It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

* 1982, Origins Awards, Best Role Playing Game

Fudge has been nominated for an Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game System for the Deryni Role-Playing Game.

INWO won the Origins Award for Best Card Game in 1997.

* Origins Game Fair, a game convention

* Origins Game Fair, an annual board game event in Columbus Ohio

* Origins Award, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair

* Origins Game Fair

In 1998, Kill Doctor Lucky won the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 1997.

Ars Magica 5th edition won the Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game of 2004.

The " Black Box " won the Origins Award in 1991 for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1990.

In 1995, Planescape won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1994.

World Championships were held each year at the Origins Game Fair.

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as the first PC God game .< ref >< BR /> In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

Wizards debuted Magic in July 1993 at the Origins Game Fair in Dallas.

After the success of Magic, Wizards published RoboRally in 1994, and it soon won the 1994 Origins Awards for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game and Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game.

The new edition of the D & D game won the 2000 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game.

In 1995, SimCity 2000 won " Best Military or Strategy Computer Game " Origins Award.

The Origins Game Fair holds a yearly tournament featuring the game, and awarded the game the Charles Roberts Award for Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame of 1982.

The 2002 title won the Origins Award for Best Historical Board Game of 2002.

Origins Game Fair is one of North America's most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con.

Zocchi is a well-known figure at gaming conventions like Gen Con and Origins Game Fair, where he demonstrates the various inconsistencies in most mass-produced gaming dice.

At the Origins Game Fair in 2002 he was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame.

An event held at the Origins Game Fair, and possibly other Gaming conventions, is the Knights Of The Dinner Table live reading.

A boxed set of the game was released by Looney Labs at the 2003 Origins Game Fair but is now out of print.

Dragon * Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention ( NASFiC ).

They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so ( for example ) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.

The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: Best Professional Game, Best Amateur Game, Best Professional Magazine, Best Amateur Magazine and Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.

Norman Cantor recognized three books as most important to Strayer's legacy: Feudalism ( 1965 ), which summarized three decades of his research and thinking on the topic ; On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State ( 1970 ), in which he shows the relevance of medieval historical institutions to modern governmental institutions ; and The Reign of Philip the Fair ( 1980 ), representing over 30 years of archival research and the most comprehensive work on the topic in any language-other than Jean Favier's Philippe le Bel ( 1978 ).

Dan Smith at Origins Game Fair | Origins in 2002

It is currently the biggest gaming convention for board gaming, role-playing games, etc., in the world, followed by Gen Con Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana and Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio.

Prior to 2000, the awards were given at the Origins Game Fair, and Charles Roberts Awards prior to 1987 are also considered to be Origins Awards.

Most notably was the 1981 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules for Call of Cthulhu.

A popular science version of the book, entitled The Origins of Life: From the birth of life to the origin of language was published in 1999.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Traveller was inducted into the Origins Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997.

On September 15, 2009, it was announced that Simon West planned a 3D retelling of the original movie, to be titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D.

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men ( 1754 ), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant ( bad ), as Hobbes had maintained, but ( like some other animals ) had an " innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer " ( and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue ).

For this reason, Living Greyhawk was not converted to the new rules system ; instead, it was brought to a conclusion at Origins 2008.

Already René Descartes in his Discourse on the Method had attested to the impact Renaissance planned new towns had upon his own thought, and much evidence exists that the Renaissance streetscape was also the perceptual stimulus that had led to the development of coordinate geometry ( see, e. g., Claudia Lacour Brodsky, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origins of Modern Philosophy, Duke 1996 ).

Those who asked for the rules were told " NF Stovold ’ s Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origins " was out of print.

Kerouac's address was later published as " The Origins of the Beat Generation " ( Playboy, June 1959 ).

He seldom showed his works, but he did take part in the important exhibition The Origins and Development of International Independent Art held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in 1937 in Paris, where he was at last hailed as a great painter.

" In 1926 he brought out a successor work, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, in which he looked at the theory that civilisation diffused northward and westward from the Near East to the rest of Europe via a linguistic group known as the Aryans ; with the ensuing simplistic abuse of " Aryan " by the National Socialists, Childe subsequently avoided mention of his book, as Colin Renfrew observes, though it " was very careful to distinguish between language and culture and supposed racial classification.

He was a member of the ' Ad Hoc Origins Committee ' that supported Philip E. Johnson's book Darwin on Trial against palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould's high profile scathing review in Scientific American in 1992.

Arendt's first major book was The Origins of Totalitarianism ( 1951 ), which traced the roots of Stalinist Communism and Nazism in both anti-Semitism and imperialism.

Many other sources including Panati's Extraordinary Origins of yesterdays Things say that " yo-yo " was a Tagalog word supposedly meaning " come-come " or " return ".

The Origins of the Second World War was received negatively by some quarters when it was published in 1961.

As angry as the reaction in Britain was to The Origins of the Second World War, it was greater when the book was published in January 1962 in the United States.

Symeon was author of two historical works which are particularly valuable for northern affairs, the Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunelmensis, Ecclesie ( The Little Book on the Origins and Progress of this Church, that is of Durham ) and a historical compilation Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum.

Pool of Radiance was well received by the gaming press and won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1988.

The British historian A. J. P. Taylor's 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War claimed that Hitler had no master-plan for conquering the world and was instead an opportunistic leader seizing whatever chances he had for expansionism, and that the war that started over Poland in 1939 was due to diplomatic miscalculation on the part of the Germans, the British, the French and the Poles instead of being a case of German aggression.