Released by a lever, a small ball would fall out of the urn-shaped device into one of eight metal toad's mouths below, at the eight points of the compass, signifying the direction the earthquake was located.

Released on June 12, 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the year's top-grossing film and remains one of the highest-grossing films ever made.

Released in an era where shootings were generally depicted as bloodless and painless, the Bonnie and Clyde death scene was one of the first in mainstream American cinema to be depicted with graphic realism.

Released in 1982, it was widely considered to be one of the worst video games ever made.

Released by Paramount Pictures on June 11, 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off became one of the top grossing films of the year and was enthusiastically received by critics and audiences alike.

Released during the wake of September 11 attacks, the album managed to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, selling more than 427, 000 units ; the album's success was overshadowed by the tragic event.

Released to critical and commercial success A Link to the Past was a landmark title for Nintendo and is widely considered today to be one of the greatest video games of all time.

Released as a single, the song became a hit, going to number one on the Billboard R & B charts and Dance charts.

Released in August 1995, four months before the more famous Cyrix 6x86, the Cyrix 5x86 was one of the fastest CPUs ever produced for Socket 3 computer systems.

Released later that year, Let's Face It, would prove to be the band's biggest seller, mostly due to its first single " The Impression That I Get ", which reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Warner Bros. internationally, the film received generally negative reviews from film critics, grossed over $ 39. 7 million at the box office in the United States, and went on to become one of the most profitable slasher films in cinema history.

Released in 1986, the single peaked at number five on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming Jackson's fourth consecutive top five hit on the chart ; it also peaked at number one on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs and the Hot Dance Club Play charts.

Released in November, Sing 20 Number One Hits was the group's take on 20 number one UK hits from recent years.

Released on April 28, 1998 the album was commercially successful and marked one of the band's highest debuts yet on the Billboard charts.

Released from his Warners contract, he signed a contract at Twentieth Century-Fox but was released after only a handful of films, one of which was the Charlie Chan movie Dead Men Tell.

Released on May 23, 2006, Eat a Peach Deluxe Edition features a remastered version of the original album on disc one, while disc two showcases the complete performance of the band at the final June 27, 1971, Fillmore East concert:

Released on cellular phones in Japan, Xenosaga: Pied Piper is set one hundred years prior to the start of Episode I.

He urged Philadelphia record label Cameo / Parkway to record a new version of “ The Twist ” with young, wholesome Chubby Checker, who had displayed his talent for copying other artists on an earlier novelty hit “ The Class .” Released in summer 1960, Checker ’ s rendition of “ The Twist ” became number one on the singles chart in the USA in 1960 and then again in 1962.

Released in 1934, Babes in Toyland was one of many feature films with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

Released in August 2005, this DVD reached the number one position in the UK music DVD charts.

Released as a double-a-side with the album track, " 3am ", it gave them their fourth and final number one in August 2004, staying at the top for two weeks, the longest they had ever spent at the top, and would later go onto win them " Record of the Year " in December that year.

Released in 1985, the Commodore Amiga was one of the first personal computers to come standard with a GPU.

Released by Columbia Pictures, the film was nominated for three Oscars, but won only one.

Released July 12, 1944, the film did not get high marks when reviewed in The New York Times:

Released in the 1990s, Top Gun 2 is a version for Nintendo Game Boy, just like the first game you get to fly in a F-14 Tomcat trying to complete missions against the Soviet Union.

Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there.

Released on ERA's Dore label in August 1958, it took two months before " To Know Him Is to Love Him " began to get airplay.

Released under the GNU General Public License, Freeciv is free and open source software.

Released as free software by Chris Allegretta in 1999, today nano is part of the GNU Project.

Released under the terms of the zlib license, Allegro is free and open source software.

Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, GNU m4 is free software.

Released under the GNU General Public License, KStars is free software.

Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Nautilus is free software.

Released under the GNU General Public License, UAE is free software.

Released under the GNU General Public License version 3, rsync is free software.

Released under the GNU General Public License, Dillo is free software.

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Released under the terms of the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL, ALSA is free software.

Released under the GNU General Public License, KDevelop is free software.

Released in the summer of 2001, the game was the first in the genre to include a science-fiction setting, dynamic quests, instancing, free trials, and in-game advertising.

Released under the GNU General Public License, Squid is free software.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, ScummVM is free software.

Released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License, Eclipse SDK is free and open source software.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, gedit is free software.

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