Shadow of the Colossus is a Japanese-developed action-adventure video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) for the PlayStation 2. Published internationally by Sony, it was released in North America and Japan in October 2005, and was subsequently released in PAL territories in February 2006. The game was created by SCEI's International Production Studio 1, the same development team responsible for the cult-hit Ico. The game focuses on "Wander", a young man who must travel across a vast expanse on horseback and defeat sixteen giant beings called "colossi" to restore the life of a sacrificed girl. The game is unusual among the action-adventure genre in that there are no towns or dungeons to explore, no characters with which to interact, and no enemies to defeat other than the colossi. Shadow of the Colossus has been described as a puzzle game, as each colossus has a weakness which must be identified and exploited to defeat the boss.

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1819: By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams-On%C3%ADs_Treaty)

1876: The Johns Hopkins University, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, was founded. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University)

1943: Members of the White Rose Society were found guilty of treason and guillotined by the Nazi regime in Germany. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose)

1958: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and President Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria signed the union pact to form the United Arab Republic. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic)

1997: Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly seven months after the fact. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_the_Sheep)

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