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Arita ware is porcelain made in and around Arita in Saga Prefecture, Japan, where production began in the early seventeenth century after suitable porcelain stone was identified. Much of this porcelain was historically shipped through the nearby port of Imari, causing exported examples to become kno...

Flateyjarbók, catalogued as GKS 1005 fol., is a large Icelandic vellum manuscript compiled between 1387 and 1394. Its Old Norse texts include sagas of Norwegian kings, shorter narratives, poetry, genealogical material, and accounts connected with voyages to Vinland. Preserved in Reykjavik by the Árn...

Flateyjarbók is a large Icelandic vellum codex compiled between 1387 and 1394 and catalogued as GKS 1005 fol. It preserves Old Norse kings' sagas, shorter tales, poems, genealogies, and narratives concerning Norse voyages to Vinland. The manuscript is held in Reykjavik by the Árni Magnússon Institut...

Vikings is a historical drama television series created and initially broadcast by the History Channel from 2013 to 2021. The show’s run concluded with the completion of its sixth season, with later episodes distributed through Amazon Prime Video. A subsequent series, Vikings: Valhalla, was released...

Nabeshima ware is a refined type of Japanese porcelain developed under the patronage of the Nabeshima domain in present-day Saga Prefecture during the Edo period. It was produced in controlled kilns for presentation to the Tokugawa shogunate and other elite recipients rather than for ordinary commer...

Advanced Microservices Design Patterns provides guidance on structuring resilient and scalable cloud-native applications. It explores architectural patterns such as Saga for managing distributed transactions, Event Sourcing for durable data records, and CQRS to separate read and write operations. Th...

Abraham Vergheses 'The Covenant of Water' is a sweeping, multigenerational saga set in Kerala, India, spanning from 1900 to 1977. The novel follows a family afflicted by a mysterious condition that causes death by drowning. Verghese weaves together elements of historical fiction, family drama, and m...

AM 468 4to is a 14th-century Icelandic vellum manuscript preserving Njáls saga, one of the major medieval Icelandic family sagas. The narrative concerns interlocking feuds, legal disputes, marriages, killings, and reconciliations centered on Njáll Þorgeirsson and Gunnar Hámundarson. The manuscript b...

Karatsu ware is a Japanese stoneware tradition associated with Karatsu and surrounding areas of present-day Saga Prefecture on Kyushu. It developed strongly from the late sixteenth century through the work and techniques of Korean potters and became important for everyday vessels and tea utensils. T...

Arita porcelain, also known as Arita-yaki, represents Japan's earliest established porcelain production. Developed in Saga Prefecture during the 17th century, it’s renowned for its delicate white clay body and distinctive blue glaze, achieved through innovative cobalt oxide techniques. This pottery...

Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House explores the lasting impact of trauma on a family through multiple generations. Set in suburban Philadelphia, it chronicles the Van Dijkers' experience following a devastating event that reshapes their lives and relationships. The novel delves into psychological comple...

Candy Crush Soda Saga is a mobile tile-matching game developed by King. It builds upon the popular Candy Crush Saga formula with new "soda" themed levels featuring floating candies that rise and fall. Players strategically match colored tiles to clear levels, achieve objectives like collecting soda...

Karatsu-yaki is a Japanese stoneware from Saga Prefecture, produced since the late 16th century under Korean immigrant potters' influence, prized in tea ceremony for its understated glazes and rustic forms.

Egil Skallagrimsson is the central figure of Egils saga, one of the major prose works of medieval Icelandic literature, composed in the 13th century. Set in the 9th and 10th centuries, the saga portrays Egil as a warrior, farmer, and one of the most accomplished skaldic poets of the Viking Age. His...

Candy Crush Friends Saga is a free-to-play match-three puzzle game released by King in October 2018 for iOS, Android, and Windows. It is part of the Candy Crush franchise and introduces companion characters that provide special abilities as players collect candies of specific colors during gameplay....

Bubble Witch 3 Saga is a free-to-play mobile bubble-shooter game developed and published by King in 2017. As a sequel in the Bubble Witch series, players aim and shoot colored bubbles to match three or more of the same color and clear the board. The game follows the witch Stella as she works to rest...

Pet Rescue Saga is a free-to-play puzzle game developed by King and released in 2012, originally for Facebook and later for mobile platforms. Players remove groups of same-colored blocks from a grid to clear levels and rescue cartoon animals trapped within each stage, using mechanics similar to the...

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye presents the initial story of Rick Grimes’ struggle for survival following a catastrophic zombie outbreak. This graphic novel anthology explores themes of community, loss, and morality within a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape. It is notable as the origin of a...

Grettir the Strong is the central figure of Grettis saga, one of the medieval Icelanders' sagas. Renowned for exceptional physical strength, he fights human opponents and supernatural beings but is later declared an outlaw and survives for nearly twenty years outside ordinary legal protection. His s...

Ragnar Lodbrok is a legendary Norse Viking hero and king whose historical existence blends with Old Norse literary tradition. According to sagas such as the "Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok," he distinguished himself by conducting raids across Europe, including an attack on Paris, while wearing his signature...

Candy Crush Jelly Saga is a free-to-play match-three mobile puzzle game developed and published by King, released in 2016. As a spin-off in the Candy Crush series, the game introduces player-versus-opponent mechanics where players compete against characters like the Jelly Queen to spread colored jel...

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker concludes the nine-part “Skywalker saga,” focusing on Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron’s efforts to defeat Supreme Leader Kylo Ren and the First Order. The film depicts a final confrontation involving the resurrected Emperor Palpatine, who has allied with Kylo...

Bubble Witch 2 Saga is a mobile puzzle game developed by King and released in 2014 as a sequel to the original Bubble Witch Saga. The game operates in the style of Puzzle Bobble, requiring players to shoot and match colored bubbles to clear the screen and defeat evil spirits. It updated the franchis...

Hrólfr Kraki is a semi-legendary king of Denmark appearing in Old Norse and Danish medieval sources, most prominently Hrólfs saga kraka and Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum. He is associated with the royal seat at Lejre on the island of Zealand. Traditions describe him as a generous king surrounded...

Blue Dragon is an Xbox 360 role-playing game developed through a collaboration between Mistwalker, Artoon, and Microsoft Game Studios Japan. Hironobu Sakaguchi oversaw development and wrote the plot for this debut title from Mistwalker, marking his first project outside of Square Enix. The game’s de...

Blossom Blast Saga is a tile-matching puzzle game developed by King and released in 2015. Unlike traditional swap-and-match mechanics, the gameplay requires players to link adjacent flower buds of the same color to make them bloom and clear from the board. The game features a progression system thro...

"Bejeweled Stars" is a match-3 puzzle game developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2016. Notable as the first spin-off in the Bejeweled franchise to debut exclusively on smart devices, it adapts the classic tile-matching mechanics for mobile play. The game integrates a constell...

Farm Heroes Super Saga is a free-to-play tile-matching puzzle game developed by King and released in 2016 as a follow-up to Farm Heroes Saga. Players match Cropsies across staged levels while completing objectives within a limited number of moves. It distinguishes itself from its predecessor through...

Diamond Diaries Saga is a mobile puzzle game developed by King, the studio known for the Candy Crush franchise. Instead of using traditional swap-and-match mechanics, the game challenges players to connect colorful charms by drawing linking paths across the puzzle board. The title was designed for m...