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An Act for repealing an Act passed in the thirty-fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for making and repairing certain Roads in the County of Aberdeen;" [af] and for the more effectually amending, widening, repairing, and keeping in Repair the said Roads, and other Roads in the said County, and for levying a Conversion ...
16 March – Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game, designed as a music teaching aid. [5] 17 March – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth becomes Prime Minister. [1] 21 March – Battle of Alexandria: Abercromby's forces defeat those of the French in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. [1]
Revolution '76 is a 1989 simulation/strategy game by Britannica Software designed for Apple IIGS and IBM PC. [1] The game was written by former Sid Meier colleague, Ed Bever. [ 2 ] The title is a simulation of the economic, social and political conditions at the commencement of the American Revolutionary War .
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Father W Ferris describes two forms of caid: the "field game" in which the object is to put the ball through arch-like goals, formed from the boughs of two trees; and the epic "cross-country game" which lasts the whole of a Sunday (after Mass) and is won by taking the ball across a parish boundary. [3] "Wrestling", "holding" opposing players ...
Altham HS (1962) A History of Cricket, Volume 1 London: George Allen & Unwin. Birley D (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. London: Aurum. ISBN 978 1 78131 1769; Major J (2007) More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-718364-7
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The game causes the first controversy on video game violence when a reporter for the Associated Press writes about its graphic imagery. [11] May – Atari Inc. ships Breakout. The game is a hit in the United States but becomes even bigger in Japan when it is released by Namco. Block breaker games in the country create the first video game boom. [3]