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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I'm limited by the resolution of the original map so this is the best I can get you: https://i.imgur.com/PXF9x3U.jpg
Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
Thanks
What sort of summit?
Percyton
The Coalition would be honoured to host this summit, especially in the capital city of Falkirk.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
It's a european thing.
Great!
Jaslandia, Percyton
Hello everyone.
How are we doing?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton
Alright. That'll work fine. I'll start assembling a delegation for the summit.
Hey Peng! I'm doing good. Just pulling an afternoon goods train to Knapford. My boiler ache has gotten better, so now I'm back at work!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Good to hear you are doing alright. :)
I'm doing good too. Just send my vacation request form via e-mail to my workplace and it seems they already accepted it. :)
So I'll have no work from Dec 21,2017 till Jan 5,2018. :D
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton
Nice! It's great that you'll be having a little break.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
That's great :D
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
hey peng are you gonna be bringing a penguanian medieval civilisation to the shores of Calveria?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I thought more about a dwarf kingdom in the mountains around magna tabes.
But if you want me to portray an other nation then I'll do that.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Congrats, Peng! I'm sure you've worked hard, so you deserve it!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHT9hfHcc6g
what happens when you search the internet......
Why is this summit happening?
To spread the dirty anarcho-Syndicalist ideology methinks
Nuremgard
No. What I am trying to do is to essentially create a mini-UN for European nations.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Can my Germany join?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
Of course! I've been struggling to get people to join until now...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Cool. I've moved my Germany to the region.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
Sorry its kind of a short post, but I wanted to keep the RP going; I will be a bit on and off nowadays however :D
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=27741519
Percyton, Spanelsko
Another update! Added a new mercenary company (god I love making tailed flags) as well as made a first delve into Tienfiscan politics!
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Raleigh Gundebruce. I see what you did there.
Axeldonia
Hey, go ahead with whatever you like. As a dwarven kingdom you'll probably be the rival/ally of Andy who is also a dwarf-ish kingdom in and around the ring of mountains
Penguania And Antarctica
Also, I'll be doing all map claims in 1 hour. If you want to be on the first edition of the map please submit your claims before then. I'm projecting a Wednesday start for the RP.
Lavan Tiri, Lex Caledonia
Just curious, are you talking about anything other than the surname? :P
Lavan Tiri
Just the surname, I LIKE IT.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Percyton
Thanks.
Lavan Tiri, Percyton
Welcome to the European Community, Nurem/Nurem's German nation!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
[spoiler=Today is October 23 and today are:]
Today is October 23 and today are:
- Aviator's Day (Brazil)
- Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
- Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of Macedonia)
- iPod Day
- Labour Day (New Zealand)
- Liberation Day (Libya)
- Mole Day
- National Boston Cream Pie Day (United States)
- National Day (Hungary)
- National TV Talk Show Host Day (United States)
- Paris Peace Agreement Day (Cambodia)
- Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 42 BC Liberators' civil war: Second Battle of Philippi Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
- 425 Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
- 501 The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
- 1086 At the Battle of Sagrajas, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
- 1157 The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
- 1295 The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
- 1641 Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster tried to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, to force concessions to Catholics.
- 1642 Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
- 1694 British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
- 1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
- 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
- 1812 Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
- 1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
- 1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Westport: Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, Missouri, near Kansas City.
- 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
- 1911 First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
- 1915 Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,00033,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
- 1917 Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
- 1929 Wall Street Crash of 1929. After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to crash.
- 1935 Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
- 1939 The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight.
- 1941 World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
- 1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
- 1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California.
- 1942 World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
- 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
- 1946 The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
- 1955 Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
- 1956 Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
- 1958 The Springhill Mine bump: An earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
- 1965 Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
- 1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
- 1972 Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
- 1973 The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
- 1982 A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult known as the "Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church" in Miracle Valley, Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
- 1983 Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
- 1989 The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
- 1989 Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries until then.
- 1991 Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ended the CambodianVietnamese War. Commemorated as a public holiday in Cambodia.
- 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
- 1995 Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025.
- 1998 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
- 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
- 2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
- 2007 A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
- 2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
- 2011 The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
- 2012 After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
- 2015 The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German-Australian explorer
- 1892 - Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian performer, actor, comedian and theatrical agent
- 1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1905 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer
- 1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1925 - Johnny Carson, American comedian and talk show host
- 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor
- 1942 - Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop
- 1942 - Michael Crichton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 - Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
- 1957 - Martin Luther King III, American activist, oldest son of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor
- 1960 - Randy Pausch, American author and academic
- 1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor and producer
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Quote of the day
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter Drucker -
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, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
So...remember how I made claims discussing why I rarely believe China when they make claims about their military and compare it to the US?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/inside-china-military-officer-lashes-out-at-traito/
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26322868
Oh my good god. It's like the PLA is 70% propaganda :P
Lavan Tiri, Andromitus
That sounds like a pretty bad strategy, to be honest. I'm glad Sir Topham Hatt and the other humans who run the railway don't have that attitude. They're generally pretty good bosses.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello! I am new to this region, and I am really into roleplay - where do I start?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Goodnight my friends. <3
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Welcome, Himana! First, you need to apply for citizenship. Then, you can claim a map spot.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=841414
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=tserra/detail=factbook/id=876783
Goodnight, Peng!
Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Confederate Papers
Ahh... Welcome Premier Nerra to the CoFN!
Allow me to introduce myself.. I am Aleksander Dimitri Coltsov, the Premier of the Equestrian Empire and Supreme Ruler of Russia. What can this anthro-equine warrior do for you?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
Goodnight, Peng!
Welcome to the region, Himana! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it in the CoFN!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
welcome, may i have a question? is your nation towards right or left wing?
Oh btw i am the great failure of a state of Iberia.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
the first decision you have to make is whether you join the disaster that is MT RP or the greatness that is the Medieval rp
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Talkative Friedensriech
Greetings, fellow syndicalist!
Don't believe this man's lies.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Lies MT RP is the coolest. Medieval RP sucks eggs.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, Confederal States
you suck eggs, damn duck
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Duck: That's not the Great Western way.
Gordon, James, and Henry: Don't we know it!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
All jokes from Unf aside, you should go and register as a citizen. From there, it's a simple matter of requesting a map claim from Tse and getting the rules of the RP read to you. Don't worry, they aren't too bad :D
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
np :) good luck :)
Also the great offensive was something i was planing for few days already so i just adapted it a bit to your news. :) I hope you dont mind it too much :p
Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Percyton
Spit polishing a new news post
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Progress on the RP map: https://i.imgur.com/wkVsLUu.png
I'm going to bed now, but I'll finish the rest tomorrow.
Notice though, everyone who isn't Sulania pls telegram me the location of your capital city ( Flynnvakia, Andromitus, Lex Caledonia)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Truths
Lavan Tiri
Happy to oblige, and sorry to bother but its "Kyasii Dominion of Asil" :D
https://imgur.com/a/5HVC8
Lavan Tiri
Being betrayed has never felt so good...
Now I have an excuse to wipe out a nations entire food supply!
EcologicalWarfareOP
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Big dragon eggs :p
Lavan Tiri
Then change it on the forums smh
Lavan Tiri
Does MT RP eat ass? I know Medieval RP does tbh. Also Unfallious did you get my TG? I hope it wasn't too difficult to figure out where that was :P.
Lavan Tiri, Confederal States
It do but it eat that goood booty tho. :p
Lavan Tiri
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32743848#p32743848
News
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Percyton
👌
Lavan Tiri
You eat ass smh
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I love MT RP, PMT is gross...
Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Confederal States
Yes in so many ways.
Lavan Tiri, The Wyoming Peoples Front
It is all conjecture based and everyone ends up in an orgy of trying to one-up eachother's tech and before you know it, someone makes alien contact and it's over in a few posts of gooey sadness and a rail gun argument...
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Tserra, Yukona, Confederal States
Oh my god
You're my new best friend :D
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
aliens= fake news
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Talkative Friedensriech, The Wyoming Peoples Front, Confederal States
Been to that party, eh?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
I have had to stop sooooooooooooo many arguments about Railguns, and god forbid some of the stuff I've seen besides that.
Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I mean, yeah, my nation is highly conjecture based, but I'm trying to be realistic to what an independent Wyoming "could" achieve, not just fapping out a ton of tanks and marauding across the West.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron
Good luck with that.
Lavan Tiri
Rail guns, coil guns, death Ray's, lazer tanks, EMP cannons, heat Ray's, God rods, neutron bombs, plasma guns, self cavitation drives, magnetic levitation and "secret" energy sources are just a few of the things that turn me off on an RP...
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri
With the conjecture based realism?
I think I am doing pretty alright, staying focused on culture, economy and domestic affairs while slowly developing interactions with neighboring nation's.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron
Forgot Spider-tanks and actual legit mechs. And don't forget stuff like the TALOS suit meme from the US. I'll not lie, FT and PMT RP are pretty far outside my interest.
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri
My most recent news post cements my position as an international coal supplier to Percyton, a good neighbor to Vista Major and a potential enemy to Boise X
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Spanelsko
maybe one day (after i get killed) our new ´´democracy´´ will buy your coal too.
Lavan Tiri, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I just sell people military hardware and espouse not being a jerk in terms of being a state :p
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
Tell me more about this military hardware
Lavan Tiri
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/FSB-107
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/STGM-206
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/KA-881
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/KAH-223
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/AMBT-443
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/MBT-90
There's more, but they aren't done. Some of these are due to be rewritten. I'm working on an FCS style network RN too.
Lavan Tiri, Percyton
You finally got the post out! Cool.
Afton, hm, I was wondering where you were going to stage it.
So let's soft RP this while I get some military factbooks together then you can deal with those Slavers once and for all! (Or can you ;) )
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I changed flags, this will work until I figure out what I want.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
That's fine, we can stalemate at Afton for as long as you need.
Just don't go crazy on the military, if I understood correctly, I am only fighting the slave factions in the east, not your whole nation, so just keep it real
Looks cool, I can try again if you like but maybe try some of the flag makers on the forums.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Boise X
Great! Thanks, Wyoming! The engines and industries of Sodor are very grateful for your coal, and we were happy to work with your fine nation! My Finance Minister Edward is processing your payment, and you should get your money for the coal in a few days.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Checking it out now.
This is a WIP storefront for all of the defense and defense related industries in The Republic of Wyoming.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=397813
Lavan Tiri
Hm, is economics and trade a pretty big RP in this region?
Lavan Tiri
Kinda, it's pretty important but it's not a big part in terms of time spent unless you make your own stuff.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I always try to set up trade with other nation's but I don't think it's a "have to" sort of thing.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
T H E G R E A T O L D O N E H A S A R I S E N
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Pirate Kingdoms, Spanelsko
hello
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
mah boi lavan up in this bitch
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah, it honestly depends with my nation. It's not that hard to get cleared for trading military wares with my country unless you
1) Commit crimes against humanity
2) Commit war crimes
3) Threaten Concord Nations
4) Also maybe having Chemical Weapons
Those are pretty big items that dissuade us, though admittedly, The quality of one's RP conduct is also a factor.
Humorously, at one point, Kalaron was embargoed by a guy named Latrovia for selling """WMDs""" in the form of bullets. For his embargo, three-fourths of the world embargoed him after a day.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Andromitus, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Ah yes. Good times.
Lavan Tiri, Kalaron
I kind of want to make PLRK Fascism become tantamount to like a "Roman-esque" Empire of Africa but I cannot figure out if I want to be like the Principate Roman Empire or the Dominate Roman Empire
Lavan Tiri, Spanelsko
Hey Lavan. How are you doing, pal?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Minnesota Dakota
OOC
Last edit of the war thing completed, tiny bit of freedoms background story is in there, part 2 of plan P soon to be complete.
(by that i mean last secret meeting if i dont count possible rebel meetings)
small edit*
yes i know by story is probably stupid but at least i tried to make it sensible.
Lavan Tiri
In your post where are the badlands you speak of?
Lavan Tiri, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Sorry for the late DIP. :(
[spoiler=Today is October 24 and today are:]
Today is October 24 and today are:
- Day of Special Forces of the Armed Forces (Russia)
- Independence Day (Zambia)
- National Bologna Day (United States)
- National Food Day (United States)
- Programmer's Day
- Suez Day (Egypt)
- United Nations Day
- World Development Information Day
- World Polio Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD 69 Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Marcus Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
- 1260 Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 1360 The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1590 John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
- 1605 Coronation of Jahangir
- 1641 Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard the leader of the Irish Rebellion issues his Proclamation of Dungannon justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to Charles I
- 1648 The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
- 1795 Third Partition of Poland: The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
- 1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
- 1851 William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
- 1857 Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
- 1861 The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
- 1871 An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California.
- 1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- 1911 Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with the Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
- 1917 Bolshevik Red Guards began takeover of buildings in Russia, among the first events associated with the October Revolution.
- 1926 Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
- 1929 "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1930 A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president".
- 1931 The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
- 1944 World War II: The Japanese battleship Musashi is sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations.
- 1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- 1947 Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- 1949 The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
- 1957 The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1960 Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
- 1963 An oxygen leak from an R-9 missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
- 1964 Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence).
- 1975 In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality.
- 1977 Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
- 1980 The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
- 1986 Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
- 1990 Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
- 1992 The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
- 1998 Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
- 2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
- 2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
- 2004 Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
- 2005 Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
- 2007 Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
- 2008 "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
- 2014 The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
- 2015 A driver, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 51AD - Domitian, Roman emperor
- 1632 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist
- 1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator
- 1838 - Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator
- 1862 - Daniel Swarovski, Austrian glass cutter and jeweller, founder of Swarovski
- 1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author
- 1915 - Bob Kane, American author and illustrator
- 1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
- 1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German pianist and composer
- 1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936 - Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
- 1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
- 1947 - Kevin Kline, American actor and singer
- 1953 - Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
- 1962 - Dave Blaney, American race car driver
- 1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
- 1981 - Tila Tequila, Singaporean-American model, actress, and singer
- 1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
- 1989 - Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie, Swedish web-based comedian and video producer,
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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota
The effect on your government would be nearly the same, but I think a Principate would be easier to get along with. Speaking for me personally.
Lavan Tiri, Peoples Liberation Republic, Axeldonia
Kalaron, would it be possible to build essentially modern-day versions of the WWII Battleships? I'm only planning on 5.
(Our nation is stuck in a kind of 1950's-Present mashup)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
I am not Kalaron. However, I will tell you. An actual honest to goodness Battleship, with the guns, and size, and the armor. Yes. It could be done, no real problem. However it probably will not be very effective as a warship.
However if you mean a modern version of a battleship, then what you are probably looking for is what is now called an Arsenal Ship. There are a few of them floating around in our RP world, I myself have one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_ship I would classify that as a modern Battleship.
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri
It depends, you could but they are effectively useless for all intents and purposes but shore-bombardment, and they aren't that good at that either. There are a lot of reasons that BBs got phased out, but I'll spare you them now :P
Those too are possible, though upon reviewing the idea I really can't say it's that great unless one does it for cultural reasons.
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri
What's the difference between a Principate and Dominate? Also, why would the former be better for you, Tse?
Lavan Tiri
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
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