Manta, Cundinamarca

Manta is a municipality and town located in the northeast of the department of Cundinamarca (Colombia), 90 kilometers from Bogota (55 miles). It is located in the province of Los Almeidas in the region known as Valle de Tenza. Form limits of Cundinamarca and Boyaca departments, limiting the east with the municipalities of Guateque and Guayata.

Toponym

The name Manta in the Muisca language means "To your tillage". This name comes from the ancient indigenous people who inhabited the territory of the Muisca Confederation. Another Muisca name that remains is the name of the village Fuchatoque, located on the eastern side of the city center, headquarters of the former command chief of the same name.

History

Pre-Columbian and colonial period

Manta was founded on July 24, 1772 by José Joaquín Pompeya. Another of the founders was named Juan José Bernal Ramírez. The first inhabitants, indigenous Muisca, settled in pre-Columbian times, and settled on a main around the plateau where the current town center, which was once a small lake. According to the founding myth in the center of the lake was an island, which was sighted in the image of 'San Joaquin', a name that means the actual building of the Catholic Church. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, Manta was part of the domains and boundaries of the Muisca Confederation, but after the conquest, the indigenous inhabitants were displaced to neighboring municipality of Tibirita (Cundinamarca). The Spanish and 'mestizos' were those who stayed to form the town of Manta.

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Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It is part of the Unreal series, specifically the subseries started by the original Unreal Tournament; the sequel to 2002's Unreal Tournament 2003.

Unreal Tournament 2004 features most of the content of its predecessor. Among significant changes to gameplay mechanics and visual presentation, one of the major additions introduced by Unreal Tournament 2004 is the inclusion of vehicles and the Onslaught game type, allowing for large-scale battles.

Its sequel, Unreal Tournament 3, was released on November 19, 2007.

Plot

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Uridium

Uridium is a science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up originally designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64, and later ported to other 8-bit machines. It consists of fifteen levels, each named after a metal element, with the last level being called Uridium (a fictional metallic element, not to be confused with the real metallic element iridium). The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name as saying "I really thought it existed."

Uridium was later released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. Mindscape purchased a license to release a game based on the film The Last Starfighter. Rather than program a new game, however, Mindscape decided to take an easier route by recycling an older, relatively obscure game. The title screen, sprites, and soundtrack were modified, but the levels and gameplay were identical. In 2003, it was re-released on the C64 Direct-to-TV.

In 2008, the C64 version was announced as a title on the Wii Virtual Console. On 28 March 2008, Uridium was released for the Virtual Console in Europe, costing 500 Wii Points.