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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Two_Crowns>
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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>
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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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
--Izaak Walton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Izaak_Walton>
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