Kingdom Two Crowns is a 2018 strategy video game developed by Thomas van den Berg and Coatsink and published by Raw Fury. It is the third entry in the Kingdom series. Players control a mounted monarch as they attempt to defend their kingdom from a race of monsters. The monarch can build defenses to fend off night attacks and recruit villagers to perform certain jobs. The game features single-player and cooperative multiplayer modes, with the latter allowing two people to play together via a split screen. The developers originally designed Kingdom Two Crowns as an expansion pack for Kingdom: New Lands (2016). As the expansion grew, they decided to release it as a separate game. Kingdom Two Crowns was released for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on December 11, 2018, and for iOS and Android on April 28, 2020. It received positive reviews, gaining praise for its strategic gameplay, artwork, and cooperative multiplayer mode, though its slow pace was criticized.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1942:

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premièred in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi German forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_premi%C3%A8re_of_Shostakovich%27s_Symphony_No._7

1956:

About 20,000 women marched on Pretoria, South Africa, to protest the introduction of pass laws for black women under apartheid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_March_%28South_Africa%29

1960:

Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Kasai

1969:

Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate and four guests in Los Angeles, before killing two more people the following night. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%E2%80%93LaBianca_murders

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

heartland: 1. Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”) 2. Also in the plural form heartlands: 3. The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant. 4. (specifically) In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful. 5. (specifically, Singapore, chiefly in the plural) Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively. 6. (specifically, US, often attributively) The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively. 7. A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heartland

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