Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash
Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by Sora and
published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. Game development
began in October 2005 with a creative team that included collaborations
with various second- and third-party Nintendo developers. The number of
playable characters that players can control in Brawl has grown from
that of Super Smash Bros. Melee; Brawl is the first game in the series
to expand past Nintendo characters and allow players to control
third-party characters. Like its predecessors, the object of Brawl is
to knock an opponent off the screen. It is a departure from traditional
fighting games, notably in its simplified move commands and emphasis on
ring outs over knockouts. It includes a more extensive single-player
mode than its predecessors, known as The Subspace Emissary. Brawl also
supports multiplayer battles with up to four combatants, and is the
first game of its franchise to feature online battles via the Nintendo
Wi-Fi Connection. The game received positive reviews, with critics
praising the game's entertainment value, despite issues relating to
Brawl's loading times. It has sold a total of 8.43 million copies
worldwide as of March 2009, and it is the fifth best-selling Wii game.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
54:
Claudius was fatally poisoned by his wife Agrippina the Younger, making
her 16-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero>
1307:
Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously
arresting many members of the Knights Templar , and subsequently
torturing them into "admitting" heresy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar>
1773:
French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy, an
interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of
approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes
Venatici.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy>
1843:
The B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually operating Jewish service
organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27nai_B%27rith>
1917:
An estimated 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima,
Portugal witnessed "The Miracle of the Sun".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_the_Sun>
1972:
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into a remote area in the Andes
mountains near the border of Chile and Argentina; the last of 16
survivors were not rescued until December 23.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
foist (v):
1. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
2. To force another to accept, especially by stealth or deceit
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have
allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a
serious effort to solve them.
--Martti Ahtisaari
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martti_Ahtisaari>