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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
So they are Vulcans now? :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
On behalf of myself, my father, and the proud citizens of the Equestrian Union, we congratulate the couple in their marriage. Please accept these jewel-inlaid, gold and silver swords. These blades were handmade in accordance to the Royal design.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
The newlyweds will hang the swords as a decorative piece in their palace apartments.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
Oh, the symbolism
Ludania, Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova
At least he offered a gift.
Ahem.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is April 20 and today are:]
Today is April 20 and today are:
- 420 or Weed Day (cannabis culture)
- National Cheddar Fries Day (United States)
- National Day of Silence (United States)
- National Lima Bean Respect Day (United States)
- National Look Alike Day (United States)
- National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day (United States)
- National Pot Smokers Day (United States)
- National Pro-Life T Shirt Day (United States)
- National Teach Children to Save Day (United States)
- UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)
- Volunteer Recognition Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1303 The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1453 Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
- 1534 Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, the island of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- 1535 The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
- 1653 Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1657 Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 1657 Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 1689 Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
- 1752 Start of KonbaungHanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (174057).
- 1770 The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
- 1775 American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
- 1789 George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration
- 1792 France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1800 The Septinsular Republic is established.
- 1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810 The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 1818 The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
- 1826 Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
- 1828 René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter, and the first to return from, Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
- 1836 U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
- 1861 American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
- 1862 Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
- 1865 Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
- 1871 The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1876 The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1884 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
- 1898 President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of War against Spain, beginning the Spanish-American War.
- 1902 Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- 1908 Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1912 Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
- 1914 Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
- 1916 The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 76 in 11 innings.
- 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1922 The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1945 Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
- 1946 The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- 1968 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
- 2007 Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- 2008 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
- 2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
- 2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1977 concerning non-proliferation is adopted.
- 2012 One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 2013 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
- 2015 Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1808 Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France
- 1850 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue
- 1889 Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German soldier, politician, Chancellor and dictator of Germany
- 1890 Adolf Schärf, Austrian soldier and politician, 6th President of Austria
- 1893 Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1893 Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer
- 1927 Phil Hill, American race car driver
- 1937 George Takei, American actor
- 1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway
- 1941 Ryan O'Neal, American actor
- 1946 Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, German doctor and politician, last head of state of East Germany
- 1949 Jessica Lange, American actress
- 1964 Andy Serkis, English actor and director
- 1966 David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
- 1969 Felix Baumgartner, Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper
- 1983 Miranda Kerr, Australian model
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Quote of the day
presented to you by The United Providences Of Perland
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Benjamin Franklins (American Politician, 1706-1790) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton, Cesorion, The British Islands Confederacy
The Prince Regent would like to congratulate the young couple, and wishes them all the best in marriage! He will be sending a chest of the finest Jaslandian silverware as a wedding gift.
Just as long as the sword isn't hung over the royal throne. Don't want a Sword of Damocles situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles#Sword_of_Damocles
It's George Takei's birthday today?
https://youtu.be/c5Y25FT7DxE
Happy birthday, George!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
Oh myyyy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yicbvWwQ_MA
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
https://youtu.be/y8K6y15j8E0
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
Good day friends. :)
How is everyone today?
Jaslandia, Percyton, The West Country
Happy birthday to the Queen!
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7CZvvsC64
Percyton, The West Country
[Cromwell intensifies]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you like Cromwell you need your head checked mate
Penguania And Antarctica
Wasn't he just a monarch with a republican face? I'm pretty sure he even passed down the title of Lord Protector to his son, Richard.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you like the Queen, you need your head checked, mate.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you like either Cromwell or Elizabeth II, then you need to get your head checked. Ideally, Great Britain now would be a federal democratic republic with devolved parliaments for all of its constituent countries.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, Peng! I'm doing good. How are you?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Fat chance. Scotland had to fight almost 300 years to get its parliament back (with limited powers) and Northern Ireland went through what almost amounted to a civil war due to repression and discrimination against Catholics.
The Westminster crowd do not like progress.
Axeldonia
Nobody likes change. That's why almost everyone hates sequels!
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Percyton
Some sequels can be better than their originals.
Jaslandia, Percyton
https://youtu.be/5AvrBFlJeMs?t=2s
Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzKYNZY9Hpk
Does media change people's behavior? Yes. However, does violent media cause people to become violent? No. Do sequels suck? I don't care because I don't even watch movies all that often.
Nuremgard
My royal wedding is better than the British one.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Doing alright. Very happy. Favourite football/soccer team won an important match. They got ranked up. They will play in the next higher league next season. :D
Jaslandia
That's good to hear. I wish them the best of luck!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I cant tell if youre serious or jesting but if its the former Im sincerely disappointed
Calm down, mate. Like/love her all you want. I just find it very strange. You know, North Koreans adore their leader and they're all nutters. Brits adore their leader and they're patriotic. Hey ho, the world turns.
Axeldonia, Mercunova
Yes, because North Korea and the British Monarchy are really comparable things. You definitely do get put into a concentration camp if you talk bad about the monarchy. Remember all those people who got put into the Norfolk camps when they didn't cry hard enough after the Queen Mother died?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What's worse actually is that Brits willingly debase themselves before this unremarkable family. At least the North Koreans have the excuse that they'll be put into a camp or killed for not showing enough adulation.
Axeldonia
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. Most Britons (I assume) don't believe the Queen is a divine being who invented the hamburger, textbooks aren't mandated to include 'words of instruction' from the Queen, and the Queen's name isn't banned from being hyphenated in a text break.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_cult_of_personality
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2011/dec/19/kim-jong-il-things-never-knew
The West Country
Nah. They just believe she is magically superior and is more worthy to be head of state than any other Brit because she fell out of a "royal" vagina.
Axeldonia
Nurem, you have this really skewed perception of your own country if you think the majority of Britons debase themselves for the Royal Family. The majority don't care and scarcely know they exist outside of the occasional big event where they get to hope for a bank holiday. Frankly, for all your negativity towards them, you're by far the person who talks about them the most out of anyone I've ever met. Rather than a cult of personality, I think you've formed yourself a nice little cult of negativity with the British Royals right in the middle of it.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Yeah. Drooling morons line the streets to wave union jacks at them but I'm the one who's formed a cult. Okay.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
People waving the flags of their country when their head of state is around? Oh gee that's truly the work of a despotic monarchy
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
I never said it was despotic. I just think it's sad that people adore a very rich family simply because they are rich and have fancy titles.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I mean, you compared it to quite possibly the post despotic regime in the world.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Only in the sense that some British monarchists seem to show the same fawning adulation that North Koreans do. I never compared the Queen to Kim Jong Un or said she was some kind of despot.
Axeldonia
Sorry mate, I meant to quote a different post so I appreciate how that came off - I meant to say I hope you're not comparing the Queen to Cromwell. It's alright disliking the royals but that's just so unfair, and I'm welcome to celebrate the birthday of my Queen without someone comparing her to a genocidal dictator ygm?
Ah yes, because I love them only because they're rich and have fancy titles.
Penguania And Antarctica
I wasn't comparing her to a dictator (as I've already explained.) Enjoy your Queen's birthday. Have a blast. I just think it's odd. I can say that too, ygm?
Well I dunno why else you'd love them but it doesn't matter why.
Penguania And Antarctica
You complain about the Queen and her family being a bunch of useless people because they have no real say in politics nowadays because they doesn't exercise all their rights and privileges or delegated them to other government positionss. So the Queen is useless and you want her replaced with a president, maybe?
Then tell me do you want the president to be elected directly by the people and having much power like in the US (rendering the position of prime minister useless)
Or do you want a president that isn't elected directly by the people that hasn't much duties and is more representative like we Germans have?
If you decide for the latter well then it isn't much different to what you have already despite the face of the head of state change more or less often (if you have term limits or not).
The West Country
He probably just wants them removed. It's not an issue of replacement so much as disbandment.
I don't know as both have their pros and cons. But either is better than having one family hold the hereditary honour of being head of state with all the luxury and privilege that comes along with it. I do not want to pay to maintain the lifestyles of all the minor princes, princesses and other hangers on. I do not see why one family or person should be privy to state secrets just because she happened to be born to that position. The head of state does not require numerous palaces and castles. The head of state or their family does not need to be treated with the fawning sycophancy that the royals are treated with both by the media and by ordinary people. Moreover, the monarchy justifies and holds together the entire rotten system of patronage and privilege at the heart of government, as well as a landed aristocracy who own far too much of the land and wealth. The monarchy is also immune from the Freedom of Information Act and their wealth and cost is shrouded in secrecy and vagueness.
So yeah. Give me a president over all that aforementioned BS. I simply do not believe in having a monarchy or landed gentry in the 21st century.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
How much do you personally pay to maintain the royal family?
Penguania And Antarctica
It doesn't matter how much I personally pay. Taxpayers fork out millions to support the monarchy. Don't play the "oh it only costs you the price of a Kitt Katt" or some sh!t like that.
It doesn't actually matter how much they personally cost me or the taxpayer at large because they could be cheap as chips for all I care. I want rid of them because I do not believe in having a monarchy. Simple as that.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
If it doesn't matter that's alright then
Penguania And Antarctica
Yup. You're a monarchist. I'm a republican. The world turns.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm a republican now I agree with u
If you're a republican then I'm a unionist.
you fell for my trick! forevr hold ur word sepratist swine!
Nuremgard
I suddenly feel the overwhelming urge to wrap myself in a UJ and play Rule Britannia on a loop.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Wed like u for the British Army my son
Penguania And Antarctica
The Navy please.
https://youtu.be/UwbQhs9ojtM?t=3
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
https://youtu.be/zSGWoXDFM64
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I always imagined Yuk looking like Sideshow Bob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHLuGlm7Q30
Penguania And Antarctica
Congrats, you two! On behalf of the State of Percyton, I wish you Archduke Valerian and Mr. Fedorov all the best in marriage! If you two want a little model railway to celebrate your married life, the State of Percyton would be more than happy to send you some model trains and track as a gift!
It's the Queen's birthday today? Happy birthday, Your Majesty! I still remember back in 1953 when the Queen visited Sodor. And when during the Prince of Wales' visits to Sodor (he has made four visits since 1995), he would tell us how his parents (the Queen and the Prince Consort) would read the stories of our adventures to him when he was a child. So thank you, Your Majesty, for your support of us and our stories! From one monarch to another, I wish you all the best, and I hope you'll come back to Sodor someday for a second visit!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is April 21 and today are:]
Today is April 21 and today are:
- Astronomy Day
- Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day
- Civil Service Day (India)
- Eid e-Rizwan (Pakistan)
- Grounation Day (Rastafari movement)
- Heroic Defense of Veracruz (Mexico)
- Husband Appreciation Day
- Kang Pan-soks Birthday (North Korea)
- Kartini Day (Indonesia)
- Local Self Government Day (Russia)
- National Auctioneers Day (United States)
- National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day (United States)
- National Kindergarten Day (United States)
- National Record Store Day (United States)
- National Surprise Drug Test Day (United States)
- National Tea Day (United States)
- National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)
- National Yellow Bat Day (United States)
- San Jacinto Day (Texas)
- School Librarian Day
- Spring Astronomy Day
- Queen's Official Birthday (Falkland Islands)
- Tiradentes' Day (Brazil)
- Vietnam Book Day (Vietnam)
- World Creativity and Innovation Day
- World Fish Migration Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 753BC Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
- 43BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
- 0900 The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
- 1092 The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
- 1506 The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.
- 1509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
- 1526 The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
- 1615 The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
- 1782 The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
- 1792 Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1802 Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
- 1806 Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.
- 1809 Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
- 1821 Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.
- 1836 Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1856 Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an eight-hour day.
- 1863 Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".
- 1894 Norway formally adopts the KragJørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- 1898 SpanishAmerican War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
- 1914 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
- 1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
- 1925 The Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals is published in Il Mondo, establishing the political and ideological foundations of Italian Fascism.
- 1926 Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
- 1934 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
- 1945 World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
- 1952 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
- 1960 Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
- 1962 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
- 1964 A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
- 1965 The 19641965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
- 1966 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
- 1967 Greek military junta of 196774: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
- 1975 Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
- 1982 Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
- 1985 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
- 1987 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
- 1992 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257(United States)12.
- 1993 The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
- 2004 Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
- 2010 The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
- 2012 Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
- 2012 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2043 relating to Syrian uprising is adopted.
- 2014 The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
- 1782 Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue, created the concept of the "kindergarten"
- 1816 Charlotte Brontë, Cornish-English novelist and poet
- 1837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish lieutenant and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1838 John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist and author
- 1864 Max Weber, German economist and sociologist
- 1882 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1889 Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1915 Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor
- 1926 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of Windsor aka Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
- 1947 Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1958 Andie MacDowell, American model, actress, and producer
- 1959 Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1979 James McAvoy, Scottish actor
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Quote of the day
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (French Leader, 1769-1821) -
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, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy
Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II. !!
Ludania, Jaslandia, Percyton, Cesorion
https://youtu.be/sOnEcQGZhcI
Percyton
Should I include a fact of the day in the DIP?
Mercunova, Percyton
Si
Percyton
Sure. Why not?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Didnt even recall him being British, how odd. I can assure you though that I look nothing like him, and if I did have his lid Id look much better
I think I need to have the Shah take a more pragmatic approach to international trade. He constantly puts trade sanctions and embargoes on nations who sleight or go against his Empire's policies. It's not good for the economy.
It's his hair that makes him look like a stoner. And the link below my statement is another example of how he is a lot like you.
mfw the only two people who still exist in these factbooks is me and Jas
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Oh I watched it but ironically I was quite zoinked and didn't quite get it apart from the union flag thing. I don't look like that tho
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is April 22 and today are:]
Today is April 22 and today are:
- Discovery Day (Brazil)
- Earth Day (International)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)
- In God We Trust Day
- International Mother Earth Day
- National Earth Day (United States)
- National Girl Scout Leaders Day (United States)
- National Jelly Bean Day (United States)
- Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)
- Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0238 Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
- 1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
- 1519 Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
- 1529 Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
- 1622 The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
- 1809 The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
- 1836 Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when one of his fellow captives mistakenly gives away his identity.
- 1864 The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
- 1876 The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of the MLB.
- 1889 At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
- 1898 SpanishAmerican War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
- 1906 The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
- 1915 The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- 1930 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 1944 The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
- 1944 World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
- 1945 World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
- 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
- 1948 ArabIsraeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
- 1951 Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
- 1954 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the ArmyMcCarthy hearings begins.
- 1969 British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
- 1970 The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1972 Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
- 1977 Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
- 1983 The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
- 1992 In a series of explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
- 1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
- 2000 In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
- 2004 Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- 2005 Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
- 2008 The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
- 2013 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
- 2014 More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
- 2016 The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1451 Isabella I of Castile
- 1592 Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician
- 1724 Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic
- 1766 Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author
- 1854 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1876 Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1870 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov commonly known as Lenin, German/Swedish-Russian lawyer and founder of the Soviet Union
- 1891 Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist
- 1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic
- 1909 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1916 Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor
- 1919 Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
- 1944 Steve Fossett, American businessman, pilot, and sailor
- 1982 Kaká, Brazilian footballer
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Fact of the day
There is a mountain in Australia called Mt. Disappointment. Its explorers found the view from it sub-par and wanted to reflect that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Disappointment_(Australia)
Quote of the day
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. Bill Copeland
- Bill Copeland (Australian Athlete, 1929-2011) -
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Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton, The West Country
Oh, boy. Allowing dissent against the government makes the poor poorer according to NS.
Jaslandia
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193540344325996554/437712545843904533/WgDFiNk.jpg
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
#1%Problems
#BeingKingIsHard
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaAusSskJjc
I was browsing some Scrumpy music (from my region) and lone and behold I find a band from the 70's that's from Yetminster, a village near me. And bloody hell I've driven past the sign that's on their album cover probably 200 times when going back and to from my friends, I know the villages well on the sign post as well - and I didn't even know they played music! My friends' village, Thornford, is literally just up the road from Yetminster (3 minutes)
Edit: nevermind that, I looked em' up and they lived in Sherborne which is basically where I live!
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh look
me
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Aw and the lead singer died in the hospital I work at in 2010 :^(
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
What's your job at the hospital?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm a porter - I move patients around to different areas, I move the deceased, I move rubbish through the hospital to the service yard, I help unload trucks full of medical gas and supplies, I fill up and supply the hospital with nitrogen, I act as a first line security before the police arrive (if unruly people come in, go and tell them to leave, etc.), I maintain the carparks (I get to ticket cars :^)), I go pick up drugs from pharmacists for the wards, I deliver blood samples and drugs via van to other hospitals in the area, I deliver the post throughout the hospital, I do general moving (if a manager wants a room set up for a meeting or wants their old cabinet/cupboard moved, I get the flatbed), I close and lock up the hospital. I say 'I', I work with another person in the morning, then a third in the afternoon.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What don't you do? lol
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
Oh, how the years have gone by. I don't even remember running in half of those elections, it's been so long!
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/Un5F2vt.gif
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good morning friends. I wish everyone a wonderful day. :D
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy
I hope that work gets well paid. Is it a fulltime or a part-time/sideline job?
If you would do the treatments, surgeries and nursing too you could run that hospital on your own. :^)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
Happy St. Georges Day!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Happy St. Adalbert of Prague Day!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
Doesn't even say that on my computer's calendar. It usually tells me all the saints' days in the UK.
Ludania, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
How most people under the age of 18 become fascists:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/260965739266048000/437883763192496137/Screenshot_20171116-180611.jpg?width=192&height=300
Penguania And Antarctica
Most of the idiots chanting and saluting would be the first ones into the gas chambers. They wouldn't be considered intelligent enough for the gene pool.
Penguania And Antarctica
The Duchess of Cambridge just had another kid. I can smell your fury, Nuremgard
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Actually, I admit even I got a brief jolt of excitement when I saw she'd given birth to her baby. I didn't know he was due this month.
I don't wish ill on any mother or her baby so I'm glad they're both doing well.
I was hoping for a little nod to Scotland since one of the names put forward by the bookies was James. But he was born on St. George's Day so he'll be given an old, quintessentially English name.
Probably Arthur or Philip.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
Friedrich Wilhelm August :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
Would be fitting considering their German roots. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
Hello, all! I would just like to wish you all a happy St. George's Day! Sodor's St. George's Day celebrations aren't as big as they used to, since we're our own nation now, but we do still have them, since we still have close ties to the Mainland. I would also like to say congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their baby boy! I wish the royal family all the best!
It's funny, us and our crews actually have a little betting pool going over what the new baby will be named, and whichever engine has the same name as the new baby gets the pool. Since there are so many engines on Sodor with so many different names, we figure someone has to share a name with the new royal baby. Right now the likely names are James, Arthur, and Philip, so James The Red Engine, Arthur the Big Red Tank Engine, and Philip the Diesel Boxcab are all very excited. So are their respective crews. Me and my crew even threw a couple pounds into the pool, just in case William and Kate decide to go with a more unusual name like 'Percy'.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Percy's driver: Let's hope they don't go with that name. That would really wreck our betting pool!
Percy's fireman: Well, at least we wouldn't have to give out any money that way. Since nobody wins, nobody has to pay out.
Percy's driver: I suppose. Still, with all the engines on the Island of Sodor, it would be quite a shock if nobody wins.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
It would be interesting if Philip wins the pool. Considering how much he bragged about winning a 'race' with Gordon, you all would never hear the end of it if the royal baby is named Philip.
https://youtu.be/JKuYnoBYGBo?t=2s
There is actually someone with that name :P
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg
Jaslandia, Percyton
I went to the bookies and put a fiver on Albert
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I just think of a Prince Albert piercing when I hear that name. Piercings down there make me cringe.
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
They should call him Arthur and make him king :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton, The West Country
Eh. The last Arthur from English history died before he could become king.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
But he will be able to draw that sword out of the stone and will find the holy grail with his group of fearless knights. :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton, The West Country
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