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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Allows radio hosts to speak against the government.
Poor's income goes down by 3,000 rubles.
F*ck you, NS.
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Sounds like we're having a global recession
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, people! I made a thing! If I win, it can be a real thing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bokI4cFR9Zn27JV9ObrA_w7sIDWwlW5exidQLninl1s/edit?usp=drivesdk
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Guess who got engaged!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
>TMW your boyfriend and you get engaged and he races to tell the first person he can with a massive raise of his voice
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Congrats, guys!
Jaslandia, Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
psst
he's acting really gay and cute now
pass it on
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
You wee cuties, congratulations :)
Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Congrats, you two!
Sulania, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
This why I still believe in America
CONGRATS!
*cries hot tears of fanboy joy*
Sulania, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Congrats to both of you! I hope everything goes well!
Jaslandia, Sulania, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
I guess I am now John Paul Ryan Bercow
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
wat
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
He's making a joke. Bercrow is the Speaker in Westminster.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
He looks like a methhead :p
Nuremgard, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
He probably is. It's Westminster. They get up to all sorts.
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Thank you guys so much! I am literally so happy right now!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
This pleases me.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Maybe Kyssi
Engaged, technically.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Crushing the dream, man
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
:D :D :D :D
Jaslandia, Percyton
https://i.imgur.com/yzKaNLZ.png
This is my current thoughts on the flags.
Rankings = How much I like the overall look
Representation = How well it represents the province it belongs to
Percyton
[spoiler=I normally dont like to rant, but this just made me so angery that I had to type everything out]
There wont be a lack of opportunities in the coming world, he says....- Article where a CEO explains how automation of the workforce will create new jobs to replace the ones lost
<Cue rant>
What. A. Crock. Of. Shít. This guy is a fûcking liar, and hes part of the problem. Hes a CEO, he has no idea what everyday people have to go through- and he certainly doesnt have a god damned clue about the feelings that rush through the brain when one finds out they were replaced with a pile of silicon and plastic.
His only sort of answer to the question of what happens to the people who get their jobs replaced by machines was go to college.
First of all, who in the name of fûck are you, CEO Andrew Anagnost, to tell one of your former employees what to do? You didnt have their best interests at heart when you replaced them with a robot, and clearly still dont.
Secondly, do you really think everyone can just up and go to college when they have families to feed, clothe, and house? Even if they went to class part time and worked part time, the damage done to the family would be almost irreparable, and thats not even mentioning the obvious fact of how a part time job cant sustain a family on its own.
Mothers and fathers would not be able to actually raise their children and teach them how to live, which means well have an entire generation that is incapable of living like adults, because fathers and mothers were not able to do what fathers and mothers do.
The damage done to marriages could be terrible too- the lack of frequent contact and affection will make partners drift apart, leading to broken homes and nasty cases of domestic abuse, which will, as we all know, have a profound effect on children. Is this really what you want, you milquetoast piece of human garbage?
Thirdly, you even said it yourself, you sack of minge. The jobs that replace the ones people have lost will suddenly become extremely competitive.
What happens then? What happens when someone puts themselves through college, putting themselves in upwards of 50,000$ of debt to earn a software or robotics degree, and they cant find employment because of how concentrated and clogged up the job market will become?
I know the solution, my good sir, but you will *not* like it. Stop what youre doing, start a movement amongst your buddies that halts the trend, and understand that people are and will always be more important than money. Maybe then you can save your conscience. </rant>[/spoiler]
Nuremgard, The Empire Of Handland, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Minnesota Dakota
That is absolutely fantastic.
Axeldonia
Interesting. But including all cabinet plus five citizens is much. Anyway, we could have something like it, and I had been thinking of it as well. As VC, I'll work on it.
Also Confederacy Of Free Nations, I like the new FB, but I have two questions
1) why did you remove the dark red on the first line? It was striking and I likes it. Grey is not the recognizable
2) what with the appointment of the papers?
Meanwhile, I am just sitting here forever alone.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
Cute
As
Fvck
Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ Nya! Rainbow Space Cat Founder is innocent of the no red whatchamacallit. While Rainbow Space Cat Founder certainly has the power, Rainbow Space Cat Founder leaves the affairs of this litter box in the capable paws of his servants, affectionately referred to as kittens. As for the Confederate Papers, that particular kitten needed to be able to do its job, which is record keeping and the meow. Rainbow Space Cat Founder simply did not realize that the Confederate Papers kitten had not been the proper Nya! to do its job. So Rainbow Space Cat Founder rectified this as soon as meow was informed. Meow! /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Best founder ever.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Confederacy Of Free Nations, Percyton
Rainbow space cat founder is BEST Founder!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Apparently, my female leader has a mistress.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Much as I sympathise with the sentiments of your post, CEOs and corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders, nobody else. Harsh but true. The purpose of a company is to make a profit so of course, workers will be laid off in favour of robots because it's cheaper and more efficient. That is the price of progress.
So what can be done? Ban companies from firing people to replace them with robots? The economy would collapse since all those companies would leave for greener pastures. Enforce quotas on companies to tell them how many robots they can hire and how many people they can hire? Again, same problem: they will just leave.
I don't have the answer. I'm just commenting.
Jaslandia
Mine too.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Celeberating a year on NS!!!!!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, South Hyder, Czeko Russika
Congrats! Also thank you for the effort you have put into reforming the CoFN.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, South Hyder
The Dijun Acoma Post
VOL. 32 NO. 447 CITY FINAL
MONDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Dissident Speaker Missing, Presumed Impaled
(Lit)
Percyton
You're welcome. Your effort must be recognized too! I am eager to work with you for the next two months!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, South Hyder
I agree with Nurem on this. Automation is an issue, but halting it isn't a realistic option right now, and the companies don't have any incentives to stop it. The best we can do is to offer government-supported job training programs for workers who have lost their old jobs, government grants for workers going back to college for retraining, and incentives for tech companies and other new jobs to move to places where the old jobs got automated.
Nuremgard
Holy sweet mother of whatever god you two believe congratulations! You two are adorable and I hope it goes spectacularly! ❤
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Can't wait!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Rest of our lives together will be completely spectacular!
Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I might be dissident but I sure as hell ain't missing
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is November 6 and today are:]
Today is November 6 and today are:
- All Saints' Day (Colombia)
- Arbor Day (Republic of Congo)
- Color the World Orange Day
- Constitution Day (Dominican Republic)
- Constitution Day (Tajikistan)
- Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
- Green March (Morocco)
- Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
- Job Action Day
- Malaria Day in the Americas
- Marooned without a Compass Day
- National Nachos Day (United States)
- Obama Day (Kenya)
- Recreation Day (Tasmania, Australia)
- Saxophone Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 355 Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
- 447 A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
- 963 Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of a armed rebellion against Otto.
- 1217 The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
- 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
- 1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1792 Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1844 The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
- 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States.
- 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
- 1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.
- 1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 64, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
- 1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- 1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
- 1918 The Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland is established.
- 1928 Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the United States.
- 1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
- 1939 World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
- 1941 World War II: During the Battle of Moscow, Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet people for only the second time.
- 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
- 1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1943 World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
- 1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1945 Concerned that her cover was about to be blown, Elizabeth Bentley turns herself in to the FBI and confesses she had been spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1947 Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
- 1948 Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the General Suppression Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
- 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected President of the United States.
- 1962 The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
- 1963 Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
- 1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
- 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- 1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
- 1984 Ronald Reagan is reelected President of the United States.
- 1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
- 1986 Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
- 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, the first time the city had a NFL team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
- 1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
- 2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
- 2012 Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
- 2013 Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party in the northern city of Taiyuan, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan
- 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone
- 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist, founded The Wall Street Journal and co-founded Dow Jones & Company
- 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American commander, composer, and conductor
- 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball
- 1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright
- 1931 - Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1932 - Francois Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
- 1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1949 - Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Gabon
- 1952 - Michael Cunningham, American author and screenwriter
- 1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American engineer and businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
- 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
- 1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
- 1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
- 1990 - André Schürrle, German footballer
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Quote of the day
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
U
W N T
S U M
F U K ?
Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, South Hyder
is this what real poetry is like
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
si
Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thinking about replacing this http://i.imgur.com/p2ZKSIK.png
with either this https://i.imgur.com/4AwOEsO.png
or this https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png
Jaslandia, Percyton
I prefer the last flag, personally.
Percyton
Keep the current
Percyton
L E W D
m o a r
f u k
Axeldonia
Doesn't really represent the whole province though, only about the Nyko 1/3 of it.
The previous one?
Percyton
I'm referring to the third link you gave.
https://i.imgur.com/vMzMGtt.png
Percyton
Ah
Percyton
Holy cow. Look at me? Its been 79 days since the last update.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
*breath in*
boi
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, New Estaris
Hello again, New Estaris! Great to see you again!
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, New Estaris, Percyton
Whats new?
Percyton
I think I am going to produce factbooks on snack foods and grocery items available in Wyoming.
Nuremgard, Andromitus, Percyton
Rather obviously, Kal and Sul are now engaged, we're expecting a convention in Kyoto to begin ratifying some international regulations (if only Sul would get it out at some point :p), and elections are currently underway
The Empire Of Handland, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What? Kal and Sul are engaged?
Holy hell!
Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
S i
just need
s u m
f u k
Welcome back, Est! *blows whistle*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yessir
This is better than any rap battle on Tamagotchi Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPVB5rB63Vw
I've been thinking (and talking with out-of-region people)... What sounds better regarding the "Reformation of the Equestrian Empire"?
A) Leader installs a wave of nationalism
B) An assassination unites the Republic
C) A series of secession attempts end in a bloody civil war
D) International community recognizes Republic as an Empire
Or
E) Lemme hear your ideas. [Be nice plz]
Percyton
It depends. What do you want to reform Russkov Soviet into? More democratic? More imperialistic? More authoritarian? Tentatively, I'd say 'A', so long as it's civic nationalism and not ethnic nationalism (or species nationalism, in your case). I don't like 'B' because I'm worried the assassination targets will be Alexander or Luna Coltsov (who I like), 'C' would result in a lot of bloodshed that would be tragic and cripple your nation, and 'D' just seems unlikely to happen.
Russkov Soviet, Percyton
I'd go with C, especially since I've just started reading an alternate history story called "Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire," which has similar themes and also gives a good background on the status of both species in the Soviet.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
More Imperialistic, but still Communist.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'll assassinate a commie for you
Eeeeeugh, international regulations? Im going to assume that these are going to be universal, even if you dont want them.
Androm, I guess the anti-government Frieds back?
Oooooh, now thats a good target for my government to hark on.
Hey Handland, want to form an anti-socialist bloc?
Yukona
I want in on it.
Someone nails a piece of paper to a religious building and demands reform. (Oh wait that is the Protestant Reformation) Still sounds cool though.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is November 7 and today are:]
Today is November 7 and today are:
- Commemoration Day (Tunisia)
- Election Day (New Jersey and Virginia, United States)
- Hug A Bear Day
- Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)
- Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia)
- National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day (United States)
- National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day (United States)
- National Day (Northern Catalonia, France)
- National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
- October Revolution Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (unofficial) )
- Tokhu Emong (Lotha Naga people of India)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 335 Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
- 680 The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 921 Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.
- 1426 Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.
- 1492 The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
- 1619 Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
- 1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- 1775 John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
- 1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- 1811 Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
- 1837 In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
- 1861 The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1874 A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
- 1885 The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1893 Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
- 1900 Second Boer War:Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- 1900 The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
- 1907 Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
- 1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
- 1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- 1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1913 The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
- 1914 The first issue of The New Republic is published.
- 1914 The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1916 Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
- 1916 Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.[1]
- 1917 The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- 1917 World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1918 Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1919 The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
- 1920 Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- 1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 1931 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
- 1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- 1940 In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
- 1941 World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
- 1944 Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
- 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
- 1949 The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
- 1956 Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
- 1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- 1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1973 The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1975 In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
- 1983 United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- 1987 In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- 1989 Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
- 1989 East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 1990 Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- 1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
- 2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- 2004 Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2007 Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
- 2012 An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor
- 1728 - James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer
- 1855 - Edwin Hall, American physicist, discovered the "Hall effect"
- 1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer and theater conductor
- 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic
- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army
- 1888 - C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1913 - Albert Camus, French philosopher, journalist, and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman
- 1929 - Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 - David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1967 - David Guetta, French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter
- 1967 - Olaf Schubert, German comedian and musician
- 1996 - Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
Finally, the good old flag. I missed it. Also nice quote
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
It does sound pretty cool thy.
Remind me to start reading that.
So....you want me to end my nation? No. I need the Communist Party to keep the military in line. So... rejected.
Oh great.... here we go again. JUST because I'm Communist, people want me dead. I haven't even done anything evil ffs.
.....
Maybe I should bring that other nation in here and replace/rebuild this one....
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/zhirinovskys-russian-empire.245924/
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-world-of-zhirinovskys-russian-empire.314003/
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
I'd go for A. The leader whips up nationalism in the country and gets the people hungry for spreading the power of the Empire and for spreading the ideals of communism. So you become more imperialistic, more militaristic, and take a more aggressive stance against capitalist states.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Percyton, Czeko Russika
Ok. Just so everyone is aware.
(This nation is the potential replacement or rebuild base for Russkov Soviet.)
This way I can be prepared.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm staying put, but since a few people want my nation and it's leaders dead....
I might as well have a back up.
Penguania And Antarctica
Who cares if others want your nation's leaders dead? Some on here have expressed dismay that my Tangshan dominates the region on every economic level. That's not going to stop me maintaining the nation.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I have no clue who it is that supposedly wants you gone, but I personally do not know of any such. What I do know, is I am going to be right miffed about having to de-color your map spot if your current nation goes away.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm not going away. The puppets there for a safety reason. (I've already had my nation banned twice.)
Btw... the Anti-Socialist Block is wanting me dead. cough..Handland and Freid..cough cough
Does anyone think I should change Zeptov's flag?
http://i.imgur.com/79LwK1V.png
It's kinda cool looking, but doesn't really represent the province all that well.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm the most economically powerful Socialist state in the region.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Lenin: Happy birthday, Trotsky! As a present, here's a communist revolution!
Trotsky: You guys did all this for me!?! This is the best present a Bolshevik could ask for!
If it's any consolation, Jaslandia's leaders don't want your leaders dead.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Depends. What exactly is Zeptov like?
Percyton
Wait, you control Tangshan?
https://youtu.be/L2vscKm-_RA
Nuremgard
Yup. :)
Penguania And Antarctica
I hate you...
Nuremgard
;)
Penguania And Antarctica
1v1 me on titanfall 2 bïtch
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Modern Zeptov is Onocarcans in the South, Kzarics in the North, and The Zeptovik people's trying to preserve their identity in the Center of it all, as they become a minority in their own lands.
They are strongly devoted to the Chymyrtist faith, but they have their own version, where some of there old gods are seen as living alongside those known to Chymyrtists.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I see. I see your point. The current flag, while nice, seems to suggest a more militaristic, royal, and/or warrior-based society. Maybe incorporate more colors in the flag to symbolize multiculturalism? Or maybe add some religious iconography related to the Chymyrtist faith?
Percyton
My question kinda becomes what's more important. Style, or representation?
Jaslandia, Percyton
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