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Percyton wrote:Baxten! It's so great to have you back! We missed you!

Hey Percy all the engines doing fine?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Chernarus State wrote:Tex

seven accounts does that to ya

Oh OK yes hello Tex long time no see

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Baxten's back? Where has the time gone?!?

Also... To chime in on the "flag debate"... Each flag is unique in their own way, but be wary of the color/design. I suffer from this, due to my near-constant flag changes.

Jaslandia, Baxten, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Welcome back Baxten! Love the flag

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

Au Minbo wrote:Welcome back Baxten! Love the flag

Thank you Minnie for standing by my flag

Russkov Soviet wrote:Baxten's back? Where has the time gone?!?

Also... To chime in on the "flag debate"... Each flag is unique in their own way, but be wary of the color/design. I suffer from this, due to my near-constant flag changes.

Times gone to school lol

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Baxten wrote:Thank you Minnie for standing by my flag

Times gone to school lol

Anything for New England.

Edit: I had no idea there was a mini debate about your flag when I posted that, I just love the flag so I commented.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Au Minbo wrote:Anything for New England.

I need to get on writing the lore and stuff for New England

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Baxten wrote:I need to get on writing the lore and stuff for New England

Sounds like fun, just make sure that we worship Brother Jonathan

Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica

Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Duke The Old Engine, Midasia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Cannabis

Penguania And Antarctica

Au Minbo wrote:Cannabis

Why? If I may ask.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Why? If I may ask.

I just think its disgusting, the smell of it makes me want to vomit. Im all for having it be legalized but I don't like being near the stuff.

Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia

Au Minbo wrote:Cannabis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI1dAmDZrZE meanwhile in the Yukonan Central Assembly

Penguania And Antarctica

Au Minbo wrote:I just think its disgusting, the smell of it makes me want to vomit. Im all for having it be legalized but I don't like being near the stuff.

Same.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Snapchat

Duke The Old Engine

Midasia wrote:Snapchat

Whys that? I love Snapchat not cause of the stories (stories are dumb) but because it helps me keep in touch with friends I don't get to see often. But thats cause I'm friends with people in college and I'm a lowly senior so I wouldn't be able to see them any other way

Mercunova

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Socialism

The West Country

Baxten wrote:Hey Percy all the engines doing fine?

The engines are doing well, I'm happy to say. Busy as usual. One of them (Duke) even created a new NS account while you were away!

Jaslandia, Baxten, Duke The Old Engine

Baxten wrote:Whys that? I love Snapchat not cause of the stories (stories are dumb) but because it helps me keep in touch with friends I don't get to see often. But thats cause I'm friends with people in college and I'm a lowly senior so I wouldn't be able to see them any other way

I don't like snapchat because texting is better.

Mercunova wrote:Socialism

Wow, Merc. This is a betrayal.

Jaslandia, Mercunova, The West Country

Midasia wrote:I don't like snapchat because texting is better.

Eh, to each his own. I like Snapchat over text but I also save all my messages anyways

Percyton wrote:The engines are doing well, I'm happy to say. Busy as usual. One of them (Duke) even created a new NS account while you were away!

Good I'm glad they're all doing well

Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Fortnite

Midasia

Unfallious wrote:Wow, Merc. This is a betrayal.

https://pics.me.me/death-is-a-preferable-alternative-to-communism-30239823.png

Unfallious wrote:Wow, Merc. This is a betrayal.

Boo hoo 😭

Midasia wrote:I don't like snapchat because texting is better.

What difference does it make? Both do the same thing.

Baxten wrote:https://pics.me.me/death-is-a-preferable-alternative-to-communism-30239823.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByC8sRdL-Ro

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

Cell phones. A lot of newfangled nonsense, if you ask me. People are so distracted by their little screens, they can barely pay attention to the world around them, or do a hard's day work.

Duke's driver: We're using a cell phone to communicate with these people on the Internet, remember Duke?

Duke: Sure, but I'm at least responsible with my cell phone use. I make sure you never use the cell phone unless we're stopped at a station or in the sheds, and unlike other engines, I don't have my own cell phone. Besides, you've seen how so many of my passengers are on their phones during the train ride. Only a few decades ago, all the passengers would be admiring the scenery and talking with one another during the journey. People just can't stop and slow down anymore.

Peter Sam: You would know all about slowing down, Granpuff, with your advanced age.

Sir Handel: Though it's not really 'slowing down' anymore. More like stopping!

Duke: You watch your mouths, you impertinent scalawags! I can still pull trains. Not as many as I used to, but I'm still a Really Useful Engine. You two could learn a thing or two from me.

Peter Sam: Tell you what, if we ever need instruction on how to give boring lectures, or how to be older than the dinosaurs, we'll let you know!

Duke: *sigh* Some engines never change.

Percyton wrote:The engines are doing well, I'm happy to say. Busy as usual. One of them (Duke) even created a new NS account while you were away!

Yes, that's me. Nice to meet you, Baxten! My name is Duke, named after His Grace the Duke of Sodor. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about the Skarloey or Mid-Sodor railways.

Midasia wrote:Snapchat

Hear, hear! One of many things kids are doing on their cell phones that are distracting them from real life. Though I think Snapchat is one of the main culprits, along with that 'Instant-gram' thing.

Gualimole wrote:Fortnite

Which reminds me, I also don't like improper spelling! A period of two weeks is spelled 'fortnight', youngster!

Duke's driver: *laughs* No, Duke. 'Fortnite' is a video game. Very popular among the kids. My son plays it a lot.

Duke: Oh, one of those. Is it anything like that 'Overwatch' game you told me about a while back?

Duke's driver: Kinda, yeah.

Duke: *sigh* Youngsters and their games. Would be nice if they focused on something real.

Duke's driver: You mean like narrow-gauge railways?

Duke: Yes, exactly!

Duke's driver: Well, if you can figure out a way to get kids into railway preservation, I'd love to hear it.

Duke: Touche, Driver. Touche.

Jaslandia

Vista Major wrote:Anything ranging from liberal to anarchist.

We also have some notable syndicalists around here.

I'm more conservative so here we go!

Mercunova wrote:What difference does it make? Both do the same thing.

That is my point. Why waste space with an app you don't need?

Midasia wrote:That is my point. Why waste space with an app you don't need?

Because some may prefer the features of snapchat over those of simple texting.

If two people who want to chat have snapchat, they can talk no matter what device they have, if they're in an internet zone. Unless they have snapchat or something like it, someone who has an iPod Touch with no cell plan can't talk to someone who has a Samsung Galaxy phone.

A little competition never hurt anyone.

Baxten

Pyles Tis Kolasis wrote:I'm more conservative so here we go!

So there’s more than one here...

Baxten wrote:Whys that? I love Snapchat not cause of the stories (stories are dumb) but because it helps me keep in touch with friends I don't get to see often. But thats cause I'm friends with people in college and I'm a lowly senior so I wouldn't be able to see them any other way

younguns

Mercunova wrote:What difference does it make? Both do the same thing.

Snapchat THOTs

Jaslandia, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to you all:

What is something that is popular now that annoys you?

-Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram/Popular-Social-Media

-Status updates/Calling Everday/Texting Everyday (If I need to tell you something, I'll call you. I hate it when people call or text me because they want "to talk." The worst is the random "hi")

Penguania And Antarctica

Peoples Liberation Republic wrote:I will do my first RP as this new Pan-Arab Islamic State either today or tomorrow.

Hey, I should have said this before but I didn't remember to; for that I apologize. RP content like actions has to go on the RP region, for the sake of not rewriting, posts you've written before this obviously count but all after this should be in it's appropriate place.

Penguania And Antarctica

The new populist government in Italy wants to institute a universal basic income. This brings it into direct conflict with the Eurozone. I'm interested to see what goes on with that.

Nuremgard, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States

Unfallious wrote:The new populist government in Italy wants to institute a universal basic income. This brings it into direct conflict with the Eurozone. I'm interested to see what goes on with that.

Well, at least the populists are actually living up to their name in Italy. Over in America, 'populism' seems to be code for 'using ethnic nationalism and anti-elite rhetoric to hide big gains for the rich'.

Nuremgard, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica

Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

Mercunova

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

Definitely drugs, illegal arms, stuff like that…if it has to be legal though I guess Id like to run a real estate firm

Bearlong, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

Airplane brokerage firm.

Might do repossessions too.

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Definitely drugs, illegal arms, stuff like that…if it has to be legal though I guess Id like to run a real estate firm

Nice to see you back, Bax.

Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

I’d sell legal cannibis

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Nice to see you back, Bax.

You too Nurem. You know my choirs going to Scotland next year. You should definitely come see us

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Baxten wrote:You too Nurem. You know my choirs going to Scotland next year. You should definitely come see us

Choir music ain't my thing but thanks for the offer. Hope you enjoy visiting my homeland. Which part of Scotland?

Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

Maybe a publishing house.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Choir music ain't my thing but thanks for the offer. Hope you enjoy visiting my homeland. Which part of Scotland?

Pretty much all of it. I have the itinerary somewhere but off the top of my head I know Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Loch Lomond. Theres more though I know that

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:Plain and simple can sometimes be good. BTW, if Bax's flag is bad, then just how bad is my flag?

Yours is decent. I don't like the orange much, though.

Baxten wrote:Pretty much all of it. I have the itinerary somewhere but off the top of my head I know Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Loch Lomond. Theres more though I know that

Glasgow and Edinburgh are both fine cities with their own charms. Never been to Loch Lomond but heard it's lovely.

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

Milkshake shoppe

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Glasgow and Edinburgh are both fine cities with their own charms. Never been to Loch Lomond but heard it's lovely.

It must really be something nice because we have a whole song dedicated to Loch Lomond

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Mercunova wrote:Socialism

LOL you think socialism is popular. I wish it was.

Bearlong, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:It must really be something nice because we have a whole song dedicated to Loch Lomond

Hope you will be singing some Scottish songs or songs dedicated to Scotland. I recommend Caledonia by Julienne Taylor.

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:Hope you will be singing some Scottish songs or songs dedicated to Scotland. I recommend Caledonia by Julienne Taylor.

I know we’re singing Loch Lomond and this song called Northern Lights (that second one isn’t Scottish of course but its actually amazing. I have a link of us singing it). Theres gonna be much more I just don’t know yet

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:Hope you will be singing some Scottish songs or songs dedicated to Scotland. I recommend Caledonia by Julienne Taylor.

Here’s that link. Its not really a traditional choir song but its a damn good song

https://youtu.be/HCmfb402LJc

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:I know we’re singing Loch Lomond and this song called Northern Lights (that second one isn’t Scottish of course but its actually amazing. I have a link of us singing it). Theres gonna be much more I just don’t know yet

Well I hope you enjoy yourself.

Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Well I hope you enjoy yourself.

Now that i think of it one of my other Scottish friends is gonna see us and shes very pro-Unionist and pretty political so that might not be an amazing encounter lol. I hope she comes at least

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Now that i think of it one of my other Scottish friends is gonna see us and shes very pro-Unionist and pretty political so that might not be an amazing encounter lol. I hope she comes at least

Surely politics shouldn't matter between you two? It's not like you'll be affected by Scotland's constitutional future. But tell your friend I said she is wrong. :P

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Nuremgard wrote:Surely politics shouldn't matter between you two? It's not like you'll be affected by Scotland's constitutional future. But tell your friend I said she is wrong. :P

Nah it won’t for us but we met at a camp for politics so if you might imagine we’re a political bunch. Lol I’ll make sure she knows

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Trending now on Netflix: Suits.

I wonder why.

Jaslandia, Mercunova

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Question to all of you:

If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

I'll open a business so tremendous that I won't even need to manage it! Believe me. It'll be so great that I could just leave my workers to manage it for me! Anyone who says otherwise is sad!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The West Country

Gualimole wrote:I'll open a business so tremendous that I won't even need to manage it! Believe me. It'll be so great that I could just leave my workers to manage it for me! Anyone who says otherwise is sad!

You're a bigly businessman.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:You're a bigly businessman.

And my dad is a smally businessman, and a good one at that. He was once able to double the value of a restaurant he bought in a matter of months before selling it because he didn't feel like he wanted to continue to own it. I don't know how he does it.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Hey Y'all, does anyone think they have a suggestion of a name for a piece of military armour I'm making? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/450310220279709705/ForEditing.jpg

Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Hey Y'all, does anyone think they have a suggestion of a name for a piece of military armour I'm making?
Zeus Power Core Armour/ Z.P.C.A.

Penguania And Antarctica

[spoiler=Today is May 27 and today are:]

Today is May 27 and today are:

- Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)

- Carpet Day (Turkmenistan)

- Children's Day (Nigeria)

- Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (Ukraine)

- Dniester Day (Moldova)

- Indianapolis 500

- Kiev Day (Ukraine)

- Mother's Day (Bolivia, Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, Sweden)

- National Cellophane Tape Day (United States)

- National Grape Popsicle Day (United States)

- Navy Day (Japan)

- Orthodox Pentecost

- Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)

- Start of National Reconciliation Week (Australia)

- Sun Screen Day

- Trinity Sunday (Western Christianity)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.

- 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

- 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

- 1199 – John is crowned King of England.

- 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.

- 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

- 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.

- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.

- 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

- 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.

- 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.

- 1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

- 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

- 1896 – The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).

- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

- 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.

- 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.

- 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

- 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

- 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

- 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

- 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

- 1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.

- 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

- 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

- 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

- 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

- 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.

- 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

- 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

- 1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

- 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

- 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

- 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

- 1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

- 1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

- 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

- 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

- 1996 – First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

- 1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

- 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

- 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

- 2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

- 2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist

- 1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer

- 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author

- 1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author

- 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor

- 1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer

- 1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter

- 1967 – Kai Pflaume, German television presenter and game show host

- 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor

- 1975 – Jamie Oliver, English chef and author

- 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

- 1990 – Jonas Hector, German football/soccer player

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Facts of the day

- Victorians believed tomatos would cause illness unless boiled to the point of collapse.

- All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.

- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stones.

- Being intolerant of intolerance is called "the paradox of tolerance."

- All mammals take about 21 seconds to pee.

- Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.

Quote of the day presented to you by Jaslandia

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers (American Actor, 1879-1935) -

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, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Confederal States, Midasia

Vewy smol update UwU

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor

Happy birthday, Vision/J.A.R.V.I.S.!

https://youtu.be/NtVBqsgueRs

Vista Major, Axeldonia

Still have a survey going, if you wanna fill it out!

http://goo.gl/LkYXe9

Kalaron wrote:Hey Y'all, does anyone think they have a suggestion of a name for a piece of military armour I'm making? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/450310220279709705/ForEditing.jpg

Armour McArmyface

Nuremgard

For all Americans out there, I'm not going to wish you all a 'happy Memorial Day', since this isn't really a happy holiday. But I do hope you all have a good time with friends and family, and that you commemorate those who have died while serving in our military.

Russkov Soviet, Baxten, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States, Midasia, The West Country

Jaslandia wrote:For all Americans out there, I'm not going to wish you all a 'happy Memorial Day', since this isn't really a happy holiday. But I do hope you all have a good time with friends and family, and that you commemorate those who have died while serving in our military.

Hear, hear. (IRL) I'm stuck at work for the majority of the day, so I'll be marked as M.I.A at my families "Salute to Service" banquet. It's a shame too... I have some vets who wanted to hear the speech I wrote. (IC) We may not be American, but we have started to celebrate today as Allied Remembrance Day. This is the 2nd year, so it's still a new concept.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

[spoiler=Today is May 28 and today are:]

Today is May 28 and today are:

- Amnesty International Day

- Armed Forces Day (Croatia)

- Downfall of the Derg Day (Ethiopia)

- Flag Day (Philippines)

- Jefferson Davis Birthday (Mississippi)

- Memorial Day (United States and its territories)

- Menstrual Hygiene Day

- National Brisket Day (United States)

- National Hamburger Day (United States)

- Orthodox Pentecost Monday

- Reconciliation Day (Australia)

- Republic Day (Nepal)

- Slugs Return From Capistrano Day

- TDFR Republic Day (Armenia, Azerbaijan)

- Whooping Crane Day

- Youm-e-Takbir (Pakistan)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 585BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.

- 0621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.

- 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.

- 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)

- 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

- 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

- 1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops

- 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.

- 1871 – Fall of the Paris Commune.

- 1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

- 1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.

- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

- 1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.

- 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.

- 1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.

- 1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.

- 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

- 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

- 1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.

- 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.

- 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.

- 1942 – World War II: In retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.

- 1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.

- 1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.

- 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.

- 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.

- 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.

- 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.

- 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

- 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.

- 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.

- 1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.

- 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.

- 1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.

- 1995 – The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.

- 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

- 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.

- 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

- 2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.

- 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.

- 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.

- 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

- 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

- 2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.

- 2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1660 – George I of Great Britain

- 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician

- 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer

- 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist

- 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author

- 1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician

- 1908 – Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond

- 1912 – Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author

- 1923 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Austrian composer and educator

- 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor

- 1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City

- 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

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Facts of the day

- The Confederacy was never recognized by any foreign country during the American Civil War.

- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

- Despite its "Sunshine State" nickname, Florida is not the sunniest U.S. state. Arizona is, closely followed by Nevada.

- A honeybee has the same amount of hairs as a squirrel: 3 million.

- A Belgian minister arrived by bike to a news conference to promote cycling in 2017, only to find it had been stolen when he left half an hour later.

- Arthur Guinness, founder of Guinness Brewery, had 21 children with just one wife.

Quote of the day presented to you by Sulania

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.

- Max Müller (German Educator, 1823-1900) -

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

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Confederal States, Midasia

DIP Reader Information

It's likely that the DIP will be discontinued/ posted irregulary. If there is a desire or request for DIPs I'll concur. There will still be DIPs when members of this community have their birthday on that day. If I am aware of their birthday.

Well, unless my holiday assistent Mercunova decides to continue my work.

Thanks for your attention.

- Peng -

Holiday Herald

Bearlong, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Midasia, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:DIP Reader Information

It's likely that the DIP will be discontinued/ posted irregulary. If there is a desire or request for DIPs I'll concur. There will still be DIPs when members of this community have their birthday on that day. If I am aware of their birthday.

Well, unless my holiday assistent Mercunova decides to continue my work.

Thanks for your attention.

- Peng -

Holiday Herald

Aww, but thanks for all the great work you've put in. I understand if you need to take a break or something, but regardless I really apprechiated the DIP's while they lasted.

Bearlong, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

Quote of the day presented to you by Jaslandia

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers (American Actor, 1879-1935) -

Hey, I gave you that quote.

Bearlong, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

Not to be confused with the Bolton Massacre of 2019, which is what will happen when John Bolton gets the U.S. involved in a war with everybody else.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Despite its "Sunshine State" nickname, Florida is not the sunniest U.S. state. Arizona is, closely followed by Nevada.

Wait, what? I feel like my whole existence is a lie now.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:DIP Reader Information

It's likely that the DIP will be discontinued/ posted irregulary. If there is a desire or request for DIPs I'll concur. There will still be DIPs when members of this community have their birthday on that day. If I am aware of their birthday.

Well, unless my holiday assistent Mercunova decides to continue my work.

Thanks for your attention.

- Peng -

Holiday Herald

Shame. I really enjoyed the DIPs. I hope you'll continue them someday, but if not, they had a good run, and hopefully Merc will be a worthy successor.

Unfallious wrote:Hey, I gave you that quote.

We both gave it, but I posted it first.

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Not to be confused with the Bolton Massacre of 2019, which is what will happen when John Bolton gets the U.S. involved in a war with everybody else.

But the Kalaron Massacre of 2049 will be even worse. Future Secretary of Defense Kalaron will kill himself and White House staff by dropping F-35s on the White House. After that incident, every state in the United States will secede because of the ineptitude of the United States government. However, DC will still be a federal district, which means that they will still be a part of the United States. The new US flag will have one star for DC and 11 stripes for the actual original states. By then, the world will know that Delaware and Rhode Island are drawf states, not real states.

God bless America.

goo.gl/KtLNuJ

Axeldonia, Mercunova, The West Country

Gualimole wrote:But the Kalaron Massacre of 2049 will be even worse. Future Secretary of Defense Kalaron will kill himself and White House staff by dropping F-35s on the White House. After that incident, every state in the United States will secede because of the ineptitude of the United States government. However, DC will still be a federal district, which means that they will still be a part of the United States. The new US flag will have one star for DC and 11 stripes for the actual original states. By then, the world will know that Delaware and Rhode Island are drawf states, not real states.

God bless America.

goo.gl/KtLNuJ

You really gotta stop being a d*ck

Kalaron

Gualimole wrote:But the Kalaron Massacre of 2049 will be even worse. Future Secretary of Defense Kalaron will kill himself and White House staff by dropping F-35s on the White House. After that incident, every state in the United States will secede because of the ineptitude of the United States government. However, DC will still be a federal district, which means that they will still be a part of the United States. The new US flag will have one star for DC and 11 stripes for the actual original states. By then, the world will know that Delaware and Rhode Island are drawf states, not real states.

God bless America.

goo.gl/KtLNuJ

Aye, but what'll be even worse will be the Constidorian Massacre of 2053, when the President of the US, Constidor openly gives nukes to all of the countries of the world in the interest of turning back imperialism and gets everyone nuked

:P

Chernarus State wrote:You really gotta stop being a d*ck

I was just joking around, Tex. I thought you were the edgy one here.

Kalaron wrote:Aye, but what'll be even worse will be the Constidorian Massacre of 2053, when the President of the US, Constidor openly gives nukes to all of the countries of the world in the interest of turning back imperialism and gets everyone nuked

:P

But I can't become President because I wasn't born in the US and neither of my parents were American citizens when I was born.

Axeldonia

Gualimole wrote:I was just joking around, Tex. I thought you were the edgy one here.

But I can't become President because I wasn't born in the US and neither of my parents were American citizens when I was born.

It's hard to tell with you

Chernarus State wrote:It's hard to tell with you

>Dropping F-35s on the White House

>Dwarf states

>Flag of the US becoming the flag of Liberia

Sure it is.

Axeldonia, Mercunova, The West Country

I've decided to turn Shazria into an Islamic monarchy.

Nuremgard wrote:I've decided to turn Shazria into an Islamic monarchy.

When will Daddy Berry allow me to turn Gualimole into guacamole?

The West Country

Gualimole wrote:When will Daddy Berry allow me to turn Gualimole into guacamole?

I dunno, babe.

Nuremgard wrote:I dunno, babe.

This is a feature the community has been demanding for years! When will Daddy give us what we want?

I am not sure how to join this ongoing conversation but i want in xD

few days of trying to bring Spanelsko to demilitarised democracy yet we still are second in the region for largest arms manufacture. 8th for defence forces and 5th for sector manufacture, what am i doing wrong?

Spanelsko wrote:few days of trying to bring Spanelsko to demilitarised democracy yet we still are second in the region for largest arms manufacture. 8th for defence forces and 5th for sector manufacture, what am i doing wrong?

Being Spanelsko.

Yukona, Spanelsko, Midasia

Rest in peace Benny Harvey. Miss you big man, gone but not forgotten

Yukona wrote:Rest in peace Benny Harvey. Miss you big man, gone but not forgotten

Who's Benny Harvey? I have never heard of him.

Such a shame Caroline Lucas is stepping down as leader of the Green Party here in the UK

Vista Major, Midasia

Yukona wrote:Such a shame Caroline Lucas is stepping down as leader of the Green Party here in the UK

Such sadness

Midasia

Yukona wrote:Such a shame Caroline Lucas is stepping down as leader of the Green Party here in the UK

If Elizabeth May ever steps down as leader of the Green Party of Canada, I’m convinced the fault line will finally shift and all of BC will find itself submerged into the Pacific.

In only semi-related news, Elizabeth May was found guilty (pled guilty, I believe) of criminal contempt for her actions at the Kinder Morgan facility earlier this year 😅

Vista Major, Mercunova, Yukona, Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If Elizabeth May ever steps down as leader of the Green Party of Canada, I’m convinced the fault line will finally shift and all of BC will find itself submerged into the Pacific.

In only semi-related news, Elizabeth May was found guilty (pled guilty, I believe) of criminal contempt for her actions at the Kinder Morgan facility earlier this year 😅

I would say BC could join USA, but... you know.

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If Elizabeth May ever steps down as leader of the Green Party of Canada, I’m convinced the fault line will finally shift and all of BC will find itself submerged into the Pacific.

In only semi-related news, Elizabeth May was found guilty (pled guilty, I believe) of criminal contempt for her actions at the Kinder Morgan facility earlier this year 😅

What spunk she has

Midasia

Midasia wrote:I would say BC could join USA, but... you know.

If I were to list Canada’s provinces based on their suspected susceptibleness to joining the US, BC would be at the bottom of the list. Maaaaybe Quebec would beat it. Maybe.

Jaslandia, Yukona, Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If I were to list Canada’s provinces based on their suspected susceptibleness to joining the US, BC would be at the bottom of the list. Maaaaybe Quebec would beat it. Maybe.

We should take New Brunswick.

It'd be fun to trigger Aroostook War II.

Jaslandia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If I were to list Canada’s provinces based on their suspected susceptibleness to joining the US, BC would be at the bottom of the list. Maaaaybe Quebec would beat it. Maybe.

Though I think Nunavut would be below B.C. on that hypothetical list. Considering the U.S.'s less-than-stellar history with native peoples (both before and now), I highly doubt a majority-First Nations/indigenous province would be keen to join our Union. And yes, I know Canada is far from perfect when it comes to their First Nations peoples, but they've made a lot more progress in that area than we have.

Jaslandia wrote:Though I think Nunavut would be below B.C. on that hypothetical list. Considering the U.S.'s less-than-stellar history with native peoples (both before and now), I highly doubt a majority-First Nations/indigenous province would be keen to join our Union. And yes, I know Canada is far from perfect when it comes to their First Nations peoples, but they've made a lot more progress in that area than we have.

All good points! But Nunavut is a territory, not a province. :P

Mercunova wrote:We should take New Brunswick.

It'd be fun to trigger Aroostook War II.

Pfft, you can take it. I’ll hand gift it to you. Enjoy their qualms about French.

Mercunova, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:All good points! But Nunavut is a territory, not a province. :PPfft, you can take it. I’ll hand gift it to you. Enjoy their qualms about French.

Well then NB will fit right in.

We pulled their ar$e out of two wars, the French.

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