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Allows radio hosts to speak against the government.

Poor's income goes down by 3,000 rubles.

F*ck you, NS.

Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Allows radio hosts to speak against the government.

Poor's income goes down by 3,000 rubles.

F*ck you, NS.

Sounds like we're having a global recession

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Hello, people! I made a thing! If I win, it can be a real thing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bokI4cFR9Zn27JV9ObrA_w7sIDWwlW5exidQLninl1s/edit?usp=drivesdk

Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Guess who got engaged!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

Kalaron wrote:>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

Congrats, guys!

Jaslandia, Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Congrats, guys!

psst

he's acting really gay and cute now

pass it on

Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

Kalaron wrote:>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

You wee cuties, congratulations :)

Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

Kalaron wrote:>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

Congrats, you two!

Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

This why I still believe in America

CONGRATS!

*cries hot tears of fanboy joy*

Sulania, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

Kalaron wrote:>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

Congrats to both of you! I hope everything goes well!

Jaslandia, Sulania, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

I guess I am now John Paul Ryan Bercow

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Mercunova wrote:I guess I am now John Paul Ryan Bercow

wat

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:wat

He's making a joke. Bercrow is the Speaker in Westminster.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:He's making a joke. Bercrow is the Speaker in Westminster.

He looks like a methhead :p

Nuremgard, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:He looks like a methhead :p

He probably is. It's Westminster. They get up to all sorts.

Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms

Nuremgard wrote:Congrats, guys!

Lex Caledonia wrote:You wee cuties, congratulations :)

Jaslandia wrote:Congrats, you two!

Vista Major wrote:This why I still believe in America

CONGRATS!

*cries hot tears of fanboy joy*

Percyton wrote:Congrats to both of you! I hope everything goes well!

Thank you guys so much! I am literally so happy right now!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Thank you guys so much! I am literally so happy right now!

This pleases me.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Onocarcass wrote:Dyota-Metura has changed their flag again.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=onocarcass/detail=factbook/id=787891

Also, are there any of these flags you think should be changed?

Maybe Kyssi

Oy, whats this now? I leave for a few days and somebody goes and gets married?

Well.... On behalf of the Equestrian Republic and myself, I have to say..

CONGRATULATIONS Kalaron and Sulania!!

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:Oy, whats this now? I leave for a few days and somebody goes and gets married?

Well.... On behalf of the Equestrian Republic and myself, I have to say..

CONGRATULATIONS Kalaron and Sulania!!

Engaged, technically.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Engaged, technically.

Crushing the dream, man

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Engaged, technically.

:D :D :D :D

Jaslandia, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:Maybe Kyssi

https://i.imgur.com/yzKaNLZ.png

This is my current thoughts on the flags.

Rankings = How much I like the overall look

Representation = How well it represents the province it belongs to

Percyton

[spoiler=I normally don’t like to rant, but this just made me so angery that I had to type everything out]

“There won’t be a lack of opportunities in the coming world, he says....”- Article where a CEO explains how automation of the workforce will create new jobs to replace the ones lost

<Cue rant>

What. A. Crock. Of. Shít. This guy is a fûcking liar, and he’s part of the problem. He’s a CEO, he has no idea what everyday people have to go through- and he certainly doesn’t have a god damned clue about the feelings that rush through the brain when one finds out they were replaced with a pile of silicon and plastic.

His only sort of “answer” to the question of what happens to the people who get their jobs replaced by machines was “go to college”.

First of all, who in the name of fûck are you, CEO Andrew Anagnost, to tell one of your former employees what to do? You didn’t have their best interests at heart when you replaced them with a robot, and clearly still don’t.

Secondly, do you really think everyone can just up and go to college when they have families to feed, clothe, and house? Even if they went to class part time and worked part time, the damage done to the family would be almost irreparable, and that’s not even mentioning the obvious fact of how a part time job can’t sustain a family on its own.

Mothers and fathers would not be able to actually raise their children and teach them how to live, which means we’ll have an entire generation that is incapable of living like adults, because fathers and mothers were not able to do what fathers and mothers do.

The damage done to marriages could be terrible too- the lack of frequent contact and affection will make partners drift apart, leading to broken homes and nasty cases of domestic abuse, which will, as we all know, have a profound effect on children. Is this really what you want, you milquetoast piece of human garbage?

Thirdly, you even said it yourself, you sack of minge. The jobs that replace the ones people have lost will suddenly become extremely competitive.

What happens then? What happens when someone puts themselves through college, putting themselves in upwards of 50,000$ of debt to earn a software or robotics degree, and they can’t find employment because of how concentrated and clogged up the job market will become?

I know the solution, my good sir, but you will *not* like it. Stop what you’re doing, start a movement amongst your buddies that halts the trend, and understand that people are and will always be more important than money. Maybe then you can save your conscience. </rant>[/spoiler]

Nuremgard, The Empire Of Handland, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Minnesota Dakota

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:[spoiler=I normally don’t like to rant, but this just made me so angery that I had to type everything out]

“There won’t be a lack of opportunities in the coming world, he says....”- Article where a CEO explains how automation of the workforce will create new jobs to replace the ones lost

<Cue rant>

What. A. Crock. Of. Shít. This guy is a fûcking liar, and he’s part of the problem. He’s a CEO, he has no idea what everyday people have to go through- and he certainly doesn’t have a god damned clue about the feelings that rush through the brain when one finds out they were replaced with a pile of silicon and plastic.

His only sort of “answer” to the question of what happens to the people who get their jobs replaced by machines was “go to college”.

First of all, who in the name of fûck are you, CEO Andrew Anagnost, to tell one of your former employees what to do? You didn’t have their best interests at heart when you replaced them with a robot, and clearly still don’t.

Secondly, do you really think everyone can just up and go to college when they have families to feed, clothe, and house? Even if they went to class part time and worked part time, the damage done to the family would be almost irreparable, and that’s not even mentioning the obvious fact of how a part time job can’t sustain a family on its own.

Mothers and fathers would not be able to actually raise their children and teach them how to live, which means we’ll have an entire generation that is incapable of living like adults, because fathers and mothers were not able to do what fathers and mothers do.

The damage done to marriages could be terrible too- the lack of frequent contact and affection will make partners drift apart, leading to broken homes and nasty cases of domestic abuse, which will, as we all know, have a profound effect on children. Is this really what you want, you milquetoast piece of human garbage?

Thirdly, you even said it yourself, you sack of minge. The jobs that replace the ones people have lost will suddenly become extremely competitive.

What happens then? What happens when someone puts themselves through college, putting themselves in upwards of 50,000$ of debt to earn a software or robotics degree, and they can’t find employment because of how concentrated and clogged up the job market will become?

I know the solution, my good sir, but you will *not* like it. Stop what you’re doing, start a movement amongst your buddies that halts the trend, and understand that people are and will always be more important than money. Maybe then you can save your conscience. </rant>[/spoiler]

That is absolutely fantastic.

Axeldonia

Vista Major wrote:Hello, people! I made a thing! If I win, it can be a real thing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bokI4cFR9Zn27JV9ObrA_w7sIDWwlW5exidQLninl1s/edit?usp=drivesdk

Interesting. But including all cabinet plus five citizens is much. Anyway, we could have something like it, and I had been thinking of it as well. As VC, I'll work on it.

Also Confederacy Of Free Nations, I like the new FB, but I have two questions

1) why did you remove the dark red on the first line? It was striking and I likes it. Grey is not the recognizable

2) what with the appointment of the papers?

Sulania wrote:Thank you guys so much! I am literally so happy right now!

Meanwhile, I am just sitting here forever alone.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica

Sulania wrote:Thank you guys so much! I am literally so happy right now!

Cute

As

Fvck

Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota

Cesorion wrote:Interesting. But including all cabinet plus five citizens is much. Anyway, we could have something like it, and I had been thinking of it as well. As VC, I'll work on it.

Also Confederacy Of Free Nations, I like the new FB, but I have two questions

1) why did you remove the dark red on the first line? It was striking and I likes it. Grey is not the recognizable

2) what with the appointment of the papers?

/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ Nya! Rainbow Space Cat Founder is innocent of the no red whatchamacallit. While Rainbow Space Cat Founder certainly has the power, Rainbow Space Cat Founder leaves the affairs of this litter box in the capable paws of his servants, affectionately referred to as kittens. As for the Confederate Papers, that particular kitten needed to be able to do its job, which is record keeping and the meow. Rainbow Space Cat Founder simply did not realize that the Confederate Papers kitten had not been the proper Nya! to do its job. So Rainbow Space Cat Founder rectified this as soon as meow was informed. Meow! /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Confederacy Of Free Nations wrote:/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ Nya! Rainbow Space Cat Founder is innocent of the no red whatchamacallit. While Rainbow Space Cat Founder certainly has the power, Rainbow Space Cat Founder leaves the affairs of this litter box in the capable paws of his servants, affectionately referred to as kittens. As for the Confederate Papers, that particular kitten needed to be able to do its job, which is record keeping and the meow. Rainbow Space Cat Founder simply did not realize that the Confederate Papers kitten had not been the proper Nya! to do its job. So Rainbow Space Cat Founder rectified this as soon as meow was informed. Meow! /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\

Best founder ever.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Confederacy Of Free Nations, Percyton

Confederacy Of Free Nations wrote:/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ Nya! Rainbow Space Cat Founder is innocent of the no red whatchamacallit. While Rainbow Space Cat Founder certainly has the power, Rainbow Space Cat Founder leaves the affairs of this litter box in the capable paws of his servants, affectionately referred to as kittens. As for the Confederate Papers, that particular kitten needed to be able to do its job, which is record keeping and the meow. Rainbow Space Cat Founder simply did not realize that the Confederate Papers kitten had not been the proper Nya! to do its job. So Rainbow Space Cat Founder rectified this as soon as meow was informed. Meow! /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\

Rainbow space cat founder is BEST Founder!

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Apparently, my female leader has a mistress.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:[spoiler=I normally don’t like to rant, but this just made me so angery that I had to type everything out]

“There won’t be a lack of opportunities in the coming world, he says....”- Article where a CEO explains how automation of the workforce will create new jobs to replace the ones lost

<Cue rant>

What. A. Crock. Of. Shít. This guy is a fûcking liar, and he’s part of the problem. He’s a CEO, he has no idea what everyday people have to go through- and he certainly doesn’t have a god damned clue about the feelings that rush through the brain when one finds out they were replaced with a pile of silicon and plastic.

His only sort of “answer” to the question of what happens to the people who get their jobs replaced by machines was “go to college”.

First of all, who in the name of fûck are you, CEO Andrew Anagnost, to tell one of your former employees what to do? You didn’t have their best interests at heart when you replaced them with a robot, and clearly still don’t.

Secondly, do you really think everyone can just up and go to college when they have families to feed, clothe, and house? Even if they went to class part time and worked part time, the damage done to the family would be almost irreparable, and that’s not even mentioning the obvious fact of how a part time job can’t sustain a family on its own.

Mothers and fathers would not be able to actually raise their children and teach them how to live, which means we’ll have an entire generation that is incapable of living like adults, because fathers and mothers were not able to do what fathers and mothers do.

The damage done to marriages could be terrible too- the lack of frequent contact and affection will make partners drift apart, leading to broken homes and nasty cases of domestic abuse, which will, as we all know, have a profound effect on children. Is this really what you want, you milquetoast piece of human garbage?

Thirdly, you even said it yourself, you sack of minge. The jobs that replace the ones people have lost will suddenly become extremely competitive.

What happens then? What happens when someone puts themselves through college, putting themselves in upwards of 50,000$ of debt to earn a software or robotics degree, and they can’t find employment because of how concentrated and clogged up the job market will become?

I know the solution, my good sir, but you will *not* like it. Stop what you’re doing, start a movement amongst your buddies that halts the trend, and understand that people are and will always be more important than money. Maybe then you can save your conscience. </rant>[/spoiler]

Much as I sympathise with the sentiments of your post, CEOs and corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders, nobody else. Harsh but true. The purpose of a company is to make a profit so of course, workers will be laid off in favour of robots because it's cheaper and more efficient. That is the price of progress.

So what can be done? Ban companies from firing people to replace them with robots? The economy would collapse since all those companies would leave for greener pastures. Enforce quotas on companies to tell them how many robots they can hire and how many people they can hire? Again, same problem: they will just leave.

I don't have the answer. I'm just commenting.

Jaslandia

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Apparently, my female leader has a mistress.

Mine too.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Celeberating a year on NS!!!!!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, South Hyder, Czeko Russika

Cesorion wrote:Celeberating a year on NS!!!!!

Congrats! Also thank you for the effort you have put into reforming the CoFN.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, South Hyder

The Dijun Acoma Post

VOL. 32 NO. 447 CITY FINAL

MONDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Dissident Speaker Missing, Presumed Impaled

(Lit)

Percyton

Flynnvakia wrote:Congrats! Also thank you for the effort you have put into reforming the CoFN.

You're welcome. Your effort must be recognized too! I am eager to work with you for the next two months!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, South Hyder

Nuremgard wrote:Much as I sympathise with the sentiments of your post, CEOs and corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders, nobody else. Harsh but true. The purpose of a company is to make a profit so of course, workers will be laid off in favour of robots because it's cheaper and more efficient. That is the price of progress.

So what can be done? Ban companies from firing people to replace them with robots? The economy would collapse since all those companies would leave for greener pastures. Enforce quotas on companies to tell them how many robots they can hire and how many people they can hire? Again, same problem: they will just leave.

I don't have the answer. I'm just commenting.

I agree with Nurem on this. Automation is an issue, but halting it isn't a realistic option right now, and the companies don't have any incentives to stop it. The best we can do is to offer government-supported job training programs for workers who have lost their old jobs, government grants for workers going back to college for retraining, and incentives for tech companies and other new jobs to move to places where the old jobs got automated.

Nuremgard

Sulania wrote:Guess who got engaged!

Kalaron wrote:>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice

Holy sweet mother of whatever god you two believe congratulations! You two are adorable and I hope it goes spectacularly! ❤

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front

Cesorion wrote:You're welcome. Your effort must be recognized too! I am eager to work with you for the next two months!

Can't wait!

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Andromitus wrote:Holy sweet mother of whatever god you two believe congratulations! You two are adorable and I hope it goes spectacularly! ❤

Rest of our lives together will be completely spectacular!

Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front

Vista Major wrote:Dissident Speaker Missing, Presumed Impaled

I might be dissident but I sure as hell ain't missing

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

[spoiler=Today is November 6 and today are:]

Today is November 6 and today are:

- All Saints' Day (Colombia)

- Arbor Day (Republic of Congo)

- Color the World Orange Day

- Constitution Day (Dominican Republic)

- Constitution Day (Tajikistan)

- Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)

- Green March (Morocco)

- Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)

- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

- Job Action Day

- Malaria Day in the Americas

- Marooned without a Compass Day

- National Nachos Day (United States)

- Obama Day (Kenya)

- Recreation Day (Tasmania, Australia)

- Saxophone Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 355 – Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.

- 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.

- 963 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of a armed rebellion against Otto.

- 1217 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.

- 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.

- 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

- 1792 – Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.

- 1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.

- 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.

- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

- 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.

- 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

- 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

- 1917 – World War I: Battle of Passchendaele ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

- 1918 – The Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland is established.

- 1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the United States.

- 1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.

- 1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

- 1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.

- 1941 – World War II: During the Battle of Moscow, Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet people for only the second time.

- 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.

- 1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

- 1943 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.

- 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

- 1945 – Concerned that her cover was about to be blown, Elizabeth Bentley turns herself in to the FBI and confesses she had been spying for the Soviet Union.

- 1947 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.

- 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the General Suppression Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.

- 1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected President of the United States.

- 1962 – The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

- 1963 – Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.

- 1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.

- 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

- 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

- 1984 – Ronald Reagan is reelected President of the United States.

- 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

- 1986 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

- 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, the first time the city had a NFL team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.

- 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

- 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.

- 2012 – Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

- 2013 – Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party in the northern city of Taiyuan, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan

- 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone

- 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist, founded The Wall Street Journal and co-founded Dow Jones & Company

- 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American commander, composer, and conductor

- 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball

- 1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright

- 1931 - Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1932 - Francois Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1946 - Sally Field, American actress

- 1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

- 1949 - Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Gabon

- 1952 - Michael Cunningham, American author and screenwriter

- 1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American engineer and businessman, co-founded Yahoo!

- 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor, director, and screenwriter

- 1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player

- 1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer

- 1988 - Emma Stone, American actress

- 1990 - André Schürrle, German footballer

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell -

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, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton

Sulania wrote:Rest of our lives together will be completely spectacular!

U

W N T

S U M

F U K ?

Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, South Hyder

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:U

W N T

S U M

F U K ?

is this what real poetry is like

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

South Hyder wrote:is this what real poetry is like

si

Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron Sulania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2G_Z296yRo

:D

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton

Thinking about replacing this http://i.imgur.com/p2ZKSIK.png

with either this https://i.imgur.com/4AwOEsO.png

or this https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png

Jaslandia, Percyton

Onocarcass wrote:Thinking about replacing this http://i.imgur.com/p2ZKSIK.png

with either this https://i.imgur.com/4AwOEsO.png

or this https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png

I prefer the last flag, personally.

Percyton

Onocarcass wrote:Thinking about replacing this http://i.imgur.com/p2ZKSIK.png

with either this https://i.imgur.com/4AwOEsO.png

or this https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png

Keep the current

Percyton

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Apparently, my female leader has a mistress.

L E W D

Axeldonia wrote:L E W D

m o a r

f u k

Axeldonia

Vista Major wrote:Keep the current

Doesn't really represent the whole province though, only about the Nyko 1/3 of it.

Jaslandia wrote:I prefer the last flag, personally.

The previous one?

Percyton

Onocarcass wrote:The previous one?

I'm referring to the third link you gave.

https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png

Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:I'm referring to the third link you gave.

https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png

Ah

Percyton

Holy cow. Look at me? Its been 79 days since the last update.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:Holy cow. Look at me? Its been 79 days since the last update.

*breath in*

boi

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, New Estaris

New Estaris wrote:Holy cow. Look at me? Its been 79 days since the last update.

Hello again, New Estaris! Great to see you again!

Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, New Estaris, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:*breath in*

boi

Jaslandia wrote:Hello again, New Estaris! Great to see you again!

Whats new?

Percyton

I think I am going to produce factbooks on snack foods and grocery items available in Wyoming.

Nuremgard, Andromitus, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:Whats new?

Rather obviously, Kal and Sul are now engaged, we're expecting a convention in Kyoto to begin ratifying some international regulations (if only Sul would get it out at some point :p), and elections are currently underway

The Empire Of Handland, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Rather obviously, Kal and Sul are now engaged, we're expecting a convention in Kyoto to begin ratifying some international regulations (if only Sul would get it out at some point :p), and elections are currently underway

What? Kal and Sul are engaged?

Holy hell!

Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:What? Kal and Sul are engaged?

Holy hell!

S i

just need

s u m

f u k

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:*breath in*

boi

Welcome back, Est! *blows whistle*

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:S i

just need

s u m

f u k

Yessir

This is better than any rap battle on Tamagotchi Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPVB5rB63Vw

I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?

A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism

B) An assassination unites the Republic

C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war

D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire

Or

E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]

Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?

A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism

B) An assassination unites the Republic

C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war

D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire

Or

E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]

It depends. What do you want to reform Russkov Soviet into? More democratic? More imperialistic? More authoritarian? Tentatively, I'd say 'A', so long as it's civic nationalism and not ethnic nationalism (or species nationalism, in your case). I don't like 'B' because I'm worried the assassination targets will be Alexander or Luna Coltsov (who I like), 'C' would result in a lot of bloodshed that would be tragic and cripple your nation, and 'D' just seems unlikely to happen.

Russkov Soviet, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?

A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism

B) An assassination unites the Republic

C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war

D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire

Or

E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]

I'd go with C, especially since I've just started reading an alternate history story called "Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire," which has similar themes and also gives a good background on the status of both species in the Soviet.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:It depends. What do you want to reform Russkov Soviet into? More democratic? More imperialistic? More authoritarian? Tentatively, I'd say 'A', so long as it's civic nationalism and not ethnic nationalism (or species nationalism, in your case). I don't like 'B' because I'm worried the assassination targets will be Alexander or Luna Coltsov (who I like), 'C' would result in a lot of bloodshed that would be tragic and cripple your nation, and 'D' just seems unlikely to happen.

Jaslandia wrote:It depends. What do you want to reform Russkov Soviet into? More democratic? More imperialistic? More authoritarian? Tentatively, I'd say 'A', so long as it's civic nationalism and not ethnic nationalism (or species nationalism, in your case). I don't like 'B' because I'm worried the assassination targets will be Alexander or Luna Coltsov (who I like), 'C' would result in a lot of bloodshed that would be tragic and cripple your nation, and 'D' just seems unlikely to happen.

More Imperialistic, but still Communist.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?

A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism

B) An assassination unites the Republic

C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war

D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire

Or

E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]

I'll assassinate a commie for you

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Rather obviously, Kal and Sul are now engaged, we're expecting a convention in Kyoto to begin ratifying some international regulations (if only Sul would get it out at some point :p), and elections are currently underway

Eeeeeugh, international regulations? I’m going to assume that these are going to be universal, even if you don’t want them.

Androm, I guess the anti-government Fried’s back?

The Empire Of Handland wrote:I'll assassinate a commie for you

Oooooh, now that’s a good target for my government to hark on.

Hey Handland, want to form an anti-socialist bloc?

Yukona

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Oooooh, now that’s a good target for my government to hark on.

Hey Handland, want to form an anti-socialist bloc?

I want in on it.

Russkov Soviet wrote:I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?

A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism

B) An assassination unites the Republic

C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war

D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire

Or

E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]

Someone nails a piece of paper to a religious building and demands reform. (Oh wait that is the Protestant Reformation) Still sounds cool though.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

[spoiler=Today is November 7 and today are:]

Today is November 7 and today are:

- Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

- Election Day (New Jersey and Virginia, United States)

- Hug A Bear Day

- Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)

- Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia)

- National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day (United States)

- National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day (United States)

- National Day (Northern Catalonia, France)

- National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)

- October Revolution Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (unofficial) )

- Tokhu Emong (Lotha Naga people of India)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.

- 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

- 921 – Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.

- 1426 – Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.

- 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

- 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

- 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

- 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

- 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

- 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.

- 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

- 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

- 1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

- 1893 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

- 1900 – Second Boer War:Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

- 1900 – The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

- 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.

- 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

- 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

- 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

- 1913 – The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.

- 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic is published.

- 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

- 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

- 1916 – Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.[1]

- 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

- 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

- 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

- 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

- 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

- 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

- 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

- 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.

- 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

- 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

- 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

- 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

- 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

- 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

- 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

- 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

- 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

- 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

- 1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

- 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

- 1983 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

- 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

- 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

- 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

- 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.

- 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

- 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

- 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

- 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.

- 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

- 2004 – Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

- 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

- 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor

- 1728 - James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer

- 1855 - Edwin Hall, American physicist, discovered the "Hall effect"

- 1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer and theater conductor

- 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic

- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army

- 1888 - C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1913 - Albert Camus, French philosopher, journalist, and author, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman

- 1929 - Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1952 - David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

- 1967 - David Guetta, French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter

- 1967 - Olaf Schubert, German comedian and musician

- 1996 - Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- George Jean Nathan -

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, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=Today is November 7 and today are:]

Today is November 7 and today are:

- Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

- Election Day (New Jersey and Virginia, United States)

- Hug A Bear Day

- Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)

- Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia)

- National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day (United States)

- National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day (United States)

- National Day (Northern Catalonia, France)

- National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)

- October Revolution Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (unofficial) )

- Tokhu Emong (Lotha Naga people of India)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.

- 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

- 921 – Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.

- 1426 – Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.

- 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

- 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

- 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

- 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

- 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

- 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.

- 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

- 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

- 1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

- 1893 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

- 1900 – Second Boer War:Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

- 1900 – The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

- 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.

- 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

- 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

- 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

- 1913 – The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.

- 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic is published.

- 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

- 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

- 1916 – Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.[1]

- 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

- 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

- 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

- 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

- 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

- 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

- 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

- 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.

- 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

- 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

- 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

- 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

- 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

- 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.

- 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

- 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

- 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

- 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

- 1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

- 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

- 1983 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

- 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

- 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

- 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

- 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.

- 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

- 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

- 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

- 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.

- 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

- 2004 – Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

- 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

- 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor

- 1728 - James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer

- 1855 - Edwin Hall, American physicist, discovered the "Hall effect"

- 1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer and theater conductor

- 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic

- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army

- 1888 - C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1913 - Albert Camus, French philosopher, journalist, and author, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman

- 1929 - Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1952 - David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

- 1967 - David Guetta, French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter

- 1967 - Olaf Schubert, German comedian and musician

- 1996 - Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- George Jean Nathan -

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

Finally, the good old flag. I missed it. Also nice quote

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

Flynnvakia wrote:Someone nails a piece of paper to a religious building and demands reform. (Oh wait that is the Protestant Reformation) Still sounds cool though.

It does sound pretty cool thy.

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:I'd go with C, especially since I've just started reading an alternate history story called "Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire," which has similar themes and also gives a good background on the status of both species in the Soviet.

Remind me to start reading that.

The Empire Of Handland wrote:I'll assassinate a commie for you

So....you want me to end my nation? No. I need the Communist Party to keep the military in line. So... rejected.

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Oooooh, now that’s a good target for my government to hark on.

Hey Handland, want to form an anti-socialist bloc?

Oh great.... here we go again. JUST because I'm Communist, people want me dead. I haven't even done anything evil ffs.

.....

Maybe I should bring that other nation in here and replace/rebuild this one....

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:It does sound pretty cool thy.

Remind me to start reading that.

So....you want me to end my nation? No. I need the Communist Party to keep the military in line. So... rejected.

Oh great.... here we go again. JUST because I'm Communist, people want me dead. I haven't even done anything evil ffs.

.....

Maybe I should bring that other nation in here and replace/rebuild this one....

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/zhirinovskys-russian-empire.245924/

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-world-of-zhirinovskys-russian-empire.314003/

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:More Imperialistic, but still Communist.

I'd go for A. The leader whips up nationalism in the country and gets the people hungry for spreading the power of the Empire and for spreading the ideals of communism. So you become more imperialistic, more militaristic, and take a more aggressive stance against capitalist states.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Percyton, Czeko Russika

Ok. Just so everyone is aware.

(This nation is the potential replacement or rebuild base for Russkov Soviet.)

This way I can be prepared.

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Equestrian Siberia wrote:Ok. Just so everyone is aware.

(This nation is the potential replacement or rebuild base for Russkov Soviet.)

This way I can be prepared.

I'm staying put, but since a few people want my nation and it's leaders dead....

I might as well have a back up.

Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:I'm staying put, but since a few people want my nation and it's leaders dead....

I might as well have a back up.

Who cares if others want your nation's leaders dead? Some on here have expressed dismay that my Tangshan dominates the region on every economic level. That's not going to stop me maintaining the nation.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:I'm staying put, but since a few people want my nation and it's leaders dead....

I might as well have a back up.

I have no clue who it is that supposedly wants you gone, but I personally do not know of any such. What I do know, is I am going to be right miffed about having to de-color your map spot if your current nation goes away.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Tserra wrote:I have no clue who it is that supposedly wants you gone, but I personally do not know of any such. What I do know, is I am going to be right miffed about having to de-color your map spot if your current nation goes away.

I'm not going away. The puppets there for a safety reason. (I've already had my nation banned twice.)

Btw... the Anti-Socialist Block is wanting me dead. cough..Handland and Freid..cough cough

Does anyone think I should change Zeptov's flag?

http://i.imgur.com/79LwK1V.png

It's kinda cool looking, but doesn't really represent the province all that well.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Who cares if others want your nation's leaders dead? Some on here have expressed dismay that my Tangshan dominates the region on every economic level. That's not going to stop me maintaining the nation.

I'm the most economically powerful Socialist state in the region.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army

Lenin: Happy birthday, Trotsky! As a present, here's a communist revolution!

Trotsky: You guys did all this for me!?! This is the best present a Bolshevik could ask for!

Russkov Soviet wrote:I'm staying put, but since a few people want my nation and it's leaders dead....

I might as well have a back up.

If it's any consolation, Jaslandia's leaders don't want your leaders dead.

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Onocarcass wrote:Does anyone think I should change Zeptov's flag?

http://i.imgur.com/79LwK1V.png

It's kinda cool looking, but doesn't really represent the province all that well.

Depends. What exactly is Zeptov like?

Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Who cares if others want your nation's leaders dead? Some on here have expressed dismay that my Tangshan dominates the region on every economic level. That's not going to stop me maintaining the nation.

Wait, you control Tangshan?

https://youtu.be/L2vscKm-_RA

Nuremgard

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Wait, you control Tangshan?

https://youtu.be/L2vscKm-_RA

Yup. :)

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Yup. :)

I hate you...

Nuremgard

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:I hate you...

;)

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:;)

1v1 me on titanfall 2 bïtch

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Depends. What exactly is Zeptov like?

Modern Zeptov is Onocarcans in the South, Kzarics in the North, and The Zeptovik people's trying to preserve their identity in the Center of it all, as they become a minority in their own lands.

They are strongly devoted to the Chymyrtist faith, but they have their own version, where some of there old gods are seen as living alongside those known to Chymyrtists.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Onocarcass wrote:Modern Zeptov is Onocarcans in the South, Kzarics in the North, and The Zeptovik people's trying to preserve their identity in the Center of it all, as they become a minority in their own lands.

They are strongly devoted to the Chymyrtist faith, but they have their own version, where some of there old gods are seen as living alongside those known to Chymyrtists.

I see. I see your point. The current flag, while nice, seems to suggest a more militaristic, royal, and/or warrior-based society. Maybe incorporate more colors in the flag to symbolize multiculturalism? Or maybe add some religious iconography related to the Chymyrtist faith?

Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:I see. I see your point. The current flag, while nice, seems to suggest a more militaristic, royal, and/or warrior-based society. Maybe incorporate more colors in the flag to symbolize multiculturalism? Or maybe add some religious iconography related to the Chymyrtist faith?

My question kinda becomes what's more important. Style, or representation?

Jaslandia, Percyton

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