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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
It was an attempt by the government to control Jacobite sympathisers who mostly came from the Highland clans of Scotland, most notably distinguished by their various tartans.
Jaslandia, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
that probably would have made them angry.
Just a tad. But the Highlanders always got the sh!t end of the stick both by Scottish and British governments.
Jaslandia, The Cross And Davids Star, Yukona
Here finally is the terrible late DIP of today. I'm so sorry for the delay. I hope that I will keep the usual time of posting. But I'm really really sorry. If I cause any inconvenience please let me know. I apologize for it.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Australia Day (Australia)
- Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
- Engineer's Day (Panama)
- International Customs Day
- Liberation Day (Uganda)
- National Green Juice Day (United States)
- National Peanut Brittle Day (United States)
- National Spouses Day (United States)
- Republic Day (India)
- Tet holiday (Vietnam)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
- 1531 The Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
- 1564 The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
- 1565 Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
- 1699 For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
- 1564 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
- 1736 Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- 1788 The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
- 1808 The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
- 1837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- 1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- 1841 James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
- 1855 Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
- 1861 American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
- 1863 American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
- 1863 American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
- 1870 Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
- 1905 The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
- 1911 Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
- 1915 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 1918 Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
- 1920 Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
- 1926 The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
- 1930 The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
- 1934 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
- 1934 GermanPolish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
- 1939 Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
- 1942 World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
- 1949 The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
- 1950 The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
- 1952 Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
- 1956 Soviet Union hands Porkkala back to Finland.
- 1961 John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President.
- 1962 Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
- 1965 Hindi becomes the official language of India.
- 1980 Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
- 1986 The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
- 1991 Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
- 1992 Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
- 1998 Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
- 2001 The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,80520,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
- 2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the current Constitution of Afghanistan.
- 2005 Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
- 2009 Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
- 2015 An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 183 Lady Zhen, Chinese empress
- 1495 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan
- 1781 Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and author
- 1880 Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient
- 1904 Seán MacBride, Irish lawyer and politician, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Nobel Prize laureate
- 1911 Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania
- 1921 Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony
- 1925 Paul Newman, American actor, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own
- 1944 Angela Davis, American activist
- 1946 Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor
- 1947 Robert Cailliau, Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist
- 1955 Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1958 Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
- 1961 Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1963 José Mourinho, Portuguese footballer and manager
- 1967 Col Needham, English businessman, co-founded Internet Movie Database
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Quote of the day
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
- Elbert Hubbard -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Merlinton, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Tserra, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Just got told Scotland isn't a country and that it does not matter to the union.
Feeling so British right now. Really feeling that warm, fuzzy Better Togetherness.
Intelligentpeople
Montgomery was well regarded by the British Public and by Churchill but he often either wasted time and lives in operations he prefered, even when there was little to no chance that it would shorten the actual run time of the war.
Disregarding statements from Patton or Eisenhower, you can take the fact that he took credit for the success of whatever corps were put under his command as evidence of why GIs would hate him, he was very much a rear echelon leader, but would often credit or divisions with the attitude of the british soldier saving the haplessly mislead Americans, and one of his less often given quotes goes something like "The American soldier is one of the best we have, when properly guided", or one could take his...uh...idealistic view of being given some US divisions where he afterwards remarked about how "panicked" Eisenhower was when speaking to him.
Simply put, he did fine enough as a Commander, but his diplomacy was sorely lacking to completely missing.
Yukona
How are you all doing ?
Magnatronia, Intelligentpeople
Good! Oppressing my employees has never been more fun. But I do have a stomach ache /:
Penguania And Antarctica
And how are you?
Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Sorry to hear that. Hope you get well soon. :)
I'm doing fine. :)
Intelligentpeople
Who said that?
Our good friend Valt.
You ask and you shall receive
Doesn't matter. Nothing will shift me from wanting independence.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Will you shift when I give you a jar full of delicious cookies and a cute, adorable penguin ?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Nah. Not keen on cookies. Penguins are cute though.
Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
It was worth a try.
Jaslandia, Intelligentpeople
If we were to judge Canadians based on the type of people who have enough time to comment on online news articles, we'd believe Canada was packed to the brim with homophobes, racists, anti-Semites, and alt-right adherents. In reality, these aren't at all reflective of Canada's population as a whole.
Jaslandia, Intelligentpeople
Mate, clearly you haven't had some of me and my sister's cookies if you say that.
You would love them...[B]even if you didn't want to.[/B] :P
Are you kidding!? They totally are :P
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
True. Sure as hell pisses me off though. And it ain't healthy for an already bitter soul like me.
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
But, then again, Donald J Trump is the President of the United States, so that was a doomed goal to begin with.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Please do not imagine the Kalaron And Ramparisus Cookie Production plant like that, we can be sued for violating international trademark :P
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Hah!
Kal baking is hilarious. More like committing arson.
Penguania And Antarctica
I need to stop reading newspapers. I'll be a happier person for it.
Intelligentpeople
How dare you.
I knew I shouldn't listened to that director >.>
"Let me have more freedom to create" he said
"I promise the characters won't all be Disney knock offs" he said.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Aw, how cute :)
Penguania And Antarctica
I take it back.
How dare you :P
Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
You and I both know I'm the cook and baker. You don't even know the difference between Jam, Jelly, and Preservatives. I have it on good authority you can't even make a good PB&J.
Penguania And Antarctica
basically
Whatever authority you have that it on is wrong and a complete liar.
I happen to love my PBJs
Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Sooo, if there was ever a time to burn off your finger prints and procure a burner cell phone, this is probably it.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
If I were you, Kal, I would take the phrase 'burner cell phone' VERY literally; kill two birds with one stone.
Penguania And Antarctica
Donald: I coods get behin' 'at.
Douglas: Me too!
Donald: A land of mountains, bags, an' haggis, an' th' home of th' brae Scottish fowk!
Douglas: An' engines too.
Donald: Of course! Home tae brae scottish engines too!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
All three of you just need to jam one another with dem sandwiches and cookies: I'll record :p
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Are you offering a feelings jam, or a different kind?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Intelligentpeople
Goodnight, buddies. Nice remaining day and sweet dreams tonight. Love you all. <3
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Intelligentpeople
Have I mentioned your just the sweetest person I know XD
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
The different kind
*holds baguette coated in cream and jam*
OR maybe we give those who commit no crimes a path to citizenship instead of blowing billions trying to enforce an abstract thought that this world should be divided up and that certain people shouldn't be allowed to visit certain lands because they're not from there.
Just a simple thought. I mean, there is a reason why they come here. How different are they than the original "illegal immigrants", the Colonists, other than they're not as white?
Well, to be fair, we have an actual nation set up that requires more input than the original and disparate native american nations ever really did, so the analogy that they have any right to be here because our ancestors came here is a bit of a false analogy.
Besides, no one is saying they can't visit -I don't believe even Trump has said something like that- just that they can't break the law surrounding that visit by staying.
I tend to look at it from a "lease" standpoint, you're given an amount of time in the states that you have legally accrued, however, there are rules surrounding this time that -if violated- carry drastic punishments like being deported.
All in all, I would support a drive to do that, provided the tests they took showed that they had tried their damnedest to follow the spirit of the nation and learned what they could.
Oh, God. I chose not to construct any more bridges, rail, or docks with a single issue and my taxes (which were already near non-existent) dropped by 29,320%. That's not a decimal. I don't even know how taxes could drop by more than 100%.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
The government starts giving money to it's citizens now. Not the other way around. It's sickening XD
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You should give your country an official leader. Also, the Tang government shares the Commonwealth's aversion to taxation but does implement a mighty state when it comes to surveillance and controlling the minutiae of its people's lives.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What are some ways to convince Canada to become one country with the US in the future? What changes would need to be made? I'm asking a serious question, so I don't want silly answers. I also don't want to hear about it not happening or if you don't like the idea, I just want to know how it could realistically happen in the future.
I am trying to make a North American Union nation :p
Easy.
It can't.
The US won't dissolve which means all of Canada would either dissolve into disparate states or would instead stay as is, and why Canada would bow to the US after -presumably- freeing itself from Britain is well and truly beyond me.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Not helpful at all. I already said I didn't want to know that it can't happen. I want possible ways to make it happen.
You won't get it to happen.
This is like asking for me to help you make 2+2 equal fish and complaining when I tell you it can't.
One nation or the other -or both- has to change so radically that you might as well just name us the second COMINTERN for all the similarities they'd share with the current US and Canada.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
2 letters + 2 letters = 4 letters
Fish = 4 Letters
Therefor: Fish = 2 Letters + 2 Letters
Simplified: Fish = 2 + 2
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
You do not think that a North American Union is possible? And fine, tell me how the nations must change for that to happen.
Also, I am complaining because I already said I didn't want to hear it. I already know it is extremely unlikely. That is why I want to hear solutions to make it possible.
Intelligentpeople
They would have to both completely dismantle public opinion as a factor in politics, so either super soviet or super fascist, or America would have to become so liberal that we would hardly be a democracy because of one overflowing idea.
You're asking for impossible things, and these are literally the only changes I can think of that would make it work without both countries falling due to partisan war -the downside being that these would instead have local rebellions that would most likely link up- and corruption.
Simply put, America and Canada would have to be completely disfigured to become that kind of a union and I doubt that you can even call them "America and Canada" by that point.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Intelligentpeople
I don't always agree with Kal, but when I do it's about how ridiculous and impossible the notion of a United North America is.
How would it be possible? If the two countries in question were not and beared no resemblence to Canada and the United States.
Jaslandia
America could become super liberal if we created a path to citizenship which would give mass amnesty to hispanics who overwhelming vote Democrat. In addition, many conservative states have large disenfranchised hispanics who, if given citizenship, would turn red states blue. With an overwhelming democrat majority and current generational trends towards liberalism, conservatism would likely become libertarianism in order to survive. Either way, the US will become much more liberal. So with a US more liberal and things like NAFTA being strengthened between governments (just ignore Trump for now), I think it would become much more likely then.
Intelligentpeople
And if we ever did discover trolls, I suppose it is a distinct hypothetical likelihood that we could then successfully spin them into gold.
Jaslandia, Aldaur
You're Canadian. Why don't you want to be a part of the same country as the US a part from Trump being President? It would be much more beneficial to be one country for both peoples. What are the barriers in your opinion?
Intelligentpeople
In no particular order:
- Precisely everything you just said in that post.
- Your two party system, with two parties that are oft times far too similar.
- Your method for electing your country's chief executive and commander-in-chief.
- The fact that same sex marriage, a woman's right to an abortion, and the teaching of evolution in schools (to name a few) are still legitimately opposed.
- The role that religion still plays in your political system.
- Your political financing machine.
- Your hyper-partisan Supreme Court.
- Your rampant "defence" spending and miliatry interventionism.
- The very notion that many of you legitimately feel that you should act as the "world's police agency" when there are problems a plenty that you should be addressing at home.
- Your borderline frightening degree of "patriotism" (see: nationalism).
- The entire culture you have built around criminalization, the faulty legal precedences that have been long established, and the treatment of those who are unluck enough to be caught in the crosshairs therein.
To just graze the bloody surface.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Aldaur
Politics doesn't work like that. Rising minority demographics doesn't mean those minorities will become voters at similar rates; in fact, estimates show white voters without a college degree are disproportionately represented in the electorate, even though they're a demographic that's supposed to be shrinking. There's also the fact that there's quite a difference between the American Democratic Party, and any of the political parties of Canada. Hispanics may support the Democratic Party in this scenario, but how would you get them to support the universal healthcare and other socialistic policies of Canada.
Aldaur, Intelligentpeople
This is assuming that any union between the two nations would adopt everything American. It would be far more likely for us to adopt a compromised system, such as a Semi-Presidential Republic and an entirely new constitution. Also, keep in mind that since Canadians would overwhelmingly vote on the left, the whole nation would move to the left. There aren't that many conservatives in terms of population which propagate many of these policies you dislike.
I will however say that I see our interventionism, patriotism and criminal justice system as generally positive. It could use some reform, but the ideas in place are good in my opinion. That is just me though and there are many Americans who would agree more with you.
Most people vote along party lines, so if hispanics become Democrat, they'll probably just vote how the Dems vote. Also, many of them wouldn't mind universal healthcare at all! I hardly consider those social programs to be socialist anyway. Only the vocal republicans do, and they are shrinking.
Would you guys watch a TV show like House of Cards but about Adolf Hitler and from his perspective on his rise to power and downfall?
See, you face another issue, you'll need all states to agree on leaving the Union such that they could form another, and I don't see that happening -as I recall, the last time states tried it without Unanimous Vote, they got squashed- and I also doubt that the nation would be so ridiculous as to make a Referendum on whether to merge with Canada a "51% or more" issue due to the immediate civil war that would follow, it would likely have to be a supermajority in such a case, and I seriously hope you don't think that every Dem wants to be considered part Canadian.
As I said, there is nowhere near enough common ground for the two countries to merge while maintaining anything like Real Democracy.
Aldaur
Not especially, He'd just make bad choice after bad choice while being agreeded with by people afraid of his autocratic power.
The only fun part would be the Op to kill him and that was thwarted by a table leg.
Aldaur
Well the leadership of the country could just do it without the people's consent lol That probably wouldn't go over well though.
What about something similar to the EU? A common union between the two countries that share a currency, has absolute free trade, open borders, shares military information and space related activities. That could be pretty feasible imo. They could both rule themselves but have a very close partnership like they do now, but a little expanded. Over time, maybe a real union could exist.
Killdash
Well he didn't make bad choices at the beginning. He was pretty successful at the beginning. Either way, I think it would be interesting to watch! One about Stalin would be good too, though I feel like that lacks the flair of Hitler.
As for the policy comment, not only do I not believe that for a second but a lot of my grievances were cultural rather than political in nature. The Supreme Court doesn't have to be stacked with predictable, politically fueled individuals, but alas. City officials who refuse to enact a marriage that has been deemed legal by the highest court in the land (not to mention common decency) don't have to be celebrated, but alas. Et cetera, et cetera.
And your comment regarding patriotism, interventionism, and the criminal industrial complex would demonstrate that quite aptly. It's cultural chasm certainly exists if you can look at the fact that your country leads the world in incarcerated people per capita and call that a positive.
So you're worried about Canadians being drowned out due to your population. That is fair. What about my other comment made to Kal about an increased partnership?
We may imprison the most people but our crime has gone significantly. Crime is at it's lowest rate in American than it has ever been. Is there a need for reform? Of course, but what we did was entirely necessary to combat crime. Trust me, we could do a lot worse (in terms of having high crime).
He fought countries that couldn't stand up to an invasion at the start.
Seriously, the moment a German Soldier rides into town on a bicycle without a single gunshot is the moment you have to admit the battle can hardly be intense.
Every choice he made that mattered worth a damn was a detriment to the very idea of defending the nation and the only reason it lasted as long was because Germans were afraid of defying him in the West, were completely terrified of the Red Army in the east and had a wall of bodies to put between the Allies and Home.
Aldaur
No, my worries were included, but certainly not limited to, my list. My previous post was just a counter to the argument that we'd all naturally shift more left if the US were to merge with a country that has the same population as one of its states spread out across a landmass larger than all of its states combined and already so diverse without then being combined with a nation with 10x the population.
EU-style partnership? No, thanks. Our economy already relies so much on your volatile playground to then justify fettering us to it.
Your crime has gone down since imprisoning an unprecedented amount of your population in deeply disproportionate amounts with reference to minorities? Goodness, imagine how low you could get it if you locked up the rest of the black and hispanic community! You guys could even get down from #1 in gun crime to, well, still #1 in gun crime.
Aldaur
Maybe. You can't really say what they were thinking at the time. However, it would be interesting to see what things would be like if he never started the war and just stopped with what he had.
Either way, we'd never see a show that is midly sympathetic or from the perspective of Hitler because we all know who controls the media :p
Fine. We'll just conquer you geesh :p Kidding. But I think an EU style partnership would be good for both our countries. Regardless of what our two peoples think about it though, that is likely what will happen anyways.
I honestly don't care if the criminals are minorities. If they commit crimes, they go to prison. If our crime goes down because we crack down on crime and it happens to be that minorities are the ones commiting crimes, then so be it. Why should I have any sympathy for people who kill others, rape others or do all sorts of other criminal activity? I don't care if they are white, black, hispanic, arab, asian or native. If they commit crime, they do the time.
With that said, I'd like to see more rehabilitation programs for low level offenders, but also eliminating the chance of parole for violent felons.
You give money to people instead of taking away? It would cost a lot but hey, think of them multiplier effects. What are they called again damn it's escaped me
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
This happened to me the other day. I answered an issue, and my economy slid from 100 to 33 because of it. Still recovering right now.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Hello people.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)
- e-Day
- Family Literacy Day (Canada)
- Fun at Work Day
- Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Estonia)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Sweden)
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Memorial Day (Italy)
- Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity (Czech Republic)
- Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism (Germany)
- National Big Wig (United States)
- National Chocolate Cake Day (United States)
- National Geographic Day
- National Holocaust Memorial Day (Greece)
- Punch the Clock Day
- Saint Dévote's Day (Monaco)
- Spring Festival Eve (China, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam)
- St Sava's Day (Republic of Macedonia, Serbia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 98 Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
- 1142 Song dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
- 1186 Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
- 1302 Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
- 1343 Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
- 1593 The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
- 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
- 1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1785 The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
- 1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
- 1869 Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
- 1880 Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
- 1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
- 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
- 1943 World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
- 1944 World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 1945 World War II: The Red Army liberates the remaining inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
- 1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
- 1961 The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
- 1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
- 1980 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
- 1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
- 1993 American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna.
- 1996 In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
- 1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 2002 An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- 2003 The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
- 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
- 2011 Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
- 2013 242 people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1687 Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
- 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer
- 1775 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German-Swiss philosopher and academic
- 1795 Eli Whitney Blake, American engineer, invented the Mortise lock
- 1832 Lewis Carroll, English mathematician, photographer, and author
- 1850 Edward Smith, English captain
- 1859 Wilhelm II, German Emperor
- 1901 Art Rooney, American football player and coach, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers
- 1903 John Eccles, Australian-Swiss neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 James Cromwell, American actor
- 1944 Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1944 Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1964 Bridget Fonda, American actress
- 1974 Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete
- 1979 Rosamund Pike, English actress
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia, Intelligentpeople
How is everyone today?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
I'm doing fine so far. How about you?
Aww. You are such a flatterer. :)
Jaslandia, Magnatronia
Good good. Anything exciting planned for the weekend?
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, I meant to ask.. how is the role play in this region? :D
What Hitler was thinking?
I mean, he threw people into the meatgrinder that was the Western Powers, striped the Eastern Front of men to prolong the western front, ordered the ME-262 delayed to create a Bomber -thinking of course that his Bombers would destroy both the Soviets and the Western Powers once he launched a real counter offensive.
Then we have his defend or die policy, which sacrificed men for useless land they still lost, ignored field casualty reports so that he could delude himself into thinking there were more soldiers on his side than there were.
He kept his Panzers out of Normandy for the most part, defended empty plains and valleys when there were much more defendable positions *behind* the plane....
I'll stop myself there, because long story short he sucked at tactical decisions that didn't depend on the nation he eas conquering having less than a division of Soldiers compared to his Army.
As for the people being scared of Russia, well, anyone who was sensible had a very healthy fear of the constant chatter of Soviet machine guns, and of how the Soviets would treat them if they surrendered.
I'm doing decent, gonna work on continuing some designs over the weekend.
Everestopia, Magnatronia
My government has the position, if you ignore it, it never happened. When I get that god forbidden issue about workers on strike that can bankrupt your economy if you side with the wrong person, I simply ignore it, economy stays strong.
Everestopia, Jaslandia
Nope. Just relaxing. You ?
Jaslandia
Be yourself please. You have no obligation or reason why to change yourself so you can be likeable. There will be people that will not like you and there will be people that will like you in real life just like NS.
One advice only, you will like yourself more if you're not a negative type of person.
You will like yourself more if you're not negative? Well then :^)
Penguania And Antarctica
How is everyone's day going ?
Got no problem with liking myself, though it should be limited so I'm not to the point of narcissism.
In school right now, waiting to head to the first class of the day. Over than that, it's been alright. How about you?
Penguania And Antarctica
Designs for what?
Ah, we have the same plan!
Penguania And Antarctica
It went alright. I just had one lecture. Just arrived home. I have winter break now. :)
Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms
You have winter break at that time?
Penguania And Antarctica
Yes. I go to university her in Germany and we have two breaks per year. One in the summer and one in winter. Each break is about 2 month long.
Everestopia
Anyone?
I have two breaks as well but my winter break ended almost a month ago.
When we do get an RP up and running it's usually pretty well but most of the time one is started but ends up fading away.
Hmm...
Would anyone mind if I started one?
Haha! Real good.
I love History Class, it's a real ego boost when you need one :D
I'll probably die next block from the test, but still, feeling great.
Penguania And Antarctica
Not my problem, go ahead
It doesn't fade away, it just slows down a lot. Look at the Kongo RP, for example. Me and Andy are about to come to a conclusion.
Evers is alive!
Everestopia, Jaslandia
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