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We barely believe, but the first episode of the most known FPS game series of the world was released two decades ago. Probably no one needs an introduction to the Half-Life series. The first episode of the series is released on the 19th of November, 1998. Today is the 20th of November, 2018, so the game was exactly 20 years old yesterday. The game received three expansion packs: Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and the PS2-only Decay, and one numbered sequel, and numerous fanmade extensions. Happy birthday Half-Life and Gordon Freeman! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEtOTFJCXA The second part of the game maybe achieved better success, but since the two episodes of that game we didn't heard any news about a potential sequel. Be either a real third part or an Episode 3. Many people are still believe until this day that a real sequel will be made once I am curious about your opinion, how did you liked the opening part of the game anno, what kind of experiences do you have wi

The world's oldest cat was 32 years old (which is 144 in cat years) and died in hearth failure. When Nutmeg, the tabby cat was born, Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister, Elizabeth II has been sat on the throne only for 30 years. According to his owners, Liz and Ian Finley, who taken care of the cat for 27 years, the secret of the long life of the cat was that they fed him with tuna, cream and roast chicken.     The condition of the cat was turned to worst in the last weeks of his life and he was hardly able to breath. Ian Finley, the pensioner baker told sadly: "We both feel our hearts have been ripped out. He was our little boy." - Wrote the Metro . The couple also said that "We won't be getting another cat, because we don't think that we will be able to go through this heartbreak again."   Nutmeg firstly met them in 1990 with their other cat, Spicy. When it's turned out that he is a stray, they adopted him and after Spicy's de

The world's most friendly cheetah could live in the center of the Cheetah Experience in South Africa, who are trying to make friendships even with those animals, who aren't receive gladly his approaching. Because Kinji not only trying to make friendships with animals in his own species or the other big cats, but he managed to create a unique connection with his keeper and he also trying to make friendships regularly with the meerkats. This intention of him is not mutual, because the most pugnacious little animals is even attacking him this time, but he apparently doesn't mind this, he is even purring while the meerkats are trying to scare him away.   According to his keeper, Dolph C. Volker , Kinji rarely purring and almost only the meerkats can get him to do it. So it seems that the big cat with the friendly nature is not disturbed at all by the fact that his favorite "friends" are not like him.  In the center of Cheetah Experience there

A hunter is found a more than 1000 years old Viking sword in Norway, left in great condition. Einar Ambakk found the brown object when they (he and his friends) followed the trails of the reindeers in Reinheimen, central part of Norway, where they never hunted before. At first he thought he found a rusty iron rod, but when he pulled out, he saw it's a real sword.   Image source: Espen Finstad, Secrets of the Ice /Oppland County Council They found the sword 1640 meters above the sea level and it's sticked out from the ground for more than 1000 years. Ambakk notified the local archaeologists and experts. "As I know no one found a sword this high before. It's also rare that it's left in so good condition." - Said Lars Holger Hilo, archaeologist. According to the expert the Viking Sword's grip is in two parts, likely it's fixed, but probably it's originate from the years 800, 900. Image source: Einar Åmbakk According to Pilo it&#

According to the legend, special unique crystals, called sunstones could helped the Vikings in sea navigation. A study of Hungarian researchers proved that it was possible to navigate in certain cloudy weather conditions. During the study presented in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A scientific journal, Gábor Horváth, the leader of the Environmental Optics Laboratory of the Biological Physics department of the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Science (ELTE), the senior author of the study and his colleagues are tested this hypothetical method.   Image source:  Wikimedia commons /ArniEin The Vikings traveled thousands of kilometers on the Sea, they even reached North American. They didn't had magnetic compasses, because of this, they navigated based on the position of the Sun. If clouds covered the sky, they located the sun by so-called sunstones, then they determined the north direction. Image source: Flickr/Geir Are Johansen In 1967 T

Thor, the friendly white dog doing long walks every day in the municipality of Caçapava do Sul and he always walks the same route that he walked with his beloved owner, with Cláudio Cantarelli. The 58 years old painter died in 2015 and his devoted dog missing him so much that he became sick of grief. Despite that Cláudio's family adopted the dog, the sad dog become depressed. He just lay every day and he became very thin, because he barely wanted to eat. One of Cláudio's old friends, Saionara Freitas are worried about the dog so much, who was devoted friend to the man for nearly a decade, so she discussed with the family that she adopt the dog, because he hoped that he could help him. The women cared for dog so much, who only started to feel him better after 1 year, mostly thanks to the regular walks to the city and he visited those places that his owner loved the best.   The white Akita now walks every day on the same route and he gladly