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The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony, released for the PlayStation 3 worldwide on June 14, 2013. Players control Joel (Troy Baker), a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenager, Ellie (Ashley Johnson), across a post-apocalyptic United States. In third-person perspective, players use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated Cordyceps fungus. Up to eight players may engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay online. The game received universal acclaim for its narrative, gameplay, visual and sound design, characterization, and depiction of female characters. The month of its release, it was the PlayStation 3's fastest-selling game that year: over 1.3 million units within a week, and over 3.4 million within three weeks. It won year-end accolades, including many Game of the Year awards, and is considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time. An enhanced edition, The Last of Us Remastered, was released for the PlayStation 4 in 2014, and a sequel, The Last of Us Part II, was announced in 2016. (Full article...)

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The 24-storey Grenfell Tower in London (pictured) is destroyed by fire with at least six fatalities reported.
The inaugural United Nations Ocean Conference concludes with over 1,300 voluntary commitments by UN member states to promote marine conservation and sustainable use of marine resources.
In the UK general election, the ruling Conservative Party, led by Theresa May, loses its majority but remains the largest party.
A study of fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, suggests that Homo sapiens may have evolved at least 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Simultaneous terrorist attacks at the Iranian parliament and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini kill at least 17 people and injure 43 others.

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June 14: Flag Day in the United States

1777 U.S. flag

1285 – Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of Vietnam's Trần dynasty destroyed most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States (pictured).
1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine, an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
1944 – Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen.
1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books.

Antonio Sacchini (b. 1730) · Karl Landsteiner (b. 1868) · Mary Cassatt (d. 1926)

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Virgin and Child with Four Angels is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Gerard David. Likely completed between 1510 and 1515, it shows the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus, while she is anointed Queen of Heaven by two angels above her, accompanied by music provided by another two angels placed at either side of her. The painting is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Painting: Gerard David

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