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God of War III is a third person action-adventure video game released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 console, with a remastered version released for PlayStation 4 on July 14, 2015. The player controls Kratos, the former God of War, who was betrayed by his father Zeus. Reigniting the War of the Titans, Kratos ascends Mount Olympus and battles monsters, gods, and Titans in a quest to open Pandora's Box, defeat Zeus, and end the reign of the Olympian Gods. The gameplay focuses on combo-based combat and features quick time events to defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The game also features magical attacks, puzzles, and platforming elements. Critically acclaimed upon release, it won several awards, including "Most Anticipated Game of 2010" and "Best PS3 Game" at the 2009 and 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, respectively, and the "Artistic Achievement" award at the 2011 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Video Game Awards. It is the best-selling game in the God of War series and ninth among all PlayStation 3 games, with nearly 5.2 million copies sold worldwide. (Full article...)

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Foxwarren Park in 1860

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... that the Rolling Stones' concert in Havana was the first foreign rock concert to take place in Cuba and was attended by an estimated 500,000 people?
... that economist Peter Schmidt's 1977 work on stochastic frontier models is considered one of the most influential Journal of Econometrics papers of all time?
... that a traditional town fair in Zagreb, Croatia, has its roots in a Mongol invasion?
... that the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is the only tunnel with stations shared between trains and buses in the United States?
... that Bencie Woll was the first person to hold a professorship in sign language in the United Kingdom?
... that the sea anemone Gonactinia prolifera can both walk and swim?

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Separation of the iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf

Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese pro-democracy activist, political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, dies aged 61.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sentenced to nine and a half years in prison over the Operation Car Wash corruption scandal.
A giant iceberg, covering approximately 5,800 km² (2,200 sq mi), breaks away (separation pictured) from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
After covering 450 kilometres (280 mi), the Turkish March for Justice concludes in Istanbul at a rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people.
The Iraqi government declares victory in the Battle of Mosul.

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July 15: Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy

Rosetta Stone

1799 – French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone (pictured) in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1959 – Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
1997 – American serial killer Andrew Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami, Florida.

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The SG-1000 is a cartridge-based home video game console manufactured by Sega. Introduced in 1983, it was developed in response to a downturn in arcades in 1982. Its game library comprises 68 standard cartridge releases and 29 Sega Card releases. The SG-1000 made little impact in the video game industry, but provided the basis for the more successful Master System in 1985.

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