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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
The term that Unf used was the idea of the "People's democratic dictatorship," enshrined in the Constitution of the People's Republic which stated that the CPC and the state serve on behalf of the people and are their representatives, but may use powers against reactionary forces to preserve the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorial status is supposed to be a necessary counterforce to prevent the PDD from turning into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or some lower form of government.
Now, obviously, the concept never worked and its more than likely that Spanelsko meant that the mainstays of the dictatorship (leadership positions) are elective in nature, but with long terms and more than likely restricted to supporters of the state, similar to the Bjork Confederacy (a nation on NS, they are somewhat democratic in that they have an elective Presidency, but the President-elect serves a life term and their heir serves for 10 years before another election. Their also misogynistic and actively practice slavery, as well as being conservative as hell)
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
Greetings comrades, happy to be back.
Yeah, no. I only rp as a big cute dinosaur. Who's Tse?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
More or less, as mentioned only Class 1 (A) citizens can rule with both the Class 1 and 2 have the right to vote. (Class 1 Iberians and Russians)
Glory to the President!
That sounds more like a slightly-democratic oligarchy than a dictatorship to me, but far enough.
the limit of army is still 1.5 M right? i am asking because i cant find it....
I wanted to add 300.000 new soldiers to my army (the plan i was going to finish 1 month ago)
100.000 cavalry 150.000 Radical Militias (because of Basque) and 50.000 new island russians. (with this change 1.2 M standing army of UFIR)
It is.
Spanelsko
Thank you Kal.
Speaking of military size, what would the max size be for me?
@jaslandia
Did you include a map claim with your medieval application, I'm collating the map now and I can't seem to find it.
Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't include a map, no; guess I never got around to it. I'll post a map claim once you finish collating the map.
Medieval RP is open after a 6 month wait
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
IS DONE
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Same as for everyone else.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=tserra/detail=factbook/id=876783
Check the bottom of the page for some rules.
Vista Major
Tserra
Today is the day we're studying Marx for the first time in my Politics and Philosophy class. I have a question for the people who really know communism out there, as I was researching - a point was made that in capitalism, for obvious reasons 'humans are expendable capital', in that: as soon as costs rise, they can be let go, with much question (given a perfectly capitalist society). My question is, in a not too distant future where we have robots and the like, could a communist society be more easily achieved, or - dare I say it - more appropriate as a result of technological advancements that make humans redundant as capital?
Nuremgard, The Russian Federations, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED
Yes, definetly. That's why the modern left advocate for things like UBI and free housing.
I'd say it probably depends on just how advanced the robots -and the future- really is, and whether we implement strict population controls or not. Our situation is frankly untenable at the current rate of growth, and while I won't say that any amount won't fix it, realistically we ourselves will have to change long before then.
Besides, frankly speaking? I don't see the replacement of certain jobs for an exceedingly long time. Plumbers, for instance.
Eh, my question is more a hypothetical one relating to theory of Marx than the actual probability of an automated future
Axeldonia
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=1&scrollTo=453
IT BEGINS
Vista Major
I've made Census Act edits. Slight, but if y'all want to take a look...
Go right on 'head.
Voting has begun on the Census Act.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/55/census-act-debate-01-bill
Members are urged to keep questions/comments short as the debate period has ended.
Let's see if I can actually follow parliamentary procedure this time
Mercunova
Ah, ok. There's a nickname Tse in The South Pacific too.
Assuming completely optimum conditions -or rather, not thinking about the specifics- means that an awful lot is possible. The answer to the hypothetical, in my opinion, lies entirely in the details surrounding it, IMO, like I said.
Yes, there's a big sect of socialist thought today dedicated to promoting robotics and human workplace redundancy under the impression that when humans are pushed out of the workplace capitalism will attempt to adapt (through the use of a universal basic income) but will ultimately become obsolete and make some form of socialism (perhaps not specifically communism which requires the loss of the state entirely) a more preferable alternative.
The Russian Federations, Axeldonia, Yukona
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=1&scrollTo=458
Finally I get to use my Squibs
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
[spoiler=Today is January 9 and today are:]
Today is January 9 and today are:
- Balloon Ascension Day
- Hōonkō (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)
- Martyrs' Day (Panama)
- Martyrs' Day (Panama)
- National Apricot Day (United States)
- National Cassoulet Day (United States)
- National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day (United States)
- National Shop for Travel Day (United States)
- National Static Electricity Day (United States)
- Non-Resident Indian Day (India)
- Peace Agreement Day (South Sudan)
- Play God Day
- Poetry At Work Day
- Republic Day (Republic of Srpska)
- Word Nerd Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
- 0681 Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
- 1127 JinSong Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty.
- 1150 Wanyan Liang and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Wanyan Liang succeeds him as emperor.
- 1349 The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
- 1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen.
- 1760 Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
- 1792 Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
- 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1816 Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1822 The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
- 1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1857 The 7.9 Mw Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
- 1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- 1861 American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1861 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1903 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
- 1916 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
- 1917 World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- 1918 Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- 1921 Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1923 Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- 1927 A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
- 1941 World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1945 World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
- 1957 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
- 1960 President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
- 1964 Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1965 The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 1991 Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1992 The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
- 1996 First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
- 2004 An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest naval tragedy in Albanian history.
- 2005 Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
- 2005 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
- 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
- 2011 Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
- 2014 An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
- 2015 The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0727 Emperor Daizong of Tang
- 1870 Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge
- 1879 John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic
- 1890 Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author
- 1908 Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author
- 1913 Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States
- 1922 Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea
- 1929 Heiner Müller, German poet, playwright, and director
- 1940 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss journalist and politician, 86th President of the Swiss Confederation
- 1941 Joan Baez, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist
- 1944 Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1950 Rio Reiser, German rock musician
- 1950 Alec Jeffreys, English geneticist and academic
- 1955 J.K. Simmons, American actor
- 1959 Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1965 Haddaway, Trinidadian-German singer and musician
- 1982 Catherine Mountbatten-Windsor, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1987 Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Quote of the day
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
- Bennett Cerf -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
The Talking Point
Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences.
I have failed as a democracy in 1 day.... well at least i can be proud of something......
I am sorry to say this but karola has died.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
I'm very sorry.
Russkov Soviet, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte, Mercunova, Spanelsko
sorry for your loss.....
may she rest in peace......
Russkov Soviet, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte, Mercunova
My deepest condolences.
Russkov Soviet, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte, Mercunova, Cesorion, Spanelsko
Post self-deleted by Minnesota Dakota.
Mine too Jmonte
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte
My sincerest condolences.
Russkov Soviet, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte
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Fellow Citizens
The Government of the Confederacy in its entirety, in memory of the late Fuhrmania, suspends its operations for a day. On behalf of the whole community, our deepest condolences
Thank you,
Cesorion
Chancellor
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Jmonte
Post self-deleted by Russkov Soviet.
Thanks i should have done something sooner maybe she would still be alive if i did. Me, Kari, Jakoh, still needed her. What am i going to tell tell my children that there mom is dead. I should have done something sooner.
Thanks she always spoke highly of you in are talk about this game.
Post self-deleted by Russkov Soviet.
Post self-deleted by Minnesota Dakota.
Fellow Citizens
There is an ongoing conversation on the general Chanell of our discord, that basically has reached that conclusion that we got played. You are invited to have a look. I will not say a lot, other thag acknowledge my frustration.
As such
The Confederate Government continues its operation normally. Parliament is continuing its operations normally. I regret to have been a victim of attention seeking. I apologise for it.
Cesorion,
Chancellor
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Mercunova, Duke The Old Engine
I can confirm that Parliament has unlocked. Voting can resume as normal.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Cesorion
To whom it may concern,
I will not tolerate the faking of an illness such as cancer. I knew someone with brain cancer. It is not funny or appropriate to use cancer to get attention. If the allegations are true, shame on you. I cried for longer than I should've when I heard the news. I do not appreciate you playing with my emotions. If you are lying come forward and I might be able to forgive you.
Au Revoir,
Midas
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Cesorion, Confederal States, Duke The Old Engine
Wait.... Are you saying that Fuhrmania's passing from Stage 4 cancer is possibly a joke? If this is indeed true, I need to know.
Axeldonia, Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota
Ask Cesorion or Vista Major or Mercunova or Axeldonia. What I said is based off of the information I know.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Cesorion
A good portion of us on Discord started noticing things were off about her background, the length of time that bad things seemed to occur, and immediate contradictions in her story. Folks from the ESU that had been with Fuhr before mentioned similar actions done back in their region. I had also noticed some details about her children were nigh-impossible (she claimed her son had Kleinfelter's syndrome, where a child has an XXY chromosome setup, and autism, despite the child only being 4 when almost all cases of the syndrome are noted a puberty and autism being a literal needle in the haystack to inherit along with an XXY chromosome. Further consultation with several doctors confirmed that a correlation is hard to achieve). Similarly, we noted that a person with stage 4 breast cancer would literally be at death's door: simply operating an account while near-dead is pretty easy to gauge the possibility of, while her husband's account was noted to have been resurrected after months being CTE'd.
While she hasn't mentioned anything, Fuhr did pull her Discord account off of the CFN Discord, so we can't contact her there.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion, Duke The Old Engine
I see. {Trust Level: -10} I'll think on things tonight. I won't be home for a few more hours.
Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota, Confederal States
Hold up, I gotta quit this server before I die, brb.
Axeldonia, Oelesa, Confederal States
Depending on how far along we're talking about, I think robot automation of the economy could make economics (at least in regards to employment) itself irrelevant, since robots don't need to be paid, and they don't need a lot besides basic maintenance. Though I think capitalism will still govern the few jobs that robots can't do (mainly the creative and literary arts, but also some customer service jobs).
*sigh* Some people. And to think it isn't even the first time something like this has happened to us. Has anyone else been around enough long enough to remember the Acro/Connor situation. The short version of it is: One of our previous regions (I think it was the first CFN) had a well-respected member named Acro, and he also got cancer. His brother Connor came here to give us updates on his condition, and then reported he died. We honored Acro, and even inducted him into our regional hall of fame. Afterwards, Connor became active in the region, until some members did some digging and uncovered evidence that Acro was all an invention of Connor.
On that note, I'm glad people looked into this. It's always infuriating when people take advantage of our sympathy and kindness to get attention.
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Confederal States
So, I'm hearing something about a member of this region faking cancer for attention? Typical. The things people do for attention nowadays. If you ask me, they probably weren't raised right. In my young days, if children threw tantrums or acted crazy to get attention, they got a solid slap or spank from their parents! And it worked! Or, at least it looked like it worked: I only saw those people at the station when they board and got off my train, so I don't know if they were still quiet by the time they got home. And yes, some parents did cross the line into outright abusive territory, which is despicable. But my point still stands: if more of these young people had been disciplined as children, this kind of stuff wouldn't happen, mark my words!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota, Confederal States
That connor thing was kinda crazy. It was the first time ive seen somsthing like that. But to see it again.. Its really sad.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Confederal States
Not sure I completely agree with your philosophy, but I think we can agree that it's important for parents to raise their children to be kind and truthful.
Duke The Old Engine
Im not much of a supporter in the spanking area. Idc if parents choose that form of discipline, but i wasnt rised like that. My mom yelled, but never did the spanking. She let us know she was upset, took away things we loved, and grounded us. I straighted up real fast when the ps3 was about to go. Maybe its just me, but ive never seen the need to spank. Keep them away from things they love and enjoy, that is punishment enough in my opinion.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Duke The Old Engine
Fair enough. Some children are better or worse than others, and if you parents raised you right without spanking, I say more power to them and more power to you! I think less violent methods (reasoning, stern talking-to, taking away something, etc.) should always be used first to discipline a child, but for some children, that won't work; for those children, spanking is the only language they'll understand.
Jaslandia, Oelesa
Send the trolling scum to Gulag! I will show them TRUE pain!
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion, Confederal States
Or we could not react to the attention grubber and deny them what they want. Just a thoiught ;p
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Cesorion, Confederal States
I come back and first thing I see is Fuhrmania at it again with her fake BS stories.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33252498#p33252498
First news update in a while.
Of all the things to fake... Stage 4 Cancer. I've had some BS here and there, but I learned quickly...
Anyway... Welcome back bud!
Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
[spoiler=Today is January 10 and today are:]
Today is January 10 and today are:
- Fête du Vodoun (Benin)
- Houseplant Appreciation Day
- Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)
- Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands)
- National Bittersweet Chocolate Day (United States)
- National Cut Your Energy Costs Day (United States)
- National Oysters Rockefeller Day (United States)
- National Save The Eagles Day (United States)
- Peculiar People Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 49BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
- AD09 The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
- AD69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
- 0236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1776 Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
- 1791 The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
- 1806 Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
- 1812 The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
- 1861 American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
- 1863 The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
- 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1916 World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
- 1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1954 BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
- 1962 Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- 1966 Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1981 Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 1984 Holy SeeUnited States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
- 1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1990 Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
- 2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
- 2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- 2015 A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
- 2015 A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1769 Michel Ney, French general
- 1797 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer and composer
- 1908 Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director
- 1916 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter
- 1947 Peer Steinbrück, German politician, former German Minister of Finance
- 1949 George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman
- 1953 Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter
- 1960 Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1987 César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
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Quote of the day
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
[spoiler=Today is January 11 and today are:]
Today is January 11 and today are:
- Children's Day (Tunisia)
- Eugenio María de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
- Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
- Kagami biraki (Japan)
- Kosrae Constitution Day (Micronesia)
- Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
- National Arkansas Day (United States)
- National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (United States)
- National Milk Day (United States)
- National Step in the Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Albania)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teamsthe Blues and the Greensin the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
- 0630 Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.[1]
- 0947 Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
- 1055 Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1158 Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes king of Bohemia.
- 1569 First recorded lottery in England.
- 1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- 1693 A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
- 1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- 1805 The Michigan Territory is created.
- 1861 Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- 1863 American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
- 1879 The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 1912 Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
- 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- 1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
- 1927 Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
- 1935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 1942 World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1942 World War II: The Japanese attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
- 1943 The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
- 1943 Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
- 1946 Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
- 1949 The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
- 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
- 1961 Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
- 1962 Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
- 1962 An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
- 1964 Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
- 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1973 Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
- 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
- 1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
- 1996 Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
- 1998 Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
- 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2013 One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 0347 Theodosius I, Roman emperor
- 1638 Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist
- 1755 Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1815 John A. Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada
- 1885 Alice Paul, American activist
- 1895 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company
- 1906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD
- 1923 Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher
- 1930 Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter
- 1934 Jean Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1954 Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971 Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1972 Amanda Peet, American actress and playwright
- 1973 Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer and captain
- 1974 Jens Nowotny, German footballer
- 1977 Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
- 1984 Mark Forster, Polish-German singer and songwriter
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Quote of the day
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
This region has become so quiet.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
https://youtu.be/7JKbUWSO2Nw?t=3s
For about a day, yes. A bit more inactive than usual, but it's not too terrible.
Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
oh look
more ghey stuff
what a surprise
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota
I like your flag and pre-title.
Penguania And Antarctica
110% serious here, a combination of school, the Undertale Musical, and design work has sapped my attention tbh. As we speak tho, I am writing up a new post.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Haven't been the same after "Cancergate". That and I've been busy.
Minnesota Dakota
Thank you! I am changing it depending on who takes power in my nation.
Penguania And Antarctica
Who is in power now?
Penguania And Antarctica
A Democrat, Bail Organa.
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, okay. Do you have overseas dominions?
Penguania And Antarctica
No. If you are asking about Imperial, it is because of the Empress.
Penguania And Antarctica
Ah okay, so you're not an empire then.
Penguania And Antarctica
Here is how I think about it. There are Soviet-esque Republics, each republic is a Socialist Imperial Republic (SIR). I personally call the nation as a whole "The Empire" when I am thinking from the Empress' perspective. When I am thinking from the Konsul's perspective it is one of for different titles; Socialist Imperial Republic(s), Democratic Imperial Republic(s), (Neutral) United Republics, (Fascist) Imperial Republic. If I had my way with Tserra I would have overseas territories. On a previous map I did own Chile at one point.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Sounds complex lol
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
It is. I like it though.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I've brought back an old nation of mine. It will be liberal, matriarchal and ruled by an absolutist queen who is worshipped as a living goddess.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Confederal States
That was this nation at the very beginning. lol
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I just watched a clip of that show Outlander and it bugged me. The main Scottish character says to Bonnie Prince Charlie, "the British have never been a friend to the Scots."
No wonder people think British means English. What he should have said was "the English have never been a friend to the Scots." But the screenwriters seem to think British and English are interchangeable, thus making Scots separate from the British.
Now you all know me. I don't like being called British nor do I identify as it but Scots are legally and geographically British. Hell, after the Union of the Crowns (in Scotland at least) the monarch was referred to as the King of Great Britain. How screenwriters can make such a stupid mistake is beyond me.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
And you have evolved? :P
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
That was because James had a hard-on for the concept of a full British Union. He mandated his title be like that, although it was an unpopular move on both sides of the England-Scotland border and James abandoned any further attempts to bring about his union post-1610 when the English parliament buried his bill on the matter.
Not to dispute how wrong the screenwriters are there, the last bit of what you wrote just implies that the unification of the English and Scottish crowns was the same as the unification of the two states when they were functionally separate, even going to war with each other, for another hundred years.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
Yeah I know they were fully independent kingdoms until 1707. It just annoyed me that the screenwriters were conflating British with English.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Yes. I desired more democracy.
The screenwriters should watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Queen: Ugh, democracy. How populist.
Penguania And Antarctica
Another way to look at my country is that it is like the United Kingdom. In this case the Empress = Queen Elizabeth II, the SIR's = the Kingdoms and the Konsul = the Prime Minister.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
In my nation the Dawn Isles, there is the Queen who is revered as a living goddess. Below her are the nobility, the most notable of which are the chiefs of the various tribes of the nation. I was thinking that the monarchy is elective. The tribal leaders all come together to select one of their own to rule.
Minnesota Dakota
Vista Major has a somewhat similar model. We're the Grand Republic, made up of several state Republics. But each Republic adopts a standard title.
Would you like to own some overseas territories together, fren?
Nuremgard, Minnesota Dakota
That nation is like the Catholic Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF8I_r9XT7A
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Sure. What territories? If I ask Tse for anything they will say no.
True. The Queen is like the monarch, pope and god all rolled into one. I need a snazzy name for the prime minister though. Lady of the Sword will be the head of the army, Lady of the Sea/Ships will be head of the navy, Lady of the Air will be head of the air force etc.
Minnesota Dakota
The Goddess' Hand? I don't know if I can help.
Nuremgard
Good suggestion. The Grand Lady?
Minnesota Dakota
I like that.
Nuremgard
Thanks. I also need a cool national animal. I want something mythical or mystical. It's currently the dragon but I was thinking they might have a sea-based national animal since their country is made of up of islands.
Minnesota Dakota
The Unicorn of the Sea. (Totally not the narwhal.)
Nuremgard
Oh, I know! I am stuck between the kelpie and hippocamp. The kelpie would be cool since it can go on land and in sea, and is a Scottish monster. Scotland is close to Scandinavia (the country has a culture of warrior women like the Valkyries.) But the hippocamp could also work because there is also Greek elements (warrior women like the Amazons, the capital will be called Mount Amazon.) And the idea of the women riding the hippocampi into battle is cool.
Choices, choices.
What about mixing the two. A woman that shapeshifts into a hippocamp.
Nuremgard
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