Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios.
Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game
is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 2001's
critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. A Microsoft Windows version
of the game, developed by Microsoft Game Studios, was released on May
31, 2007. The player alternately assumes the roles of the human Master
Chief, voiced by Steve Downes (pictured), and the alien Arbiter in a
26th-century conflict between the human United Nations Space Command and
genocidal Covenant. Time constraints forced a series of cutbacks in the
size and scope of the game, including the campaign mode's cliffhanger
ending, which drew widespread criticism. On release, Halo 2 was the most
popular video game on Xbox Live, holding that rank until the release of
Gears of War for the Xbox 360 nearly two years later. Halo 2 is the
best-selling first-generation Xbox game, with at least 6.3 million
copies sold in the United States alone. Critical reception was generally
positive, with most publications lauding the strong multiplayer
component.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1506:
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in
the Battle of Kletsk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kletsk>
1930:
New York City judge Joseph Force Crater mysteriously
disappeared, eventually earning him the title of "The Missingest Man in
New York".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater>
1956:
DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its
last program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network>
1962:
Jamaica gained full independence from the United Kingdom, more
than 300 years after the English captured it from Spanish colonists in
1655.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica>
1991:
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files
describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents
accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee>
2008:
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was
ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had
dismissed from office several hours earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Olympiad:
1. (historical) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks
reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic
games to another, beginning with the victory of Corbus in the foot race,
which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.
2. An occurrence of the Olympic games.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Olympiad>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nine tithes of times Face-flatterer and backbiter are the same. And
they, sweet soul, that most impute a crime Are pronest to it, and impute
themselves, Wanting the mental range; or low desire Not to feel lowest
makes them level all; Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, To
leave an equal baseness; and in this Are harlots like the crowd, that if
they find Some stain or blemish in a name of note, Not grieving that
their greatest are so small, Inflate themselves with some insane
delight, And judge all nature from her feet of clay, Without the will to
lift their eyes, and see Her godlike head crowned with spiritual fire,
And touching other worlds. in
--Idylls of the King
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King>
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