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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
How about something that won't break the law?
Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
But that's boring
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
If enough people get involved, then technically speaking it wouldn't be worth it to arrest them all.
#BeGayForADay
No but really, just plaster advertising for it around the campus where they'll protest, if you want to be a degenerate.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
TMW you're reading "It" and the female character openly wonders if the guy sitting next to her on the plane has a "Nice polite college boy cock"
What am I even reading why is this in this book about a cosmic monster in Derry and why does Steven King insist on putting sexual content inside of a book about twelve year olds and said monster.
Does King have a child dungeon in his house?
Nuremgard, Andromitus, Pirate Kingdoms
Who knows, maybe he just likes making people go "WTF?"
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
mmm nice polite college boy cock
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Then don't read "The Stand": a 106-year old black woman is reminiscing about the smell of s*m*n :p
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Lol, you sure are a saucy bunch, lol
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Very much: not a day goes by without the inclusion of a gay joke or playful threat of sodomy :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States
Well who doesn't enjoy a little playful sodomy
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
On a more game related note, I am going to do some Factbook work today and I am wondering what I should do, any suggestions?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
Become glorious Nazbol?
The Talking Point
The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit.
Who could have seen that coming in a nation with racial laws? yes, everyone NS everyone.....
?que?
Nazbol= National Bolshevik
Lol, no thanks
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm going for more of a lawless post collapse Western thing
Penguania And Antarctica
Pirate Kingdoms might be able to help with that; a couple of his nations are anarchies or former anarchies, and one of them I believe involves the collapse of a Western nation.
Percyton
He also wrote a sex scene at the end of the book. All the boys pull a train on the girl. And King also wrote a short story in which he described, in vivid detail, the rape of a young boy outside a library.
Your nation's history, political structure, political parties, general culture, military or religion.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Pirate Kingdoms
You. I like you.
Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Confederal States
Can confirm the child sewer orgy; the library rape was in The Library Policeman, a short story in Four Past Midnight.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is September 29 and today are:]
Today is September 29 and today are:
- AFL Grand Final Friday (Victoria, Australia)
- Biscotti Day
- Day of German Butterbrot or Tag des Deutschen Butterbrotes (Germany)
- Day of Machine-Building Industry Workers (Russia)
- International Coffee Day
- Inventors' Day (Argentina)
- Maha Navami (India)
- National Coffee Day (United States)
- National Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- VFW Day
- Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
- World Heart Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 522 BC Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumata, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 61 BC Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
- 1364 Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the War of the Breton Succession.
- 1578 Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
- 1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
- 1717 An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
- 1789 The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- 1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
- 1848 Battle of Pákozd: Stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- 1850 The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
- 1855 Iloilo was opened to world trade by Queen Isabella II of Spain.[1][2]
- 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1864 The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
- 1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 1907 The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica. The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack. Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
- 1923 The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
- 1923 The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
- 1932 Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
- 1938 The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany's favor. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are not invited.
- 1940 Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.
- 1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
- 1949 The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
- 1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1957 Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
- 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1971 Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1972 ChinaJapan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1988 Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 1990 Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1991 Haitian coup d'état.
- 1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
- 2004 The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
- 2006 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
- 2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
- 2008 Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
- 2009 The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving 189 dead and hundreds injured.
- 2013 Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1240 Margaret of England, Queen (Consort) of Scots
- 1511 Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian
- 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, poet, and playwright
- 1758 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral
- 1867 Walther Rathenau, German statesman
- 1899 László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen
- 1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1931 Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress
- 1931 James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 Robert Benton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1936 Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
- 1943 Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 Michelle Bachelet, Chilean physician and politician, 34th President of Chile
- 1961 Julia Gillard, Welsh-Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1984 Per Mertesacker, German footballer/soccer player
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Quote of the day
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
- Kin Hubbard -
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, Andromitus, Kalaron, Percyton
Can confirm: The United Confederacy Of Texas and Imperii Americana are in the same universe, while San Fernando Valley is in another universe with some contact with U.C.T.: take your pick on which one and I can give a background.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I heard he had described the rapist's...you know what as being like an iron bar. I think King has issues. That or he just writes this stuff to be deliberately controversial.
Penguania And Antarctica
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Can confirm, Sully read the book.
Can confirm, the reason for it is incredibly weird and funny.
Penguania And Antarctica
Sulania What are they "protesting?"
Penguania And Antarctica
Mostly the latter, though King was influenced by an addiction to coke and alcohol early in his career, then when some guy ran him over after the driver tried to feed his dog.
...
Then again, it is Stephen King: descriptive features are very common in his works.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I've never been much of a fan to be honest.
Penguania And Antarctica
The sewer orgy did feel kinda forced in :p
Penguania And Antarctica
Orgy in a sewer. Bev is a classy lassie.
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
I am: at least half of my bookshelf is filled with King's works
...
I am a book geek :p
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
And at 12-years old and with little knowledge of sex sans an attempted "inspection" by her father, a quick learner that Bev.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I mostly have history books on my shelf.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
To be fair she was kissing all the lads in the movie so she was a bit of a slapper.
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Got one on submariners during WWII and one on Bobby Lee that sounds like a porno title :p
I also tend to carry Michael Crichton works for the sci-fi aspect.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Scandalous *fans self with book*
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Eh, the usual. God hates f*gs. Catholics are Satan. That sort of thing.
Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States
You could go with the Rick and Morty easter egg and have the signs say "God Hates You"
Penguania And Antarctica
Off the top of my head, I have: the Harry Potter series, some of the Guild Hunter series, Warm Bodies, Persepolis, In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Children of Maria Theresa, Royal Scandals, Royal Babylon, another royal book, the Bartimaeus series...
Penguania And Antarctica
Usual pish then.
Penguania And Antarctica
I knew of that from Tim and my Sister.
Scariest part is honestly not even pennywise by this point but the kids perversions.
It feels like Friends in the future and a weird '50s cartoon in the past but for the BJ giving hobo pedophile and the orgy too.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm surprised, with it being the US, that they haven't been shot yet.
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Hang on a minute. BJ giving hobo pedo? Does he...do that to one of the kids? They have perversions?
King, WTF?!
Penguania And Antarctica
Basically, Eddie goes to the Neilbolt house and a Hobo is under the porch that offers to suck for a descending order of money until he finally offers to suck for free while reaching a syphilis ridden hand into his own fly if you catch my drift.
He chases Eddie but the kid gets away.
Penguania And Antarctica
(Oh, and Richie thinks about how he wants to see Bev's underwear after calling her "one of the guys"
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't think I'm missing much by not reading King.
Penguania And Antarctica
Its honestly a great book.
The parts where we witness Pennywise take action can often be exhilarating and grusome. It's just that the parts without Pennywise sometimes get a little...blarmy?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Or randy.
Penguania And Antarctica
Why not both? :p
It really doesn't help that Bill is basically Steven King himself.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Couple of King stories (Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Just After Sunset, Everything's Eventual, Full Dark, No Stars, Cycle of the Werewolf, The Regulators, It, Needful Things, The Stand, Firestarter, Cujo, Misery, The Tommyknockers, Gerald's Game, Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Dreamcatcher, Cell, Duma Key, and Under the Dome), then Crichton's works (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next, Pirate Latitudes, and Micro), plus independent novels such as The Army of the Republic (bit too heavy-handed and the characters were all pieces of schieße)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I tried to read a book called The Secret Circle but couldn't get through it because the main character was a bitch. She always acted innocent and sweet, and always played the victim. She steals her best friend's boyfriend because their love is "written in the stars." The actual bitch character, the one we are meant to dislike, was a character I liked because she was mean to the main character.
Trust me, everyone (hell, even the KKK hates them for being anti-American and disrespectful of servicemen) would shoot them if they had the chance, but they're protected under the 1st due to "church" status and a Supreme Court case (admittedly, all the justices despised the WBC for what they had done to cause the case to appear in the first place and they sympathized with the dissenting justice's argument). Either way, if someone shot a majority of the Church or just rampaged against their HQ, it would be seen as assault or murder.
Nuremgard
This is why I'm glad Britain has hate speech laws. They wouldn't last two seconds over here. Gotta' love how they claim to hate America but when they are challenged, they screech like banshees about their constitutional rights. Hypocrites of the highest order.
It's a shame they don't go the way of many cults and commit mass suicide so they can go be with their maker.
Pirate Kingdoms
I know a lot of you won't care, but I've been really impressed with Season 21 of Thomas & Friends recently. First they formally introduced Big Mickey (who really hadn't spoken a word all these years, except for a couple of engines he occasionally talked to) after having him as a nameless and faceless background crane for decades, and then they surprise us by reintroducing Bulgy. Big Mickey's introduction actually inspired me to go talk to him when I went to Brendam Docks, and he's a very nice and polite crane. As for Bulgy, I've updated Percyton's Factbooks about the Little Western Line and Thomas' Branch Line in light of this new information (most of the stuff that happens in the TV series already happened a year or two before the episode aired on TV, but we're contractually forbidden from discussing those events until the episode airs).
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=percyton/detail=factbook/id=831926
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=percyton/detail=factbook/id=831941
History? Culture? And, I might be a bit biased here, but perhaps your nation's transportation system?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Be glad that Fred Phelps and Shelby Phelps-Roper are banned from entry into the U.K., and that no one will give them their request to picket a funeral without someone drowning them out or doing the good ol' "God Hates Figs" or "God Loves F*gs"
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah, I was happy to see those two return too, and I'm glad Big Mickey is really nice. Season 21 has been full of surprises so far.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's going to cost UK taxpayers £61 million to fix Big Ben. That's on top of the billions needed to repair the Palace of Westminster, and even more to repair the Queen's official residences.
Yet we must accept cuts to public services because we must "live within our means." What a joke.
Axeldonia
Could update your military, unless you count the one from 200 days ago as being your current one.
Very small report on Spanelsko. After 12 hours of fighting the coup of National Bolsheviks has been successful and the government of the N.C.R.P. has been arrested by the new government. Spanelsko is no longer Holy Empire and becomes Dictatorship under the new Overlord. Not much changes except for that bourgeoisie is now part of slave force. Racial laws will have a small change with Adenist and communist being accepted while Theocrats are enemies of the state. Communist ideas are now part of the INBWU (Iberian National Bolshevik Workers Union) Glory to the Red revolution.
I... I don't have many books. I read (not often tho) but I am not a reading fan who's life depends on reading.
Nuremgard, Kalaron, Pirate Kingdoms, Confederal States, Spanelsko
I N D Y R E F 2 S O O N
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
YesForever.
Penguania And Antarctica
Aww, I like you too hun. <3
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
What you need is
C H A I R M A N C O R B Y N
https://orig00.deviantart.net/b3e2/f/2015/258/d/5/chairman_corbyn_by_party9999999-d99nqyi.png
Penguania And Antarctica
I used to really like Corbyn but I don't like him now. He is clueless about Scotland and is a British nationalist like the rest of the Westminster lot. I'd still prefer him in Downing Street though.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
"I know a lot of you won't care"
5 people like that RMB post
I guess at least a few people do care. Here are the episodes I was talking about, by the way.
Big Mickey: https://youtu.be/mDHtwYnOzIk?t=31s
Bulgy: https://youtu.be/_j7TYZGsuBE?t=31s
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Y'all, will there ever be an issue where i can choose to abolish income tax? Or how do people do it?
Cesorion
So what do you all think about the Jamaica coalition that's most likely to be Germany's next government?
It has not been tried ever again I think. But I believe it will work
Penguania And Antarctica
There is a Jamaica coaltion in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It was elected earlier this year. And the state didn't go up in flames so it seems it isn't too bad.
Tho I guess there will be tough coalition negotiations since there are quite opposite opinions about a lot of topics.
Cesorion
I made a basic map of my Medieval RP nation. Gonna be making a big factbook about it soon too!
https://i.imgur.com/hSOICs1.png
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, Moldegaard
Nice one
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Cut, cut, cut, cut
I am interested to see what will hapen in the next Austrian election, October 15
Penguania And Antarctica
*tempted to apply*
Andromitus, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Do it; I'm the only one openly planning on being in the East XD
Kalaron, Percyton
What do they believe?
Penguania And Antarctica
Pardon?
What do the parties in that coalition believe?
Penguania And Antarctica
God save Germany
If I get the motivation
Penguania And Antarctica
Christian Democratic Union: Centre-right, Christian Democracy, Social Conservatism
Free Democrats: Centre, Pro-business
Greens: Greens
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Well, least none of them have any of that nasty CWM beliefs among them. That stuff infuriates me.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What do you have against Circus World Museum? Circuses aren't my things either, but they don't 'infuriate' me, and opposition to a circus museum isn't a core part of my beliefs system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwm
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Gosh I just hate Circus's since I saw "It" :P
But in reality, I was talking about that blasted Clean Wehrmacht Myth. If there is one action I think I despise the most of the cold war actions, it would be the attempted pardoning of the German Military of what they did in WW2. It's lead to a whole generation of deniers and helped lead to Wehraboos in general...not to mention the sheer number of myths it helped to invent about German Weapons. :///
As an amateur historian and lover of weaponry, it really grinds my gears tbh.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Ah, okay. I get where you're coming from.
Also: https://youtu.be/Q685Ko2DHDs
Penguania And Antarctica
CDU: conservatives
FDP: liberals
Greens: greens
Kalaron, Cesorion
CWM=???
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Jaslandia, Cesorion
This whole conversation makes me want to create a weird circus that travels across the post collapse American west...
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Kingsman 2 was good, as was the first one. I recommend them. Spy films for people that don't like spy films. They lovingly take the piss out of stuff like James Bond.
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry for this late DIP. :(
[spoiler=Today is September 30 and today are:]
Today is September 30 and today are:
- Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Astronomy Day
- Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
- Blasphemy Day
- Dussehra (Hinduism)
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day
- Independence Day or Botswana Day (Botswana)
- International Podcast Day
- International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
- National Chewing Gum Day (United States)
- National Family Health and Fitness Day USA (United States)
- National Ghost Hunting Day (United States)
- National Hot Mulled Cider Day (United States)
- National Love People Day (United States)
- National Mud Pack Day (United States)
- National Public Lands Day (United States)
- Recovery Day (Canada)
- Save Your Photos Day (United States)
- Yom Kippur (Judaism)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 489 Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
- 737 Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
- 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
- 1541 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
- 1551 Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.
- 1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
- 1791 The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
- 1791 The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
- 1813 Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- 1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
- 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- 1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
- 1906 The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
- 1907 McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 1915 Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
- 1922 University of Alabama opened the football season with a 1100 victory over the Marion Military Institute which still stands as the school record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
- 1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 1931 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- 1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
- 1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
- 1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- 1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 347.
- 1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
- 1943 The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
- 1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
- 1947 Pakistan joins the United Nations
- 1949 The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
- 1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
- 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 1965 The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
- 1965 The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
- 1966 The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
- 1967 BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
- 1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
- 1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
- 1972 Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
- 1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
- 1977 Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- 1979 The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- 1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 1988 Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
- 1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
- 1993 The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
- 1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
- 1994 Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
- 1999 The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
- 2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
- 2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
- 2009 The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This dip-slip (reverse) earthquake left 1,115 people dead, and was followed several days later by a 6.6 Mw strike-slip event.
- 2016 Hurricane Matthew became a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea, since Hurricane Felix in 2007.
- 2017 Titus Zeman SDB. - priest, beatification ceremony in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1207 Rumi, Persian mystic and poet
- 1811 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Empress Consort of Germany and Queen Consort of Prussia
- 1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator
- 1861 William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company
- 1870 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, inventor of the Geiger counter
- 1924 Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1937 Jurek Becker, Polish-German author
- 1939 Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1964 Monica Bellucci, Italian model and actress
- 1975 Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer
- 1980 Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- 1983 Adam Jones, American football player
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Quote of the day
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Percyton
I've also been considering the Medieval RP. Obviously I wouldn't include any sentient vehicles; I would just base it off of Sodor's history during the real life medieval period (for example, Sodor's king in this RP would likely be Godred Crovan, as he was Sodor's greatest king during the real medieval era).
http://thesifblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/crowns-kings-earls-lords-of-sodor.html
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Bitch, I'm going all Hordes from the East on y'all motherfµckers
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
That actually sounds like a good idea. You should include something like that in your next newsfeed post.
A big day for rail travel, urban rail in particular. Toby, Flora, and the other trams on the Island are particularly excited about today: They're running a special service from Great Waterton to Arlesdale End to celebrate and give visitors tours about Sodor's tram history.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
"This isn't real enough for you, Billy? I'M not real enough for you? It was real enough for Georgie!"
Or
"Look at this motherfµcker! He's leaking Hamburger Helper!"
I wanted to see it on opening day, but I had an uncle die that morning
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm sorry to hear that, man.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Things I do when I should be sleeping:
1) Make soup.
2) Go to home Depot for 2 hours with the wife to look at bathroom fixtures, buy nothing.
3) Take films of my kids with an old super 8 camera that no one can develop.
4) Clean a rifle for no reason.
5) Go to taco Bell then spend an hour designing post apocalypse taco Bell menus and ads for nation states...
Now I have 3 hours before I work a 12 hour overnight and all I can think of is "D.W. Dower's Traveling Badland Circus and Menagerie"
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hm, or rather than inventing someone, I could just make it a Tim Button production...
Everybody's got to eat right...
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Tim Button?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Wehraboo have nothing on Stronk Wookie dat Kemp Bush.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Tim Burton, the director.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
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