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A linking book

Myst IV: Revelation is the fourth installment in the Myst series, developed by the French video game publisher Ubisoft. First released on September 28, 2004, it uses pre-rendered graphics and digital video, as in Myst III: Exile, but adds real-time 3D effects. The player is sent to question the sons and recover the daughter of Atrus, a man who creates links to other worlds by writing special linking books (illustration shown). Development of Revelation lasted more than three years, requiring as many as eighty Ubisoft employees. The original score was written by Exile's composer, Jack Wall. Musician Peter Gabriel lent his voice and a song to the audio. Overall, reception to the game was positive; reviewers lauded the visuals, sound, and puzzles, but some took issue with the control scheme. Revelation is the last game in the Myst series to use both pre-rendered backgrounds and full-motion video. (Full article...)

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Olivia Giacobetti at her lab bench

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... that Manuel Añorve Baños was appointed by his cousin, the interim Governor of Guerrero, Mexico, to serve as the interim mayor of Acapulco?
... that English rock band XTC hired a 40-piece orchestra for their 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1, to get a sound akin to "Vaughan Williams with a hard-on"?
... that the potato stalk borer used to be considered a serious pest of potatoes but modern management practices, such as the burning or removal of crop residues, have reduced its impact?
... that the longest-lived member of the British royal family is Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, who died aged 102 years and 309 days?
... that Kevin Rashid Johnson was charged with inciting a riot for organizing a prison strike that may or may not have happened?

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Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (pictured) is elected President of the Maldives.
An attack at a military parade in Ahvaz, Iran, leaves at least 30 people dead, including the attackers.
A Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 227 people.
A landslide, triggered by several days of heavy rainfall, kills at least 53 people in Naga, Philippines.
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge runs the Berlin Marathon in world record time.

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September 28

Chicago, one of the aircraft to make the first aerial circumnavigation

351 – The Eastern Roman armies under Constantius II defeated those of the usurper Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa Major.
1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City.
1924 – A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world (one of the aircraft pictured).
1978 – Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the first year of three popes since 1605.
2008 – SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket achieved orbit on its fourth attempt to become the first successful liquid-propelled orbital launch vehicle developed with private funding.

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs (b. 1821) · Louis Pasteur (d. 1895) · Guillermo Endara (d. 2009)

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Announcement of the Turkish championship

The Turkish football champions are the annual winners of the highest association football competition in Turkey. The first competition to name a national champion was the Turkish Football Championship (Turkish: Türkiye Futbol Şampiyonası), which began in 1924 and continued until 1951. The championship format was based on a knockout competition, contested between the winners of each of the country's top regional leagues. At the end of the 1924 season, Harbiye were the first club to be crowned champions after completing their fixtures unbeaten. Started in 1937, the National Division was the first national league competition and was held until 1950. A few years later, in 1959, the professional nationwide league was introduced, currently known as the Süper Lig. The league is contested on a round robin basis and the championship is awarded to the team that is top of the league at the end of the season. Fenerbahçe are the most successful club, having won 28 titles in total so far. (Full list...)

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The Travelling Companions is an 1862 painting by English artist Augustus Egg. It was created towards the end of Egg's life, at a time when he travelled abroad frequently to seek relief from life-long asthma. The painting depicts two similar-looking and identically dressed women seated opposite each other in a compartment aboard a train travelling along the coastline of Menton, on the French Riviera. The symmetry of the women and the compartment itself is broken in that one woman is sleeping next to a basket of fruit, while the other is reading beside a bouquet of flowers. The painting is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Painting: Augustus Egg

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