Wii Sports is a sports game developed and produced by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii video game console. It was first released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month. The game is included as a pack-in game with the Wii console in all territories except Japan, making it the first game included with the launch of a Nintendo system since Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy in 1995. Wii Sports is part of the Touch! Generations brand. The game is a collection of five sports simulations, designed to demonstrate the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote to new players. The five sports included are tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing. Players use the Wii Remote to mimic actions performed in real life sports, such as swinging a tennis racket. The rules for each game are simplified to make them more accessible to new players. The game also features training and fitness modes that monitor player progress in the sports. Overall, Wii Sports has been well received by critics and received awards from the gaming press and entertainment community. It is the best-selling video game of all time, having outsold the previous best-seller, Super Mario Bros., in 2009. As of December, 31, 2009, 60.67 million copies sold worldwide. Wii Sports has been featured on television in Wii commercials, news reports, and other programming. It was followed by a sequel, Wii Sports Resort, in 2009.

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960:

Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song Dynasty period that would eventually last for more than three centuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Dynasty

1703:

Forty-six of the Forty-Seven Ronin committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, as recompense for avenging the death of their master, Daimyo of Akō Asano Naganori. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Seven_Ronin

1859:

German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus

1945:

World War II: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin (pictured left-to-right) met at the Yalta Conference in Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

1957:

USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29

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sanctimonious (adj): 1. Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious. 2. (archaic) Holy, devout http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sanctimonious

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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge. --Charles Lindbergh http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh