March 31 Wikipedia featured article

Tank Girl is a 1995 American science-fiction action-comedy film directed by Rachel Talalay. Based on the British post-apocalyptic comic series of the same name by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett that was originally published in Deadline magazine, the film stars Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, Ice-T and Malcolm McDowell. Set in a drought-ravaged Australia after a catastrophic impact event, the story follows the antihero Tank Girl (Petty) as she, Jet Girl (Watts), and genetically modified supersoldiers called the Rippers fight "Water & Power", an oppressive...

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On this day: March 31

March 31: King Nangklao Memorial Day in Thailand; Cesar Chavez Day in various US states João Goulart 627 – Muslim–Quraish Wars: A confederation of tribes began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Yathrib (now Medina) against Muhammad and his army. 1146 – French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman...

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March 30 Wikipedia featured article

Jumping Flash! is a platform video game co-developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first instalment in the Jumping Flash! series, it was released in April 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan and later the same year in Europe and North America; it was re-released through PlayStation Network store on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in 2007. Presented in a first-person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named Robbit as he searches for missing jet pods that have been scattered by the game's antagonist...

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On this day: March 30

March 30: Land Day (Palestinians) Usmar Ismail 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure. 1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the...

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March 29 Wikipedia featured article

Benjamin Franklin Tilley (March 29, 1848 – March 18, 1907) was an officer in the United States Navy and the first acting governor of what is now American Samoa. He entered the Naval Academy at age 15 during the Civil War and graduated in 1866. In the wake of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, he participated as a lieutenant in the military's crackdown against workers. During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, Tilley and a small contingent of sailors...

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On this day: March 29

March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947) Mariner 10 845 – Viking raiders possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom. 1638 – Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America. 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria. 1941 – Second World War: British...

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March 28 Wikipedia featured article

The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by three-and-a-half lengths in a victory that was described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive". The winning time of 17 minutes exactly was the fourth fastest time in the...

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On this day: March 28

March 28: Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (pictured) discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. 1920 – An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than...

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March 27 Wikipedia featured article

Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, is an Easter chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Translated to "Christ lay in death's bonds" (pictured in an 18th-century Luther Bible), it is one of his earliest church cantatas, a genre to which Bach later contributed complete cantata cycles for all occasions of the liturgical year. The composition was probably intended for a performance in 1707, supporting his application for a post at a church in Mühlhausen....

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On this day: March 27

March 27: Easter (Western Christianity, 2016) USS Constitution 1329 – Pope John XXII issued a papal bull declaring that some of the works of German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical. 1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act to establish a naval force, consisting of the USS Constitution (pictured) and five other frigates, which eventually became the United...

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March 26 Wikipedia featured article

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba. The name comes from Western Cree words for muddy or brackish water, referring to Lake Winnipeg, which is just north of the city along the Red River. The region was a trading centre for aboriginal peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River...

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On this day: March 26

March 26: Holy Saturday (Western Christianity, 2016); Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971) A page from William Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables 1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile. 1484 – William Caxton printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables (page pictured). 1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day...

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March 25 Wikipedia featured article

Uncle David is a 2010 British black comedy film directed by David Hoyle, Gary Reich, and Mike Nichols. It was produced by Reich and stars Hoyle, an English performance artist, in the titular role alongside Ashley Ryder, best known as a pornographic actor. Developed collectively under the banner of the Avant-Garde Alliance, it was filmed in October 2009. Created without a script, every scene was improvised and filmed in a single take. The film is set in a caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, South East England, and follows a young man with...

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On this day: March 25

March 25: Shushan Purim in Jerusalem and Susa (Judaism, 2016); Independence Day in Greece (1821) Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor 1410 – The Yongle Emperor (pictured) launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri. 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. 1917 – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops...

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March 24 Wikipedia featured article

The Oppenheimer security hearing (1954) of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) explored the background, actions and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He had headed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, where he played a key part in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. Doubts about Oppenheimer's loyalty dated back to the 1930s, when he was associated with Communist Party USA members, including his wife and his brother....

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On this day: March 24

March 24: Purim (Judaism, 2016); World Tuberculosis Day Exxon Valdez aground 1603 – King James VI of Scotland acceded to the thrones of England and Ireland, becoming James I of England and unifying the crowns of the kingdoms for the first time. 1869 – The last of Māori leader Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government...

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March 23 Wikipedia featured article

The nuckelavee is a horse-like demon from Orcadian mythology that combines equine and human elements. The name of this most horrible of all the demons of the Scottish islands may be a progenitor of that by which the Devil is sometimes known, Old Nick. Though accounts describing the creature's appearance are inconsistent, its abilities are well-documented. The nuckelavee's breath can wilt crops and sicken livestock, and the creature has been held...

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On this day: March 23

March 23: Fast of Esther (Judaism, 2016); Holi (Hinduism, 2016); Pakistan Day (1956); Day of Hungarian–Polish Friendship in Hungary and Poland Bhagat Singh 1775 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, urging military action against the British Empire. 1848 – Scottish settlers on the John Wickliffe, captained by William Cargill, arrived at what is now Port...

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March 22 Wikipedia featured article

P. engelhardti skull cast Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard"), a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur, lived around 214 to 204 million years ago during the Late Triassic period in what is now Central and Northern Europe. It was an early sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". It is now among the dinosaurs best known to science: over 100 skeletons have been found, some of them nearly complete. The abundance of its fossils in Swabia,...

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On this day: March 22

March 22 Phan Xich Long 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain. 1638 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled Anne Hutchinson from its ranks for dissenting from Puritan orthodoxy. 1913 – Phan Xích Long (pictured), the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters...

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March 21 Wikipedia featured article

The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by the English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, first released on 21 March 1983 by Harvest Records in the UK. It was the band's last studio album to include founding member Roger Waters, who received sole credit for writing and composition. It is also the only Pink Floyd album to which keyboardist Richard Wright did not contribute. Waters originally planned The Final Cut as a soundtrack album for the 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall, but with the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a concept album...

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On this day: March 21

March 21: Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í calendar); Independence Day in Namibia (1990) Phra Phrom statue, Erawan Shrine 630 – Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem. 1800 – After being elected as a compromise candidate after several months of stalemate, Pope Pius VII was crowned in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. 1871 – Founder of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck was proclaimed as its first Chancellor. 1946...

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March 20 Wikipedia featured article

Amir Hamzah (1911–1946) was an Indonesian poet and national hero. Born into an aristocratic Malay family in the Sultanate of Langkat, Sumatra, he began writing poetry while still a teenager. Though his works are undated, the earliest are from around 1930, when he first travelled to Java for schooling. He continued writing while studying in Surakarta and Batavia. He helped establish the literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe in 1932, and published...

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On this day: March 20

March 20: Nowruz in Iran, Central Asia, and Zoroastrianism (2016); Independence Day in Tunisia (1956) Cyclone Larry 1602 – The Dutch East India Company—the first company to issue stock, one of the first multinational corporations, and possibly the first megacorporation—was established. 1760 – A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, destroying 349 buildings and left over a thousand people homeless. 1942 – World War II: After...

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