Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and
published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation video game console. It is
the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. Players follow the
bandit Zidane Tribal, who kidnaps Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII
of Alexandria as part of a gambit by the neighboring nation of Lindblum.
The game was developed alongside Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by
developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the
futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, and Final
Fantasy VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier
installments. Final Fantasy IX was released to critical acclaim and is
often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. Final
Fantasy IX was commercially successful, selling more than 5.5 million
copies on PlayStation by March 2016. Ports featuring minor gameplay and
graphical enhancements were released for various other platforms in the
late 2010s. (This article is part of a featured topic: Final Fantasy
series.).
Read more:
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
Patrick Francis Healy became the president of Georgetown
University; he was posthumously regarded as the first black president of
a predominantly white university in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Francis_Healy>
1913:
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest
Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European
royalty before World War I began fourteen months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia>
1941:
Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the
British battlecruiser HMS Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood>
1991:
The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert
operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consilience:
1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different
data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd
I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd I'm
going to teach peace to the conquered, I'm going to tame the proud.
--Bob Dylan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>