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Donkey Kong 64 is an
adventure video game for
the Nintendo  64 console,
first released
November 22, 1999. It
was the first in the series
to feature 3D gameplay. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the
player explores an island to collect items and rescue his
kidnapped friends. The player completes minigames and
puzzles as five playable Kong characters, each with its
own special abilities. The game's exceptionally large
marketing budget included advertisements,
sweepstakes, and a United States tour. The game
received universal acclaim from reviewers, but was
criticized for its camera controls and emphasis on item
collection and backtracking. It won the 1999 E3 Game
Critics award for the best platform game, and multiple
awards and nominations from games magazines. By
2004, 2.3  million units had been sold. A rap song from
the game's introductory sequence is often cited among
the worst songs to feature in a video game.
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the NASCAR Cup
Series concludes,
on
with Kyle Busch
(pictured) winning
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championship.
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hikes in Iran, dozens of protesters are
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498 – Following the death of
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Laurentius were elected pope, causing
a schism that lasted until 506, when
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... that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Symmachus

Dixon helped establish the first hospital in was
Easton, Maryland? recognized
... that the male of the hoverfly species Syritta as
pipiens darts sharply in flight to facilitate legitimate.
mating? 1635 –
Cairngorm Plateau
... that Mustafa Güzelgöz was called the Dutch
"Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated colonial forces on Taiwan launched a
hundreds of books among villagers in Ürgüp, three-month pacification campaign
Turkey, on the back of a donkey? against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.

... that the Isaac T. Hopper House, built during 1910 – The crews of three Brazilian
the development of one of New York City's warships – all commissioned only
wealthiest neighborhoods, is now a halfway months before – and several smaller
house for women? vessels mutinied against perceived
"slavery" being practised in the
... that Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa
Brazilian Navy.
contributed artwork to a BDSM pulp magazine
while still in high school? 1971 – In Britain's worst
mountaineering tragedy, the
... that in 1998 a buyer of Colorado radio station
Cairngorm Plateau disaster (location
KGRE risked his entire savings and maxed out
pictured), five teenage students and
seven credit cards to acquire it?
one of their leaders were found dead
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There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire, a county and

principal area of Wales. In the United Kingdom, the term "listed building"
refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special
architectural, historical or cultural significance. Listing was begun by a
provision in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Once a building is listed,
strict limitations are imposed on the modifications allowed to its structure or
fittings. The Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire consist of twenty-four Monmouth Castle
churches, a priory and an abbey, eight castles, seven houses, two bridges, a
barn, a cross, a farm, a folly, a gatehouse, a hotel, a municipal building, a stables, and two elements of town
walls. Notable people associated with Monmouthshire's Grade  I listed buildings include Henry  V, born at
Monmouth Castle (pictured) in 1387; the medieval soldier and statesman William Marshal, 1st Earl of
Pembroke, who undertook major construction at Chepstow Castle; and Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of
Worcester, who entertained his king at Raglan, and lost the castle at the end of the First English Civil War.
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Guion Bluford (born November 22, 1942) is an American

aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and
fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who is the
first African American and the second person of African
descent to go to space. Before becoming an astronaut in
1978 as part of NASA Astronaut Group  8, Bluford was
an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained
while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of colonel. He
participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983
and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the
Space Shuttle Challenger on the mission STS-8, he
became the first African American in space, as well as
the second person of African ancestry in space, after
Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

This picture of Bluford is his official NASA portrait,

taken in 1992, the year of his final mission, STS-53. He
is depicted in his Launch Entry Suit and holding the
helmet.

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