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Events

• July 5, Ísleifur Gissurarson, the first bishop in Iceland, dies while giving mass in Skálholt church.

• October 14, the battle of Elster^[1] between the armies of the two rival brothers-in-law kings of the German states, Henry IV and Rudolf of Rheinfelden met at the Weisse-Elster River in the Great Saxon Revolt civil war of the Holy Roman Empire.

A brand name

• A brand name for sodium fluoroacetate, a poison.

Uncertain dates

• William I of England, in a letter, protests to the Pope that the King of England owes him no allegiance.
• King Alfonso VI of Castile establishes Latin liturgy in the Catholic Church in place of the Mozarabic Rite.
• Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, builds Devizes Castle.
• The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia gains independence after its founder, Prince Ruben, succeeds in establishing his authority in the mountainous regions of Cilicia (approximate date).
• The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tanguts of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan'an.
• c. 1080–1100 – Christ Pantokrator, mosaic in the central dome, church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, is made.

Births

• Leopold IV of Austria (d. 1141)
• Teresa of Leon, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon (d. 1130)

Deaths

• April 17—King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
• May 15—William Walcher, Bishop of Durham
• July 5 – Ísleifur Gissurarson, Icelandic clergyman (b. 1006)
• October 15 — duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden leader the Great Saxon Revolt dies from wounds received during the battle of Elster at nearby Merseburg during civil war of the Holy Roman Empire^[1]

References

From Wikiquote

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Translingual

Symbol

1080 (previous 1079, next 1081)

1. the number one thousand and eighty

English

Noun

1080

1. a snowboarding or skateboarding trick in which the board rotates 1080 degrees.

Etymology

• From its original catalogue number.

Pronunciation

• ten / eighty

Noun

1080 (uncountable)

1. (informal) Sodium fluoroacetate poison.

See also

• 180
• 360
• 540
• 720
• 900

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

1080° Snowboarding
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	Nintendo 64  February 28, 1998  April 1, 1998  November 30, 1998 Wii Virtual Console  January 15, 2008  January 18, 2008  January 18, 2008  January 28, 2008
Genre(s)	Snowboarding, Racing
System(s)	Nintendo 64, Wii Virtual Console
Players	2 players simultaneously
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone PEGI: Ages 3+ OFLC: General
Followed by	1080° Avalanche

1080° Snowboarding (テン・エイティ　スノーボーディング, Ten Eiti Sunōbōdingu ^?) is a multiplayer snowboard racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 and first released in Japan on February 22, 1998. The player controls one of five playable snowboarders from a third-person perspective using a combination of buttons to jump and perform tricks over eight levels.

1080° was announced on November 21, 1997 and developed over nine months; it garnered critical acclaim and won an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. 1080° sold over a million units, and a second installment, 1080° Avalanche, was released for the Nintendo GameCube on November 28 2003.

The player controls a snowboarder in one of six modes. 1080° has two trick modes (trick attack and contest), three race modes (race, time attack, and multiplayer), a training mode, and an options mode. The objective of the game is either to arrive quickly at a level's finish line or to receive maximum points for trick combinations.

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