Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. Players follow the bandit Zidane Tribal, who kidnaps Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII of Alexandria as part of a gambit by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. The game was developed alongside Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier installments. Final Fantasy IX was released to critical acclaim and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. Final Fantasy IX was commercially successful, selling more than 5.5 million copies on PlayStation by March 2016. Ports featuring minor gameplay and graphical enhancements were released for various other platforms in the late 2010s. (This article is part of a featured topic: Final Fantasy series.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1873:

Patrick Francis Healy became the president of Georgetown University; he was posthumously regarded as the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Francis_Healy

1913:

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia

1941:

Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood

1991:

The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon

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consilience: 1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from mid 19th c.] 2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience

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I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd I'm going to teach peace to the conquered, I'm going to tame the proud.   --Bob Dylan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan