The Sega Genesis, or Mega Drive, is a
16-bit home
video game console developed and sold by
Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the
Master System. Released in Japan in 1988, in North America in 1989, and worldwide in 1990, it was adapted from Sega's System 16
arcade system board, with a
Motorola 68000 processor and a
Zilog Z80 sound controller chip. In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors,
Nintendo's
Super Nintendo Entertainment System and
NEC's
PC Engine. The Genesis achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe, thanks to its library of arcade game
ports, the popularity of Sega's
Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises, and aggressive youth marketing. It was succeeded in 1994 by the
Sega Saturn. More than 30 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide.
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Defeat of the Villasur expedition depicted on buffalo hide
1720 – The Spanish Villasur expedition, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the
Great Plains of North America, ended in failure when it was ambushed (depicted) by a
Pawnee and
Otoe force.
Lyriothemis acigastra is a species of
dragonfly in the family
Libellulidae, found in India. Until 2013, it was thought to be restricted to the northeastern states of
Assam and
West Bengal, but it has now also been recorded in the southern state of
Kerala. It is a small dragonfly with brown-capped greenish-yellow eyes and a blackish-brown thorax marked with yellow. Laterally, there are three stripes. Its wings are transparent, palely tinted with yellow at the base. The female is similar to the male, but the abdomen is cylindrical instead of tapered from base to end and reddish yellow instead of blood red. This picture shows a male L. acigastra individual.
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