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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
This is just like the local elections in my home town coming up. Every seat only has one person running for it, most of whom are already incumbents. My friends told me I should have run so there was at least a contest
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Well, I could do two offices at the same time. :P
Lavan Tiri
Hi Minnie. It's good to see you around again. How are you doing?
There are elections for our municipality mayor in March. There is the incumbent and 2 opponents running against him. I hope he is voted out of office. He's an a§§hole. Became a little dictator. Ignores laws and regulations which he signed. Always meets just with corporations and seldom with the normal citizens. Defames and insults members of the municipality council in the municipality owned gazette. It once was a medium to inform citizens about the activities which took place in the community. But the mayor acts as publisher because it's owned by the municipality administration. So he decides what's published and how they report about the events. It slowly but steadily became the mayor's propaganda news paper.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Vista Major, The Scottish Twins
https://youtu.be/MRYzW3BSj0I
Happy birthday, Sid! Your games have kept me entertained and inspired my curiosity for... gosh, nearly 10 years now. I hope you celebrate your birthday with just one... more... turn.
Sounds pretty bad. Hopefully you and a bunch of other citizens will vote him out in March!
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
I am the safest nation in the region. Yay!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Duck: Evening, all. I just came to post my condolences on the death of Emma Chambers, who played Alice Horton on the BBC TV show The Vicar of Dibley. Mrs. Chambers was a wonderful actress, and The Vicar of Dibley was one of my favorites. Indeed, it was a favorite among all the Little Western engines at the time: Oliver, Donald and Douglas (The Scottish Twins), and myself would gather around our shed every night to watch it when the day's work was done, and we would sometimes be joined by our Drivers and Firemen, or by the Vicar of Arlesburgh at the time (who unfortunately died just before the show's finale). Needless to say The Vicar of Dibley has some sentimental value to us, and we would like to thank Mrs. Chambers for being a big part of that! Thank you for the joy you brought to Britons, Sudrians, and people everywhere, and I wish you a smooth journey to the Great Western Way in the sky!
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354
I think you should run, Minnie! You'd probably be a great leader!
Oh dear! My condolences to all those involved! Speaking from experience, a lorry/truck or car on the line is always a risk, and while we've had a few run-ins and close calls with cars on the line (including when I crashed into a cart of lime at Crowe's Farm Crossing back in 1962, or when a had a near-miss with a car at that same crossing a few years ago), none of them have had resulted in death thankfully. To any engines out there: be careful at the level crossings! And to any car or lorry drivers: please don't cross when a train is coming, and never EVER stop your car or lorry on a level crossing! The same goes for walkers and runners, too!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The Scottish Twins
Good advice, Percy.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The Scottish Twins
#BurgermeisterPeng
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The Scottish Twins
Not to be confused with Burgermeister Meisterburger.
https://youtu.be/BHAWQTRC6KY
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'd gladly run for an office while in another region if I could :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Great movie, though I like Heat miser better.
Jeez, that sounds pretty terrible peng. I'm doing well btw, classes are going well and we have those municipal elections coming up which should be fun even if they aren't interesting.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Donald: Scotland an' proud of it, thocht we now bide an' wark oan th' Island of Sodor/Percyton.
Douglas: Nae! Not Alice! Ah cannae believe she's gone!
Donald: She main hae hud a brain th' size of a barnacle, but 'er heart was as big as th' mountains of th' Highlands. RIP Mrs. Chambers.
Douglas: Hear hear, Donnie.
Donald: He sounds loch a reit tosser, Peng! Ah hiner ye vote heem out in March!
Douglas: Heck, mebbe ye shoods run? Ye coods probably run th' town 10 times better than 'at wankstain who's runnin' it now.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy
Heya, Minnie. Nice to see you around again. How've you been?
Also, Hoping to see you on Discord sometime. It's been a minute, if I do say so myself. :)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/24/after-hapsburg-group-disclosure-in-mueller-indictment-former-european-politicians-come-under-scrutiny/?utm_term=.36023f746f64
So apparently the Habsburgs/Hapsburgs are in the news, though not how I would expect. 'Hapsburg Group' is certainly an interesting name, and considering the Hapsburgs were famous for their self-destructive in-breeding, it's not exactly a fortuitous name.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
http://www.newsweek.com/total-f-russian-mercenaries-syria-lament-us-strike-killed-dozens-818073
http://www.newsweek.com/total-f-russian-mercenaries-syria-lament-us-strike-killed-dozens-818073
So like, Russia really seems to want Cold war 2: Electric Boogaloo in Syria. Guess their little green men were really the best at fighting a broken-up Ukraine (And yes, I know this attack was different in support, don't worry Kal ain't going Ameri-boo over here :p).
Lavan Tiri
The name isn't the only thing that's unfortunate. Check out the Habsburg lip/jaw.
http://m.mult-kor.hu/image/article/index/.cut-660x380/48080.jpg
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Nice beak too. Caw! Caw!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
This is why you shouldn't marry your cousin or niece.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Spanelsko
i am surprised that the Hapsburg group isnt called ´´Incest Brotherhood´´ or something like that.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
That's what happens when you in-breed, Habsburgs. You brought this on yourselves.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Correct. And no candidacy has been filled since the last update.
Currently, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and one SCJ seat have no candidate running
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Me: You can't just add more monstergirls to your setting and claim they're original species
Also me: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Where do you get this creativity and energy to create all of this?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Percyton
I have no idea
Help
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I want something of that creativity. But much more of that energy. :(
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia
[spoiler=Today is February 25 and today are:]
Today is February 25 and today are:
- 2018 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony (Pyeongchang, South Korea)
- Armed Forces Day (Dominican Republic)
- Choiseul Province Day (Solomon Islands)
- Kitano Baika-sai or "Plum Blossom Festival" (Kitano Tenman-gū Shrine, Kyoto, Japan)
- Meher Baba's birthday (followers of Meher Baba)
- Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships (Hungary)
- National Chocolate Covered Nut Day (United States)
- National Clam Chowder Day (United States)
- National Pistol Patent Day (United States)
- National Day (Kuwait)
- People Power Day (Philippines)
- Quiet Day
- Revolution Day (Suriname)
- Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0138 The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
- 0493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
- 1336 Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
- 1631 François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
- 1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 10001500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
- 1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
- 1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
- 1843 Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
- 1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
- 1856 A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
- 1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
- 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
- 1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
- 1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- 1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- 1916 World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
- 1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- 1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- 1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
- 1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
- 1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.
- 1939 The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London.
- 1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 1947 The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council. The Prussian government had already been abolished in 1934 by the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich.
- 1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- 1951 The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón.
- 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
- 1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
- 1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
- 1968 Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
- 1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
- 1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
- 1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
- 1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
- 1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
- 1992 Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
- 1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
- 1997 Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
- 2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
- 2009 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
- 2015 At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
- 2016 Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1778 José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru
- 1841 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor
- 1842 Karl May, German author, poet, and playwright
- 1873 Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor
- 1901 Zeppo Marx, American comedian and agent
- 1913 Gert Fröbe, German actor
- 1917 Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic
- 1943 George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1971 Sean Astin, American actor, director, and producer
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Quote of the day
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
- Laurence J. Peter (Canadian Writer, 1919-1990) -
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, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, James The Red Engine
Baba Booey.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona, Percyton
Ree.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
3rd largest insurance industry in the region? Is the game trying to say something? Is it suggesting I'm a dangerous engine and thus need a large insurance policy, because I take extreme offense to that!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Dearest Coffiners/Confederates,
[I]Indulge me just this once, so that I may sing to you the glory of our democracy, and why you should do more to participate.
As many of you veterans among us know, we have survived many, many trials. With every move we have endured, from the Alliance to the Commonwealth, then back the Alliance, then onward to the Most Serene Republic, and finally here to the Confederacy, our resolve, our bonds have been challenged on all fronts by those who have betrayed and disappointed us. Yet we are still here, still holding on strong, a testament to the power of our comradery. Many of us have been lost to the sands of time, yes. Nevertheless, we persisted.
As for our magnificent squadron of new members, we know firsthand your experience. We all know what it was like walking into a new region (and, for some of us, a completely new game), wondering how to make friends and leave our mark on this place. It can be overwhelming. You may feel as if you're intruding, disturbing some blissful peace that you should not be a part of. Let me tell you this day that you are always welcomed here. You are not intruding; your presence and participation here are crucial to the continued existence of the Confederacy. And you are not alone; we are here to help in whatever way we can.
To that end, I have some less than stellar news to report: as it stands at the moment of this writing, two offices are due to become vacant this election, and every other office thusfar is entirely unopposed. I say, unequivocally, that this is unacceptable in every sense of the word. This is not democracy; this is a slow heat death. And I would not come to you all today if I didn't believe that this was a matter not worth your attention.
I call upon each and every one of you to run for office this election. It does not matter your level of political experience; everyone has to start somewhere, and we all have some learning to do on the job. It does not matter your seniority; even the newest among us can enact great change. It matters not what office you aspire to; every office is as important as the next.
Please, please announce your candidacy for public office this election. We need you--all of you--if our region is to survive into the future. I cannot promise that you will win your first time around (I, for one, rarely ever won my first go-arounds). But I can promise that you will do democracy proud.
I beseech thee, all those who have been with us for but a few hours or for many a year, come to the Confederacy in its time of need and run for office.[/I]
~VM
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Coliainada
While you're not the most dangerous engine on the rails James, I wouldn't call you the safest one either.
https://youtu.be/JwDMof4b_V4?t=1m25s
https://youtu.be/eORTdscNJwI
https://youtu.be/L4CT1H3mgdY
https://youtu.be/NKotSGn8AZo
https://youtu.be/cNSMi6rVxlE?t=3m6s
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Good grief, James! I didn't realize you had so many accidents over the the years! With your track record, you should count yourself lucky the Fat Controller keeps you around. In my young days, engines who misbehaved like would have been sent away, or worse. *cough*Smudger*cough*Stanley*cough*. Huh, I must have taken on some bad coal earlier, because I'm coughing again.
https://youtu.be/9gRnjqckJGw?t=2m11s
https://youtu.be/rtsF0R00lh0?t=1m30s
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Anyone still practice Shirleyism as our region religion. Back when the NS mod came in to help us with spam?
She's a Saint Lol
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Shirleyism! I remember. I think almost all of the hardcore Shirleyists have moved on and CTE'ed by now, but it's still present as part of this community's cultural history (in a way).
The Russian Federations, Penguania And Antarctica
Shut up! I'm not a dangerous engine! What happened to me could have happened to any engine. I imagine you've also had your share of accidents, Duke.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'll admit, I got into some trouble occasionally in my younger days, but I haven't had any major accidents since coming to Sodor. Sure, I've had some minor incidents, but nothing that's been my fault. It's mostly been stuff like stray animals on the tracks, or a broken down lorry on the tracks. Now THOSE are things that "could happen to any engine". Things like pulling away with an unsecured crane arm, or causing a leak in a coach's brake pipe that had to be fixed with leather bootlace and a newspaper, are NOT things that "could happen to any engine".
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
As you may have noticed we're coming up to another election day and yes, some positions are vacant. I was inexperienced in governmental matters when I first joined this region but I applied to be your Minister of Internal Affairs a while back and have had the honour in serving you all since. Give it a go! If a dingus like me can get a position, I'm sure some of you would excel in government.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, Coliainada
Completely true. I was very new in the region when I got first in Governent, and I'm the Chancellor now. Come on!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hello everyone!
I'm new here and have a pretty basic understanding of how this works.
Anyways, I look forward to meeting you all and hope to get along!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Spanelsko, Duke The Old Engine
Another Canadian / Canuck-ophile? Well then, make yourself right at home!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Zakkariaa
How do I do it
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Send a telegram to [nation=short]The Confederate Papers[/nation] with your name, the position youd like to run for, any regional party you may belong to, and a link to your platform (if you have one).
Positions include:
Chancellor
Vice Chancellor
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Minister of Justice
Speaker of Parliament
Supreme Court Justice (three available positions)
You have to be a citizen, so apply if you havent already done so. Details here.
Your platform can be posted on the RMB, or in a factbook/dispatch like Ive done here.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Coliainada
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Welcome to the CoFN! My name is Aleksander D Coltsov and I am the current Premier of the Equestrian Union and the Supreme Ruler of Russia. If there's anything I can do to help you settle in, give me a telegram. Don't let the fact that we are a race of anthropomorphic equine warriors bother you, we are quite friendly.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine, Zakkariaa
Now that is the kind of person person we need in Government!!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Welcome to the region, Zakkariaa!
Vista Major, Percyton, Zakkariaa
It's a pleasure to meet you! Hope you enjoy yourself here :)
Jaslandia, Percyton, Zakkariaa
[spoiler=Today is February 26 and today are:]
Today is February 26 and today are:
- Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith)
- Day of Remembrance for Victims of Khojaly Massacre (Azerbaijan)
- For Pete's Sake Day
- Levi Strauss Day
- Liberation Day (Kuwait)
- National Bacon Day (United States)
- National Cupcake Day (Canada)
- National Personal Chef's Day (United States)
- National Pistachio Day (United States)
- National Tell a Fairy Tale Day (United States)
- National Wear Red Day (United Kingdom, until 2016)
- Play More Cards Day
- Saviours' Day (Nation of Islam)
- Tell a Fairy Tale Day
- World Pistachio Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 747BC Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
- 0364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
- 1233 MongolJin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
- 1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
- 1616 Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
- 1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
- 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1876 Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
- 1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
- 1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
- 1929 President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- 1935 Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1935 Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
- 1936 In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- 1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
- 1960 A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
- 1966 Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
- 1971 U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
- 1979 The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
- 1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1987 IranContra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
- 1992 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
- 1995 The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
- 2008 The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
- 2012 A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
- 2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1564 Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator
- 1802 Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright
- 1829 Levi Strauss, German-American fashion designer, founded Levi Strauss & Co.
- 1846 Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter
- 1852 John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes
- 1928 Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel
- 1928 Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1932 Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1947 Sandie Shaw, English singer and psychotherapist
- 1953 Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1954 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, 12th President of Turkey
- 1956 Michel Houellebecq, French author, poet, screenwriter, and director
- 1974 Sébastien Loeb, French race car driver
- 1982 Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton (American Author, 1862-1937) -
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, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Welcome to the CoFN, Zakkariaa! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here!
Oh my! How awful! Makes me glad that Sodor's hot air balloons have never had a serious accident like that; they've crashed a few times, but no one was ever hurt thankfully.
https://youtu.be/gV1beVCI5eg
https://youtu.be/6G6xWEcXYP4
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine, Zakkariaa
Hello, i am the Leading general of Iberia, with the only true ideology of Atheist Communism (our state religion) the saviour of workers, the enemy of our fascist brother state, the leader of the greatest union the.... OK i should probably stop.
Well anyway welcome, you can just call me the Failed state of Iberia or just Span. Have fun!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Coliainada
Oh my God, is that a new regional poll?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Welcome to the region, Zakkariaa
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica
Look what I found!
https://i.imgur.com/cd8YKzp.png
It's a map of the old ESU! Such nostalgia.
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
- 'Balkan Confederation'
- Located in Prussia
Wut?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ahh... The Days of Old. Back when I was but a small powerhouse. Gods... How I miss the ESU days. Well.. Before I lost my mind, people started leaving, and Ol' Kedalistan faded into history.... But.. I am here in the CoFN! Life must move on, and the future looks bright and prosperous!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Dark.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=831016
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
I appreciate that, sir.
That gets an upvote.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/12/diesel-steam-trains-rail-electricity
I wholeheartedly approve of this. Now if they were to also convert Britain's rail network to narrow gauge, I'd be a very happy engine indeed. But, I'll take what I can get.
Ah yes, I remember that incident. I may not have been shown in the episode (the show had adopted larger versions of the narrow gauge models by then, and they never made a larger model for me), but I was there. One of the few instances where tardiness by an engine was acceptable!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
The power of melanin
Lavan Tiri
GODS WE WHERE YOUNG THEN
MORE WINE NED
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Why is your government ruled by stock images? You're not a democracy; you're a stock imageocracy.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
It's the internet, egnoramoose.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I am so fickle with my nations.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Aren't we all?
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
You don't know me. How many countries have I had? I am pretty sure it numbers over 10, and most of them are now inactive. I only use Vetriutan 2 and Gualimole now.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I would be wholly surprised if Nurems total amount of alts- both past and present- numbers below 10.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
>Allows anyone to become an MP through sortition
>Becomes an autocracy
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I had those 2 policies for a time too. Makes no sense.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=The Horrible Definition of Autocracy in this Game]Autocracy:
The nation does not hold democratic elections.[/spoiler]
Because that's definitely the defining trait of autocracies. Not the fact that they are ruled by one individual, but that they don't hold elections. It makes so much sense when you don't think about it!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I made the same complaint. The game equates autocracies with not holding elections. A country can still hold elections but have an autocrat.
Penguania And Antarctica
https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/20722/screenshots/162714/eggxactly.png
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes please!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
[spoiler=Today is February 27 and today are:]
Today is February 27 and today are:
- Anosmia Awareness Day
- Doctors' Day (Vietnam)
- Independence Day (Dominican Republic)
- International Polar Bear Day
- Majuba Day (some Afrikaners in South Africa)
- Marathi Language Day (Maharashtra, India)
- National Kahlua Day (United States)
- National Pancake Day (United States)
- National Polar Bear Day (United States)
- National Retro Day (United States)
- National Strawberry Day (United States)
- No Brainer Day
- Pokémon Day
- Spay Day USA
- Special Operations Forces Day (Russia)
- World NGO Day
- World Spay Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 0425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 0907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
- 1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1782 American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
- 1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1809 Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine
- 1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1861 Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
- 1864 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1881 First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
- 1898 King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
- 1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1900 The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1900 Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
- 1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- 1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
- 1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
- 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
- 1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
- 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1943 In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
- 1947 United Nations Security Council Resolution 19 is adopted.
- 1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1962 Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- 1964 The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing aborti provocati.
- 1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1988 Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
- 1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
- 1995 United Nations Security Council Resolution 978 relating to Rwanda Genocide is adopted.
- 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
- 2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
- 2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2004 Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
- 2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
- 2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
- 2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
- 2015 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov occurs.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0272 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor
- 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator
- 1888 Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano and actress
- 1902 John Steinbeck, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1902 Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace
- 1926 David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 Joanne Woodward, American actress
- 1932 Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian
- 1934 Ralph Nader, American lawyer, politician, and activist
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Quote of the day
Learn to think continentally.
- Alexander Hamilton (American Politician, 1755-1804) -
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, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
With 8 denouncements, 1 endorsement, and 40 abstentions, the Chambers Reform Amendment Act has failed in Parliament.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, Coliainada
Random Union quotes: Slavery is Freedom, Oppression is Happiness, Atheism is the True Faith, Socialism without welfare is true socialism, Stalin did nothing wrong.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yukona, Spanelsko
Another Alexander Hamilton quote which should have been in the musical but wasn't. Damn you, Lin-Manuel Miranda!
jk. I could never stay mad at you, Lin-Manuel.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
[Url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_confederate_papers/detail=factbook/id=841402]--List of Declared Candidates--[/url]
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I am happy to report that the number of declared candidacies as of right now is 12, an increase of seven from the last election. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Supreme Court Justices are positions that will be contested. But we still have a whole day ahead of us till the election. Competition is always a sign of a healthy democracy!! If you are interested to run, telegram this nation!
[nation=noflag]Cesorion[/nation]
(outgoing)
Chancellor
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
[U]*I meant five there
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I finished that new Nazi documentary series on Netflix today. Some of the sh!t in it surprised me. Even with all the stuff I know about the regime, some things still shocked me.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Was it Hitlers Henchmen or something like that? Started watching that with the bf last weekend- he went home on Sunday and binge watched the rest without me!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
It's called Hitler's Circle of Evil. 10 episodes documenting the rise of the party to the fall of the regime at the end of the war. Talks about his inner circle. Himmler was such an evil, sniveling, twisted little f*cker. He was worse than Hitler if you ask me.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Spanelsko
well he was the creator and leader of SS for a reason.....
Penguania And Antarctica
And the architect of the Holocaust.
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
of course, did the document also mention something about the occult or other research/searchers like for example the hunt for the holy grail or the spear of truth? EDIT spear of destiny, i always confuse its name for some reason.
Penguania And Antarctica
No, it just focused on the internal fighting among Hitler's inner circle. I did watch a documentary which explored the Nazis' obsession with the occult though.
Thats it. Good series- hoping to finish it this week. And yeah, Himmler was a fvck- instigated a lot of the particularly nasty stuff. Such a little twerp- I think he was compensating for something.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
He always wanted to be a solider but all he could be was a swiney little bureaucrat. He actually tried to make peace deals with the Allies behind Hitler's back. He was so deluded he thought he could rule Germany after the war had been lost. He also tried to bargain for his own freedom from prosecution by freeing some Jews from concentration camps. Words cant describe how wicked he was.
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Watch Downfall
Nuremgard, Mercunova
I've heard about it. Is it good?
Watch Downfall, just like Stalin!
Penguania And Antarctica
Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes its very accurate and very realistic. Its probably my favourite WWII film
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll give it a try sometime, thanks.
Penguania And Antarctica
Yakko's World but Yakko is Singing all 180,000 Nations in NationStates
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
What do you guys think about Hegel?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Weather is mental here. Scotland has never been issued a red alert for snow before.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
EDINBURGH IS LOST, SAVE YOURSELVES
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Every c*nt fur thersel!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
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