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Fallout 4: Far Harbor is an expansion pack for the 2015 video game Fallout 4, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic nuclear war, the player character is recruited by a detective agency to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. The game's quests and puzzles can be played in first-person or third-person perspective. The puzzles feature a variety of game mechanics, including lasers and building blocks. The expansion was influenced by player feedback, which faulted the base game's dialogue system and showed interest in additional explorable territory. Reviews from critics were generally favorable; the addition of new quests was praised, but there were mixed opinions on the game's atmosphere and its use of fog. The main criticisms were directed at the puzzles, which reviewers thought were a waste of time, unnecessary, or overly frustrating. (Full article...)

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... that the fumarolically active volcano Solimana (pictured) has been identified as the site of an Inca oracle?
... that South African-born Irish international rugby player Ilse van Staden is a butcher?
... that although New York City's Spring Creek Park was mostly built on a landfill, part of the park is located in a U.S. national protected area?
... that Georg Dohrn conducted at the Konzerthaus Breslau the premiere of Reger's Der 100. Psalm, Mahler's Eighth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Vladimir Horowitz?
... that Camden County, Georgia was considered as a launch site by NASA in the early 1960s, but Spaceport Camden did not see its first launch until 2017?
... that the British paediatrician Tina Cooper assisted the Sierra Leone government in establishing a national immunisation programme?
... that the purple scallop sponge has a mutualistic relationship with the mollusc on which it lives?
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Slobodan Praljak

Former Bosnian Croat army general Slobodan Praljak (pictured) commits suicide after his conviction for war crimes is upheld by the ICTY.
In sumo, yokozuna Harumafuji Kōhei retires amidst investigations into an assault on fellow wrestler Takanoiwa Yoshimori.
Indonesian officials order the evacuation of 100,000 people in Bali due to the eruption of Mount Agung.
In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders to win the Grey Cup.
At least 305 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a mosque in Bir al-Abed, Egypt.

On this day...

November 30: Saint Andrew's Day in various countries

WTO protestors in Seattle

1853 – Crimean War: Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, providing France and the UK cause to join the war.
1872 – The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy warships defeated United States Navy forces during a nighttime naval battle near the Tassafaronga area on Guadalcanal.
1999 – Protests by anti-globalization activists (pictured) against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S., forced the cancellation of its opening ceremonies.
2007 – Swami Rambhadracharya, a Hindu religious leader, released the first Braille version of the Bhagavad Gita scripture.

Emeric, King of Hungary (d. 1204) · William-Adolphe Bouguereau (b. 1825) · Shawna Robinson (b. 1964)

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A swan created using modular origami, a paperfolding technique which uses two or more sheets of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than possible with single-piece origami techniques. Each individual sheet of paper is folded into a module, or unit, and then modules are assembled into an integrated flat shape or three-dimensional structure by inserting flaps into pockets created by the folding process. These insertions create tension or friction that holds the model together.

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