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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Sounds great!
Jaslandia, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
It's in the learning community I was assigned to as a freshmen at my university.
IDK mate, I just sat there and was like "Man, dis some ole bs."
Jaslandia
Excellent! Send us the details about which engines you're sending and possible names as soon as you can!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, The Scottish Twins
It's from a video game. A video game with a multitude of themes such as how corporate greed is a powerful and very bad thing.
Nuka Cola is literally a soda that uses nuclear radiation, and the company itself instigated several attempts at corporate espionage. Such as their corporate takeover of Vim, which was characterized on attempts on shipment drivers' lives, domestic terrorism, and assassination.
Axeldonia
Bioshock?
Fallout Series
Particularly in regards to Nuka Cola's takeover of Vim: Fallout 4, Far Harbor DLC Lore
Due to the majority of the Iron Union being on the European Contingent, in Eurasia, and the Middle East, should I remain the Kongo or should I move to like France in order to share borders with the Iron Union members or stay in the Kongo?
Russkov Soviet, Confederal States
Would be better when, y'know, all your pictures are so whitewashed
Seriously, your pictures look like government photos from Apartheid South Africa. Does the PLR have their own Afrikaner by chance?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
the PLR's version of Afrikaner is the Imperium, of which rules the PLRK. They originated from when the PLR was a colony
Jaslandia
Speaking of which, I have come to the conclusion that I am secretly a closet Scot.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, The Scottish Twins
Why is that?
The Scottish Twins
Yelling "koont" at people in public and having an indiscernible accent are among one my many features :P
Nuremgard, The Scottish Twins
I dunno anyone who pronounces it "koont" here. :P Although it is a term of endearment here.
The Scottish Twins
Ah, well recent reportings tell me I was reported to MOIA by some individuals, so I am playing it safe and screwing up the spelling
The Scottish Twins
Reporting for swearing? What a bunch of snowflakes.
Friedensreich
MOIA?
Ye. Snowflakes can't take disagreement and dissension, so imma be watching my àss for a while
Donald: Brethren! Welcome!
Donald: Th' first part sounds reit, thocht Ah take offense tae pur accent bein' called 'indiscernible'.
Douglas: New engines? We coods use some new engines. Th' Wee Western an' Kirk Ronan Branch Line coods both use some help, an' we need mair Main Line passenger engines.
Donald: An', as much as Ah hate tae admit it, a strang diesel or two woods also be a big help.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Friedensreich, Percyton
I suppose, nontheless, that you are indivudualistic?
Jaslandia
I'm very sorry for the this terrible late post. :(
[spoiler=Today is September 8 and today are:]
Today is September 8 and today are:
- Day of Asturias (Asturias, Spain)
- Day of Extremadura (Extremadura, Spain)
- Day of the Battle of Borodino (Russia)
- Feast of 'Izzat (Bahá'í Faith)
- Iguana Awareness Day
- Independence Day (Macedonia)
- International Literacy Day
- Kosrae Liberation Day (Micronesia)
- Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan)
- National Ampersand Day (United States)
- National Day (Andorra)
- National Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology Nurses Day (United States)
- Nativity of Mary (Lebanon)
- Nativity of Our Lady (Liechtenstein)
- Pardon Day
- Stand Up To Cancer Day
- Star Trek Day (Star Trek fan community)
- Victory Day (Pakistan)
- Victory Day (Malta)
- Virgin of the Victory (Melilla, Spain)
- World Physical Therapy Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 617 Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
- 1100 Election of Antipope Theodoric.
- 1253 Pope Innocent IV canonised Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king Bolesław II.
- 1264 The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
- 1276 Pope John XXI is chosen.
- 1331 Stefan Duan declares himself king of Serbia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
- 1504 Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
- 1514 Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
- 1551 The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil.
- 1565 St. Augustine, Florida was founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
- 1565 The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
- 1612 The foundation day in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil.
- 1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
- 1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
- 1755 French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
- 1756 French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
- 1761 Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- 1775 The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
- 1781 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
- 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
- 1810 The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
- 1831 William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1831 November Uprising: Battle of Warsaw ends, effectively ending the Insurrection.
- 1860 The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
- 1862 Millennium of Russia monument unveiled in Novgorod.
- 1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass: On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
- 1883 The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
- 1888 In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
- 1888 In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- 1888 In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1900 Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- 1905 The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
- 1914 World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1921 Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 1923 Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 1925 Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
- 1926 Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 1930 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- 1933 Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
- 1934 Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
- 1935 US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
- 1941 World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin the siege of Leningrad.
- 1943 World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- 1943 World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
- 1944 World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
- 1945 Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
- 1946 A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
- 1951 Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
- 1952 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
- 1954 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- 1960 In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
- 1962 Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1962 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- 1966 The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
- 1971 In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
- 1974 Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- 1975 Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
- 1978 Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, provoked 700-3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
- 1988 Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
- 1989 Partnair Flight 394 dived into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
- 1991 The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- 1994 USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
- 2004 NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
- 2005 Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1157 Richard I of England aka Richard the Lionheart
- 1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic
- 1804 Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic
- 1830 Frédéric Mistral, French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1831 Wilhelm Raabe, German author and painter
- 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic
- 1897 Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1922 Lyndon LaRouche, American politician and activist, founded the LaRouche movement
- 1925 Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian
- 1930 Mario Adorf, German actor
- 1932 Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1946 Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1970 Neko Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971 Martin Freeman, English actor
- 1979 Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1989 Gylfi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1989 Avicii, Swedish electronic musician
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Quote of the day
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
- Mark Twain -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Percyton, Solla Ultima
Evening Star is Murdoch's brother, actually. I'll have to tell Murdoch about this. I imagine it's a bit of a sad day for Murdoch, though.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
If I had to choose between individualism and collectivism, I'd say I lean more on the individualistic side.
Cesorion
I wouldn't just lean towards .....
Due to an agreement, the PLRK has been granted an expansion on the map (I will RP the expansion). Due to this, the PLRK has received the following resources:
Natural Resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum
industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc
manganese, tin, uranium,
coal, hydropower, timber,
From Angola: petroleum, diamonds,
iron ore, phosphates, copper,
feldspar, gold,
bauxite, uranium
From Gabon: petroleum, natural gas,
diamond, niobium, manganese,
uranium, gold, timber,
iron ore, hydropower
From Republic of Kongo: petroleum, timber,
potash, lead, zinc, uranium,
copper, phosphates, gold,
magnesium,
natural gas, hydropower
From Equatorial Guinea: petroleum, natural gas,
timber, gold, bauxite,
diamonds, tantalum,
sand and gravel,
clay
This is not actually a Reply to PLR.
I want to go ahead and cut the head off of this snake. I am currently not granting expansions, or overseas territories/colonies. PLR's is an exception, due to the fact we literally made this agreement day one of me doing this map. Please, I know all of you want to expand, but I ask you wait just a little longer, there are still a lot of people who may not have had the chance to ask for a plot, and I want to be fair to them.
Peoples Liberation Republic, Axeldonia, Percyton, Cesorion
After a series of stressful negotiations, the Nazi Reich has decided to give up the parts. In exchange, the 65,000 strong city (not 650,000) has asked for a "border" and secession from the ESSR. The parts are presently being loaded onto an An-225 to be airdropped into Sodor.
In other news, work has been completed on (potentially) the worlds first turbine locomotive. Engineers from the Moscow Science and Technology Academy believe this engine can run on the electrical charge generated from a special solar based motor. It is unsure if being sentient would allow the engine to move by itself, but Soviet technicians believe such a possibility is closer than we think.
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm not critizing you or anything, but what where the terms of the deal? Was it related to the iron union thing? Because that's completeky understandable.
Giving up a province for some engine parts? That's very kind of you. You really didn't need to do that. However, since you already agreed to the exchange, we'll take the parts, and pick them up near Sodor Airport near Maron.
A turbine engine? Very interesting. Sounds like a very promising development, and I hope these new engines can revo-loo-shunize transport in Russkov Soviet. If you need any assistance from Percyton, please don't hesitate to ask.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
No when I was first taking down his spot, he asked if he could have the rest of the Congo, and I told him to let it sit and wait a week or so, just in case anyone asked for it. Well no one did, so I honored the agreement. I ended up giving him Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea as well, but that was to make things a bit easier on me from a map perspective.
Well... In my opinion, it was lose a province or lose more Soviet lives. We already suffered a blood-drenched civil war.
And the engine is being tested here, but will be shared by both of us. The motor is easy to install, and one of the models will need to be sentient to determine the effectiveness.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh, okay. I was just a bit curious.
Flag change. What is better?
That one https://orig02.deviantart.net/3e64/f/2014/286/e/c/_another__alternate_flag_of_canada_2_by_larrysfx-d82nxlj.png
With a darker red?
Or that
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/althistory/images/4/4f/Flag_of_Canada_%28Mondo_de_Scopatore%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20150101003209
?
I avoided blue to avoid confusion with Yuk.
Russkov Soviet, Percyton
I'm telegraming God to get you banjected now
Axeldonia, Cesorion, Confederal States
https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_confederacy_general
Idk if anyone has been following anything that has been happening in my nation for the past week, but here is a post on the RP region that I hope fills in on my last news report and future ones to come.
Andromitus, Magnatronia, Percyton, Serft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KY8WU0oa3I
Nuremgard
**Laughs** Good one!!!
Nya?
Andromitus, Yukona
An update on the course of the war, as well as the announcement of a possible pan-european community:
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32471315#p32471315
Percyton, Serft
Thank you, Yuk, that's enough.
:P
Yukona
Second one is nicer.
Cesorion
They both look great. (Work has me occupied. I'll have your "RNP" logo soon. Uh..I have to change the font due to some issues, but will keep it close as possible.)
Percyton, Cesorion
I finished the big overhaul of Ludania's main factbook, including that part of our early modern history. If anyone would like to take a look and give me some feedback/corrections, that would be much appreciated.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=ludania/detail=factbook/id=218064
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States, Serft
No problem! I've never heard of an engine that could move completely on its own, but it's worth a try. You can send the engine to us when you're ready, we'll bring it alive, and then we'll send it back to you for further testing.
I'd go with the first one.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Not necessarily, still S H O C K I N G
https://youtu.be/c9YkafTeb8U
I'm sorry but I don't find this guy funny lol
Dr Pepper, Coke, and Pepsi are all bad imo, I only drink water.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Looks like Irma's moving more westward, towards where I am. Cr*p. This could be really bad, but I'm hoping for my best. If there are any fellow Floridians in this region, especially on the western coast, be safe and take all precautions!
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Magnatronia, Percyton
Hope you and your fellow Floridians are okay, Jas! Stay safe!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you! We've made all the necessary preparations (boarded up the windows, stocked up on non-perishable foods and water, brought everything inside), and we're not in any evacuation zone, but I can't help but worry.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Magnatronia, Percyton
Of course. Fingers crossed for you, mate.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Thank you!
Nuremgard, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Stay safe Jas
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Thank you!
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
That's one thing we have in common. Engines can't really have any liquid other than water; we're not built to accept anything else.
Be careful and stay safe, Jas! You and everyone else affected by the hurricane will be in my thoughts, and Percyton will be pledging disaster relief aid for Irma and Harvey as soon as Irma passes.
Onocarcass, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Thank you, Percy!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hey Nuremgard!
I found a discussion topic. You know in Greece, in national holidays, students parade with their school. A student has fo hold the flag
Until last year, in school parades, the best student held the flag. If there were two or more with equal grades, a draw was held. Also, some other students, usually the second and third best, are standing around the flag holder.
That was till last year. Our current gov't (their collective IQ is that of a fish) decided that both the flag holder and those who stand around them will be selected by a draw, from within all the students of the class. What do you think on it?
(Needless to say I am against it)
Nuremgard
The sizeable but underdeveloped Spanelskoan economy, worth 1.16 trillion Arma 3s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing
Hmm, i though that large black market would be like 20% is 10% really that bad? Well we are known as corrupt so it does actually make sense.
Well yeah it would means one in ten of your economic activity is within the black market and is both illegal and something you don't collect taxes on, that's very high
Now that i think about it that way, it makes a lot of sense, well thank you.
Perhaps a tax cut could also help your economy, or a bit of privatisation. But there are economies with no private sector that are 100/100 as well. It is up to you. But Yuk is right about black market. My black market is 0.5%.
Thank you for the idea, but from now on, i decided to embrace our corruption, my new target, have at least 50% black market based economy.
Cesorion
I think it's the lack of private enterprise that's the result for the large black market. The fact that people can't own their own businesses and the like mean they resort to operating out of governmental cordons and simply the government sees no return in trying to tax them, as they just move into the shadows. I would equate it to the marginal propensity to pay tax in a way, although I'm not that good at economics - because there is so much state ownership, requisition, taxing and artificially over-fixed wages - people just simply move to the illegal side and make more money for themselves and have a more successful business privately.
Cesorion
You make a good point. If I remeber correctly, you are at Uni, aren't you? What are you studying, if a may?
I'm leaving for it a week today, politics and international relations.
Nuremgard, Cesorion
Sounds interesting, although I prefer sciences, like Chemistry or Physics
Nuremgard
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Ah, that's really not my forte. I like humanities like English Literature, History and Politics.
Nuremgard
History is nice, I agree
Nuremgard, Yukona
The Empire of PLRK returns with the annexations of former territories:
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32474510#p32474510
I will be honest, I find this whole concept bizarre as this does not happen in Scotland or the UK in general. I think everyone has the right to hold their nation's flag. Having the student with the best grades hold the flag singles them out and might make them a target for jealousy. Also, it might make other students feel inadequate or unworthy of their country since their government is telling them, "you're not smart enough to carry the flag."
Axeldonia, Cesorion, Confederal States
We're studying the same thing. We're twinsies!
I wish I was brainy enough to study physics.
Yukona
You are making a good point, and I myself am against that student parade thing. But, holding the flag is the only recognition for good students, who are on most times bullied, even by teachers. Also, as I was on the draw last year, I know that the most unworthy of the group will be selected. Therefore, now that all parttake in the draw, the most probable scenario is that the flag holder will have attended school for five days the whole year, or they might not speak Greek at all.
Nuremgard
In that instance, it should be the person with the best grades.
Cesorion
Also, be it noted that the current Minister of Education, who said that Not only the excellent students serve tha flag (that means go to the military), did not go to the military. That guy
http://www.aftodioikisi.gr/mediafiles/2016/11/GAVROGLOU_AFTODIOIKISI.jpg
Nuremgard
Oh my days, I love Limmy but hey-ho different strokes for different folks!
Nuremgard
Of course he didn't. One rule for the plebs, another rule for him.
Cesorion
That sounds like his way of thinking..
What a dick.
Cesorion
I see you chose my recommended flag. :)
Cesorion
Are you gonna join the Model United Nations?
I NEW EXACTLE WAT. I HAD TE. I HAD TE FIND UWT. I CANNU LEAVE WITHUT FINDIN UT WT THIS IS ULL ABUT. BUS WAS A MULLION MILES AWAY. I THOUGHT, DEE DEE. YOU TRULY ARE ON THE OUTER REACHERS HERE MUN.
And I went into the unknown...with a f*ckin ding
I don't know what the Model United Nations is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo4QCOHfrac&feature=youtu.be
Happens around my way too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_United_Nations
Interesting. I'll need to look into it.
The reason I asked was it's very popular with PAIS/PAIR students, and more-so if you went to the national/international conference we would probably bump into one another in New York or London (most likely the latter).
Nuremgard
Yeahh. I like it more. The other one will be used for the Armed Forces. One leaf for each branch!
Nuremgard
Welcome to the maple leaf club
Nuremgard, Cesorion
Oh, that's cool. I'll remember to pull a diamond out my arse before I go to expensive London. ;)
Makes sense. Which branch is the most important for Cesorion?
It's not that expensive if you do the right things
My friends and I were gonna' spend the weekend down there one time but we changed our minds when we saw the extortionate train fares.
I think ground forces, or navy. Still Depends.
Thanks.
Nuremgard
Nuremgard's is the navy.
Kalaron
Holy crapsticks, my political freedom is Widely Abused. I never saw that before.
Nuremgard
*Laughs Maniacally*
Moldegaard
http://az616578.vo.msecnd.net/files/2016/01/09/635878964030029319-637742711_destruction___by_roiter475-d5e05ew.jpg
If anyone is interested why i didnt post how our capital looks like this why. (and it will stay like that)
Andromitus
[spoiler=Today is September 9 and today are:]
Today is September 9 and today are:
- Armored Forces Day (Ukraine)
- California Admission Day (California, United States)
- Care Bears Share Your Care Day
- Children's Day (Costa Rica)
- Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan)
- Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
- Eid-e-Ghadir (Iran)
- Independence Day or Republic Day (North Korea)
- Independence Day (Tajikistan)
- Knabenschiessen (Switzerland)
- National Steak Au Poivre Day (United States)
- National Teddy Bear Day (United States)
- National Wiener Schnitzel Day (United States)
- Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan (The Troth)
- The Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday (Malaysia)
- Wonderful Weirdos Day (Chase's Calendar of Events)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 9 AD Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- 337 Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
- 533 A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
- 1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1087 William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100).
- 1141 Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
- 1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1488 Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
- 1493 Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1513 James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1561 The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
- 1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
- 1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1855 Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1892 Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
- 1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922 The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
- 1924 Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1936 The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
- 1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1939 Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
- 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947 First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- 1954 The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
- 1956 Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($1012 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
- 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
- 1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
- 1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1972 In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 1990 Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
- 1991 Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2002 The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.
- 2009 The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- 2012 The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
- 2012 A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
- 2015 Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
- 2016 Fifth nuclear weapon testing by North Korea is completed.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 214 Aurelian, Roman emperor
- 384 Honorius, Roman emperor
- 1585 Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician
- 1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist
- 1754 William Bligh, English admiral and politician, captain of HMS Bounty, 4th Governor of New South Wales
- 1778 Clemens Brentano, German poet and author
- 1815 Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor, Kapellmeister and composer of military music
- 1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright
- 1890 Harland D. Sanders aka Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC
- 1922 Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 Cliff Robertson, American actor
- 1941 Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1941 Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language
- 1960 Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
- 1966 Georg Hackl, German luger and coach
- 1966 Adam Sandler, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1975 Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1987 Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
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Quote of the day
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Kalaron, Moldegaard
Well yeah, when I said get it cheap I didn't exactly mean get a train from Glasge to London - no wonder it was expensive
Anyways, doesn't matter now. My friend has been on at me to go on holiday somewhere. And I'm like, sure, lemme just find the money to go abroad after I've paid my rent, my energy bill, my Internet bill, bought my food and paid my council tax.
Kalaron
That actually made me laugh
Spanelsko
Feels bad man :^(
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
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Written by Refuge Isle.