installment in the Silent Hill series developed by Konami Computer
Entertainment Tokyo. It was published by Konami and translated by Jeremy
Blaustein. The game and its soundtrack were released in Japan in June
2004, and in North America and Europe the following September, for the
PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. In 2012, it was released on
the Japanese PlayStation Network. Unlike the previous installments,
which were set primarily in the town of Silent Hill, this game is set in
the fictional town of South Ashfield, and follows Henry Townshend as he
attempts to escape from his locked-down apartment. During the course of
the game, Henry explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds
himself in conflict with an undead serial killer. The fourth installment
in the series features an altered gameplay style with third-person
navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments. Upon its
release, the game received generally positive critical reaction, with
mixed reaction to its deviations from the rest of the series.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_4>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1631:
Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in
childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her
mausoleum, the Taj Mahal (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_and_architecture_of_the_Taj_Mahal>
1843:
New Zealand Wars: An armed posse of Europeans set out from
Nelson to arrest Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha and clashed with Māori,
resulting in 26 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairau_Affray>
1922:
Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral
completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aerial_crossing_of_the_South_Atlantic>
1940:
Second World War: Britain's worst maritime disaster occurred
when at least 3,000 people were killed as a result of the troopship
RMS Lancastria's sinking by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria>
1991:
The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population
Registration Act, which required that each inhabitant of South Africa be
classified and registered by race as part of the system of apartheid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Registration_Act,_1950>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chyron:
(television) A set of graphics or words at the bottom of a television
screen, sometimes unrelated to the current viewing content.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without
norms, as we sometimes seem to.
--M. C. Escher
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M._C._Escher>
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