Silent Hill 4: The Room is a survival horror video game, the fourth 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. (Full article...)
... that Hannah Chaplin, the mother of the silent screen star Charlie Chaplin, was a British music hall performer who used the stage name Lily Harley?
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The works of Arthur Conan Doyle include short stories, novels, poems, plays, operettas, non-fiction and pamphlets—the latter on spiritualism and the paranormal. In October 1879 Doyle was still studying for his medical degree when he published his first work—"The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley"—which appeared in Chambers's Journal. In 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual; the story introduced Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson. The duo subsequently came to wide public notice in the July 1891 short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" in The Strand Magazine. Doyle, fearful of having his other work overshadowed by his fictional detective, killed off his creation in December 1893, although he later relented and re-introduced the characters; the works make up the Holmes series of stories. Doyle also wrote four full-length Holmes works, as well as adventure novels and nine works of historical fiction, and the adventure series featuring Professor Challenger, who first appeared in The Lost World—both in short stories and novel form. He also wrote four volumes of poetry and a series of stage works. Owing to the close successive deaths of his son and brother, Doyle turned to spiritualism and wrote extensively on the subject. (Full list...)
Delftsevaart is a canal in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is seen here on a photochrom print released around 1900. During World War II, this area of the city was destroyed in the 1940 Rotterdam Blitz, but the St. Lawrence Church, visible in the background, survived the war.
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