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This is a list of notable open-source video games. Open-source video games are assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including public domain games with public domain source code. This list also includes games in which the engine is open-source but other data (such as art and music) is under a more restrictive license.
Games Domain. Games Domain was a video game website founded by Dave Stanworth and based in Birmingham, UK. In the late 1990s, it was at one time mirrored in seven countries and had a tumultuous history of being purchased by different corporations over its 11-year existence. It was active from March 1994 until March 2005.
Legion of Honour (France) Croix de Guerre (France) Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, [ 1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO ( / də ˈwaɪ.ərt /; [ 2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in ...
Battle of Castle Itter. / 47.47056°N 12.13972°E / 47.47056; 12.13972. The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II . Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US ...
In terms of energy released (usually measured in TNT equivalence), Castle Bravo was about 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. Castle Bravo is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of Tsar Bomba at approximately 50 Mt, Test 219 at 24.2 Mt, and ...
Neuschwanstein Castle ( German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the ...
v. t. e. A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style that evolved during the early modern period of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield. It was first seen in the mid-fifteenth century in Italy.
The Château de Castelnaudis a medieval fortress in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, overlooking the river Dordognein Périgord, southern France. It was erected to face its rival, the Château de Beynac. History. [edit] The oldest documents mentioning it date to the 13th century, when it figured in the Albigensian Crusade; its ...