Homeworld is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic
Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios (co-founder pictured) in
1999 for Microsoft Windows. The science fiction game follows exiles on a
spacecraft-constructing mothership who aim to reclaim their ancient
homeworld, encountering pirates, mercenaries, traders, and rebels along
the way. The player's fleet carries over between levels, and can travel
in a fully three-dimensional space. Alex Garden of Relic served as the
game's director, and Luke Moloney was lead programmer. Metacritic lists
Homeworld as the highest rated computer game of 1999 and the third-
highest on any platform for the year, although critical opinions were
divided on its plot and high difficulty. The game sold over 500,000
copies in its first six months, and received several awards and
nominations for best strategy game of the year and best game of the
year. Gearbox Software purchased the game rights in 2013 and released a
remastered collection in 2015.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeworld>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1909:
A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in
northern California to his brother John for $10 ($326.00 in 2022).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_No._2>
1977:
Iva Toguri, convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese
propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino>
1996:
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island,
causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3,130,000 L) of
home heating oil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill>
2006:
In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an
Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern
Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Slovak_Air_Force_Antonov_An-24_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
odylic:
(pseudoscience, historical) Of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a
hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was
supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and
produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be
developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat,
light, magnets, etc.”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/odylic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at
once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits
a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the
general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
--August Comte
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/August_Comte>
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