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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
ain't nobody gonna agree to have my country cause a civil war in their country. You know that and so does pretty much the majority of this region. That'd be like me attempting to sabotage a government that you planned and created for the longest or telling you to do something the complete opposite of what you aimed on doing in order to grant me personal satisfaction and achievement.
I wish I could do some meddling in foreign governments. There seriously needs to be more spy sh!t and espionage in the region.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic
I agree but the stubbornness of people and their refusal to not go with realism destroys all possibilities of having actual fun
There is no alternative government to our current one. Is the political climate nasty? Yes it sure is! But almost all Americans (perhaps somewhat reluctantly) recognize our current government. There is no other governmental force to contest the authority of our government, so thus there is not political instability as our government is able to govern across its entire jurisdiction. Again, law and order is what matters. If there is no law and order, then that is when there is political instability.
Now for Thailand and the Philippines, I'm not even sure why you mentioned them. When did they really have much influence outside of their little area of the world? Like what was the point of mentioning those two countries I'm so confused.
Are China and Taiwan continuously shooting at each other? No. There is informal peace between the two. Sure they may technically be at "war" with each other, but there is no actual fighting going on. And honestly at this point, I don't even recognize either's claim to each other. I see the two as independent countries at this point. What was once a civil war is now just two independent sovereign states in my opinion. Both have governments which can govern. This is my point is that if there is a government that can effectively govern its jurisdiction to the best of its ability without being contested, there is not political instability. People may be divided, but unless they're trying to topple the system and creating chaos in the streets and making it difficult for the governing body to govern, there is no political instability in the country.
I can however list tons of politically unstable nations which do back up my logic and argument. Does anyone see the Syrian government or any governments in war-torn African nations exerting influence on other governments across the globe? No, because they are forced to focus on their own country. In rp, when Kumania fell into civil war, it became isolated from the rest of the world as the #1 focus of the Kumanian government was to preserve its ability to govern, not to exert influence thousands of miles away.
Yukona
Post by Mauricil suppressed by a moderator.
And with the low hum of tiny bassoons, the world's tiniest orchestra begins once again to mount. It looks like it'll be Chopin today, folks!
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Counter-point: Attempts to include unconsenting wars would only further trainwreak the entire idea of realism in RP, as many nations would then -as the words imply- war with unconsenting nations regardless of the economic damage that such an action would do to both economies in terms of sanctions and direct wounds from uncomfortable shifts in world trade.
Of course, the preceeding statement ignores that a whole mechanism for said manipulation would have to be put in place (After all, if they agree to say that your machinations worked, is that not consenting?) and that people would have to take ownership of their nation's economy for more than a few minutes at a time...again...something I doubt most people would do, and certainly something that would be grumbled about.
Tl;Dr: Economics are hard and people don't realize how interconnected the world economies are and geo-political realism is a very dangerous game to play outside of military discussions.
Hey, I included one of those new-fangled Tl;Drs you people keep talking about.
Jaslandia
Definition of political instability: "Political instability is the likelihood of having demonstrations, forms of violence, workers going on strike or the possibility of a coup d'état."
See: "Political instability is the likelihood of having demonstrations, forms of violence...."
>"forms of violence"
>"demonstrations"
Last I checked, riots in the streets due to BLM, Anti-Trump protestors, and angry ranchers count as forms of violent demonstrations. I dunno what you call those, but everywhere else riot=violent.
Why did I mention them? Because they're states in civil conflict or facing political instability that are still able to exert power and conduct international relations. Thailand still has foreign relations and exerts power over Indochina despite being faced with a democratic revolution for years. Thailand doesn't just huddle up and hide inside its own borders, it still conducts international relations. A great counterexample, whose point you missed out on understanding.
The Philippines is another example whose point you missed out on understanding.
Remember the definition?
Here is the portion of it that we are going to be elaborating on: "forms of violence"
Duterte's anti-drug death squads count as forms of violence (Gee, I hope you consider that violence, because thousands of people have died from them already!), and ironically, the Philippines still has the capability to conduct international relations. It still has a disputed claim against China in the South China Sea, remember? If it just couldn't conduct international relations, it would not dispute Chinese claims, which are very much a hot topic and highly active one at that in that part of the world.
Which brings us to the final point I made that you missed out on understanding.
You asked for a state that is in a civil war that is still capable of conducting international relations. I gave you China; which is still in a civil war between the communists and the Nationalists. No lasting peace agreement has been made and a state of war still exists between the two factions. It does not matter if they are not shooting rockets at each other every day; you wanted a state that was in a civil war that could conduct international relations and exert power.
So, basically, people are too lazy to wanted to do anything more than basic economics and wars?
These "riots" and protests you speak of don't really have much effect on people's daily lives. How is someone in Sioux, South Dakota affected by rioters in Baltimore? Odds are, that person in South Dakota will go on with their normal life because these demonstrations of free speech that may resort to occaisional violence are fairly contained to a single area. The exercise of free speech is not political instability.
Death squads are a method of preserving political stability (and the ability of the governing body to govern). Is there civil war in the Philippines and/or active revolution against the current government? None that I'm aware of (although I wish there was because Duterte is very despicable). I wasn't saying that those countries had no ability to conduct international relations. It's just there are bigger dogs in the yard.
And again the "civil war" between Taiwan and China is not gunna convince me (the whole point of this thing is to convince me and you're failing at it because it is impossible to name a state in disarray that can exert influence and control of other nations when it can barely govern itself without legitimate active opposition). There is no real war going on between them. Sure there may be no peace treaty but again there is no goddamn war between the two causing a power vacuum anywhere and making it difficult for either government to govern their land (like sure both have claims to each other but honestly it's silly let's look more at how they're able to properly control the land they control and not the land they claim). They are not in a real civil war anymore. There is not political turmoil happening inside either country so of course they can maintain international relations and get sh!t done.
Jaslandia
Nah, but there are some players who simply won't bother, that's where part of the problem of using realism as an argument crops up.
Let's take two of the region's mascots and question what would happen in a fully "realistic" world:
Peng and Percy both spend little of their national GDP on defense, they don't have an interest in RPing a war, but Maur says "It's realistic I want to war with them now, shut up I don't care". This leads to nearly the entire confederacy jointly saying that they put him under sanctions...Maur ignores it and keeps saying he's super powerful, so what now?
Let's go further and use an actual example: Andy says he'll protect another nation that follows the same general principles as him, and though the nation does certifiably nothing overall, someone threatens to war with him because of "God-Modded reason here". The only problem is that the nation that wants to war with him is over half the world away and has no valid reason to go to war.
Basically, there isn't a way to realistically include a war-without-consent system with any reason not to that will have a valid impact upon a nation, and this inability will cause for people to leave when war becomes their only option.
Jaslandia
[I]Progress is only one vote away...[/I]
So, basically, Mau's the problem
Peoples Liberation Republic, Mauricil
Not Maur, but people who aren't really accepting of weakness in their own nation in any tangible form.
Not all of us are like UCT and actually RP disjointed kingdoms.
Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Axeldonia, Pirate Kingdoms
So, what about Thailand? Did you ignore that?
It has been dealing with political turmoil since a successful military coup detat in 2006. Still exerts power and can still function despite internal struggles by the government in exile to come back into power.
They even had a successful election in 2013, that, while it did not do much to help the political situation in the country, it was a symbolic step towards reformation. Now there are threats that deposing the PM of Thailand would cause for a fully blown civil war.
Secondly, protests have an effect on other places in the nation. Maybe in the horse-N-buggy days where news traveled slowly that would ring true, but we are in an era where news is instantaneous and accessible by pretty much every US citizen. I'm sure hearing about the BLM protests in Ferguson did a lot to encourage people to join them. I know it caused for more than a couple people to stage protests here in Indiana (See: not Missouri).
Hell, just take a look at how the Civil Rights Movement if you want an even earlier example.
But espionage isn't war.
Do I really need OOC consent to install spies in a nation?
There's an unfortunate lack of politicking here. Let's show an example:
If I want to install spies in Handland by using my embassies as a "distribution center", would I need Handland's consent to do so? Or, could consent only be necessary when I actually do something with the spies. For example, if I tried to sabotage the construction of a new toy he's making, or stealing their blueprints.
I took notice of Thailand. Yes the former government is opposing the current one, but unless it y'know leads people to revolt, it ain't doing much to defy the current government and make an impact on the current government's ability to govern. The BLM riots didn't do anything to inhibit the American government's ability to govern.
My point is that a government that can't govern can't maintain much global power. Idk how it's so hard for you to understand that lol.
You do if you have any intent of actually trying to do anything with them.
Example: Lat really didn't like my nation RP-Wise (he literally tried to say I was selling WMDs despite me never selling anything like that at all) and this happened after I denied selling weapons or vehicles to him or his commonwealths. What would keep him (or his commonwealths) from just saying they had a thousand copies because "Many spies"?
That's just meta gaming, which can be policed easily. It was clearly policed well when Mau changed the rules to an RP suit his OOC goals, why can't it happen again when someone claims to have a bunch of spies somewhere with no prior mention of them being deployed or any of their activities.
This isn't going to be something where a nation will just have thousands of spies in some nation without any prior mention of them. Hell no, their deployment into a foreign nation will be well documented so that no claims of metagaming will hold water. Until the nation that deployed them wants to do something with them or the nation that has been infiltrated has an IC reason to believe that they can be discovered (Insert Cold War era spy movie plotline here).
Once that happens, consent will be necessary.
Peoples Liberation Republic
Lol. They did do something, they put pressure on a lot of politicians.
How do you define a government that can't govern?
I actually agree with this.
Government is a lot like the economy and religion: it takes people believing in it for it to exist. When the people don't allow the government to govern (such as not paying taxes or breaking laws etc) in massive numbers, that government cannot function properly. Basically if no one really recognizes a governing group to be the government, then that governing group can't govern those people who refuse to be governed by them.
Ok, so.... how does that deviate from Thailand's internal conflicts?
There's an armed insurgency that is ongoing in southern Thailand that has such a large following that it has disrupted the administration of the region.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonindicativeName
Remember Kal, PK hasn't been an actual group of kingdoms since Montaris, though all the political divisions make it close to a disjointed state like Montaris!PK and I freely admit how much of a hellhole I am to the rest of CFN. Basically, if one were to compare political stability, HDI, and overall ability to survive between my nations, it would go like this: The United Confederacy Of Texas -> San Fernando Valley -> El-Aaiun Al-Khalifa -> Chernarus State ->Pirate Kingdoms. Even then, all of them are afflicted by some issue, with UCT having a far-right armed militia movement and existing as a vanguard for a Fallout-esque North America, San Fernando is the remnant of decades of civil war in a nuked U.S., El-Aaiun is politically divided and is ruled by a benevolent dictator at best, Chernarus is a corporate war-mongering slave state like Mag and is very Russophobic, and PK should be obvious since my whole modus operandi is making the entire Horn of Africa as crapsacky as RL Somalia.
It is probably draining the current government's ability to exert influence outside of the world then. If things continue to worsen for the current Thai government, and it must resort to asking foreign nations for aid in combating these revolutionaries (which probably are receiving funds from foreigners as well), that is when this civil war in Thailand will basically no longer be a Thai war but a proxy war between greater powers. A great power is able to prevent other great powers from infiltrating its nation and funding revolutionaries. You're just further proving my point man.
Yukona
Good morning
Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton, Mauricil
Dude, it's 2am and I haven't even gone to bed yet :P
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton, Mauricil
As of a little more than an hour ago, I have officially dropped out of the race for Vice Chancellor/President.
I'm also announcing endorsements for Vista, Baxten, Perland, Mauricil, Yuk, and Oel in their respective races.
Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Mauricil
Well, technically an early morning. :P
There is a Jacobite uprisings exhibition on at the National Museum of Scotland. Moan James VII!
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
[I]Keep the Confederacy Great![/I]
Djo
where are the Constutions to vote on?
NVM lol
Vista Won me over at "V:All citizens shall have the right to reside, communicate, and participate in the Confederacy free of bullying, harassment, or assault."
i must ask tho [nation=short]Vista_Major[/nation] How will the Constables Be selected?
Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland
[spoiler=Today is June 24 and today are:]
]Today is June 24 and today are:
- Armed Forces Day (United Kingdom)
- Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
- Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
- Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil)
- Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Enyovden (Bulgaria)
- Farmer Day (Peru)
- Inti Raymi (Sacsayhuamán, Peru)
- Jaanipäev (Estonia)
- Jāņi (Latvia)
- Jónsmessa (Iceland)
- Midsummer Day (England, Finland, Sweden)
- National Pralines Day (United states)
- Ramadan Feast Eve (Turkey)
- Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (Quebec, Canada)
- Saint John's Day (Roman Catholic Church)
- Saint Jonas' Festival or Joninės (Lithuania)
- Sânziene (western Carpathian Mountains of Romania)
- Swim a Lap Day
- Wattah Wattah Festival (Philippines)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1312 BC Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
- 217 BC The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
- 109 Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
- 474 Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 637 The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dál Riata. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
- 972 Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
- 1128 Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Afonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba.
- 1230 The Siege of Jaén started in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
- 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce.
- 1340 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
- 1497 John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
- 1535 The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
- 1571 Miguel López de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
- 1597 The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Banten, Java.[citation needed]
- 1604 Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1622 Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
- 1717 The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London.
- 1762 Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
- 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1793 The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1821 The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1859 Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1866 Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1880 First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
- 1894 Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
- 1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1932 A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 1938 Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1939 Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.
- 1940 World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
- 1943 US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
- 1947 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
- 1949 The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- 1950 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act formally segregating races is passed.
- 1954 First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
- 1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963 The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 1973 The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
- 1981 The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest bridge span for 17 years.
- 1982 "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
- 1989 Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1995 "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
- 2002 The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004 In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
- 2010 John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
- 2010 Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
- 2012 Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.
- 2013 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1485 Johannes Bugenhagen, Polish-German priest and reformer
- 1532 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician
- 1771 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont
- 1850 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan
- 1852 Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic
- 1882 Carl Diem, German businessman
- 1883 Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1895 Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier
- 1901 Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman
- 1911 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver
- 1930 Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1953 William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1967 Michael Kessler, German actor, comedian and author
- 1978 Juan Román Riquelme, Argentinian footballer
- 1987 Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
- 1992 David Alaba, Austrian footballer
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Quote of the day
We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Oelesa, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton
I go back to the states. I have returned and can someone please tell me what I missed
Andromitus, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Andromitus, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland
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Yeah, I don't like libruls either.
Andromitus, Mauricil
Most of us are moderates. You're just so far right we seem left.
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
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[Insert "are you sure about that" meme here]
Jaslandia, Andromitus
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And foreign policy.
The United Providences Of Perland
Goodnight all. Have a nice remaining day and sweet dreams tonight. <3
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Lex Caledonia, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton, Mauricil
Goodnight, Peng!
Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Goodnight, Peng!
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Alright, I've worked enough for a day full of Karate and pool digging.
Here's how far I've gotten with my website efforts y'all http://kalaronarms.weebly.com
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Good Morning all!
(Wow look at him, getting up at a 8'o clock on a Sunday!)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
>tfw you realize that your dogs are basically allegories to the Axis powers
-The biggest and strongest is a German Shepherd (who is also the oldest of the three and the laziest)
-The medium sized and medium strength one is a Japanese Akita (the most aggressive one, but this one is my baby)
-The smolest and weakest is an Italian Maltese (that likes to bark when nobody is giving him attention and will continue to do so until you give him some)
Jaslandia, Baxten, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Djo
Lol XD
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland
[spoiler=Today is June 25 and today are:]
]Today is June 25 and today are:
- Arbor Day (Philippines)
- Color TV Day
- Day of the Seafarer
- Father's Day (Haiti)
- Global Beatles Day
- Independence Day (Mozambique)
- Log Cabin Day
- National Catfish Day (United States)
- National Leon Day (United States)
- National Strawberry Parfait Day (United States)
- Please Take my Children to Work Day
- Rath Yatra (India)
- Statehood Day (Croatia)
- Statehood Day (Slovenia)
- Statehood Day (Virginia, United States)
- Teacher's Day (Guatemala)
- World Vitiligo Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 524 The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 841 In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
- 1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
- 1658 Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- 1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
- 1741 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
- 1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
- 1788 Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
- 1900 The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
- 1906 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
- 1910 The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for immoral purposes; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
- 1910 Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
- 1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane
- 1935 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
- 1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
- 1940 World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
- 1943 The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
- 1944 World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
- 1944 World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
- 1944 The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
- 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
- 1948 The Berlin airlift begins.
- 1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
- 1960 Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
- 1975 Mozambique achieves independence.
- 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
- 1976 Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
- 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
- 1984 American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
- 1991 Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
- 1993 Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1996 The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
- 1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
- 1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1852 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell
- 1864 Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1894 Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer
- 1903 George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic
- 1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 Sidney Lumet, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet
- 1928 Peyo, Belgian author and illustrator, created The Smurfs
- 1929 Eric Carle, American author and illustrator
- 1933 Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture
- 1961 Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer
- 1963 George Michael, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1981 Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
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Quote of the day
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau -
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Jaslandia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Mauricil
Looks like a slow day
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
It's quite quiet.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Mauricil
But on the Discord it's a bit heated.
Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland
I guess everyone went uptown.
https://youtu.be/KOAC5-Jcgyc
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
How is everyone ?
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Summer makes me depressed as I have nothing to do, cri
Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
I'm doing okay. I go to bed now. :)
Sorry to hear that *hugs*
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Goodnight, Peng!
Pretty good, I had a light-bulb go off an am finally expanding on how religion(s) and my overlying society works in my facts :D
Night Peng!
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Appointment
The United Providences Of Perland
Now that I finally have some data in this internet-forsaken farmland:
#VoteVistasConstitution
[I]We are close to victory! Join our cause for a new and greater Confederacy![/I]
Axeldonia, The United Providences Of Perland
We are always lookin for new members, so if you want check us out. Doesnt matter who you are, love to have you on the team.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
ATTENTION:
[I]We are in need of candidates to run for Court Justice(s), as well as any other uncontested offices. If you are at all interested, please run for an office. June 30th is the last day to run for office or endorse a candidate.[/I]
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
Hmm.....tempted, but unless a military office is available.....
Andromitus
Dont really have an military stuff. Used to be pretty big on that stuff.
You know, if the military is really imporant to you, you could make an amendment in the Parliament when the new constitution comes out.
Russkov Soviet
The CoFN doesn't have a military, and actively promotes Pacifism, HOWEVER, we have a sister region with Libertatem, meaning you can send a puppet over there (with their knowledge that it's you of course) to act as a citizen there; I'm pretty sure you can act in their military while a Sister-Citizen
Russkov Soviet, Yukona
Also what Oel said
I'll work on an amendment over time. I'm not BIG on the military stuff....was thinking of like...Homeland Security and National Guard type stuff xD
Andromitus, Oelesa
I mean, we don't really need that, our WA Delegate has no power and we have an active founder account with multiple holders
Russkov Soviet, Oelesa, Yukona
After a conversation and personal consideration, I will be voting for Vista Major's Constitution because what problems I do have with it, are easily changed with an amendment and lack the complexity that his constitution fixes, such as the extended purposes of the Ministry of Justice
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I cry with gratitude, my friend
"Following new legislation in Percyton, every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains."
I think I remember reading about that in a Percytonian history book, actually. It's not something we like to talk about.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
During the next state visit to Percyton, delegates and staff from the Continental Commonwealths will have a strict buddy system and all be required to hold onto a rope when traveling from one location to the next.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Whoa..I'm glad all my transportation systems are underground or in tubes...Thats just horrifying
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
While there's nothing wrong with some safety precautions, there's a reason I said history books. Most of the bodies are from when the railway was being constructed way back in the early 1900s and before; safety regulations were loose, and the ones that did exist weren't always enforced. However, things are much better now, and despite Sodor's reputation for accidents and crashes, there are almost no human casualties from these incidents. Can't say the same for the Troublesome Trucks, though...
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=ruhmia/detail=factbook/id=main
Please read my nation's factbook and give me your thoughts. Thanks. :)
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Could I run?
Vista Major, Oelesa
Guten Morgen :)
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Oelesa, Djo, Yukona, Percyton
*Looks at the citizenship roster, looks back* Yes. Yes you can.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton, Estrinia
I knew it! I knew that my mass extinction theory held water!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is June 26 and today are:]
]Today is June 26 and today are:
- Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
- Canoe Day
- Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Flag Day (Romania)
- Independence Day (Madagascar)
- Independence Day (Somalia)
- International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
- National Beauticians Day (United States)
- National Chocolate Pudding Day (United States)
- National Sports Day (Fiji)
- Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany)
- Sacred Heart (Colombia)
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Chile)
- Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 4 AD Augustus adopts Tiberius.
- 221 Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
- 363 Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 684 Pope Benedict II chosen.
- 699 En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
- 1243 Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
- 1295 Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
- 1407 Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
- 1409 Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
- 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
- 1483 Richard III becomes King of England.
- 1522 Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
- 1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
- 1579 Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
- 1718 Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
- 1723 After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
- 1740 A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
- 1830 William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
- 1843 Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
- 1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1886 Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
- 1889 Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
- 1906 The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
- 1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1917 The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
- 1918 Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
- 1924 The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
- 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- 1934 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1940 World War II: Under the MolotovRibbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
- 1941 World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Koice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- 1944 World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
- 1944 The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
- 1948 The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
- 1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
- 1953 Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
- 1955 The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 1959 Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
- 1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.
- 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
- 1967 Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
- 1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
- 1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- 1977 Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena
- 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
- 1991 The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2000 The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
- 2000 Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
- 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- 2004 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
- 2006 Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
- 2007 Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
- 2008 A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
- 2012 The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
- 2013 Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
- 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 54, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2015 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 54, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2015 Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1730 Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic
- 1824 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer
- 1892 Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer Nobel Prize laureate
- 1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman
- 1904 Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer
- 1908 Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile
- 1909 Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager
- 1929 Milton Glaser, American illustrator and graphic designer
- 1933 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
- 1942 Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician, Brazilian Minister of Culture
- 1961 Greg LeMond, American cyclist
- 1966 Dany Boon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1980 Michael Vick, American football player
- 1993 Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
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Quote of the day
If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- Jim Rohn -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Morgen! Wie geht's?
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Thankyou Tserra!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra
Mir geht's gut. Und dir?
Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland
Ah, gut genug
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
It wasn't a 'mass extinction'; just some workmen who weren't properly protected by safety regulations.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
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Penguania And Antarctica
I am representing the Democratic Liberty Party in the upcoming Chief Justice election.
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Post by Mauricil suppressed by a moderator.
You may boo, Maurcil, but you boo because you have not witnessed the great DLP government that this nation is soon to have. If you want this region to become a grand, fair, democratic region, I strongly recommend you vote for the DLP candidate in every election, however, if you wish to see this region become a rejected undemocratic dictatorship, like I presume you currently do by rejecting the Democratic Liberty Party, you go ahead and vote against us. I am not to stop you. We are a democracy after all.
Andromitus, Oelesa
We're just past the half way point for the referendum on a new constitution, and I would like to take this opportunity to commend both Vista and Unf for drafting and submitting proposals. Both constitutions are thorough, well written, and reflective of the culture we've created as region mates. There's little I can say as a negative regarding either of the proposals, so I instead want to provide the positives that enticed me to chose Unf's draft as my preference.
- It clearly states what the jurisdiction and expected tasks are for each of the Ministers,
- It provides a specific election period, thereby decreasing the likelihood that elections will be delayed.
- It is exhaustive in its description of how an election is to be structured and performed.
- It enshrines the Constabulary in the Constitution and clearly defines what they are authorized and restricted from doing.
- It creates a single Court system with Justices of equal authority. Those of us who have served in the Judiciary know how little the courts are utilized and why a lean institution is all that is necessary within our region.
Anyways, those are some of my reasons for voting the way I did. I encourage everyone to vote- not necessarily for my preferred option, or because of my rationale, but because the new constitution will revitalize our region and its administrative structure. Every citizen should have their voices heard on something as important as this.
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
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