Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 2001's critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. A Microsoft Windows version of the game, developed by Microsoft Game Studios, was released on May 31, 2007. The player alternately assumes the roles of the human Master Chief, voiced by Steve Downes (pictured), and the alien Arbiter in a 26th-century conflict between the human United Nations Space Command and genocidal Covenant. Time constraints forced a series of cutbacks in the size and scope of the game, including the campaign mode's cliffhanger ending, which drew widespread criticism. On release, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live, holding that rank until the release of Gears of War for the Xbox 360 nearly two years later. Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game, with at least 6.3 million copies sold in the United States alone. Critical reception was generally positive, with most publications lauding the strong multiplayer component.
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1506:
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kletsk
1930:
New York City judge Joseph Force Crater mysteriously disappeared, eventually earning him the title of "The Missingest Man in New York". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater
1956:
DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its last program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network
1962:
Jamaica gained full independence from the United Kingdom, more than 300 years after the English captured it from Spanish colonists in 1655. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica
1991:
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
2008:
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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Olympiad: 1. (historical) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Corbus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads. 2. An occurrence of the Olympic games. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Olympiad
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Nine tithes of times Face-flatterer and backbiter are the same. And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crime Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, Wanting the mental range; or low desire Not to feel lowest makes them level all; Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, To leave an equal baseness; and in this Are harlots like the crowd, that if they find Some stain or blemish in a name of note, Not grieving that their greatest are so small, Inflate themselves with some insane delight, And judge all nature from her feet of clay, Without the will to lift their eyes, and see Her godlike head crowned with spiritual fire, And touching other worlds. in --Idylls of the King https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King