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Happy Birthday Au Minbo !! Hope that all your birthday wishes come true and that you enjoy this day with family and friends or other people you love. :)

[spoiler=Today is September 23 and today are:]

Today is September 23 and today are:

- 21st Birthday of Au Minbo

- Celebrate Bisexuality Day

- Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)

- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)

- Innergize Day

- International Rabbit Day

- Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)

- National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day (United States)

- National Day (Saudi Arabia)

- National Great American Pot Pie Day (United States)

- National Hunting and Fishing Day (United States)

- National Singles Day (United States)

- National Snack Stick Day (United States)

- National Teal Talk Day (United States)

- Restless Legs Awareness Day

- Teachers' Day (Brunei)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.

- 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannons and one hand gun.

- 1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.

- 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.

- 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.

- 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.

- 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

- 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

- 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

- 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

- 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

- 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

- 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

- 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

- 1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

- 1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

- 1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

- 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

- 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

- 1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

- 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

- 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

- 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Agreement.

- 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

- 1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

- 1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282: The first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.

- 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

- 1973 – Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

- 1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.

- 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.

- 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.

- 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

- 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

- 2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

- 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 63 BC – Augustus aka Octavianus, Roman emperor

- 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor

- 1791 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author

- 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic

- 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist

- 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH

- 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer

- 1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch

- 1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer

- 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

- 1938 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress

- 1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter

- 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer

- 1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer

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Quote of the day

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Barry LePartner -

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

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Andromitus, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Happy Birthday Au Minbo !! Hope that all your birthday wishes come true and that you enjoy this day with family and friends or other people you love. :)

[spoiler=Today is September 23 and today are:]

Today is September 23 and today are:

- 21st Birthday of Au Minbo

- Celebrate Bisexuality Day

- Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)

- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)

- Innergize Day

- International Rabbit Day

- Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)

- National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day (United States)

- National Day (Saudi Arabia)

- National Great American Pot Pie Day (United States)

- National Hunting and Fishing Day (United States)

- National Singles Day (United States)

- National Snack Stick Day (United States)

- National Teal Talk Day (United States)

- Restless Legs Awareness Day

- Teachers' Day (Brunei)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.

- 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannons and one hand gun.

- 1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.

- 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.

- 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.

- 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.

- 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

- 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

- 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

- 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

- 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

- 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

- 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

- 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

- 1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

- 1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

- 1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

- 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

- 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

- 1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

- 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

- 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

- 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Agreement.

- 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

- 1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

- 1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282: The first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.

- 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

- 1973 – Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

- 1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.

- 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.

- 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.

- 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

- 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

- 2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

- 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 63 BC – Augustus aka Octavianus, Roman emperor

- 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor

- 1791 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author

- 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic

- 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist

- 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH

- 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer

- 1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch

- 1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer

- 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

- 1938 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress

- 1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter

- 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer

- 1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer

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Quote of the day

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Barry LePartner -

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

Hey, Peng. I made my own Germany.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Hey, Peng. I made my own Germany.

Uh, nice. What is it like?

Nuremgard, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Uh, nice. What is it like?

I have called it The Union of Greater Germany. It is a unified Germany that includes Austria. It is liberal and democratic but has a constitutional monarchy. The Houses of Habsburg and Hohenzollern married to form a single imperial family.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I have called it The Union of Greater Germany. It is a unified Germany that includes Austria. It is liberal and democratic but has a constitutional monarchy. The Houses of Habsburg and Hohenzollern married to form a single imperial family.

Interesting. How do you come up with all those ideas ?

Nuremgard, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Interesting. How do you come up with all those ideas ?

I'm a saddo who plays NS a lot.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:I'm a saddo who plays NS a lot.

You are quite creative. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:You are quite creative. :)

Danke. :)

The capital will be Vienna since the Greater German solution for unification was supported by Austria.

Nuremgard wrote:Danke. :)

The capital will be Vienna since the Greater German solution for unification was supported by Austria.

Beautiful city. I was there exactly a year ago on holiday.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Beautiful city. I was there exactly a year ago on holiday.

I'd love to go there sometime. I wonder what Germany would have been liked if Austria remained part of it.

Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I'd love to go there sometime. I wonder what Germany would have been liked if Austria remained part of it.

Different. Quite different. And if Austria would have been the senior partner it wouldn't be the same I guess.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Different. Quite different. And if Austria would have been the senior partner it wouldn't be the same I guess.

Maybe Catholicism might have been revived in Germany. Or absolute monarchy may have prevailed.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Maybe Catholicism might have been revived in Germany. Or absolute monarchy may have prevailed.

Who knows? *shrug*

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Who knows? *shrug*

https://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dave-Franco-at-the-world-premiere-of-“Neighbors”-April-28-2014-at-the-Regency-Village-Theater-in-Los-Angeles-California.jpg

He will be the Kaiser.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:https://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dave-Franco-at-the-world-premiere-of-“Neighbors”-April-28-2014-at-the-Regency-Village-Theater-in-Los-Angeles-California.jpg

He will be the Kaiser.

Good looking man.

Nuremgard

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Good looking man.

He is very. Kaiser Christan Francis Otto Habsburg-Hohenzollern.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

“Whatever Panty Theft Auto is doing is what we real men want!” squeaks nerdy 13-year old Francisco Mendez, stroking his caterpillar-like moustache as he sneaks the chainmail-elf picture into his own pocket. “If anything, we should apply this principle to every piece of media we make and import! Instead of making a censor board, you should have an UNcensor board! Give every female huge pair... uh... personality! Add CGI cut-scenes where we can give these ladies what they need! Hell, make sure ALL media is as sexy as hell! Not only it would benefit us men, it would benefit the economy too!”

This is probably the most weird event i ever had, BUT in the name of our god, this is now a passed law of our nation. Glory to the old ways.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Happy Birthday Au Minbo !! Hope that all your birthday wishes come true and that you enjoy this day with family and friends or other people you love. :)

[spoiler=Today is September 23 and today are:]

Today is September 23 and today are:

- 21st Birthday of Au Minbo

- Celebrate Bisexuality Day

- Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)

- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)

- Innergize Day

- International Rabbit Day

- Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)

- National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day (United States)

- National Day (Saudi Arabia)

- National Great American Pot Pie Day (United States)

- National Hunting and Fishing Day (United States)

- National Singles Day (United States)

- National Snack Stick Day (United States)

- National Teal Talk Day (United States)

- Restless Legs Awareness Day

- Teachers' Day (Brunei)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.

- 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannons and one hand gun.

- 1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.

- 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.

- 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.

- 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.

- 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

- 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

- 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

- 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

- 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

- 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

- 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

- 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

- 1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

- 1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

- 1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

- 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

- 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

- 1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

- 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

- 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

- 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Agreement.

- 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

- 1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

- 1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282: The first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.

- 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

- 1973 – Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

- 1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.

- 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.

- 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.

- 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

- 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

- 2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

- 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 63 BC – Augustus aka Octavianus, Roman emperor

- 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor

- 1791 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author

- 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic

- 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist

- 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH

- 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer

- 1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch

- 1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer

- 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

- 1938 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress

- 1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter

- 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

- 1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer

- 1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Barry LePartner -

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

Forgot NZ election today. Though it might have not been added to the records since polls closed a while ago

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:Glad to hear. We are all quite happy here in the ESSR, knowing we could help.

Your aid and your country's aid was a huge help, and we never could have done it without you. Literally, really: If you hadn't found Jerry and given him to us, we would have never found out about any of this. Thank you so much!

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Cesorion wrote:Forgot NZ election today. Though it might have not been added to the records since polls closed a while ago

Oh, I'm sorry for not mentioning it. My sources didn't mentioned it so I didn't know about it. :(

Cesorion

Cesorion wrote:Forgot NZ election today. Though it might have not been added to the records since polls closed a while ago

German election tomorrow. I wonder how many seats AfD will win, if any.

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:German election tomorrow. I wonder how many seats AfD will win, if any.

Unfortunately, they will be most probably the third party.

Also, you have very nice desks in the Scottish Parliament

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:German election tomorrow. I wonder how many seats AfD will win, if any.

First time I am allowed to vote in federal elections. I'm a bit excited. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Cesorion wrote:Unfortunately, they will be most probably the third party.

Also, you have very nice desks in the Scottish Parliament

Unfortunately? They sound horrible. I hope they don't win any seats. And thank you.

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:First time I am allowed to vote in federal elections. I'm a bit excited. :)

You exercise that democratic right, babe! You go cross that sexy box.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Unfortunately, they will be most probably the third party.

Also, you have very nice desks in the Scottish Parliament

Sorry I might have misread what you said. Are you saying unfortunately as in, "oh I wish they'd get more seats" or "oh they'll end up the third party and that's bad."

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:You exercise that democratic right, babe! You go cross that sexy box.

Cross those two sexy boxes.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Cross those two sexy boxes.

Oh, yeah. You get a constituency and regional vote don't you?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Sorry I might have misread what you said. Are you saying unfortunately as in, "oh I wish they'd get more seats" or "oh they'll end up the third party and that's bad."

[B]Do I look like a far-right supporter? Really? Of course I meant the second one.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:[B]Do I look like a far-right supporter? Really? Of course I meant the second one.

Apologies. I know you have conservative sympathies so I just assumed.

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:Oh, yeah. You get a constituency and regional vote don't you?

Nah. Both votes are for the federal election. With the your first vote defines who becomes your represetative. The second vote determines how many seats the party gets in total.

The Bundestag has at least 598 members.

Germany is devided into 299 voting districts. So the first vote determines the 299 direct elected members of the Bundestag.

The second vote determines the number of total seat.

For instance the SPD gets zero direct elected representatives but 20% of all votes means they still get 20% of the seats. It also can be that a party might get 150 direct candidates but just 10% of all votes.

Direct elected candidates always get into parliament.

If a party has more direct elected candidates than seats they won they still get those seats for the direct candidates. That's called overhang seat.

If a party has less direct elected candidates than seats they won the free seats are filled with members from the party list.

A party needs at least 5% of all votes to get into parliament. If a party doesn't have 5% of the votes (lets say just 4.4%) it still can get those 4.4% of the seats if it has at least 3 direct elected representatives.

I know it's complicated. If you don't understand it don't hesitate to ask me or read about it here:

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

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Nah. Both votes are for the federal election. With the your first vote defines who becomes your represetative. The second vote determines how many seats the party gets in total.

The Bundestag has at least 598 members.

Germany is devided into 299 voting districts. So the first vote determines the 299 direct elected members of the Bundestag.

The second vote determines the number of total seat.

For instance the SPD gets zero direct elected representatives but 20% of all votes means they still get 20% of the seats. It also can be that a party might get 150 direct candidates but just 10% of all votes.

Direct elected candidates always get into parliament.

If a party has more direct elected candidates than seats they won they still get those seats for the direct candidates. That's called overhang seat.

If a party has less direct elected candidates than seats they won the free seats are filled with members from the party list.

A party needs at least 5% of all votes to get into parliament. If a party doesn't have 5% of the votes (lets say just 4.4%) it still can get those 4.4% of the seats if it has at least 3 direct elected representatives.

I know it's complicated. If you don't understand it don't hesitate to ask me or read about it here:

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

That is quite complicated lol but thank you for explaining.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:That is quite complicated lol but thank you for explaining.

German Federal Election Fact #1:

42 different parties will be represented on the ballot.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

German Federal Election Fact #1:

42 different parties will be represented on the ballot.

42?! You'll have 42 choices on your ballot?!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:42?! You'll have 42 choices on your ballot?!

Not quite. In my voting district there are 14 parties on the ballot.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Not quite. In my voting district there are 14 parties on the ballot.

Ah, cool. How you voting?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Ah, cool. How you voting?

Left I guess.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Left I guess.

Not voting for Mutti? :P

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Apologies. I know you have conservative sympathies so I just assumed.

Conservative, not National Conservative. I am centre-right, whereas AfD is far-right. Biiiiiiiìg difference. If I could vote, it would be CDU/CSU.

And the voting system is a bit weird indeed, but it is very proportinal and representative. I like it

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Forgive me for having a full-time job that may require me to put aside certain projects because my focus was elsewhere. I'm sorry that I couldn't get a political logo done for Cesorion. I wasted his precious time trying to modify a logo for him. If I wasted anyone else's time, I'm sorry as well. I'll not waste time anymore. Goodbye.

Cesorion wrote:Conservative, not National Conservative. I am centre-right, whereas AfD is far-right. Biiiiiiiìg difference. If I could vote, it would be CDU/CSU.

And the voting system is a bit weird indeed, but it is very proportinal and representative. I like it

We have PR in Scotland too but it's different from Germany. We use the Additional Member System. It's okay but could be better. It's far superior to FPTP for sure.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Nah. Both votes are for the federal election. With the your first vote defines who becomes your represetative. The second vote determines how many seats the party gets in total.

The Bundestag has at least 598 members.

Germany is devided into 299 voting districts. So the first vote determines the 299 direct elected members of the Bundestag.

The second vote determines the number of total seat.

For instance the SPD gets zero direct elected representatives but 20% of all votes means they still get 20% of the seats. It also can be that a party might get 150 direct candidates but just 10% of all votes.

Direct elected candidates always get into parliament.

If a party has more direct elected candidates than seats they won they still get those seats for the direct candidates. That's called overhang seat.

If a party has less direct elected candidates than seats they won the free seats are filled with members from the party list.

A party needs at least 5% of all votes to get into parliament. If a party doesn't have 5% of the votes (lets say just 4.4%) it still can get those 4.4% of the seats if it has at least 3 direct elected representatives.

I know it's complicated. If you don't understand it don't hesitate to ask me or read about it here:

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

So, mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation? Considering I've been fond of that style ever since I've heard of it, good on Germany for using a sensible electoral system.

https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:Forgive me for having a full-time job that may require me to put aside certain projects because my focus was elsewhere. I'm sorry that I couldn't get a political logo done for Cesorion. I wasted his precious time trying to modify a logo for him. If I wasted anyone else's time, I'm sorry as well. I'll not waste time anymore. Goodbye.

This is a misunderstanding. What I meant was that RS was wasting his own time bothering with me. I could have made it clearer. Sorry

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:Forgive me for having a full-time job that may require me to put aside certain projects because my focus was elsewhere. I'm sorry that I couldn't get a political logo done for Cesorion. I wasted his precious time trying to modify a logo for him. If I wasted anyone else's time, I'm sorry as well. I'll not waste time anymore. Goodbye.

Don't worry about it, Russ; life happens, and plenty of other nations here have had to put stuff on hold due to life getting in the way. You don't need to say goodbye or say stuff like "I'll not waste time anymore;" just announce you'll be putting those projects on hold and try to be as active as you can here.

Percyton, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:Not voting for Mutti? :P

Nah. CDU is not my cup of tea.

Jaslandia wrote:So, mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation? Considering I've been fond of that style ever since I've heard of it, good on Germany for using a sensible electoral system.

https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

Thanks to our founding fathers. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Nah. CDU is not my cup of tea.

Thanks to our founding fathers. :)

Our majority bonus system is strange also

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Our majority bonus system is strange also

I think one of the best systems is the Single Transferable Vote.

Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:I think one of the best systems is the Single Transferable Vote.

And I agree with you. But in Greece, Maj. Bonus provides some stability. Without it, we would never have a Government

Nuremgard

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Thanks to our founding fathers. :)

Which ones? Bismarck and co? Konrad Adenauer and co? Friedrich Ebert and co?

Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:And I agree with you. But in Greece, Maj. Bonus provides some stability. Without it, we would never have a Government

In Scotland, minority governments and coalitions are the norm. The SNP formed a majority government once but that was a one off. A sort of fluke of the system.

Jaslandia wrote:Which ones? Bismarck and co? Konrad Adenauer and co? Friedrich Ebert and co?

My lecturer spoke about Bismark in my history class this week. A brilliant statesman but his plans were fundamentally flawed.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:In Scotland, minority governments and coalitions are the norm. The SNP formed a majority government once but that was a one off. A sort of fluke of the system.

My lecturer spoke about Bismark in my history class this week. A brilliant statesman but his plans were fundamentally flawed.

Well OK in Scottland, your politicians are more responsible. The apes we call leaders down here can't agree with each other at anything. So either majority or no gov't at all

Nuremgard

Cesorion wrote:Well OK in Scottland, your politicians are more responsible. The apes we call leaders down here can't agree with each other at anything. So either majority or no gov't at all

The only responsible ones here are the SNP. Labour and the Tories are too tribal. They are blinded by their hatred for the SNP and obsessed with the Union.

Lex Caledonia

Nuremgard wrote:In Scotland, minority governments and coalitions are the norm. The SNP formed a majority government once but that was a one off. A sort of fluke of the system.

My lecturer spoke about Bismark in my history class this week. A brilliant statesman but his plans were fundamentally flawed.

Fundamentally flawed? How so? I'd say his plans couldn't have been THAT flawed if he succeeded in his goal of uniting Germany.

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Fundamentally flawed? How so? I'd say his plans couldn't have been THAT flawed if he succeeded in his goal of uniting Germany.

He may have united Germany but he made conflicting alliances. It could never last. Especially when Kaiser Wilhelm took control.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:He may have united Germany but he made conflicting alliances. It could never last. Especially when Kaiser Wilhelm took control.

Bismarck certainly did his best when it came to alliances, so I can't blame him for that. Bismarck tried to ally with Austria and Russia, in the hopes that Germany wouldn't be surrounded if a war broke out, and that its eastern front would be protected; it was Wilhelm II who abandoned the Russian alliance and let Russia ally with France, ensuring Germany would be surrounded in World War I. As for France, war with France was needed to unite Germany, so nothing could be done about that; however, some historians believe Bismarck wanted a more generous peace that didn't involve France giving up Alsace-Lorraine, and if that generous peace had happened, France may not have had so much resentment against Germany which led up to World War I.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

Nah. CDU is not my cup of tea.

Thanks to our founding fathers. :)

I hear FDP is doing good this year

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Jaslandia wrote:Bismarck certainly did his best when it came to alliances, so I can't blame him for that. Bismarck tried to ally with Austria and Russia, in the hopes that Germany wouldn't be surrounded if a war broke out, and that its eastern front would be protected; it was Wilhelm II who abandoned the Russian alliance and let Russia ally with France, ensuring Germany would be surrounded in World War I. As for France, war with France was needed to unite Germany, so nothing could be done about that; however, some historians believe Bismarck wanted a more generous peace that didn't involve France giving up Alsace-Lorraine, and if that generous peace had happened, France may not have had so much resentment against Germany which led up to World War I.

I know one of the aims of Bismarck's alliance system was to isolate France in Europe. At the time, France was the great power everybody feared.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:I hear FDP is doing good this year

Indeed

Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Well OK in Scottland, your politicians are more responsible. The apes we call leaders down here can't agree with each other at anything. So either majority or no gov't at all

If it helps, in America we go back and forth on some direly important matters and buzz words are pretty much law by this point.

From the "Star Wars" SDI, the "Turkey" F-35 and the ever present "Over-priced", America has a tendency to boil matters down into sound bytes that are totally incompatible in the long run if not the short.

Penguania And Antarctica

And as promised, here is The Arlesburgh Examiner's article on Jerry. It recaps everything we know about Jerry, and it's just generally a really good piece of journalism.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=889021

And here's the preview in the Regional Newsfeed:

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559237#p32559237

Jaslandia, Andromitus

Nuremgard wrote:I know one of the aims of Bismarck's alliance system was to isolate France in Europe. At the time, France was the great power everybody feared.

Indeed, and for a while, it looks like Bismarck was succeeding in doing just that. Then Wilhelm II screwed it all up for Germany.

Percyton wrote:And as promised, here is The Arlesburgh Examiner's article on Jerry. It recaps everything we know about Jerry, and it's just generally a really good piece of journalism.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=889021

And here's the preview in the Regional Newsfeed:

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559237#p32559237

Great article, Percy! I'm glad it all came together in the end, and that Jerry is now back home on Sodor!

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559485#p32559485

More government shizzle (basically large-scale reforms for al-Qarn)

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Ok... I am aware that I need to take anger-management classes. Cesorion, I'm sorry to the outburst. I didn't really waste my time, but rather tried to be helpful before school and work started.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Jaslandia wrote:Which ones? Bismarck and co? Konrad Adenauer and co? Friedrich Ebert and co?

The founding fathers of the Federal Republic of Germany. So Adenauer and his mates.

Jaslandia

Vista Major wrote:I hear FDP is doing good this year

Yes. It looks like they are going into parliament after they couldn't manage to remain in it in the last elections.

Attention The Confederacy Of Free Nations! Roughly in Mid-october, the Great Russian Engine Classic will commence! A co-operation event between Percyton and myself will see over 50 engines taking place in a grueling race from Stalliongrad to Moscow.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Yes. It looks like they are going into parliament after they couldn't manage to remain in it in the last elections.

Makes me cry

Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:Attention The Confederacy Of Free Nations! Roughly in Mid-october, the Great Russian Engine Classic will commence! A co-operation event between Percyton and myself will see over 50 engines taking place in a grueling race from Stalliongrad to Moscow.

Myself and the competitors from Percyton are looking forward to it. It looks like the Mainland also wants to be involved in this (there will be a joint Percyton-Mainland team), if that's alright.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Percyton wrote:Myself and the competitors from Percyton are looking forward to it. It looks like the Mainland also wants to be involved in this (there will be a joint Percyton-Mainland team), if that's alright.

That's all good and fine... I just hope the tracks get laid in time

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:That's all good and fine... I just hope the tracks get laid in time

If that's your main worry, I can let you borrow some track workmen from Percyton to help set up for the competition. I can't send you too many, since Percyton is busy laying its own tracks for the Ooyre Valley Railway, but I'll do what I can to help.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Percyton wrote:If that's your main worry, I can let you borrow some track workmen from Percyton to help set up for the competition. I can't send you too many, since Percyton is busy laying its own tracks for the Ooyre Valley Railway, but I'll do what I can to help.

It's actually a bit more complicated. We have four lines running between the capitals, but some of the track needs to be reinforced for the race... and we have no idea where. So, we have to inspect the entire length of each line which takes (depending on weather) around 4-5 days. While we would do one at a time, we actually shut all four down to save effort. All rail travel is on the secondary lines...longer but safer.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:It's actually a bit more complicated. We have four lines running between the capitals, but some of the track needs to be reinforced for the race... and we have no idea where. So, we have to inspect the entire length of each line which takes (depending on weather) around 4-5 days. While we would do one at a time, we actually shut all four down to save effort. All rail travel is on the secondary lines...longer but safer.

I see. Maybe I could send some inspectors, then? We have more of those anyway, since the Ooyre Valley Railway isn't at the inspection phase yet.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Ok... I am aware that I need to take anger-management classes. Cesorion, I'm sorry to the outburst. I didn't really waste my time, but rather tried to be helpful before school and work started.

I could have made it clearer though, and avoided all that. [Strike]Some much of the fault goes to me

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I think one of the best systems is the Single Transferable Vote.

My ever best system is this combination of STV and MMP. Let's say we are in Greece, whch has 13 regions.

Citizens cast a vote for local MP, using STV, in multi seat constituencies. The STV procces is followed. 122 local MPs exist

On a national level, they vote for a party. Each region elects six list MPs.

Total 200 MPs

Only disadvantage: 3 meter ballot paper

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Cesorion wrote:I could have made it clearer though, and avoided all that. [Strike]Some much of the fault goes to me

It's all good. I've nearly finished it. The fonts different, but all I need to do is get my Imgur acct up and post it. It's 3 am at the time of this message, so I'll have it when I get up tomorrow.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Russkov Soviet wrote:It's all good. I've nearly finished it. The fonts different, but all I need to do is get my Imgur acct up and post it. It's 3 am at the time of this message, so I'll have it when I get up tomorrow.

Very well. Thanks a lot

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

So I have spent all night (it is 5am right now) pondering the nature of God, faith, reason, religion, mythology, science, ethics/morality, etc. I have decided not to go to Church again because 1) I accidentally stayed up too late haha and 2) I need private time to meditate on my most recent intellectual exploits. I will be sleeping on it momentarily, however, I would like to ask you all for a little help. It is very simple.

What are all of the problems you can think of, that have to do with the following:

1) Christianity

2) Deism

3) Atheism

The more detailed, the better. Thank you, it is much appreciated!

Vista Major

I fulfilled my duty as citizen of Germany. It's very easy. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I fulfilled my duty as citizen of Germany. It's very easy. :)

When do polls close?

Penguania And Antarctica

Auxillium wrote:So I have spent all night (it is 5am right now) pondering the nature of God, faith, reason, religion, mythology, science, ethics/morality, etc. I have decided not to go to Church again because 1) I accidentally stayed up too late haha and 2) I need private time to meditate on my most recent intellectual exploits. I will be sleeping on it momentarily, however, I would like to ask you all for a little help. It is very simple.

What are all of the problems you can think of, that have to do with the following:

1) Christianity

2) Deism

3) Atheism

The more detailed, the better. Thank you, it is much appreciated!

1) The assumption that God is omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. Logically speaking, God cannot be all three of these things; furthermore, the Bible rarely, if ever, says that God is any of those three things. Moving along, there is a serious lack of consensus within Christendom on anything other than the assumption that God and Jesus are real.

2) This is more or less my personal theology regarding God, so I don't find anything terribly wrong with it, except perhaps the fact that we don't know God's intentions, and that we might actually live in a revelationist world disguised as science. We may never know God, so any position on the existence of God is on wobbly ground.

3) Refer back to 2, atheism is on wobbly ground because it assumes that God does not exist (at least in any meaningful manner), so they are on wobbly ground on how the universe even began (before the Big Bang).

If you're interested, I recommend watching Crash Course Philosophy and Theology (separate programs) for some good primers on God(s).

Auxillium

Cesorion wrote:When do polls close?

6pm. So in 30 minutes.

[spoiler=Today is September 24 and today are:]

Today is September 24 and today are:

- Armed Forces Day (Peru)

- Constitution Day (Cambodia)

- Heritage Day (South Africa)

- Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau)

- Mahidol Day (Thailand)

- National Cherries Jubilee Day (United States)

- National Gold Star Mother’s Day (United States)

- National Punctuation Day (United States)

- New Caledonia Day (New Caledonia)

- Our Lady of Las Mercedes (Dominican Republic)

- Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

- Saudi National Day (Saudi Arabia)

- Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving

- Tzom Gedaliah (Judaism)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembled at the church of Hagia Sophia.

- 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies.

- 1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.

- 1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

- 1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

- 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

- 1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.

- 1830 – Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.

- 1841 – The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

- 1846 – Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.

- 1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.

- 1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.

- 1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

- 1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion

- 1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.

- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

- 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.

- 1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).

- 1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.

- 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

- 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.

- 1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

- 1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.

- 1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

- 1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

- 1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.

- 1972 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.

- 1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

- 1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.

- 1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

- 1993 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.

- 1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

- 2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.

- 2007 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.

- 2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of Long-Range Acoustic Devices in U.S. history.

- 2013 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.

- 2014 – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.

- 2015 – At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 0015 – Vitellius, Roman emperor

- 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer

- 1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian genera

- 1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician

- 1755 – John Marshall, American captain, jurist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State

- 1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting

- 1878 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet

- 1884 – İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey

- 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer

- 1898 – Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran

- 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Russian politician

- 1930 – John W. Young, American captain, engineer, and astronaut

- 1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat, 7th Secretary General of NATO

- 1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets

- 1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist

- 1946 – Uschi Obermaier, German model and actress

- 1981 – Ryan Briscoe, Australian race car driver

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

- Oliver Goldsmith -

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, Kalaron, Percyton

I just received beanies newest book "Bernie Sandes Guide To Political revolution"

F*ck this toothache.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Auxillium, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima

Nuremgard wrote:F*ck this toothache.

try having wisdom teeth surgery

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:F*ck this toothache.

Gargle with camomile tea. That might ease the pain. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.

- 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.

- 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

- 1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

- 1972 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.

Famous Birthdays

- 1930 – John W. Young, American captain, engineer, and astronaut

Is it just me, or did a lot of aviation- and flight-related events happen today?

Also, Barrow-in-Furness is near Sodor. Have you ever heard of HMA No. 1, Percyton?

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Is it just me, or did a lot of aviation- and flight-related events happen today?

Also, Barrow-in-Furness is near Sodor. Have you ever heard of HMA No. 1, Percyton?

I wasn't around on Sodor back then, so I haven't heard of it until now. Most of the engines now on Sodor weren't around back then, though there are a few who were (like Glynn, Harriet, and Caleb). I asked them about it, and while they heard of it and would have liked to see it, there was no way for them to see it back then: the railways of Sodor only extended as far as Ballahoo back then, so there was no direct rail connection to Barrow and the Mainland, and Ballahoo was too far away to see the airship. We could have seen it as it was flying, but that ship broke apart before its first flight (much to Glynn, Caleb, and Harriet's disappointment).

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

“Restructuring alone won’t keep our children ahead of the curve!” opines Salvatore Krustofsky, Comptroller of the Spanelsko City District School Board who had been grading everyone on their posture and speeches. “What we need to do is make education free and mandatory all year round, fifty-two weeks a year and six days a week. Yes, that means massive spending towards the education budget, but you can’t put a price on knowledge. Well, I guess you can depending on how much goes into the budget.”

By knowledge you mean better propaganda so our children are as stupid and brainwashed as they can possibly be right?

Jaslandia

“This raises an interesting question,” begins amateur philosopher Renee van Straaten. “Why should we leave an essential commodity such as food up to the whims of profits and greed? The government needs to step in and take control of the food production in this country. You could ensure that every citizen is provided with a well-balanced, healthy meal instead of this overpriced slop. People shouldn’t have their health and basic needs held hostage by greedy corporations!”

Genius idea, now we can starve our people to death if they say anything against N.C.R.P! From now on Holy empire passes this as an another national law.

Jaslandia

Small report of Holy Empire of Iberia, we officially decided to leave DAWN, all embassies are closed, all citizens that are NOT spanish/portugese have to leave in 2 days otherwise they will be send to slave force. (except for soviets) all our embassies will be closed. Borders closed, trade stopped. More will be revealed in few days in a official statement on the Imperial news propaganda station.

Russkov Soviet

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I fulfilled my duty as citizen of Germany. It's very easy. :)

Who'd you go with or would you prefer not to say?

Penguania And Antarctica

Well, election result is not that well. :/

Nuremgard, Kalaron, Cesorion

Unfallious wrote:Who'd you go with or would you prefer not to say?

I voted for the SPD because their chances were much higher than those of the Left.

Nuremgard, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I voted for the SPD because their chances were much higher than those of the Left.

Good job! Also fŷçĸ, AfD is in Bundestag

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Good job! Also fŷçĸ, AfD is in Bundestag

Yeah, it's a shame.

Nuremgard

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Yeah, it's a shame.

I thought Nazis were forrbiden in Germany

Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:I thought Nazis were forrbiden in Germany

Because they're not expressing overtly Nazi ideas or using Nazi symbolism, they were permitted. Although their "we must change our attitude to Germany's historic crimes in WW2" sounds quite Nazi to me.

Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Nuremgard wrote:Because they're not expressing overtly Nazi ideas or using Nazi symbolism, they were permitted. Although their "we must change our attitude to Germany's historic crimes in WW2" sounds quite Nazi to me.

To me as well

Oy... Stayed up too late and slept to long...

Alright.. Cesorion! I'll get on that logo and figure out why my password is incorrect.

And Sulania has a date..at a certain labratory..with a particular machine..to turn him into a dragon. (I didn't forget)

Anyone is allowed to use this machine...with my permission.

Jaslandia, Percyton, Cesorion

Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.