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From today's featured article  Paper Mario: Color Splash is a 2016 video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Wii U console. It is the fifth game in the Paper Mario series. The story follows Mario and a paint bucket named Huey as they work to save Prisma Island and rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. The game world is made up of crafting materials. Along the way, Mario and Huey encounter places that lack color, and Mario must fill them in with his paint hammer. The developers focused on color-themed puzzles and comedy, and implemented card-based combat to use the gamepad's touchscreen to sort, paint, and flick cards. Color Splash was initially criticized for its focus on turn-based action-adventure elements, continuing the trend started by its predecessor to move the series away from its role-playing game roots. However, it received generally positive reviews upon release, gaining praise for its writing, graphics, and gameplay elements. (Full article...)

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Ongoing: Recent deaths&#58; On this day July 17: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2022); Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2022); Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day  Astrophotograph of Vega Eunice Newton Foote ( b. 1819)Florence Fuller  ( d. 1946)<li>Wong Kar-wai  ( b. 1958)</li></ul> More anniversaries:
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 * Protesters storm the President's House in Colombo, Sri Lanka, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
 * Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
 * Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.
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 * 1453 – The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in France except the Pale of Calais.
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 * 1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
 * 1992 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom.
 * 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
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