Dungeons & Dragons is a studio album by American musical group Midnight
Syndicate, released in 2003 by Entity Productions. The album is designed
as a soundtrack for Wizards of the Coast's role-playing game Dungeons &
Dragons. After an initial meeting with Wizards of the Coast, Edward
Douglas and Gavin Goszka of Midnight Syndicate produced tracks
independently of one another, then jointly arranged the album and
mastered the tracks. The fantasy album was a change in style from their
earlier works, which had been almost entirely horror-based. Artwork in
the album booklet came from sourcebooks for the game, including works
from prominent game designers such as Skip Williams. The album was well
received by music critics and the gaming community. Wizards of the Coast
described the band's music as "the perfect accompaniment to role-playing
game sessions", and acknowledged the album as the first official
Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
715:
The papacy of Gregory II began; his conflict with Byzantine
emperor Leo III eventually led to the establishment of the popes'
temporal power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_II>
1743:
French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a
mercury thermometer with the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the
freezing point of water and 100 its boiling point.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius>
1845:
Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition
departed from Greenhithe, England; 129 men would die on the expedition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition>
1997:
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most
ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a result of
grassroots efforts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Gorda>
2015:
A corroded oil pipeline in Santa Barbara County, California,
burst, spilling 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto
one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nuptials:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuptials>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Humanity may endure the loss of everything: all its possessions
may be torn away without infringing its true dignity; — all but the
possibility of improvement.
--Johann Gottlieb Fichte
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte>