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Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy is a series of games within Square Enix's Final Fantasy video game franchise. Each game shares a theme of crystals tied to deities. The series was announced in 2006 and the flagship Final Fantasy XIII was released in 2009. Developers included Shinji Hashimoto, Motomu Toriyama (pictured) and Kazushige Nojima. The central games – Final Fantasy XIII, XV and Type-0 – all suffered delays. After their releases, their teams used ideas from development to create additional games with other studios. Final Fantasy XV was distanced from the series brand for marketing purposes. Seven titles, the original three projects and multiple sequels or spin-offs, have been released and complemented by works in related media. Final Fantasy XV expanded into a multimedia project, spawning a film and a webseries. Individual games have generally received a positive reception. (This article is part of a featured topic: Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy.)
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- ... that Li Fu Lee (pictured), the first Chinese woman to attend MIT, studied electrical engineering, which—according to The Boston Globe—its undergraduates at the time said was its hardest major?
- ... that Still Life with Books by Jan Lievens is an example of the vanitas genre of painting?
- ... that Digital Domain created a new facial-capture system to help create the look of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame?
- ... that Saulteaux linguist Margaret Cote was the first person in Saskatchewan to teach a First Nations language in a public school?
- ... that newspapers in Brazil printed cake recipes and 16th-century poetry to cover material censored by the military dictatorship?
- ... that President James Monroe promised the eastern Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase?
- ... that blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb hidden in a bust of himself?
- ... that Untitled Goose Game escaped being called Some Like It Honk?
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- SpaceX Starship, the most powerful rocket ever, is first launched (pictured) from Texas and explodes three minutes into the flight.
- Dominion Voting Systems agrees to a $787 million settlement in their lawsuit against Fox News over defamation claims from the 2020 United States presidential election.
- In Finland, Unit 3 of the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest nuclear reactor, begins regular operation after eighteen years of delayed construction.
- In Sudan, at least 185 people die in clashes between rival factions of the military government.
On this day
April 21: Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2023); First day of Ridván (Baháʼí Faith, 2023)
- 900 – A debt was pardoned by the chief of Tondo on the island of Luzon and recorded on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known calendar-dated document found in the Philippines.
- 1615 – The Wignacourt Aqueduct (pictured) in Malta was inaugurated and was used to carry water to Valletta for about 300 years.
- 1836 – Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican troops of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive and final battle of the Texas Revolution.
- 1975 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu resigned on hearing of the fall of Xuân Lộc, the last battle of the Vietnam War.
- 2021 – The Indonesian Navy submarine Nanggala sank with the loss of all 53 people on board.
- Pope Alexander II (d. 1073)
- Antonín Kammel (b. 1730)
- Cheryl Gillan (b. 1952)
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There are thirty-three species in Viverridae, a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, split into fourteen genera within four subfamilies: the three civet subfamilies Viverrinae, Hemigalinae, and Paradoxurinae, and the genet subfamily Genettinae. A member of this family is called a viverrid. They are widespread primarily throughout Africa, India, and southeast Asia, and are found primarily in forests, shrublands, and grasslands, though some species can be found in savannas or wetlands. Most viverrids are 40 to 65 cm (16 to 26 in) long, plus a 35 to 60 cm (14 to 24 in) tail. Most species do not have population estimates, though three viverrids are classified as endangered, and one, the Malabar large-spotted civet (example pictured), with a population size of around 200, is classified as Critically Endangered. (Full list...)
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Selimiye Mosque is a mosque in North Nicosia in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus, and the principal Islamic place of worship on the island of Cyprus. It was constructed as a Christian church known as the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, which was built on the site of an earlier Byzantine church, and was consecrated in 1326. It was converted to a mosque in 1570, following the 50-day siege of Nicosia, when the area became part of the Ottoman Empire. A pair of minarets and other Islamic features were added at that time. Photograph credit: Alexander Savin
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