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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is a 2004action role-playing game that was developed bySquare Enix andJupiter, and published bySquare Enix in collaboration withDisney Interactive for theGame Boy Advance.Yoko Shimomura(pictured) composed the game's music. A direct sequel toKingdom Hearts, it uses a newcard-based battle system rather than its predecessor's real-time combat. The story followsSora and his friends as they explore the Castle Oblivion while battling Organization XIII. It received positive reviews for its story,graphics andfull-motion videos, but its battle system was criticized. It was remade for thePlayStation 2 asKingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories and packaged withKingdom Hearts II Final Mix. It was then remastered inhigh definition and included in theKingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix collection, which was released in 2013 for thePlayStation 3, and later for thePlayStation 4, theXbox One, andpersonal computers. (Full article...)

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1646 –First English Civil War:Charles Isurrendered himself toScottish Covenanter leaderDavid Leslie near Newark, England.
1864 –American Civil War:Union Lt. Gen.Ulysses S. Grant'sOverland Campaign inVirginia began with the inconclusiveBattle of the Wilderness inSpotsylvania County.
1891 –Carnegie Hall(interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropistAndrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted byPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
1980 – The BritishSpecial Air Service recaptured theIranian embassy in London followinga six-day siege afterIranian Arab separatists had seized it.

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TheNebula Award for Best Game Writing is one of theNebula Awards, presented each year by theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association for science fiction or fantasy game writing. The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of theEmmy Awards. The Game Writing category is the newest category of the Nebulas, which were originally awarded in 1966 solely for printed fiction. The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing has been awarded annually since 2019. During the seven nomination years, 41 games by 121 writers have been nominated. These have primarily been video games, but also include eight books forrole-playing game systems and aninteractive film. Eleven writers have been nominated more than once, withKate Heartfield, andNatalia Theodoridou having three nominations each.Interactive fiction developerChoice of Games has had the most games nominated with a total of nine over six years. (Full list...)

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Obverse and reverse of a 1953 five-dollar silver certificate

Silver certificates are a type ofrepresentative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part ofits circulation of paper currency. They were produced in response tosilver agitation by citizens who were angered by theCoinage Act of 1873, which had effectively placed the United States on agold standard. Since 1968 they have been redeemable only inFederal Reserve Notes and are thus obsolete, but they remainlegal tender at their face value and hence are still an accepted form of currency. Thisfive-dollar bill, a 1953 silver certificate bearing the first serial number of a printing of 339,600,000 banknotes, is part of theNational Numismatic Collection at theSmithsonian Institution'sNational Museum of American History. It features a portrait of PresidentAbraham Lincoln on the obverse and the facade of theLincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the reverse.

Banknote design credit:Bureau of Engraving and Printing; photographed byAndrew Shiva

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