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Oh COME ON NS! I had JUST finished taking care of Percy's Pirate Problem. (Say that eight times fast) Now I got hit by Issue #201 "Jolly Roger Sighted Off The Port Bow!" .... Great. Instead of being the "Protector of the Seas", my Navy is now "the scourge of the Seven Thousand Seas." Oy.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko

Russkov Soviet wrote:Oh COME ON NS! I had JUST finished taking care of Percy's Pirate Problem. (Say that eight times fast) Now I got hit by Issue #201 "Jolly Roger Sighted Off The Port Bow!" .... Great. Instead of being the "Protector of the Seas", my Navy is now "the scourge of the Seven Thousand Seas." Oy.

My naval power nation of the Dawn Isles is proud of you.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:My naval power nation of the Dawn Isles is proud of you.

Well... I have been wanting to raise our naval power up.. xP

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Well... I have been wanting to raise our naval power up.. xP

So you should be happy you're the scourge of the seas! But we warn you not to challenge the Dawns...or else.

Russkov Soviet

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/“its-fighting-mr-invisible”-how-i-went-war-against-stealth-f-20426?page=1

Nuremgard wrote:So you should be happy you're the scourge of the seas! But we warn you not to challenge the Dawns...or else.

I say the same to you Sir/Madam.

Nuremgard

Russkov Soviet wrote:I say the same to you Sir/Madam.

Shall we be friends instead?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:Shall we be friends instead?

Aren't we already? ... Just in case.. SURE

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Aren't we already? ... Just in case.. SURE

Well I meant shall the Dawn Isles and Russkov be friends?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:Well I meant shall the Dawn Isles and Russkov be friends?

That works too xP

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:That works too xP

A communist nation and a tribal empire...a strange alliance. ;)

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:A communist nation and a tribal empire...a strange alliance. ;)

Sometimes the strangest alliances are the most powerful

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Sometimes the strangest alliances are the most powerful

I am sure the Premier and Queen will find common goals to unite them.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Oh COME ON NS! I had JUST finished taking care of Percy's Pirate Problem. (Say that eight times fast) Now I got hit by Issue #201 "Jolly Roger Sighted Off The Port Bow!" .... Great. Instead of being the "Protector of the Seas", my Navy is now "the scourge of the Seven Thousand Seas." Oy.

Pirates of the Caribbean? no i only watch Pirates of the Ruskov sea!

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

Cesorion wrote:Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

Single transferable vote, hands down.

Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion, Vetriutan 2

Axeldonia wrote:Single transferable vote, hands down.

I agree. STV is the best. I think that MMP or even AV+ can do well, also.

IRV is another option, but can't compare.

In my country, I think that supplementary member (parallel voting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_voting) would provide stability

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

MMP :)

Jaslandia, Cesorion

Cesorion wrote:Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

We all know it’s FPTP

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Cesorion wrote:Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

I've always had a fondness for MMP.

https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Yukona wrote:We all know it’s FPTP

Leftist Traitor

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:MMP :)

For obvious reasons. I like it, but in Greece it would be a disaster

Yukona wrote:We all know it’s FPTP

Is that irony?

Jaslandia wrote:I've always had a fondness for MMP.

https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

I noticed

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Topic Starter: Which electoral system do you consider best? Which one would you prefer to achieve proportianlity?

Yeah I'm a fan of STV.

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

[spoiler=Today is January 28 and today are:]

Today is January 28 and today are:

- 2018 Pro Bowl

- Army Day (Armenia)

- Christa McAuliffe Day

- Data Privacy Day

- Grammy Awards

- José Martí´s Birthday Memorial (Cuba)

- National Bible Sunday (United States)

- National Blueberry Pancake Day (United States)

- National Have Fun At Work Day (United States)

- National Kazoo Day (United States)

- Rattlesnake Round Up

- Thank a Plugin Developer Day (WordPress)

- World Leprosy Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.

- 0946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.

- 1069 – Robert de Comines, the Earl of Northumbria, is killed while attempting to subdue rebels in Durham, England. This leads to the Harrying of the North by William the Conqueror.

- 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

- 1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.

- 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

- 1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI, becomes king.

- 1568 – The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.

- 1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.

- 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.

- 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

- 1754 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

- 1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

- 1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

- 1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.

- 1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

- 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.

- 1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

- 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).

- 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

- 1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.

- 1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.

- 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

- 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

- 1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.

- 1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.

- 1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.

- 1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.

- 1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

- 1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).

- 1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.

- 1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

- 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.

- 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

- 1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.

- 1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.

- 1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.

- 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.

- 1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

- 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.

- 1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.

- 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.

- 1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.

- 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

- 1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.

- 2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.

- 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

- 2016 - The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1457 – Henry VII of England

- 1582 – John Barclay, French-Scottish poet and author

- 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician

- 1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American explorer and journalist

- 1853 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist

- 1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland

- 1873 – Colette, French novelist and journalist

- 1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer

- 1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and educator

- 1890 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist and murderer (Birdman of Alcatraz)

- 1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter

- 1929 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player

- 1938 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman and philanthropist, founded Grupo Carso

- 1943 – Dick Taylor, English guitarist and songwriter

- 1944 – Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara

- 1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France

- 1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

- 1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer

- 1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor and producer

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Quote of the day

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

- Saint Augustine (Roman-African Christian Theologian, 354-430) -

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

Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia

Axeldonia wrote:Single transferable vote, hands down.

Specifically STV with some features of Condorcet method, of course. In my opinion, CPO-STV is the best electoral system for multiple winners. For single winner races, IRV does well.

Cesorion wrote:In my country, I think that supplementary member (parallel voting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_voting) would provide stability

What two electoral systems do you support for use in parallel voting?

Hi. I'm new-ish here (used to have an NS account years ago). Call me Hax, or Haxel, or "hey you".

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Eastern Haxel wrote:Hi. I'm new-ish here (used to have an NS account years ago). Call me Hax, or Haxel, or "hey you".

You have the flag of Iraq as your flag. Are you by any chance Iraqi?

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:You have the flag of Iraq as your flag. Are you by any chance Iraqi?

Nah. I just like the flag.

Penguania And Antarctica

Eastern Haxel wrote:Nah. I just like the flag.

Any flag with words on it is dead to me.

Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:Any flag with words on it is dead to me.

But not numbers?

Penguania And Antarctica

Eastern Haxel wrote:Hi. I'm new-ish here (used to have an NS account years ago). Call me Hax, or Haxel, or "hey you".

Welcome to the region, Haxel!

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Eastern Haxel wrote:But not numbers?

If your flag has words or numbers on it that are carefully stylized and have a deeper meaning that does not relate to the wording or numbering itself, then that could count as an exception to the rule. Additionally, my flag is intentionally bad for the sake of humor.

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:intentionally bad for the sake of humor.

Sounds like my love life.

Penguania And Antarctica

Eastern Haxel wrote:Sounds like my love life.

What are your thoughts on the Seduction community?

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:What are your thoughts on the Seduction community?

?_?

Penguania And Antarctica

Eastern Haxel wrote:?_?

That's just a nice name for Pick Up "Artists".

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:That's just a nice name for Pick Up "Artists".

Depends on whether or not their attentions are wanted.

Vetriutan 2

Vetriutan 2 wrote:What two electoral systems do you support for use in parallel voting?

FPTP/PR when having single seat consituencies.

IRV/PR when having multi-seated ones.

In general, I don't like the system. I just think it would do well in my country

Eastern Haxel

Cesorion wrote:FPTP/PR when having single seat consituencies.

IRV/PR when having multi-seated ones.

In general, I don't like the system. I just think it would do well in my country

If it would do well in Canada, why would you not like it?

Eastern Haxel

This "Like" button is the neatest thing ever.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Eastern Haxel wrote:This "Like" button is the neatest thing ever.

When will Max Berry come down from the heavens and give us a dislike button?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Vetriutan 2 wrote:When will Max Berry come down from the heavens and give us a dislike button?

He already has. See those 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' icons next to the 'Like' button? Or is that just an NS++ thing?

Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

By the spirit of Karl Marx, it's done!

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=434927

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia

Vetriutan 2 wrote:If it would do well in Canada, why would you not like it?

Because in my opinion, it's not proportional enough, when we have MMP as a choice.

True, Canada would be way better with MMM. And I think that it would allow both Tory and Lib headed govts, because Tories would also be able to govern on landslide years.

NDP would almost alwayse side with Libs, making a Tory Govt impossible

Vetriutan 2

Eastern Haxel wrote:Hi. I'm new-ish here (used to have an NS account years ago). Call me Hax, or Haxel, or "hey you".

Welcome! I'm Vista ^_^ Feel free to reach out!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Eastern Haxel

Jaslandia wrote:He already has. See those 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' icons next to the 'Like' button? Or is that just an NS++ thing?

Just an NS++ thing.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Vetriutan 2 wrote:Just an NS++ thing.

Funny; NS++ seems to have stopped working for me. I got rid of it a few days ago

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Vetriutan 2

OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR

Recruitment Update

It is my pleasure to announce that the Confederacy of Free Nations has a net gain of eight nations since the start of the term. One of these new nations, Ordenstaat Britannien, has already been granted citizenship.

I encourage all of our new members to apply for citizenship as soon as possible and reach out to get involved. Furthermore, I encourage our current citizens to support the recruitment efforts of this Office as we work to expand our community!

~VM

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Cesorion

Goodnight friends. Love you all. <3

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Cesorion, Spanelsko

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Goodnight friends. Love you all. <3

good night Peng! :)

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:Funny; NS++ seems to have stopped working for me. I got rid of it a few days ago

Huh. Been working just fine for me.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Goodnight friends. Love you all. <3

Goodnight, Peng!

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42857474 a good step towards peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

To all of those who have joined us in recent weeks, welcome to the CoFN!

Just a reminder that if you apply for citizenship, you'll be entitled to voting in our regional elections and get involved with the CoFN government.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona, Cesorion, Eastern Haxel

Nuremgard, I get to do a project on the Scottish Independence Movement. I am happy.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Nuremgard, I get to do a project on the Scottish Independence Movement. I am happy.

Nice one! There are many Yes groups you can write about.

Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Yukona

[spoiler=Today is January 29 and today are:]

Today is January 29 and today are:

- Blue Monday

- Curmudgeons Day

- Duarte´s Day (Dominican Republic)

- Freethinkers Day

- Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

- National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (United States)

- National Carnation Day (United States)

- National Corn Chip Day (United States)

- National Puzzle Day (United States)

- St. Valero's Feast (Zaragosa, Spain)

- Thomas Paine Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali, and the Imamah of the Shia going to the second Imam, Hassan ibn Ali

- 0757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.

- 0904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

- 1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.

- 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.

- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

- 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

- 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

- 1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

- 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.

- 1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.

- 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

- 1863 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.

- 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

- 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

- 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.

- 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

- 1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

- 1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.

- 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

- 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.

- 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

- 1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.

- 1959 – The first Melodifestivalen is held in Stockholm, Sweden.

- 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.

- 1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

- 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.

- 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.

- 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

- 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

- 2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

- 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

- 2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.

- 2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.

- 2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

- 2017 – Quebec City mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1499 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther; formerly a Roman Catholic nun

- 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

- 1754 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio

- 1843 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States

- 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer

- 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer

- 1866 – Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and author

- 1918 – John Forsythe, American actor

- 1924 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer

- 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor and businessman

- 1945 – Manfred Lehmann, German actor and voice actor, German dubbing voice of Bruce Willis

- 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver and sportscaster

- 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions

- 1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer, manager, and politician

- 1978 – Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper

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Quote of the day

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

- William Wallace (Scottish Revolutionary, 1270-1305) -

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

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:- 0904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

It's like Rambo, but for theology.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Duarte´s Day (Dominican Republic)

I don't know who 'Duarte' is, but thank God the holiday is about him! I misread that as 'Duterte's Day' at first, and I thought "Rodrigo Duterte is one of the last people who should get a national holiday, unless that holiday is 'Authoritarian and Human Rights Violating As**holes Day.'"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:I don't know who 'Duarte' is, but thank God the holiday is about him! I misread that as 'Duterte's Day' at first, and I thought "Rodrigo Duterte is one of the last people who should get a national holiday, unless that holiday is 'Authoritarian and Human Rights Violating As**holes Day.'"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte

I also misread that as Duterte.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:I also misread that as Duterte.

Yukona should never go to the Philippines.

Penguania And Antarctica

Vetriutan 2 wrote:Yukona should never go to the Philippines.

Why Yukona specifically?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Why Yukona specifically?

Weed: same reason I'm not going

Penguania And Antarctica

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Weed: same reason I'm not going

Weed? Explain.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Weed? Explain.

Yuk likes weed

Penguania And Antarctica

Mercunova wrote:Yuk likes weed

Not a condemnation btw

Penguania And Antarctica

Mercunova wrote:Yuk likes weed

I'm guessing the Philippines bans it?

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:I'm guessing the Philippines bans it?

Yup

Penguania And Antarctica

Mercunova wrote:Yup

So does the UK but he still manages to get hold of it.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:So does the UK but he still manages to get hold of it.

Phillipines is much less dainty about enforcement

Mercunova wrote:Phillipines is much less dainty about enforcement

Yup. Of all the massive problems Filipino society suffers from, people smoking weed clearly warrants heavy enforcement.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:So does the UK but he still manages to get hold of it.

I mean, true, but I think the bigger problem is the difference in punishments tbh ;p

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Mercunova wrote:Phillipines is much less dainty about enforcement

Considering their president is a guy responsible for massive extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users with death squads when he was a mayor, that's hardly surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Davao_Death_Squad

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Jaslandia wrote:Considering their president is a guy responsible for massive extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users with death squads when he was a mayor, that's hardly surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Davao_Death_Squad

As Billy Mays would say: "But wait, there's more!" When the Phillippines' independent Commission on Human Rights called Duterte out on his support for vigilante and extrajudicial killings, Duterte's allies in Congress set the Commission's budget at a mere $20, and Duterte accused the Commission's head of being a pedophile for caring so much about the lives of children who were killed in these extrajudicial killings. Just... what the f*ck, man?

And, as an added 'bonus', Duterte threatened to bomb indigenous schools after he accused the schools of indoctrinating students with communist ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Human_rights_2

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Jaslandia wrote:Considering their president is a guy responsible for massive extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users with death squads when he was a mayor, that's hardly surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Davao_Death_Squad

Jaslandia wrote:As Billy Mays would say: "But wait, there's more!" When the Phillippines' independent Commission on Human Rights called Duterte out on his support for vigilante and extrajudicial killings, Duterte's allies in Congress set the Commission's budget at a mere $20, and Duterte accused the Commission's head of being a pedophile for caring so much about the lives of children who were killed in these extrajudicial killings. Just... what the f*ck, man?

And, as an added 'bonus', Duterte threatened to bomb indigenous schools after he accused the schools of indoctrinating students with communist ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Human_rights_2

I admire your Wikipedia crawling.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Vetriutan 2 wrote:I admire your Wikipedia crawling.

I do it all the time already, might as well do something with it.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:

I do it all the time already, might as well do something with it.

Jasipedia of the Day

Jaslandia, Percyton

I would like to apologize for embassies closing. As soon as the raiders leave, please TG me, or a government official to make sure we reopen embassies with you. See soon!

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion

The Issue

For a time now, there have been rumours of citizens spontaneously exploding during moments of extreme happiness. You originally believed it to be either an urban myth or a metaphor, but you soon realised that it was no hoax after an ebullient health official combusted in front of you after a long-due promotion. As your security staff were about to hustle you away, your Minister of Information revealed the truth to you. It turns out that the subcutaneous identification chips implanted in Spanelskoans have a few technical glitches, and occasionally explode.

Could this be described as domestic terrorism?

Percyton

Also am I the only one who actually supports the Leader of Philippines?

Spanelsko wrote:Also am I the only one who actually supports the Leader of Philippines?

Yee, probably. IMO he's terrible as a leader and has sold out the defense of his nation for convenience.

Jaslandia

There's an excellent article in last week's Newstatesman I just read talking about Britain's obsession with WWII especially in recent times with Dunkirk and Darkest Hour. It also goes into a lot of the things Darkest Hour gets wrong.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

[Spoiler=Newcomers]Hovensine, Dacia And Carpathia, Eastern Cherokee Nation, Niovar, Lechnograd, Ordenstaat Britannien, Venezzuela, Eastern Haxel[/spoiler]

You have all recently joined our region. On behalf of the Confederacy, I welcome you, and I hope you enjoy your stay. You will find out that we are a pretty active community.

If you haven't already done so, contact Minister of the Interior Lex Caledonia, to gain citizenship or residency status. If you have any questions, my inbox is open.

~Cesorion

Chancellor

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Unfallious wrote:There's an excellent article in last week's Newstatesman I just read talking about Britain's obsession with WWII especially in recent times with Dunkirk and Darkest Hour. It also goes into a lot of the things Darkest Hour gets wrong.

I would argue it was the finest moment of our nation

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Spanelsko wrote:Also am I the only one who actually supports the Leader of Philippines?

Probably.

Unfallious wrote:There's an excellent article in last week's Newstatesman I just read talking about Britain's obsession with WWII especially in recent times with Dunkirk and Darkest Hour. It also goes into a lot of the things Darkest Hour gets wrong.

Dunkirk was a great film.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Yukona wrote:I would argue it was the finest moment of our nation

I'd say Britain's finest moment was the creation of the NHS.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Ireland is having a referendum on abortion. I hope they legalise it.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:I'd say Britain's finest moment was the creation of the NHS.

I'd have to agree with Yuuk, though the victory came through the USSR and the US's massive MIC when it churned up to speed (and through the massive amount of troops deployed by the Allies) the British did contribute towards the sum of what will likely be the last great war. Honestly, the sad thing about WW2 is that battleships lost their "supremecy" shortly after they'd gained it.

Free City Of Rigia wrote:I would like to apologize for embassies closing. As soon as the raiders leave, please TG me, or a government official to make sure we reopen embassies with you. See you soon!

Isn't RHINIA an affiliate of yours?

Kalaron wrote:Honestly, the sad thing about WW2 is that battleships lost their "supremecy" shortly after they'd gained it.

...And not say, the enormous loss of lives?

:P

Jaslandia

Axeldonia wrote:...And not say, the enormous loss of lives?

:P

That was a given IMO. Besides, I prefer to think in a material sense. Poor Battleships lived in a forty-fifty year life-span and only got partially revived because republican dreams of naval memes :<

Jaslandia

Guys, India just reported that an 8 month-old baby was raped by a 28-year-old relative (he is the prime suspect, but it's still developing). To add to that, there were previous cases of rape against a 3-month-old in 2016 and an 11 month-old in 2015

...

What the actual f*ck

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Duke The Old Engine

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Guys, India just reported that an 8 month-old baby was raped by a 28-year-old relative (he is the prime suspect, but it's still developing). To add to that, there were previous cases of rape against a 3-month-old in 2016 and an 11 month-old in 2015

...

What the actual f*ck

I don't even.... This is why I'm a furry. Humans be f*cked up.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Guys, India just reported that an 8 month-old baby was raped by a 28-year-old relative (he is the prime suspect, but it's still developing). To add to that, there were previous cases of rape against a 3-month-old in 2016 and an 11 month-old in 2015

...

What the actual f*ck

As bad as it sounds, I'm not even shocked by stories like this anymore. Seen others like it in the news. More common than what people want to believe. :(

Jaslandia, Percyton, Spanelsko, Duke The Old Engine

Russkov Soviet wrote:I don't even.... This is why I'm a furry. Humans be f*cked up.

You’re telling me Furries aren’t human?

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

Yukona wrote:You’re telling me Furries aren’t human?

Shots fired.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

[spoiler=Today is January 30 and today are:]

Today is January 30 and today are:

- Day of Azerbaijani customs (Azerbaijan)

- Day of Saudade (Brazil)

- Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia)

- Martyrs' Day (India)

- National Croissant Day (United States)

- National Inane Answering Message Day (United States)

- National Plan for Vacation Day (United States)

- School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)

- The Three Holy Hierarchs (Greece)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 516 BC – The Second Temple of Jerusalem finishes construction.

- 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.

- 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.

- 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

- 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.

- 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.

- 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.

- 1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.

- 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

- 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.

- 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

- 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.

- 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.

- 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

- 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.

- 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.

- 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.

- 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

- 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.

- 1925 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.

- 1930 – The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.

- 1933 – Adolf Hitler is appointed and sworn in as Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.

- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs did not survive at the end of the war, including 250 men who were shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.

- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.

- 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.

- 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.

- 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

- 1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

- 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.

- 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

- 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.

- 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.

- 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

- 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.

- 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.

- 1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

- 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

- 1989 – Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

- 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.

- 2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

- 2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 58BC – Livia, Roman wife of Augustus

- 0133 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor

- 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist, invented the Watt steam engine

- 1852 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet and playwright

- 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States

- 1899 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver

- 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse

- 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden

- 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor

- 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

- 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and theoretician

- 1941 – Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author

- 1941 – Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States

- 1951 – Phil Collins, English singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor

- 1962 – Abdullah II, King of Jordan

- 1968 – Felipe VI, King of Spain

- 1974 – Christian Bale, British actor

- 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

- Bil Keane (American Cartoonist, 1922-2011) -

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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Yukona wrote:You’re telling me Furries aren’t human?

Nuremgard wrote:Shots fired.

That's not even a shots fired, many furries contend they're actually animals in the bodies of people.

Crazy, the fandom is crazy.

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

Spanelsko wrote:The Issue

For a time now, there have been rumours of citizens spontaneously exploding during moments of extreme happiness. You originally believed it to be either an urban myth or a metaphor, but you soon realised that it was no hoax after an ebullient health official combusted in front of you after a long-due promotion. As your security staff were about to hustle you away, your Minister of Information revealed the truth to you. It turns out that the subcutaneous identification chips implanted in Spanelskoans have a few technical glitches, and occasionally explode.

Could this be described as domestic terrorism?

Technically no, since I assume it's accidental. Plus, most definitions of terrorism say it has to be performed by a non-state actor, so actions by a government don't count anyway.

Russkov Soviet wrote:I don't even.... This is why I'm a furry. Humans be f*cked up.

*sighs* Why do people do this?

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

- 1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

- 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.

Looks like today is a bad day to be a civil rights protester/advocate.

Unfallious wrote:That's not even a shots fired, many furries contend they're actually animals in the bodies of people.

Crazy, the fandom is crazy.

All fandoms are crazy to one extent or another.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, Duke The Old Engine, Maehren Und Boehmen

Unfallious wrote:That's not even a shots fired, many furries contend they're actually animals in the bodies of people.

Crazy, the fandom is crazy.

Yee, most Furries freely offer up a "yee we don't talk to them" for otherkin.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

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