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Paper Mario: Color Splash is a 2016 video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Wii U console. It is the fifth game in the Paper Mario series. The story follows Mario and a paint bucket named Huey as they work to save Prisma Island and rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. The game world is made up of crafting materials. Along the way, Mario and Huey encounter places that lack color, and Mario must fill them in with his paint hammer. The developers focused on color-themed puzzles and comedy, and implemented card-based combat to use the gamepad's touchscreen to sort, paint, and flick cards. Color Splash was initially criticized for its focus on turn-based action-adventure elements, continuing the trend started by its predecessor to move the series away from its role-playing game roots. However, it received generally positive reviews upon release, gaining praise for its writing, graphics, and gameplay elements. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that The Great Wave off Kanagawa (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"?
- ... that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman?
- ... that under a new Connecticut law, abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act?
- ... that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon's appointment?
- ... that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone's lair?
- ... that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources?
- ... that during Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign in 2000, his wife told him that his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses was a "sign from God" to end his campaign?
- ... that a statue of Serenidus, the brother of Serenicus, is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré?
In the news
- NASA releases the first operational image (shown) taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Protesters storm the President's House in Colombo, Sri Lanka, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
- Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
- Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.
On this day
July 17: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2022); Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2022); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day
- 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
- 1850 – The first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun, a daguerreotype of Vega (pictured), was taken by William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple.
- 1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- 1992 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom.
- 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
- Eunice Newton Foote (b. 1819)
- Florence Fuller (d. 1946)
- Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958)
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The execution of the Romanov family, the imperial family of Russia, took place on the night of 16–17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg. Following the February Revolution, the Romanov family and their servants had been imprisoned in the Alexander Palace near Saint Petersburg before being moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in the aftermath of the October Revolution. They were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Ipatiev House. This 1913 photograph of the family depicts the imperial couple and their five children: from left to right, Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Maria, Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Tsesarevich Alexei, and Grand Duchess Tatiana. Photograph credit: Levitsky Studio; restored by Wolcott and Yann Forget |
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