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Today's featured article Shovel Knight Showdown is a 2019 fighting video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. It is an add-on to the platform game Shovel Knight. Players battle using one fighter among twenty characters, each with various movesets and fighting styles. Modes include "Treasure Clash", to collect the most gems, and a "free for all" battle to death. In story mode, a single player battles against AI-controlled opponents across several stages before facing a boss. Completing this mode with each fighter allows the player to unlock new stages and characters. Yacht Club Games envisioned Showdown as a small minigame similar to modes in Mega Man 7 (1995) and Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988). The developers gradually built a more expansive title which they compared to a party game. Showdown was released for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Wii U on December 10, 2019. It received average reviews on release, with praise towards its characters and multiplayer gameplay, but many reviewers criticized the single-player mode for its difficulty balancing. (Full article...) Recently featured: Golding Bird "You Belong with Me" Wilfred Arthur  Today's featured media George I Rákóczi (1593–1648) was a Hungarian nobleman who served as Prince of Transylvania from 1630 until his death. Before acceding to the throne, he was a leader of the Protestant faction in Hungary and a faithful supporter of Prince Gabriel Bethlen. When Bohemian nobles requested military support in their struggles against the Habsburg monarchy, Rákóczi persuaded Bethlen to help and commanded Transylvanian forces in several battles. After Bethlen's death, there were short reigns by his wife and then his brother, but the Transylvanian parliament elected Rákóczi as Bethlen's permanent successor. His reign was notable for his role in the Thirty Years' War, with a campaign against Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, from 1644 to 1645. After Rákóczi held Upper Hungary and most of Lower Hungary at one point, the fighting was ended by the Treaty of Linz, under which seven counties of Upper Hungary were annexed by Transylvania. This etching of Rákóczi was produced in 1631 by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, after an earlier design by Rembrandt, Van Vliet's teacher. The illustration is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Illustration credit: Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, after Rembrandt Recently featured: National Library of Poland – Western meadowlark – Wheelwright, Kentucky Archive – More featured media...  Did you know Henry ... that the tuatara Henry (pictured), who was named after Henry VIII, was planned "to have lots of wives"? ... that Los Angeles's Hollyhock House was built for someone who lived there for only one year? ... that a journalist attributed Bonnie Blue going viral to the "outrage economy"? ... that the male members of the band Dingo got bottom pats from local men during a Moroccan photoshoot for the album Kerjäläisten valtakunta? ... that the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer deliberately held back information from the newspaper's TV newscast, Inquirer News Tonight, so as not to be scooped? ... that the villain of a Doctor Who story reappeared after 49 years? ... that the FBI tried to convince H. Bruce Franklin that Leibel Bergman, a fellow communist activist, was an FBI informant? ... that a group of K-pop fans performed a dance with the goal of convincing a company to commit to 100% renewable energy? ... that the thumb cactus crawls over other plants in cultivation – unless you grow it upside down?

In the news Friedrich Merz In the German federal election, the CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz (pictured), wins the most seats in the Bundestag. Archaeologists announce that the empty tomb Wadi C-4 near Luxor, Egypt, was that of the pharaoh Thutmose II. At the British Academy Film Awards, Conclave wins four awards, including Best Film. Mahamoud Ali Youssouf is elected chairman of the African Union Commission. President of Romania Klaus Iohannis resigns from office, and is succeeded by Ilie Bolojan in an acting capacity. Ongoing: M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Milind Rege Rick Buckler Ilkka Kuusisto Frankétienne Oded Lifshitz Vladimír Válek  This day in history February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961) USS Ranger 1843 – Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands. 1933 – USS Ranger (pictured), the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, was launched. 1951 – After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others. 2009 – At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths. Emma Catherine Embury (b. 1806) Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (d. 1934) Divya Bharti (b. 1974) Don Bradman (d. 2001) More anniversaries: February 24 February 25 February 26

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