The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is a single player computer
role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by
Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft. It is the third installment in The
Elder Scrolls series of games. It was released in North America in 2002
for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox. Well-received publicly and
critically, selling over four million copies and winning more than 60
awards, including Game of the Year, Morrowind holds an average review
score of 89% from both Metacritic and Game Rankings. The game spawned
two expansion packs for the PC: Tribunal and Bloodmoon. Both were
eventually repackaged into a full set containing all three, Morrowind:
Game of the Year Edition, which shipped on October 30, 2003, for both
PC and Xbox. The main story takes place on Vvardenfell, an island in
the Dunmer province of Morrowind, which lies in the empire of Tamriel
and is far from the more civilized lands to the west and south that
typified Daggerfall and Arena. The central quests concern the deity
Dagoth Ur, housed within the volcanic Red Mountain, who seeks to gain
power and break Morrowind free from Imperial reign. Morrowind was
designed with an open-ended free-form style of gameplay in mind, with a
lessened emphasis on the game's main plot. This choice received mixed
reviews in the gaming press, though such feelings were tempered by
reviewers' appreciation of Morrowind's expansive and detailed game
world.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
During the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , British
Member of Parliament William Huskisson was struck and killed by the
locomotive engine Rocket.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway>
1831:
The John Bull, currently the oldest operable steam locomotive in the
world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy
Railroad.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull_%28locomotive%29>
1835:
During the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin reached the
Galápagos Islands, where he further developed his theories of
evolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands>
1935:
Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of
citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a
swastika.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws>
2008:
The financial crisis of 2007–2010: The global financial-services firm
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over US$600 billion
in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eclectic (adj):
1. Selecting a mixture of what appear to be best of various doctrines,
methods, or styles.
2. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eclectic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly
in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
--Agatha Christie
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie>