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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I hope you and your family stay safe.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Stay safe, bud.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Be safe, bud.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you for your help with the pirates, and we look forward to cooperating with you for M.O.B Pegasus.
Wow! You know things are bad when trains are cancelled. Stay safe, Peng! And I hope all engines, humans, and penguins managed to get home for the storm!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yikes! Stay safe, Peng!
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is January 18 and today are:]
Today is January 18 and today are:
- Beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christianity)
- Get to Know Your Customers Day
- National Michigan Day (United States)
- National Peking Duck Day (United States)
- National Thesaurus Day (United States)
- National Winnie The Pooh Day (United States)
- Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)
- Sonam Losar or Tamang New Year (Nepal)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 0474 Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
- 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 1126 Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
- 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
- 1535 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1562 Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1591 King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
- 1670 Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1701 Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
- 1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
- 1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1806 Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
- 1866 Wesley College, Melbourne, is established.
- 1871 Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
- 1884 Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1886 Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
- 1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- 1913 First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- 1915 Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 1941 World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1945 World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
- 1958 Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
- 1960 Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
- 1967 Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1969 United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- 1974 A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
- 1977 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
- 1977 Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 1977 SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Demal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1978 The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1981 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
- 1983 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
- 1990 Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
- 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
- 2003 A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
- 2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
- 2008 The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 2009 Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1689 Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher
- 1849 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia
- 1882 A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright
- 1892 Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian
- 1904 Cary Grant, English-American actor
- 1911 Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1914 Arno Schmidt, German author and translator
- 1919 Toni Turek, German footballer
- 1921 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories
- 1937 John Hume, Northern Irish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1955 Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
- 1960 Mark Rylance, English actor, director, and playwright
- 1971 Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and coach
- 1980 Jason Segel, American actor and screenwriter
- 1988 Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
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Quote of the day
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
- Charlotte Bronte (British Novelist, 1816-1855) -
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, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/403522287229468683/17265160_1285727734808590_3729260085521663736_n.png
:P
Jaslandia
We'll see about that.
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
And this, Siam's unique unit in Civ 5 was born!
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Naresuan%27s_Elephant_(Civ5)
https://youtu.be/eGL_M1SQV5E?t=8m15s
Naming your child 'Jesus Christ'? A little presumptuous, no? Perhaps that's why he died as an infant; God struck him down for his blasphemy.
Yeah, I know making fun of a child's death, even over 100 years ago, is a little dark. Sorry about that.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
You act like its uncommon.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
I know naming your child just 'Jesus' is fairly common globally, but I have very rarely heard of someone named 'Jesus Christ' (not counting the original, of course). Adding 'Christ' to the name just seems to be taking it a step too far.
Also, great to see you Runiea! How are you?
Alruniea, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Many Brexit voters are also ardent supporters of the UK.
Question: Why is "ever closer union" in the EU horrifying but a close union in the UK is the best thing since sliced bread?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'd like to add one:
1952 - Michael Angelis, English actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Angelis
Mr. Angelis is the longest-running narrator of our TV series, narrating the series in the U.K. (and one U.S. DVD) from 1991 (Season 3) until 2012 (Season 16). And that's not counting the extra stuff he did, like Railway Series narrations, DVD menu narration, narration for Thomas & Friends PC games, etc. So happy birthday, sir! Thanks for everything you've done for our franchise, and I continue to wish you the best in your post-Thomas career!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
As it always has been. I've done and I bet that you and everyone else reading this has done it too.
Jaslandia
Somehow "sovereignty" and "independence" stops at Westminster. Cant have the natives getting too uppity with their devolved legislatures.
Penguania And Antarctica
What are your thoughts on a federal UK?
It would be a vast improvement on the current structure but I'd still support independence. Why control most policy and leave things like defence and foreign policy to London? These are extremely important areas and I would not trust a bunch of inbred, privately-educated c*nts to handle these areas competently.
Yukona, Vetriutan 2
That. Right there. Was deep.
Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwu4iVA1yo
Hey, Confederacy of Free Nations. Vetriutan 2 here. And how seriously should anarcho-primitivism be taken?
How feasible is Scottish independence if current trends continue?
I am unsure. Never underestimate the selfishness or spinelessness of Scots. It won out in 2014 and could very well win out again even with the disaster of Brexit.
To paraphrase an old rhyme from the Jacobite days, "Scots will cling to their Westminster nurse for fear of something worse."
Yukona
It all really depends on how Brexit negotiations go. If Britain leaves without a deal or with a horrible deal that will jeopardize its economic and sociopolitical strength, then I will give a near 100 percent chance that Scotland will secede. However, Northern Ireland, Wales, and London will likely stay as they are. If the UK comes out of Brexit in the European Economic Zone or in the European Free Trade Association, then I will give Scotland a 10-25 percent chance of leaving. So if you want an independent Scotland, then you better hope for the worst when it comes to Brexit and keeping the Tories in government, who have said that no deal is better than a bad deal, is the best way to do that in a Machiavellian way.
Again, you are underestimating how feeble some Scots can be. Many will prefer a Brexit bad deal and a Tory government, so long as they have their precious Union.
Yukona
And you are underestimating how disastrous no deal or a bad deal would be for the UK economically and sociopolitically. If the UK leaves out of the single market, then it will be destroyed economically because of how important trade with the EU is for the country's economically. And in times of desperation, many people, even those formerly loyal to the Union, will seek a way out of the Union and into the EU.
We'll see about that. Brexit and Trump have shown people can be pretty f*cking stupid and don't always vote in their best interests.
But in the case of Trump, what brought him to the White House was people's economic interests and how the Rust Belt carried him to victory, something that they did due to his economically populist rhetoric. Not only that, but in the case of Brexit, many were convinced by lies about how money used for paying for the UK's membership in the EU would be used for NHS funding. So I think it is pretty obvious that economic and sociopolitical interests are an important factor here.
Apologies for not being very detailed with my answers. I'm feeling very bitter about politics tonight.
Also, if people were convinced by Trump's rhetoric and by lies on a bus, that's their problem. Am I meant to feel sorry for them for being idiots?
That's not the point. The point is that economic and sociopolitical variables matter and that you are underestimating their importance.
What can I say? I'm a pessimist.
Pessimism and cynicism are just the cool, new hip things that the kids do these days on the internet and in casual conversation to seem contrarian, which has become all the rage in a society where anyone can express their thoughts and be seen by millions.
It isn't a new hip trend for me. I've always been a pessimistic, cynical arsehole. It's my sister who is the eternal optimist.
My brother is also the eternal optimist in the family, which is why my parents will always love him more, even though I am arguably more useful than he is.
We all have our crosses to bear. My uncle is a c*nt but my Gran (his mum) thinks the sun shines out his arse.
Considering his filmography on Wikipedia doesn't list any roles after 2012, I'd Michael Angelis isn't having much luck in his post-Thomas career. Then again, maybe he voluntarily retired from acting. After all, after over two decades of narrating a children's show about talking locomotives, what else is there to do? What is left to accomplish?
Percyton
Every mom thinks that about their children.
Jaslandia
Pretty much.
Except for me.
Sorry to hear that, I guess?
Not really.
Up to much?
No. You?
Just reading a Brexiteer article in the Guardian. I really should go to bed soon. I have uni tomorrow.
Jaslandia
Every now and then I do the time conversion and Im amazed at your disdain for a good nights sleep
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm a vampire. Love staying up all night but it plays havoc with my sleeping patterns. It usually means I can sleep in very late. And on days when I need to get up in the mornings, I'm like a zombie.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Didn't the Guardian recently become a tabloid?
It's essentially the left-wing Daily Mail. I use left-wing very loosely though.
And I thought that media in the US was bad.
Nah, trust me. The media in the UK is every bit as vile as the media in the US.
At least original journalism still exists in the US, for now.
In any case I don't think anyone really considers that blasphemous.
Anyway, I'm alright, Jas, how have things been with you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Final day of finals tomorrow. I am so happy. I did really well on finals today.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm doing good. Started my second semester of college last week, and that's been going good so far.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Morning people. I hope you all will have a wonderful day. :)
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
Same to you Peng. :p
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Justine Greening made a good point that Brexit has to work for young people or they will simply undo the work we do for them, which I think is extremely poignant. Then again, with a party like the Tories the chances of them listening to young people are slim when the majority of their supporters are mid to old aged. Regardless, young people need to be an important factor to consider in the coming negotiations.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
It's rare to agree with a Tory buy yrah, if Brrxit doee not work for the young, they will rrverse it. Brexut will affext their chanced to live and work in Europe. I dont see the Tories attracting the young though. Their policies are too geared to the old and well off
Axeldonia
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona
I dont drink but the Tory gov makes me reconsider.
I made a quiz on the British monarchy. See how well you do!
http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1801191221062018&lnk&
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton
The spelling errors make you look drunk
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
I was in my lecture and typing on my phone under the desk.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
70%
Nuremgard
40% I am terrible at British history.
Nuremgard
80%. Damn you, Union of the Crowns and the other question I cant remember now.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Not to worry. You're still a true and loyal subject. :P
Penguania And Antarctica
20%, up the queen, up the pope etc etc
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Excellent. One step closer to my ultimate goal of being Her Majestys viceregal representative in Canada.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
An Orangeman would hate your former statement but love the latter.
Just abolish the entire government and we'll put you in charge, Con. You shall represent Her Maj.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Official petition to change the title of Governor General to The Queen of Canadas Queen in Canada upon my appointment.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I once read a story about some royal staff who were accompanying their employers on a plane. There was a queue for the toilet and a gay footman whizzed passed a duchess to get into the bathroom first. She complained that she was to go in first but the footman wittily replied, "a queen outranks a duchess."
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
50%. I think it's mostly my knowledge of the isles in general.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Whoop! 100% boyos!
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Holy sh!t lol check out Jas the British monarchy expert!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm just a big history buff.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
90, it was the Queen Anne part that got me :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/why-do-those-college-students-hate-free-speech-so-much
Oh hey, finally someone who defends and deconstructs the classic "Snowflake college students" argument.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I've always believed this "problem" was blown out of proportion.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I'd agree that the problem has been extended to the quiet majority, but I'd argue that it's a sensible extension to make, tbh. People have quite honestly been raised -politically speaking- to sooner attack each other for dissenting opinions than to amicably discuss, this can be seen in the political landscape of the US, but it's also visible in the numerous examples of mob-behaviour. We really can't have a spiteful and public political scene without it acting as an influence on the people under it.
I would absolutely argue that it's a pressing problem with this generation. An inability to compromise, radicalized beliefs (on either side of the spectrum) and an instinctive urge to demean and debase opponents rather than treat them as people has never turned out well historically.
To be fair though, if you could see the kind of heinous policies Tories were implementing over here, you'd understand why people like me attack and demean them.
Axeldonia
I already do, that doesn't change it being a problem to me tho.
Did anyone else say to themselves while doing Nurems quiz I bet Jas will totally get 100?
I did. Lo and behold!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
He clearly used Google.
Jokes, Jas. :P
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is January 19 and today are:]
Today is January 19 and today are:
- Confederate Heroes Day (Texas)
- Husband's Day or Bóndadagur (Iceland)
- International Fetish Day
- Kokborok Day (Tripura, India)
- National Popcorn Day (United States)
- Robert E. Lee Day (Florida)
- Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy)
- Tin Can Day
- Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0379 Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
- 0639 Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
- 0649 Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
- 1419 Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1511 Mirandola surrenders to the French.
- 1520 Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1661 Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764 John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1795 The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 1806 Britain occupies the Dutch Cape Colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
- 1812 Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
- 1817 An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
- 1818 French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits a "supplement" which establishes the current understanding of polarized light.
- 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
- 1839 The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1861 American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
- 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 1871 Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
- 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1915 Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 1915 German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
- 1917 Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1920 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
- 1937 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1940 You Nazty Spy!, the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
- 1941 World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- 1942 World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
- 1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 1953 Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1960 Japan and the United States sign the USJapan Mutual Security Treaty
- 1969 Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
- 1974 China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam
- 1977 President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
- 1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
- 1981 Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1983 The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986 The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
- 1991 Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- 1993 Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- 1995 After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
- 1996 The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- 1997 Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- 1999 British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2007 Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
- 2012 The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
- 2014 A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0840 Michael III, Byzantine emperor
- 1544 Francis II of France
- 1736 James Watt, Scottish-English chemist and engineer
- 1807 Robert E. Lee, American general and academic
- 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, and critic
- 1839 Paul Cézanne, French painter
- 1848 Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver
- 1889 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1920 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru
- 1921 Patricia Highsmith, American author and screenwriter
- 1943 Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter
- 1946 Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1955 Simon Rattle, English conductor
- 1966 Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and coach
- 1980 Jenson Button, English race car driver
- 1994 Matthias Ginter, German footballer
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Quote of the day
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
- Vince Lombardi (American Coach, 1913-1970) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Nuremgard, Mercunova, Percyton
Or maybe he is just Anglophile. :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Lol. I was tempted, but I bravely resisted the urge to Google the answers!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
He did say he was a history buff. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I've sent the quiz to my royalist UK-loving buddy Yuk to see how he does too. So if he gets less than 100, it will be a source of eternal shame that an American knows more about his country's monarchy than he does. :P
There are worse accusations. You could have said he used Bing.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I know a pretty decent amount of British/English history (and before Nurem jumps on me, I know those two aren't the same, I'm just using it as a shorthand for England both before and after the Acts of Union), but I wouldn't call myself an Anglophile, or a '-phile' of any country besides my own really. If anything, I might be a 'Romaphile', since I'm big into ancient Roman history.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Nobody uses Bing. Not even the people who made Bing use Bing. Did anyone actually even use Bing?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Fear not, Jas. I know you know the distinction. You will not feel my Caledonian wrath today.
Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/B759dzymyoc?t=1m45s
Penguania And Antarctica
Is Bing still around?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Bing itself doesn't even use Bing. If you try to search something on Bing, the search engine just says "Who the f*ck uses Bing?". It's true; Google it.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Ah, the age old question: if a tree falls in the forest, but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a search engine exists on the Internet, but no one uses it, does it even exist?
Mercunova
More lies. We all know you have a spiral notebook where youve written Azerbaijan hundreds of times surrounded by little hearts.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you try to type anything into Bing, it sends you a message saying, "what the hell you asking me for? Go ask Google."
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Okay, okay. I will not make any assumptions in the future then.
Jaslandia
*tosses a spiral notebook into the RMB fireplace* I have no idea what you're talking about.
If that wasn't weird enough, try searching 'Bing' into Google. After confirming that you aren't looking for Bing Crosby, the search results just say "You're kidding me, right?"
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
https://youtu.be/a9PhaiB_wLY?t=25
My national anthem for when I become dictator.
Jaslandia
Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.