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Jaslandia wrote:And yet it's your third-largest city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland_(city),_Vermont

Its called Rutvegas for a reason. Of course a lot of the less nice places usually have their last half replaced with vegas to demean them. Is that just a VT thing or do other places do it too?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If the prosecutor is a snack like Mueller, play on.

If you're into moldy and crusty, be my guest.

Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia

Au Minbo wrote:Its called Rutvegas for a reason. Of course a lot of the less nice places usually have their last half replaced with vegas to demean them. Is that just a VT thing or do other places do it too?

Nope, happens elsewhere. Belleville, Ontario. “Bellevegas”. You looking for an illegal handgun smuggled from the States or just want to see a group of pregnant teens smoking? Go to Bellevegas.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Nope, happens elsewhere. Belleville, Ontario. “Bellevegas”. You looking for an illegal handgun smuggled from the States or just want to see a group of pregnant teens smoking? Go to Bellevegas.

Excellent.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:If you're into moldy and crusty, be my guest.

Quit quoting your Grindr profile, Vista.

Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Au Minbo wrote:Its called Rutvegas for a reason. Of course a lot of the less nice places usually have their last half replaced with vegas to demean them. Is that just a VT thing or do other places do it too?

Its funny too, Rutland used to be one of the wealthiest places in the state. Then meth happened

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Quit quoting your Grindr profile, Vista.

Haven't touched that app in ages. The watering hole has been mighty dry lately.

Penguania And Antarctica

A most important poll:

https://www.strawpoll.me/15230629

Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Quit quoting your Grindr profile, Vista.

https://youtu.be/TcxpbhM0DaA

Au Minbo wrote:Its funny too, Rutland used to be one of the wealthiest places in the state. Then meth happened

From now on, "but then meth happened" should be the ending line to every story.

Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/TcxpbhM0DaA

From now on, "but then meth happened" should be the ending line to every story.

I support this

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Au Minbo wrote:I support this

"And true love's kiss broke the curse, and everyone lived happily ever after. But then meth happened."

Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:A most important poll:

https://www.strawpoll.me/15230629

This is the most important poll.

Penguania And Antarctica

How do I find canon info for my nation?

Penguania And Antarctica

Midasia wrote:How do I find canon info for my nation?

Uh...you make it. What do you mean "Canon"?

Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Babe.

Another settlement needs our help

Penguania And Antarctica

Good day, everyone!

Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIOjLwwj-U

The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]9 March 2018

(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)

17:00 The Chancellor holds a private conference with the Speaker

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Babe. Babe! I live in Saskatchewan. Nuff said.

Didn't you say that you live in Manitoba a few days ago?

Vista Major wrote:You've obviously never heard of Manitoba.

Gualimole wrote:Is that where Cont is from?

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Yes. But not sure Vis knew that.

Vista Major

Hey everyone, Peng is away today so I have been tasked with posting the DIP in my capacity as Vice Herald. Here you go!

[spoiler=Today is March 9 and today are:]

Today is March 9 and today are:

- False Teeth Day

- Joe Franklin Day

- Middle Name Pride Day

- Nametag Day

- National Barbie Day (United States)

- National Crabmeat Day (United States)

- National Get Over it Day (United States)

- National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

- National Meatball Day (United States)

- Panic Day

- Popcorn Lover's Day

- Ta'anit Esther or Fast of Esther (Israel)

- Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)

- Day of Unplugging

- World Kidney Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

- 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

- 1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.

- 1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.

- 1500 – The fleet of Pedro ¡lvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.

- 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

- 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.

- 1796 – Napoleon Bonaparte marries his first wife, JosÈphine de Beauharnais.

- 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of TacuarÌ.

- 1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

- 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

- 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

- 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premiËre performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

- 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

- 1847 – Mexican American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

- 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

- 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.

- 1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.

- 1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.

- 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

- 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

- 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

- 1942 – World War II: Dutch East Indies, represented by KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.

- 1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a five-day battle.

- 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.

- 1945 – World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.

- 1945 – World War II: A coup d'Ètat by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.

- 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.

- 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.

- 1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

- 1957 – The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami that affected Hawaii, where two people were killed in a plane crash while documenting its arrival.

- 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

- 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.

- 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.

- 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.

- 1976 – Forty-two people died in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

- 1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.

- 1978 – President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.

- 1982 – "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of Time travel.

- 1997 – Comet HaleñBopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.

- 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

- 2012 – At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza; 12 Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the American continent

- 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs

- 1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer

- 1915 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot

- 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1924 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist, author, and academic

- 1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television host

- 1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer

- 1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut, first human in space

- 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author

- 1945 – Katja Ebstein, German singer

- 1959 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, Swedish-German journalist

- 1959 – Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress

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Quote of the day

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

- Nelson Mandela -

Note: Neither Mercunova nor Penguania_And_Antarctica assume responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Midasia

Gualimole wrote:Didn't you say that you live in Manitoba a few days ago?

I’m from Manitoba. I currently live in Saskatchewan. Nutjobs, us Canadians, occassionally moving away from our hometowns.

Mercunova wrote:Good day, everyone!

Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIOjLwwj-U

The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]9 March 2018

(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)

17:00 The Chancellor holds a private conference with the Speaker

Ugh, I gotta dooooo stuff?

Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

I've decided to try a joint honours degree in politics and history. Going to do historiography as a compulsory class and one other history module per semester. We were asked to rank our preferences.

So for semester one, I listed as my preferences: Irish History and Society 1669-1850, Cold War Europe, the "Westward Enterprise": Scotland, Ulster and America c.900 - 1783 and the Social History of Medicine.

For semester two, I listed: Conflict in the Middle East, Society and Politics in Colonial India, France at War and Scottish Society since 1914.

Jaslandia, Chernarus State, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Solla Ultima, Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Yes. But not sure Vis knew that.

Google is best friend.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia

Cofn Office Of The Speaker wrote:Attention Members of Parliament

A motion entitled The First Party Recognition Resolution has been introduced to the Debate Hall of the Confederate Parliament.

Debate shall conclude at 11:59pm Eastern Time on Friday, March 9.

The motion may be accessed here: http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/62/first-party-recognition-resolution

Thank you,

[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]

Speaker of Parliament

Final RMB reminder of the debate taking place on the above motion.

Debate concludes at 11:59pm Eastern time tonight.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

They've spoken

https://www.strawpoll.me/15230629/r

Midasia

Mercunova wrote:

- Middle Name Pride Day

In that case, Julius FTW!

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia

Jaslandia wrote:In that case, Julius FTW!

I have no middle name.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:They've spoken

https://www.strawpoll.me/15230629/r

Time to start planning.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I have no soul.

Strange admission...

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Strange admission...

Har har.

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Strange admission...

https://youtu.be/MH40LuAmHok

Penguania And Antarctica

Midasia wrote:Time to start planning.

This'll be some logistical endeavour

How will we balance work and play?

Percyton, Midasia

Nuremgard wrote:Har har.

😘

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:This'll be some logistical endeavour

How will we balance work and play?

I. Don't. Know. We should have thought this through.

Jaslandia, Vista Major

Midasia wrote:I. Don't. Know. We should have thought this through.

I suggest a supranational political alliance, probably ease restrictions on travel and movement with each country, and allows for both nations to continue operating independently yet willing to support one another

Vista Major, Percyton, Midasia

Midasia wrote:I. Don't. Know. We should have thought this through.

https://youtu.be/KoN90DHZwFc?t=2m6s

Vista Major, Percyton, Midasia

Midasia wrote:I. Don't. Know. We should have thought this through.

Certainly.

Oh well

Midasia

Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Contact Lex Caledonia to become a citizen, register on our Forums, and join our Discord! Links are all in our WFE!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Welcome! We hope you enjoy your stay.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Breathe.

Share memes and breathe.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Welcome to the region, New Kazahkstania! NS has some FAQs and guides to help you get started with the game, and our Chancellor Merc provided you with some ways to get involved in this region. If you have anymore specific questions, feel free to ask!

https://www.nationstates.net/page=faq

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Psst... Hey kid, want help making your own flag?

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia

Attention Members of Parliament

A motion entitled The First Party Recognition Resolution has been moved to the Floor of Parliament. As this is a motion and not a bill or amendment, it will require a second before voting writ large begins.

The motion may be accessed here: http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/62/first-party-recognition-resolution

Thank you,

[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]

Speaker of Parliament

Vista Major, Mercunova

Post by Eropatia suppressed by a moderator.

Nuremgard wrote:I have no middle name.

Nor do I. In fact, I don't even have a last name really, unless you consider 'the Small Engine' to be a last name. Huh. That has a funny sound to it: Mr. The Small Engine. Maybe it isn't a last name after all.

Charlie: Maybe 'the' is your middle name?

Percy: Mr. Small Engine? That does actually sound much better.

Charlie: That means the 'the' part is your middle name!

Percy: I guess that's settled then. Did you hear the news everyone? My middle name is 'the'!

Edward: Suure, Percy. That's a great middle name! *whispers* No sense in running his fun. *end whispers*

Percy: What was that, Edward?

Edward: Nothing, nothing at all.

Percy: Okay then!

Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/KoN90DHZwFc?t=2m6s

I loved that movie!

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Welcome to the region, New Kazahkstania! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here in the CoFN!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Welcome to the CoFN! My name is Aleksander D Coltsov and I am the current Premier of the Equestrian Union. And if your nation is in need of some assistance, simply ask. A number of nations have already been helped.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Good Day.

Welcome to the region, The Dual Kingdom Of The Isles and New Kazahkstania! Contact Lex Caledonia today to be accepted as a citizen!

Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I

The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]10 March 2018

(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)

No public schedule.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona, Percyton, Midasia

The Agenda of the Vice Chancellor is now complete, and will be updated as needed in the future:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_1BaCYV2UUFcA2QVoSxJMsC1jAavj_vtahBBcjtjlE/edit?usp=sharing

Midasia

New Kazahkstania wrote:Hello! I am new to this game. How do I do stuff?

Welcome to the region

Percyton

Happy Peng Day!

According to the WFE, [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation] has been our WA delegate for one year today!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Midasia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Happy Peng Day!

According to the WFE, [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation] has been our WA delegate for one year today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3w0trF_LqM

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Happy Peng Day!

According to the WFE, [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation] has been our WA delegate for one year today!

I hope I did my job well so far. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the party is a bulwark against Scottish nationalism. What he wont say is that it's a bulwark against it because the party stands for British nationalism, as do the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I hope I did my job well so far. :)

The best job!

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the party is a bulwark against Scottish nationalism. What he wont say is that it's a bulwark against it because the party stands for British nationalism, as do the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Anyone who doesn't support Scottish independence is a British nationalist to you.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:The best job!

Nah. I'm just the stupid Holiday Herald.

[spoiler=Today are is March 10 and today are:]

Today are is March 10 and today are:

- Harriet Tubman Day (United States)

- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)

- Hote Matsuri (Shiogama, Japan)

- International Bagpipe Day

- International Day of Awesomeness

- International Fanny Pack Day

- International Wig Day

- Land Line Telephone Day

- Mario Day

- National Blueberry Popover Day (United States)

- National Genealogy Day (United States)

- National Mario Day (United States)

- National Pack Your Lunch Day (United States)

- National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day (United States)

- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

- Salvation Army Day

- Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan independence movement)

- U.S. Paper Money Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 241BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

- 0298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

- 0947 – The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor and establishes the capital in Bian, present-day Kaifeng.

- 1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.

- 1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.

- 1735 – An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.

- 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

- 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

- 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

- 1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts are captured during the Action of Juncalito.

- 1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

- 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.

- 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.

- 1865 - Amy Spain, American slave, is executed for stealing from her owner; believed to have been the last legal execution of a female slave in America

- 1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

- 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

- 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.

- 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.

- 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army in the war.

- 1916 – The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire ends.

- 1917 – Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.

- 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

- 1933 – The 6.4 Mw Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 115–120 people dead, and causing an estimated $40 million in damage.

- 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

- 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.[1]

- 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".

- 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

- 1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

- 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.

- 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.

- 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

- 1975 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

- 1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

- 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

- 2000 – The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

- 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

- 2017 – The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1604 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist

- 1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest and poet

- 1772 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic

- 1788 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic

- 1847 – Kate Sheppard, member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement

- 1873 – Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author

- 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer

- 1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman, former FIFA president

- 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist

- 1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

- 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda

- 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress and producer

- 1972 – Timbaland, American rapper and producer

- 1977 – Robin Thicke, American singer

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Quote of the day

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

- Ben Hogan (American Athlete, 1912-1997) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Percyton, Cesorion, Midasia

Post by Wookaked suppressed by Mercunova.

Wookaked

nibba wassup - Yung Meme, Leader of Wookaked

Gualimole wrote:Anyone who doesn't support Scottish independence is a British nationalist to you.

If you support the preservation of the British state, you are a British nationalist. This is a fact. Nothing to do with what I think.

Mercunova

Post by Wookaked suppressed by Mercunova.

Wookaked

Nuremgard so ugly that he scares off everyone in the room in our meetings

Gualimole wrote:Anyone who doesn't support Scottish independence is a British nationalist to you.

I mean... Isn't opposing the dissolution of the union the central part of brittish nationalism?

Nuremgard

Axeldonia wrote:I mean... Isn't opposing the dissolution of the union the central part of brittish nationalism?

As I said, supporting the continuation of the UK makes one a British nationalist. There is nothing inherently wrong with this position. It's a perfectly valid political position to hold. I just wish people were more honest about it rather than hiding behind cuddly phrases like "unionist" or "patriot."

Axeldonia wrote:I mean... Isn't opposing the dissolution of the union the central part of British nationalism?

Nuremgard wrote:If you support the preservation of the British state, you are a British nationalist. This is a fact. Nothing to do with what I think.

It's not either or. Nationalism refers to an extreme form of patriotism that goes far beyond simply supporting the existence of your nation. The line between cosmopolitanism and nationalism is a blurry one.

Wookaked wrote:Nuremgard so ugly that he scares off everyone in the room in our meetings

Do you know him personally?

Yukona

Wookaked wrote:Nuremgard so ugly that he scares off everyone in the room in our meetings

Keep this off the RMB please.

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton, Cesorion

Gualimole wrote:It's not either or. Nationalism refers to an extreme form of patriotism that goes far beyond simply supporting the existence of your nation. The line between cosmopolitanism and nationalism is a blurry one.

Do you know him personally?

Google definitions of nationalism.

patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.

an extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries.

advocacy of political independence for a particular country.

There is more than one kind of nationalism. Was Gandhi an extremist? Were those who fought to free themselves from the rule of the British Empire extremists?

Nuremgard wrote:Google definitions of nationalism.

patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.

an extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries.

advocacy of political independence for a particular country.

There is more than one kind of nationalism. Was Gandhi an extremist? Were those who fought to free themselves from the rule of the British Empire extremists?

I was referring to nationalism in reference to your statement about British nationalism. The UK is already an independent nation, so using the second definition of nationalism doesn't make much sense in that case.

Yukona

Gualimole wrote:I was referring to nationalism in reference to your statement about British nationalism. The UK is already an independent nation, so using the second definition of nationalism doesn't make much sense in that case.

Without nationalism there would be no nations.

Nuremgard wrote:Without nationalism there would be no nations.

Again, you are using the first definition of nationalism. That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about an extreme amount of patriotism, which is what most people refer to when saying nationalism anyway.

Gualimole wrote:Again, you are using the first definition of nationalism. That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about an extreme amount of patriotism, which is what most people refer to when saying nationalism anyway.

Well those people are idiots then if that's the only kind of nationalism they can think of.

Nuremgard wrote:Well those people are idiots then if that's the only kind of nationalism they can think of.

I am pretty sure most people know that there is more than one type of nationalism. It's just that it refers to an extreme amount of patriotism in most cases when talking about nationalism in the current day.

Gualimole wrote:I am pretty sure most people know that there is more than one type of nationalism. It's just that it refers to an extreme amount of patriotism in most cases when talking about nationalism in the current day.

Do you consider advocating for independence to be extremist?

Nuremgard wrote:Do you consider advocating for independence to be extremist?

No. Why do you ask?

Gualimole wrote:No. Why do you ask?

Just asking.

Nuremgard wrote:Just asking.

However, certain groups that advocate for independence can be extremist.

Gualimole wrote:However, certain groups that advocate for independence can be extremist.

Indeed.

Nuremgard wrote:Indeed.

Also, this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism

Gualimole wrote:Also, this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism

Scottish Independence is largely categorised as this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_nationalism

Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Yukona, Gualimole

Gualimole wrote:Also, this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism

I'll stick to social democracy.

Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:I'll stick to social democracy.

Read The Conquest of Bread.

Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Yukona

Gualimole wrote:Read The Conquest of Bread.

You and Axel should form the CoFN Anarcho-Syndicalist party :L

Vista Major, Axeldonia, Midasia

Lex Caledonia wrote:You and Axel should form the CoFN Anarcho-Syndicalist party :L

And unlike Michael Collins, we won't be rigging anything.

Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Yukona

Gualimole wrote:And unlike Michael Collins, we won't be rigging anything.

You wound me Vet...

Axeldonia, Gualimole

Lex Caledonia wrote:You wound me Vet...

I N D I R E C T - R U L E - F R O M - L O N D O N , E D I N B U R G H , C A R D I F F , A N D - D U B L I N

Axeldonia, Yukona

Gualimole wrote:I N D I R E C T - R U L E - F R O M - L O N D O N , E D I N B U R G H , C A R D I F F , A N D - D U B L I N

We need to get that game going when we get a chance. Anyone else want to play Hearts of Iron 4: Kaiserreich?

Lex Caledonia wrote:We need to get that game going when we get a chance. Anyone else want to play Hearts of Iron 4: Kaiserreich?

Can you do it today or tomorrow?

Gualimole wrote:Can you do it today or tomorrow?

I should be free tomorrow, we'll have to balance out timezones as I'm a GMT boi.

Lex Caledonia wrote:I should be free tomorrow, we'll have to balance out timezones as I'm a GMT boi.

My timezone is PST, which is UTC-8.

Cofn Office Of The Speaker wrote:Attention Members of Parliament

A motion entitled The First Party Recognition Resolution has been moved to the Floor of Parliament. As this is a motion and not a bill or amendment, it will require a second before voting writ large begins.

The motion may be accessed here: http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/62/first-party-recognition-resolution

Thank you,

[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]

Speaker of Parliament

This motion still requires being seconded for voting to commence. Seven days of voting to follow.

Vista Major, Lex Caledonia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:

This motion still requires being seconded for voting to commence. Seven days of voting to follow.

*patient*

Midasia

>tmw you go out shooting at a range and hold the .45 wrong.

My knuckle is now in a "oof" state.

Russkov Soviet

Stay tuned, pupils.

Introduction to Vistonian Studies is coming soon.

Jaslandia, Midasia

Mercunova wrote:Keep this off the RMB please.

Switches regions? Fine. Introduces self in a racist and meme'd way? NOPE. Insults one of our esteemed members without context? DOUBLE NOPE. Not the best start....

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia

https://i.imgur.com/D8jYmMw.jpg

Gualimole wrote:https://i.imgur.com/D8jYmMw.jpg

Jinkies

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Jinkies

Jinkies! I better read the bread book!

-Anarcho-Communist Velma

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Grand Hesperia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Nah. I'm just the stupid Holiday Herald.

I disagree entirely! You're a lot more than that!

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- U.S. Paper Money Day

In honor of the occasion: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5CL-krstYn532QY1Ayo27s1

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist

Chuck Norris doesn't have a birthday; birth has a Chuck Norris day.

#Late2000sJokes

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Jinkies

"Well leftist gang, let's see who the counterrevolutionary enemy of the people really is."

*gasp* "Lin Biao!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao

Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, Percyton, Grand Hesperia

Jaslandia wrote:"Well leftist gang, let's see who the counterrevolutionary enemy of the people really is."

*gasp* "Lin Biao!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao

Depending on what type of leftist you are, you either condone him or hate him. Maoists would hate him for supposedly trying to assassinate Mao, but Marxist-Leninists would probably hold a more neutral opinion towards him. And anarchists would just hate him because he isn't an anarchist, while social democrats are happy that he died.

Axeldonia, Grand Hesperia

Tankies are an interesting bunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOBM5X-p4Q

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/63/introduction-university

Gualimole wrote:Depending on what type of leftist you are, you either condone him or hate him. Maoists would hate him for supposedly trying to assassinate Mao, but Marxist-Leninists would probably hold a more neutral opinion towards him. And anarchists would just hate him because he isn't an anarchist, while social democrats are happy that he died.

Eh, I tried.

Jaslandia wrote:Eh, I tried.

And BTW, Fred is a Marxist-Leninist, Daphene is a Maoist, Velma is an anarcho-communist, Scooby is a social democrat, Shaggy is a democratic socialist, and the guy in the mask is an alt-righter disguised as a classical liberal.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia

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