Hyborian War is a play-by-mail game set during Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age in the world of Conan the Barbarian. The Origins Award–winning game, published by Reality Simulations, Inc., has been continuously available for play since 1985. The game’s genre is heroic fantasy, also known as sword and sorcery. Conan appears as a wandering hero whom players can employ until fortune takes him elsewhere. The game designer wove multiple aspects of Howard's stories into Hyborian War including diverse landscapes and cultures, grand armies, large-scale battles, powerful wizards, and courageous and heroic deeds. Gameplay is multifaceted and complex. Players choose from 36 kingdoms of small, medium, and large sizes, each with different victory conditions. A central focus of the game is conquest and expansion through military action and diplomacy. Intrigue, magic, and other tools of statecraft in a fantasy setting are available to players. The game retains an active player base in the 21st century.

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1745:

Bonnie Prince Charlie (portrait shown) raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, in an attempt to regain the British throne for his father, beginning the Jacobite rising of 1745. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745

1920:

Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion

2003:

A Hamas suicide bomber killed 24 people and wounded more than 130 others, many of whom were Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded public bus in Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

humanitarian: Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; compassionate, humane. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humanitarian

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I have no desire to get ugly, But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.   --Ogden Nash https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash