God of War II is a third person action-adventure video game first released on March 13, 2007, and was the last major release for the PlayStation 2. The player controls Kratos, a Spartan warrior who became the new God of War after killing the former, Ares. Kratos is betrayed by Zeus, the King of the Olympian Gods, who strips him of his godhood and kills him. On his way to the Underworld, Kratos is saved by Gaia, who instructs him to find the Sisters of Fate. Acquiring their power, he travels back in time to avert his betrayal and take revenge on Zeus, who is revealed to be his father. The gameplay focuses on combo-based combat and features quick time events that require the player to complete game controller actions in a timed sequence to defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The game also features magical attacks, puzzles, and platforming elements. The fourteenth best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time, it sold more than 4.24 million copies worldwide. Regarded as one of the best action-adventure games for the platform and noted for its graphics and gameplay, it received several awards, including PlayStation Game of the Year.
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1697:
Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala
1845:
German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time, was first played in Leipzig. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)
1954:
Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp opened fire with a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu
1996:
A gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, before committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre
2013:
Francis was elected pope, making him the first Jesuit, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope in over 1,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
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thetan: (Scientology) A soul, spirit or being. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thetan
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Christianity is perhaps as much indebted to its enemies, as to its friends, for this important service. In their indiscriminate attacks, whatever has been found to be untenable has been gradually abandoned, and I hope the attack will be continued till nothing of the wretched outworks be left; and then, I doubt not, a safe and impregnable fortress, will be sound in the center, a fortress built upon a rock, against which the gates of death will not prevail. --Joseph Priestley https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley