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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Hi dudes. How's everyon today ?
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Armed Forces Day (Romania)
- Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day (United States)
- Constitution Day (Lithuania)
- Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
- Hurricane Thanksgiving (US Virgin Islands)
- International Artists Day
- National Greasy Food Day (United States)
- Punk for a Day Day
- Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
- Sourest Day (United States)
- Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
- Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)
- World Pasta Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 473 - Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
- 1147 - Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
- 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
- 1616 - Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
- 1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
- 1812 - War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
- 1822 - Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
- 1854 - The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
- 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
- 1900 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1920 - After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
- 1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.
- 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
- 1944 - The Romanian city of Carei is liberated by Romanian and Soviet forces from Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
- 1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
- 1971 - The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations).
- 1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
- 1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
- 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
- 1995 - A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
- 1997 - After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1747 - Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer
- 1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher and author
- 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator
- 1838 - Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer
- 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1919 - Beate Uhse, German pilot and entrepreneur, started the first sex shop in the world
- 1940 - Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach
- 1957 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
- 1958 - Kornelia Ender, German swimmer
- 1964 - Nicole, German singer
- 1970 - Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1979 - Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model
- 1984 - Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 - Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
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Quote of the day
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein -
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, Confederacy Of Free Nations
I think I will buy the Dictator's Handbook. Sounds interesting.
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major
I just realized.
I am not even 'murican and and i am already scared that Hillary Mc. sh!tton will win the elections.
I don't want planetary annihilation.
I was thinking that too, it seems like a good read.
They're both crap, America needs its Independence status revoked, they clearly can govern themselves well.
At least Trump is the better one that came from the crapper.
True
Oh wait.
Trompa the trump said "Ey bos, we have nukes, so why not USE THEM"
You saw CGP Grey's new video too?
Nuremgard, Au Minbo
Either way, just make sure the trains aren't falling apart. Otherwise...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1UI2jwcl9LE
Lavan Tiri
Welp Nurem, I finally got that flogging issue you wrote... for the brutal dictatorship puppet I have :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Keys...
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Time for the Yanks to get back under the imperial jackboot. :P Also, nice Iranian flag.
I did indeed.
Oooh, dear :P Your poor people.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Or upside-down Hungarian flag or the civil version of the state flag of North Rhine- Westfalia :p
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
They ask for too much, like civil rights and abolishment of industrial feudalism.
Lavan Tiri
Bloody peasants. Make sure they know their place.
Lavan Tiri
Lashes and Kalishnikovs :p
Lavan Tiri
We're not taking applications for overbearing family members at this time, sorry- our conflicting ideologies are impediment enough.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron
Nonsense, surely someone must champion young Paris's need for a wife (or I suppose, Cont, I should say a "daddy" :P)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
No... you shouldn't... -_-
Penguania And Antarctica
You're right, it's papa, isn't it?
Penguania And Antarctica
The amazing moment when Max Barry posts CGPs new video in News <3
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
#CGMax
Au Minbo, Aldaur
Though speaking of News, I think we should be developing a plan for the zombie apocalypse. We kinda floundered last year, if I recall.
Au Minbo, Aldaur
Create a region for each of our own nations so that it doesn't spread and then when nations are zombie free, we can create a new region where clean nations can enter. Then once the majority of us are clean, we can send people to reenter this region to clean up the mess of those who either chose to be zombies (Like Lavan last year) or for inactive nations.
Example:
Vista creates his own region with just him in it. Frees himself of zombies. He sees Aldaur has done the same. They create new region together and only allow in clean nations. Now Nurem joins and they have a majority of clean nations. The group sends Aldaur to CFN to cure Lavan and Aetosia. We all win.
Vista Major
You seem to have it all sorted haha.
Aldaur
I'm in the zone for strategic thinking right now, so utilize me now lol
Sounds like a plan
Aldaur
Nice flag ! :)
Aldaur
So my Google Chrome broke for some reason. (Cant explain in words what's wrong with it, better to show.) So I installed Firefox instead. But then Firefox turned out to be slow and draggy. So now I'm using Opera.
Aldaur
Thanks Peng! Im trying out a few designs because im planning a revolution in Aetosia.
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
What kind of revolution?
Aldaur
I kinda like that idea. Do you think we could get away with leaving Vista in his own region?
Aldaur
Nice. Good luck to the revolutionaries. :)
Aldaur
You are mean.
Aldaur
Cultural and Political, i have this idea that the vast majority of Aetosians follow a much older faith and belong to an independent Ethnicity but the people in power are Greeks and Turks who pressure the people to follow Orthodoxy or Islam.
Aldaur
Interesting. So it's like a minority ruling over the majority. Never a good idea. Funnily enough, my country Farahan underwent a political and cultural revolution of its own. The people overthrew the secular, autocratic shah and have replaced him with an Islamic, democratic government.
Aldaur
Yeah, pretty much, though i'd never stoop to Islam. Im thinking of making the indigenous Culture a mix of Egyptian, Italian, Slavic and Spanish/north African.
Aldaur
It is taking ages to get my religiousness up in Farahan though. Apparently burning heretics, installing religious courts and mandatory religion lessons in schools is only enough to increase religiousness by tiny percentages. Yet in one of my other countries which is secular, religiousness went up massively when the government released a statement saying it was fine to worship the queen.
Aldaur
Want a foreign power to play a role in your revolution? Make it a Fascist Revolution backed by the Aldauri government and make your citizens Orthodox Argentean Christians :p Then we can be allies.
Nuremgard
Ew. Orthodox Argenteans? Follow the true way of Deban Argentism. We have sexy women when you reach heaven
Naw, unfortunately not, the revolution will result in the reinstatement of the original and suppressed religion of the Aetosians, im thinking a ten deity polytheistic religion, hence the ten pointed star on my flag.
Aldaur
We'll have a UNEF-like force standing by to clean up whatever mess he's able to get himself into all by his lonesome.
Aldaur
Hey guys, I need your opinion.
I thought about this as the "Victory March" of the Penguanian Armed Forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-YTuVGESw
Do you think it's good ?
You see, I'm more than just an asshole, I'm a classhole.
https://xkcd.com/72/
I refuse to take in any refugees from him.
Bold. Stirring.
Me gusta.
We Orthodox follow the true faith that does not center on the supremacy of a pretend prophet and on the immorality that Debanism presents.
Well you can still have a Fascist government:p
Ald...the Deban Empire is Rome. We're essentially Catholicism, but with a few tweaks. Also, we both believe in Argentum.
Aldaur
He's starting a schism.
Jaslandia, Aldaur
Bax..... The Aldauri Empire is Byzantium. We're essentially Orthodox, but with a few tweaks. Also, we believe Argentum more and much harder :p
Indeed.
Jaslandia
Yo my dudes it's that boy. I'm bored, what's happenin
It's weird how people still RP following a religion based off of the deposed former founder of the CFN.
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major
Not me, babe.
Aldaur
We're making it our own now.
Nuremgard isn't even that religious and it considers you lot heathens lol
Aldaur
Likewise bae :p
Nuremgard
I brought that up before; it seems we're modifying the religion to move all references to Silver.
Aldaur
You'll submit to the will of the General Assembly and you'll hate it like the rest of us.
Nuremgard, Aldaur
What they don't know can't do anything to me.
On the contrary, I think the General Assembly exclusively passes directives about those things they know nothing about.
Bearlong, Kalaron
And who'd tell them if someone was a part of it and went against them :P
Remember, a law is only as strong as the agency policing it, and our...glorious...WA is not what I would call strong.
Oh, I was referencing the General Assembly irl. I kind of forgot the WA was a thing. Which kind of supports your points, if you think about it...
Kalaron
Lol.
Yeah, I don't tend to support our WA, like, at all.
Now, I'd love to see America and France become even better friends as much as the next guy, and I think it would be pretty interesting to watch bayonet charges come back but somehow, I don't think a second revolutionary war would turn out that well for everyone involved.
I mean, I'm down for some more Tomb of Lafayette visits, but it doesn't seem like repeating history will help anything.
We never forget
Aldaur
No no, you have it wrong.
We always forget, but never forgive.
We are perpetually confused and angry.
Bearlong, Aldaur, Vista Major
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Who is the Deban Empire? Which nation does that belong to?
It's Jas' version of Rome in his history. However, they were intended to be the replacer of Rome in that Classical RP
Jaslandia, Aldaur
So Jas is Rome?
Jaslandia
Well, that depends on what the historical timeline is for this region. In my own history, Jaslandia eventually incorporated all the Deban Empire's former lands. However, my personal history puts Jaslandia at about the size of the historic size of the Roman Empire (minus Britain and add the Arabian Peninsula), so I had to scale down my holdings for the purposes of regional RPs. I'm not 100% sure how that would affect the Deban Empire in regional RPs.
Aldaur
We need to create a regional timeline that details everything. I feel like we have been moving closer and closer to that. Essentially, we need to create an entire world with it's own history, cultures, peoples, religions, etc. It would be similar to the creation of a video game world but more in depth (Like Mass Effect or Dragon Age or Elder Scrolls).
Confederacy Of Free Nations
I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Aldaur
It is still under construction, but I have developed it a little more, corrected some errors, and made it more believable in terms of text. I will be adding more functions and trying to figure out how to fix the links. Let me know what you think of it so far though!
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=aldaur/detail=factbook/id=476752
Flynnvakia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
What is this about?
Aldaur
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Heyho friends. Sorry for the delay but I had technical difficulties. I hope everyone had a nice day so far.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)
- Angam Day (Nauru)
- Armed Forces Day (Benin)
- Gospel Day (Cook Islands)
- Howl at the Moon Day and Night
- Intersex Awareness Day
- National Day (Austria)
- National Day of the Deployed (United States)
- National Mincemeat Day (United States)
- National Mule Day (United States)
- National Pumpkin Day (United States)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 306 Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
- 1185 The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, ruled by the Asen dynasty.
- 1377 Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia.
- 1520 Charles V is crowned.
- 1640 The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1689 General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 1774 The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- 1775 King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- 1776 Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- 1813 War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
- 1825 The Erie Canal opens: Passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- 1861 The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
- 1863 The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
- 1905 Sweden accepted the independence of Norway.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
- 1917 World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat to the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
- 1921 The Chicago Theatre opens.
- 1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1942 World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
- 1955 After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
- 1958 Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
- 1964 Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 1967 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
- 1968 Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
- 1970 Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.
- 1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-gyu. Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
- 1984 "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- 1985 The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
- 1992 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 1992 The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
- 1994 Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
- 1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
- 2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
- 2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1427 Sigismund, Archduke of Austria
- 1491 Zhengde Emperor of China
- 1759 Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice
- 1902 Beryl Markham, British-born Kenyan aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer and author
- 1912 Don Siegel, American director and producer
- 1914 Jackie Coogan, American actor and director
- 1916 Francois Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, 21st President of France
- 1942 Bob Hoskins, English actor, singer, and director
- 1947 Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 67th United States Secretary of State & 44th First Lady of the United States
- 1959 Evo Morales, Bolivian soldier and politician, 80th President of Bolivia
- 1967 Keith Urban, New Zealand-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1981 Guy Sebastian, Malaysian-Australian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1984 Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
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Quote of the day
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope -
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, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
What is Intersex?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Vista Major
In order:
i) Awh, poor Rommel.
ii) Ugh, the Charlottetown Accord.
iii) It's the future President's birthday!
iv) Bob hope speaks the truth.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Daaaayum, that's one sexy factbook.
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
At least your country didn't pass the USA PATRIOT Act
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I feel like that's a point of universal gratitide.
"That volcano right next to our house is about to errupt."
"Yeah, but at least we don't have the PATRIOT Act."
"Dats true."
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
The volcano's from the NSA :p
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Seriously, and no offense to Nurem, but we really need to get that fvcker up to #1 in religion Factbooks.
Up vote!
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
Trump: 'Murica is destroyed.
Hillary:World is destroyed 20 times over.
Choose.
Second try:
I thought about this as the "Victory March" of the Penguanian Armed Forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-YTuVGESw
Do you think it's good ?
I think its actually very fitting Grand and strong like an army should be but also not intimidating.
Trying to figure out the regions history.
I can't take all of the credit. The idea and a lot of the formatting was already there, I just changed some pictures and added to it.
Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Puhutko suomea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPmIcSesepk maybe this?
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello infidels!
Upvoted it. Looks gorgeous. Wish my factbooks looked like that.
Aldaur
Nope, I don't speak Finnish. I just like this song.
Sorry, but I don't like the "Alte Kameraden Marsch" that much, there are nicer German marches. :)
Erika best, shame it's SS.
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I prefer good old "Preußens Gloria" or "Königgrätzer" march.
Continental Commonwealths
Eh, overused :^)
Sorry that I am not a special snowflake.
Hey guys. I'm sure y'all have noticed the inactivity with the map. Schools just been very busy recently, so I haven't been able to eat around to mapmaking. I'll try to get an update either Friday or Saturday this weekend.
Sorry for the inconvenience
Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
No problem, just respond to my telegram or something whenever.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
All hail the illegitimate triumvirate of [nation=short]Greater Banitia[/nation], [nation=short]Nuremgard[/nation], and [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation]!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Greater Banitia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
*Gives a Windsor wave to my adoring people from my royal elephant*
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
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