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Game director Yoshinori Kitase
The characters of Final Fantasy VIII include an elite group of mercenaries called SeeD
as well as soldiers, rebels, and political leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen
weeks after the 1999 North American release of Final Fantasy VIII, a role-playing video
game by Square, it had earned more than $50 million in sales, making it the fastest selli
Final Fantasy title at the time. The game's characters, created by Tetsuya Nomura unde
the direction of Yoshinori Kitase (pictured), are the first in the series to be realistically
proportioned in all aspects of the game. This graphical shift, as well as the cast itself, ha
received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites. The six main
playable characters are the loner Squall Leonhart, the passionate Rinoa Heartilly, the
instructor Quistis Trepe, the martial artist Zell Dincht, the cheerful pilot Selphie Tilmitt, an
the marksman Irvine Kinneas. (Full article...)
Part of the Final Fantasy VIII series, one of Wikipedia's featured topics.
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British ambulance stores during the war
• ... that British ambulance units (stores pictured) served alongside armies of both
combatants in the Franco-Prussian War?
• ... that for nearly 100 years, people thought Manuel Trujillo Durán introduced cinema
Venezuela, though he was just a film technician at the time?
• ... that Bierlachs, a variant of Germany's national card game, Skat, is predominantly
played for beer in pubs and restaurants?
• ... that Arthur R. Gralla was the US Navy's fourth Jewish Vice Admiral?
• ... that the poem "The Aboriginal Mother" expresses grief about the massacre of at le
28 Aboriginal Australians at a time when a white settler said, "Why, we are poison
the Blacks; which is much safer; and serve them right too!"?
• ... that Japanese voice actress Kaede Hondo decided to pursue a career in acting du
a misunderstanding?
• ... that Earth's circumference around the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres o
21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60) nautical miles, because it was used to define those units of
measurement?
• ... that after a mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller
assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer?
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Metallica in 2008
The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented
at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality heavy metal music
performances. The Grammy Awards is an annual ceremony, where honors
in several categories are presented by The Recording Academy of the
United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and
overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales
or chart position". The honor was first presented to Metallica (pictured) at
the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards (1990) for the song "One". Metallica
holds the records for the most wins, with six. The bands Black Sabbath,
Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, and Tool have each received the award twice.
Ministry holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six.
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