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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Have you done it before?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Many times.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Edward is a smart man, Perc my boyo.
Kal, on the other hand... :P
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Says you.
Is really fun once one gets over the road.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=77794 Please make your voice heard!
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
The Culture and Information Amendment has failed the House of Delegates.
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10084762/1/
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
And once again, sensibility prevailed.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland
Just noticed I'm the most scientifically-advanced nation in the CoFN. I'm pretty proud of that.
#ScienceFTW!
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Hahahaha Iiiiima comin up on 'ya
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Hi. I'm new.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Hello and welcome ! I am Peng.
Make yourself at home and enjoy your stay. :)
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
What I don't understand is how CC is #10, even though his nation is like the Fallout world but without all the radioactivity.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
Because in fallout they never invented transistors and everything ran off vacuum tubes.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
#3 in uranium mining, so I wouldn't bet on there being a lack of rampant radioactivity. (Although it's just called the mining industry, I believe most issues are specific to uranium mining).
All the same, free markets ftw!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Turina
Welcome to the CoFN, Tamashei!
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES, PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER, BECAUSE... IT IS NOW TEA TIME!
OUR SNACKS: PRETZELS, PEPPERONI PIZZA, AND CAESAR SALAD
OUR DRINKS: ROOT BEER, DIET DR PEPPER, AND JASMINE TEA
OUR TOPICS: IRAN, STAR WARS, AND RONALD REAGAN
BONUS TOPIC: IF YOU WERE TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE IN YOUR RL NATION, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CAMPAIGN SLOGAN?
BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/5/4702/free_market_meme_by_party9999999-d3dqux4.png
https://imgur.com/EeFrfVG
https://hugelolcdn.com/i/407586.png
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Salad and tea please!
Iran: A nation that was undermined and virtually destroyed by western interventionism, and since we became angry with the chaos we started, we sanctioned them until the country had nothing.
Star Wars: One of the best movie franchises and universes I know. I've always been a die hard fan since I was younger. Actually did a grade 6 biography project on George Lucas.... so yeah :P
Ronald Reagan: One of the worst and most disastrous President's in modern US history. Established the era of financial deregulation, undermined democracy in South America and across the world with the foreign policy akin to war crimes.
Bonus: In Turina, there aren't usually 'campaigns' as only certain individuals can be permitted to hold office and if they run, are usually voted upon based on knowledge and experience.
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Hi, I'm Perland and welcome to the CFN! If you join the WA (or have a nation that's in it), I encourage you to apply for citizenship!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Give. me. everything.
Iran: I have no words.
Star Wars: Never seen it, don't give a sh*t about it
Ronald Reagan: TIL that his motto in the 1980 election was "Let's Make America Great Again". Another reason to hate Trump.
Bonus: "Master the Future" - I came up with it when I ran for Vice Chancellor in the CFN, and I think it sums my politics quite well
Open Letter:
Dear All Universities to which I'm applying;
Please accept me.
<3 - Bearlong
Random Links: https://www.genome.gov/glossary/
Nonsensical Sentences: Reaganomics works for extended periods of time.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm asking about your real-life nation (in this case, Canada), not your NS nation.
I'll have pizza and Diet Dr Pepper.
Iran: They have an interesting history, and President Rouhani seems like a step in the right direction, I still really wish Iran wasn't under the control of these fundamentalist clerics and Ayatollahs.
Star Wars: Still catching up on that franchise, but I enjoy it so far. I've seen all of the original trilogy, Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Episode VII - The Force Awakens, and I might go see Rogue One this week.
Ronald Reagan: I wouldn't say he was the worst, but I'm not that impressed with his presidency: He ignored the HIV/AIDS crisis for a long time, the shutting down of mental asylums during his term greatly contributed to our current mental health issues, I don't agree with his economic philosophy, and Iran-Contra showed how Reagan might not have controlled his own administration. On the other hand, I think Reagan handled the USSR well (except for that one time where he placed the Soviet Army on high alert after he joked about bombing Iran), though I don't think he played a major role in bringing down the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes
Bonus Topic: "Jaslandia: All the other options are terrible, so what do you have to lose?" That's how Donald Trump got so far, so it should work for me.
Random links: https://youtu.be/Ff3FXDFRsHk
https://youtu.be/iJZ_clXh3Xc
https://youtu.be/IAhF8tPqafQ
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Pepperoni pizza and Diet Dr Pepper
You can't help but feel a little sorry, at least. All the tragedy is almost too much to handle
Saw Rogue One yesterday. It was pretty awesome. Star Wars in general is pretty good. I like the politics of it all
Good tea. But nothing like sweet tea drowned in lemon
"Take America Into the Future"
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Hush, boyo. You're making me tired :P
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Turina
Pizza with a caesar salad. And I'll stick with my wine to drink, thank you.
Iran: I agree with Mark- absolutely fvcked over by western interventionism.
Star Wars: Saw Rogue One this weekend. Thought it was really good. Spurred the bf to be looking up lore for the remainder of the weekend, so I've actually been talking about it for the past two days. Love me some Dooku.
Reagan: Also been watching 30 Rock lately. Jack's love for Reagan is comedic genius.
Public Slogan: I rather like the campaign slogan for Tim Moen's run for the Libertarian Party leadership. I'm probably paraphrasing, but: "I want gay married couples to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns."
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Hi! I'm Andromitus [Andro or Andy call me either]
Pizza and a Root Beer if you don't mind
Iran - Bent over backwards thanks to the West
Star wars - First three were great, second three were terrible, heres hoping to the third
Reagan - Its morning again in America
Public Slogan - "Turn America On! Vote Technocrat! [Insert Power-Button Symbol]"
Nonsensical Sentence - To all you Yung 'uns, Back in my day we used a wayfinder or compass, not some doohickey intermanet to tell us what ta doo!
Random Link - http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/009/289/RHrLj-1.jpg
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I WOKE UP HAVING TWO CRAZY IDEAS:
1) How about we start a fun tradition of challenges. Like Ice Bucket challenge, or a dance challenge or even a simple drinking challenge for te festivities of Christmas?
2) We will be organising soon a Radio Night, so I thought that since we are too many nations around. Send me a couple of recommendations of songs via a TG, and lets make an event with the songs of your choice.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
I'm not sure how the first idea would work, but I like the second idea. We used to have a regular CFN Radio, with the 'current song' displayed on the WFE. However, people often neglected to change the song, and the CFN Radio account with its dispatches CTE'ed, so we stopped doing it.
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, The United Providences Of Perland
Tea Time is now adjourned.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
I applaud the President's suggesting of a drinking challenge and shall begin promptly.
Latrovia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
This is an example of how the challenges will be. So basically we set a challenge, like "Drink as fast as you can" or "Do the CFN dance". Then the challenges will be recorded and then uploaded as links that can be viewed only by people who have the link (So only by us).
As for the second idea, I don't know if you have ever heard about Mixlr, but it is a software program that can be used as a radio. I have used it several times for a variety of events. Like talk shows, radio shows, music festivals etc.
I need some beer.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello fellas.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Liberation day (Goa, India)
- Look For An Evergreen Day
- National Hard Candy Day (United States)
- National Oatmeal Muffin Day (United States)
- Separation Day
- St. Nicholas Day (Ukraine)
- Ugly Sweater Day
- Underdog Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 211 - Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
- 1154 - Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
- 1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
- 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
- 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
- 1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
- 1900 - Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
- 1907 - Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
- 1920 - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
- 1924 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
- 1932 - BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
- 1941 - World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
- 1941 - World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
- 1946 - Start of the First Indochina War.
- 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
- 1967 - Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
- 1972 - Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1974 - Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
- 1986 - Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
- 1995 - The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
- 1998 - President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
- 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
- 2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2012 - Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
- 2013 - Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1816 - Franz Sacher, Austrian confectioner, inventor of the Sachertorte
- 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1875 - Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month
- 1899 - Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist
- 1901 - Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber
- 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union
- 1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress
- 1916 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic
- 1918 - Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1934 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer
- 1941 - Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1963 - Jennifer Beals, American model and actress
- 1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor, director, and producer
- 1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
- 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer
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Quote of the day
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
- Hillary Clinton -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Latrovia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Tserra, Minnesota Dakota, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
That is actually sadly true. :/
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
This week in Technology
The Korean KSTAR H-Mode Tokamak Nuclear Fusion Reactor reached a steady state high-performance plasma for a record of 70 seconds! The highest up until 2013 was 28, but in the last three years, the time of the reaction has been increasing rapidly
Soft robotics and medical technology have combined to make blood sampling take seconds, painlessly.
Another Quantum Computer Breakthrough promises to make modern day encrypting methods obsolete, again.
Finally today, new evidence suggests that a few million years ago, martian water might have been a commodity, and due to the cold core of the planet, the ocean was blasted away by dense solar winds.
Thats it for this Week, but I'll keep y'all updated in the even of a major breakthrough
I don't know what this is, its more just things I find interesting; Enjoy!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Hello
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
Like the color changes Lat.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
As a user of a dark theme, I don't.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I use dark. What's the issue- the blue? I can see it fine
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
On mobile, I use century dark, and unless I put my screen's brightness up to full, it's a bit hard to distinguish the dark blue links.
Lavan Tiri
Eh, seems to be much the same colour of blue used in the original CFN. I like the inadvertent reference to our roots.
Lavan Tiri
I'm not sure how many people will be interested in the challenges: it would involve reveal of our RL selves, which not everyone may be willing to do, and I'm not sure how many of us here are interested in challenge-type videos. There wouldn't be any harm in trying it, I suppose, but I'm not sure how much interest there would be.
As for the second, it sounds familiar, and we may have used it very briefly in in either the NGA or CFN. I would be interested in that. So, how would it work? Would we be recording music ourselves? Would it send a link to our requested material through YouTube or something like that?
https://youtu.be/EF7qNcOl_NM?t=17m37s
https://youtu.be/oxDqOH6H4FQ?t=6m53s
Interesting fact: Alexander of Greece died after being attacked by a monkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece#Death
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Wow. Today is one of the rare days [nation=short]Nuremgard[/nation] likes my DIP. I'm honoured.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
*Grabs some bottles of vodka* BRING IT ON!
Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland
Bro, bro, hold my beer and pass one here
Lavan Tiri
ok m8.
Lavan Tiri
When Perland wants to try a socialist dictatorship.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
#relateable
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Y'know, i remember when this region was first formed.
Lavan Tiri
It was, like, two months ago.
Lavan Tiri, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Yep, it was easy to remember.
Lavan Tiri, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Solla Ultima
I should hope most people do.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Well **** a Russian ambassador to Turkey was just shot. *digs hole and waits for world to end*
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Mdogao
ikr, also if you could allow me to send telegrams to you that'd be great.
Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland
Eh, it'll be fine.
Probably won't see it coming if it does end, regardless.
Lavan Tiri, Yukona, Mdogao, Solla Ultima
All i wanna say is, WHERE THE **** IS VAULT-TEC WHEN YOU NEED IT?!?!?!
Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland, Solla Ultima
Eh, frankly if this sort of pressure leads to Erdogan giving up power, I'm okay with it coming from Russia. As long as everyone maintains a level head about it, and Erdogan gets what's coming to him, I'm pretty okay.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Solla Ultima
Message from the Minister of Interior!
Want to serve your region? Apply as the Deputy Minister of Interior here http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10089167/1/ (or click the link for it in the fact book)!
Latrovia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
No thanks, you can keep the bizarre experiments.
Lavan Tiri
This depends on how close you live to a strategically important target.
Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland
I'm probably splitting hairs- I so often am- but isn't the WFE stating "President Latrovia's cabinet appointments have passed" a little misleading given that one of his appointments didn't pass?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
Ikr? :'/
Lavan Tiri
I've been contemplating this, and I think I live near mountains (secretly? But not so secretly) hiding Nuke Silos. I just hope it hits close enough to incinerate me in the initial blast.
Lavan Tiri, Mdogao
Truth be told, I was gonna mention it too, but I figured that I might wait till we vote on Yuk before saying anything.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
I changed my flag into something festive :P
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Glorious...
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Glad someone liked my new, well designed and over-thought flag!
Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
To be honest I might withdraw myself. As much as I want a government position, I feel that having one that I myself question the validity of just wouldn't be good cricket. Just going through with it for the sake of a place in the regions administration doesn't seem right. Ultimately, if it was someone else, I'd vote against it; and there's always other positions open in the future.
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths
Oh great. I listen to my scientists and build bigger bombs and now I have "ubiquitous missile silos." Will need to get rid of the nukes as soon as.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Missile silos aren't necessarily housing nuclear warheads
Lavan Tiri, Woogieboogie
Knowing NS they probably are. I want rid of the missiles. Nuremgard has no need of them.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Woogieboogie
Hello people.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Abolition of Slavery Day or Fête des Cafres (French Guiana, Réunion)
- Bo Aung Kyaw Day (Myanmar)
- Games Day
- Go Caroling Day
- International Human Solidarity Day
- Macau Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Macau)
- Mudd Day
- National Sangria Day (United States)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 69 Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
- 217 Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, although Hippolytus of Rome is soon thereafter elected as a rival pope.
- 1192 Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.
- 1334 Pope Benedict XII is elected.
- 1522 Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
- 1606 The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
- 1803 The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
- 1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
- 1915 World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
- 1916 World War I: The battle of Verdun results in a French victory after more than 9 months of intense fighting.
- 1917 Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
- 1924 Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
- 1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
- 1942 World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
- 1946 The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
- 1951 The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
- 1955 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
- 1967 A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
- 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
- 1971 The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
- 1973 The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
- 1984 The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
- 1985 Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
- 1987 In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official)
- 1989 The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
- 1991 A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
- 1995 NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
- 1999 Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
- 2004 A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
- 2007 Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
- 2007 The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
- 2013 China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1537 John III of Sweden
- 1841 Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1868 Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
- 1890 Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1905 Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1926 Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German lawyer and politician, former German Federal Minister of Economics
- 1942 Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist
- 1946 Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician and psychic
- 1955 Martin Schulz, German politician, President of the European Parliament
- 1960 Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 Matt Neal, English race car driver
- 1976 Aubrey Huff, American baseball player and radio host
- 1983 Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
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Quote of the day
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
- William Lyon Phelps -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
Peng's question of the day
Real Christmas tree or plastic Christmas tree ??
My answer: Real tree.
How about you ?
Lavan Tiri, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Plastic because I don't like bugs or thorns in my house.
Lavan Tiri, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Good explanation. Although I don't understand the thing with the bugs. We never had problems with bugs.
Lavan Tiri, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I'm the most secular nation in the region. Nice. Hence why my populace is so intelligent - they're all irreligious!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Validity as in "Is in the constitution" or validity as in "Has need of"?
Lavan Tiri
Now that's a solid fact I can't flaw!
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
I'm very proud of Nuremgard's secular and liberal nature.
Lavan Tiri
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a lot of terrible stuff happened on this day in particular. On the other hand, the abolition of slavery is pretty good, and so is Doctors Without Borders.
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
yeah 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a positively diabolical film.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I must have included that one by mistake. My bad.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I noticed that immediately too, it's was really quite intriguing.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm assuming you were nominated to the position that Flynn originally was? May I have a Cole's Notes bersion of what a "Ministry of Engagement" would comprise?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
My family always gets real, though I myself don't care all that much.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Okay, found it in the Constitution.
Firstly, whoever manages the Constitution Google Doc should amend the table of contents to have Articles and Amendments; not the current structure of Articles and then the Sections of the Amendments. As each Article has their own Sections, the current structure is confusing.
Secondly, the First and Second Amendment seem to contradict one another. For instance, the First Amendment gives recruitment authority to the Vice President while the Second Amendment gives it to the elusive Minister of Engagement.
Lavan Tiri, Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Metal and on increasing degrees of being on fire as days progress.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Averageness, Ignorance, and Conservatism are on the downslope in Lavan Tiri! Woo hoo!
Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
I wouldn't call the death of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco a necessarily bad thing unless you like Francoist Spain.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't know he was a Francoist; I just assumed it would be bad because a world leader was killed. I might not have included that one had I known who he really.
Also, hello Runiea! It's been a while.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Congratulations
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I find Fascism very interesting, the Fascist Order is full of very intellectual people that try to speak out for an ideology marred with negative connotations. How communism doesn't have the same reputation, I think there's a lot about it to be seen to. By all means, Franco's Spain was bad, but alas.
Lavan Tiri
Real.
More environmentally friendly, better for our health (fake contain carcinogens), and I love the smell :P
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
God I forgot about the smell
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello all! How is everyone?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
Hello, Percy! I'm good. How are you?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
My friend here, Aldaur, is the resident fascist. You should chat to him.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
I'm good, Jas, but I'm sorta tired. Donald and Douglas were in a bad mood last night, and when Donald and Douglas are in a bad mood, they rant about Scottish independence. Donald and Douglas were arguing with Gordon all night (because Gordon is a 'Unionist,' whatever that means), so I could barely get any sleep.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I think Nurem and Donald and Douglas would get along quite well.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
Hey buddy!!
I'm doing well. Not much to report tho.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I haven't seen Aldaur in ages
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Unionist means wrong, Percy.
He's around. Just busy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona, Percyton
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