Golden Sun is the first installment of a series of fantasy role-playing
video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by
Nintendo. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy
Advance, followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in 2003. The
game is notable for certain unique game elements, such as the use of
special "Djinn" that empower the player and can be used against
enemies. Golden Sun's story follows a band of magic-attuned "adepts"
who are sent from their home town into the wide world of Weyard to
prevent the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being
released as it was in the past. Along the way the adepts gain new
abilities, help out the local populations, and learn more about why
alchemy was sealed away. The story continues in The Lost Age. Upon its
release, the game was highly praised; IGN's Craig Harris wrote that
Golden Sun could "arguably be one of the best 2D-based Japanese RPGs
created for any system." The game went on to sell over one million
copies in Japan and the United States. A second sequel, Golden Sun:
Dark Dawn, is scheduled for release in 2010.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines
by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American
Revolutionary War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps>
1871:
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?": Journalist and explorer Henry Morton
Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in
Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley>
1945:
Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British
officer Brigadier Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their
retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Surabaya>
1969:
The first episode of the children's television series Sesame Street
premiered on public broadcasting television stations in the United
States , to adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street>
2007:
At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of
Spain famously asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te
callas?" after Chávez was repeatedly interrupting a speech by Spanish
Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFPor_qu%C3%A9_no_te_callas%3F>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Rorschach test (n):
A method of psychological evaluation that uses a person's
interpretations of inkblots or similar images to discover information
concerning his or her personality, emotional functioning, or
unconscious mind
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rorschach_test>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
--Friedrich Schiller
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller>
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