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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I feel like if society collapsed he would probably find some washed up actors and preformers, get some wagons and start a circus. He seems the type.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Ah. Must have been darn auto-correct. But for what it's worth, I could see Tim Button being used as either a parody or self-insert name for Tim Burton.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
Never was a fan of WoT myself, and the unfortunate tendency of WWII to get locked up in a Miasma of "Ronson Shermans" and "Germany could have won" statements really makes me avoid them for fear of ranting, honestly.
I've written before about one of the myths about a German weapon that I myself consider maybe the most prevalent; that the AK-47 is a derivative of -or took massive amounts of tech from- the STG-44/45. That the two weapons only look somewhat similar and function on different breeds of mechanisms should really swing that old meme away...but I myself have had to elucidate on the matter a few times :///
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front
While I love NS and its Issues, sometimes I wish they accounted more for non-human leaders like myself. Just today, for example, I got an Issue about Percyton's leader (me) having children. Engines of course can't reproduce and have children. And while I do love children, adopting one and trying to raise one while doing my usual work wouldn't work well at all. I ended up just choosing the option I would've done if I were human.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I agree that in real life an engine raising a child wouldn't work. Still, I can only imagine the comedic potential of such an idea, like some sort of sitcom. I mean, we already got My Mother the Car, so why not My Father the Train?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mother_the_Car
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh my! That actually does sound kinda funny.
James: Let's not give any Percytonian TV executives any ideas, Percy. We already have one TV show, and I think that's quite enough!
Gordon: My Mother the Car? Where do people come up with these ideas? Were they on drugs?
Henry: It was the 60s, Gordon; everyone in America was on drugs.
Gordon: D*mn Yanks. You'd never see us Sudrians on drugs, no siree.
Henry: Ahem! The Killdane incident?
Gordon: Oh screw you, Henry!
Henry: *puffs away* Ha ha!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So is anyone planning on NOT going on a grand spree of conquest and murder?
Nuremgard, Lex Caledonia
I would say no but I have two imperialist nations.
Axeldonia
Goddamnit...
Nuremgard
Tangshan and Britain.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
And I though english history was complicated...
Jaslandia, Percyton
Thomas: Hell yeah!
No kidding! Though, Sodor is an English island, so I guess that's to be expected. And keep in mind, that article is basically a summary of Sudrian pre-railway history; the full story can be found in the book The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his brother George Awdry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Railway_Series_books#The_Island_of_Sodor:_Its_People.2C_History_and_Railways
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/The_Island_of_Sodor:_Its_People,_History_and_Railways
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I have my own UK. Ruled by the Stuarts and federalised.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Is anyone good at editing flags?
Russkov Soviet, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
I am ok at flags, depending on what you want
I have a Scottish union jack and I need an Irish harp or St Patrick's cross on it.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
I need my fire-crazed berserkers :p
Axeldonia
did you just say
F L A G S ?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
Y E S
I
D I D !
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
http://i65.tinypic.com/2pydcw2_th.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2z4hkli_th.png
http://i66.tinypic.com/v4z610_th.png
Here are some initial designs. Sorry for the poor... Well, everything, but it's the best thing I could whip up while on mobile at 03:30 in the morning.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Aww, thanks, man! That was really cool of you! I like the third one the best. Shame it's not bigger.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Did I ever get on the map/recognized?
I can pop a design as well.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Thanks! I have asked another guy to do one too. I like that one Axel made but the flag itself is too small. :(
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
No prob. Mind showing me the new one?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Current: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=imperial_great_britain_and_ireland
Axel: http://i66.tinypic.com/v4z610_th.png
Russkov Soviet
I approve xD
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The capital is in Edinburgh and the Scottish Stuart dynasty rules. :P
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
Nice. Speakng of Edinburgh, I'll be visiting said city Spring of 2018.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Nice! Dunno if you've been before but it's a beautiful city. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Donald: Bah! Auld Reekie is overrated, Ah say! If ye want a real treat, Ah suggest Glasgee.
Douglas: An' if ye dae gang tae Glasgee, mebbe stop by Glasgee Central railway station sometime? it was th' Glasgee terminus fur our auld railway th' Caledonian Railway, an' we used tae spend quite a bit of time thaur back when we worked in Scotland.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Sorry, guys, you don't need to bother making me a flag.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll fix you a big one tomorrow! Those where just concepts more than anything.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
It's alright, bud. I'm abandoning the UK. No need for the flag now. Thanks though!
I'm so fickle with my nations. :P
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh :/
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
In other news, I just recently took my first political compass test.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-8.63&soc=-7.33
Huh.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry! Thank you for the flags though. :)
Penguania And Antarctica
Comrade!
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
The burgeoise will never know what hit them
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I retook the test and corrected some things. Apparently I just wasn't left enought the last time.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-9.63&soc=-7.44
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey, how do you folks feel about non-nation RPers?
Andromitus
I would say I can just hide underground, but I have to worry about food, you mucking about my above ground trade routes, and basic pride ( ಥـْـِـِـِـْಥ)
I believe we've once had a person RP as a mercenary group and another as a Terrorist organization, so as long as you follow all the rules you'll be fine :D
They are s c u m
Penguania And Antarctica
You stop that!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Also, no telling all the glass and deserts will cause the weakening of the earth, or the very least, a bunch of Kyrans accidentally coming in and rampaging and raping everything in sight :p
Well then your stuck in a hole with 5 million very, very angry Veiamarr and a variety of equally pissed giant insects...
WELL GOOD LUCK WITH THAT :D
Pirate Kingdoms
I have a guy who I have RPed with before, he plays as an outlaw biker gang and he has been looking for a regional, I thought I might invite him.
Jaslandia, Andromitus
SCUM!
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
What is going on with VM's ammendment?
Also, to Home Secretary Vista_Major, I wish that Anglia Imperium is listed as puppet of mine. I created it to see things in NWA, an interesting region, and I could use it for our Diplomacy as well.
New West Atlantic?
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
The behaviour of the Spanish Government towards the people of Catalonia is disgusting. A dictatorship right at the heart of the supposedly democratic EU. I am bitterly disappointed that the EU is not taking Spain to task for this shocking suppression.
Ludania, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Confederal States
Franco: "Boy, no one will treat the Catalans worse than me!"
Current Spain: "Hold my beer"
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
I'm appalled. But the Spanish Gov has form in repressing its citizens. Franco would be proud.
Axeldonia, Confederal States
Honestly I'm not surprised. Over 300 people have already been injured in clashes.
I am surprised. Cant believe I'd see this kind of suppression in a modern European state in the 21st century.
I suppose you compare it with the Scottish one. But they are different. The scottish ref. was approved by both gov'ts AND WAS consitutional. The Catalan one is against the constitution, which forbids referemdums or other decisions like those, and has been ratified by Catalonia itself by a referendum. EU supports Spanish Gov't, and so does the Catalan regional High Court. The only one supporting the Catalans is Maduro
Edit: The 2nd highest approval vote in the Constitutional Referendum of 1978 was in CATALONIA!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_constitutional_referendum,_1978
I have never compared Scotland with Catalonia. The situations are totally different. I am still appalled. Clearly their constitution needs updating. And the EU is wrong for supporting the Spanish Gov.
Axeldonia
I didn't say that police should attack elderly sitting on pavements, but again, Catalan regional gov. could have organised it better, to avoid such things. They actually never told the federal gov. what they were planning to do. So yes, they should both have acted differently. And the constitution is fine. The american one has a similar provision too. Many states want seccesion, but they respect it
It doesn't matter how the Catalonians organised things. When the government is using riot police against its own citizens, it's lost the argument. There is only one side in the wrong here and that's the Spanish gov.
They could have allowed the referendum to happen peacefully and if it was a Yes vote, get Catalonians round the table with officials at Madrid to explain about the nuances of the constitution.
The government should be amending its constitution anyway. But they wont. They know Catalonia is a wealthy region of Spain. They wont let them secede.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
The referendum is also against the Catalan statutes of autonomy, which were approved by referendum as well. The required majority is 2/3 in parliament for such a referendum, while it was enacted though a simple one. And they should have gotten round the table before the referendum, to discuss proposals, not after it. If that happened, perhaps greater autonomy could have been achieved without any bloody riots
I'm still disgusted by Madrid's response. Next time I go on holiday, I don't think it'll be to Spain!
Axeldonia
Well I don't think that any of us will change his mind, so good move to change the topic. I was thinking of Italy (for holiday)
I currently don't have the cash to go on holiday.
Student hardships. I thought this only happened in Greece
I'm not struggling for money at the moment. I just have no savings at the moment. I spent them all in the summer on bills and tax.
Cesorion
Out protesting at the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh. First time ever doing it! Any of you folks protested before?
Ludania, Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Confederal States
Never been to a protest before but I'm with you in spirit, man!
Lex Caledonia, Confederal States
I allow people to use fireworks in my new country and it destroys my environment. F*ck you, NS.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
Who occupies the third SCJ seat???
Percyton
No one, we've yet to hit an election to place someone back into it after CC left. It will presumably happen with the next election.
Percyton, Cesorion
That's what I thought. Time to start considering running for it.
Percyton
Finally nearing my Widely Abused status for Political Freedom again!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Percyton, Cesorion
[spoiler=Today is October 1 and today are:]
Today is October 1 and today are:
- Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
- Balloons Around the World Day
- CD Player Day
- Change a Light
- Children's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka)
- Chuuk Constitution Day (Micronesia)
- Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day
- Day of Prosecutors (Azerbaijan)
- Elders' Day (Mongolia)
- Fire Pup Day
- Ground Forces Day (Russia)
- Independence Day (Cyprus)
- Independence Day (Palau)
- Independence Day (Nigeria)
- Independence Day (Tuvalu)
- Intergeneration Day
- International African Diaspora Day
- International Blessings of the Fishing Fleet Day
- International Coffee Day
- International Day of Older Persons
- International Music Day
- International Raccoon Appreciation Day
- Less than Perfect Day
- Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom)
- Model T Day
- National Black Dog Day (United States)
- National Book It Day (United States)
- National Day of the People's Republic of China (China, Hong Kong)
- National Hair Day (United States)
- National Homemade Cookies Day (United States)
- National Lace Day (United States)
- National Walk Your Dog Day (United States)
- Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia)
- Teacher's Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- Unification Day (Cameroon)
- World Ballet Day
- World Communion Day
- World Vegetarian Day
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[spoiler=October is observed as:]
October is observed as:
- Adopt a Dog Month
- Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
- Agent Orange Awareness Month
- American Cheese Month
- American Magazine Month
- American Pharmacists Month
- Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
- Bat Appreciation Month
- Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
- Campaign for Healthier Babies Month
- Car Care Month
- Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month
- Celiac Disease Awareness Month
- Celiac Sprue Awareness Month
- Child Health Month
- Children's Magazine Month
- Christmas Seal Campaign
- Church Library Month
- Church Safety and Security Month
- Class Reunion Month
- Clergy Appreciation Month
- Computer Learning Month
- Consumer Information Month
- Cookbook Month
- Co-op Awareness Month
- Country Music Month
- Cut Out Dissection Month
- Diversity Awareness Month
- Dollhouse & Miniatures Month
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- Dwarfism Awareness Month
- Dyslexia Awareness Month
- Eat Better, Eat Together Month
- Eat Country Ham Month
- Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
- Emotional Wellness Month
- Employee Ownership Month
- Energy Awareness Month
- Energy Management is a Family Affair - Improve Your Home Month
- Eye Injury Prevention Month
- Fair Trade Month
- Family Health Month
- Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
- Financial Planning Month
- Fire Prevention Month
- Gay and Lesbian History Month
- German-American Heritage Month
- Global ADHD Awareness Month
- Global Diversity Awareness Month
- Go Hog Wild-Eat Country Ham Month
- Halloween Safety Month
- Head Start Awareness Month
- Health Literacy Month
- Healthy Lung Month
- Home Eye Safety Month
- Hunger Awareness Month
- International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)
- International Starman Month
- International Strategic Planning Month
- International Walk to School Month
- Italian-American Heritage Month
- Learn to Bowl Month
- LGBT History Month
- Long-Term Care Planning Month
- Lupus Awareness Month
- Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
- Mental Illness Awareness Month
- Month of Free Thought
- National AIDS Awareness Month
- National Animal Safety and Protection Month
- National Apple Month
- National Applejack Month
- National Arts and Humanities Month
- National Audiology Awareness Month
- National Bake and Decorate Month
- National Book Month
- National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
- National Caramel Month
- National Chili Month
- National Chiropractic Health Month
- National Cookie Month
- National Crime Prevention Month
- National Critical Illness Awareness Month
- National Cyber Security Awareness Month
- National Dental Hygiene Month
- National Depression Education and Awareness Month
- National Dessert Month
- National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
- National Ergonomics Month
- National Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk
- National Farm to School Month
- National Field Trip Month
- National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
- National Go on a Field Trip Month
- National Kitchen and Bath Month
- National Liver Awareness Month
- National Medical Librarians Month
- National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
- National Orthodontic Health Month
- National Pasta Month
- National Pet Wellness Month
- National Physical Therapy Month
- National Pickled Peppers Month
- National Pit Bull Awareness Month
- National Pizza Month
- National Popcorn Month
- National Popcorn Poppin' Month
- National Pork Month
- National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
- National Pretzel Month
- National Protect Your Hearing Month
- National Reading Group Month
- National Roller Skating Month
- National RSV Awareness Month
- National Sarcastic Awareness Month
- National Seafood Month
- National Service Dog Month
- National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
- National Spinning & Weaving Month
- National Stamp Collecting Month
- National Stop Bullying Month
- National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
- National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
- National Toilet Tank Repair Month
- National Window Covering Safety Month
- National Work and Family Month
- Organize Your Medical Information Month
- Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month
- Pear and Pineapple Month
- Persimmons Month
- Photographer Appreciation Month
- Polish-American Heritage Month
- Positive Attitude Month
- Quality Month
- Raptor Month
- Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
- Rhizomes Month
- Right Brainers Rule Month
- Sausage Month
- Self-Promotion Month
- Sexuality Education Month
- SIDS, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
- Spina Bifida Prevention Month
- Spinach Lovers Month
- Spinal Health Month
- Squirrel Awareness and Appreciation Month
- Stress Awareness Month
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Month
- Tackling Hunger Month
- Talk about Prescriptions Month
- UNICEF Month
- Vegetarian Awareness Month
- Vegetarian Month
- Wishbones for Pets Month
- Women Walking in Their Own Shoes Month
- Workplace Politics Awareness Month
- World Animal Month
- World Blindness Awareness Month
- World Menopause Month
- Workplace Politics Awareness Month
- Youth Against Tobacco Month
Note: All month observances with "National" are observances of the United States of America.
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- 366 Pope Damasus I is elected.
- 959 Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
- 965 Pope John XIII is elected.
- 1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
- 1588 Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.
- 1730 Ahmed III was forced to give up the throne.
- 1787 Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
- 1791 First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
- 1795 The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) annexed by Revolutionary France
- 1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- 1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
- 1827 Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
- 1829 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
- 1832 Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas
- 1843 The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
- 1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
- 1861 Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
- 1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
- 1887 Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
- 1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1891 Stanford University opens its doors in California.
- 1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
- 1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
- 1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
- 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
- 1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.
- 1918 Sayid Abdullah became last Khan of Khiva.
- 1920 Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.
- 1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
- 1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
- 1931 Spain adopted women's suffrage.
- 1936 Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- 1937 The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- 1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- 1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
- 1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
- 1942 World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- 1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
- 1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
- 1946 Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
- 1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- 1949 The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
- 1955 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established.
- 1957 First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
- 1958 NASA is created to replace NACA.
- 1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1961 The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
- 1961 East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 1962 First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- 1964 The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
- 1964 Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
- 1965 General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
- 1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
- 1968 The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
- 1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- 1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
- 1975 The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
- 1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- 1975 Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
- 1978 Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
- 1979 Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
- 1979 The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
- 1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
- 1982 Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
- 1982 Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
- 1983 One man is killed and 26 people injured when multiple bombs destroyed the American, Soviet and Algerian pavilions at an international trade fair in Marseilles. ASALA took responsibility for the attack.
- 1985 The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.
- 1987 The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
- 1989 Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
- 1991 The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
- 1992 Cartoon Network launched.
- 1994 Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
- 2001 Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
- 2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
- 2009 Thorbjørn Jagland became Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
- 2012 A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
- 2014 A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
- 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting: A gunman killed nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.
- 2015 Heavy rains triggered a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people.
- 2016 The Western Bulldogs win their first Australian Football League grand final in 62 years.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 208 Alexander Severus, Roman emperor
- 1207 Henry III of England
- 1685 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1881 William Boeing, American engineer and businessman, founded the Boeing Company
- 1895 Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1903 Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer
- 1910 Bonnie Parker, American criminal
- 1920 Walter Matthau, American actor
- 1924 William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1924 Jimmy Carter, American lieutenant and politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 George Peppard, American actor
- 1930 Richard Harris, Irish actor
- 1930 Philippe Noiret, French actor
- 1935 Julie Andrews, English actress and singer
- 1942 Günter Wallraff, German undercover journalist and author
- 1947 Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 André Rieu, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor
- 1953 Klaus Wowereit, German civil servant and politician, former Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 1956 Theresa May, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1959 Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer-songwriter, musician, and politician
- 1966 George Weah, Liberian footballer and politician
- 1969 Zach Galifianakis, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
- 1989 Brie Larson, American actress
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Quote of the day
Its never too late to be who you might have been.
- George Eliot -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Kalaron, Percyton, James The Red Engine
I've decided to remake my flag with my ideological leanings properly established.
D I R E C T R U L E F R O M G R E Z N J E V
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
So how are things going to be working in the new Commune?
Axeldonia, Percyton
Why is it when you make a new country, NS always gives you economic and fiscal issues that you know will f*ck over your economy if you take the option to help the poor?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine
The main administrative entity from now on will be voluntary peasant/workers councils that each elect a (temporary and instantly revocable) delegate, who in turn can meet other elected delegates and vote on an additonal delegate to run things. This basically goes on until you've got a delegate in all positions that needs filling. The autonomous Republics have decied to voluntarily remain part of Axeldonia in international eyes, making it more like a confederation than an federation or unitary state.
Percyton
You mean budget time? I simply select the option with the tax cut
The Wyoming Peoples Front
So like a more decentral version what (theoretically) Trotsky's USSR would have been?
Axeldonia
I suppose. I'm not so certain of what people I agree with, but I've found anarcho-communism resonates with me the most ideology-wise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism
Andromitus
Not just the budget issue. In my new nation, I got an issue of fast food workers protesting for better pay.
Cesorion
IRL I an a pretty staunch libertarian, my idea of the perfect federal government is pretty much a post office, a printing press, two judges and an accountant for every 5000 people.
Andromitus
I'm with Hobbes in the sense that I think humans are sh!tty by nature and need a state to keep them in line. But I am also with Locke in the sense of keeping that state in check. And I'm also a leftist when it comes to the government providing public services.
Staunch Socialist on my end :D
Nuremgard
I coulda just said that and made my post shorter lol
Andromitus
Gosh Nurem!
Although I should add that I'm a filthy Revisionist; My song basically goes that scientific advancement will force Communist reforms
#RevolutionsAreMessyAndGross
Nuremgard
Sometimes revolutions are necessary.
I don't disagree that there needs to be atleast a somewhat larger government than what I described , but in the USA what I described is essentially the authorized power of the Federal Government as an entity.
Individual states have the right to organize themselves in varying degrees of governmental size and scope but the Fed is supposed to be an incredibly limited, ineffective and impotent entity.
The FF might have envisioned it that way but that's not how the state has evolved. I think they'd spin in their graves if they could see the modern US and how it has turned out.
Confederal States
And that's how I like my government... Impotent, flacid, wrinkly politicians spending their own money debating how they are going to convince us to spend ours.
The beautiful thing about the American Federal system as it was originally envisioned is that if say California wanted to be a full on socialist planned state with state held land trusts and the like, they totally could. And right next door Nevada can be an anarcho capitalist union with corporate bargaining, legal everything and protectionist trust laws and there is absolutely no reason that they can't be represented on the world stage by the same United entity as a Cubano-Jewish oligarchy in Florida, sporting no minimum wage and thousands of golf courses and resorts.
Don't like the laws in your particular state, right to travel says you can just pick up and go to one that fits "you"
The pursuit of happiness in 50 flavors.
A period of unprecedented peace and prosperity in Spanelsko has seen your personal approval rate sky-rocket. Recently, a small but growing movement has emerged claiming that these general good times are the result of your divine favour, and are advocating that the people worship you as a god.
well i must say i didnt expect this.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
All hail the glorious Leader, giver of safety and wealth! shouts Natalie Dodinas, the Prefect of the Cult of Divine Nationalism from atop a wooden crate in Spanelsko City Grand Plaza. Are not the might and benevolence of the holy Leader manifest for all to see? Should we not respond in humble worship? Proclaim your divinity before all, O Great One, and your people shall listen!
Best issue ever..... from Dictator to God of Dictators. GG
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Wyoming Peoples Front, South Hyder
Lol
Penguania And Antarctica
All hail our glorious Leader... or face eternal punishment! shouts a wide-eyed bearded man in sack cloth waving a greasy tract. Pay no heed to these sectarians, my liege, they have departed from the way of truth! Only we, of the Cult of Nationalist Divinity, have remained faithful in the face of their slanderous impiety. We know you to be an uncompromising and demanding god, intolerant of all false doctrine. We stand ready to convert the masses to your worship, by lethal force if necessary! Starting, of course, with the insufferable heretics of the Cult of Divine Nationalism!
Nationalists killing other nationalists in the name of a leader leading nazbols while believing he is a god. I think my people are even more insane then i am.....
Jaslandia
On a less serious note, I should start researching geothermal power in yellow Stone
Percyton
Maybe just build geothermal heated greenhouses in Yellowstone to supply produce year round.
Percyton
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