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text: Gameplay[edit]

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text: The Sims 3 is built upon the same concept as its predecessors. Players control their own Sims' activities and relationships in a manner similar to real life. The game play is open-ended and does not have a defined goal. Challenges occur randomly based on aspects of each Sim's lifestyle, such as relationships, skills and job. Career opportunities such as working overtime or completing special tasks can yield a pay raise, cash bonus, or relationship boost. Skill opportunities are requests by neighbors or community members for Sims to solve problems using their acquired skills for cash or relationship rewards. If the opportunity is connected to a Sim's school, the reward may be increased school performance.

text: The new reward system Wishes replaces the Wants And Fears system in its predecessor The Sims 2. Fulfilling a Sim's wish contributes to the Sim's Lifetime Happiness score, allowing players to purchase lifetime rewards for the cost of those Lifetime Happiness points.

text: The game includes an optional feature called "Story Progression" which allows all Sims in the neighborhood to autonomously continue free will without the player ever controlling those sims. Sims live for a set duration of time that is adjustable by the player and advance through several life stages (baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, adult, and elder). Sims can die of old age or they can die prematurely from causes such as fire, starvation, drowning, electrocution. Further causes of death were added in the games expansion packs.

text: Create a Sim[edit]

text: The Sims 3 introduces many more character customization options than its predecessor The Sims 2.

text: The player has a larger selection of body types for Sims as muscle and body weight sliders have been introduced. However, toddlers do not have the option to have their weight customized. The Late Night expansion pack also added sliders for breast size and muscle definition that are also included in the base game. Expanded skin tone options have also been added. Each skin tone can be further customized with a light to dark slider. The player is able to pick their Sim's shoes, a feature previously limited to console versions of The Sims and The Sims 2.

text: There are a total of 22 hairstyles for female Sims and 17 hairstyles for male Sims with more available through either expansion packs, stuff packs, The Sims 3 Store or third-party custom content. Hats and accessories may be applied and may also have their colors and textures altered. Each Sim's hair color can be chosen from one of eight basic colors, or the hair color can be customized using a color wheel to choose the base hair color, roots, highlights or tips.

text: The Sims 3 offers many more character customization options than its predecessors. With the addition of "Advanced Mode", players can focus on single features on a characters body to modify, allowing for detailed customization. Players also have the option of giving freckles, beauty marks, and tattoos to their Sims. [13]

text: Skills[edit]

text: There are several skill-dependent abilities, such as more social interactions available from high charisma, special songs for guitar players, and appliance upgrades (self-cleaning, more TV channels, etc.) for high handiness. Sims can begin building skills as early as their toddler days. While skills do not show up in the meter right away, using skill building objects is rewarded once the toddler grows into a child. The basic skills include Logic, Cooking, Painting, Gardening, Writing, Guitar, Athletic, Handiness, Charisma and Fishing. New skills were later added in expansion packs. When Sims reach level 10 of a skill, they will get a certificate in the mail.

text: Each skill has a tab in the skill journal detailing the level of the skill, statistics, what the challenges are, and sometimes other special information. Various challenges are also available in the skill journal. When a challenge is completed, Sims can earn rewards. All of these rewards earn some kind of benefit, such as quicker completion, better results, etc. With the Ambitions expansion pack, the skill journal also shows hidden skills that a Sim has learned.

text: Careers[edit]

text: Many of the careers from The Sims 2, and The Sims, such as the Law Enforcement and Athletic tracks, are in The Sims 3. The careers in the core game are Business, Culinary, Criminal, Journalism, Law Enforcement, Medical, Military, Music, Political, Science, and Professional Sports. Professions in the Ambitions expansion pack include Firefighter, Ghost Hunter, Investigator, Architectural Designer, and Stylist. The part-time jobs available include such positions as a Bookstore Clerk, Grocery Store Clerk, Spa Receptionist, Spa Specialist and a Mausoleum Gravedigger. Part-time jobs have a lower pay than full-time jobs and do not give career opportunities. Part-time jobs are also available for teen Sims. The Ambitions expansion pack also introduced professions, careers that allow the player direct control over their Sims' work and how they spend their days, and the ability for Sims to register at City Hall as self-employed in a skill career.

text: Sims can look for these jobs in the newspaper, the computer, or apply at the "rabbit hole" building where they would like to work. Sims are also able to make a living at home through their skills such as selling their own paintings, writing novels, playing guitar for tips, or growing fruit and vegetables. Jobs such as nectar making is also a profession with the Sims 3 World Adventures. Sims can also buy out businesses and receive a percentage of the profits they earn.

text: Advancing in a career still depends on mood and skills, but with the addition that relationships with colleagues/boss and even certain goals that have to be fulfilled. Players now have more control as to their Sims work, with the option to "Work Hard", "Take It Easy", "Suck Up To Boss", etc. Depending upon which of these the Sim is directed affects the performance bar. If the performance bar is maxed out, this will help to increase a Sims chances of being promoted.

text: A new feature The Sims 3 offers is branching careers, which allows Sims to choose a certain path in their career (such as a Sim in the Music career can eventually choose to specialize in Symphonic music or Rock). These branches are generally offered around level 6 of a career, depending on which career the Sim is working.

text: Worlds[edit]

text: Neighborhoods are now being officially referred to as 'worlds', or, when moving, towns, possibly due to Electronic Arts' use of the Create a World tool and the neighborhoods scale. Worlds are now 'seamless', open to exploration between lots and are affected by a new game mechanic called story progression. The primary world in the game is Sunset Valley, while an additional world called Riverview can be obtained for free. All expansion packs to date (except Generations and Seasons) have included a world, and additional worlds can be bought at The Sims 3 Store for sim points.

text: The Create a World tool allows players to make their own neighborhoods with custom terrains similar to Sim City 4. A game patch, released in conjunction with the release of Ambitions, also allows players to manipulate pre-made neighborhoods to a limited degree, such as adding or removing lots and scenery. As of Late Night, worlds are divided into "Sims 3 Towns and "Late Night Towns". There seem to be important differences between the two, like the sims they can spawn, etc. Up to now[update], Bridgeport is the only pre-made world to be cataloged as a city. The rest, including the exotic destinations from World Adventures, are considered suburbs.

text: On March 19, 2008, EA revealed open world, a new feature, for The Sims 3. Players can explore the world outside their Sims' homes without having to face strenuous loading times. Every house lot is now synchronized with the main neighborhood time. In previous Sims games, the time of day was separate and different for each house lot. Players can interact with every building and amenity in a city. Although players are unable to see inside of certain commercial buildings often called rabbitholes (grocery, bookstore, theater, police station, school, etc.), they are able to enter and retain limited control over their Sims' actions while in these locations. The player has complete control in some other commercial buildings – such as the gym, library and the beach house. All occupied residential buildings can be entered in the same manner as a Sims' home, provided that the buildings are not empty or it is not too late at night.[14]

text: Build/Buy modes[edit]

text: The build and buy modes have received their own makeover. The square tile outlines that appeared on the ground in previous Sims games' build and buy modes are now a quarter of their original size to give the player more liberty to place objects where they want. Alternatively, it is possible to place objects freely without square tiles, an option that was missing in previous Sims games. Players can re-color and re-pattern the furniture and other items to specific shades and patterns with the new Create-a-Style and make houses with five levels (basements of up to four floors deep).

text: Build mode is one of three modes in The Sims 3. It is used mainly for construction and architectural work. Some items that would be considered to be in build mode, such as counters and lights, are actually in the buy mode section. Build mode can be used to do many things including adding walls, paint/cover walls, add doors and windows, lay down flooring, create foundations and raised decks, create basements by using either foundations or the Basement tool, add columns and supports, create pools, raise and lower land, create ponds, build gardens and landscape a lot, add fireplaces, add additional floors/stories to a building, add stairs, and add a roof.[15] Some expansion packs released after The Sims 3 add extra build mode features such as ceiling construction and designing the terrain, Players cannot build or place objects outside the limits of the lot. Walls and foundations cannot be placed within one tile of the outer limit of the lot. Fences can be placed all the way up to the edge of the lot and all structures built by the players are limited to five above-ground stories as well as four basement levels. Buildings can be modified to appear to be taller than five stories, either using shells (introduced in Late Night) or by use of the constrainfloorelevation false cheat, which disables the requirement for above-ground floors to be uniform in height and level. There will, however, still be only a maximum of five usable above-ground floors. The height of a section of wall is equal to the length of 3-floor squares. This is most noticeable while placing a 45° roof. It is possible that the length of a game tile is 1 meter, and that the height of a section of wall would then be 3 meters. In some situations, Build mode, as well as Buy mode, may become disabled, such as during a fire, burglary, or other major event. This is done to prevent modifications to the lot that may impact or prevent a game event from occurring. After the event has ended, Build and Buy modes will be re-activated. This feature has been an annoyance to many players and is disabled in many mods. Depreciation of objects is visible in The Sims 3. All objects depreciate 10% as soon as the player exits build mode. This adds realism to the game and gives the player limited tries at building before the costs of building use up too much of the funds intended for furnishing and living expenses. When in build mode, players can return items for full value by using the undo tool.

text: In Buy mode, the player may purchase items from the catalog, sell objects that are on the current lot, and arrange objects on the current lot. Construction-related elements such as doors, windows, fences, and stairs are not associated with buy mode, but are in build mode.[citation needed] Buy mode largely focuses on furniture and appliances. The descriptions of many of the objects available for purchase in the game (namely the least expensive ones) involve humor, sarcasm, insults towards the player, and wit, and serves as comic relief in the game. For example, one of the cheapest cars available in The Sims 3, the "Big Lemon", notes that although the car's doors are jammed and its ignition is faulty, it is still worth buying. Another example is the outdoor entertainment item "Foot-and-Hand Ball" used to train the athletic skill, which references and pokes fun at American football, which, despite its name, rarely involves contact with the ball via the feet. A feature that was introduced in The Sims 2 and stays present currently is the eyedropper tool. When the eyedropper tool is pointed at a wall covering, floor covering, or most objects, will show the name of what it's pointed at. Clicking on a wall or floor covering will switch to the appropriate area of build mode and select that covering so it can be applied. Clicking on an object will make an exact duplicate of it, and will focus the catalog on that object.[16] The family inventory is a space where objects that are too large to be held in a Sim's personal inventory are kept. Certain opportunities may make an object available in the Family Inventory. When a Sim family moves, if "pack furniture" is selected, all objects in the household will be placed in the Family inventory, to be moved and rearranged in the new house.

text: Introduced in patch 42, blueprint mode (a subset of the build mode), allows players to choose from pre-made rooms. A player can place down blueprints anywhere furniture can go, and after "realizing" them, have the blueprints automatically laid out.

text: Create a World[edit]

text: On October 29, 2009, Electronic Arts announced "Create a World" (CAW), which is a game world editor that allows players to create their own custom cities from scratch for use within the game. Players can customize lots, choose terrain patterns and add roads, vegetation and neighborhood accents (such as water towers and lighthouses). CAW also allows players to import designs from PNG files for use in their worlds. Users can upload their worlds to The Sims 3 Exchange for download by other players. The editor tool is offered to players as a separate download (156MB), and was released on December 16, 2009 as a beta version. EA will offer technical support and updates. Players are able to share their neighborhoods as with other content. The Create A World tool is currently only available for Windows-based PCs.[17]

text: Development[edit]

text: Electronic Arts first announced The Sims 3 on March 19, 2008.[18] The game was developed at The Sims Studio located in Redwood Shores, California. On January 15, 2009, EA invited "some of the best" custom content creators to their campus at Redwood Shores where they were hosting a Creator's Camp. Creators have been invited to spend the week exploring and creating content like Sims, houses and customized content. The Creators' work is used to pre-populate The Sims 3 Exchange. In the seventh expansion pack for The Sims 2, The Sims 2: FreeTime, an event occurs in which a Sim-version of Rod Humble, the head of The Sims franchise, gives the player's Sim family an unopened gift box. When opened, the family gets a computer with The Sims 3 on it. The Sims 3 game cannot be bought in the catalog. Sims can then play The Sims 3 on their computers or console systems. Like all the other games that Sims can play in The Sims 2, The Sims 3 is a looping gameplay video shown on the player's Sim's computer screens when played by a Sim. On July 15, 2008 the first video preview of The Sims 3 appeared on the official website as did seven new screenshots and five Create-A-Sim screens. Four screenshots that appeared on the website and were then taken down soon after, leaked onto the Internet by a member of the community.

text: Copies of the video game Spore also came packaged with fliers advertising the game, with information stating whole-neighborhood accessibility and endless possibilities on character creation. On October 31, 2008, two teaser trailers were released by Electronic Arts featuring a comical view on the 2008 presidential election in the United States. Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama were included along with respective running mates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. In the eighth expansion pack of The Sims 2, The Sims 2: Apartment Life, new objects were added including logo posters and framed screenshots. The game was shipped with a code and an Internet address, where the player could download clothing with The Sims 3 logo on it. Another developer walk through was released on November 6, 2008, featuring in-depth previews of the neighborhood and Create-A-Sim.

text: On May 8, 2009, EA announced that The Sims 3 had gone gold meaning that the game had finished beta testing stage and was off for manufacturing ahead of its June 2009 release. On May 15, 2009 EA released some online interactive teaser experiences on The Sims 3 Website, including 'SimFriend', which allows users to choose a virtual Sim Friend who would email them throughout the day. 'SimSocial', which allows users to create their own Sim online, and have an adventure with them. 'SimSidekick', which allows users to surf the web with a sim. Two weeks before the game was scheduled to be released, an unauthorized copy of the digital distribution version of the game leaked onto the Internet.[19] EA later commented the leak was a "buggy, pre-final" version. EA claims that more than half of the game is missing and is susceptible to crashes or worse.[20] Reportedly, the title has seen higher copyright infringement rates than that of the most torrented game of 2008, Spore.[21]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: In April 2009, Electronic Arts began to post billboards in many areas in advertisement for the game. Many of the billboards covered skyscrapers in densely populated areas, most notably Times Square in New York City.[22] The costs of these billboards was estimated to be $10 million a month. This marketing campaign proved successful, as The Sims 3 sold 1.4 million copies in its first week, breaking the record for all EA games.

text: On March 23, 2009, the look and feel of The Sims 3 was threaded throughout the storyline of an episode of The CW series One Tree Hill. On screen, the episode opens in an idealized Sims version of One Tree Hill and then transitions into the real Tree Hill. As this episode plays out, Sims versions of popular One Tree Hill characters are introduced and then morph into the real-life characters, including Dan (Paul Johansson), Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Peyton (Hilarie Burton).[23]

text: The Sims 3 versions of the characters are available for download via CW's official website. On April 19, 2009, Target exclusively released a promotional disc of The Sims 3 that features a Ladytron band poster, The Sims 3 theme song music download, and a $5 off coupon. The main menu includes screensaver downloads, videos, Create-A-Sim, Create-A-House, and much more. There is no actual gameplay involved, but it describes what playing feels like.

text: On July 14, 2010, Ford Motor began a promotion at The Sims 3 Store by allowing players to download their newest car at the time, the Ford Fiesta Mark VII.[24] The car also came with a collection of street signs. On October 27, 2010, the download was updated to include the Fiesta Hatchback.[25] The 2012 Ford Focus was made available to download on June 8, 2011.[26] The car included one male Ford T-shirt, one female Ford T-shirt, a stereo, and a set of neon lights, all for use in-game. The Focus pack was available to download on Mac, PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms.

text: Audio[edit]

text: Music for The Sims 3 was composed by Steve Jablonsky. Scores were recorded with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.[27] Music for the game's stereo and guitar objects was produced by others, including Darrell Brown, Rebeca Mauleon, and Peppino D'Agostino. Additional music was produced by APM Music.[28] Two soundtracks have been released for The Sims 3 base game, The Sims 3 Soundtrack and The Sims 3 – Stereo Jams. The soundtrack includes theme music and the Stereo Jams album includes music from stereos in game. All songs on Stereo Jams are in Simlish.

text:
[show]The Sims 3 soundtrack[29]

No.
Title
Length

1.
"The Sims Theme"
1:55

2.
"Simmering Mallets"
3:01

3.
"Consumerism Simplified"
2:58

4.
"Verisimilitude"
3:03

5.
"Simple Assembly"
2:57

6.
"Aisles of Miles of Smiles"
3:00

7.
"Identity Check"
2:51

8.
"Simple Directions"
2:55

9.
"Some Assimbly Required"
3:00

10.
"Let's Assimilate"
2:58

11.
"Don't Be Parsimonious"
3:01

12.
"Constructive Simicism"
2:57

13.
"Maps & Simbols"
2:57

14.
"Amazing Facsimile"
2:44

15.
"Striking Similarities"
3:03

16.
"Cartographer's Simphony"
3:03

17.
"Fortissimo Personality"
3:01

text:
[show]The Sims 3 – Stereo Jams[30]

No.
Title
Artist
Length

1.
"Santa Rosa"
Vespa Sun
3:40

2.
"Arcadia"
Eric Pressley
4:32

3.
"Distressed"
Junkie XL
3:05

4.
"Ramooned"
Eric Pressley
3:48

5.
"Groove On"
Junkie XL
4:01

6.
"Podie Tie"
Eric Pressley
3:27

7.
"Sta Moogie"
Eric Pressley
3:51

8.
"Ever Seen This"
Aceyalone & RJD2
4:02

9.
"Cat & Mouse"
Darrell Brown
3:02

text: Software copy restriction[edit]

text: Some of EA's other PC titles from the same time period, such as Spore and Dead Space, used a SecuROM copy restriction scheme that requires online and offline authentication and limits the number of times a user can install the game to five. While it was speculated that The Sims 3 would use the same system, on March 26, 2009, executive producer Rod Humble revealed that The Sims 3 uses traditional disk-based copy protection as Sims 2 did and does not require online authentication to install. A product key is also required. However, SecuROM based restriction is still present within the digital version of the title, limiting users to a total of 5 authorizations for 5 different machines via online activation, each of which can be de-authorized online at any time. A legitimate serial key is required to download custom objects and Sims from the official website. This includes custom designs created by other Sims 3 players as well as additional content from EA.

text: Delay[edit]

text: On February 3, 2009, it was announced that the release date of The Sims 3 would be delayed from February 20, 2009 to June 2, 2009 in the US, and June 5, 2009 in the UK. John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, said "In the case of [The Sims 3], we're moving this title to June 2 to give us additional time to build the worldwide marketing campaign a title like this deserves". Grant Rodiek, Associate Producer of The Sims 3 said:

text: The Sims 3 June launch gives more time for tuning and polish and the ability to launch the game on PC and Mac platforms simultaneously. This is a key EA franchise and title and it deserves a bigger bet on the best Sims game EA has made. These last few months will give us a little more time to tune, tweak, and polish the game. Our players have been waiting for something awesome and that's exactly what we intend to give them.[31]

text: Release[edit]

text: EA Singapore launched The Sims 3 with a large launch party[32] which was held on June 2, 2009 at the new shopping mall Iluma in Singapore. At the event, The Sims 3 T-shirts were available for purchase. In Sydney, Australia on June 4, 2009 a fashion event to show off the freedom and self-expression in The Sims 3 was held by Electronic Arts Australia, and included a performance by Jessica Mauboy.[33]

text: The game was released as both a standard edition and a Collector's Edition. Both the collector's edition and the standard edition of the game comes with a coupon for 1000 Sim Points to spend at The Sims 3 Store.[34] The standard edition contains the first release of the core game, while the Collector's Edition includes the Sims 3 core game, a 2GB The Sims Plumbob USB flash drive (preloaded with wallpapers and screensavers of the game, and the main theme as an MP3 file) with matching Green Carabiner, an exclusive European-styled Sports Car download, a Prima Tips and Hints Guide (not the actual Sims 3 Prima Guide), and Plumbob stickers. Those that pre-ordered the game also got a Vintage Sports Car download, The Sims 3 Neighborhood Poster, and a quick start reference guide.[35] A preview CD with more information about The Sims 3, such as music samples, family descriptions, and career information, was also released.[36]

text: Smartphone[edit]

text: A version of The Sims 3 was released on iOS, Android, Bada, Symbian, BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone on June 2, 2009. The iPhone game works similar to that of the PC version. In Create-a-Sim, instead of Lifetime Wishes, there are personas. Personas decide which lifetime wishes your sim will have, as a persona is the largest factor in a Sim's personality. Sims start out with a small house. The house can be expanded every five sim days if the player can afford it.[37] There are four careers in the town: biology, politics, business, and culinary. As in the PC version, Sims can also learn skills. There are nearly 75 wishes in the game.[38] When all of them are fulfilled, sims unlock the criminal career and have the ability to purchase a car. In some events, such as appliances breaking down, the player must play a minigame to solve or do the action. The game was updated on November 30, 2010, to add support for the Retina display of newer devices.

text: An expansion pack for the iOS version, World Adventures, was released on April 2, 2010. Unlike expansion packs for the PC, this is a standalone application. World Adventures adds tombs, new challenges, personas, and careers, new places to explore (Egypt, China and France), clothes and new furniture. A second expansion pack, Ambitions, was released on September 16, 2010.[39] As with World Adventures, the game was a standalone application. Ambitions added new skills (firefighting, painting, parenting and sports), new community buildings, and the ability to have children. On November 6, 2009, EA announced the release of a vampire theme pack for the iPhone. The pack included Live it or Wear it Sets with Vampires and Werewolves, Castle and Campus Life themes. "Live it" sets contain car, furniture, decoration, wallpaper, and flooring.[40] "Wear it" sets contain clothing, new CAS options, and hair styles.

text: Console[edit]

text: The Sims 3 was released to game consoles on October 26, 2010, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS and the Wii platform on November 15, 2010. The game was released for Nintendo 3DS on March 25, 2011.[41]

text: The game allows the player to take on up to three friends in the Life Moments Game on the Wii, upload and download content on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, including furnishings, houses, and player creations or experience a full life simulation on a handheld with Nintendo DS. Reviews for the game ranged from average to moderately positive. Sims can age and die, but life cycles can be disabled optionally as well.[42] The Sims 3 features a new Karma system (similar to the influence system in The Sims 2).[41] Sims can interact with child Sims around the neighborhood, or have children of their own.[43] Unlike the PC version of the game, the console versions have loading times when moving from one area to another, and when accessing build / buy modes.[44]

text: The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions received mostly positive reviews. On Metacritic, it currently holds an average score of 77 and 76 out of 100 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, respectively. Game Informer gave the 360 and PS3 versions a 9/10, praising the new Karma system and The Exchange. GameSpot gave the game a 7/10, noting that "the game lacks fluidity, but is fun in its own right."[45] In a positive review, IGN praised the game for its controls on consoles, but said they were disappointed by the fact that there is only one town in the game, as well as bugs, including a glitch where the game will not save once a certain week has been reached.

text: Expansions, add-ons, editions[edit]

text: Expansion packs[edit]

text: The Sims 3 expansion packs provide additional game features and items:

text:
Name
Release date
Includes
Life State
New Careers

World Adventures

NA: November 17, 2009
EU: November 19, 2009
AU: November 20, 2009

Additions: New traits, items, clothing.
Features: quests, tomb exploration at three new destinations, photography, new build functions including the basement tool, nectar, fireworks, shops, vacation homes.
New vacation worlds: Champs Les Sims (France), Al Simhara (Egypt), Shang Simla (China)

Mummy
None

Ambitions

NA: June 1, 2010
EU: June 3, 2010

Additions: New careers, skills, traits, and items.
Features: control within work (professions and selected careers), laundry, tattoo system, skill-based self-employment.
New world: Twinbrook

Simbot (Robot)
Architectural Designer · Education · Firefighter · Ghost Hunter · Medical · Investigator · Stylist · Self-Employed

Late Night

NA: October 26, 2010
EU: October 28, 2010

Additions: New careers, skills, traits, clothes and accessories, furniture, and cars.
Features: bars, night clubs, penthouse suites, hot tubs, subway portholes, elevators, breast and muscle definition sliders, Group, Band, Butler, zodiac signs, new swimming pool design tools, height adjustment for wall objects, fountain tool.
New world: Bridgeport

Vampire
Film · Band Member

Generations

NA: May 31, 2011
EU: June 2, 2011

Additions: New playground equipment, mid-life crisis, new interactions, new traits, and new profession.
Features: Pranks, body hair for males, new types of celebrations (i.e. birthday/teen/bachelor parties, weddings, slumber), memories, graduation ceremonies, prom, imaginative play, potions, spiral staircases, water slides, boarding schools, pillow fights, strollers, canes for elders.

Imaginary Friend
Daycare

Pets

NA: October 18, 2011
EU: October 20, 2011

Two editions: Regular and "Limited Edition"
Additions: New pets, new animal and sim traits, Create-A-Pet, new lifetime wishes and rewards, new interactions, new items, new venues and community locations, new pet and sim skills.
Features: Controllable animals (cats, dogs, horses) and non-playable creatures (see NPC section), pet contests.
New world: Appaloosa Plains

Unicorn
Equestrian

Showtime

NA: March 6, 2012
EU: March 8, 2012

Three editions: Regular, "Limited Edition" and "Katy Perry Collector's Edition."
Additions: New stage performance careers (singer, acrobat, magician), new objects (pool table, golfing), new sim traits/lifetime wishes; Katy Perry only: downloadable stage venue, fruit-themed clothing, items, and stage props.
Features: Social features, stage decoration, singing, gigs, new 'Achievement System', Simport which allows importing and exporting of celebrity Sims.
New world: Starlight Shores

Genie
Singer · Acrobat · Magician

Supernatural

NA: September 4, 2012
EU: September 6, 2012

Three editions: Regular, "Limited Edition" and "Origin Decor Edition"
Additions: New items (alchemy station, rocking chair), new clothing options including wings, new traits.
Features: Supernatural life states including witches, werewolves, fairies, vampires, and zombies; creation of supernatural Sims directly in Create-A-Sim.
New world: Moonlight Falls

Vampire · Witch · Werewolf · Zombie · Fairy
Fortune Teller

Seasons

NA: November 13, 2012
EU: November 15, 2012

Two editions: Regular and "Limited Edition"
Additions: New skills (soccer/snowboard), new traits, seasonal celebrations.
Features: Weather, seasons, new outerwear clothing category, new festivals & holidays, swimming in the ocean.

Alien
Test Subject (Aliens Only)

University Life

NA: March 5, 2013
EU: March 7, 2013

Two editions: Regular and "Limited Edition"
Additions: New skills (Bowling, Science, Photography, Social Networking & Street Arts), new traits, social groups, college sub-neighborhood, a smart phone, a new university world you enter when you enroll, and weather.
New university world: Sims University

PlantSim
Art Appraiser · Sports Agent · Video Game Developer

Island Paradise[46]

NA: June 25, 2013
EU: June 27, 2013

Two editions: Regular and "Limited Edition"
Additions & Features: Houseboats, resort management, island discovery, new modes of transportation on water (e.g. boating, water skiing, windsurfing).
New world: Isla Paradiso

Mermaid
Lifeguard · Resort Manager · Scuba Diver

Into the Future[47][48]

NA: October 22, 2013
EU: October 24, 2013

Traveling to the future
New world: Oasis Landing

Plumbot (Robot)
Plumbot Dealer · Astronomer · Plumbot Trainer

text: Stuff packs[edit]

text: Stuff Packs only include new items e.g. furniture, clothing, hairstyles. They do not add any new functionality to the game. Stuff Packs are compatible with both Windows and OS X as with the main game and expansion packs.

text:
Name
Release date
Includes

High-End Loft Stuff

NA: February 2, 2010
EU: February 4, 2010

High-end furnishings, mainly technology such as televisions, video game consoles, and computers, as well as postmodern designs of bookshelves, tables, and chairs. Three items from The Sims and The Sims 2 were reintroduced to celebrate The Sims 10th Anniversary. Alternatively titled "Design and High-Tech Stuff".

Fast Lane Stuff

NA: September 7, 2010
EU: September 9, 2010

Four all‐new styles of fashions, furnishings, and vehicles: Racing, Intrigue, Rockabilly, and Classic Luxury.

Outdoor Living Stuff

NA: February 1, 2011
EU: February 3, 2011

Clothing, furnishings, and items centered on patio activities in two new styles: "Garden Terrace" features elegant wrought-iron pieces, while "Sunset on the Veranda" embraces the warmth of outdoors.

Town Life Stuff

NA: July 26, 2011
EU: July 28, 2011

New casual outfits, hairstyles, and items. Features newly redesigned venues such as a school, cafe, and grocery store; as well as new community lots including a gym, park, laundromat, and library.

Master Suite Stuff

NA: January 24, 2012
EU: January 26, 2012

Luxurious bedroom and bathroom décor centered on romance and relaxation. New contemporary furnishings and intimate apparel themed for creating romantic master suites.

Katy Perry's Sweet Treats

NA: June 5, 2012
EU: June 7, 2012

New candy-themed décor, items, outfits, hairstyles, and community lots. Features a simlish version of Katy Perry's song "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". On July 15, 2013, a Community Manager for EA confirmed that this stuff pack has been retired and is no longer available on Origin. Therefore, EA will not produce any more physical or digital copies of Katy Perry's Sweet Treats.

Diesel Stuff

NA: July 10, 2012
EU: July 12, 2012

New clothing and décor from Diesel.

70s, 80s, & 90s Stuff

NA: January 22, 2013
EU: January 24, 2013

Outfits, hairstyles and items modeled on that of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Movie Stuff

NA: September 10, 2013
EU: September 12, 2013

Clothing and décor inspired from iconic movie themes and settings.

text: Editions[edit]

text:
Name
Release date
Includes

The Sims 3[49]

NA: June 2, 2009
EU: June 4, 2009

Core game on DVD

The Sims 3 Collector's Edition[50]

NA: June 2, 2009
EU: June 4, 2009

Core game on DVD, a Sims 3 plumbob-styled 2GB USB flash drive and an exclusive download of in-game European styled sports car

The Sims 3 Holiday Collector's Edition

EU: December 3, 2009

Core game on DVD, The Sims 3 Christmas theme song, 6 Christmas-themed in-game items, Sims 3 Christmas-themed wallpaper and exclusive download of in-game European styled sports car

The Sims 3 Commemorative Edition

EU: June 4, 2010

Core game on DVD, 48-page hardback book, wall poster, sketch book of artwork and access to additional in-game items

The Sims 3 Deluxe[51]

NA: September 28, 2010

Core game, The Sims 3: Ambitions

The Sims 3 Plus Pets[52]

NA: October 18, 2011
EU: October 20, 2011

Core game, The Sims 3: Pets

The Sims 3 Plus Showtime

NA: March 6, 2012
EU: March 8, 2012

Core game, The Sims 3: Showtime

The Sims 3 Plus Supernatural

NA: September 4, 2012
EU: September 6, 2012

Core game, The Sims 3: Supernatural

The Sims 3 Plus Seasons

NA: November 13, 2012
EU: November 15, 2012

Core game, The Sims 3: Seasons

The Sims 3 Plus University Life

NA: March 5, 2013
EU: March 7, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: University Life

The Sims 3 Starter Pack[53][54]

NA: May 14, 2013
EU: May 16, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: Late Night, The Sims 3: High End Loft Stuff, additional downloadable content.

The Sims 3 Plus Late Night[55]

NA: May 14, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: Late Night, 1000 free SimPoints

The Sims 3 Plus Generations[56]

NA: May 14, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: Generations, 1000 free SimPoints

The Sims 3 Plus Island Paradise

NA: June 25, 2013
EU: June 27, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: Island Paradise

The Sims 3 Plus Into The Future

NA: October 22, 2013
EU: October 24, 2013

Core game, The Sims 3: Into the Future

text: The Sims 3 Store[edit]

text: The Sims 3 Store is an online store where players of The Sims 3 can purchase and download content for their game online for additional fees. To date, unlike its counterpart for The Sims 2, The Sims 3 Store only offers exclusive objects, clothing, skins, and hairstyles not found through any other medium. The Store also offers variants of special objects found in expansions (such as laundry and hot-tubs), which offer their features for players who haven't purchased those expansions. The store is updated with new items for purchase every month. Premium content, such as the foot massage chair and wind chimes,[57] add new gameplay or animations. The update of August 2014 is the last.

text: The store uses a point system in which players can purchase additional SimPoints using a credit card or Points Card, which may be purchased at retail stores or via the Origin online store. It was launched on June 4, 2009 to coincide with the launch of the game. Players can download purchased items using the game launcher or the Store Mode interface found within the game itself. When a user purchases additional SimPoints, they obtain an object in the game for buying SimPoints.

text: Several worlds and towns for players to play in have been published on The Sims 3 Store:

text:
World
Features
Release date

Riverview

A small town with an idyllic countryside setting
Flat landscape
Rustic architecture

June 2, 2009

Barnacle Bay

Pirate-themed island
Sims' clothing and personalities are outdoor-like
Many pre-made Sims have the Angler trait

September 23, 2010

Hidden Springs

Mountain-themed
Sims can remain forever young with The Fountain of Youth, exclusive to this world
Some Sims are based on the fairytale Cinderella

August 25, 2011

Lunar Lakes

Set in outer space, with geometric shaped lakes
Sims can work at the crashed spaceship, The Perigee
Sims are able to learn skills faster by playing with The Tree of Prosperity, exclusive to this world

February 16, 2012

Lucky Palms

Small resort town set in an oasis modeled after Palm Springs, California
Abundance of palm trees and wind turbines
A wishing well is located at the centre of the town which can grant several different wishes

June 28, 2012

Sunlit Tides

Modern downtown
Based on a tropical island with sparkling beaches and palm trees
Sims can regain Fun, Energy and get a "Refreshed" moodlet from taking a Refreshing Steam from The Steam-It-Up Sauna

August 23, 2012

Monte Vista

Italian-themed world
Hilly town with a coast that leads to an open sea
Sims can make breads, calzones, pizzas, and lasagna with the new Wood Fire Oven

December 6, 2012

Aurora Skies

Icelandic coastal town-themed
New transportation: hot-air balloon
An eco-friendly community

February 21, 2013

Dragon Valley

Medieval-themed
New pets: baby dragons
Town features a mix of new and old technology

May 30, 2013

Midnight Hollow

Dark, spooky-themed
Victorian-style architecture
Elements from The Sims 2: Open For Business return with Sims now being able to own and run their own businesses

September 26, 2013

Roaring Heights

City skyscrapers
Art deco style
Beaches

December 12, 2013

text: This is a departure from both the first and second generation of the franchise, in which new items were obtained primarily through expansion packs, stuff packs, and/or user-generation.

text: Reception[edit]

text:
Reception

Aggregate scores

Aggregator
Score

GameRankings
87%[58]

Metacritic
86/100[11]

Review scores

Publication
Score

1UP.com
B+[59]

Edge
8/10[60]

Eurogamer
8/10[61]

Game Informer
9/10

GamePro
4/5[62]

GameSpot
9/10[63]

GameSpy
4.5/5[64]

GameTrailers
9/10[65]

IGN
8.9/10[66]

PC Gamer (UK)
9/10[67]

Total Video Games
8/10[68]

Total PC Gaming
8/10

3D Juegos
8.3/10[69]

text: EA reported that in its first week, The Sims 3 sold 1.4 million copies. According to EA, this was the most successful PC game launch the company had ever had to date.[70] According to retail data trackers Gfk Australia The Sims 3 has been the top selling game in Australia from release until June 30, 2009.[71] Response from critics and gamers alike were generally favorable, with Metacritic calculating a metascore of 86/100 based on 75 reviews.[11] PC Gamer awarded The Sims 3 a 92% and an Editor's Choice badge, calling it "The best Sims game yet".[72] IGN PC awarded The Sims 3 an 8.9/10, stating:

text: This is simply a better playing Sims experience, and once you experience the freedom to hit the town without hitting a load screen you'll be hard-pressed to go back to any of the earlier games. Blowing up the size of the game was certainly a risk, but it was a sensible and overdue one, and kudos to EA for recognizing that the decade-old formula needed some growth. And while there's still plenty of room for more innovation, we'll settle for The Sims 3 for now. It delivers a solid foundation for what should be many more years of Sims sales dominance.

text: GameSpot awarded The Sims 3 a score of 9.0/10, the review praised the game: "The latest Sims game is also the greatest, striking a terrific balance between the fresh and the familiar."[63]

text: The game was ranked #91 in IGN's "Top 100 Modern Games".[73] In a special edition of Edge magazine, listing their 100 top videogames of all-time, The Sims 3 was number 89 on the list.[74]

text: Currently over thirteen million people like The Sims 3 on Facebook.[citation needed]

text: Sequel[edit]

text: On May 6, 2013, EA confirmed The Sims 4 would be released in 2014.[75] The game was released in North America on September 2, 2014.[76]


document_title: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

question_text: who was killed at the st valentine day massacre

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text: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

text: History[edit]

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text: At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street,[3][4] in the Lincoln Park  neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed policemen, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats and hats. Witnesses saw the "police" leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting.

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text: The victims included five members of George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang. Moran's second-in-command and brother-in-law, Albert Kachellek (alias James Clark), was killed along with Adam Heyer, the gang's bookkeeper and business manager, Albert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran, and gang enforcers Frank Gusenberg and Peter Gusenberg. Two collaborators were also shot: Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, a former optician turned gambler and gang associate, and John May, an occasional mechanic for the Moran gang.

text: When real Chicago police officers arrived at the scene, one of the victims, Frank Gusenberg was still alive. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time. Police tried to question Gusenberg. When asked who shot him, Gusenberg, who had sustained fourteen bullet wounds, replied "No one shot me." He died three hours later.[5]

text: The massacre was allegedly planned by the organization led by Al Capone to eliminate George "Bugs" Moran, the boss of the long-established North Side Gang. The former boss of the North Side Gang, Dean O'Banion, had been murdered by four gunmen in his flower shop on North State Street in 1924.[6] After the murder of O'Banion, each successive leader of the North Siders was also killed, allegedly by various members or associates of the Capone organization.

text: Several factors contributed to the timing of the plan to kill George "Bugs" Moran. Earlier in the year, North Sider Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter unsuccessfully attempted to murder Jack McGurn. The North Side Gang was complicit in the murders of Pasqualino "Patsy" Lolordo and Antonio "The Scourge" Lombardo. Both had been presidents of the Unione Siciliana, the local Mafia, and close associates of Capone. Moran and Capone had been vying for control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging trade, and Bugs Moran had been moving in on several of Capone's enterprises. Moran was muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs and he had taken over several saloons that were run by Capone, insisting they were in his territory.

text: The plan was to lure Bugs Moran to the SMC Cartage warehouse on North Clark Street on February 14, 1929. The intent was to kill Moran, and perhaps two or three of his lieutenants. It is usually assumed that the North Siders were lured to the garage with the promise of a stolen, cut-rate shipment of whiskey, supplied by Detroit's Purple Gang, which was associated with Capone. The Gusenberg brothers were supposed to drive two empty trucks to Detroit that day to pick up two loads of stolen Canadian whiskey. All of the victims, with the exception of John May, were dressed in their best clothes, as was customary for the North Siders and other gangsters at the time.

text: On St. Valentine's Day, most of the Moran gang had already arrived at the warehouse by approximately 10:30 a.m. Moran was not there, having left his Parkway Hotel apartment late. As Moran and one of his men, Ted Newberry, approached the rear of the warehouse from a side street, they saw a police car approach the building. They immediately turned and retraced their steps, going to a nearby coffee shop. They encountered another gang member, Henry Gusenberg, on the street. Henry was warned and turned back. Willie Marks, also a North Side Gang member, spotted the police car on his way to the garage. He ducked into a doorway and jotted down the license number before leaving the neighborhood.

text: Capone's lookouts likely mistook one of Moran's men for Moran himself – probably Albert Weinshank, who was the same height and build. That morning the physical similarity between the two men was enhanced by their dress: both happened to be wearing the same color overcoats and hats. Witnesses outside the garage saw a Cadillac sedan pull to a stop in front of the garage. Four men, two dressed in police uniform, emerged and walked inside. The two fake police officers, carrying shotguns, entered the rear portion of the garage and found members of Moran's gang and two gang collaborators, Reinhart Schwimmer and John May, who was fixing one of the trucks. The "police officers" then ordered the men to line up against the wall.

text: The two "police officers" then signaled to the pair in civilian clothes who had accompanied them. Two of the killers opened fire with Thompson sub-machine guns, one with a 20-round box magazine and the other a 50-round drum. They were thorough, spraying their victims left and right, even continuing to fire after all seven had hit the floor.  Two shotgun blasts afterward all but obliterated the faces of John May and James Clark, according to the coroner's report.

text: To give the appearance that everything was under control, the men in street clothes came out with their hands up, prodded by the two uniformed police officers. Inside the garage, the only survivors in the warehouse were Highball (May's dog) and Frank Gusenberg. Despite fourteen bullet wounds, he was still conscious, but died three hours later, refusing to utter a word about the identities of the killers. The Valentine's Day Massacre set off a public outcry that posed a problem for all mob bosses.[7]

text: Victims[edit]

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Peter Gusenberg, a frontline enforcer for the Moran organizations.
Frank Gusenberg, the brother of Peter Gusenberg and also an enforcer.
Albert Kachellek (alias "James Clark"), Moran's second-in-command.[8]
Adam Heyer, the bookkeeper and business manager of the Moran gang.[9]
Reinhardt Schwimmer, an optician who had abandoned his practice to gamble on horse racing and associated with the gang.[10]
Albert Weinshank,[11] who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran. His resemblance to Moran, including the clothes he was wearing, is what allegedly set the massacre in motion before Moran actually arrived.[12][self-published source]
John May, an occasional car mechanic for the Moran gang.[12]

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text: Investigation[edit]

text: Since it was common knowledge that Moran was hijacking Capone's Detroit-based liquor shipments, police focused their attention on Detroit's predominantly Jewish Purple Gang. Mug shots of Purple members George Lewis, Eddie Fletcher, Phil Keywell and his younger brother Harry, were picked out by landladies Mrs. Doody and Mrs. Orvidson, who had taken in three men as roomers ten days before the massacre; their rooming houses were directly across the street from the Clark Street garage. Later, these women wavered in their identification, and Fletcher, Lewis, and Harry Keywell were all questioned and cleared by Chicago Police. Nevertheless, the Keywell brothers (and by extension the Purple Gang) would remain ensnared in the massacre case for all time. Many also believed what the killers wanted them to believe – that the police did it.

text: February 22, police were called to the scene of a garage fire on Wood Street where a 1927 Cadillac Sedan was found disassembled and partially burned. It was determined that the car had been used by the killers. The engine number was traced to a Michigan Avenue dealer, who had sold the car to a James Morton of Los Angeles. The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue – which happened to be the address of the Circus Café, operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone organization, the Purple Gang, and a St. Louis gang called Egan's Rats. Police could not turn up any information about persons named James Morton or Frank Rogers. But they had a definite lead on one of the killers. Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner only a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped what he took to be a police car. He told police later that he stopped immediately but was waved away by the uniformed driver, whom he noticed was missing a front tooth. The same description of the car's driver was also given by the president of the Board of Education, H. Wallace Caldwell, who had also witnessed the accident. Police knew that this description could be none other than a former member of Egan's Rats, Fred 'Killer' Burke; Burke and a close companion, James Ray, were well known to wear police uniforms whenever on a robbery spree. Burke was also a fugitive, under indictment for robbery and murder in Ohio. Police also suggested that Joseph Lolordo could have been one of the killers, because of his brother Pasqualino's recent murder by the North Side Gang.

text: Police then announced that they suspected Capone gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, as well as Jack McGurn himself, and Frank Rio, a Capone bodyguard. Police eventually charged McGurn and Scalise with the massacre. John Scalise, along with Anselmi and Joseph 'Hop Toad' Giunta, were murdered by Capone in May 1929, after Capone learned about their plan to kill him, and before he went to trial. The murder charges against Jack McGurn were finally dropped because of a lack of evidence, and he was just charged with a violation of the Mann Act: he took his girlfriend, Louise Rolfe, who was also the main witness against him and became known as the "Blonde Alibi", across state lines to marry.

text: The case stagnated until December 14, 1929, when the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department raided the St. Joseph, Michigan bungalow of “Frederick Dane”, the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Fred "Killer" Burke. Burke had been drinking that night, rear-ended another vehicle and drove off. Patrolman Charles Skelly pursued, finally forcing Burke off the road. As Skelly hopped on the running board he was shot three times and died of his wounds later that night. The car was found wrecked and abandoned just outside St. Joseph and traced to Fred Dane. By this time police photos confirmed that Dane was in fact Fred Burke, wanted by the Chicago police for his participation in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

text: When police raided Burke's bungalow, they found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $320,000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. St. Joseph authorities immediately notified the Chicago police, who requested that both machine guns be brought there at once. Through the then relatively new science of forensic ballistics, both weapons were determined to have been used in the massacre – and that one of Burke's Tommy guns had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale (who participated in O'Banion's murder) a year and a half earlier. Unfortunately, no further concrete evidence would surface in the massacre case. Burke would be captured over a year later on a Missouri farm. As the case against him in the murder of Officer Skelly was strongest, he was tried in Michigan and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Burke died in prison in 1940.

text: Bolton revelations[edit]

text: On January 8, 1935, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents surrounded a Chicago apartment building at 3920 North Pine Grove, looking for the remaining members of the Barker Gang. A brief shootout erupted, resulting in the death of bank robber Russell Gibson. Taken into custody were Doc Barker, Byron Bolton, and two women. While interrogating agents got nothing out of Barker, Bolton (a hitherto obscure criminal) proved to be a "geyser of information", as one crime historian called him. Bolton, a former Navy machine-gunner and associate of Egan's Rats, had been the valet of the Chicago hit man Fred Goetz. Bolton was privy to many of the Barker Gang's crimes and pinpointed the Florida hideout of Ma and Freddie Barker (both of whom were killed in a shootout with the FBI a week later). Bolton claimed to have taken part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre with Goetz, Fred Burke, and several others.

text: Because the FBI had no jurisdiction in a state murder case, they kept Bolton’s revelations confidential, until the Chicago American newspaper reported a second-hand version of the bank robber’s confession. The newspaper declared that the crime had been “solved”, despite being stonewalled by J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau, who did not want any part of the massacre case. Garbled versions of Bolton’s story went out in the national media. Bolton, it was reported, claimed that the murder of Bugs Moran had been plotted in “October or November” 1928 at a Couderay, Wisconsin resort owned by Fred Goetz. Present at this meet were Goetz, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Fred Burke, Gus Winkeler, Louis Campagna, Daniel Serritella, William Pacelli, and Bolton himself. The men stayed two or three weeks, hunting and fishing when they were not planning the murder of their enemies.

text: Byron Bolton claimed he and Jimmy Moran were charged with watching the S.M.C. Cartage garage and phoning the signal to the killers at the Circus Café when Bugs Moran arrived at the meeting. Police had indeed found a letter addressed to Bolton in the lookout nest (and possibly a vial of prescription medicine). Bolton guessed that the actual killers had been Burke, Winkeler, Goetz, Bob Carey, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent,[13] and Claude Maddox (four shooters and two getaway drivers). Bolton gave an account of the massacre different from the one generally told by historians. He claimed that he saw only “plainclothes” men exit the Cadillac and go into the garage. This indicates that a second car was used by the killers. One witness, George Brichet, claimed to have seen at least two uniformed men exiting a car in the alley and entering the garage through its rear doors. A Peerless sedan had been found near a Maywood house owned by Claude Maddox in the days after the massacre, and in one of the pockets was an address book belonging to victim Albert Weinshank. Bolton further indicated he had mistaken one of Moran’s men to be Moran, after which he telephoned the signal to the Circus Café. When the killers (who had expected to kill Moran and maybe two or three of his men) were unexpectedly confronted with seven men, they simply decided to kill them all and get out fast. Bolton claimed that Capone was furious with him for his mistake (and the resulting police pressure) and threatened to kill him, only to be dissuaded by Fred Goetz.[citation needed]

text: His claims were corroborated by Gus Winkeler's widow, Georgette, in both an official FBI statement and her memoirs, which were published in a four-part series in a true detective magazine during the winter of 1935–36. Georgette Winkeler revealed that her husband and his friends had formed a special crew used by Capone for high-risk jobs. The mob boss was said to have trusted them implicitly and nicknamed them the “American Boys”. Byron Bolton’s statements were also backed up by William Drury, a maverick Chicago detective who had stayed on the massacre case long after everyone else had given up. Bank robber Alvin Karpis later claimed to have heard secondhand from Ray Nugent about the massacre and that the “American Boys” were paid a collective salary of $2,000 a week plus bonuses. Karpis also claimed that Capone himself had told him while they were in Alcatraz together that Goetz had been the actual planner of the massacre.[citation needed]

text: Despite Byron Bolton’s statements, no action was taken by the FBI. All the men he named, with the exceptions of Burke and Maddox, were dead by 1935. Bank robber Harvey Bailey would later complain in his 1973 autobiography that he and Fred Burke had been drinking beer in Calumet City at the time of the massacre, and the resulting heat forced them to abandon their bank robbing ventures. Claude Maddox was questioned fruitlessly by Chicago Police, and there the matter lay. Crime historians are still divided on whether or not the “American Boys” committed the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.[citation needed]

text: Other suspects[edit]

text: Over the years, many mobsters, in and out of Chicago, would be named as part of the Valentine's Day hit team. Two prime suspects are Cosa Nostra hit men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi; both men were effective killers and are frequently mentioned as possibilities for two of the shooters. In the days after the massacre, Scalise was heard to brag, “I am the most powerful man in Chicago.” He had recently been elevated to the position of vice-president in the Unione Siciliana by its president, Joseph Guinta. Nevertheless, Scalise, Anselmi, and Guinta would be found dead on a lonely road near Hammond, Indiana on May 8, 1929. Gangland lore has it that Al Capone had discovered that the pair was planning to betray him. Legend states that at the climax of a dinner party thrown in their honor, Capone produced a baseball bat and beat the trio to death.[14]

text: Murder weapons[edit]

text: The two Thompson submachine guns (serial numbers 2347 and 7580) found in Fred Dane’s (an alias for Fred Burke) Michigan bungalow were tested and it was determined that both had been used in the massacre. One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department’s long-held theory that Burke, and by extension Al Capone, had been responsible for Yale's death.

text: Gun No. 2347 had been originally purchased on November 12, 1924, by Les Farmer, a deputy sheriff in Marion, Illinois, which happened to be the seat of Williamson County. Marion and the surrounding area were then overrun by the warring bootleg factions of the Shelton Brothers and Charlie Birger. Deputy Farmer was documented as having ties with Egan’s Rats, based 100 miles (160 km) away in St. Louis. By the beginning of 1927 at the very latest, the weapon had wound up in Fred Burke's possession. It is possible he had used this same gun in Detroit’s Milaflores Massacre on March 28, 1927.

text: Gun No. 7580 had been sold by Chicago sporting goods owner Peter von Frantzius to a Victor Thompson (also known as Frank V. Thompson) in the care of the Fox Hotel of Elgin, Illinois. Some time after the purchase the submachine gun wound up with James "Bozo" Shupe, a small-time hood from Chicago’s West Side who had ties to various members of Capone’s outfit.

text: Both submachine guns are still in the possession of the Berrien County Sheriff's Department in St. Joseph, Michigan.

text: Legacy[edit]

text: Crime scene and bricks from the murder wall[edit]

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The garage, which stood at 2122 N. Clark Street, was demolished in 1967, and the site is now a parking lot for a nursing home.[15]
The bricks of the north wall, against which the massacre's victims were lined up and shot, were purchased by a Canadian businessman. For many years they were displayed in various crime-related novelty displays. Many of the original bricks were later sold individually, and the remainder are now owned by the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.[citation needed]

text: In popular culture[edit]

text: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre has been portrayed, referenced, or emulated in the following works:

text: Biographical[edit]

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Al Capone (film), a 1959 film directed by Richard Wilson starring Rod Steiger as Capone
Seven Against the Wall, a 1959 episode of Playhouse 90 directed by Franklin J. Schaffner starring Paul Lambert as Capone
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a 1967 film directed by Roger Corman starring Jason Robards as Al Capone
Capone (film), a 1975 film directed by Steve Carver starring Ben Gazzara as Capone
The Untouchables (film), a 1987 film directed by Brian De Palma that briefly mentions the massacre
The Making of the Mob: Chicago, a 2016 miniseries about Al Capone that reenacts the massacre's scene

text: Fictional[edit]

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Scarface, a 1932 gangster film directed by Howard Hawks that is loosely based on the life of Al Capone and depicts a version of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Some Like It Hot, a 1959 comedy directed by Billy Wilder in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play characters on the run after witnessing the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Oscar (1991 film), a comedy film directed by John Landis in which Sylvester Stallone's character is implied to have been at the massacre.
Sophia Petrillo from The Golden Girls claimed to have been present at the massacre.


document_title: Bread and butter (superstition)

question_text: where did the term bread and butter come from

text: Bread and butter (superstition)

text: "Bread and butter" is a superstitious blessing or charm, typically said by young couples or friends walking together when they are forced to separate by an obstacle, such as a pole or another person. By saying the phrase, the bad luck of letting something come between them is thought to be averted.[1] Both walkers must say the phrase, and if they do not do this, then a bitter quarrel is expected to occur. Many believe that the person who splits the pole has to say it first, that is wrong [2][3] The concept derives from the difficulty of separating butter from bread once it has been spread – buttered bread cannot be "unbuttered".[2][4] Another phrase used in this way is "salt and pepper".[5]


document_title: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai

question_text: real name of naira from yeh rishta kya kehlata hai

text: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai

text: Plot

text: A young couple, Akshara and Naitik Singhania, live in a Marwari joint family in Udaipur. They adjust as a married couple, as parents of young children, and as their extended families mature.

text: Naitik falls into a coma in an accident; four years later he returns to the family and struggles to gain acceptance from his five-year-old son, Naksh. Naitik's mother dies and his father marries a divorcee with two children. When her husband dies, Naitik's aunt blames Akshara and kicks her out of the house; Naitik, Akshara, Naksh and newborn Naira leave their extended family.

text: The family live in Cape Town for several years. An adult Naksh returns to Udaipur and counsels his great aunt, who is convinced to forgive Akshara and the family returns. Naksh falls in love with Tara and wedding plans are made, but she breaks up with him minutes before the ceremony.

text: Teenaged Naira runs away from Akshara and lives in Rishikesh for a time. When she returns a love triangle forms between Naira, her cousin Gayu, and Naitik's employee Kartik. Naira considers setting aside her feelings so Gayu can be happy, but after a time Naira and Kartik confess their love for each other. Akshara dies in a car accident and a drunk Kartik is blamed, dividing the families, but Naira proves his innocence and her family accepts him.

text: Naira and Kartik are married, and later learn that Kartik's cousin was responsible for her mother's death. The couple later work together to help his sister gain a divorce from her abusive husband. Under pressure from the family, Naksh agrees to marry his sister-in-law.

text: Parallel story arcs

text: Parallel with Akshara and Naitik's stories, the stories of their respective siblings also form significant story arcs in the series. Past plots have been built around the lives of Naitik's sisters Nandini and Rashmi. The series has also focused on Naitik's step-siblings. The series also paralleled the story of Akshara-Naitik with that of Varsha-Shaurya, Akshara's best friend and older brother, respectively.

text: After several leaps, Naira and Kartik became the leads of the show. Parallel with Kartik and Naira's stories, the series also focusses on the story of their siblings: Naksh, Gayu, Keerti and Shubham.

text: Cast

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text: Main cast

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Hina Khan as Akshara Naitik Singhania / Akshara Maheshwari, Vishambhar-Rajshri's daughter, Naitik's wife, Naksh-Naira's mother (former main female lead, dead) (2009–16)[1]
Karan Mehra as Naitik Raj Shekhar Singhania, Gaytri-Raj's son, Akshara's husband, Naksh-Naira's father (Former Main Male Lead) (2009–16) (replaced by Vishal)[2]
Shivangi Joshi as Naira Kartik Goenka (née Naitik Singhania), Kartik's wife, Naitik-Akshara's daughter (2016–)[3]
Mohsin Khan as Kartik Manish Goenka, Naira's Husband (2016–)[4]
Mohena Singh as Kirti Naksh Singhania (née Manish Goenka), Naksh's wife, Karthik's sister (2016–)
Rishi Dev as Naksh Naitik Singhania, Kirti's husband, Akshara and Naitik's son, Naira's brother (2017–)

text: Recurring cast

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Lata Sabharwal as Rajshri Vishambharnath Maheshwari, Akshara's mother, Naira's maternal grandmother (Nani) (2009–)
Sandeep Mehta as Raj Shekhar Singhania, Naitik's father, Akshara's father in law, Naira's paternal grandfather (Dadaji) (2009–)
Medha Sambutkar as Kaveri Mahendra Pratap Singhania, Naitik's bhabhi maa, Nandini's mother, Naira's paternal grandaunt (Badi Dadi) (2009–)
Kirti Sually as Baisa, Naitik's dadi Naira's paternal grandaunt (Bua Dadi) (2010–)
Kshitee Jog as Devyani Raj Shekhar Singhania, Raj Shekhar's 2nd wife, Naira's paternal grandmother (choti dadi) (2014–)
Vishal Singh as Naitik Raj Shekhar Singhania, Akshara's husband, Naksh-Naira's father (Replaced by Karan) (2016–)
Parul Chauhan as Suvarna Manish Goenka, Kirti's & Kartik step-mother, Naira's Mother in Law (2016–)[5]
Sachin Tyagi as Manish Goenka, Kartik's and Kirti father (2016–)[6]
Swati Chitnis as Suhasini Goenka, Kartik's paternal grandmother (Dadi) (2017–)
Shivansh Kotia as Young Naksh Naitik Singhania, Naitik-Akshara's son (2012–15)
Ashnoor Kaur as Young Naira Naitik Singhania, Naitik-Akshara's daughter (2015–16)
Rohan Mehra as Naksh Naitik Singhania, Akshara-Naitik's son, Naira's brother, Naintara's ex fiancé (2nd Main Male Lead) (2015–16) (replaced by Rishi)[7]
Sanjeev Seth as Vishambharnath Maheshwari, Akshara's father, Naira's maternal grandfather (Nanu) (2009–17)
Sonali Verma as Gayatri Raj Shekhar Singhania, Raj's 1st wife, Naitik-Rashmi's mother, Akshara's mother in law, Naksh-Naira's grandmother (2009–13) (dead)
Sanjai Gandhi/Abhijeet Lahri as Mahendra Pratap Singhania (Dadaji), Kaveri's husband, Nandini's father, Naitik's uncle (2009–15) (dead)
Manu Malik as Omkarnath Maheshwari, Akshara's uncle, Sunaina's husband, Anshuman's father (2009–16)
Neelima Taddepalli as Sunaina Omkarnath Maheshwari, Naira's maternal grand aunt (choti nani) Akshara's aunt, Omkar's wife, Anshuman's mother (2009–16)
Aman Sharma/Dheeraj Gumbar as Anshuman Omkarnath Maheshwari, Akshara's cousin brother, Jasmeet's husband (2009–16)
Vineeta Malik as Bhairavi Maheshwari, Vishambharnath-Omkarnath's mother, Akshara's grandmother, Naira's maternal great grand mother (badi nani) (2009–16)
Nidhi Uttam as Nandini Mohit Agarwal, Kaveri-Mahendra Pratap's daughter, Mohit's wife, Yash-Anmol's mother, Naira's paternal aunt (bua) (2009–16)
Ayush Agarwal/Shamik Abbas as Mohit Agarwal, Naitik's best friend, Nandini's husband, Naira's uncle (phupaji) (2009–16)
Urmila Sharma/Sunita Rao as Rukmini Agarwal, Mohit's mother (2009–16)
Neha Saroopa as Rashmi Sameer Desai/Rashmi Nikhil Deora (née Singhania), Gaytri-Raj's daughter, Naitik's sister, Nikhil-Sameer's wife, Gayu's mother (2009–16) (dead)
Pooja Joshi as Varsha Shaurya Maheshwari, Akshara's friend, Shaurya's wife, Ananya-Kuhu's mother, Naira's maternal aunt (mami) (2009–17)
Ather Habib/Yash Gera as Shaurya Vishambharnath Maheshwari, Akshara's brother, Varsha's husband, Ananya-Kuhu's father, Naira's maternal uncle (mamaji) (2009–17)[8]
Anand Mani as Bhajinder Singh, Maheshwari's servant (2009–12)
Sunita Rajwar as Dhaniya Bhajinder Singh, Bajinder's wife (2009–12)
Rakesh Deewana as Maharaj, Singhania's ex chef (2009–14)
Roshan Khan as Gopi Dadi, Bhairvi's friend (2009–14)
Ali Merchant as Rituraj, Naitik's cousin brother (2009; 2011–12)
Amit Dolawat as Alok Awasthi, Muskaan's husband (2009; 2014–15)
Preeti Sharma as Bindiya, Rituraj's wife (2009)
Divya Bhatnagar as Gulaboo, Singhania's maid (2009–15)
Amardeep Jha as Shankari, Akshara's match-maker (2009–16)
Charu Asopa as Sneha: Naitik's worker, Kuhu's mother (2010)
Bani as Baby Naksh Naitik Singhania, Naitik-Akshara's son (2011–12) (replaced)
Ashish Kapoor as Nikhil Rajendra Deora, Rashmi's ex-husband (2011–12)
Unknown as Rama Rajendra Deora, Rashmi's mother in law, Nikhil's mother (2011–16)
Reem Sheikh as young Prerna Singhania (chikki), Singhania's adopted child (2012)
Alpesh Gehlot as Samar, Akshara's admirer (2012)
Akanksha Kapil as Antara, Loves Naitik (2012)
Navika Kotia as Prerna Singhania, Grown up Chikki (2013)
Anurag Nigam as Ankit (2013)
Zarina Roshan Khan as Muskaan Alok Awasthi, Naman's sister (2014–15)
Shirin Sewani as Jasmeet Anshuman Maheshwari, Anshuman's wife (2014–16)
Anshul Pandey as Naman Raj Singhania, Suresh-Devyani's son, Raj's step son, Muskaan's brother, Karishma's husband, Mishti's father (2014–16)[9][10]
Priyanka Udhwani as Karishma Naman Singhania, Naman's wife, Naira's aunt (chachi) (2014–18)
Aarna Sharma as Mishti Naman Singhania, Naira's cousin, Naman-Karishma's daughter (2015)
Mazher Sayed as Sameer Desai, Rashmi's second husband (2015)
Mishka Jain as Baby Naira Naitik Singhania, Naitik-Akshara's daughter (2015) (replaced)
Sanchit Sharma as Yash Mohit Agarwal, Naira's cousin, Nandini-Mohit's adopted son, Rose's husband (2015–16)
Akshaya Naik as Ananya Ranveer Sharma, Naira's cousin, Varsha-Shaurya's daughter, Ranveer's wife (2015–16)
Umang Jain as Tara Singh Shekhawat, Naksh's ex fiancé (2015–16)
Alok Nath as Chandrabhan Singh Shekhawat, Tara's grandfather (2015–16)
Amal Sehrawat as Sangram Singh Shekhawat, Tara's brother (2015–16)
Shivam Agarwal as Aditya Singh Shekhawat, Tara's brother (2015–16)
Vaishali Takkar as Sanjana, Naksh's friend (2015–16)
Khushmeet Gill as Nannu Anshuman Maheshwari, Anshuman-Jasmeet's son (2015–16)
Kanchi Singh as Gayatri Nikhil Deora, Naira's cousin, Rashmi-Nikhil's daughter, Sameer's step-daughter (2016–17)
Yamini Makwana as Kuhu Shaurya Maheshwari, Naira's cousin, Shaurya-Sneha's daughter (2016–17)
Arjun Kohli as Ranveer Sharma, Ananya's husband (2016)
Sippora Zoutewelle as Rose Yash Agarwal, Yash's wife (2016)
Karan Pahwa as Anmol Mohit Agarwal, Naira's cousin, Nandini-Mohit's son (2016)
Harbandana Kaur as Young Kuhu (2016)
Sheetal Tiwari as Sukanya, Naira's friend (2016) (dead)
Veena Jagtap as Nisha Singh Sekhawat (2016)
Suzanne Bernert as Martha, Rose's mother (2016)[11][12]
Fahad Ali as Vivaan, Gayu's school friend (2016)
Nupur Joshi as Soumya Manish Goenka, Kartik and Kirti's mother, Manish's 1st wife (2016) (dead)
Tia Gandwani as Priyanka, Kartik's maternal aunt (masi) (2017)
Romit Sharma as Aditya Bansal, Karthikj's former brother-in-law, Kirti's ex-husband (2017)[13]
Nikhil Sharma as Raghav, Naira's former friend (2017)[14]
Shravan Mehta as Kiran, Naira's dance partner and friend (2017)[15]
Bhuvan Chopra as Ratan
Neha Sehgal as Payal
Sonal Shrivastava as Juhi
Gaurav Wadhwa as Subham Manish Goenka (Aryan), Suvarna and Manish's son (2017–18)

text: Guest stars

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Shubhangi Atre (Kasturi from Kasturi) (2009)
Puja Bannerjee (Vrinda from Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna) (2009)
Shweta Tiwari (Prerna from Kasautii Zindagii Kay) (2009)
Sara Khan (Sadhna from Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai) (2009)
Angad Hasija (Alekh from Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai) (2009)
Kinshuk Mahajan (Ranvir from Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai) (2009)
Anupriya Kapoor (Taani from Tere Liye) (2010)
Neha Sargam (Nividita from Chand Chupa Badal Mein) (2010)
Pooja Gor (Pratigya from Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya) (2010)
Sanaya Irani (Khushi from Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?) (2011)
Soumya Seth (Navya from Navya..Naye Dhadkan Naye Sawaal) (2011)
Krystle D'Souza (Jeevika from Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai) (2011)
Nia Sharma (Maanvi from Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai) (2011)
Karan Tacker (Viren from Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai) (2011)
Anas Rashid (Suraj from Diya Aur Baati Hum) (2012)
Neelu Vaghela (Bhabho from Diya Aur Baati Hum) (2012)
Aamir Khan (To promote Satyamev Jayate) (2012)
Deepika Singh (Sandhya from Diya Aur Baati Hum) (2012, 2016)
Preeti & Pinky (2014)
Hiba Nawab (Amaya from Tere Sheher Mein) (2015)
Kamalika Guha Thakurta (2016)
Badshah (Dance Performance at Naira's sangeet) (2017)[16]
Shah Rukh Khan & Anushka Sharma (To promote their film Jab Harry Met Sejal) (2017)
Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar & Sana Khan (To promote their film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha) (2017)
Alka Yagnik (Special Performance for a tribute to Akshara on Naksh's sangeet) (2017)
Adaa Khan (Special dance performance on valentines day) (2018)[17]
Supriya Pathak (to promote Kichidi) (2018)

text: Crossover

text: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai has had several crossover episodes with various shows. In 2009, the show had a connection with Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai. In 2012, the show had a crossover episode with Diya Aur Baati Hum. In 2016, Diya Aur Baati Hum's lead actress Deepika Singh made an entry.

text: Reception and impact

text: The show is one of the most often-awarded shows of Indian Television, and is India's longest running television series by episode count.[18] Hina Khan participated in the 'Power of 49' campaign, in which soap opera actors used their influence to urge women to vote.[19]

text: Shoma Munshi said the show has "simplicity and highly emotional content" and was noted for placing female characters in the historical tradition of a large joint family.[20]

text: Ratings

text: The show is also broadcast by Urdu 1 and Star Plus sister channel STAR Utsav. The show generally maintains the top spot among Indian TV serials that aired in Pakistan. The show was beaten three to four times by Kumkum Bhagya that aired on Geo Kahani but recovered its leading position. The show also recorded one of the highest TRP in Pakistan.

text: Awards