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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Duly noted. Thank you for all your advice!
"Single people should get married to someone who knows CPR, just in case they get shot." - Rick Santorum (probably)
Penguania And Antarctica
Awwww COME ON! I go to download CKII and that's when Steam decides to have it's servers crash....
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't even want to know how much money I've given them at this point
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Penguania And Antarctica
Probably from all that CK2 :P
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
The only notable difference, Im sure.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
My name doesn't mean: http://www.yourdictionary.com/santorum
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Still waiting for Steam to allow me to DL it. Playing Men of War: Assault Squad 2 for the time being...
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Have fun when you finally get it. It's probably my favorite game I've ever played. If you ever decide to get any of the DLC though, go for the early ones. They're the best for their price and content
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you guys like CK2, don't forget to check out EU4, Vic 2 and HOI4 by the same studio, but different levels of intensity and time periods!
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
All of my children save for a 14-year old I've entrusted with most of my territories are dissapointments.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Lucky. My son D'Artagnan was arrested for defecating in a cathedral.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Pff, my son tried to murder me and ursurp my throne. At least he brought it on himself instead of harming others.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Well D'Artagnan has had priors, including the unlawful pruning of a city-owned tree.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Certainly not behavior befitting one of the Three Musketeers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_d%27Artagnan_Romances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers
Penguania And Antarctica
My life stands as anecdotal proof that this is at most a misdemeanour.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Do I even want to know the details?
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140903-low-cost-fighter-jets-take-off
This is the type of article that actually irritates me. I really don't expect much talent from a journalist when it comes to the topic of aerospace programs, but the extreme ignorance is pain for me :<
If you want pilots to die, you give them a cheap plane that can't defend itself in an age of increasingly mobile MANPAD threats being lugged around by everyone and their mother in terms of proliferation. If you want your hyper-expensive pilot to survive his flight, you get him a combat aircraft that can actually fly in such a situation without being lit up and slapped down. The worst case of the former strategy is that you put a bomb on a UCAV and just accept that you might lose a drone.
Honk honk! Everyone aborad the Grimdark train!
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=1002962
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
I wonder if there would still be unionist parties after Scottish independence. Parties whose primary policy would be recreating the UK. In that situation, it would need to be agreed on both sides, i.e. England would need to agree to recreate the UK if it ever happened. Just like how both Northern Ireland the Republic of Ireland must agree to reunification.
Lex Caledonia
It's a bit of an odd system, really. What an awkward situation it'd be if northern Ireland wanted to join but the rest of the island voted against. What do you even do in that situation?
Nuremgard
Yes
I do anyway
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I truly do not know. You cant fulfill the wishes of the Northern Irish in that instance without pissing off the Irish to the south.
I have heard some in Northern Ireland support the idea of it being an independent EU province.
D'Artagnan will be on the next bus to Canada. He'll be happy to have a new dad who can understand him :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Is there even such a thing as an 'EU province'? The EU isn't really a nation, so how can it have provinces?
Penguania And Antarctica
I use the word province because I don't think many could consider Northern Ireland as a country unto itself. It's part of a larger island (Ireland.) I doubt we'll see a scenario in which one side wants unification and the other doesn't though. If I'm not mistaken, polls in the Republic consistently show an overwhelming support for a united Ireland.
Which is all well and good, but from what I've heard, the Northern Irish don't want a united Ireland, and you're gonna need their support too. Brexit is probably gonna have negative impacts on Northern Ireland, but staying in the UK still seems to be their best option at the moment.
I don't think anything would convince the Northern Irish to vote for reunification, not even Brexit. The desire to cling to Westminster is too strong there.
That, and the fact that this is still in the recent(ish) past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Defence_Association
Which Brexit is threatening to reignite.
I imagine there will be some tensions, but let's hope it doesn't result in outright violence.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Yukona, Percyton
Post self-deleted by Yukona.
I'm sorry that I forgot about that. :(
Au Minbo
Capitalism has returned to Shazria. His Majesty dismantled the state planned economy which increased the country's average income and raised the economy to "very strong." But the employment rate dropped from 80 to 70. Why does NS hate capitalism?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Update from Parliament]The Law Code factbook has been updated to include the two most recent laws to have been passed in Parliament:
- The Court of International Law and Justice Membership Act, authored by [nation=short]Unfallious[/nation]
- The Chartered Organization Act, authored by [nation=short]The Valleian Orders[/nation]
In addition to being linked on the WFE, the Law Code may be accessed here.
[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]
Speaker of Parliament[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Because Nazis
Penguania And Antarctica
Yukona's been free market, small government and pro-business with environmental regulation since its beginning - and its had one of the strongest and most stable economies of all my NS regions. I find when you have huge tax rates to support your spending like many socialist countries, once consumer demand takes a hit your economy simply collapses.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Shazria doesn't have high taxes though.
Hey, if nothing else, it'll be easier than the West Germany/East Germany reunification or the potential Korean one in terms of "Economy gets nuked" ;p
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well if the North does join Ireland, the Irish government will need to pay through the nose to keep them. Just like how the British government does now.
I am surprised my economy hasn't tanked, even though employment has gone from 90 to 30 every time I go even a little capitalist.
And that's frequent
Potentially true, I don't know the issue that well. But at least it isn't "Fixing failed communism" levels of bad for the economy, tho. Hell, maybe they wouldn't even pay that much out.
Jaslandia
It could be "unionists become terrorists" levels of bad though. That's one thing that scares me about Scottish independence. The General Secretary of the Orange Lodge in Scotland said the organisation could become a terrorist one in the event of independence. He says he "regrets" saying this and that his words were "taken out of context." But I guarantee you, the Orange Order is full of brainless, knuckle-dragging morons and they would certainly have no qualms about committing terrorist acts in the name of restoring the Union.
The celebration is on across the Equestrian Union! Our nation has been around for:
- 5 Years - (Joined NS: April 6th, 2013)
- 97 Years - (Birth of the Republic: April 6th, 1921)
Tomorrow > - 97 Years - (Independence and Sovergnity: April 7th, 1921)
Forward to 100 Years! URA!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
The Northern Irish won't be joining the Republic any time soon for the precise reason that if they did then there'd be violence. In terms of Scotland, I strongly doubt the Orange Order would actually do that. The man who made those comments in 2001 is an old and out of touch yap, the majority of people in Scotland would not resort to such levels - to say they would is more of an insult to the Scottish then it is the Orange Order.
Penguania And Antarctica
Eh, if they tried then they'd be the least successful group maybe ever. State security services tend to be good at hunting down terrorists, imagine how good they'd be with a literal role-call list of addresses and everything. If nothing else, do the typical thing and ask for US security aid like most countries do for training.
There would be little to no violence if both parts of Ireland voted for unification. Perhaps some rioting in the bigger protestant urban areas. It's two decades since the guns were silenced(mostly).The loyalist, and most republican terror bosses have been living fat off their profits from drugs, protection rackets and money laundering. Many of those lower down the chain have permanent, pensionable 'jobs' on various community and government schemes. The appetite to return to 'war' simply isn't there.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSrI3MeRYA
Nurem you're implying that the Orange Order are even competent enough to become a terrorist organisation which is a load of guff :L they've marched through Falkirk so many times but get foiled by angry mothers in our community
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Yukona, The Scottish Twins
[spoiler=Today is April 6 and today are:]
Today is April 6 and today are:
- Army Day (United States)
- California Poppy Day
- Chakri Day (Thailand)
- Drowsy Driver Awareness Day
- Good Friday (Orthodox Christianity)
- Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
- Hostess Twinkie Day
- International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
- National Caramel Popcorn Day (United States)
- National Fisherman Day (Indonesia)
- National Kids Yoga Day (United States)
- National Sorry Charlie Day (United States)
- National Student-Athlete Day (United States)
- National Tartan Day (Canada, United States)
- National Teflon Day (United States)
- National Walk to Work Day (United States)
- New Beer's Eve (United States)
- President Ntaryamira Day (Burundi)
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 46BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
- 0402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
- 1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
- 1250 Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
- 1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
- 1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
- 1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
- 1453 Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
- 1580 One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
- 1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
- 1712 The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
- 1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
- 1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
- 1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
- 1812 British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
- 1814 Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
- 1830 Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.
- 1841 U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
- 1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
- 1861 First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
- 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
- 1866 The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
- 1869 Celluloid is patented.
- 1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- 1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
- 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- 1911 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
- 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- 1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
- 1929 Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- 1930 Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- 1936 TupeloGainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- 1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- 1945 World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- 1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
- 1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
- 1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
- 1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- 1965 The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
- 1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
- 1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
- 1970 Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
- 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- 1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- 1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
- 1974 The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
- 1979 Student protests break out in Nepal.
- 1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
- 1992 The Bosnian War begins.
- 1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
- 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
- 1998 Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
- 2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
- 2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
- 2008 The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
- 2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
- 2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
- 2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.
- 2012 Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1483 Raphael, Italian painter and architect
- 1860 René Lalique, French sculptor and jewellery designer
- 1890 Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer
- 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company
- 1904 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1911 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 Edmond H. Fischer, Chinese-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1926 Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1926 Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor
- 1927 Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
- 1928 James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 André Previn, American pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1941 Hans W. Geißendörfer, German director and producer
- 1942 Barry Levinson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1949 Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1962 Nik P., Austrian schlager singer
- 1963 Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador
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Quote of the day
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa (Albanian-Indian Saint, 1910-1997) -
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, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton, The Scottish Twins, The British Islands Confederacy
Well let's hope so. They ought to ban them anyway.
Shame we don't have those mothers here during the marching season.
Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
I'd like to see a united Ireland someday.
Ludania, Axeldonia, The British Islands Confederacy
What are we supposed to be sorry for, and why is it to Charlie specifically? Why not 'Sorry Bob Day', or 'Sorry Isaac Day'?
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Aye, me too, though preferably only with with the consent of both communities in NI.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Yukona
There's 364 other days of the year. Today is about Charlie. And how we're sorry.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
A simple majority will do. If the unionists don't like it, they can either get over it or move to Britain. (Preferably England. Scotland has enough unionist twats as it is.)
Axeldonia
Fair enough, but Charlie is the only one who has a holiday. We can say sorry to Isaac tomorrow, and Bob the day after that, but neither of them have official holidays.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
"National Sorry Charlie Day is observed each year on April 6. This day encourages us to think about the times we have been rejected. Whether weve been rejected by a sweetheart or by a college, a prospective employer or by the bank for a loan, weve all been refused. National Sorry Charlie Day also gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we survived the rejection and what we learned from it.
Do you remember Charlie the Tuna? He was often rejected but would keep going with a smile. Sorry, Charlie became closely associated with StarKist and was also a successful American catchphrase. Charlie never let rejection stop him. Do not let it stop you!"
Jaslandia, Vista Major, The Scottish Twins
Funny I started with the HRE.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
If the indies don't like it they can move to the Republic of Ireland (the UK has enough indyref twats as it is)
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Touche. But Scotland already has populations with inbuilt unionist persuasions, the English being one. I'd rather not add unionist Irish to that list.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Pro/Con of living in a town dedicated to high end tourists
Pro: Amazing food
Con: All the people. Just spend your damn money and leave
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=6&scrollTo=765
Figured I'd post this here too like the narcissist I am
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today April 7 and today are:]
Today April 7 and today are:
- Easter Saturday (Orthodox Christianity)
- Every Day is Tag Day
- Flag Day (Slovenia)
- Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
- International Beaver Day
- International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (United Nations)
- International Pillow Fight Day
- International Snailpapers Day
- Metric System Day
- Motherhood and Beauty Day (Armenia)
- National Beer Day (United States)
- National Birding Day (United States)
- National Coffee Cake Day (United States)
- National Girl Me Too Day (United States)
- National Handmade Day (United States)
- National Love Our Children Day (United States)
- National No Housework Day (United States)
- Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
- Tangible Karma Day
- Women's Day (Mozambique)
- World Health Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0451 Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
- 0529 First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
- 0611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
- 1141 Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
- 1348 Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- 1541 Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- 1724 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
- 1767 End of BurmeseSiamese War (176567).
- 1776 Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 1788 American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
- 1789 Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- 1798 The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
- 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- 1805 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1827 John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- 1829 Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
- 1831 Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
- 1862 American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
- 1890 Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 1906 The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
- 1922 The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
- 1927 The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1933 Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
- 1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 1943 The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
- 1943 Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
- 1945 World War II: The Yamato, one of the two largest battleships ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
- 1945 World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1948 The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1949 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
- 1954 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
- 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1964 IBM announces the System/360.
- 1964 A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
- 1968 Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
- 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
- 1971 President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
- 1976 Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
- 1977 German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1978 Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1980 During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
- 1983 During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
- 1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
- 1990 IranContra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
- 1990 A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
- 1992 Republika Srpska announces its independence.
- 1994 Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 1994 Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
- 1995 First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- 2001 Mars Odyssey is launched.
- 2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
- 2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
- 2009 Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
- 2017 The 2017 Stockholm attack kills five and injures fifteen others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1860 Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company
- 1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1891 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group
- 1915 Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1920 Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer
- 1928 James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1930 Yves Rocher, French businessman, founded the Yves Rocher Company
- 1931 Daniel Ellsberg, American activist and author
- 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1944 Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
- 1954 Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1983 Franck Ribéry, French footballer
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Quote of the day
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- Don Marquis (American Poet, 1879-1937) -
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, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Place is dead today.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I was at work. But now I am partying for the Equestrian Anniversary. (Tomorrow is back to normal)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm doing my best to solve one of my country's unemployment problems. Many have found themselves jobless after the fall of communism.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I know that feeling...
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Unemployment rose dramatically but disposable income increased and the economy went up a classification. Make of that what you will.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm alive. :D
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Sehr gut!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Barely alive but alive. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
A Dundee University professor has said the Jacobite rebellions should not be seen as an "18th century independence movement."
Er, thanks for clearing that up, mate. We already know it wasn't. Bonnie Prince Charlie only said he'd dissolve the Union to rally Scots to his banner. Had he actually won, he'd have done what the other Stuarts did: piss off to London to live the good life and keep the Union intact in order to preserve his own power.
Axeldonia, The Scottish Twins
https://youtu.be/klq84Z9O4GU?t=2m45s
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
God save the Queen
You're asking an imaginary figure to save a very rich inbred woman? You're a strange person.
Axeldonia, The Scottish Twins, Spanelsko
Scotland is imaginary
Oh dear. We have a troll in our midst. Away back under your bridge, sweetie.
The Scottish Twins, The West Country
Its Yuk boss calm your tits Im jus trying to provoke you cus its funny to poke Scots
I had a feeling. And don't poke me with your dirty English fingers.
The Scottish Twins, The West Country
You know I come from the West Country mate who else would it be
Percyton
I didn't know that. How am I meant to remember something like that? I forget sh!t my friends say to me in the space of 5 minutes.
Yukona, Spanelsko
Bah! How are you going to keep your bloodline pure from commoner taint without some good old-fashioned cousin marriage?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Ah, yes. The royals. People we can look up too. Their ancestors pillaged and warred their way to the throne and carried on the noble family-f*cking tradition. Truly people to be proud of.
Axeldonia
At least when we raided you we had the courtesy to f*ck off afterwards. The royals are like a clingy ex.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Yet Brexiteers moan about being ruled by the Germans. Have they not seen the ancestry of their precious royals?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Can confirm, I ride my unicorn into town everyday and hunt haggis in the evening.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton, The West Country
You ride your unicorn into town? So inconsiderate. You do realise it's the taxpayer who pays to have all that rainbow sh!t cleaned off the streets don't you?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Kazakh Astana
SKITTLES FOR EVERYONE
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I prefer Smarties.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
As a constable, I gotta ask that you not do that.
Percyton
Smarties are only good if you snort them: they help clear out allergies
They're too intellectual for a guy such as yourself
[spoiler]I kid.[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I'm gonna note here that Smarties refer to two different types of candy.
Penguania And Antarctica
Hey Nuremgard and Lex Caledonia, I got a question for ya: Would you accept Scotland being part of some sort of swiss-style brittish confederation (maybe even including ireland) with extensive autonomy and equal legal status for all the involved countries (i.e. the london parliament isn't the overall parliament of the federation)? Just something fun I hadn't thought about before.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
The Nestle version I am aware of and I will repeat my first statement on how I feel about them
Penguania And Antarctica
Nope. I'd still want full independence as I wouldn't trust Westminster with foreign affairs and defence. Why have that much autonomy and just leave some bits for London? Nah. Full independence all the way. But a Swiss style confederation would be a dramatic improvement and I think most Scots would be satisfied with that. It would kill off the desire for independence for a very long time, possibly forever.
Axeldonia
Good idea. I'll go tell him now. Hello, Charlie! I just wanted to say I'm sorry!
Charlie: Sorry for what, Percy?
Percy: I don't know. I'm just apologizing because it's 'Sorry Charlie Day', and you're Charlie, so...
Troublesome Truck #1: If there's anyone you should be apologizing to, it's us! Bumping us and always saying we're naughty!
Percy: Oh, well then I'm sorry trucks.
Stafford: Oh, ignore them Percy. You could give those those trucks a massage and they'd still find a way to complain about it.
Troublesome Truck #1: Of course we would, you silly electric engine! We're made of wood, so what good would a massage do us?
Troublesome Truck #2: Ha ha, yeah. Don't you have a battery to recharge, electric engine?
Troublesome Truck #1: Ooh, that's a good one.
Troublesome Truck #2: I thought it was.
West Country? That's cool! I know quite a few engines from Sodor come from the West Country and have West Country accents. There's Rex, Mike, and Bert the miniature engines. And Trevor the Traction Engine, and Salty the Dockyard Diesel. Duck also has a West Country accent (from the time when he worked around Swindon), although that's mixed with a bit of a London accent (since he worked at Paddington Station in London before coming to Sodor). I've heard good things about the West Country, and I've been wanting to visit there someday.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins, The West Country
Duck worked in Swindon? I would have thought he worked in Wales. His original number was 5741, and there was a real GWR no. 5741 that worked in Wales its whole life. Was that a different engine? And if it was, why was Duck depicted as 5741 in the Railway Series books?
https://web.archive.org/web/20171006094622/http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/duck.htm
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Duck: Ah yes, that. There's a story behind that. You see, 5741 wasn't my original number, and in fact, it's been so long that I don't even remember my original number. 5741 was the number of one of my brothers (I had many brothers, since us 57xx panniers were the most numerous tank engine class ever produced in Britain), and I was particularly close to 5741 because we were built around the same time at the same workshop (North British Locomotive Works in Glasgow). I nicknamed him Herbert, after the American president who had been inaugurated just before we were built (we had heard a radio broadcast about him while we were in the works), and he named me Montague (although the other engines later nicknamed 'Duck' because I supposedly waddled, and I started to go by that name instead). Me and no. 5741/Herbert were eventually split up, with him going to Wales, and myself going to Swindon for a brief period, then London Paddington, and finally Sodor in 1955. We still kept in contact by letter, but we never saw each other again.
Duck: When the Thin Clergyman, who you all know as the Reverend W. Awdry, visited Sodor and told me he was going to introduce me into his books, I asked him if I could be illustrated with the number 5741 in honor of Herbert, and the Thin Clergyman passed the message on to his illustrator at the time Mr. C. Reginald Dalby. In 1957, when the real no. 5741 was sadly scrapped, Sir Topham Hatt reached an agreement with the GWR for me to officially take on Herbert's number, which I then wore on Sodor for many years. The TV series depicted me with the number 8 when I was introduced in 1986, and I liked that idea so much, that Sir Topham Hatt officially renumbered me as '8' not long after. I've been Sodor Railways' no. 8 engine ever since, though I'll never forget my brother whose number I wore for 30 years.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
Duck: By the way, good job on digging up that old Pegnsean page. That website had a lot of good info about us and Sodor, and it's a shame it's no longer active.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
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