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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
The Medieval RPs booming, but the modern one's at a standstill after activity lagged and the map was wiped thinking that it would revitalize RP activity.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, The West Country
I made the f*cking map and I still need to get into that jfc
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
https://youtu.be/MEMUsC8ppU0
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Remarks Announcing New Government Policies
Fellow citizens,
In order to more efficiently govern the Confederacy of Free Nations, the Cabinet has voted to begin two new policies.
First, we have decided to end individual meetings of the Cabinet. During my first term as Chancellor, Cabinet was held on weekends; that didn't work all that well, so now, Cabinet votes and discussions will be brought up as soon as they are deemed worthy of such vote or discussion, in what we are calling an "ongoing session of Cabinet". This will make decisions from the Chancellery and indeed all offices come quicker and more reliably. It also eliminates the possibility of there being nothing to discuss at individual meetings during weeks that have not much news.
Also, we voted to create a Master Spreadsheet which will contain links to all government nations, dispatches and documents, which will be made through the course of the week and rolled out publicly as soon as possible. We hope this will make it easier for citizens to find government information they need without too much searching. This Master Spreadsheet will be linked on the WFE when it is finished.
These are the first of a handful of new measures the government expects to begin in the next month. We look forward to hearing feedback from the citizenry on all of it--before and after it's in use.
Thank you.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Sarameia
you lazy bastard :p
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Let's start it back up. No reason why we can't.
DO IT LAD
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country, Sarameia
PETITION FOR THE REVIVAL OF MODERN RP AND THE CURRENT MAP
x________________________________________ (sign here, please)
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
If only you knew how many times this has been done..
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Sarameia
Yeah, that's because /I/ wasn't here, buddy. We're about to revamp this.
Penguania And Antarctica
How does an international summit on an impending depression sound?
Oh, great, like we're not already depressed enough as it is.
*b'dum tss*
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
...
Nice one.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country, Sarameia
Also, I really don't know how or why I did it, but Sarameia's funding towards Public Transportation is higher than everything else.
We got gud trains.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Call me when you get those taxes up, tho
Penguania And Antarctica, Sarameia
Didn't we already have one of those because you and I both crashed our economies at the same time but I've actually taken Economics so I was able to recover but you didn't recover for like 3 weeks which is years in NS time?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Um, I don't at all recall. But I wouldn't put it past us.
Penguania And Antarctica
If you'd like to hop into the RP, then I highly recommend simply doing so. There's no need to kill it off to reset because we functionally just did.
All we need is a fresh coat of region
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Sarameia
Well I have been approved for Libya and West Algeria.
I will bring back the modern RP as I am a Pan-Arab State.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I would hope so! As a railway-based nation, we are always glad to see other nations that support railways and public transit (we of course prefer rail-based transit, but we would also be fine with other types like buses, and Percyton also has a great bus system). Keep up the good work, Sarameia!
You mean like a fresh coat of paint? Us engines always enjoy that (especially James), so hopefully it would be good for the region too!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Sarameia
Pah! You're all just jealous because you're not nearly as splendid as me!
Oh yes, I do love a new coat of paint! I actually asked Sir Topham Hatt for a new coat yesterday, but he said no. "You just had one three days ago" is what he said. It's not my fault I have needs!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I meant a new region, but that's fine, too
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine
Duck: I don't need to be 'splendid', thank you very much. I have the Great Western Way instead. And while you may be happy with your bright red paint, I'm quite happy with my Great Western green.
Oliver: Well, technically speaking we're not 'Great Western green'. Great Western green would be this:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/g~AAAOSwSeVaJYy2/s-l300.png
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/91/dd/f191dd87a00b9386605dc74140d1c1d6.jpg
Oliver: We were repainted into a lighter, NWR-type green several years back.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Duck_TTTE_1.jpg
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/f/f0/MainOliverCGI.png/revision/latest?cb=20171026033928
Duck: Well, you know what I mean! Even if my coat isn't exactly Great Western green, it's still green, and a green I'm quite proud of.
Percy: I'm green too! I wouldn't want to be any other color!
Duck: See! Percy gets it!
A new region? Why do you suggest that?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Ha! I knew it! I was wondering when you'd admit it. You're not really Great Western at all, are you? Why else would you abandon your true GWR livery in favor of a fake version given to you by your adopted railway?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Duck: Well I'd never! You take that back, James! I'm as Great Western as ever! *pause and deep breath* There's a lot more to being Great Western than just livery. It's about being careful and responsible, doing things the proper way, and reminding others to do the same. Not like you'd be familiar with any of that, James. I don't know what they taught you on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, but clearly it wasn't anything like the Great Western Way.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh? So you're going after MY railway now? My railway at least had the decency to make me into a unique engine, really the only one of my kind. 862 other GWR 57xx panniers were built just like you, and besides the fact that you have a face and haven't been scrapped, you're no different than the rest of them! Such a pity: you're so attached to a railway that saw you as little more than just another cog in their machine.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Woah there, James! That got really mean and really personal really fast!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Post self-deleted by Bearlong.
Duck: I'm still proud to be Great Western, and it's not like your railway treated you any better! You were an experiment to see if they could improve the nose-heaviness of the L&YR Class 28, and when it turned out you were no better than your unimproved siblings, you were sold to the remote and poor (at the time) North Western Railway on Sodor, a railway which by then had garnered a reputation for taking underwhelming prototype engines (see: Gordon and Henry). You may look unique, but in terms of performance, you're not much better than any other 2-6-0 mixed traffic engine.
Duck: Quite right, Jas!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Gordon: Underwhelming!?! I take heavy offense to that! I was the prototype to the very successful LNER A1s and A3s. I did exactly as well as Sir Nigel Gresley had hoped, but once the first A1s came out, they didn't need me anymore, so they sold me off to Sodor. I did quite well on all my tests, and I have been and always will be quite comparable to my A1/A3 siblings (granted there's now only one other A1/3 left, and that's the world-famous Flying Scotsman, but I could hold my own against him if I had to!).
Henry: I can't really complain about Duck's comment, though; he was actually being very generous! I was built by thieves who stole a wrong blueprint from Sir Nigel Gresley, resulting in a severely flawed hybrid. The thieves wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible once they found out how bad of an engine I was, so they tricked the Supreme Council into thinking they were getting a Robinson Atlantic and sold me to Sodor for cheap. My firebox was too small, and on most days I could barely do my work. It wasn't until I was rebuilt at Crewe in the 1930s (I'm pretty sure it was 1935) that I reached my full potential, and that's because I was finally modeled after a real engine class (an LMS Black Five, to be specific).
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Bah! I don't have time for this nonsense! I'm going back to sleep.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Duck started it.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Duck: Oh, so NOW you don't have time for this? You seemed to have plenty of time for it before. Seems to me you only don't have time for it because you were losing.
Duck: Real mature there, James. The childish "he started it" excuse.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
https://youtu.be/aZHvd0ks7Es
https://orig00.deviantart.net/103d/f/2013/230/1/f/_request_done__im_a_duck_deal_with_it_by_shadowfirering-d6ipecf.jpg
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello all, Percy again! Sorry for that little spat between Duck and James earlier. I think it got a bit out of hand, and if I were awake, I would have stopped it. Next time I see Duck and/or James, I'll talk to them about it and try to get them to make up.
But for now, I'm going to rest for a couple hours, then start my work. Talk to you all later!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Don't worry about it, Percy; if nothing else, I learned some interesting history/trivia from their exchange. Goodnight, Percy!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
10 billion Unfallions. I think I've been playing too long.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, The West Country
*ahem* 15.305 billion Bearians.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, The West Country
Well, we already knew you had been playing too long.
Bearlong, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The West Country
Was reading an article in the Guardian today about the so called Harry and Meghan effect. According to Sam, a student of architecture, the Queen "embodies the constitution" and "we've never had a Hitler because the Queen would never allow it."
Lucky for Sam that he isn't studying history. I suppose he doesn't know that had Edward VIII remained on the throne, we'd have had a Nazi king and thus would have had a compliant monarchy if the Nazis invaded Britain and won.
The Queen would never allow a Hitler? How? What would she have done? Hit Adolf with her handbag?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Good day everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrle0x_DHBM
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]8 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
10:00 The Chancellor held his weekly meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs
16:00 The Chancellor releases a proclamation
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
A bill entitled the Political Organization (Repeal) Act has been moved to debate in Parliament. Debate will last for three days, concluding at 11am Eastern on Friday, May 11.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/89/political-organization-repeal-act-2018
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Out of curiosity, are ranks such as Obesity good if they are on the low side i.e Top 94% or Top 100%?
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Obarec Order
I dont know about would never let but regardless of what hes saying you shouldnt diminish the contributions she made to the war effort as with all females who were involved in WWII
That's honestly a good question. I don't know. *insert thinking emoji*
Percyton
I'm not diminishing it.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
"We almost had a nazi King I'm not sure how the Queen could stop the rise of a nazi-like leader in Britain"
"Don't diminish the contributions the Queen made to the war effort"
Yeah, that's a bit of a stretch there, Yuk. Just cause the Queen did a great service to the country during the war, as many men and women did, I too doubt she could do anything to oust a leader brought to power in the same populist-esque manner as Hitler.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Hello, Spanelsko just wanted to say hello to others, nothing more nothing less.
Goodbye. *walks off to fight more traitors like every other day*
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The Queen was a choice
Penguania And Antarctica
Peng but you know everything...
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The "checks and balances" the monarchy provides is a myth. The point of the monarchy is that it's ceremonial. So anybody who seriously believes that the monarchy would stop a dictatorship is deluding themselves. If anything, the monarchy would most likely collaborate with a dictatorial government in order to survive.
Axeldonia
As obesity is bad, you want a higher number. If we were in the Top 1%, that would mean only 1% of nations have a prevalence of obesity as high as you. I.e. you have a more obese individuals than 99% of nations.
If you were in the Top 95%, 95% of nations have a prevalence of obesity as high as you. I.e. you have more obese individuals than only 5% of nations.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I have heard some use the excuse that the monarchy prevents a dictatorship.
Were they wearing powdered wigs and carrying sabres?
Mercunova, The West Country
Nah. Rangers shirts.
Axeldonia
I have heard the Yes campaign wants to secede Scotland to Vincet and the Grenadines
The who?
Every few years in Canada a discussion crops up of whether to incorporate Turks and Caicos as a new province.
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, The West Country
I'm not a database. So no.
Did you know:
The German standard glas bottle for sparkling water is 0.7 liters? It's designed that way to a) have a good capacity to weight ration and b) to make sure that even the last bit of water contains enough bubbles for the last filling of a standard drinking glass. Because with each time you open the bottle to fill the glass the water loses some bubbles. :P
Besides that: How are you?
Jaslandia, Percyton
... have you lot talked to Turks and Caicos about that?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Proclamation by the Chancellor
Sets up a temporary Regional Security Commission
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1snC48PoKpQlHELoy3EGd2wsVMDlMGyadaQpIpwNlypo/edit?usp=sharing
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Update to the Chancellor's Public Schedule 8 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
17:00 The Chancellor holds a call with Prime Minister Paramountica of Commonwealth of Liberty
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
As we wouldnt ever bestow upon them the rights that come with being a province, and they would have to be crazy to accept any arrangement that wouldnt incorporate them as a province, it would be a waste of time to initiate a discourse that will so obviously end in stalemate.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I mean, Nova Scotia voted in 2004 to allow them to be part of Nova Scotia should they join Canada [1], and the Turks and Caicos government didn't seem to be opposed given how much Canadian companies invest there [2].
1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/n-s-votes-to-invite-turks-and-caicos-to-join-it-1.465836
2. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/turks-and-caicos-canada-s-11th-province-1.1839059
I totally didn't go to wikipedia and use the sources they used to sound smart. No, never.
Jaslandia
The Turks and Caicos should be invaded and annexed by the Bahamas.
Lavan Tiri
#UnitedLucayanArchipelago
Lavan Tiri
[spoiler=Today is May 8 and today are:]
Today is May 8 and today are:
- Congress (Armenia)
- Day of Liberation (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania)
- Emancipation Day (Columbus, Mississippi)
- Free Trade Day
- Furry Dance (Helston, UK)
- Iris Day
- Miguel Hidalgo's birthday (Mexico)
- National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day (United States)
- National Coconut Cream Pie Day (United States)
- National Empanada Day (United States)
- National Have A Coke Day (United States)
- National Student Nurse Day (United States)
- National Teacher Appreciation Day (United States)
- No Socks Day
- Parents' Day (South Korea)
- Primary Election Day (West Virginia)
- Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
- Truman Day (Missouri)
- Veterans Day (Norway)
- Victory in Europe Day (several countries)
- White Lotus Day (Theosophy)
- World Ovarian Cancer Day
- World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 453BC Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
- 0413 Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
- 0589 Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.
- 1429 Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
- 1516 Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
- 1541 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
- 1788 The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
- 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
- 1821 Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
- 1842 A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
- 1846 MexicanAmerican War: The Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
- 1861 American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1877 At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
- 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
- 1898 The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
- 1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
- 1901 The Australian Labor Party is established.
- 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
- 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded.
- 1919 Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
- 1924 The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
- 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
- 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
- 1941 The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet Armies (44th, 47th, and 51st) defending the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimea.
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
- 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
- 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
- 1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
- 1945 End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
- 1945 The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
- 1946 Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
- 1962 The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
- 1963 South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
- 1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- 1972 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
- 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
- 1976 The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
- 1978 The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
- 1980 The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
- 1984 Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
- 1984 The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
- 1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
- 1988 A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
- 1997 A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1828 Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1884 Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States
- 1899 Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1902 André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1903 Fernandel, French actor and singer
- 1906 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1911 Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1916 João Havelange, Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman
- 1919 Lex Barker, American actor
- 1926 David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
- 1945 Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer
- 1969 Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna
- 1970 Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
- 1975 Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
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Facts of the day
Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.
Al Capone made US$60 million a year during the Prohibition era from selling alcohol. Today, this would equal to almost US$1 billion.
Each species of peacock spider has its own courtship dance.
Quote of the day
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi (Chinese Philosopher, 369BC-286BC) -
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, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia
"Nova Scotia voted..." has about as much weight in Canada as "That part of Pittsburgh, and not the good part, voted..." does in the US.
Too many authorities and responsibilities are bestowed on and in relation to provinces, so there would be pressure to accept T&C as a territory as opposed to a province. Existing provinces would veto the creation of an additional province (with particular issue arising from changing the 7/50 rule, the proportions of representation in both the House and Senate, and healthcare). Meanwhile, T&C would know better than to join as a territory.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
The part of Pittsburgh that's most analogous to this is the neighborhood of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I told my travel agent to incorporate it into my next US jaunt and she started fashioning a hatchet out of her name placard and a leg she tore from a chair. She said it's mine to take with me?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Yeah, you can only be sure of your safe exit from Lincoln-Lemington if you present the leg and hatchet to the neighborhood association president as a sacrifice on arrival.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah, you can only be sure of your safe exit from Lincoln-Lemington if you present the leg and hatchet to the neighborhood association president as a sacrifice on arrival.
Lavan Tiri
Oh sure, Merc. I'll part with my only means of protection upon arrival. Just how much is this neighbourhood association president paying you?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
The remaining years of my life.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I actually found it.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=346948
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Ah yes, I remember that one. Good times, good times.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I enjoyed the comedic value of this discussion.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Good day everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklFP1IG9KY
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]9 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
17:30 The Chancellor holds his weekly meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy
It's a shame that the state of mental health support is so dire for young people in the UK, I just read today that 1 in 9 young people in Scotland have attempted suicide, which is a sadly high number. Combined with issues with housing, I can't see the future generation getting the love and support they desperately need.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Gualimole, The British Islands Confederacy, Sarameia
Governments all round need to do more for people with mental health issues. Sadly, it's still a taboo, even in these supposedly modern and progressive times.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Gualimole, The British Islands Confederacy, The West Country
[spoiler=Today is May 9 and today are:]
Today is May 9 and today are:
- Donate a Day's Wages to Charity
- Europe Day (European Union)
- Liberation Day (Guernsey and Jersey)
- National Bike to School Day (United States)
- National Butterscotch Brownie Day (United States)
- National Day (Alderney)
- National Lost Sock Memorial Day (United States)
- National Moscato Day (United States)
- National Receptionists Day (United States)
- National School Nurse Day (United States)
- National Third Shift Workers Day (United States)
- Occupational Safety and Health Professionals Day
- Occupational Safety & Health Day
- Victory and Peace Day (Armenia)
- Victory Day (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
- Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (Ukraine)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1009 Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
- 1092 Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1386 England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
- 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
- 1540 Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
- 1662 The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
- 1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
- 1763 The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
- 1864 Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
- 1865 American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
- 1865 American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
- 1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
- 1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- 1877 A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
- 1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- 1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
- 1911 The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
- 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- 1918 World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
- 1920 PolishSoviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
- 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
- 1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
- 1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
- 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
- 1942 Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
- 1945 World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
- 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
- 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
- 1948 Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
- 1949 Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
- 1955 Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
- 1958 Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
- 1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
- 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
- 1964 Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, is executed.
- 1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 1970 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 1974 Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
- 1977 Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
- 1979 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
- 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
- 1980 In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
- 1987 LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
- 1992 Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 1992 Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 2001 In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
- 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
- 2012 A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
- 2015 An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
- 2015 Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
- 2018 Malaysia's 14th General Election
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1800 John Brown, American activist
- 1837 Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company
- 1860 J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright
- 1870 Harry Vardon, British golfer
- 1874 Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian
- 1920 Richard Adams, English novelist
- 1921 Sophie Scholl, German activist
- 1927 Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
- 1936 Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
- 1936 Albert Finney, English actor
- 1940 James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 - Drafi Deutscher, German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin
- 1949 Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1962 Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter
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Facts of the day
19th-century Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt was the first musician to have women's underwear thrown at him.
In Ancient Rome, while suicide was socially acceptable at first, it was later deemed a crime against the state due to its economic costs.
It's impossible to sneeze while sleeping.
All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
Quote of the day
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Benjamin Disraeli (British Statesman, 1804-1881) -
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, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia
How is everyone?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Doing wonderful! And looking forward to our upcoming baseball game at my teams new stadium.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
Is there a factbook where I can find info on the baseball stuff? I've been away for a couple weeks.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The west in general is pretty f*cked when it comes to mental health.
Nuremgard
Shazria has one of the world's largest offshore wind farms. Green energy is just one of the many progressive policies the Shah is pursuing.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
I don't think it's a factbook. I have a link to Hyder's bracket tho.
https://challonge.com/rb9u2lhz
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
Mercunova has one of the world's largest offshore drilling pylons.
Guns for all!
Russkov Soviet, Mercunova
Ooh, that thing
Ew.
Ew.
The West Country
You're gonna need to construct more of them, though.
https://youtu.be/tEJd838oNp4
Mercunova
New poll. Do the English even have potato skones? I don't think they do. F*cking barbarians.
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't think us Americans have them either, for that matter. Guess we're barbarians too.
https://youtu.be/Z1m4lP5Nil8
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm sorry to hear your nation is defanged like that but an armed populace is a secondary layer against foreign invaders. Would you like to buy some Deimosanian produced rifles or armor for export? :P
Tattie scones are magical, you can get them down south and in Ireland.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Nuremgard doesn't need guns because unlike other states with armed populations, we don't go around invading other sovereign nations or dropping bombs on them. Our peaceful, non-interventionist foreign policy means we have no need to worry about foreign invaders.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
They look similar to potato cakes from Lancashire.
Likewise for the West Country, we maintain a small standing army for humanitarian and defence needs that's it
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
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Written by Refuge Isle.