Bulbasaur is one of the 403 fictional species of Pokemon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokemon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. CNN has called Bulbasaur one of the "lead critters", referring to it and its later forms as "the Carmen Miranda of Pokemon figures" due to the "increasingly exotic foliage on its head" as it evolves. Bulbasaur are one of the first Pokemon that a player can obtain in the first of the series' video games (Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue). Bulbasaur also appear often in the Pokemon anime. In every version of the Pokemon series, Bulbasaur are vaguely reptilian creatures that move on all fours. They are small and squat, and have a light blue-green body coloration, with darker blue-green spots. The artwork design of Bulbasaur was created by Ken Sugimori for the creature's 1996 debut in the Pokemon video games, and has since remained unchanged.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1794: Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) was guillotined. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre)

1914: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I)

1976: The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattened Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangshan_earthquake)

1990: Alberto Fujimori became President of Peru and the first person of East Asian descent to become executive head of state of a non-Asian nation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori)

1996: The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man)

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"We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong." -- Karl Popper (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper)