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Atlantis: The Lost Empire is the first science fiction film in Disney's animated features canon and the 41st overall. Set in 1914, the film tells the story of a young man who gains possession of a sacred book, which he believes will guide him and a crew of adventurers to the lost city of Atlantis. Linguist Marc Okrand created an Atlantean language for the film (letter "A" pictured). Atlantis made greater use of computer-generated imagery than any of Disney's previous animated features; it remains one of the few to have been shot in anamorphic format. Atlantis, which adopted the distinctive visual style of comic book creator Mike Mignola, is one of the few Disney animated features not to have songs. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on June 3, 2001, and went into general release on June 15. Due to the film's poorer-than-expected box-office performance, Disney quietly canceled both a spin-off television series and an underwater attraction at its Disneyland theme park. Some critics praised it as a unique departure from typical Disney animated features, while others disliked it due to the unclear target audience and absence of songs. (Full article...)

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09:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Baggböle manor (pictured) is built entirely of wood, but made to look like a stone building?
... that Jackie Tavener is one of only four players in Major League Baseball history to steal second, third and home in the same inning on more than one occasion?
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
... that William Stadiem's book on Frank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valet George Jacobs?
... that state-dependent memory suggests that if you forget what you did when blind drunk, you could get drunk again and remember it?
... that Nawrahta Minsaw, the first Burmese ruler of Lan Na, was also an accomplished poet in the yadu style?
... that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia?

01:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Felton Hervey, who was in the foreground of Zoffany's painting Tribuna of the Uffizi, never saw the completed painting (detail pictured)?
... that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River?
... that the upcoming video game Halo 5: Guardians features a new game engine for the series?
... that Milan Puskar Health Right, a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
... that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
... that London's Burlington Gardens is the site of the first Abercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
... that Robbie Williams was inspired to write Rudebox's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playing The Mitchell Brothers' "Routine Check" to death?

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1944 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began its first air raid on the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
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