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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Screw off mate
Time to call the based stickman...
Molyneuxburg
That it's something he would say
The Citizenship Waiting Period Amendment (Lex Caledonia) is up for a one-week vote ending Friday next, 22 December 2017.
Expect a regional telegram from the Speaker's Office at some point today.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/54/citizenship-waiting-period-amendment
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Awesomeness1221
Give me the reins and I'll lead you all to victory!
You'd lead us to hell, if you had the chance
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
but there is no hell
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
There is you, so therefore there is hell
Because you are hell
So you're saying I would lead us to myself
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Awesomeness1221
This. Person. Makes. Sense.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Yukona
Yes, you man whore
:p
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
That's true. I can't resist your beauty ;)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Awesomeness1221
It's been awhile since there was some decent romance on the RMB
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Fuhrmania, Percyton, Confederal States, Awesomeness1221, Molyneuxburg
It's unfortunate you don't share that trait with me
:)
Nuremgard
B------- ():
Nuremgard
TFW people talk about what they don't have....
You mean like net neutrality?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Awesomeness1221
Or good d*ck?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
Nothing wrong with being a man whore. If I was gorgeous, I'd be one too.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Awesomeness1221
Wtf
Hunty, you ain't gotta be gorgeous
You just gotta be accessible
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota
[spoiler=Today is Debember 15 and today are:]
Today are:
- 2nd Amendment Day (South Carolina, USA)
- Bill of Rights Day (United States)
- Cat Herders Day
- Christmas Jumper Day
- Free Shipping Day
- Homecoming Day (Alderney)
- International Tea Day
- Kingdom Day (Netherlands)
- National Cupcake/ Lemon Cupcake Day (United States)
- National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day (United States)
- National Wear Your Pearls Day (United States)
- Underdog Day
- Zamenhof Day (International Esperanto Community)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0533 Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
- 0687 Pope Sergius I is elected.
- 1161 JinSong wars: Military officers conspire against the emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after a military defeat at the Battle of Caishi, and assassinate the emperor at his camp.
- 1167 Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 1256 Mongol forces under the command of Hulagu Khan enter and destroy the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of their offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
- 1467 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
- 1651 Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders.
- 1778 American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
- 1791 The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Army of the Cumberland finishes the Army of Tennessee as a combat unit.
- 1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
- 1895 Houston received 20 inches (51 cm) snow, its largest snowfall from one storm on record.
- 1905 The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
- 1906 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
- 1914 World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
- 1914 A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
- 1917 World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
- 1933 The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
- 1939 Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
- 1941 The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1943 World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
- 1945 Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
- 1960 Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
- 1960 King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
- 1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
- 1965 Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
- 1970 Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
- 1970 A South Korean ferry, Namyong Ho, capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing more than 300 people.
- 1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
- 1973 The American Psychiatric Association votes 130 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
- 1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan
- 1981 A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
- 1989 Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition of capital punishment is adopted.
- 1993 The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
- 1997 Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
- 2000 The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
- 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
- 2005 Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
- 2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
- 2013 The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
- 2014 Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 37AD - Nero, Roman emperor
- 0130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor
- 1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower
- 1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto
- 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília
- 1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect
- 1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
- 1955 - Renate Künast, German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens
- 1979 - Eric Young, Canadian-American wrestler
- 1986 - Kim Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
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Quote of the day
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
- Carl Sagan -
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, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
The poor in your nation earn over 2 million a year, you only spend money on religion and your government is smaller than my free market totalitarian state.
Mind blown.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Awesomeness1221, Molyneuxburg
http://www.businessinsider.com/f-22-su-35-intercept-syria-us-major-disadvantage-2017-12
This...this is why BI is a terrible source.
papa bless
Minnesota Dakota
So the Massachusetts atternoy General is sueing the FCC over net neutrality
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
The Confederacy of Free Nations contains 116 nations, the 116th most in the world.
fvcking awesome
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Awesomeness1221
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Good. I wish my Attorney-General (Florida) would do the same, but considering we're behind in almost everything, I doubt it.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Well, hopefully there's more than just me; we need a lot more people to save net neutrality.
Vista Major
Hello Russ! Thank you for your sacrifice in protecting our waters! It means a lot! Oh, and good luck with your elections too! I'm sure whoever succeeds you will be wise and able!
Ah, the London Underground. Never been on it (since engines like me wouldn't fit underground, and I don't think underground railways connect to above-ground tracks), but I've heard goods things about it. And considering we have a few engines from the above-ground Great Northern Railway (like Emily and Ryan), so they might be interested in this day.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello Percy! How are you today?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It was good, thank you. Very busy, though; people are starting to either come to or leave Sodor in order to spend the holidays with their families. While Thomas usually takes most of the passengers on the branch line, there were so many passengers, that I also had to take quite a few passenger trains up and down the branch line (I usually pull freight).
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well y'all. Hope you have a better day than I am right now.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I've voiced my opinion on Vista's proposed legislation. I am against it and I hope a few of you may see my points and help prevent this legislation going into law.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/52/secretary-act-debate-12-18?page=1&scrollTo=409
Mercunova, Yukona
Discord is bullying me by not taking me seriously as a political commentator.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart2?spots=8%7C-2%7CLibertarians,1%7C9%7CReal%20Libertarians,5%7C5%7CLibtard%20#1,2.5%7C-1%7CLibtard%20#2,-2%7C-3%7CLibtard%20#3,-5%7C-5%7CPigs%20with%20a%20Proletariat%20Mask,-10%7C-10%7CAnarkiddies,-10%7C10%7CTankies,10%7C10%7CPinochet,10%7C-10%7CKropotkin,-5%7C9.9%7CSorel,0%7C8%7CRace%20is%20Biological,-5%7C5%7CDaddy%20Assad,9%7C0%7CYPG
I crush an attempted coup with the military and it removes all my welfare spending. That totally makes sense.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Search me. Maybe crushing the coup was so expensive, that there wasn't enough money in the budget for welfare spending?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Maybe. The welfare budget was tiny anyway.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Whelp, I've finally gotten into politics. I'm certain this will go well.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=938117
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Y'all forgetting about the Union Party.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is December 16 and are:]
Today is December 16 and are:
- Barbie and Barney Backlash Day
- Beginning of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America)
- Beginning of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses (Philippines)
- Day of Reconciliation (South Africa)
- National Day (Bahrain)
- National Chocolate-covered Anything Day (United States)
- National Sports Day (Thailand)
- National Wreaths Across America Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
- Victory Day (Bangladesh)
- Victory Day (India)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0714 Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
- 0755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China.
- 1431 Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
- 1497 Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
- 1575 An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile.
- 1598 Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory.
- 1653 English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1689 Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
- 1761 Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg.
- 1773 American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
- 1811 The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1826 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
- 1838 Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.[1]
- 1850 The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
- 1863 American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
- 1880 Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
- 1883 Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
- 1903 Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
- 1907 The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
- 1914 World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
- 1918 Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.
- 1920 The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
- 1922 President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
- 1930 Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.
- 1937 Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
- 1938 Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
- 1941 World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
- 1942 The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
- 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
- 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
- 1950 Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight in support of communist North Korea.
- 1960 A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
- 1965 Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
- 1968 Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
- 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
- 1971 The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
- 1978 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
- 1979 Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
- 1979 Jim Marshall plays his final National Football League game. The Defensive end finished with a then-record 282 consecutive games (since surpassed by Jeff Feagles).
- 1985 Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
- 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- 1989 U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
- 1991 Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2013 A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
- 2014 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 145 people, mostly schoolchildren.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1485 Catherine of Aragon
- 1742 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal
- 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
- 1775 Jane Austen, English author
- 1866 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist
- 1901 Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author
- 1917 Arthur C. Clarke, English-Sri Lankan soldier and author
- 1938 Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1946 Benny Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (ABBA)
- 1964 Heike Drechsler, German sprinter and long jumper
- 1969 Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
- 1975 Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1988 Mats Hummels, German footballer
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Quote of the day
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
- Edwin Way Teale -
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, Mercunova, Percyton
Wut
What does that have to do with my party
Nuremgard
Competition.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I mean
Yeah?
I looked all the parties up before making my own :P
Only a capitalist pig in proletariat's clothing would even think about uttering that word.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Union Party vs. Confederate Reform Party? I'm Triggered!
I'm a American Civil War "Buff" btw, and seeing this made me laugh!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Mercunova, Percyton
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
https://youtu.be/GUpaZ0hMso4?t=7m21s
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
TMW Kal gets into the module designer and makes a n u c c
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/391732222392270848/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/391732483994943489/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/391732603134279680/unknown.png
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Kaiserreich Meme]Totalists: Every Chairman a King!
Syndicalists: No man a king!
Radical Socialists: Who is the king?
Social Democrats: Every capitalist a king, with some exceptions, of course.
Social Liberals: Every wealthy donor a king!
Market Liberals: Every capitalist a king!
Social Conservatives: Every God-fearing individual a king in Heaven!
Authoritarian Democrats: Every king a king, with some exceptions, of course.
Paternal Autocrats: Every king a king!
National Populists: No minority a king![/spoiler]
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Confederal States
Auth Dems the best, NEITHER KING NOR KAISER, IRELAND GOES IT ALONE, OOH AH UP THE UB
Vista Major
Nah. Radical socialists are the best because you can get Mahkno as the leader of the Commune of France by going down the Anarchiste path.
Additionally, here's that song I have never heard of before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTJQkhWZekI
Lex Caledonia
Props to anyone who figures out who the person on my christmas flag is :3
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't know what his name is, but I know he was a leader of a libertarian socialist revolution in Chiapas, which is one of the poorest regions of Mexico.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Subcomandante Marcos
Penguania And Antarctica
Did you Google that?
Eyy! My hombres!
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Mexican, brother: I studied the Zapatistas back in 10th grade, plus debates with my family
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
Interesting. It's always great to talk to the natives of the land about a certain topic that pertains to their history.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Friends, family, strangers, lend me your mouse!
https://strawpoll.com/pwxxz9rc
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I chose all of them!
Vista Major
I'll start messing with stuff today or tomorrow then owo
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton
I may or may not price it, bc I haven't really made a game/software that isn't free and I could use the money to make them better :X
If I do price it, it won't be much, prolly around 5 bucks, 10 max
Percyton
It'll be top quality though, and you'll be able to use the flag you made for NationStates
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
took the ripple effect off my flag
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Once I do a substantial amount of work on it, I'll create a Discord server for it (also have it be part nationstates server as well I guess)
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I finally made a flag for my region! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348309972200980480/391836802148859905/image.png
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Is everything alright, Kal?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
ONE IRISHMAN FOR 1000 SYNDIES (genuinely, Im in a game where Im up against an isolationist UB and they just cant invade me, the death toll so far is literally 827 dead in Ireland to 827,000 dead in the Union of Britain).
Irish Rebel songs are class.
Nuremgard, Vetriutan 2
Augh! I hate getting nosebleeds... Their bad enough as a human I bet, but try having a muzzle like us equines. EHH!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Anger intensifies
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Dont worry Yuk, theyre Syndies AND its a defensive war.
https://youtu.be/hPK5KDCGF7g?t=151
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Ah so THATS where the smug boy pic come from
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Giving me the boke here, Yuk.
Éirinn go Brách!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
3 days
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
'Fraid not, bud. Yesterday we put down the dog I practically grew up with for the last thirteen years of my life.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
Until...?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I have holidays/vacation. From Dec 21st till Jan 8th.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton, Vetriutan 2
[spoiler=Today is December 17 and today are:]
Today is December 17 and today are:
- 3rd Sunday of Advent
- Accession Day (Bahrain)
- International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
- Kurdish flag day (Kurdish communities)
- National Day (Bhutan)
- National Maple Syrup Day (United States)
- Pan American Aviation Day (United States)
- Wright Brothers Day (United States)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 497BC The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
- 0546 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
- 0920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
- 0942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.
- 1398 Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
- 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1583 Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
- 1586 Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
- 1718 War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- 1777 American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
- 1790 Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
- 1807 Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 1812 War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
- 1819 Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
- 1835 The second Great Fire of New York destroys 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City's Financial District.
- 1837 A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
- 1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1865 First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
- 1892 First issue of Vogue is published.
- 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
- 1903 The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1907 Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
- 1918 Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
- 1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
- 1927 Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
- 1928 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
- 1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
- 1938 Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
- 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
- 1941 World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
- 1943 All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
- 1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
- 1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
- 1948 The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
- 1950 The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
- 1951 The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
- 1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1960 Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
- 1960 Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
- 1961 Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
- 1967 Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
- 1969 Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
- 1970 1970 Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
- 1973 Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da VinciFiumicino Airport.
- 1981 American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
- 1983 Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
- 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
- 1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
- 1989 The Simpsons first premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
- 2002 Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
- 2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
- 2003 SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
- 2005 Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
- 2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
- 2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
- 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
- 2014 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1960.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1239 - Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun
- 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan
- 1778 - Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist
- 1797 - Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer
- 1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator
- 1908 - Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor and painter
- 1936 - Pope Francis
- 1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and producer
- 1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
- 1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
- 1987 - Chelsea Manning born Bradley Manning, United States Army soldier convicted of espionage
- 1988 - David Rudisha, Kenyan runner
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Quote of the day
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Aquatur, Vista Major, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton
I have made a Google Sheets to help out nations find out their economic and social alignment by using their national statistics. As you can see, I have already put up five examples to help people out. If you want, you can also update your and other's data every time their statistics change. Have fun with it!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13y4yq_kJBOcrtgFu8GwoooYTw64PKruLa6Nb2-fdrxI/edit?usp=sharing
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Good thing us engines can't get nose bleeds. Especially since, if we did get them, we'd have no hands to clean it up, so we'd have to wait for our crew or another human to clean it up for us. Reminds me of an incident that happened not too long ago when Sir Topham Hatt was sick: His dirty tissue flew threw the air and landed on my nose, and since I wasn't able to blow it off, I had to wait until my crew arrived to take it off. You can see me struggling in the background in this clip:
https://youtu.be/9K79dum6ox8?t=2m16s
Oh. I'm really sorry to hear that, Kal. I know how hard it is to lose a pet or animal. It can be hard to process, especially when you've known an animal for so long and grown up with it like you have, but it gets better. And besides, if he was suffering during his last days, then at least now he's in a better place (wherever that may be). I know it's not much, but it's something.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry to hear that, Kal. I hope you feel better soon!
Seriously!?! Even the Civil War had anti-Semitism!?! And what the heck does expelling Jewish people have to do with fighting the Confederacy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862)
Apparently Grant did it because he thought Jews were running a black market for cotton, and due to massive outcry, Lincoln repealed the order less than a month later. Still a bigoted move, though, and it certainly is reminiscent of other conspiracy theories throughout history that have accused Jews of being disloyal war profiteers who are only out to make a buck.
Ah yes, that was a good episode, but maybe not for you. Between the tissue incident and you struggling to pull the express, that day just wasn't your day.
https://youtu.be/9K79dum6ox8?t=6m12s
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Yeah, she was a good old girl. We gave her a good last day and she went out full of food. Least worst way to go I guess. Still, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't look for her for a few seconds when I head down stairs.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Well, it certainely could have been better. Still, at least now I can say that I pulled the express!
Gordon: Pulled the express? Don't be silly, little Percy! You didn't even come close to completing a full run! You're lucky I came to take over the express from you; you could barely get over my hill with the heavy express coaches! How did you get over the hill, anyway?
Percy: I... I honestly don't know.
Of course. It'll take some time to adjust. And at least she had a pleasant last day; she went out happy I'm sure. Especially since she had such nice and caring owners like you and your family.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry for your loss. It's never easy saying goodbye to such a wonderful family member.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh mein Gott!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good point! :p
o_O
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I may turn my ancient Egyptian nation into a matriarchy ruled by a female Pharaoh and women in general.
Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
In two weeks it will be ruled by robots
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona, Percyton
Where are the mods where we need them? I guess they're too busy censoring any mention of punching Nazis on Vetriutan The Antifa Supersolider.
Awesomeness1221
[spoiler=Today is December 18 and today are:]
Today is December 18 and today are:
- Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day
- Bake Cookies Day
- International Migrants Day
- Kayin New Year Day (Myanmar)
- National Day (Qatar)
- National Roast Suckling Pig Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Niger)
- UN Arabic Language Day (United Nations)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 218BC Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
- 1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
- 1499 Rebellion triggeres in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
- 1622 Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
- 1655 The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
- 1777 The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
- 1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1793 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
- 1833 The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
- 1865 US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
- 1878 The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
- 1892 Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
- 1900 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
- 1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
- 1917 The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
- 1932 The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL Championship Game.
- 1935 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
- 1939 World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
- 1944 World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
- 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
- 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
- 1972 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
- 1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
- 1973 The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
- 1981 First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
- 1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
- 2002 California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
- 2005 The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
- 2006 The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
- 2006 United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
- 2015 Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1626 - Christina, Queen of Sweden
- 1856 - J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1863 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- 1878 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union
- 1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator
- 1913 - Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 - Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
- 1946 - Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement
- 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
- 1963 - Nino de Angelo, German singer of Italian descent
- 1964 - Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
- 1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
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Quote of the day
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle -
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, Aquatur, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
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Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
k sounds good
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona
I changed a few things.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Confederal States
Now that I am done with my finals, I will become more active
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's still about a week away, but merry Christmas Sul! And merry Christmas to everyone!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Well, a Happy Advent to you, good sir.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
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