Agricola
Uwe Rosenberg
Central Europe, the 1670s: each player runs a cottage and must feed a family. Over 14 rounds they farm their fields and grow their family.
Photo: Geoff Peters from Vancouver, BC, Canada (CC BY 2.0)
Nicolas Sarkozy is elected president of France in May. During the summer the American mortgage crisis shakes the banks and foreshadows the great financial crisis. In October the French government and environmental groups meet for the Grenelle de l'environnement. Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan at the end of December.
A few cards of the album
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Asus Eee PC
ASUS
Linux instead of Windows, whose licence would have made up 20 percent of the price: that choice helped make the first Eee PC so cheap in 2007. Its unprecedented success pushed Microsoft to create a low-cost Windows XP licence for netbooks and to support it until 2010.
Photo: Red at English Wikipedia (CC BY 3.0)
Chang'e 1
Named after the Chinese goddess of the Moon, the probe flew in October 2007 on China's first lunar mission. The idea dated back to 1962 at Nanjing University; Japan's Hiten in 1994 revived it, but crewed flights came first. Of its 2,350 kg, 1,200 kg were fuel.
Photo: Shujianyang (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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