Kingdom Hearts is an action role-playing game developed and published
by Square (now Square Enix) in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game
console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts series, it is the result
of a collaboration between Square Enix and The Walt Disney Company. The
game combines characters and settings from Disney animated features
with those from Square's Final Fantasy series. The story follows a
young boy, Sora, as he is thrown into an epic battle against the forces
of darkness. He is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy, classic Disney
characters who help him on his quest. Kingdom Hearts was a departure
from Square's standard role-playing games, introducing a substantial
action-adventure element to the gameplay. In addition, it has an
all-star voice cast which includes many of the Disney characters'
official voice actors. The game was praised for its unusual combination
of action and role-playing, as well as its unexpectedly harmonious mix
of Square and Disney motifs. It received numerous year-end "Best" video
game awards, was a dominating presence in the 2002 holiday season, and
went on to achieve Sony "Greatest Hits" status.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1301:
The title of Prince of Wales was granted for the first time to an heir
apparent to the English throne, Edward of Carnarvon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England>
1795:
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the
ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S. states in
federal courts, was ratified in order to overrule the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1863:
In New Zealand's worst maritime tragedy, HMS Orpheus of the British
Royal Navy sank off the coast of Auckland, killing 189 crew out of the
ship's complement of 259.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Orpheus_%281860%29>
1907:
Over 3,000 women trudged through the cold and the rutty streets of
London in the Mud March, the first large procession organized by the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, to advocate for women's
suffrage.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_%28Suffragists%29>
2009:
A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian
state of Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in 173 total
deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
discursion (n):
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of
those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of
that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there
were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking
his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no
likeness nor proportion.
--Thomas More
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