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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Red, white, and black
Penguania And Antarctica
Blue, white and sandy yellow with a flash of black
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Red, white and blue.
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Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
Blue, redish purply maroon, and a mix of other colors.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Ooooh, heres a topic for yall that is blowing up the TEL discord/RMB:
Genetic editing in humans. Its a certainty that the process will be used in humans medically in the coming decades, but given its effectiveness and ability to drastically help improve the human body and mind, how should governments react to it?
One guy from TEL brings up how itll give the rich a sure fire way to ensure their wealth can stay in their family for a very long time, by paying for genetic treatments that will give their children no health issues and a sharper mind than the rest. His concerns are legitimate, but his solution (make genetic editing free to all) is flawed.
Percyton
Hehe, hope you've had a good day, Pengu! :D
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I was nearing Widely Abused political freedom until an issue unrelated to political freedom resulted in it dropping 29 f#cking percent.... Wtf
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova
Huh. Very odd.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Well, it was uneventful. Which is good. :)
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Percyton
I'd say keep it regulated to eliminate disease.
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is October 11 and today are:]
Today is October 11 and today are:
- General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
- International Day of the Girl Child
- International Newspaper Carrier Day
- It's My Party Day
- National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day (United States)
- National Coming Out Day (Multiple countries)
- National Emergency Nurses Day (United States)
- National Fossil Day (United States)
- National Sausage Pizza Day (United States)
- National Stop Bullying Day (United States)
- National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day (United States)
- Old Michaelmas Day (Celtic)
- Pet Obesity Awareness Day
- Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1138 A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo.
- 1142 A peace treaty between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court during the JinSong wars.
- 1311 The Ordinances of 1311 are published, imposing a series of regulations upon King Edward II of England by the peerage and clergy.
- 1531 Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
- 1582 Due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1614 Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
- 1634 The Burchardi flood: "The second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
- 1649 Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
- 1727 George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
- 1767 Surveying for the MasonDixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island: On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
- 1797 Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
- 1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
- 1811 Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
- 1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
- 1862 American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
- 1865 Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
- 1890 In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- 1899 Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
- 1899 The Western League is renamed the American League.
- 1906 San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- 1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (LambertSt. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 1918 The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
- 1941 Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- 1942 World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
- 1944 Tuvan People's Republic, formerly Tannu Tuva, is annexed by the U.S.S.R.
- 1950 Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
- 1954 First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- 1957 Space Race: Operation Moonwatch scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
- 1958 Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- 1962 Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
- 1968 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
- 1972 A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- 1975 The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts.
- 1976 George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
- 1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 1984 An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
- 1986 Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
- 1987 First public display of AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
- 1987 Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers and Indian Army soldiers.
- 2000 NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
- 2002 A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
- 2013 A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily with at least 34 people dead.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1616 - Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright
- 1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark
- 1739 - Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician
- 1791 - Carl Bertelsmann, German businessman and publisher, founded Bertelsmann company
- 1821 - George Williams, English philanthropist, founded the YMCA
- 1835 - Theodore Thomas, American conductor, founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- 1844 - Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company
- 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States
- 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1885 - François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 - Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer
- 1925 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
- 1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
- 1937 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager
- 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
- 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
- 1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
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Quote of the day
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Cesorion
Oooo I looooove this;
One point that I should start with is the problem of who is doing the editing, under absolutely no circumstances should this be done by a corporation for profit. Nor should evolutionary editing (Faster, stronger, smarter, blue skin, four arms) be held from development. Now, I'm actually in the freedom of evolution line, where the data is free for public use, and the effects are free for the public.
However, the distribution is the real issue, as a free system ensures that horrific weapons such as literal Genocide-in-a-bottle is economically feasible for the radical psycho near you. Instead, I argue that it should all be done through a single system, one that controls the distribution and monitors the research being performed through it. This would force the dangerous genocide bombs to the black market, which would most likely exist anyway with literally every other model because Science cannot be stopped.
Axeldonia, Percyton
The Talking Point
Suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
took long enough, well at least i got the banner tanks for everything.
Nuremgard
Good morning, Peng! Same to you!
Nice! How old are your kids, if you don't mind me asking?
Really? Well, in that case, Happy National Coming Out Day! I'll spend some time coming in and out of my berth in the sheds to show my support!
Edward: I appreciate the thought, Percy, but I don't think that's what the day means.
Percy: Oh, so what does it mean then? *Driver explains 'National Coming Out Day'* Oh. In that case, I support then and all, and I support their right to be who they want to be, but I'm not sure how much I can relate since locomotives don't have a sexual orientation.
Rosie: As Percyton's Minister of Science and Technology, I think I'm qualified to speak on this. As a locomotive, I don't entirely see the concern, to be honest: Us engines and vehicles have had the mechanical equivalent of 'genetic editing' done to us for over 200 years, and it has led to the improvement of all kinds of vehicles, which in turn has improved transportation and economic efficiency for you humans. Of course, engines and vehicles have very different social dynamics than humans, so from that perspective I can understand why humans are worried. Just like mechanical editing in engines has led to the improvement of all vehicles in the long run, genetic editing has enormous capacity to improve all of humanity eventually. However, this genetic editing should be monitored to ensure it actually benefits all of humanity, and not just a select group. Us locomotives have a 'Chief Mechanical Engineer' (CME) that oversees the creation of new designs and ensures the quality of our 'mechanical editing', so perhaps humans need a 'Chief Genetic Engineer' (CGE) to oversee genetic editing in humans and ensure its quality?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Tangshan has returned to its monarchical roots.
Jaslandia, Percyton, Spanelsko
My brain combined those two to form 'Pet Revolution Day', which is a very interesting mental image.
Comrade Fido: Fluffy creatures of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your leashes!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The anniversary of the Russian Revolution is approaching.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
That just it an even more appropriate mental image! October 25, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It makes me wonder what would have happened if the monarchy reformed and democracy gradually came about in Russia just like with Britain.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I think we'd all be a lot better off, but I'm not sure how that would happen: The lack of democracy prior to the revolution meant a shortage of skilled democratic leaders in Russia, the democratic leaders Russia did have made the extremely poor choice to keep Russia in World War I, and the social tension in Russia had been building for too long for the communists and radicals to accept anything but drastic and immediate change.
Nuremgard
I agree. I think the majority of Russian society had suffered too much for too long. Waiting for change and reform through legal means would have took too long, or may never have happened. The revolution had been brewing for a long time. WW1 simply gave it a chance to begin. Russia wasn't unique though. Other monarchical regimes fell around the time of WW1.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Indeed. If Russia had permanently adapted earlier, say around the 1905 Revolution or before, the communist revolution could have been avoided. But World War I basically stretched Russia to its limits: socially, economically, and militarily. There was no turning back from that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
Nuremgard
Quick Update: (I'm on break at work)
Percyton, the final touches are nearly finished. The Great Russian Engine Classic is currently set to undergo qualifying this Saturday and Sunday. I hope your contestants are ready for the grueling race.
We also encourage those seeking reenactment vehicles/equipment to order from us. We are able to fill any order for a decent price. For example: A airfield in Japan ordered 16 Mitsubishi fighters (WWII Zero). The planes were built within the week and are currently preparing to fly.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton, James The Red Engine
Shame Russia cant be like my Nuremgard.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
Cool! The Russian Revolution is indirectly an important event in Percytonian history, since the Russian Revolution is what inspired the engines to launch the Engine Revolution two years later.
Great! The engines are all ready to compete, and we even have one more contestant! We finally convinced the famous Mainland engine 'Tornado' to compete. If there's room for him too, that'd be really nice!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Depends, does Nuremgard make dumb propaganda about their military vehicles with impossible claims? :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Nuremgard doesn't do propaganda.
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Then you're right, Russia isn't like Nuremgard at all :P
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
4 and 6, both girls.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Confederal States
That's cool! I imagine they're a handful sometimes, but at least they have a good father like you!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
*trying to resist promoting our TV series to Wyoming's daughters*
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
So...
About that fantasy rp...
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
UnfalliousWHERE IS IT, WE WANTS IT!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
I'M SORRY UNI IS MUCH WORK I'M WORKING ON IT BIOMES ARE 70% COMPLETE
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Post self-deleted by Pocomokey.
Seriously, how many classes are you taking this semester?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Pocomokey.
Can we seez it?
Pweaze :3
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Confederal States
*Wheres the Map, Yuk? echoes eerily through the halls as Unf realizes.... he dun goofed*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Shameful. Absolutely shameful. The Maoist Dictatorship really should put you dirty Royalists down.....
Nuremgard
Come at us, bro. You wont be able to handle our armies. They are devoted to their god-emperor!
Oh not this again
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
This again?
Penguania And Antarctica
Before PLR chilled a bit, he flew from Fascist, to State Socialist, to Monarchy over the span of a week, his leader went from President Bogdan to God-Emperor Bodgan in like, 8 minutes tops XD
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States
To be fair, when Tangshan started out, it was a monarchy for a long time. Then it was a republic with a president. Then it became a military junta. It swapped intermittently between republic and junta but now it's back to being a monarchy.
Anyone on this site who knows me well will tell you I am extremely fickle with my nations.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Confederal States
*grumbles about Farahan backing out of the Eternal Caliphate*
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm sorry!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I HAD IRAN SET UP FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Fite me irl ya dirty mongrel koont
Penguania And Antarctica
...Want me to maintain it for the Caliphate?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
By this point, I've already moved on, so no, do not subject your nation to being ruled by a clusterf*ck bureaucracy and potential invasions
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Again...sorry. Hope you ain't too mad.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Nah, besides, all that was months ago, so I've let it slide
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I currently have 4 nations. For now. My longest lasting nations have been Nuremgard and Tangshan I think.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Soon to be just Nuremgard, because Tangshans gonna be a diseased crater when Maoist Chyna is done with it :PP
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, you silly, silly little commies. You will be crushed under the imperialist, free market, militarist might of the Eternal and Exalted Empire.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I wanna see military content to back the claim :D
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Silly liberals.... dontchu know? Imperialism can be a Commie thing too! Now bow down to the Maoist Dictatorship or be plagued
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Hm... Why isn't The United Confederacy Of Texas on the map as Texas?
Penguania And Antarctica
Because Tex and I are the same person: rules are that only one nation may hold a claim - trying to RP as a hyper-futuristic state with biomechanical augmentation and giant floating spaceships is obviously breaking the boundaries of the tech limit. Also, I enjoy RPing as al-Qarn (this nation's actual name), mostly for the fact that there are a sh*t-ton of factions that could make a Fallout game blush and is the most dystopian state here sans Spanelsko.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The Tangs will never surrender to commies!
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
Now have you always been hyper maoist, or did you have an ideological switch recently?
Nuremgard
Tex is honestly one of my favourite RPers. He's literally the opposite of the "I wanna be the super-power" RPer.
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton
Danke
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I'm taking 5 modules from the politics course and a 6th from classical history. Politics has a lot of reading out of lectures and there's also a bunch of extracurricular stuff I'm doing since I got involved in the model UN
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is October 12 and today are:]
Today is October 12 and today are:
- Children's Day (Brazil)
- Columbus Day (Honduras)
- Cookbook Launch Day
- Descubrimiento de América (Mexico)
- Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España, also Armed Forces Day (Spain)
- Día de la Raza (El Salvador, Uruguay)
- Día de la Resistencia Indígena or Day of Indigenous Resistance (Venezuela)
- Día de las Américas (Belize)
- Día de las Culturas or Day of the Cultures (Costa Rica)
- Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural or Day of respect for cultural diversity(Argentina)
- Discovery Day (The Bahamas, Colombia
- Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley, celebrated as "Crowleymas" (Thelema)
- Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- Moment of Frustration Day
- National Farmers Day (United States)
- National Freethought Day (United States)
- National Gumbo Day (United States)
- National Pulled Pork Day (United States)
- National Savings Day (United States)
- National Vermont Day (United States)
- Old Farmers Day
- Shmini Atzeret (Judaism)
- United Nations Spanish Language Day
- World Arthritis Day
- World Sight Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 539 BC The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon (Julian calendar)
- 633 Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
- 1113 The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
- 1279 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai Gohonzon.
- 1398 The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
- 1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
- 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1654 The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
- 1692 The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips.
- 1748 British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 1773 America's first insane asylum opens.
- 1792 The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
- 1793 The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
- 1798 Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
- 1799 Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 metres (3,000 ft).
- 1810 First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
- 1822 Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
- 1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
- 1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
- 1871 Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
- 1890 Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
- 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
- 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
- 1915 World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- 1917 World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- 1918 A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota.
- 1928 An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
- 1933 The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
- 1942 World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
- 1944 World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
- 1945 World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
- 1959 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
- 1960 Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.
- 1960 Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast.
- 1962 The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
- 1963 After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
- 1964 The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
- 1967 Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition.
- 1968 Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
- 1970 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
- 1971 The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire is held (until October 16).
- 1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
- 1979 The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
- 1983 Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to four years in jail.
- 1984 Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
- 1986 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit China.
- 1988 Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- 1992 A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
- 1994 The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
- 1997 Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria that killed 43 at a fake roadblock.
- 1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
- 1999 Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
- 1999 The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
- 2000 The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
- 2002 Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
- 2005 The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
- 2008 Lithuanian nuclear power referendum, 2008 is performed.
- 2013 Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province, Peru.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1537 - Edward VI of England
- 1558 - Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria
- 1798 - Pedro I of Brazil
- 1865 - Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1868 - August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi
- 1875 - Aleister Crowley, English magician and author
- 1891 - Edith Stein, Polish nun and martyr; later canonized
- 1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1913 - Benny Benson, Alutiiq, designed the flag of Alaska
- 1923 - Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers
- 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor
- 1942 - Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer
- 1948 Rick Parfitt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
- 1992 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer
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Quote of the day
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
What are your modules? I am currently doing International Relations, Political Philosophy and Modern Europe.
Are you going to NMUN or the London MUN?
Percyton
Wow, was looking at the tex Factbook, is there a gun you DONT field?! Lol
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_united_confederacy_of_texas/detail=factbook/id=276752
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Conflict coming to Spanelsko; and a News Report on the Kyoto Convention coming soon!
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=27592153
PARLIMENT REMINDER
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There is currently a bill waiting to be read and debated in the Parliament. A regional wide address we sent out as well to remind members. Click the Parliament link on the World Factbook entry to find the bill.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I thank Oelesa for the adress. Participation is ridiculusly low indeed.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/42/question-time-act-debate
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=UCT Sperg]Yeah, most of those are either as war trophies or personal weapons (a large amount of Army and PDF fighters tend to carry modified Kalashnikovs, Remington rifles, or shotguns on top of the inordinate amount of equipment the average soldier uses). Most of this matches with the UCT's dystopian nature: given the East Coast, Midwest, and parts of the Plains States are called the American Exclusionary Zone, weapons and superior firepower are necessary (basically, the UCTVerse is very screwed up by the result of temporal collision, i.e. any bits of fiction we enjoy now are, in fact, actual universes and timelines and can meld into our own universe by accident, so things that exist in Fallout or The Division actually appear in UCT's realm, which explains things like Fallout's energy weapons being part of our reality) to combat things like slaver states and raiders. Subscribing to the temporal collision theory is that events in NationStates actually did occur, so the UCT still holds lands in maps from older regions, which are agreed to be non-existent: this includes the Commonwealth of Free Nations Supermap, in which I held Mexico and Central America, and the Next Generation Alliance in which I had claims to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru - these claims have fused with the UCTVerse so the country spans from as far north as Arkansas all the way south to Peru.
The excessive amount of weaponry also matches the size of UCT's military, which is close to several million: they're geared to be warlike due to campaigns in the AEZ against Imperii Americana, or the American Empire, one of the main threats to reunifying the United States. If not them, then the underground demons (Hadals, from Jeff Long's The Descent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_(novel) - basically a human offshoot from Homo erectus that is brutal and hostile to average humans unless it is the prospect of forced breeding or hunting) that roam in a series of chasms and tunnels beneath the oceans. Beyond that, the UCT is also a part of the Planetary Defence Forces, an unholy mix of the United Nations and NATO, which oversees campaigns across the world and in anything close to human habitats such as on the Moon or on Mars (part of the whole UCT being in the 2200s thing) - the PDF has to field plenty of troops to meet its expectations (to point out how big, a Lieutenant General in the PDF operating in the UCT would oversee a section of counties in one of the states, say Louisiana, and a General oversees command of the entire state, reporting to the Commanding General - National, who represents UCT in the Forces. Above the National level is the Commanding General - Continental, the Commanding General - Hemisphere, the Vice Commander of the PDF, and the Supreme Commander, each of whom corresponds to some theatre: the list is found here - https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=710936)[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Percyton
For the record, and speaking for only myself. You will not see me engaging in politics of any kind. Due to my position, I do not find it appropriate.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Always Maoist. That market socialist Chyna never existed.
The WPF is a bit more of a traditional dystopian state.
Additionally, I try to imagine in my creation of the WPF, what the "essential" industries in such a state would be. Fuel, food, purified water, transportation, communication, security, clothing, guns and ammunition are all core industries which would need to be sustained in order for any society to develop out of a collapse scenario. So, I focus on those core competencies.
Instead of just saying "we have a ton of this kind of gun" I have set up trade schools teaching the skills to produce firearms, industries that specialize in hammer forging and investment casting, etc. etc.
I have converted old department stores to textile factories, revitalized coal mines and railroads, even developed a network of radio broadcasters who deliver the news and entertainment.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
For what it's worth, I never saw WPF as 'dystopian'. Life seems rugged and brutal there, true, but unlike other dystopias, the people of Wyoming seem pretty free, and the government there seems fairly small and unobtrusive (although it might just seem that way because we haven't heard much about the WPF government yet; most of your postings so far seem to focus more on WPF's culture and daily life, which I honestly really like).
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
That doesn't sound much like a dystopia to me; just an industrious (if somewhat simple) society.
Jaslandia
2 Trump supporters in one of my puppet's regions. Oh dear.
Axeldonia, Friedensreich
I started my WPF RP about 2010 on an online survivalists forum where the moderator asked us to imagine what a state would be like, not immediately following the collapse of the federal government, but 10 years into the collapse, and then to RP the steps of how we got there.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
I only brought it to nation states about a year ago
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Is WPF your first nation on NS?
Percyton
Depending on the nature of the collapse I don't think such a post-US society would be so primitive (unless there was a nuclear war or some other catastrophe that brought down most technology), but other than that, seems reasonable.
I have an opportunity to go to the Cambridge or Oxford one and there's one in Durham in February but those are all I'm aware of. I'm fairly new to the society and MUN in general
Theory and history in Int. relations
Ideas and ideology
Democratic political systems
Global regions in IR
International security, interdependence and organisation
Living in the classical world
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What's your favourite class?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
So I will be retconning IRL Putin and Macron. They wont be Aleksandr Bogdan and Theodore Samson. Bogdan and Samson did exist in my PLRK history but not as Putin and Macron. I am using Putin and Macron for the National Congolese Directorate.
Some good news for the United Commonwealth: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32672088#p32672088
Percyton
I usually wouldn't care, but this NS Issue actually raised some political questions for me; The Debate:
[spoiler]
Voters dont discriminate between heads of state or, wait for it, their running mates, explains Erin Splinter, a rising star within your party. And well keep winning, so why not have a second-in-command aboard? Someone whose ideology you understand, and methods you trust. Youre gonna need a right-hand man, or woman.
Whaaat? The leader of the opposition sneezes for emphasis. Did I miss something here, or are we still a democracy? The runner-up should be the deputy. Creative dissent is what makes Andromitus strong!
As if anyone else in the room could accomplish as much as you, scoffs your personal assistant, trying not to overload you with your calendar for the next week. Youll just have to work nonstop and struggle every second, but that should be no problem for you, the First Sectariat! Andromitus will still be a strong central democracy even if youre booked day and night.[/spoiler]
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
What did you choose?
Percyton
I'd go with the first or third option. We already tried the second option in America, and it didn't work out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Background
Percyton
I'd go for the first option to ease the workload on your leader or the third one if your leader is really committed. The second option would be a good way of unifying the nation.
Russkov Soviet, Percyton
Lots no
Nuremgard
I dida lot of research on Wyoming and develop Ed it based on. What was available there
Jaslandia, Percyton
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32672938#p32672938
Percyton
So you don't actually live in Wyoming, then?
Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I've made a new post in the Regional Newsfeed. Main points: Jaslandia is sending a delegation to the Kyoto Convention, and Jaslandia is offering to send election observers to al-Qarn.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32673178#p32673178
Andromitus, Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton
noice
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm in the top 10% for Culture and Highest Poor Incomes, yay!
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Nueva Castilla Real
I should be getting a post out regarding the Kyoto Convention either today or tomorrow!
Jaslandia, Percyton, Moldegaard
Sorry for my absence guys, I promise I'll be more active.
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton
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