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A Link In The Past 27 years ago this month, Nintendo brought us a boy with a fairy and a world in dire need of saving (and small keys). In physics, time travel is possible, but only if you want to go into the future. Backwards time travel is another story. But even with a scientifically accurate tweaking of time, what we see in OoT is still an oddity. The Nintendo 64th Dimension. Most Adorably Geeky Marriage Proposal Ever Is Hidden In A Physics Paper.
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In Soviet Russia they had that book too, it was not a full trilogy but illustrations were made by a local artist and look very different from the ones there were in the Western World. Can you guess all of the characters depicted here? The hint, the one on the cover is Bilbo. They have a Russian map! “The Unexpected Guests” “The Lamb Stake” “The Break”
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