The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is a single player computer role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft. It is the third installment in The Elder Scrolls series of games. It was released in North America in 2002 for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox. Well-received publicly and critically, selling over four million copies and winning more than 60 awards, including Game of the Year, Morrowind holds an average review score of 89% from both Metacritic and Game Rankings. The game spawned two expansion packs for the PC: Tribunal and Bloodmoon. Both were eventually repackaged into a full set containing all three, Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition, which shipped on October 30, 2003, for both PC and Xbox. The main story takes place on Vvardenfell, an island in the Dunmer province of Morrowind, which lies in the empire of Tamriel and is far from the more civilized lands to the west and south that typified Daggerfall and Arena. The central quests concern the deity Dagoth Ur, housed within the volcanic Red Mountain, who seeks to gain power and break Morrowind free from Imperial reign. Morrowind was designed with an open-ended free-form style of gameplay in mind, with a lessened emphasis on the game's main plot. This choice received mixed reviews in the gaming press, though such feelings were tempered by reviewers' appreciation of Morrowind's expansive and detailed game world.

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1830:

During the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , British Member of Parliament William Huskisson was struck and killed by the locomotive engine Rocket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway

1831:

The John Bull, currently the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull_%28locomotive%29

1835:

During the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands, where he further developed his theories of evolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands

1935:

Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

2008:

The financial crisis of 2007–2010: The global financial-services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over US$600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers

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eclectic (adj): 1. Selecting a mixture of what appear to be best of various doctrines, methods, or styles. 2. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eclectic

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