Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operated from 1970 to 2012. It was the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. The shop was named after the Amazons, a mythological tribe of fierce and independent women. After decades in business, it sold its name to Amazon.com. In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged bookstore. The books were kept in the front room of the women's collective they lived in and books were only available from 3 to 6 PM
X-COM: Alliance X-COM: Alliance X-COM: Alliance is a cancelled video game in the "X-COM" series. The game was developed by three different teams of MicroProse developers (first as a subsidiary of Spectrum Holobyte, then Hasbro Interactive, and finally Infogrames Entertainment) between 1995 and 2002. Its initial working title was "X-COM 4" (later "X-COM 5"); the project was code-named "Fox Force Five" to stop media leaks. The game had the player assume the role of commander of the militarized scientific mission lost in space during the aftermath of "". Unlike other games in the "X-COM" series, most of which were strategy games, "Alliance"