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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Yeah bairn is common around here.
Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
So you're a Northerner and West Country is from....the West Country obviously. Do we have no southern snobs here?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Donald: Manager? What manager? We're our own engines!
Douglas: Unless you're talkin' abit our drivers who type fur us.
Donald's driver: Awrite thaur! Aam Malcom, Donald's driver.
Douglas' driver: An' aam Bridget, Douglas' driver. Pleasure tae meit ye aw!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Tories don't need NationStates because the policies they support have already been implemented by New Labour and the Tories themselves.
Nuremgard
Its more of a lowlands/borders thing, we're from Falkirk and we use it a bunch.
This isn't funny. We all know that Donald and Douglas are fake and The Scottish Twins is controlled by a Thomas fan. I wouldn't be surprised if all of these train nations are controlled by Jas.
nah
Jaslandia
I find it pretty funny tbh
Jaslandia
Yeah. No need for fantasy conservative sh!tholes online. We already live in one.
That's because you're an uncivilised bunch.
I kid. I have a pal from Falkirk and she's cool.
I can neither confirm nor deny such rumors.
Penguania And Antarctica
What else have you done? Have you overthrown the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953? Did you overthrow Chile's democratically elected government in 1973? What is your budget?
Penguania And Antarctica
Drats! They're onto us! Abort mission! Abort! Abort! *A bunch of tiny men come out of Jas' body and jump into an escape hatch*
Penguania And Antarctica
Even though the US is under a right-wing government, we're basically doing the opposite of what the Tories are doing fiscally. While the Tories are pursuing fiscal austerity, the Trump Administration has boosted defense and domestic spending while lowering taxes on the very wealthy.
How many dictatorships do you support on a global basis? What are those cluster bombs being used for? And do you know my porn habits?
Don't destroy this for me. :(
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
I love Falkirk, it'll always be my home wherever I am.
Nuremgard
There is no love in this world. There is only pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4kwk5jV2nU
29.2.
You #%$§!
https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-29-2.html
???
§ 29.2
A pretty stupid combination since that'll mean the tax burden will fall disproportionally on the middle and lower classes. Funny how rightists claim to advocate small government but love spending vast amounts of money on the military, on the police and on enormous surveillance networks. Small state my arse.
And repealing the individual mandate is going to increase premiums by around 20 percent over the next 10 years, which is going to disproportionately affect the poor and the sick. And if you don't know what premiums are because you live in a country with a sane health care system, they are the money you have to pay for an insurance policy.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Insuring yourself against sickness is the most ridiculous notion I have ever heard. You insure yourself against fire or flood because those things are rare. Becoming sick is an inevitable part of being human for God's sake. I personally consider the US healthcare system to be barbaric and no better than a third world country. It's vile that people cant get treated without bankrupting themselves. Any nation that doesn't provide for its citizens' health is not a truly civilised nation in my view.
At least Americans have the freedom to die.
/s
That's even sicker. You lot have the right to a gun but not the right to healthcare.
Only godless communists support the right to health care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFRIJpU1k3A
Nuremgard
I'm proud to be a godless communist then.
Gualimole
What are you, a communist?
Nuremgard
Nah, I'm worse. I'm a left-wing nationalist.
Strasserist?
And maybe.. just maybe.. some of us like who we've become/are in our nation's, Aye? If I don't want to reveal myself, then I've the right to!
Penguania And Antarctica
Had to Google that. It depends really. To some, we SNP are Nazis/fascists but to others we are socialists.
Strasserists are nationalist socialists.
"Socialists." No Nazi is a socialist.
Strasserists were a faction in a Nazi Party that sought to create a more worker-based Nazi Party. They were purged in the Night of the Long Knives. The Hitlerian Nazis weren't socialist, but the Strasserists were. They were nationalist socialists.
I'm guessing they were still racists and eugenicists like the other Nazis?
They supported palingenetic nationalism and were also antisemitic, so they were pretty racist.
Ah, okay.
[spoiler=Today is May 20 and today are:]
Today is May 20 and today are:
- Bay to Breakers Race (San Francisco)
- Clinical Trials Day (ACRP)
- Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
- Eliza Doolittle Day
- Emancipation Day (Florida)
- European Maritime Day (European Council)
- Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
- Flower Day
- Independence Day (Cuba)
- Independence Restoration Day (East Timor)
- Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)
- Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)
- National Awakening Day (Indonesia)
- National Be a Millionaire Day (United States)
- National Day (Cameroon)
- National Pick Strawberries Day (United States)
- National Quiche Lorraine Day (United States)
- National Take Your Parents to the Playground Day (United States)
- Neighbor Day
- Ride a Unicorn Day
- Soil Stewardship Day
- Stepmother's Day
- Weights and Measure Day
- Whit Sunday or Pentecost (Western Christianity)
- World Autoimmune Arthritis Day
- World Bee Day
- World Metrology Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0325 The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
- 0491 Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
- 0526 An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.
- 0685 The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
- 0794 King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visits the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He is taken captive and beheaded.
- 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
- 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.
- 1449 The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
- 1497 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
- 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
- 1520 The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
- 1521 Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
- 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
- 1609 Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- 1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
- 1645 Yangzhou massacre: the 10-day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
- 1775 The controversial Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 1802 By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
- 1813 Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
- 1840 York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
- 1861 American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
- 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
- 1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1875 Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
- 1882 The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
- 1883 Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
- 1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
- 1896 The six-ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below, killing one person and injuring many others.
- 1902 Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
- 1908 Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
- 1927 Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
- 1940 The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 1941 World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
- 1948 Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
- 1949 In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
- 1956 In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1964 Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
- 1967 The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1971 In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
- 1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
- 1980 In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
- 1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
- 1983 Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
- 1985 Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- 1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- 1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
- 1996 Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
- 2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
- 2006 A series of massive strikes begin involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
- 2010 A social media event is celebrated in response to the Muslim extremists' reaction to images of Mohammed.
- 2012 At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
- 2013 An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
- 2014 More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1743 Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary, Lieutenant Governor of Saint-Domingue
- 1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright
- 1806 John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher
- 1818 William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express
- 1822 Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1851 Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record
- 1860 Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1882 Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1901 Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author
- 1908 James Stewart, American actor
- 1911 Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright
- 1913 William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard
- 1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1921 Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright
- 1944 Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter
- 1946 Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1947 Sky du Mont, German actor, German narrator of Thomas & Friends
- 1952 Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and manager
- 1959 Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and ukulele player
- 1971 Tony Stewart, American race car driver
- 1978 Nils Schumann, German runner
- 1985 Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
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Facts of the day
- Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker.
- Female elephants have the longest reproductive anatomy of any land mammal: her vagina is located 1.3 meters into her body.
- There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America to a depth of 30 centimetres (12 in).
- Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.
- The steepest street in the world is Baldwin St. in Dunedin, New Zealand, with a 38° gradient.
- Myanmar officially bans the colors red and yellow from movies, for no clear reason.
Quote of the day
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
- Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) -
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, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The British Islands Confederacy
https://youtu.be/6d2lOQpuqd4
Talk about an odd law. On the plus side, the people tasked with enforcing that law probably get to watch a lot of movies.
Bearlong, Penguania And Antarctica
Is OK Pengu, we both know they're real.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
<3
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Beep.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Boop :>
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Goodnight.
Love you all. <3
Jaslandia
Goodnight, Peng!
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't think it is the majority view, mate. The number of people they went and asked was way too low to be anything near significant to the comparison of England as a whole. As well as this, the categories are worded very oddly with no real logic, "It's fine" is such a coyly nonchalant way to tease people into supporting your hypothesis. The bad option is the easiest option by default for anyone to take the survey, regardless of their actual opinion.
If they don't know what federalism is, however - that's down to education and political vehicles getting the wheels in motion.
Most scientific polls today are conducted with only about 1000 people.
A sample size of 1020 is actually perfectly valid.
Jaslandia, Vista Major
So long as they maintain random sampling, it's almost certainly OK.
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Gualimole
True, one is right to question the methodology here given that all we have is an image.
Vista Major, The West Country
Good Morning Folks! Happy Monday!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Monday? Are you sure? -looks at schedule and nearby calendar- It...is..Monday. *groans* Back to work...
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Fvck. You.
Over here we have a holiday. :>
Russkov Soviet
Beats working. I don't mind the rest of the week, but my crew is exceptionally bad on Mondays. Tired of fixing their crap. XD
Penguania And Antarctica
The Talking Point
Spanelsko's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded.
Reclassification
Spanelsko was reclassified from Iron Fist Consumerists to a Moralistic Democracy.
Spanelsko's Political Freedoms rose from Rare to Below Average.
The conference is over. Democracy has returned to Spanelsko and we change into Confederacy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
My personal opinion is that 1,000 people can not accurately exhibit the opinions of an entire country.
Your personal opinion, sadly, does not hold up to the years of mathematical and political science research that says that it does. Not to demean the curriculum wherever you're from, but this is like Statistics I stuff.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole, The West Country
I wouldn't be so quick to talk, decisions reverse easily in NS and oftentimes without any actual intent.
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
Thats fine, its still my personal opinion tbh
No! You can't just say something's your personal opinion when it's been empirically demonstrated to be incorrect. It'd be one thing if we were debating the actual subject matter the data is talking about - that is a legitimate difference of opinion - but what you're doing is pointing to the noon sky and saying it's fvking orange. That's not how this works, that's not how anything works.
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole, The West Country
Gimme its standard deviation and confidence interval and Ill believe you
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not the one that presented the data. I can't summarise it any more than what the image that Nuremgard gave us already does. A quick search on the website yields this article:
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-unpopular-dream/
Based on this article, I do concede that this data is questionable at best, but not because of the sample size (which was your initial assertion). The fact that it seemed to be a poll conducted by this website, as well as them admitting to biasing the question is what leads me to that.
The West Country
Seeing a skin specialist on Wednesday. God I hope they can help me. I cant live like this.
Penguania And Antarctica
What do you mean?
I have this heinous skin condition where my entire face flares up and it looks like it's been burned.
Gualimole, Nos Unitum Surge
How did I not know this until now?
I've never spoken about it openly on the RMB, at least not that I recall.
Gualimole, The West Country
I mean, it's not wrong.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdlD43oUwAAvWeg.jpg
Does anyone here knows a method or way to motivate oneself?
Russkov Soviet
Good day everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]21 May 2018[/I]
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor hols his weekly meeting with the Vice Chancellor
Jaslandia, The British Islands Confederacy
My method is unorthodox and usually only works on me. I listen to C&C's Red Alert 3 theme.. a bit too much actually.
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Yeah, I doubt that works for me.
Russkov Soviet
Sturgeon has reignited the independence campaign. Let's get it right next time, Scotland.
Rumour has it that May wants to hold another election in the autumn. Stupid old bitch. Would be hilarious if Corbyn got in because of her.
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
I really want to create a new nation for the Confederacy General RP - do any of you have any good ideas for places to set it?
Penguania And Antarctica
Fascist Europe, ancient China or Japan, Ottoman Empire,
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't think Yuk would ever want to do the Ottoman Empire
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Why not?
Penguania And Antarctica
Cry.
He hates the Empire
Penguania And Antarctica
How do you know this?
Penguania And Antarctica
He's said it repeatedly before, often while talking to you if memory serves.
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is May 21 and today are:]
Today is May 21 and today are:
- Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)
- Anti-Terrorism Day (India)
- Battle of Las Piedras (Uruguay)
- Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians)
- Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)
- Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
- End of the World or Rapture Party Day
- Independence Day (Montenegro)
- I Need A Patch For That Day
- National American Red Cross Founders Day (United States)
- National Memo Day (United States)
- National Patriots' Day (Quebec)
- National Strawberries and Cream Day (United States)
- National Waitstaff Day (United States)
- Navy Day (Chile)
- Saint Helena Day (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
- Talk Like Yoda Day
- Victoria Day (Canada, except Nova Scotia, Nunavut, and Quebec)
- Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (Western Christianity)
- World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
- 0878 Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
- 0879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
- 0996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1349 Duan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Duan the Mighty.
- 1403 Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1554 Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
- 1659 In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end.
- 1660 Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and his caravan explosively suffer an Iroquois defeat at Long Sault.
- 1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- 1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
- 1758 Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
- 1792 Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991.
- 1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
- 1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
- 1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
- 1864 Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
- 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
- 1864 The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
- 1871 French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
- 1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
- 1879 War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
- 1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
- 1904 The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- 1911 President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
- 1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
- 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
- 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
- 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
- 1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
- 1937 A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- 1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- 1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
- 1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
- 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
- 1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
- 1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
- 1976 The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
- 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
- 1980 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters.
- 1981 The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
- 1982 Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
- 1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- 1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
- 1992 After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
- 1994 The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
- 1996 The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
- 1998 In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
- 1998 President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
- 2001 French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- 2003 The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.
- 2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
- 2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
- 2010 JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
- 2011 Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
- 2012 A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
- 2012 A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 120BC Aurelia Cotta, mother of Gaius Julius Caesar
- 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician
- 1527 Philip II of Spain
- 1688 Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator
- 1778 Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi, German businessman, 'father of German insurance industry'
- 1799 Mary Anning, English paleontologist
- 1843 Louis Renault, French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1843 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1844 Henri Rousseau, French painter
- 1860 Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1873 Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic
- 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936 Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1945 Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
- 1980 Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
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Facts of the day
- A 2013 study found that men who prefer large breasts are less financially secure.
- The loudest howler monkeys have the tiniest testicles, a study found.
- The toothpaste "Colgate" in Argentine Spanish translates to "Go Hang Yourself."
- The word "Lego" is derived from the Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". The word "lego" also means "I put together" in Latin.
- Jimi Hendrix couldn't read or write music.
- North Korea is outsourcing its forced labor camps to work in Siberia.
Quote of the day
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
- Thomas Browne (British Scientist, 1605-1682) -
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, Audiastan, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Cesorion, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia
I'm not good at remembering this stuff.
Goodnight friends. Have a nice remaining day and pleasant dreams the coming night. <3
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
I have a question for the Canadian members of this region. Why do only the worst Canadians move to the US?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I wish the worst Scots would move to England.
Penguania And Antarctica
Lets move all daily express readers to Scotland and schedule the next indyref in 7 years so all of them can vote and we can ensure Scotland remains in the union
Foolproof plan I dunno why May hasn't done it yet
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
BRITISH UNIONIST ANNIHILATES ANGRY SCOT AND DAILY EXPRESS READERS!!! (GONE POLITICAL)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
*Devin Nunes intensifies*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memo
I actually rode on that railway when I toured Europe last summer, but I didn't realize it was the first rack railway in Europe. That's actually pretty cool!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
No need. Plenty of Orange Order idiots, I'm Alright Jacks and English settlers to ensure that happens already.
Penguania And Antarctica
The Talking Point
The government encourages conflict abroad to increase arms sales.
Well some things never change.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Good day everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]22 May 2018[/I]
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
10:00 The Chancellor held his weekly meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs
16:00 The Chancellor releases a statement regarding embassies
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Anglia Imperium, The British Islands Confederacy
Post self-deleted by Nos Unitum Surge.
Crime is a problem in my country of Westeros. This has only been made worse by the Crown's decision to abolish welfare and slash education spending. I must increase law and order spending, and ban drugs. If the King cannot maintain the King's peace, he wont rule for long.
[spoiler=Today is May 22 and today are:]
Today is May 22 and today are:
- Abolition Day (Martinique)
- Buddha's Birthday (Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea)
- Harvey Milk Day (California)
- International Day for Biological Diversity
- National Buy a Musical Instrument Day (United States)
- National Maritime Day (United States)
- National Solitaire Day (United States)
- National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
- National Vanilla Pudding Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
- Sherlock Holmes Day
- Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)
- Unity Day (Yemen)
- World Goth Day
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[spoiler=Today in history:]
Today in history:
- 0192 Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
- 0760 Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- 0853 A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys the undefended Damietta in Egypt.
- 1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 1200 King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
- 1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
- 1254 Serbian King Stefan Uro I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 1370 The Brussels massacre: Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels.
- 1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1455 Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1570 The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps.
- 1629 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1762 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1762 Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII.
- 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
- 1807 A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 1809 On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
- 1816 A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.
- 1819 The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- 1840 The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1849 Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
- 1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
- 1863 American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
- 1864 American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
- 1872 Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- 1900 The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
- 1906 The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
- 1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
- 1915 Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
- 1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang China.
- 1927 Near Xining, China, a 8.3 quake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
- 1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1941 During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
- 1942 Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1943 Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
- 1947 The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece.
- 1957 South Africa's government approves racial separation in universities.
- 1958 The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relationship of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
- 1960 The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
- 1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1963 Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt and dies five days later.
- 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.
- 1967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
- 1967 The L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
- 1968 The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1969 Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
- 1972 Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1972 Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Sinn Féin in North Ireland following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
- 1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.
- 1987 Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
- 1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1990 North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
- 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
- 1994 A worldwide trade embargo goes into effect against Haiti to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- 1996 The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
- 1998 A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
- 2000 In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
- 2002 Civil Rights Movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
- 2010 An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
- 2011 An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damagethe costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
- 2012 Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
- 2014 General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
- 2014 An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
- 2015 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
- 2017 Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
- 2017 United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit the Western Wall.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1813 Richard Wagner, German composer
- 1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer
- 1891 Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet
- 1907 Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator
- 1907 Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer
- 1924 Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1930 Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician
- 1943 Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1954 Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1959 Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
- 1970 Naomi Campbell, English model
- 1984 Karoline Herfurth, German actress
- 1987 Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
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Facts of the Day
- It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandy, Elaine or Linda.
- The Vatican has a crime rate of 133.6%.
- Fox was contractually obligated to offer Frank Sinatra the lead role in the "Die Hard" movie, but he turned it down.
- The largest living species of Penguins is the Emperor Penguin. They are about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and weigh about 35 kg (77 lb).
- Moon landing conspiracy theories were proven wrong in 2011 when a NASA probe revealed high-resolution photos of the Apollo Moon landing sites.
- In 1891, Juan Vucetich, an Argentine Police Official, made the first criminal fingerprint identification.
Quote of the Day
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
- Magnus Hirschfeld (German-Jewish Sexologist, 1868-1935) -
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Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Anglia Imperium, Midasia
I feel like this is statistically impossible.
Jaslandia, Midasia
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