League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game
developed and published by Riot Games and released in 2009. Two teams of
five players battle in player-versus-player combat, with each player
controlling a character with a unique play style and abilities. At
launch, the game was generally well-received; later critical
reappraisals, arising as a result of the game's long lifespan, have
trended positively, noting the regular content updates. In 2019 the game
routinely recorded 8 million concurrent players, and its popularity and
longevity have led to various tie-ins, including virtual groups like
K/DA, narrative collaborations with Marvel Comics, spin-off video games,
and an upcoming animated series. The game is played professionally, and
is frequently cited as the world's largest esport; the 2019 League of
Legends World Championship had over 100 million unique viewers, peaking
at a concurrent 44 million viewers, with a minimum prize pool of
US$2.5 million.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought
victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from
the field of battle that evening.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen>
1927:
American actress Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for
"corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West>
1971:
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_1>
1984:
"Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer
Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as
Australia's national anthem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Bronx cheer:
(US, idiomatic) Synonym of raspberry (“a sound intended to resemble
flatulence made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is
protruding from and pressed against the lips, used humorously or to
express disdain or scorn”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bronx_cheer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. …
In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature,
all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they
see and understand nature.
--Albert Hofmann
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>