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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Fair enough. Thats why I described the variety of opinions that surround him, rather than all but hold up a skull and soliloquy: oh, we do not speak his name.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I mean, at least he's interesting.
Penguania And Antarctica
Beep boop toot toot :)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Mercunova
The Issue
Sixty-nine Spanelskoan missionaries representing Atheist Communism were kidnapped and burned at the stake in a small nation bordering Lilliputia. The infamous radical Violetist sect Ultra-Violet has claimed responsibility for this heinous act. Concerned religious leaders and diplomats have contacted your office to clarify the nations stance on overseas proselytism.
I do not blame these misguided heathens, General of Iberian Union. I blame you! bellows Atheist Communisms outraged leader Woody Le Carré, shouting down the phone until your ear hurts. Our brave missionaries travel to the darkest, most dangerous areas of the globe to bring the loving light of Atheist Communism to the unbelievers. We cannot expect these poor souls to share our traditional values, but we should be able to rely on a little protection from our armed forces, no? Perhaps a helicopter gunship or two could have averted this tragedy.
Communism wills it!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
I had a feeling he was taking the piss out of me tbh
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
https://twitter.com/ZDFsport/status/966258064377626624?s=20
So, this is what the medal ceremony for nordic combined at the Olympics looks.
#GermanyRules
Lavan Tiri
Nope. American media is actually sh!te.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I hope I would be smart enough to type in a different manner, if I were to do that.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
mfw I missed the bi-yearly 'BBC is biased' discussion.
Whatever kind of negligible bias the BBC has shouldn't even be placed in the same universe as the American media, let alone mentioned in the same discussion.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Master Anakin, he's back! What are we going to do?
Lavan Tiri, Valturus
oooo
that's a level 9 heresy right there, Lavan. You're gonna draw the ire of the Discord [x]!
Replace x with the current prevailing theory of Discord exceptionalism, common options are a) elite b) aristocracy c) ruling class
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
https://i.imgur.com/ULEegzZ.gifv
Lavan Tiri
Ruling class lacks creativity. How about patricians?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
You didn't miss out on much, bro
Lavan Tiri
Or how about reptoids?
Lavan Tiri
Personally, I quite like aristocracy.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Submit to the cause now, and maybe you will be spared from the Glorious Revolution's purges.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
How many heresies am I at now?
Bourgeoisie!
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
NO, NO, NOOO! YOU ARE LOST!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I am gonna' write about how gender changed in the US during the Roaring Twenties for my American history essay.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Well from my point of view, the Discord elite are evil!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Oh no, not again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHbT6BjFvcA
Lavan Tiri
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would, preserve the Discord elite, not destroy them! It was you who would bring balance to the region, not leave it in darkness!
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
NERD!! :P
<3
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Yukona
How are we all today? :)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia
Trump but trollier.
And actually effective at manipulation.
Lavan Tiri
We're most decent, thank you, lovely child
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Am alright Pengu.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
So as the poll reaches its closure the results are in:
Out of a sample of 27 of the region's finest. The #1 kind of music people liked to listen to was a mixture of all genres listed! We truly are a inclusive and diverse region.
For a single genre however the results are as follows.
#1 - Metal (\m/)
#2 - Classical (ooh la dee dah)
#3 - Rock (true patrician's choice)
tied
#3 - Other Genres (you can't label me maaaan)
#4 - Jazz, EDM, Ambient, Indie (lone soldiers I salute you)
And in last place with no love whatsoever, Pop/Hip-hop/Blues.
Hope you all enjoyed this poll, more will follow! Take it easy bbys.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
[spoiler=Today is February 21 and today are:]
Today is February 21 and today are:
- Armed Forces Day (South Africa)
- Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
- Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)
- Card Reading Day
- Father Lini Day (Vanuatu)
- International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)
- Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)
- Musikahan Festival (Tagum City, Philippines)
- National Sticky Bun Day (United States)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0362 Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
- 1245 Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
- 1437 James I of Scotland is assassinated.
- 1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
- 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
- 1613 Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
- 1797 A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
- 1804 The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
- 1808 Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
- 1828 Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
- 1842 John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
- 1874 The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
- 1878 The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1885 The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 1896 An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
- 1913 Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
- 1916 World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
- 1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1919 German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
- 1921 Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
- 1921 Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
- 1925 The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1945 World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
- 1947 In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- 1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
- 1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
- 1952 The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 1958 The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
- 1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
- 1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- 1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
- 1972 The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
- 1973 Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
- 1974 The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
- 1975 Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
- 1995 Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
- 2013 At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.111111
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1728 Peter III of Russia
- 1791 Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer
- 1875 Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian
- 1895 Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1907 W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and composer
- 1909 Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator
- 1921 John Rawls, American philosopher and academic
- 1924 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe
- 1933 Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1942 Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1943 David Geffen, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records
- 1946 Alan Rickman, English actor and director
- 1962 Chuck Palahniuk, American novelist and journalist
- 1983 Mélanie Laurent, French actress
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Quote of the day
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou (American Clergyman, 1771-1852) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona
No one deserves to be likened to Trump.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Orocco Welcome to the region. I like your flag.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Orocco
I approve of your choice in music Cont.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
"A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal"[1][2]) is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity. Metals are generally malleablethat is, they can be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or crackingas well as fusible (able to be fused or melted) and ductile (able to be drawn out into a thin wire).[3] Around 90 of the 118 elements in the periodic table are metals; the others are nonmetals or metalloids, though elements near the boundaries of each category have been assigned variably to either (hence the lack of an exact count). Some elements appear in both metallic and non-metallic forms."
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I wish I could manipulate people, but I can't, so I'll probably fail in life.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Did you see, Minnie- Lex has annointed us fellow patricians! Id gladly serve as co-Consul of the Senate and People of Rock alongside you.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
Oh, contrare
The Confuffle in Chief is almost literally in my backyard. The experience has been enlightening
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
For a moment, I didn't notice the 'almost' in 'almost literally', and I had a weird mental image of Trump as a dog living in Vista's backyard. It was... interesting, to say the least.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
That's not a bad thought, actually
But mangling and abusing dogs is illegal, no?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
At first I thought you were Vis, so I was gonna insult you. Instead, I shall offer advice: Learn people. Learn to read expression, word choice, tone of voice, and body language. Then, you can figure out what people want to hear, and how to tell them that you have what they want.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Trumpdog: "My master should build a doghouse and make Mexico pay for it! And by 'Mexico' I mean the Jones' chihuahua named 'Mexico'; I hate that guy.
Ayahuasca? Oh, so THAT'S what the pink elephant who sounded like Rick James called it. It was on the tip of my third tongue.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Shrooms are better. Psilocybin for the win.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Best experience of my life so far hands down
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
thanks, its not mine though :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey all. Candidacy period has opened. TG this nation if you want to run. Fill this application
[Pre]Candidate Information
Nation name:
Candidate for the Position of :
Party:
Platform:[/pre]
Unfallious and Cesorion will serve on the Electoral Committee
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Yukona.
I'd like to announce my candidacy for Minister of Internal Affairs once more.
My platform includes: Increased interaction with region and encourage discussion both on RMB and Discord with weekly/bi-weekly polls on various subjects.
Friendly and open government with better relations between government and citizens.
Open office, always welcome to talk to me about anything that concerns you, citizen confidentiality.
It has always been a pleasure to serve you all and I hope to do so again.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Id actually like to see a confidentiality pledge held up by law if someone is speaking to a government official in an official capacity
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
I'm currently working on a bill that would allow such a thing, I'll see if I can get it done before the election but if not it'll be sent up for debate during the next governmental term.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/charles-ii-art-power/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace - guess who will be visiting this in remembrance of the Merry King
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Nurem's not gonna like this...
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Ave.
Senatus Populusque Rockus (Which ironically can still be abreviated as SPQR)
Uh. Ok.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
I'll visit Buckingham Palace when there's no unelected head of state living in it rent-free. Which will be never. ;)
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I wouldn't mind visiting it and take a tour around it. I already saw it from the outside 5 years ago. But isn't it just open to public when the Queen resides in Balmoral in Scotland?
Nuremgard
It's only open when the Queen is not resident. Cant have her mixing with the hoi polloi.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hi all Im new here
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Welcome to the region.
Jaslandia, The Peoples Republic Of Terra, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello and welcome.
My name is Peng and I'm currently the Minister of Justice of this region.
Make yourself at home and enjoy your stay. :)
Jaslandia, The Peoples Republic Of Terra
Thanks guys, so what is it we do here?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
London is a neat city I must say. Tho 9 hours isn't enough time to see all sights, points of interest and attractions that huge city has to offer.
Jaslandia
Well, you could participate in politics. There are upcoming elections soon.
Or you could just enjoy yourself here and talk to people about what you want. Here on the RMB or on our Discord server.
Or you could enjoy some RPing. We have currently a medieval RP going on at yout offsite forums.
There's a lot you can do. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I've never been.
We chat and debate, we roleplay, we do polls.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Do you want to go there some day or nah because of enemy territory?
Nuremgard
Sounds fun, I think Ill like it here
Penguania And Antarctica
Long time, no see Terra. How ya been?
Penguania And Antarctica
Been pretty good, got a job as a software dev, hows you?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Same ol', same ol'. Just been dealing with the family and work.
Penguania And Antarctica
Far too expensive for my liking.
Penguania And Antarctica
Im surprised youre still around, youve been part of this game for ages now have you not?
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh. That's sad and pitiful. :(
That I have. Created this nation in 2013 I believe. And what can I say? This game is kinda addictive for me.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Yeah it keeps dragging me back for some reason haha, last time I was on this I was in college
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
TERRA! Long time no see!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, The Peoples Republic Of Terra, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXlCVKDroA
Made my Squiddos a little coat of arms. May do some lore later today.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
God yeah its been years, how you been?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
quote=the_peoples_republic_of_terra;29492200]God yeah its been years, how you been?[/quote]
It's been a ride, you?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Wrote my slavery and Glasgow essay today.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh I live there
It's been a ride, you?[/quote]
Been stressful as hell so far but eh Im getting along
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Yukona
I really like the lyrics of that anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPVNtLXRMM
Lavan Tiri
Been stressful as hell so far but eh Im getting along [/quote]
I live in Glasgow too.
Lavan Tiri, Yukona
I live in Glasgow too. [/quote]
cold and miserable isn't it
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
OwO
Is that a "Second Roman Republic" I see?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
[spoiler=Today is February 22 and today are:]
Today is February 22 and today are:
- Be Humble Day
- Celebrity Day (Church of Scientology)
- Digital Learning Day
- Discover Girl Day
- Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
- Independence Day (Saint Lucia)
- Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
- King's Birthday (Bhutan)
- National California Day (United States)
- National Chili Day (United States)
- National Cook a Sweet Potato Day (United States)
- National Margarita Day (United States)
- National Wildlife Day (United States)
- Single Tasking Day
- Tex Avery Day
- The Great American Spit Out
- Walking the Dog Day
- Woolworth's Day
- World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0705 Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
- 1316 Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
- 1371 Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- 1495 King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
- 1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1651 St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
- 1744 War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
- 1797 The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1819 By the AdamsOnís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
- 1847 MexicanAmerican War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans troops.
- 1848 The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- 1853 Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1855 The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
- 1856 The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
- 1862 Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- 1872 The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
- 1879 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
- 1899 Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the PhilippineAmerican War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
- 1904 The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- 1907 Robert Baden-Powell made the first scouting camp in Brownsea, England.
- 1909 The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
- 1915 World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1921 After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
- 1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
- 1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
- 1943 World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1944 World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
- 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
- 1957 Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
- 1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1972 The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- 1973 Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1974 The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
- 1980 Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 43.
- 1983 The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 1997 In Roslin, Midlothian, Scottish scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
- 2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2005 The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
- 2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011 New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
- 2011 Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
- 2012 A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
- 2014 President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 3280, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
- 2015 A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
- 2018 A man throws a grenade at the U.S embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1732 George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States
- 1788 Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author
- 1796 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist
- 1810 Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer
- 1824 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer and mathematician
- 1840 August Bebel, German theorist and politician
- 1857 Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general, co-founded The Scout Association
- 1857 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic
- 1886 Hugo Ball, German author and poet
- 1889 Olave Baden-Powell, English scout leader, founded the Girl Guides
- 1900 Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer
- 1914 Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
- 1943 Horst Köhler, Polish-German economist and politician, 9th President of Germany
- 1944 Jonathan Demme, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1949 Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
- 1962 Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host
- 1972 Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
- 1974 James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
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Quote of the day
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Josh Billings (American Comedian, 1818-1885) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
cold and miserable isn't it [/quote]
Then in summer it'll be hot and miserable.
It's days like this when my face flares up that I think being a Muslim woman who wears one of those burkas would be a plus.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
Reworked the map and regions of Titenfisca, may add some lore in a bit.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Too bad it'd really be the Fifth Roman Republic since there were already three others after the original.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
It could well be
Werent we the same country at some point my Terran history is a little fuzzy
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I cant remember much about what happened to the esu, what happened to it was it raided or something
Penguania And Antarctica
Yep, we were the same country for a bit. As for how it ended, I'm rather unclear on that too.
Penguania And Antarctica
Please tell me plr still exists, we need a mortal enemy to rally our people
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeppers, he does exist alright.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
Why not cap this overhaul off with some nice refreshing L O R E ?
Jaslandia, The Peoples Republic Of Terra, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Youve wrote a small novel there
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Well, not really. I just fixed the map, regional flags and wrote some facts about them. Everything else has built up over time.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Is it for that medieval rp?
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Are you guys ready? I'm finally energized enough to handle the issue of cost, though I'll also tackle a little exception to Cost = Capability that I really should have mentioned these many times. As always, just ask a question if you're confused :)
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Cost and capability
A good way to think about the procurement of armament is as such; Ex nihilo, nihil venit. From nothing one can gain absolutely nothing and the message lands true as one sees the complete lack of vehicles and weapons that are absolutely cheaper for any of the Branches. The Navy has the Gerald Fords and Zummwalts, the Airforce maintains some F-35's and a few Raptors and the Army is begging Congress for newer vehicles but every attempt has led to them being more, not less, expensive. So why is this? Why would the armed forces of the American nation need such expensive gear when their older models are less costly and can be procured in larger numbers?
The answer to the above point is capability. The F-35 has capabilities the F-16, F-18, the F-18 Super Hornet and even F-22 all lack, such as it's Distributed Aperture Sight that's used by the aircraft to scout using electro-optics, the more advanced Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, stealthy (The F-22 has this, but the former three lack it) form and radar absorbent materials and finally it's ability to function as part of the Forward Pass chain that allows missiles from other, further back aircraft to be guided by the F-35.
This, alongside it's stealthy body allow for it to essentially threaten air-defenses where other older aircraft would be at far greater risk. It shares this ability with the F-22, but it's radar and form outstrip the older aircraft in effectiveness on ground targets. It's also something that the whole military can use, including the Marines, Navy, Air-force and Army, providing the Navy and Marines with ever more important support against targets that they previously had to rely on outdated aircraft against such as the Harrier or the F-18 super hornet.
Tanks were -nearing the cold war- approaching the use of 140mm ammunition with a project goal of also improving the ammunition, this was expected to improve penetration for any given projectile, and though the downsides was decreased ammunition stowage, this issue was neither exigent nor offset the expected gains for the tanks equipped. After all, getting the drop on an advanced soviet MBT was crucial. Even taking the lack of funding that occurred as a result of the Peace Dividends into account, we can clearly see the advantage behind having more advanced technology than your opponent, Operation Desert Storm and the later Operation Iraqi Freedom both showed that quite clearly as T-72s and their upgraded "Lion of Babylon" cousins both failed to do serious penetrative damage on M1A2 main battle tanks. Simply put, having better -and more- armour on a tank is a serious advantage in combat when matched with mobility, and having more tanks is less effective than having better tanks. This can be seen very strongly in OIF, actually, where numerous cases arose of the Iraqis having serious numerical advantages in terms of tanks, getting multiple rounds off and still failing to incapacitate a single Abrams tank.
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The problem here is simple, the more capable a weapon is the more expensive it gets, and the more offensive that expense is the more bearable it becomes later on as the public forgets that they got mad at the program in the first place. Every aircraft, from the F-14 to the Super-Hornet has been plagued with criticism relating to their cost only to be freed years later as the next generation of aircraft gets a tongue lashing for how "utterly expensive it is" as people tell the military that what it needs isn't a next generation fighter, but an aged and defunct aircraft that isn't effective anymore. This is mixed, of course, with the typical political brouhaha about "Saving the public money" when it comes to combat programs, but by this point in the reading I hope y'all understand that saving money just reduces how capable a vehicle is...if it's made at all :/
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https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/22/archives/price-rise-called-setback-for-f14-prospects-held-weakened-for.html
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Indeed. Though I may very well use it for other stuff beyond that if I feel like it.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I am officially announcing my bid for reelection to the Vice Chancellery.
Wow, I feel Washingtonian.
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