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-corruption_campaign_under_Xi_Jinping#.22Purge.22_and_.22factional_warfare.22_hypotheses
Oh, thank the Lawd for the use of spoilers. Take notes, ladies and gentlemen. Tomes belong in spoilers.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
No.
Kalaron
So if we re-invade Vietnam, we can liberate the people and find a descendent of Diem and put them in power. This is a great plan.
^This guy gets it.
And while we're in the business of suggesting terrible ideas, I don't think Spain paid sufficiently for the Maine. So, let's have the US also go to war with Spain.
The Empire Of Handland, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Andromitus.
[spoiler]Please read this entire post, I know its a lot but I mention things that I think you should know for personal reasons - thank you for you time
But why though, your the one that started this debate for, from my opinion, no d@mn reason and after this post I'm not responding to anything else you say on the matter unless its just so ungodly stupid. THANKFULLY this most recent post was both helpful, coherent, and calm so I have to give credit where credits due.
1 - Fair enough, then that was a misunderstanding on my part, apologies
2 - Sweet christ Fired I have over 3 factbooks that just go on and on about my beliefs on Ædenism, i've spent this past freaking year fleshing them out, specifying on them, ensuring clarity. Please, if your going to debate something make sure they don't have everything they want you to know about them laid out in a nice factbook and then claim that you didn't understand what I was saying. Just because I didn't handfeed you the information doesn't mean its not there (:-/
And in case its either not there or I've written it poorly or whatever; (IC) My history involved a vast and expansive Imperial age during the Great war (WWI and WWII); We slaughtered millions on millions, Magnatronia can attest to that. Ædenism really came to prominence after a civil war that ended the Empire, and for the pat 40 odd years we've been attoning for that great sin, and public opinion within my nation has been so radically against spreading it's actually not even funny. The idea terrifies us, especially after the Khutongia incident where cracks in our system allowed for the military brutalization of the African nation of Khutongia in a struggle against Magnatronia; A nation (Khutongia) whom we still aid to this day.
3 - Okay, great, read the factbooks I have taken a years time to write (don't judge that work indirectly gave me an A in English and Creative writing) and realize who I am before what seemed like yelling at me about beliefs I had already stated. Although I thank you for making the IC distinction that I know Vid had a little trouble with, which I'm not angry about btw that was a simple misunderstanding; I love both of you OOC even though we've had a few squabbles here and there, know that I value you both as important members of our regional community and more importantly as friends :)
4 - I said "I'd be happy to", that means that unless someone asks me, if someone else initiates the conversation, we'll share our ideas. We don't go around saying why were great, we keep to ourselves and let them, whoever they are, come to us. However, as you'll read in my factbooks there are those among us that wish to spread the ideology. I personally and at the moment simply do not want that to start happening.
5 - Thats sounds a lot like what I once said about ecoenergy ;P[/spoiler]
Nah, Spain is cool. Just needs Franco again. We must liberate the world from communism.
I also have a terrible idea of my own! What if the US invaded some random country in the Middle East to find WMDs that turned out to not be in the country, and then install a "democratic" regime that would be mired with corruption and sectarian violence? Oh wait, we already did that!
Jaslandia, Friedensreich
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10208114/1/
My hardest work as of late. Please enjoy.
The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Andromitus
And supporting a Wahhabist Kingdom simply because they have oil....
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics
You're thinking small, Handyman. Given our newfound ability at resurrection, we'll form a triumvirate composed of Franco, Oliver Cromwell, and Lady MacBeth. That way we can get rid of socialism, that wicked Queen, and troublesome spots in our clothing all in one fell swoop and be back in our homes before you could say "fair dinkum".
Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica
As long as they have oil, their oppression of women and blockade on Yemen, which means that millions of Yemenis are on the brink of starvation, does not matter. Those things only matter to 'Murica if a country that's not in their sphere of influence does it.
4) Nurem did not make the problem in China seem worse than in other regions. He just pointed out that China has a staggering wealth gap. Additionally, he was pointing out China's wealth inequality, and not international wealth inequality, because the main topic of his post was to point out some of the PRC's vast issues that it has on hand. The purpose of his post definitely was not to explain wealth inequality as a whole.
Friedensreich
"cautious reformers"
https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/1/19/Saudibeheaded3.jpg
Actually, that sounds like the exact opposite of a great plan.
[spoiler=Make sure you read this, [nation=andromitus]]
I'll be honest, I felt like I didn't have to read anything more after you said some things on the RMB and made some agreements with my own beliefs.
For example, I knew from the getgo you were an environmentalist nation because you loved the fact we were. Also, when I first wrote up the Grand Debut and had to give a short explanation of what Market Socialism was, you seemed to really like it. So I figured you ran on a similar system since you liked it so much. I can probably find it again if need be....
I'll give it a read once I have free time. I've honestly been really busy lately (got me an internship at the Democratic Party for Indy for this summer, and I'm also looking for a job to pay for my apartment I'm sharing with my friend next semester.), so I'm not really sure when though.
All in all, I'm admittedly notoriously ditzy/scatterbrained. That's why I don't make a lot of sense sometimes, and why I try to say as little as possible. I know what I'm thinking makes sense, but explaining it in a way where I get it and the other person does too is a real problem for me. Always has been, and always will.
That's why I had to give up my plans for a career in biology; I couldn't write a lab report or explain my findings in an experiment for the life of me. In APBio in HS, I was supposedly so sharp and knowledgeable about biology that the teacher said I put the valedictorian for the class (she and I were in the same APBio class... I have no idea how she got to be valedictorian. There were rumors that her dad paid the school to bump her GPA to a 4.5, so that might be it) to shame, but I just couldn't explain any of my experiments. Like one where I tested animal behavioral responses to the varying emotional speaking tones of human voices (like saying something angry, happy, sad, etc)- I knew what I was doing, but had absolutely no clue how I could explain the logic behind my madness to the rest of the class.
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Jaslandia
While we're at it, let's bring back Ghangis Khan, yeah?
Jaslandia
Gotta love the US' foreign policy sometimes, even if it's for comedic value. People 100 years from now will be laughing in their history class once they read about how our support of terrorists in the Cold War bit us in the ass in the early 2000's, or when we claimed to support democracy when we back oppressive Wahhabist monarchies.
Jaslandia
Completely off-topic, but this is the first time I've seen someone use the nation BBCode inside the title of a spoiler. I wasn't even aware that was possible, and though I probably shouldn't be, I'm impressed.
Merlinton, Friedensreich, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Andromitus
Now that things are cooling down for the day, time for me to play Fallout 4 until 4am trying to build a Vault and destroying the BoS.
The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics
I didn't either. XD
It just worked out through sheer luck!
Jaslandia
Although, when I tried quoting your nation/spoiler BBCode post, I got an invalid BBCode message. The system still let me post and displayed the proper BBCode, but I guess even the RMB message system wasn't aware such a feat was possible.
When I think of U.S. foreign policy, it reminds me much of 1984. A good example of this has to do with Afghanistan. When the Mujaheddin were fighting commies in Afghanistan in the 80s and the U.S. were supporting them, Osama bin Laden, who did a lot to help out the group, was praised as an anti Soviet warrior who would bring peace to Afghanistan[1]. In the modern day, specifically when Osama was killed, the Washington Post put up an article whose headline stated "JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE: U.S. Forces Kill Osama bin Laden"[2]. This hypocritical position on Islamists in Afghanistan really reminds me of how Ingsoc, in the book 1984, would rewrite history to make their current enemy seem like they have always been Oceania's enemy, even though the truth says otherwise.
[1] http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52a1c37869bedd476f5aaefd-960/independent-1993%20(1)-1.jpeg
[2] http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article179292.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/image-1-for-osama-bin-laden-s-death-how-the-world-found-out-gallery-377540123.jpg
You never say our Deal Factbooks on RF Fried ? I did it all the time
Good morning friends :)
Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Percyton, Solla Ultima
*Looks at clock*
*Time: 1:12 AM*
F*cking time zones, man. Anyway, good morning/good evening, Peng!
The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica
Good morning, Peng! How are you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry if I dont get to reply at your TG's in time but I am travelling to Lezha (Albania) today.
Jaslandia, Percyton
*looks at clock* *1:55*
Good Night?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's about 11 PM in the Great State of Wildfires and Soul-Crushing Budget Defecits (California).
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
2:06 in the gay-hating state whose former conversion therapy-believing governor is now the VP!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima
Why is this post now suppressed by [nation=short]Yukona[/nation]?
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh sh*t I think I went to like it and accidentally done it my bad dude
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm doing well. Thanks.
How about you?
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm doing pretty good, thanks! I finished my mail run a little while ago, so now I'm resting before I have to take my first morning goods train.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Has anyone played Nuka-World? Who was your favorite raider gang?
Do trains need to sleep?
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
Oh sh!t. Just saw I totally fvcked up yesterday's DIP. It's a weird mutation of the 22nd and 23rd May. Seems you get 2 DIPs today.
Jaslandia, Yukona
I just went to sleep last night and had to read the RMB for a half hour to catch up.
Had a joke to say but I'm still a fair bit sick.
None, F4 was something I didn't like ;P
I concur.
TBH you go on discord, the gay agenda there will corrupt you.
Merlinton
Honestly, my nation is being reformed to fit my actual views i.e. Classical liberalism is the biggest ideology, but most all other ideologies are accepted as valid, regardless of what others think
Andromitus
Lol
Nice try but the gay agenda will crumble to my devout heterosexuality.
[spoiler=Yesterday was May 22 and yesterday were:]
Yesterday was May 22 and yesterday were:
- Abolition Day (Martinique)
- Battle of Las Piedras (Uruguay)
- Harvey Milk Day (California, US)
- International Day for Biological Diversity (International)
- Memorial Day (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands)
- National Buy a Musical Instrument Day (United States)
- National Maritime Day (United States)
- National Patriots' Day (Quebec, Canada)
- National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
- National Vanilla Pudding Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
- Sherlock Holmes Day
- Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)
- Unity Day (Yemen)
- Victoria Day (Canada except Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Quebec)
- World Goth Day
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[spoiler=Yesterdayday in history:]
Yesterday in history:
- 192 Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
- 760 Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- 853 A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys the undefended Damietta in Egypt.
- 1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 1200 King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
- 1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
- 1254 Serbian King Stefan Uro I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 1370 The Brussels massacre: Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels.
- 1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1455 Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1570 The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps.
- 1629 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1762 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1762 Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII.
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
- 1807 A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 1809 On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
- 1816 A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.
- 1819 The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- 1840 The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1849 Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
- 1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
- 1863 American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
- 1864 American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
- 1872 Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- 1900 The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
- 1906 The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
- 1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
- 1915 Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
- 1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang China.
- 1927 Near Xining, China, a 8.3 quake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
- 1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1941 During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
- 1942 Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1943 Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
- 1947 The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece.
- 1957 South Africa's government approves racial separation in universities.
- 1958 The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relationship of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
- 1960 The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
- 1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1963 Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt and dies five days later.
- 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.
- 1967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
- 1967 The L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
- 1968 The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1969 Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
- 1972 Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1972 Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Sinn Féin in North Ireland following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
- 1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.
- 1987 Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
- 1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1990 North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
- 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
- 1994 A worldwide trade embargo goes into effect against Haiti to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- 1996 The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
- 1998 A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
- 2000 In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
- 2002 Civil Rights Movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
- 2010 An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
- 2011 An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damagethe costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
- 2012 Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
- 2014 General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
- 2014 An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
- 2015 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
- 2017 At least 22 people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1813 Richard Wagner, German composer
- 1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer
- 1891 Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet
- 1907 Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator
- 1907 Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer
- 1924 Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1930 Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician
- 1943 Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1954 Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1959 Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
- 1970 Naomi Campbell, English model
- 1984 Karoline Herfurth, German actress
- 1987 Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
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Quote of Yesterday
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
- Harvey Milk -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
[spoiler=Today is May 23 and today are:]
Today is May 23 and today are:
- Constitution Day or Day of the Basic Law (Germany)
- Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
- Labour Day (Jamaica)
- National Lucky Penny Day (United States)
- National Taffy Day (United States)
- Students' Day (Mexico)
- Vlachs National Day (FYR Macedonia)
- World Crohn's and Colitis Day
- World Turtle Day
[/spoiler]
[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 844 Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.
- 1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.
- 1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
- 1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
- 1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
- 1609 Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
- 1618 The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
- 1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
- 1706 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy in the Battle of Ramillies.
- 1788 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
- 1793 Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
- 1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
- 1844 Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
- 1846 MexicanAmerican War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- 1873 The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 1900 American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
- 1907 The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- 1911 The New York Public Library is dedicated.
- 1915 World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
- 1932 In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
- 1934 Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
- 1934 The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
- 1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
- 1945 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
- 1945 World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces.
- 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
- 1949 The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- 1951 Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
- 1992 Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
- 1995 The first version of the Java programming language is released.
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
- 2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- 2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
- 2006 Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
- 2008 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
- 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
- 2014 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
- 2015 At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
- 2016 Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
- 2016 Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. 184 people were killed and at least 200 people injured.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
- 1848 Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer
- 1883 Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1891 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1908 John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, English trumpet player and composer
- 1934 Robert Moog, American businessman, invented the Moog synthesizer
- 1951 Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
- 1954 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer and actor
- 1958 Thomas Reiter, German astronaut and Luftwaffe Brigadier General, ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General
- 1965 Tom Tykwer, German director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
- 1972 Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
- 1991 Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
- Groucho Marx -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
It didn't work for a Reverend, won't work for you.
That's not true cause I'm Baptist, not a catholic.
Aren't Baptist more accepting of people than Catholics (no offense to my fellow Catholics, but you know what I mean)? And I think he's refering to someone else (I think).
Tserra.
Thats....nice?
Tbh the gay doesn't discriminate.
>11 hours ago: The Seven Kingdoms of Grand Westeros arrived from Osiris.
Man, and I thought Valeria was enough for Nurem :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Your nation should be a radical Nestorian theocracy/republic. Imagine real Iran but with Nestorian Christianity (the dominant Church in the area before the arrival of Islam) instead of Shia Islam.
Should I name my capital St Brendan, or St Brendan's?
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
You know, I find it funny that Kalaron has never clarified what it is from the mire of possibilities yet people never care.
We're moral weapon dealers and that is all we have to do for allies.
Brendan's, IDK why it just sounds better in my personal opinion
Port Evans-Kennedy
What about me?
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Basically the Discord "gayifies" people, even Reverends *nods*.
Penguania And Antarctica
Speaking of Religion and history, you should respond to my TG
I really like your flag! And St. Brendan's sounds better in my opinion
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
But...what? Lol I am so confused.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I'll take a ported NV over it any day, but since Obsidian is probably never going to do that, I gotta take what I can get.
Yukona
Ah, that makes sense.
Yukona
Yea, I do that all the time lol
Yukona
Good horror movies are so hard to come by
Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
Or because you're a fascist oppressor which is my other more sound theory
Says the one who just oppressed a post dependent on another viewpoint ;)
Exactly what a fascist oppressor would say subtly notes down
On what console?
NV is on the PC, Xbox and PS3
Anyone else hate it when you try to add a picture to your factbook and it takes up the entire f*cking page?
Merlinton, Nuremgard, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
You can easily resize it with BB code or an online tool.
Jaslandia, Kivasek, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton, The Southern States Of New America
Imgur.com :P
Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Southern States Of New America
To expand on Adny's point, if you use the edit tool in Imgur you can downsize an image - the good size for factbooks is something like 250-200px, if you want a wikipedia style little image on the side of the text, then just use the format code to float it to the right. Make sure to downsize it and get it right the first time, if it's the wrong size (too small/big) make sure you restart, as it upsizing it from already downsizing it makes it all blurry.
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Southern States Of New America
The thing I did when I got started making sick factbooks was to go look at other people's sick factbooks and hit the button for raw code, and then copy that and mess around with it to make it work for my own sick factbook needs.
Jaslandia, Kivasek, Magnatronia, United Continental States
But....effort
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
Didn't even know ya could do that, thanks!
It's what you need to do for hot factbooks
Merlinton, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Southern States Of New America
^^^ Me ^^^
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Oh my god like last summer when I didn't have anything better to do I spent like, at least two hours formatting factbooks and then about 5 hours each on making issues of the ESU newspaper. I graduated from BB code into HTML and I never took a class or did a tutorial, I just copied parts from different sources and mashed it together and tweaked it until it looked good. Pro coding.
For real though the raw code button is a lifesaver on factbooks. You can check out mine if you need some samples of easy design elements, especially the old political party one from the ESU because even though it's obviously outdated and the info is worthless now, it's still a pretty slick looking factbook entry.
Anyways, if you have any questions just shoot me a TG because I absolutely love that sort of thing! (You too, [nation=short]The southern states of new america[/nation]!)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kivasek, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Yukona, Magnatronia, The Southern States Of New America
Important News
At age 47, President Dan Wells of Perland has died of a heart attack. He was found in his office, finishing the signing of a letter to his mother. He will be buried at Perlin Federal Cemetery, per his own wishes, on Sunday with a 21 gun salute. He was a great Admiral, President, and human being despite his pessimism and distaste for the world. Vice President Connie Trunt has been sworn is as Interim President and will take over his duties for the rest of the term. President Wells, you will be missed.
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Solla Ultima
I remember that paper. Vox Populi, Voice of the people. I was a terrible reporter, but Merlinton was a good editor who, quote righteously, took me off the team when I made almost no contributions XD
Penguania And Antarctica
Howdy ho there Neighbors !
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
St. Brendan. I haven't seen a lot of RL cities use an apostrophe in their name, so St Brendan's just seems off to me.
I generally use Microsoft Paint to resize images, but I'm sure there are other ways.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I started it that way. Look at the Articles of Governance, it still has remnants of that. But later entrants have been more moderate and have diluted the original meaning of the alliance.
But then again it seems like Unfallious is the only real orthodox socialist nation in the RP world at this point
Indeed we do.
I keep misreading that as 'St. Brendam', because Brendam is the name of the main harbor of Sodor. Maybe you should name your capital Brendam?
Hello there, Yuktobanian! How are you?
Sorry to hear that. Here's Thomas's statement:
"The State of Percyton expresses their condolences to the nation of Perland upon the passing of their president Dan Wells. President Wells was an honest and smart man, who led his country with great skill. We wish Interim President Connie Trunt the best of luck, and hope she can continue President Wells' legacy of prosperity and diplomatic deft."
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Empress Mara Sov is saddened at the passing of such an amazing leader. A period of mourning will start, ending the day after the funeral.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
The UK's flags fly at half stand
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
In an effort to be more democratic, the Empress has brought back the position of Prime Minister. The vote will be preferential.
https://strawpoll.com/rc1z7de
Pick the Prime Minister.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Nuremgard offers its condolences to the President's family as well as the people of Perland. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all in this sad time.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
St. Brenden
Yuck. A union flag. :P
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
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Written by Refuge Isle.