Final Fantasy XIII is a science fiction role-playing video game,
initially released by Square Enix for PlayStation 3 on December 17,
2009, and later for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and mobile devices.
This edition in the series includes a new character-development system,
as well as the return of summoned monsters, the chocobo race, and
airships. The former soldier Lightning begins her fight along with a
band of allies to save her sister from both the government and a deadly
fate as an unwilling servant to a god-like being. Final Fantasy XIII is
the first game to use Square Enix's Crystal Tools engine and is the
flagship title of the Fabula Nova Crystallis collection of games. It
received mostly positive reviews from video game publications for its
graphics, presentation, and battle system. The game's story received a
mixed response, and its linearity was criticized. Selling 1.7 million
copies in Japan in 2009, Final Fantasy XIII became the fastest-selling
title in the history of the series. It sold over 7 million copies
overall and led to two sequel games.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIII>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1583:
Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated the troops
under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Godesberg>
1862:
American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued
General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and
Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862)>
1907:
Ugyen Wangchuck was crowned the first King of Bhutan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugyen_Wangchuck>
1926:
A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the
democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Lithuanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2010:
Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in
protest to police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
keelhaul:
1. (transitive, nautical) To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship.
2. (transitive) To rebuke harshly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keelhaul>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining
hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to
wait.
--John Greenleaf Whittier
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier>