Amuse Me, one of the first professional services, was started by Abdel Bounane in 2011. Games were made manually and cost up to $67,000. Florent Deloison, one of Amuze Me's game artists, said “Amuse Me makes personalized games in one’s image, like having your portrait made by a painter,”.
TinglyGames, a developer based in the Netherlands, started Greeting Games in 2014. Users were able to customize and send casual games as e-cards themselves.
Amelus Digital, an Australian game studio, started HEART2GAME in 2017. It manually makes games for multiple types of event. They only made games for romantic events until 2018.
Petr Hudecek started Bday Game in 2018. It manually makes pixel-art RPG games.
Freelance game developers offer cheap personalized video game services at places such as Fiverr.
Red states and blue states
When elections are done in the United States, single US states are classified by their majority. In that context, in a blue state, the majority voted for a Democratic candidate, in a red state they voted for a Republican candidate. This classification has been in use since the year 2000. If people talk about a red or a blue state outside the context of an election, they refer to the party most people in the state usually support.
The Simpsons Archive
The Simpsons Archive is a website made by fans of "The Simpsons". It has facts on episodes of the show. The domain name used to be snpp.com. SNPP is an acronym for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons") said in 2003 that the staff of the show would sometimes go to websites to get ideas. He said that "one of the best is www.snpp.com." He thought that fans on the website think "every episode is the worst ever."
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch was a German chemist. He developed the Haber-Bosch process which allows the production of Ammonia. BASF developed a procedure to industrially produce fertilizers on the base of nitrogen. These fertilizers can be produced with the Haber-Bosch process. Today, Nitrogen-based fertilizers are commonly used to help food production in the world. Carl Bosch was also a diplomat: He had a big influence on the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. He also worked to find a solutions about finding ways to end hunger after the war. Between 1919 and 1925 he was the head of BASF. later he became involved with I.G. Farben, a chemical company he founded. At that time, I.G. Farben was the biggest chemical company in the world. In 1931, Bosch was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for his work in high-pressure chemistry, together with Friedrich Bergius. In 1937, he followed Max Planck as the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Because of the political situation in Germany, Bosch developed depression. In 1939, he tried to commit suicide, but failed. He died a year later, in Heidelberg.
Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars (), are an East European Turkic people who are indigenous to Crimea, and mainly live there. Their native language is Crimean Tatar.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is an Indian public sector multinational crude oil and gas company. Its registered office is in New Delhi. It is owned by the Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It is the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in the country, and produces around 70% of India's crude oil (equivalent to around 57% of the country's total demand) and around 84% of its natural gas.[5] In November 2010, the Government of India conferred the Maharatna status to ONGC.[6]
In a survey by Government of India for fiscal year 2019–20, it was ranked as the largest profit making PSU in India.[7] It is ranked 7th among the Top 250 Global Energy Companies by Platts.ONGC was founded on 14 August 1956 by Government of India. It is involved in exploring for and exploiting hydrocarbons in 26 ONGC has discovered 6 of the 7 commercially producing Indian Basins, in the last 50 years, adding over 7.15 billion tonnes of In-place Oil & Gas volume of hydrocarbons in Indian basins. Against a global decline of production from matured fields, ONGC has maintained production from its brownfields like Mumbai High, with the help of aggressive investments in various IOR (Improved Oil Recovery) and EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) schemes. ONGC has many matured fields with a current recovery factor of 25–33%.[5] Its Reserve Replacement Ratio for between 2005 and 2013, has been more than oneCody Bellinger
Cody James Bellinger (#35) is a 6'4" professional baseball player playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, bellinger plays First Base and Outfield. Bellinger was drafted by LA in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB (Major League Baseball) draft. Cody Bellinger made his MLB debut in 2017 against the San Francisco Giants.
Cody Bellinger's Major League career started in 2017 against the San Francisco Giants. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB draft. He then went on to win the Rookie Of The Year award after hitting 39 home runs (Breaking the rookie record for most home runs in a single season) with a .267 batting average. He then went on to become a reserve for the 2017 All Star Game. He then went to participate in the 2017 Home Run Derby to only fall to Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees.The ROTY (Rookie of the Year) is awarded to the best rookies in both the National League and American League. After his monstrous start to his career, Cody Bellinger only hit .260 with only 25 home runs in 2018. Then, in his most impressive season, Cody hit .305 with 47 home runs. This performance helped the Dodger Slugger earn the 2019 MLB MVP award. He also won the NL Silver Slugger award, as well as the Gold Glove award. In 2020, him and The Dodgers went on to win the World Series in 6 games against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Cody Bellinger grew up in Arizona, he went to Hamilton High School. Cody was born on July 13th, 1995 (25 years old as of Friday, Jan 15, 2021) Even before playing professionally, Cody Bellinger appeared in the 2007 Little League World Series, making it to the Final Bracket in the U.S tournament until getting knocked out by eventual champions from Georgia.
2021 Sulawesi earthquake
The 2021 Sulawesi earthquake hit the Majene Regency, in the province of West Sulawesi, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 15 January at 02:28 WITA. It had a magnitude of 6.2. This earthquake was felt as far away as Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, and Palu in Central Sulawesi.
Several buildings were destroyed, such as a three-storey building in Mamuju.
42 people are confirmed dead and 820 more injured.
Jefferson, New Hampshire
Jefferson is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. 1,107 people lived here at the 2010 census. The town is sometimes known as "Dartmouth".
Mickey Edwards
Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards (born July 12, 1937) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993.
Edwards was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at the University of Oklahoma and at Oklahoma City University.
In January 2021, Edwards said he was no longer a member of the Republican Party because he felt that it was a "cult serving Donald Trump".
Osian Ellis
Osian Gwynn Ellis CBE (8 February 1928 – 6 January 2021) was a Welsh harpist and composer. He was known as the first harpist of the Melos Ensemble and for his musical works with Benjamin Britten. He was born in Ffynnongroyw, Flintshire, Wales.
Ellis died on 6 January 2021, aged 92.
Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist. He has been the 11th Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy since 2021 during the Joe Biden administration.
Lander is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.