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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I guessed as much, but uh... it just threw me for a loop xD
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
In other words, wehraboo wank material.
(and honestly, there is a godawful amount of it out there already. Aren't people just unpleasant? :3)
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
Happy Thanksgiving guys. Just want to say I'm extremely thankful for this region and all the people that come with it. The last 2 and a half years wouldn't be the same without this place. I know I haven't been around as much, but I still consider this place family. Wherever you all are at this time of the year, whether you celebrate or not, I hope you're having a good time and that there's something you're thankful for.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Solla Ultima, Czeko Russika
Song of the Day #2
John Lennon - Imagine (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgFZfRVaww) - Genre: Soft Rock, Released: 1971
[spoiler]A hugely important piece, that is known and loved by many people, and for a good reason: 'Imagined' is often cited as one of the best songs of all time, with the Rolling Stone putting it at a hugely important #3 out 500. It sets out Lennon's views with seemingly effortless clarity and beauty, allowing for seriously introspective lyrics entwined with warm piano and violin. Released at the height of the Vietnam War, 'Imagine' called for a blissfully anarchistic revolution - in other words, it called for a utopian society. The song has only become more relevant to progressive socities,
especially in the current geopolitical climate ("Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace" can be applied to many conflicts happening right now).
His calling out of "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you will join us, and the world will be one" is eerily as endearing as it is forlorn. A true master piece, and a hallmark of Lennon's amazing musical career, maybe it's time we listened to his message and join the brotherhood of man?[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Solla Ultima, Czeko Russika
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you all have a happy and prosperous day!
Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Mercunova, Percyton, Solla Ultima, Czeko Russika, Latinamericana
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! I and most of Sodor don't celebrate Thanksgiving, since our culture is mostly British, but we have a few engines who are American (like Hank, Sam, and Porter) or partially-American (like Rosie, Caitlin, and Connor). They, along with the American expatriate community in Percyton, will be hosting a big Thanksgiving dinner at Vicarstown!
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Mercunova, Solla Ultima, Czeko Russika, Latinamericana
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it :-)
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Czeko Russika, Latinamericana
In honor of today, I present to you the closest thing Thomas & Friends has to a Thanksgiving episode: 'Thomas and Percy's Mountain Adventure'!
This episode is a bit of an odd one. Originally, this was a Christmas episode, and the show didn't have any Thanksgiving episodes (since this is a British show with British characters). But, when this episode was aired in America, the script was modified to be a Thanksgiving episode, since Shining Time Station (the TV show that aired Thomas & Friends episodes in the United States) was doing a Thanksgiving episode. In light of this, I will link to both the U.K. (Christmas) and U.S. (Thanksgiving) versions of the episodes.
https://youtu.be/hs-Exvt_-OA
https://youtu.be/zpJ9RGO4Tiw
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
[spoiler=Today is November 23 and today are:]
Today is November 23 and today are:
- Fibonacci Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number)
- Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
- National Cashew Day (United States)
- National Day of Mourning (United States)
- National Eat a Cranberry Day (United States)
- National Espresso Day (United States)
- Repudiation Day (Frederick County, Maryland, United States)
- Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
- St George's Day or Giorgoba (Georgia)
- Thanksgiving (Micronesia, Palau, United States and it's territories)
- Turkey-free Thanksgiving
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 534 BC Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1174 Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
- 1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1499 Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510 First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1531 The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 1644 John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1733 The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
- 1808 French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
- 1810 Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
- 1867 The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 1876 Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 1889 The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1890 King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
- 1910 Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1914 Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1918 Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1924 Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
- 1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 1936 Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1939 World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
- 1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- 1943 World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- 1943 World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
- 1946 French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.
- 1953 Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
- 1955 The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
- 1959 French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
- 1963 The BBC broadcasts the first episode of An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
- 1971 Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 1972 The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
- 1974 Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
- 1976 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- 1978 Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
- 1978 The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
- 1980 The 6.9 Mw Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,4834,900, and injuring 7,7008,934.
- 1981 IranContra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1985 Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
- 1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1993 Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
- 1996 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- 2001 The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- 2003 Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
- 2004 The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- 2006 A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- 2007 MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
- 2009 The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.
- 2010 Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
- 2011 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
- 2015 Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0912 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1804 - Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States
- 1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist
- 1888 - Harpo Marx, American actor and singer
- 1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator
- 1950 - Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician
- 1956 - Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach
- 1982 - Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
- 1992 - Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
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Quote of the day
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
- Henry David Thoreau -
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, Andromitus, Oelesa, Kalaron, Mercunova
Sturgeon's talk tonight was interesting and funny. I have even more respect for her now. An African lad spoke out from the audience to thank her for personally intervening with the Home Office to stop him being deported.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
The original Vetriutan is actually advancing economically. Maybe random generators and spinners can do a better job at running a nation than I can.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Well i'd like a flag that unites all South America
Penguania And Antarctica
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/future/images/6/69/South_American_flag_by_kyuzoaoi.png/revision/latest?cb=20140906081421
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
Suprise lore update! This time it's about the Squidspawn faith, splinter churches and religion in general! Isn't this fun?
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well that was quick ;)
Thank you but i was looking for something else
Penguania And Antarctica
#cantpurgethesturge
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Latinamericana
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope it's going great for you guys.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xm0HNbvtgQ
>Tfw no one likes your over the top squid lore
oh no who'da thunk
woe is me
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Latinamericana
i is tired from turkey fegot :p
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
I appreciate squids
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
RIP Merc's Ears
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
seriously what the f*ck have you've been doing this week?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
https://orig00.deviantart.net/88e5/f/2016/206/d/1/stalin_purge_by_comradepepe-dabc0wd.jpg
What now? Were you at a heavy metal concert or something?
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
W O E
Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
Fröhliches Dankfest!
Penguania And Antarctica, Latinamericana
Back: Arsehole at work yesterday who throws crap in mail sacks in such a way that required me to re-pack them all
Ears: Turned on the radio only to be welcomed by Christmas music. The last time it was on I was rocking out to Chicago Transit Authority (Questions 67 & 68) and forgot to turn down the volume, and today I got blasted with holiday bells and associated ghastly sounds.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for continuing reports of the slow disintegration of my person.
An NBC News Exclusive!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Czeko Russika
So...Canada actually kinda sucks if you're already kinda melancholy.
Sorry to hear that. Sounds like you've been having a run of bad luck lately.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
What makes you say that?
Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't know public transportation was 'hip' now. Good on the city of Chicago! A nice way to get young people involved in transportation issues!
Indeed. Perhaps having some sort of lucky charm would help, Merc? I can talk to Stephen and see if he'd be willing to loan you his lucky horseshoe.
https://youtu.be/9hnddSS-6GY
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Prime Minister Katja Krupin seems to wear red a lot these days.
I should hope so! She's head of the Socialist Party!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Talkative Friedensriech, Percyton, Czeko Russika, Latinamericana
Merc's Musing in the Morning
If you have diabeetus, and you're on Medicare, the cost of your testing supplies may be covered.
Liberty Medical will even send you a free meter if you qualify.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Wot's there to like, the Kyasii'll kill 'em all regardless; Conquer and reinstitute the Red Hand I say!
Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia
Medieval RP when.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
I mean... The red hand was basically a city-state in the far south, so that'd not be too bad.
I WANT MY RP NOW REEEEE
*angry bagpipes in the distance*
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Latinamericana
It's boring, really, not my prefered boring though. The whole place is like a twilight zone version of the USA too, where all the signs are in french gibberish -to me- and my ability to talk to Tim is much more curtailed.
Jaslandia
Oi, Fröhliches Tag des Konsumentismus!
Holy shít, her last name is similar to my familys surname pre-Americanization.
Anyway, the world needs more Reds :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton, Latinamericana
It's due to the recent election. She had to form a coalition government with other leftists.
We Germans invented a much better word: Konsumterror (consumption terror)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
You Germans have words for everything. ;)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Latinamericana
Yes we do. :D
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
https://youtu.be/w71wHXLgi6E
https://youtu.be/68ugkg9RePc
I see. I suppose I understand where you're coming from. Maybe it'll be better if you go outside Quebec.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Lol
Montréal has one of the best music and bar scenes in North America tbh
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Latinamericana
I suppose so. I'm not much into that stuff, but if you are, might be worth checking out.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Not just that, it has awesome cuisine, great music (as said), great cultural sites (museums and art galleries, etc) and fantastic parks. It can probably be claimed to be one of the best cities to live in for a young person in North America, as it's not too costly either.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
True, though I don't think that'll really happen, all my relatives happen to live here, after all :p
I've just been trying to keep my spirits up, my relatives ain't bad after all, you see, but they're Portuguese and loud.
Also, the people at this mall are really rather rude :/
Jaslandia, Percyton
Quick Update:
Never having Thanksgiving vacation with my cousin Robert again. We flew from DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA) to Moscow. After landing, we went to some hotel/office near the Kremlin. Despite the boring meeting, Russia was fun. We then left early in the morning (4 am Russian time) to fly to Paris... for another freaking meeting. Then he sent me and my GF, along with my family on an afternoon flight back to Texas. We had McDonald's for our Thanksgiving dinner. We got home around 5am today... And I had to be back to work TODAY at 9am. So..tired...
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What airport did you fly into in Moscow? The one I went to was very interesting
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Zhukovsky International.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
That's one of my favorite Wilford YTPs
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Also... I dunno why NS is being stupid here, but uh..
"Gays and Lesbians are now allowed to serve in the Russkov Soviet Armed Forces."
They've always been allowed to serve ever since our creation in 1921.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Spanelsko, Latinamericana
Was that an issue result or on the policy page?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is November 24 and today are:]
Today is November 24 and today are:
- American Indian Heritage Day (Maryland, USA
- Black Friday (United States)
- Buy Nothing Day
- Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
- Evolution Day
- Guru Tegh Bahadur's Martyrdom Day (India)
- Lachit Divas (Assam)
- Lincoln's Birthday (Indiana and West Virginia, USA)
- Maize Day
- Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (India)
- National Day of Listening (United States)
- National Flossing Day (United States)
- National Native American Heritage Day (United States)
- National Sardines Day (United States)
- Presidents' Day (New Mexico, United States)
- State Holiday or Robert E. Lee Day (Georgia, USA)
- Systems Engineer Day
- Teachers' Day (Turkey)
- Thanksgiving Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
- Youre Welcomegiving Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1227 Polish Prince Leszek the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
- 1248 In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
- 1429 Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
- 1542 Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
- 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- 1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
- 1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
- 1877 Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
- 1906 A 136 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
- 1917 In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
- 1922 Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
- 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- 1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
- 1943 World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
- 1944 World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
- 1962 The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
- 1962 The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
- 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
- 1965 Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
- 1966 Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- 1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
- 1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
- 1973 A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
- 1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1976 The ÇaldıranMuradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
- 2012 A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
- 2013 Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5(United States)1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
- 2015 A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the SyriaTurkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
- 2015 A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
- 2015 An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar
- 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish-English priest and author
- 1713 - Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary
- 1784 - Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States
- 1806 - William Webb Ellis, English priest, created Rugby football
- 1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author
- 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator
- 1867 - Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer
- 1897 - Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss
- 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer and journalist
- 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer
- 1952 - Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author
- 1961 - Hartmut Engler, German musician
- 1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer
- 1984 - Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier
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Quote of the day
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
Ah I went into Domodedovo
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Issue result
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good on you.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
´´They've always been allowed to serve ever since our creation in 1921.´´
Meanwhile in another universe= We have been always at war with Eurasia.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Sorry to hear that. Robert should have told you guys that it would just be meetings and that you wouldn't be home in time for Thanksgiving. Wonder why he didn't.
https://youtu.be/efvPQjeu34c?t=2m17s
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Huh.
Percyton
Because Robert is a "big-time business guy dat ain't got time for dat sorta thing". He's no longer part of the family and may/may not be disposed of. [I]Capisce?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Thanksgiving is just an excuse for you greedy Americans to stuff yourselves with food because you cant wait until Christmas.
Russkov Soviet, Axeldonia, Spanelsko
I see. Seems like it wouldn't take long at all to say "I'm just going overseas for some meetings, not much else. You guys probably wouldn't be home for Thanksgiving;" heck, I just did it. Robert kinda sounds like a d*ck.
Eh, I'll stick up for Thanksgiving here. Some people do take seriously the part about being grateful and spending time with family, though the placement so close to Christmas is a bit awkward; in a perfect world, Thanksgiving would be closer to late spring or early summer, since there aren't a lot of holidays around that time. Plus, my birthday is very close to Thanksgiving (November 25), so I usually have to share my birthday celebrations with Thanksgiving.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard
Since I have 2 democracies, I may just keep New Salvatore as a one-party state, so I have 2 dictatorships too.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
I actually don't celebrate holidays that much anyhow. I only celebrate Christmas due to family. (I'm ashamed to be an American. Hence the whole Russian thing.)
Nuremgard
Random question, what are your favourite 40k chapters? or faction?
UFIR
Faction = Chaos with Khorne (Blood for the blood god!)
Chapter= Imperial Fists and their son Black Templars.
Robert IS a dick. xD
Jaslandia
Would you rather be Russian due to your family being Russian/having Russian ancestry?
Russkov Soviet, Percyton
So we were having a discussion with Vista Major, about the Forums. Do you prefer blue or white as the main color?
Our current forum is blue. For reference http://cfnforums.freeforums.net I add the forums of the old CFN,that were white.
(Of course it is a matter of aesthetics. The operative part is the same)
Percyton
It depends. My mother's side is English/Scottish, while my dad's Russian/English. I just feel like I need to get out of the US for more than a few months.
Nuremgard, Percyton
Most of my family a few generations ago are Irish.
Russkov Soviet, Percyton, Latinamericana
imigrent
A mongrel like all Brits.
Lex Caledonia
"Immigrants. We get the job done." - Alexander Hamilton, 2015
Nuremgard, Percyton
We're all immigrants since all our ancestors immigrated from Africa.
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Cesorion, Latinamericana
ur en imigrent
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/SAGR-25
Finally finished it. Canada is good for one thing if nothing else, giving me time to work.
Percyton
"Immigrant. Get job done." - Ugg Dugg, 3000 BCE
Nuremgard, Kalaron, Percyton
I don't have diabeetus, but that still sounds like a good deal.
I think the blue looks better. White just makes it seem so empty.
They both sound very scary and mean.
Thomas: Heck yeah! Blues for the wins!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, James The Red Engine, Spanelsko
Song of the Day #3
Cosmo Pyke - Chronic Sunshine (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOSSAQPt-Ro) - Genre: Indie Rock/2-tone/Alt. Jaz, Released: 2017
[spoiler]An amazingly jangly and retrospectively 2-tone indie hit, Chronic Sunshine is a track lathered in jazzy tones and reverb guitars. Featuring his thick London accent and unique style, and integrating frank lyrics about difficult girlfriends, getting arrested by the British Transport Police for graffiti, and growing up in the heart of Peckham. It's a track that I imagine would not get that much air-time in other countries, so I thought I'd share it with you. [/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
bludy imogrents, cumin' 'ere an takin our jobz just like the mausoleums
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Confederal States
now whenever u say indepedont scotland I can just say if u dont liek it go home
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
yaaaas man, the daily mail is gonna love me
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Blue deffo, easier on the eyes, especially at night.
Jaslandia, Cesorion
Faction-wise, I'd go with either Chaos under Khorne (berserker status, boi) or Nurgle (the only Chaos god who genuinely loves his followers), or the Tyranids since they're Xenomorphs except intelligent enough to start literal crusades and can adapt biologically)
As for the Space Marines, I do like the World Eaters because it has Angron (ultimate raeg-lord) and Khârn (what a swell guy, that kidder), but for a specific chapter, the Salamanders are the ones I go for (Blood Ravens are a close second, but only under Azariah Kyras)
Well, Khorne is a literal blood-thirsty psychopathic war god that will grant his followers vast strength and unwavering determination at the cost of becoming a violent berserker who will be driven to kill anyone for their skulls as a trophy to him, friend, foe, whoever has blood and a skull. The Black Templars are also psychotic, but they're not Chaos-aligned and are still loyal to the God-Emperor of Mankind, so they usually don't go and brutally murder the subjects of the Imperium at large like the Chaos Space Marines or the Flesh Eaters.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Spanelsko
Luckily, engines can't get diabeetus.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Latinamericana
Diabeetus? In our lands? Pffft
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton, Latinamericana
https://youtu.be/BP-l40WEGNo
OR CAN THEY????
https://youtu.be/rGoVnAkqNF0
No, they probably can't.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
So, I was right that they're both scary and mean, but one is scarier and meaner than the other?
They can't. I asked Edward about it, and he says diabeetus (though he insisted that it's called 'diabetes', which I think sounds scarier) is a human disease that can be caused by a variety of factors, such as genetics, viruses, and excessive weight gain. Engines don't have 'genes' (whatever those are) or genetics because we're built in a factory and the factories don't give us genes, we can't catch viruses, and we don't have to worry about weight gain because we can't lose or gain weight (at least not on our own; our human operators can add or remove parts to us, and that can cause our weight to change).
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Happy birthday Jaslandia!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
Not my birthday yet (at least not in my time zone), but thank you!
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Happy birthday, Jas!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Thanks, Percy!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
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