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astorythatwritesitself · 8 months ago

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Survivor's Guilt

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Title: Survivor's Guilt Fandom: Mass Effect Rating: T Length: 2,634 Content notes: Xenophobic (as applied to non-human ME species) rhetoric, general Cerberus bullshittery, Poor Parenting I guess? Summary: A general, an ambassador, and a commander walk into a bar to discuss the most important part of any tragedy: How will this look to the wider galactic scene?

Characters: Hannah Shepard, Donnel Udina, Original Human Character(s)

Tags: Cerberus (Mass Effect), Akuze (Mass Effect), I feel Hannah's whole... Deal here needs a CW but fuck if I know how to describe it, Contempt for your kid? Xenophobia?

Addy's fighting for her life, and I'm raiding the bar in a fucking penthouse.

The situation will be what it is either way, though, so why bother facing it sober? Hannah snatches up a good-looking bourbon and considers the glasses neatly lined up along the counter.

Donnel and Sandra walk in to her taking a swig straight from the bottle.

“Is this… necessary, Shepard?” Don says, while the General takes the nearest stool and buries her face in her hands.

“Oh, absolutely, Ambassador,” Hannah says with a sharp laugh. “We've lost a colony. We've lost a lot of good soldiers, and the one we have left is-”

“Would you care to share, Hannah?” Sandra says, mostly drowning out Don's muttering of something to the effect of ‘political nightmare’.

“Get your own. It's not your kid patched up like a quarian ship out there, is it?”

Her eyes sting.

Her throat burns.

It's just the alcohol, Hannah tells herself.

For a few moments there's nothing but the sounds of Hannah rummaging for a glass and some ice, while Sandra pours herself a healthy dose of wine. Don opts for a bottle of water. Hannah considers doing the same - should do the same, she’s not exactly young anymore, even the one pull there means a hell of a headache awaits her tomorrow.

This entire month has been headache enough already. Raids and pirates and smugglers galore, the Council giving humanity the shaft yet again by refusing to allot the barest of resources, refusing any allowance for more troops in this sector or that one - but being ever so eager to allow the Alliance to push forward on some new class of ship, so long as those plucked-chicken shits were involved in every step, and now -

Hannah pours a double shot and downs it like the crap she used to smuggle onto campus back in Kingston, pointedly ignoring how much of it ends up on her sleeve as she pours one more.

It's Don who finally breaks the silence. “How do we even begin to approach something like this?” he says. The calm in his voice is borderline offensive.

“Carefully?” Sandra replies, removing her glasses and pinching the bridge of her nose. “We start from the top -”

“We lost a colony,” Don shoots back. “That's bad enough - we could have recovered from that. Even the asari have lost colonies in the Traverse. Losing so many soldiers on top of it-”

“To threshers. Everyone is afraid of those things-”

“Which is precisely why they know to look out for them!” Don storms forward, slamming a fist on the countertop, hard enough to make the ice rattle in Hannah's glass. “To avoid them! While we, instead, build a town on top of a nest, without having the slightest idea of their presence! How on Earth must that look?”

God, is that all it's ever going to come back to? Hannah thinks, taking a slow sip and rubbing her temples as Don and Sandra continue bickering. Image - it always comes back to the image. She'd joined the Alliance to advance humanity and leave a legacy to the stars. Joined with the C's after Shanxi turned those dreams into a nightmare of survival, stayed on as they became Cerberus, because it was clear the Alliance wouldn't do enough, not when it could make them look bad to some glorified animals who'd happened to get their first. Days and weeks and years of bureaucratic bullshit, while innocent people got rounded up and branded and sold like cattle-

And yet here you are, sitting pretty in the PR department after all, she thinks, closing her eyes. The other projects advanced humanity, but here were the lucky bastards who had to make sure they looked good doing it; two Alliance grunts and a politician who'd made Hannah genuinely consider snorting her weight in red sand, just to flip him upside down and see if that'd shut him up for a few minutes.

“Do you have anything to contribute, Shepard?”

Speak of the goddamned devil.

“Oh, I think I've contributed plenty to the situation already,” Hannah says through a wretched sort of smile, one that only grows as Donnel's expression sours further.

Sandra, meanwhile, has started pacing. “No matter what, we need to do some damage control - we're not going to come out of this looking good, but something like this could absolutely tank colony enrollment, among other things. Could go as low as after Mindoir. Lower, even, this is the second major hit inside of two years…”

“Exactly. Why in god's name would anyone even want to be a colonist at this point?” Hannah snorts. “Leave the comforts of Sol for a rural pisswater that makes Earth's slums look luxurious in comparison, and if you're lucky, you can assist smugglers and pirates for a few credits! Lord knows the Alliance can't help you, we're spread so thin we can barely hold ourselves together; and the Council won't help us, because god forbid they take some responsibility for bombarding a new species who had no idea they had stumbled into someone else's backyard. Now they tell us we can't make so many ships, can't go here or there without risking interstellar incident; but oh, we're useful guns to take out their fucking four-eyed problems, so they dangle just enough help until the Alliance is in too deep to actually pull out, and we're too damn scared to say fuck them all and strike out on our own.”

“That would be suicide at this point, anyway,” Sandra says, shaking her head. “That's why we need someone in their ranks - they've got a millennia’s head start, but that's all they have on us- god.” She rubs her forehead and leans against the wall. “Can we just blame Anderson for this?”

“Get in line,” Hannah mutters, glancing over at Donnel, who looks rather like he's chewing his own tongue for a moment.

“His being a Spectre wouldn't have made a difference in this situation,” he finally says.

“Might've. Fourteen years is a long time - we could have more weight in decisions. More information. Even if the Alliance's general standing didn't increase, we could have sent him - or another one; I imagine if he'd succeeded, we'd have at least one more by now - in alone, instead of an inexperienced lot-”

“With all due respect, ma'am, shut the fuck up. You know damn well we wouldn't have sent a Spectre even if we had one,” Hannah snaps, raking a hand through her hair. “Yes, the colony went dark, but how the fuck were we supposed to know what was down there? Akuze has never even been targeted by pirates, it was supposed t-” Her breath hitches, and for a moment her voice won't work, and when it does, it's so quiet, there's no hiding how it shakes. “It was supposed to be safe, goddamn it.”

All those families. All those kids.

It's too long before Sandra speaks up again, and Hannah nearly misses the words anyway. Too busy trying to tally up all the names.

“You raise a fair point, Shepard,” the general says in a measured, thoughtful sort of voice. “Udina - you're also right, everyone else knows to keep away from the threshers. That's… likely why Akuze was so quiet, now that I think about it. But do we know what to look for? From orbit, or on the ground? Could we have prevented it in the first place?”

“The most I've ever heard is to be suspicious of flat circles,” Hannah shrugs. “Nothing about how to detect them from orbit, god no. Seismic readings are the most we can get for any lead time.”

“Both the settlement and the unit's camp were on a hill, correct?”

“Yeah.”

“Then we'll work with that,” Sandra says briskly. “It's not much, but it is honest - we genuinely had no idea what to be wary of, and if anyone else did have any clue… well, clearly, they didn't think we needed to know.”

“A tragedy,” Don says, and Hannah wants to throw the watered-down remains of her drink in his face at that tone, that smarmy, holier-than-thou tone all politicians got. “A tragic, fatal mistake. The Alliance, naturally, will do all in its power to prevent such another lapse of information - but will the Council do its part? Will they deign to share their knowledge with the newest additions to the galactic community, or will they show that they simply want us out of the way?” He sighs, shaking his head. “It's as good a start as any, I suppose.”

“Might wanna omit that last part for the masses, but cheers otherwise,” Hannah says, forcing herself to down most of what remained in her glass.

“Then, the next matter-”

Oh, motherfucker, you’d better not-

“Shepard. Do we know yet, if she will pull through?”

“Adrian's stable. It looks like the grafts should take,” Hannah says, staring into her glass and gripping it far tighter than is necessary. Deep, slow breaths, she tells herself, but god it's hard to do that and conjure up her husband's voice as he'd rattled off the assessment. “Damage was. Mild, all things considered. Deepest injuries were to her head and neck, but nothing debilitating, nothing some weaves and metal can't patch up. She inhaled some of it, even, but they're pretty sure she'll be able to breathe on her own, once they can take her off the sedatives, doesn't appear to be any irreparable damage. Just some scarring to her throat.

“By current projection - if there are no surprises, she should be physically fit within a month. Isn’t that lucky? But it's only three days in, who knows what the aftereffects could be? We barely know how to detect those things, much less what happens if anyone survives.”

She stares into the glass, into her own murky reflection, trying to shut out Don's relieved sigh. Trying to shut out the question she knows is coming, trying to shut out the subsequent thought, because it is such a terrible, hideous thing, but -

“Do either of you have any idea what will come down, then?” he asks.

God, it would just be so much easier, if Addy had died as well.

“Still in the air.” Sandra at least has the grace to sound somber. “The reports are still… I'm still going over the data, as it were, and discounting Shepard herself, the three of us are the only ones who know the exact… circumstances…”

“Oh, just fucking spit it out. It looks like Adrian fell asleep on her watch, and then abandoned her fucking unit to the worms, is that so goddamn hard to say?”

“But she did send the distress call before they surfaced-”

“Oh yeah, a whole two minutes before; if she'd been awake and paying attention-"

“- and who in their right mind would blame anyone for running in those conditions? We have provisions for extraordinary, unprecedented, or unforeseen circumstances-”

“Which is great for avoiding a court-martial, but how the fuck is that going to sound to those freaks who've been watching her?!” Hannah pounds the countertop, just barely resisting the urge to shatter the glass instead; god but she just wants to see something break.

Don sinks onto the stool beside her. Slowly, fucking primly, he takes another glass and the bottle, pouring out a drink with shaking hands.

“Fourteen years,” he finally says, barely more than a whisper. “Fourteen years before they even thought to give us another chance. Shepard was our best hope, now…”

Now we're lucky if we get one in our lifetimes, Hannah thinks. The alcohol's finally working, it seems, because the thought conjures nothing but a numb, detached disappointment. At the situation, yes - but mostly, (and she's less loath to admit this to herself) at Adrian. The only child she'd ever have, and goddamn blessed - sturdy, smart, strong. Stellar aim. A human biotic who could make some true use of the skills, and what did she do with it? Tech, medicine and diplomacy; thank god she'd at least found the idea of sabotage as interesting as negotiation, enough to accept those invitations to the villa-

God. Would that still continue, after this?

“Shepard is our best candidate,” Sandra says. The words almost echo, the silence had been so complete. “She saved those aliens during Elysium, when their own kind were willing to let them be collateral damage, the Council loved that. The exact details of Akuze can be sealed - the important question is, would she say anything?”

Hannah closes her eyes, considering - Adrian could be so goddamn stubborn sometimes, but… “I don't think so,” she says. “I’m not positive - but I'm fairly sure, especially if I can talk to her when she wakes up.”

“If she can keep this quiet, then so will the Alliance,” Sandra says. “No demerits. N training remains open. We treat this as nothing more than the tragedy it is. We had no way of knowing the worms were there. There was no time to evacuate, they struck before she could distinguish them from an errant tremor. Circumstances being what they were, Shepard made a call no officer should ever make, let alone one so new to the position, and it ensured there was a survivor to even tell the tale.” The general nods, almost smiling now. “We could even play this nicely to the Council species - at the Alliance's expense, unfortunately, but personally I'd rather one of ours among their ranks, get us into shaping policy instead of being shaped by it. The asari will patronize us no matter what, so why not use that? Shepard's barely more than an infant so far as they're concerned, let them pity her. The salarians might have some respect if we frame it as a tactical retreat, they're always criticizing our refusal to admit defeat.”

“And the turians?” Don asks.

“Oh they'll blame the Alliance no matter what,” Hannah says, surprising even herself with a downright chipper tone. “Hell, we could tell them the whole thing down to the last detail, and those idiots wouldn't put any of the blame on Adrian either way. It's always on the superior officers for not knowing if a recruit isn't ready - now how in the fuck are you supposed to know that before put them out there?”

“Correct, if not the most… eloquently put,” Sandra says, narrowing her eyes slightly as they meet Hannah's. “The Alliance takes the brunt of the blame, and Shepard… well. Everyone's afraid of the thresher maws - even batarians, even the krogan. Yet here's one of ours, alive and fairly well in the grand scheme of things, after being ambushed by a nest of them… quite the angle, isn't it?”

“I suppose,” Don says, though his expression still looks grim. “This is, of course, assuming Shepard recovers, and that she's found mentally sound - “

“This isn’t gonna break my kid, Christ,” Hannah says, heedless of how the words begin to run into each other.

“- what's to say this won’t happen again?”

“I might’ve raised a fool, Donnel, but I didn't raise an idiot.” Hannah pushes away from the counter, getting unsteadily to her feet. It sounds like they've got a handle of things, no sense exhausting herself further, not when there's a hangover in the works. Not when she has more work in store later on. “Adrian knows better than to make the same mistakes twice. Hell, if I were a betting woman? I'd say she'd rather die before let herself fuck up like this again.

“So long as she does it after we've got another candidate or a Council seat- and she doesn’t pull stunts like Harkin in the meantime- I’m content. Now goodnight, Ambassador, General. I’d like to get some rest before heading out to the hospital."

#my writing #mass effect #mass effect fanfic #hannah shepard #happy mother's day weekend lmao my Hannah is uh.#well sometimes the leader of the SSV Daddy Issues can have Mommy Issues instead; as a treat

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obsessedwithlarkin · 2 months ago

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WELL KNOWN DANCERS COMPETING AT 24/7 KNOXVILLE:

CSPAS:

•Tessa Horan - Home To You

CLUB DANCE:

• Aspen Brandt- TBD

• Ellary Day Szyndlar- TBD

• Grace Vanko - At Peace

DANCE DESIGNS DANCE COMPLEX:

• Dakota Kniss - At Last

• Kenzie Busing- The Streamess

DANCE UNLIMITED:

•Amaya Rodriguez- Wildfire

EPIC:

•Avery Altobelli - TBD

LEGACY:

•Madeline Fossick- Glass

ROCKSTAR:

• Audrey Russel - Without Rain

SCENIC CITY DANCE:

• Ansley Matchak - Unknown Control

• Mila Manoni - Beneath The Surface

SPOTLITE:

•Ayla Miller - How Sweet It Is

• Charlee Bartholetti - Money

• Kingston Baker - That's What I Like

• Emma Kate Caires - Knife

• Anslee Caires - New Attitude

• Dakota Casteel- Thule

• Calleigh Eaton- 1977

• Charlotte Waters - Wake Up

• Evie Bartholetti - One Way Or Another

STARS:

• Reese Braga - Crossing Over

THE SOUTHERN STRUTT:

TBA's for:

• Sloane Hall

• Marley Evans

• Brinley Evans

• Collins Glenn

• Addie Goodwin

• Harper Snell

TRAINING WITH NISA:

Bentley Doppler- Fleur

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blueberryomega · 1 year ago

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VICIOUS (The Series) Part 2

Pairing: Female and male OC (Male OC was my husband's idea) x AEW Superstars

Summary: Audrey Nolan, an almost 23-year-old woman, comes to AEW with the simple fact of fulfilling her dream of being a wrestler, inspired by Chyna, her favorite wrestler. But as time goes by, she feels her dream destroyed by people who judge her because of her gender.

Warning: strong language, may contain sex.

Audience: 18+ [minors do not interact]

I don't own any gifs, photos or brands posted here. This is just a fanfiction! Don't like it? Go away and don't read it. That's it.

The night fell, Audrey did what she could to strengthen herself. Listening to "Limbo" by Daddy Yankee inspired her all night. She was thinking about Eddie all day, he was one of her several favorite wrestlers and she saw him as a dad figure. She still couldn't believe that that happened on that day, of all the bad things she faced before she could marry Jay. Someone started knocking on the door, it was Scarlett. She came as if she were a boxing coach.

"Good evening Audrey." She said.

"Hey, you look like a boxing coach." Audrey reacted. "What for?"

"To train you. I had a conversation with Jay and he told me that you don't jump rope or do any flips. I thought you were more or less a Rey Mysterio... I don't know, a Jeff Hardy... more or less like that."

"Scar, I'm not crazy enough to do all that shit. I wanted to be more or less half taekwondo and half boxing. I don't know... but not to be a high flyer. Forget about that, gurl."

"My biggest goal was for you to do at least some fucking clotheslines at least..."

"Well, I can do clotheslines. But forget about making Swantons."

Scarlett and Audrey went to a separate ring to start training.

"Great." Scarlett smiled. "Kenny, come here."

Audrey smiled, watching Kenny enter. He noticed that he was in recovery, but at the same time he wanted to see the Nolans' talent.

"Hello Audrey." He greeted her, making her feel nervous. "Hey, don't be like that. I'm not going to do anything to you."

She gave a sigh. "Hello... Kenny."

Scarlett smiled. "The only reason he came is to see what you learned during your training. Now try giving a kick."

Audrey raised her leg to try a kick, having a memory in her mind. "Addy.. are you okay?"

"I think...did I do it right?"

Kenny smiled. "You did pretty well, although you need to practice a little more."

"Let's see Audrey, how long have you not practiced?"

"Since...since I was in my third year of high school. I haven't practiced in a long time."

Kenny looked at Scarlett. "Go train her, she needs a little more efficiency."

Audrey started to feel bad. "I think so..."

"Hey, you're doing it well, but you need to get back that same energy you had when you did your first practice. That way you'll come out cool and give that fucker Claudio a hard time."

Kenny stood up gently, leaving the entire area. Audrey felt embarrassed by what The One Winged Angel did to her wrestling moves.

"It's better to stay as manager." She thought to herself and left.

Meanwhile with the BCC...

Claudio was sitting on a couch, upset along with Wheeler Yuta, Jon Moxley, and Bryan Danielson.

"Do you know what started bothering me about that tomboy Audrey? That she starts defending that shitty Eddie. I'm sick of it."

Jon rolled his eyes. "Here we go again."

"What's up? You got a problem?"

"Dude, everything about Eddie pisses you off, even the new girl pisses you off."

"More like the male pisses me off."

Wheeler crossed his arms. "Wasn't she the tomboy?"

Claudio roared. "IT'S THE SAME SHIT YOU BITCH, SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"

"That's enough Claudio." Mox commanded. "If you don't want any trouble with Eddie, don't mess with the tomboy. Listen to me. Use your head to think instead of shining a light on it."

Claudio took a breath. "If that will prevent me from seeing the male, then fine. But the problem is with her, not with Kingston."

"You seriously are an idiot... you know what? Do whatever you want, but remember that I told you so. Don't come crawling then."

.............................................................

Audrey was sitting in a chair backstage, looking at a photo of her husband and her at their wedding. A happy tear was shed, making him hug the photo.

"AUDREY!" Jay ran towards her. "Hey baby girl. How was today?"

Audrey looked at her husband. "Good... all good." .

"Hey... Scarlett told me that you need to do a little more training, since your 'twin' evaluated you."

"Honey, I don't know if I can do it."

"Why's that?"

"It's just... I don't feel capable of doing such a thing."

"Baby, of course you can. It takes as long as it takes, but that's okay. At least you'll be my manager until you're completely ready." Jay put his hands on Audrey's shoulders. "I love you Drey, you are everything to me... you are my entire life, and the first thing I told you before we got married would be to make your dreams come true and do everything... to see you happy."

"My love." She smiled, giving him a kiss on the cheek.

Jay winked. "Let's go to the locker." He whispered, scooping his wife into his arms and kissing her passionately.

Both went to the locker room, Jay placed Audrey's body in the couch, locking the door completely and running to kiss her, then starting to take off her clothes.

"Damn baby..." Jay smirked, as his voice deepened. "I started to miss those big juicy tits... that fat pussy... and those clapping cheeks. Gosh mami."

"You like how it is now papi?" Audrey looked at him.

"Of course, I've always like that hot body of yours. It..." Jay removed all of his clothes, placing himself on top of his wife and holding his hands on the couch. "It drives me crazy how big you get every fucking day baby girl. Fuck... I want you."

Both laughed, kissing like they were devouring themselves, as Jay started squeezing Audrey's boobs. Audrey started letting out a moan while letting herself get dominant by her husband. Jay's hands ran towards her neck, squeezing it lightly and seeing how her eyes grew big.

"Papi.." Audrey moaned, about to yell. Jay's free hand ran right towards her pussy, starting to rub her clit fast, making her moan harder.

"Fuck mami, you're so fucking wet.. wet, sexy, and all juicy just for papi."

He stopped for a minute, getting up and jerking off his cock, right before putting it in Audrey's pussy. She let out a gasp, feeling him deeper inside of her.

Jay started fucking her, squeezing her neck softly as he does. Audrey's moans where about to turn into screams.

"Jay!!" She screamed, rolling her eyes and burying her back on the couch.

He chuckled, leaning down on her ear. "Now everybody in this roaster knows who own you.. you're such a great girl."

Jay's deepened voice turned Audrey on, making her jiggle her boobs while she was getting fucked.

"Mami..." Jay took a breath. "Mami.. I'm close... i'm close to make a fucking mess in you."

"Cum in me papi." Audrey begged. "Cum in me..."

Jay's pace went faster, as Audrey's screams were louder. Then he came deep inside of her, removing his cook and shooting cum all over his wife's boobs.

Jay's body collapsed, and same did Audrey's. Both laughed and kissed, as they put on a blanket and both of them felt asleep.

TO BE CONTINUED...

#aew #nolan couple #eddie kingston #claudio castagnoli #kenny omega #brandon cutler #jon moxley #wheeler yuta #aew fanfiction #eddie kingston fanfiction #claudio castagnoli fanfiction #kenny omega fanfiction #brandon cutler fanfiction #jon moxley fanfiction #wheeler yuta fanfiction

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transparentgentlemenmarker · 1 year ago

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Les 6 continents du monde sont :

L' Afrique

L' Amérique

L' Asie

L' Europe

L' Océanie

L' Antartique.

ILS SONT COMPOSÉS DE PAYS D'ONT VOICI LEURS CAPITALES

1- AFRIQUE

Afrique du Sud: *Pretoria

Algérie: *Alger

Angola: *Luanda

Bénin: *Porto-Novo

Botswana: *Gaborone

Burkina Faso: *Ouagadougou

Burundi: *Bujumbura

Cameroun: *Yaoundé

Cap-Vert: *Praia

Comores: *Moroni

Congo: *Brazzaville

Côte d'Ivoire: *Yamoussoukro

Djibouti: *Djibouti

Egypte: *Le Caire

Erythrée: *Asmara

Ethiopie: *Addis-Abeba

Gabon: *Libreville

Gambie: *Banjul

Ghana: *Accra

Guinée: *Conakry

Guinée équatoriale *Malabo

Guinée-Bissau: *Bissau

Île Maurice: *Port Louis

Kenya: *Nairobi

Lesotho: *Maseru

Liberia: *Monrovia

Libye: *Tripoli

Madagascar: *Antananarivo

Malawi: *Lilongwe

Mali: *Bamako

Maroc: *Rabat

Mauritanie: *Nouakchott

Mozambique: *Maputo

Namibie: *Windhoek

Niger: *Niamey

Nigeria: *Abuja

Ouganda: *Kampala

République Centrafricaine: *Bangui

République Démocratique du Congo: *Kinshasa

Rwanda: *Kigali

São Tomé et Príncipe: *São Tomé

Sénégal: *Dakar

Seychelles: *Victoria

Sierra Leone: *Freetown

Somalie: *Mogadiscio

Soudan: *Khartoum

Soudan du Sud: *Djouba

Swaziland: *Mbabane

Tanzanie: Dodoma

Tchad: *N'Djamena

Togo: *Lomé

Tunisie: *Tunis

Zambie: *Lusaka

Zimbabwe: *Harare

2- AMÉRIQUE

Antigua-et-Barbuda *Saint John's

Argentine *Buenos Aires

Bahamas *Nassau

Barbade *Bridgetown

Belize *Belmopan

Bolivie *Sucre

Brésil *Brasilia

Canada *Ottawa

Chili *Santiago

Colombie *Bogota

Costa Rica *San José

Cuba *La Havane

Dominique *Roseau

Equateur *Quito

Etats-Unis *Washington

Grenade *Saint George's

Guatemala *Guatemala

Guyana *Georgetown

Haïti *Port-au-Prince

Honduras *Tegucigalpa

Jamaïque *Kingston

Mexique *Mexico

Nicaragua *Managua

Panama *Panama

Paraguay *Asunción

Pérou *Lima

République Dominicaine *Saint-Domingue

Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis *Basseterre

Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines *Kingstown

Sainte-Lucie *Castries

Salvador *San Salvador

Suriname *Paramaribo

Trinité-et-Tobago *Port of Spain

Uruguay *Montevideo

Venezuela *Caracas

3- ASIE

Afghanistan *Kaboul

Arabie Saoudite *Riyad

Arménie *Erevan

Azerbaïdjan *Bakou

Bahreïn *Manama

Bangladesh *Dacca

Bhoutan *Thimbu

Birmanie *Naypyidaw

Brunei Bandar Seri *Begawan

Cambodge *Phnom Penh

Chine *Pékin

Corée du Nord *Pyongyang

Corée du Sud *Séoul

Emirats Arabes Unis *Abu Dhabi

Géorgie *Tbilissi

Inde *New Delhi

Indonésie *Jakarta

Irak *Bagdad

Iran *Téhéran

Israël *Jérusalem

Japon *Tokyo

Jordanie *Amman

Kazakhstan *Astana

Kirghizistan *Bichkek

Koweït *Koweït

Laos *Vientiane

Liban *Beyrouth

Malaisie *Kuala Lumpur

Maldives *Malé

Mongolie *Oulan-Bator

Népal *Katmandou

Oman *Mascate

Ouzbékistan *Tachkent

Pakistan *Islamabad

Palestine *Jérusalem-Est

Philippines Manille

Qatar *Doha

Singapour *Singapour

Sri Lanka Sri ayawardenapura

Syrie *Damas

Tadjikistan *Douchanbe

Taïwan *Taipei*

Timor-Oriental *Dili

Thaïlande *Bangkok

Turkménistan *Achgabat

Turquie *Ankara

Viêt Nam *Hanoï

Yémen *Sanaa

Albanie *Tirana

4- EUROPE

Albanie * Tirana

Allemagne *Berlin

Andorre *Andorre-la-Vieille

Autriche *Vienne

Belgique *Bruxelles

Biélorussie *Minsk

Bosnie-Herzégovine *Sarajevo

Bulgarie *Sofia

Chypre *Nicosie

Croatie *Zagreb

Danemark *Copenhague

Espagne *Madrid

Estonie *Tallinn

Finlande *Helsinki

France *Paris

Grèce *Athènes

Hongrie *Budapest

Irlande *Dublin

Islande *Reykjavik

Italie *Rome

Kosovo *Pristina

Lettonie *Riga

Liechtenstein *Vaduz

Lituanie *Vilnius

Luxembourg *Luxembourg

Macédoine *Skopje

Malte *La Valette

Moldavie *Chisinau

Monaco *Monaco

Monténégro *Podgorica

Norvège *Oslo

Pays-Bas *Amsterdam

Pologne *Varsovie

Portugal *Lisbonne

République Tchèque *Prague

Roumanie *Bucarest

Royaume-Uni *Londres

Russie *Moscou

Saint-Marin *Saint-Marin

Serbie *Belgrade

Slovaquie *Bratislava

Slovénie *Ljubljana

Suède *Stockholm

Suisse *Berne

Ukraine *Kiev

Vatican *Vatican

5- OCÉANIE

Australie *Canberra

Fidji *Suva

Kiribati *Tarawa

Marshall *Majuro

Micronésie *Palikir

Nauru *Yaren

Nouvelle-Zélande *Wellington

Palaos *Melekeok

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée *Port Moresby

Salomon *Honiara

Samoa *Apia

Tonga *Nukualofa

Tuvalu *Fanafuti

Vanuatu *Port-Vila

#capitales des pays #capitale #pays #monde #back to school

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negirahul9090 · 2 years ago

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Here is a list of country names along with their capitals:

Country - capital

Afghanistan - Kabul

Albania - Tirana

Algeria - Algiers

Andorra - Andorra la Vella

Angola - Luanda

Antigua and Barbuda - St. John's

Argentina - Buenos Aires

Armenia - Yerevan

Australia - Canberra

Austria - Vienna

Azerbaijan - Baku

Bahamas - Nassau

Bahrain - Manama

Bangladesh - Dhaka

Barbados - Bridgetown

Belarus - Minsk

Belgium - Brussels

Belize - Belmopan

Benin - Porto-Novo

Bhutan - Thimphu

Bolivia - La Paz (administrative capital), Sucre (constitutional capital)

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo

Botswana - Gaborone

Brazil - Brasília

Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan

Bulgaria - Sofia

Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou

Burundi - Bujumbura

Cabo Verde - Praia

Cambodia - Phnom Penh

Cameroon - Yaoundé

Canada - Ottawa

Central African Republic - Bangui

Chad - N'Djamena

Chile - Santiago

China - Beijing

Colombia - Bogotá

Comoros - Moroni

Congo (Democratic Republic of the) - Kinshasa

Congo (Republic of the) - Brazzaville

Costa Rica - San José

Croatia - Zagreb

Cuba - Havana

Cyprus - Nicosia

Czech Republic - Prague

Denmark - Copenhagen

Djibouti - Djibouti

Dominica - Roseau

Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo

East Timor - Dili

Ecuador - Quito

Egypt - Cairo

El Salvador - San Salvador

Equatorial Guinea - Malabo

Eritrea - Asmara

Estonia - Tallinn

Eswatini - Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (royal and legislative)

Ethiopia - Addis Ababa

Fiji - Suva

Finland - Helsinki

France - Paris

Gabon - Libreville

Gambia - Banjul

Georgia - Tbilisi

Germany - Berlin

Ghana - Accra

Greece - Athens

Grenada - St. George's

Guatemala - Guatemala City

Guinea - Conakry

Guinea-Bissau - Bissau

Guyana - Georgetown

Haiti - Port-au-Prince

Honduras - Tegucigalpa

Hungary - Budapest

Iceland - Reykjavik

India - New Delhi

Indonesia - Jakarta

Iran - Tehran

Iraq - Baghdad

Ireland - Dublin

Israel - Jerusalem

Italy - Rome

Jamaica - Kingston

Japan - Tokyo

Jordan - Amman

Kazakhstan - Nur-Sultan

Kenya - Nairobi

Kiribati - South Tarawa

Korea (North) - Pyongyang

Korea (South) - Seoul

Kosovo - Pristina

Kuwait - Kuwait City

Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek

Laos - Vientiane

Latvia - Riga

Lebanon - Beirut

Lesotho - Maseru

Liberia - Monrovia

Libya - Tripoli

Liechtenstein - Vaduz

Lithuania - Vilnius

Luxembourg - Luxembourg City

Madagascar - Antananarivo

Malawi - Lilongwe

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Maldives - Male

Mali - Bamako

Malta - Valletta

Marshall Islands - Majuro

Mauritania - Nouakchott

Mauritius - Port Louis

Mexico - Mexico City

Micronesia - Palikir

Moldova - Chisinau

Monaco - Monaco

Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar

Montenegro - Podgorica

Morocco - Rabat

Mozambique - Maputo

Myanmar (Burma) - Naypyidaw

Namibia - Windhoek

Nauru - Yaren

Nepal - Kathmandu

Netherlands - Amsterdam (capital), The Hague (seat of government)

New Zealand - Wellington

Nicaragua - Managua

Niger - Niamey

Nigeria - Abuja

North Macedonia - Skopje

Norway - Oslo

Oman - Muscat

Pakistan - Islamabad

Palau - Ngerulmud

Panama - Panama City

Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby

Paraguay - Asunción

Peru - Lima

Philippines - Manila

Poland - Warsaw

Portugal - Lisbon

Qatar - Doha

Romania - Bucharest

Russia - Moscow

Rwanda - Kigali

Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre

Saint Lucia - Castries

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown

Samoa - Apia

San Marino - San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome

Saudi Arabia - Riyadh

Senegal - Dakar

Serbia - Belgrade

Seychelles - Victoria

Sierra Leone - Freetown

Singapore - Singapore

Slovakia - Bratislava

Slovenia - Ljubljana

Solomon Islands - Honiara

Somalia - Mogadishu

South Africa - Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)

South Sudan - Juba

Spain - Madrid

Sri Lanka - Colombo (executive), Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative)

Sudan - Khartoum

Suriname - Paramaribo

Sweden - Stockholm

Switzerland - Bern

Syria - Damascus

Taiwan - Taipei

Tajikistan - Dushanbe

Tanzania - Dodoma

Thailand - Bangkok

Togo - Lomé

Tonga - Nuku'alofa

Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain

Tunisia - Tunis

Turkey - Ankara

Turkmenistan - Ashgabat

Tuvalu - Funafuti

Uganda - Kampala

Ukraine - Kyiv

United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi

United Kingdom - London

United States - Washington, D.C.

Uruguay - Montevideo

Uzbekistan - Tashkent

Vanuatu - Port Vila

Vatican City - Vatican City

Venezuela - Caracas

Vietnam - Hanoi

Yemen - Sana'a

Zambia - Lusaka

Zimbabwe - Harare

Abkhazia - Sukhumi

Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) - Stepanakert

Cook Islands - Avarua

Kosovo - Pristina

Niue - Alofi

Northern Cyprus - North Nicosia

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic - El Aaiún

Somaliland - Hargeisa

South Ossetia - Tskhinvali

Transnistria - Tiraspol

Catalonia - Barcelona

Kurdistan - Erbil

Scotland - Edinburgh

Tibet - Lhasa

West Papua - Manokwari

Please note that the status and recognition of some of these regions may vary, and they may not be universally recognized as independent countries or have widespread international recognition.

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obsidian-hollow-archives · 2 months ago

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do NOT ask how I had the time or patience to make this list, or WHY I'm making this list, I don't have answers for either of those questions other than my curiosity is a curse and once I am curious about something I WILL get answers.

The capital of every country

India - New Delhi

China - Beijing

United States - Washington D.C.

Indonesia [the Unitary of the Republic of Indonesia] - Jakarta

Pakistan - Islamabad

Nigeria - Abuja

Brazil - Brasília [formerly Rio de Janeiro]

Bangladesh - Dhaka

Russia - Moscow

Ethiopia - Addis Ababa

Mexico - Mexico City

Japan - Tokyo

Egypt - Cairo

Philippines - [the City of] Manila

Dominican Republic of the Congo - Kinshasa

Vietnam - Hanoi

Iran - Tehran

Turkey - Ankara

Germany - [the City Land of] Berlin

Thailand - Bangkok

United Kingdom - London

^^^ England - London

^^^ Scotland - Edinburgh

^^^ Wales - Cardiff

^^^ Northern Ireland - Belfast

Tanzania - Dodoma [official and legislative capital] and Dar es Salaam [seat of judicial bodies]

France - Paris

South Africa - Pretoria [executive/administrative capital], Cape Town [legislative capital], and Bloemfontein [traditional judicial capital]

Italy - Rome

Kenya - Nairobi

Myanmar - Naypyidaw

Colombia - Bogotá

South Korea - Seoul

Sudan - Juba

Uganda - Kampala

Spain - Madrid

Algeria - Algiers

Iraq - Baghdad

Argentina - Buenos Aires

Afghanistan - Kabul

Yemen - Sana'a

Canada - Ottawa

Poland - Warsaw

Morocco - Rabat

Angola - Luanda

Ukraine - Kyiv

Uzbekistan - Tashkent

Malaysia - [the Federal Territory of] Kuala Lumpur

Mozambique - Maputo

Ghana - Accra

Peru - Lima

Saudi Arabia - Riyadh

Madagascar - Antananarivo

Côte d'Ivoire - Yamoussoukro

Nepal - Kathmandu

Cameroon - Yaoundé

Venezuela - Caracas

Niger - Niamey

Australia - Canberra

North Korea - Pyongyang

Syria - Damascus

Mali - Bamako [formerly Timbuktu]

Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou

Sri Lanka - Sri Jayawardhapura Kotte [legislative capital] and Colombo [executive and judicial capital]

Malawi - Lilongwe

Zambia - Lusaka

Kazakhstan - Astana

Chad - N'Djamena

Chile - Santiago

Romania - Bucharest

Somalia - Mogadishu

Senegal - Dakar

Guatemala - Guatemala City [Guate / Ciudad de Guatemala]

Netherlands - Amsterdam

Ecuador - Quito

Cambodia - Phnom Penh

Zimbabwe - Harare

Guinea - Conakry

Benin - Porto-Novo [official capital] and Cotonou [de facto administrative capital]

Rwanda - Kigali

Burundi - Gitega

Bolivia - Sucre [official capital] and La Paz [administrative capital]

Tunisia - Tunis

South Sudan - Juba

Haiti - Port-au-Prince

Belgium - Brussels

Jordan - Amman

Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo

United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi

Cuba - Havana

Honduras - Tegucigalpa [formerly Comayagüela]

Czech Republic [Czechia] - Prague

Sweden - Stockholm

Tajikistan - Dushanbe

Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby [Pom City]

Portugal - Lisbon

Azerbaijan - Baku

Greece - Athens

Hungary - Budapest

Togo - Lomé

Israel - Jerusalem

Austria - Vienna

Belarus - Minsk

Switzerland - Bern

Sierra Leone - Freetown

Laos - Vientiane

Turkmenistan - Ashgabat

Libya - Tripoli

Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek

Paraguay - Asunción

Nicaragua - Managua

Bulgaria - Sofia

Serbia - Belgrade

El Salvador - San Salvador

Congo - Kinshasa

Denmark - Copenhagen

[Republic of] Singapore - Singapore [City]

Lebanon - Beirut

Finland - Helsinki

Liberia - Monrovia

Norway - Oslo

Slovakia - Bratislava

State of Palestine - Jerusalem [proclaimed capital, officially the capital of Israel] and Ramallah [serves as an administrative/ de facto capital]

Central African Republic

Oman - Muscat

Ireland - Dublin

New Zealand - Wellington

[the Islamic Republic of] Mauritania - Nouakchott

Costa Rica - San José

Kuwait - Kuwait City

Panama - Panama City

Croatia - Zagreb

Georgia - Tbilisi

Eritrea - Asmara

Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar

Uruguay - Montevideo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Qatar - Doha

Moldova - Chișinău

Namibia - Windhoek

Armenia - Yerevan

Lithuania - Vilnius

Jamaica - Kingston

Albania - Tirana

Gambia - Banjul

Gabon - Libreville

Botswana - Gaborone

Lesotho - Maseru

Guinea-Bissau - Bissau

Slovenia - Ljubljana

Equatorial Guinea - Malabo

Latvia - Riga

North Macedonia - Skopje

Bahrain - Manama

Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain

Timor-Leste - Dili

Estonia - Tallinn

Cyprus - Nicosia

Mauritius - Port Louis

Eswatini - Mbabane [executive capital] and Lobamba [legislative capital]

[the Republic of] Djibouti - Djibouti

Fiji - Suva

Comoros - Moroni

Guyana - Georgetown

Solomon Islands - Honiara

Bhutan - Thimphu

Luxembourg - Luxembourg City

Montenegro - Podgorica

Suriname - Paramaribo

Malta - Valletta

Maldives - Malé

[the Federated States of] Micronesia - Palikir

Cabo Verde - Praia

Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan

Belize - Belmopan

Bahamas - Nassau

Iceland - Reykjavík

Vanuatu - Port Vila

Barbados - Bridgetown

Sao Tome and Principe - São Tomé

Samoa - Apia

Saint Lucia - Castries

Kiribati - Tarawa

Seychelles - Victoria

Grenada - Saint George's

Tonga - Nuku'alofa

St. Vincent and Grenadines - Kingstown

Antigua and Barbuda - Saint John's

Andorra - Andorra la Vella

Dominica - Roseau

Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre

Liechtenstein - Vaduz

Monaco - Monaco, Monte Carlo [unofficial capital]

Marshall Islands - Majuro

San Marino - San Marino [city]

Palau - Ngerulmud [formerly Koror City]

Nauru - None, Taren [unofficial and de facto capital]

Tuvalu - Funafuti

Holy See [Vatican City State] - Vatican City

Countries not officially recognised by the UN and their capitals:

Kosovo - Pristina

South Ossetia - Tskhinvali

Transnistria - Tiraspol

Taiwan - Taipei City

Western Sahara - Laayoune

Cayman Islands - George Town

Abkhazia - Sokhumi

Somaliland - Hargeisa

Christmas Islands - Flying Fish Cove

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jimi-rawlings · 1 year ago

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Does ‘la Françafrique’ still exist?

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My Crew by Vybz Kartel

Everybody drunk and happy

Raise unuh bottles and glasses

(Eh heh)

Hennessy, and Moet, and rum

Street Vybz, couple quacked, couple flasks (oh)

No work, all play, we ah party and bun out di crosses

Dem cyan' say fi, "Whisper", mi not inna di office

Tun it up, tun it up, tun it up, tun it up, tun it up

We tun it up loud, loud

Inna di club (hey)

Everybody hype (hey)

Champagne ah buy (hey)

Wid di Street Vybz

Pretty girl (hey)

Coming from every side (hey)

Don't leave your girl careless, likkle boy (Hehehe)

We take her go straight ah di telly

We have di real broad bean fi she belly

If you lose yuh girl to Vybz Kartel

It anuh nothing we all real dawg, no Tom no Jerry

My crew, everybody know

Tun it up inna di club, weh yuh ah go do?

When yuh see my crew, mi seh everybody know

Street Vybz and champagne, weh yuh ah go do

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

We send you to di morgue (oh)

Mi family, chargey

Mi parri, mi pardi

Mi bredda, my crew

Mi happy yeah, everybody happy yeah

High grade again running up inna mi head

Everybody lively, nobody nuh dead

When di club done, we ah go start it all over again

Inna Kingston, Street Vybz, Addi ah tackle

Inna di Big Apple, Dre Skull ah pop a bottle

Di club ah my church, di Devil tabernacle

Live, but me nuh Larry King, me nuh take Cotton

My crew, everybody know

Tun it up inna di club, weh yuh ah go do?

When yuh see my crew, mi seh everybody know

Street Vybz and champagne, weh yuh ah go do?

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

We send you to di morgue (oh)

Mi family, chargey

Mi parri, mi pardi

Mi bredda, my crew

Everybody drunk and happy

Raise unuh bottles and glasses

(Eh heh)

Hennessy, and Moet, and rum

Street Vybz, couple quacked, couple flasks (oh)

No work, all play, we ah party and bun out di crosses

Dem cyan' say fi, "Whisper", mi not inna di office

Tun it up, tun it up, tun it up, tun it up, we tun it up

My crew, everybody know

Tun it up inna di club, weh yuh ah go do?

When yuh see my crew, mi seh everybody know

Street Vybz and champagne, weh yuh ah go do?

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

Yow ah so we hard

My crew, my dawgs

We send you to di morgue (oh)

Mi family, chargey

Mi parri, mi pardi

Mi bredda, my crew

My crew, we running it, running it, we run it

My crew, we running it, run it, we running it

My crew, we run it, we run it, we running it

My crew, what the, you gonna do?

My crew, we running it, run it, we running it

My crew, we run it, we run it, we running it

My crew, running it, running it, running it

Mi family, chargey, mi party, mi party, mi bredda, my crew

JAQUËS

#Youtube

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hbhughes · 1 year ago

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Zdzislaw (Jeff) Rysz

Zdzislaw (Jeff) Rysz, 69, of Kosciuszko Street, Nanticoke, died on September 25, 2023, at his home surrounded by his family.

Born in Haczow, Poland, he was the son of the late Stanislaw (Stanley) and Caroline Najbar Rysz. He graduated from Dickinson High School in New Jersey.

Jeff had resided in Nanticoke for the past 5 years. Previously he resided in Bear Creek. He was employed at Mohegan Sun Casino in Plains Township as a Poker Dealer.

Jeff was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He was a motorcycle enthusiast and enjoyed skiing and rock n roll music.

Preceding him in death are his brothers, Edward and Matthew Rysz.

Surviving is his wife, Halina Polkowski Rysz, married 49 years; son, Jeffrey and his wife, Tammy, Swoyersville; 2 grandchildren, Ariana and Addie; nieces and nephews.

Funeral on Saturday at 9:30 A.M. from the Hugh B. Hughes & Son, Inc., Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort, with the Mass of Christian Burial at 10 A.M. in Saint Ignatius Church, Kingston. The interment will be in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Twp.

Friends and relatives may call from 5 to 8 P.M. on Friday evening at the funeral home.

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caffeinated-chaos-bean · 9 months ago

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A little sneak peak of what I've been working on. So far, this is the progress made over the course of 4 days~

Today I finally got down Addie's stand. Her name is Deep Sea, and yes she is based on Shinkai Shoujo (aka Deep Sea Girl).

Original, official artwork was used and frankensteined in order to get the art style as accurate as possible. The upper body for Deep Sea is actually from Spice Girl, while the front and back display for Adelaide is a mix between Jolyne, Foo Fighters, and Gwess. The hair for all three references were traced over from her mmd model so that they would be accurate as all heck.

Bonus Fun fact: While he won't admit it, Dio is afraid of her stand because he is afraid of being stuck back at the bottom of the sea.

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teepoxshop · 2 years ago

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Spring equinox 2023: Ancient traditions of renewal echo into the modern world

Thomas Nashe, the 16th-century British poet and dramatist, certainly looked forward to spring in his own colorful, singsong way:

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo! Spring, the sweet spring!

Sweet spring indeed – a time to observe the growing light, listen to the birds, smell the flowers and feel the growing warmth from the sun.

They’re all signs that spring equinox 2023 is arriving. This official first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere is a sign of rebirth, a time of tradition and a harmonious balance between day and night.

Precisely when will the spring equinox happen?

Some folks like things scheduled down to the minute.

The spring equinox will arrive exactly at 21:24 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) March 20, according to EarthSky. Here’s how that breaks down at various points around the world (all times adjusted for Daylight Saving Time):

• Honolulu (Hawaii): 11:24 a.m. • San Francisco (California) and Victoria (Canada): 2:24 p.m. • Santa Fe (New Mexico) and Guadalajara (Mexico): 3:24 p.m. • Minneapolis (Minnesota) and Kingston (Jamaica): 4:24 p.m. • Montreal (Canada) and Charleston (South Carolina): 5:24 p.m. • Halifax (Canada): 6:24 p.m.

Crossing over the Atlantic, here are some more places:

• Dublin (Ireland) and Accra (Ghana): 9:24 p.m. • Paris (France) and Algiers (Algeria): 10:24 p.m. • Helsinki (Finland) and Alexandria (Egypt): 11:24 p.m.

For time zones east of the above, the equinox actually falls on Tuesday, March 21. Some more places:

• Istanbul (Turkey) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia): 12:24 a.m. • Dubai (United Arab Emirates): 1:24 a.m. • Mumbai (India): 2:54 a.m. • Bangkok (Thailand) and Hanoi (Vietnam): 4:24 a.m. • Singapore: 5:24 a.m. • Seoul (South Korea) and Osaka (Japan): 6:24 a.m.

You can click here to see a listing of major cities. Or click here to look up the exact moment of the spring equinox where you live.

For some, fall is in the air

Folks in the Northern Hemisphere are looking forward to longer days, flowers and a burst of greenery. But for people living south of the equator, this equinox means they are heading into fall.

So for Chileans, South Africans and Australians, among others, this is a time to look forward to cooler autumn weather.

For people who reside near the equator (in places such as Quito, Ecuador, or Singapore), none of this is really a big deal. They get roughly 12 hours of daylight and nighttime year round.

Spring equinox has another name

If you ever hear anyone say “vernal equinox,” it means the same thing.

The term equinox comes from the Latin word “equinoxium,” meaning “equality between day and night.” And vernal also comes from Latin and means “spring.”

Why does spring equinox happen?

The Earth rotates along an imaginary line that runs from North Pole to South Pole. It’s called the axis, and this rotation is what gives us day and night.

However, the axis tilts at 23.5 degrees, as NASA explains. That positions one hemisphere of the planet to get more sunlight than the other for half of the year’s orbit around the sun. This discrepancy in sunlight is what triggers the seasons.

Spring, the most inspiring of the seasons

The effect is at its maximum in late June and late December. Those are the solstices, and they have the most extreme differences between day and night, especially near the poles. (That’s why it stays dark for so long each day during the winter in places such as Scandinavia and Alaska.)

But since the winter solstice three months ago in December, you’ve probably noticed that our days have been getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the nights shorter. And now here we are at the spring equinox!

Going forward, the Northern Hemisphere will be more exposed to the sun than the Southern Hemisphere. That’s why it gets increasingly warmer as we head toward the summer solstice in June.

The equinoxes aren’t exactly ‘equal’

It turns out you actually get a little more daylight than darkness on the equinox – and how much so depends where you are on the planet.

How does that happen when it’s supposed to be 12 hours of day and 12 hours night?

As the US National Weather Service explains, the “nearly” equal hours of day and night are because of the complex way a sunrise is measured and the refraction of sunlight in our atmosphere.

This bending of light rays “causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.” The day is a bit longer at higher latitudes than at the equator because it takes the sun longer to rise and set the closer you get to the poles.

We got that truly equal day/night split a few days before the official spring equinox. That’s called the equilux.

Get oriented

If you’re a sky watcher, the website EarthSky points out the equinoxes – spring or autumn – are a superb time to orient yourself. The equinoxes are the only two times a year the sun rises due east and sets due west for everyone on the planet.

EarthSky says the equinox is “a good day for finding east and west from your yard or other favorite site for watching the sky. Just go outside around sunset or sunrise and notice the location of the sun on the horizon with respect to familiar landmarks.”

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Another fun fact: The sun sets faster during the equinoxes than during solstices – and it’s true for both hemispheres. The reason? The setting sun hits the horizon at the steepest possible angle to Earth, EarthSky says.

The sun sets more slowly during solstices when the Earth’s tilt is most extreme. And the effect is more dramatic the farther you get from the equator. That’s why the sun never sets at all in the Arctic Circle during the time around the summer solstice.

Special sites and modern celebrations

In England, the mysterious stone structure of Stonehenge has been a popular gathering place for solstices and equinoxes. English Heritage organizes the events, and if you aren’t fond of big crowds, the equinoxes draw fewer people than the solstices typically.

In Mexico, the Mayan site Chichén Itzá has special equinox ties. At the site, the impressive pyramid known as El Castillo was aligned so that a shadow outlining the form of a snake of light (Kukulcán) descends the steps on the equinoxes.

And it’s not just well-known ancient sites that traditionally get in on the action.

Pike Place Market in Seattle will be celebrating its annual Daffodil Day. When shoppers visit the market, they will get a free bundle of daffodils while supplies last.

The city of Zenica, northwest of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, holds its annual Cimburijada or “Festival of Scrambled Eggs” on the first day of spring.

Cultural influences

Cultures around the world celebrate the equinox. Here are a few:

Nowruz is the Persian New Year. Also known as Nauryz, Navruz or Nowrouz, it means “new day.”

It’s no coincidence it falls on the first day of spring. The Iranian calendar is a solar calendar, meaning time is determined, through astronomical observations, by Earth’s movement around the sun. So, the first day of the year always kicks off with the vernal equinox.

It’s a celebration of new beginnings: wishing prosperity and welcoming the future while shedding away the past. That’s why families use this time to deep clean their homes and closets and buy fresh clothing.

In China, trying to stand an egg upright is a popular game during the spring equinox, according to VisitBeijing.com. The custom is thought to go back thousands of years, and it’s believed that if people can get an egg to stand, they will have good luck. And people across China eat local spring vegetables.

In Japan, Vernal Equinox Day is a public holiday (on Tuesday, March 21, this year). Japan is thoroughly modernized, but its people still adhere to old traditions such as visiting family graves and holding family reunions to mark the spring equinox.

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