[Daily article] August 19: Hyborian War

Hyborian War is a play-by-mail game set during Robert E. Howard's
Hyborian Age in the world of Conan the Barbarian. The Origins
Award–winning game, published by Reality Simulations, Inc., has been
continuously available for play since 1985. The game's genre is heroic
fantasy, also known as sword and sorcery. Conan appears as a wandering
hero whom players can employ until fortune takes him elsewhere. The game
designer wove multiple aspects of Howard's stories into Hyborian War
including diverse landscapes and cultures, grand armies, large-scale
battles, powerful wizards, and courageous and heroic deeds. Gameplay is
multifaceted and complex. Players choose from 36 kingdoms of small,
medium, and large sizes, each with different victory conditions. A
central focus of the game is conquest and expansion through military
action and diplomacy. Intrigue, magic, and other tools of statecraft in
a fantasy setting are available to players. The game retains an active
player base in the 21st century.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian_War>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1745:

Bonnie Prince Charlie (portrait shown) raised the Jacobite
standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, in an attempt to regain the British
throne for his father, beginning the Jacobite rising of 1745.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745>

1920:

Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a
rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion>

2003:

A Hamas suicide bomber killed 24 people and wounded more than
130 others, many of whom were Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded
public bus in Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

humanitarian:
Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering;
compassionate, humane.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humanitarian>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  I have no desire to get ugly, But I cannot help mentioning that
the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the
pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.  
--Ogden Nash
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash>

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