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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Happy Birthday Au Minbo !! Hope that all your birthday wishes come true and that you enjoy this day with family and friends or other people you love. :)
[spoiler=Today is September 23 and today are:]
Today is September 23 and today are:
- 21st Birthday of Au Minbo
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day
- Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
- Innergize Day
- International Rabbit Day
- Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)
- National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day (United States)
- National Day (Saudi Arabia)
- National Great American Pot Pie Day (United States)
- National Hunting and Fishing Day (United States)
- National Singles Day (United States)
- National Snack Stick Day (United States)
- National Teal Talk Day (United States)
- Restless Legs Awareness Day
- Teachers' Day (Brunei)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1122 Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
- 1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannons and one hand gun.
- 1409 Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
- 1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.
- 1568 Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
- 1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.
- 1642 First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- 1779 American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
- 1780 American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
- 1803 Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
- 1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 1821 Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
- 1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- 1846 Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
- 1868 Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- 1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
- 1899 American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
- 1905 Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
- 1909 The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- 1911 Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
- 1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
- 1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1938 Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Agreement.
- 1942 World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
- 1943 World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.
- 1950 Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282: The first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.
- 1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
- 1973 Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1980 Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.
- 1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- 1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
- 1986 Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
- 2004 Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
- 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 63 BC Augustus aka Octavianus, Roman emperor
- 1215 Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor
- 1791 Theodor Körner, German soldier and author
- 1819 Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic
- 1838 Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist
- 1861 Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH
- 1880 John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer
- 1926 André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch
- 1926 John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer
- 1930 Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
- 1938 Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress
- 1943 Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
- 1949 Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1956 Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1981 Natalie Horler, German singer
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Quote of the day
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePartner -
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, Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Andromitus, Percyton
Hey, Peng. I made my own Germany.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Uh, nice. What is it like?
Nuremgard, Percyton
I have called it The Union of Greater Germany. It is a unified Germany that includes Austria. It is liberal and democratic but has a constitutional monarchy. The Houses of Habsburg and Hohenzollern married to form a single imperial family.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Interesting. How do you come up with all those ideas ?
Nuremgard, Percyton
I'm a saddo who plays NS a lot.
Penguania And Antarctica
You are quite creative. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Danke. :)
The capital will be Vienna since the Greater German solution for unification was supported by Austria.
Beautiful city. I was there exactly a year ago on holiday.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
I'd love to go there sometime. I wonder what Germany would have been liked if Austria remained part of it.
Percyton
Different. Quite different. And if Austria would have been the senior partner it wouldn't be the same I guess.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Maybe Catholicism might have been revived in Germany. Or absolute monarchy may have prevailed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Who knows? *shrug*
https://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dave-Franco-at-the-world-premiere-of-Neighbors-April-28-2014-at-the-Regency-Village-Theater-in-Los-Angeles-California.jpg
He will be the Kaiser.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good looking man.
Nuremgard
He is very. Kaiser Christan Francis Otto Habsburg-Hohenzollern.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Whatever Panty Theft Auto is doing is what we real men want! squeaks nerdy 13-year old Francisco Mendez, stroking his caterpillar-like moustache as he sneaks the chainmail-elf picture into his own pocket. If anything, we should apply this principle to every piece of media we make and import! Instead of making a censor board, you should have an UNcensor board! Give every female huge pair... uh... personality! Add CGI cut-scenes where we can give these ladies what they need! Hell, make sure ALL media is as sexy as hell! Not only it would benefit us men, it would benefit the economy too!
This is probably the most weird event i ever had, BUT in the name of our god, this is now a passed law of our nation. Glory to the old ways.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Forgot NZ election today. Though it might have not been added to the records since polls closed a while ago
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Your aid and your country's aid was a huge help, and we never could have done it without you. Literally, really: If you hadn't found Jerry and given him to us, we would have never found out about any of this. Thank you so much!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Oh, I'm sorry for not mentioning it. My sources didn't mentioned it so I didn't know about it. :(
Cesorion
German election tomorrow. I wonder how many seats AfD will win, if any.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Unfortunately, they will be most probably the third party.
Also, you have very nice desks in the Scottish Parliament
Penguania And Antarctica
First time I am allowed to vote in federal elections. I'm a bit excited. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Unfortunately? They sound horrible. I hope they don't win any seats. And thank you.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
You exercise that democratic right, babe! You go cross that sexy box.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry I might have misread what you said. Are you saying unfortunately as in, "oh I wish they'd get more seats" or "oh they'll end up the third party and that's bad."
Penguania And Antarctica
Cross those two sexy boxes.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Oh, yeah. You get a constituency and regional vote don't you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[B]Do I look like a far-right supporter? Really? Of course I meant the second one.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Apologies. I know you have conservative sympathies so I just assumed.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Nah. Both votes are for the federal election. With the your first vote defines who becomes your represetative. The second vote determines how many seats the party gets in total.
The Bundestag has at least 598 members.
Germany is devided into 299 voting districts. So the first vote determines the 299 direct elected members of the Bundestag.
The second vote determines the number of total seat.
For instance the SPD gets zero direct elected representatives but 20% of all votes means they still get 20% of the seats. It also can be that a party might get 150 direct candidates but just 10% of all votes.
Direct elected candidates always get into parliament.
If a party has more direct elected candidates than seats they won they still get those seats for the direct candidates. That's called overhang seat.
If a party has less direct elected candidates than seats they won the free seats are filled with members from the party list.
A party needs at least 5% of all votes to get into parliament. If a party doesn't have 5% of the votes (lets say just 4.4%) it still can get those 4.4% of the seats if it has at least 3 direct elected representatives.
I know it's complicated. If you don't understand it don't hesitate to ask me or read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
That is quite complicated lol but thank you for explaining.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
German Federal Election Fact #1:
42 different parties will be represented on the ballot.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
42?! You'll have 42 choices on your ballot?!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Not quite. In my voting district there are 14 parties on the ballot.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Ah, cool. How you voting?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Left I guess.
Not voting for Mutti? :P
Penguania And Antarctica
Conservative, not National Conservative. I am centre-right, whereas AfD is far-right. Biiiiiiiìg difference. If I could vote, it would be CDU/CSU.
And the voting system is a bit weird indeed, but it is very proportinal and representative. I like it
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Forgive me for having a full-time job that may require me to put aside certain projects because my focus was elsewhere. I'm sorry that I couldn't get a political logo done for Cesorion. I wasted his precious time trying to modify a logo for him. If I wasted anyone else's time, I'm sorry as well. I'll not waste time anymore. Goodbye.
We have PR in Scotland too but it's different from Germany. We use the Additional Member System. It's okay but could be better. It's far superior to FPTP for sure.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
So, mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation? Considering I've been fond of that style ever since I've heard of it, good on Germany for using a sensible electoral system.
https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
This is a misunderstanding. What I meant was that RS was wasting his own time bothering with me. I could have made it clearer. Sorry
Jaslandia, Percyton
Don't worry about it, Russ; life happens, and plenty of other nations here have had to put stuff on hold due to life getting in the way. You don't need to say goodbye or say stuff like "I'll not waste time anymore;" just announce you'll be putting those projects on hold and try to be as active as you can here.
Percyton, Cesorion
Nah. CDU is not my cup of tea.
Thanks to our founding fathers. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Our majority bonus system is strange also
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I think one of the best systems is the Single Transferable Vote.
Cesorion
And I agree with you. But in Greece, Maj. Bonus provides some stability. Without it, we would never have a Government
Nuremgard
Which ones? Bismarck and co? Konrad Adenauer and co? Friedrich Ebert and co?
Penguania And Antarctica
In Scotland, minority governments and coalitions are the norm. The SNP formed a majority government once but that was a one off. A sort of fluke of the system.
My lecturer spoke about Bismark in my history class this week. A brilliant statesman but his plans were fundamentally flawed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well OK in Scottland, your politicians are more responsible. The apes we call leaders down here can't agree with each other at anything. So either majority or no gov't at all
Nuremgard
The only responsible ones here are the SNP. Labour and the Tories are too tribal. They are blinded by their hatred for the SNP and obsessed with the Union.
Lex Caledonia
Fundamentally flawed? How so? I'd say his plans couldn't have been THAT flawed if he succeeded in his goal of uniting Germany.
Penguania And Antarctica
He may have united Germany but he made conflicting alliances. It could never last. Especially when Kaiser Wilhelm took control.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Bismarck certainly did his best when it came to alliances, so I can't blame him for that. Bismarck tried to ally with Austria and Russia, in the hopes that Germany wouldn't be surrounded if a war broke out, and that its eastern front would be protected; it was Wilhelm II who abandoned the Russian alliance and let Russia ally with France, ensuring Germany would be surrounded in World War I. As for France, war with France was needed to unite Germany, so nothing could be done about that; however, some historians believe Bismarck wanted a more generous peace that didn't involve France giving up Alsace-Lorraine, and if that generous peace had happened, France may not have had so much resentment against Germany which led up to World War I.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
I know one of the aims of Bismarck's alliance system was to isolate France in Europe. At the time, France was the great power everybody feared.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Indeed
Penguania And Antarctica
If it helps, in America we go back and forth on some direly important matters and buzz words are pretty much law by this point.
From the "Star Wars" SDI, the "Turkey" F-35 and the ever present "Over-priced", America has a tendency to boil matters down into sound bytes that are totally incompatible in the long run if not the short.
Penguania And Antarctica
And as promised, here is The Arlesburgh Examiner's article on Jerry. It recaps everything we know about Jerry, and it's just generally a really good piece of journalism.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=889021
And here's the preview in the Regional Newsfeed:
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559237#p32559237
Jaslandia, Andromitus
Indeed, and for a while, it looks like Bismarck was succeeding in doing just that. Then Wilhelm II screwed it all up for Germany.
Great article, Percy! I'm glad it all came together in the end, and that Jerry is now back home on Sodor!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559485#p32559485
More government shizzle (basically large-scale reforms for al-Qarn)
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Ok... I am aware that I need to take anger-management classes. Cesorion, I'm sorry to the outburst. I didn't really waste my time, but rather tried to be helpful before school and work started.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
The founding fathers of the Federal Republic of Germany. So Adenauer and his mates.
Jaslandia
Yes. It looks like they are going into parliament after they couldn't manage to remain in it in the last elections.
Attention The Confederacy Of Free Nations! Roughly in Mid-october, the Great Russian Engine Classic will commence! A co-operation event between Percyton and myself will see over 50 engines taking place in a grueling race from Stalliongrad to Moscow.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Makes me cry
Penguania And Antarctica
Myself and the competitors from Percyton are looking forward to it. It looks like the Mainland also wants to be involved in this (there will be a joint Percyton-Mainland team), if that's alright.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
That's all good and fine... I just hope the tracks get laid in time
Jaslandia, Percyton
If that's your main worry, I can let you borrow some track workmen from Percyton to help set up for the competition. I can't send you too many, since Percyton is busy laying its own tracks for the Ooyre Valley Railway, but I'll do what I can to help.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
It's actually a bit more complicated. We have four lines running between the capitals, but some of the track needs to be reinforced for the race... and we have no idea where. So, we have to inspect the entire length of each line which takes (depending on weather) around 4-5 days. While we would do one at a time, we actually shut all four down to save effort. All rail travel is on the secondary lines...longer but safer.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I see. Maybe I could send some inspectors, then? We have more of those anyway, since the Ooyre Valley Railway isn't at the inspection phase yet.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
I could have made it clearer though, and avoided all that. [Strike]Some much of the fault goes to me
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
My ever best system is this combination of STV and MMP. Let's say we are in Greece, whch has 13 regions.
Citizens cast a vote for local MP, using STV, in multi seat constituencies. The STV procces is followed. 122 local MPs exist
On a national level, they vote for a party. Each region elects six list MPs.
Total 200 MPs
Only disadvantage: 3 meter ballot paper
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's all good. I've nearly finished it. The fonts different, but all I need to do is get my Imgur acct up and post it. It's 3 am at the time of this message, so I'll have it when I get up tomorrow.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Very well. Thanks a lot
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
So I have spent all night (it is 5am right now) pondering the nature of God, faith, reason, religion, mythology, science, ethics/morality, etc. I have decided not to go to Church again because 1) I accidentally stayed up too late haha and 2) I need private time to meditate on my most recent intellectual exploits. I will be sleeping on it momentarily, however, I would like to ask you all for a little help. It is very simple.
What are all of the problems you can think of, that have to do with the following:
1) Christianity
2) Deism
3) Atheism
The more detailed, the better. Thank you, it is much appreciated!
Vista Major
I fulfilled my duty as citizen of Germany. It's very easy. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton, Cesorion
When do polls close?
Penguania And Antarctica
1) The assumption that God is omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. Logically speaking, God cannot be all three of these things; furthermore, the Bible rarely, if ever, says that God is any of those three things. Moving along, there is a serious lack of consensus within Christendom on anything other than the assumption that God and Jesus are real.
2) This is more or less my personal theology regarding God, so I don't find anything terribly wrong with it, except perhaps the fact that we don't know God's intentions, and that we might actually live in a revelationist world disguised as science. We may never know God, so any position on the existence of God is on wobbly ground.
3) Refer back to 2, atheism is on wobbly ground because it assumes that God does not exist (at least in any meaningful manner), so they are on wobbly ground on how the universe even began (before the Big Bang).
If you're interested, I recommend watching Crash Course Philosophy and Theology (separate programs) for some good primers on God(s).
Auxillium
6pm. So in 30 minutes.
[spoiler=Today is September 24 and today are:]
Today is September 24 and today are:
- Armed Forces Day (Peru)
- Constitution Day (Cambodia)
- Heritage Day (South Africa)
- Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau)
- Mahidol Day (Thailand)
- National Cherries Jubilee Day (United States)
- National Gold Star Mothers Day (United States)
- National Punctuation Day (United States)
- New Caledonia Day (New Caledonia)
- Our Lady of Las Mercedes (Dominican Republic)
- Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Saudi National Day (Saudi Arabia)
- Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving
- Tzom Gedaliah (Judaism)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 787 Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembled at the church of Hagia Sophia.
- 1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies.
- 1645 Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
- 1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
- 1674 Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
- 1780 Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
- 1789 The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1830 Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
- 1841 The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
- 1846 MexicanAmerican War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1852 The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
- 1853 Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
- 1869 "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
- 1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
- 1911 His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
- 1932 Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
- 1935 Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
- 1946 Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
- 1946 Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
- 1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 1950 Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
- 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- 1960 USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
- 1968 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
- 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
- 1973 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1975 Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
- 1979 CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- 1993 The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
- 1996 Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
- 2007 Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
- 2009 The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of Long-Range Acoustic Devices in U.S. history.
- 2013 A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
- 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
- 2015 At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0015 Vitellius, Roman emperor
- 1501 Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer
- 1583 Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian genera
- 1625 Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician
- 1755 John Marshall, American captain, jurist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State
- 1870 Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting
- 1878 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet
- 1884 İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey
- 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer
- 1898 Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1902 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran
- 1905 Severo Ochoa, SpanishAmerican physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1911 Konstantin Chernenko, Russian politician
- 1930 John W. Young, American captain, engineer, and astronaut
- 1934 Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat, 7th Secretary General of NATO
- 1936 Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets
- 1941 Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist
- 1946 Uschi Obermaier, German model and actress
- 1981 Ryan Briscoe, Australian race car driver
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Quote of the day
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
- Oliver Goldsmith -
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, Kalaron, Percyton
I just received beanies newest book "Bernie Sandes Guide To Political revolution"
F*ck this toothache.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Auxillium, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima
try having wisdom teeth surgery
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Gargle with camomile tea. That might ease the pain. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Is it just me, or did a lot of aviation- and flight-related events happen today?
Also, Barrow-in-Furness is near Sodor. Have you ever heard of HMA No. 1, Percyton?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I wasn't around on Sodor back then, so I haven't heard of it until now. Most of the engines now on Sodor weren't around back then, though there are a few who were (like Glynn, Harriet, and Caleb). I asked them about it, and while they heard of it and would have liked to see it, there was no way for them to see it back then: the railways of Sodor only extended as far as Ballahoo back then, so there was no direct rail connection to Barrow and the Mainland, and Ballahoo was too far away to see the airship. We could have seen it as it was flying, but that ship broke apart before its first flight (much to Glynn, Caleb, and Harriet's disappointment).
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Restructuring alone wont keep our children ahead of the curve! opines Salvatore Krustofsky, Comptroller of the Spanelsko City District School Board who had been grading everyone on their posture and speeches. What we need to do is make education free and mandatory all year round, fifty-two weeks a year and six days a week. Yes, that means massive spending towards the education budget, but you cant put a price on knowledge. Well, I guess you can depending on how much goes into the budget.
By knowledge you mean better propaganda so our children are as stupid and brainwashed as they can possibly be right?
Jaslandia
This raises an interesting question, begins amateur philosopher Renee van Straaten. Why should we leave an essential commodity such as food up to the whims of profits and greed? The government needs to step in and take control of the food production in this country. You could ensure that every citizen is provided with a well-balanced, healthy meal instead of this overpriced slop. People shouldnt have their health and basic needs held hostage by greedy corporations!
Genius idea, now we can starve our people to death if they say anything against N.C.R.P! From now on Holy empire passes this as an another national law.
Jaslandia
Small report of Holy Empire of Iberia, we officially decided to leave DAWN, all embassies are closed, all citizens that are NOT spanish/portugese have to leave in 2 days otherwise they will be send to slave force. (except for soviets) all our embassies will be closed. Borders closed, trade stopped. More will be revealed in few days in a official statement on the Imperial news propaganda station.
Russkov Soviet
Who'd you go with or would you prefer not to say?
Penguania And Antarctica
Well, election result is not that well. :/
Nuremgard, Kalaron, Cesorion
I voted for the SPD because their chances were much higher than those of the Left.
Nuremgard, Cesorion
Good job! Also fŷçĸ, AfD is in Bundestag
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah, it's a shame.
Nuremgard
I thought Nazis were forrbiden in Germany
Penguania And Antarctica
Because they're not expressing overtly Nazi ideas or using Nazi symbolism, they were permitted. Although their "we must change our attitude to Germany's historic crimes in WW2" sounds quite Nazi to me.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
To me as well
Oy... Stayed up too late and slept to long...
Alright.. Cesorion! I'll get on that logo and figure out why my password is incorrect.
And Sulania has a date..at a certain labratory..with a particular machine..to turn him into a dragon. (I didn't forget)
Anyone is allowed to use this machine...with my permission.
Jaslandia, Percyton, Cesorion
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