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[73] [74] [75] An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, Big Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [‡ 9] [76] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [77]
Commodore 64 screenshot. Raid on Bungeling Bay is a 2D shoot 'em up.The player controls a helicopter launched from an aircraft carrier to bomb six factories scattered across islands on a small planetoid occupied by the Bungeling Empire (frequent villains in Broderbund games), while fending off escalating counterattacks by gun turrets, fighter jets, guided missiles, and a battleship.
Roi-Namur (/ ˌ r ɔɪ n ə ˈ m ʊər / roy nə-MOOR) is an island in the north part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.Today, the island is a major part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, hosting several radar systems used for tracking and characterizing missile reentry vehicles (RV) and their penetration aids (penaids).
The Guano Islands Act (11 Stat. 119, enacted August 18, 1856, codified at 48 U.S.C. ch. 8 §§ 1411-1419) is a United States federal law passed by the Congress that enables citizens of the United States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits in the name of the United States. The islands can be located anywhere, so ...
Virtual Villagers is a series of village simulator video games created and developed by Last Day of Work, an independent video game developer and publisher.Each game contains puzzles the player must complete to uncover the ethnic and cultural backgrounds surrounding fictional Polynesian island called Isola (EE-zoh-la).
The raid involved 656–725 men from the US 2nd Parachute Battalion, [6] led by Lieutenant Colonel Victor Krulak.On 27 October at Vella Levalla, the attacking force embarked on eight LCM landing craft before being transferred to four high speed transports—McKean, Crosby, Kilty, and Ward—that had just been released from supporting the landing of New Zealand troops on the Treasury Islands. [7]
The title to the islands was claimed by the Ross family until 1978, when John Cecil Clunies-Ross (born 29 November 1928), [12] known as Tuan John, [10] sold them to the Commonwealth of Australia for £2.5m ($4.75m) [clarification needed] under threat of expropriation, [8] [13] with the exception of his house on Home Island, which was eventually ...
In Iceland, the Turkish Abductions are viewed as a major event and one that is still often discussed, [1] but outside of Iceland the event is practically unknown. [1] Multiple detailed works were written about the event at the time; [3] a major one was Ólafur Egilsson's narrative (Reisubók Ólafs Egilssonar ) (en: Ólafur Egilsson's travelogue).