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Koji Igarashi

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is a 2005 action-adventure video game, the first in the Castlevania series by Konami released on the Nintendo DS. It was written and produced by Koji Igarashi (pictured) and directed by Satoshi Kushibuchi. Incorporating many elements from its predecessor, Aria of Sorrow, it was commercially successful, selling more than 15,000 units in its first week in Japan and 164,000 in the United States within three months. The protagonist, Soma Cruz, manages to escape the fate of becoming the new Dracula with the help of allies. The game has platform and role-playing elements, with a dark, gothic atmosphere. It introduces a multiplayer mode and a "Magic Seal" system that requires the use of the DS stylus to draw a pattern to defeat enemies. The game received high scores from many video game publications and was considered one of the best games on the Nintendo DS for 2005. (This article is part of a featured topic: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.)

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Takuma Sato

In motorsport, Takuma Sato (pictured) wins the Indianapolis 500.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes, with Bayern Munich defeating Paris Saint-Germain in the final.
Thirteen people are killed in a nightclub stampede during a police raid enforcing social distancing measures in Lima, Peru.

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August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825)

Galileo Galilei

1258 – George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1875 – Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, completing the journey in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
1975 – Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
2012 – NASA's robotic space probe Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space, making it the first spacecraft to do so.

Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841)
Sean Connery (b. 1930)
Stan McCabe (d. 1968)

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Santa Maria Maggiore is a major basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome. This picture shows the interior of the dome of the basilica's Pauline Chapel, frescoed by Italian painter Cigoli between 1610 and 1613. It depicts the Assumption, with Mary being lifted up towards heaven, while the apostles, some standing and others seated, look on. She holds a sceptre, and around her, the heavens open and choirs of angels rejoice as cherubs cavort. At the apex of the cupola, God the Father is represented crowned by seraphim. Built by order of Pope Paul V, the chapel houses the image of Salus Populi Romani, and is built of marble and richly gilded and frescoed throughout.

Painting credit: Cigoli; photographed by Livioandronico2013

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