On this day: March 31

March 31: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2018); Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states João Goulart 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began the massacre of over 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios. 1899 – Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces. 1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its...

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Jason Isaacs "Nightswimming" is the eighth episode of the American television police procedural fantasy drama Awake, which originally aired on NBC in 2012. Written by Leonard Chang and co-executive producer Davey Holmes, and directed by executive producer Jeffrey Reiner, the episode received mixed reviews. Awake stars Jason Isaacs (pictured) as Michael Britten, a detective living in two separate realities after a car crash. In one reality, his...

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On this day: March 30

March 30: Land Day (Palestinians) Usmar Ismail 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory. 1918 – Fighting began during the March Days revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in over 14,000 deaths. 1950 – Usmar Ismail began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film. 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much...

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DJ AM (A. M. Goldstein; March 30, 1973 – August 28, 2009) was an American disc jockey (DJ). Obsessed with deejaying as a child, Goldstein developed a drug addiction as a teenager and was sent to the controversial rehabilitation center Straight, Incorporated. His drug problems worsened until a failed suicide attempt in 1997. He became sober, and later sponsored other addicts through Alcoholics Anonymous. He began deejaying and joined the band Crazy...

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On this day: March 29

March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947) Terracotta Army 1430 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the Venetian city of Thessalonica. 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first British America-born Catholic priest. 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria. 1974 – A group of farmers in Shaanxi...

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Casey Stengel (1890–1975) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder, and a manager for the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1950s and for the New York Mets in the early 1960s. He was an outfielder for the 1912 Brooklyn Dodgers, and played on their 1916 National League championship team. After serving in the navy during World War I, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Giants and the Boston Braves. In 1925...

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On this day: March 28

March 28: Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the Imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus. 1814 – War of 1812: Off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, two Royal Navy ships easily captured two American ones. 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City...

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Lady Gaga (born March 28, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to prominence in 2008 with her debut album The Fame and its singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". Her EP The Fame Monster followed the next year, and featured the successful singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro". The title track from her second album Born This Way (2011) became the fastest selling song on iTunes at the time of its release. With...

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On this day: March 27

March 27 Ball-and-stick model of sildenafil 1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in what is now California, was incorporated as a city. 1899 – Philippine–American War: For the only time during the course of the war, Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo personally led troops against the U.S. in the Battle of Marilao River. 1941 – Encouraged by the British Special Operations Executive, a group of pro-Western Serb-nationalist Royal...

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Coalhouse Fort is an English artillery fort built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack. It stands at Coalhouse Point in Essex on the north bank of the river, at a location near East Tilbury that was vulnerable to raiders and invaders. It was the last in a series of fortifications dating back to the 15th century and was the direct successor to a smaller mid-19th century fort on the same site. It was initially a front-line...

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Location, covoiturage, blog, petits boulots, jeux… Faut-il déclarer ses revenus extras ?

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On this day: March 26

March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971) Salk administering the polio vaccine 590 – Byzantine emperor Maurice proclaimed his son Theodosius as his co-emperor. 1351 – War of the Breton Succession: Thirty knights each from France and England fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany, which later was celebrated as a noble display of the ideals of chivalry. 1885 – Feeling that Canada had failed to address the protection of...

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The fulvous whistling duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a tropical and subtropical bird in the family of ducks, geese and swans. It breeds in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern US, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It has mainly reddish brown plumage, long legs and a long grey bill, and shows a distinctive white band across its black tail in flight. Like other members of its ancient lineage, it has a whistling...

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On this day: March 25

March 25: Rama Navami (Hinduism, 2018) King Faisal of Saudi Arabia 1410 – The Yongle Emperor 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 unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox...

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The Walt Disney World Railroad is a 3-foot (914 mm) narrow-gauge American heritage railroad and attraction that encircles most of the Magic Kingdom theme park of Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida. Constructed by WED Enterprises, it has three train stations along 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of track, and four historic steam locomotives, originally built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. On a typical day, two or three locomotives will complete round...

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On this day: March 24

March 24: World Tuberculosis Day James VI and I 1603 – King James VI of Scotland (pictured) acceded to the thrones of England and Ireland, becoming James I of England and unifying the crowns of the kingdoms for the first time. 1860 – Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain assassinated Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers. 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad, the first international women's...

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Jessica Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and film producer. She has earned critical praise for her portrayals of strong-willed women in films with feminist themes. Born and raised in Sacramento County, California, Chastain studied acting at Juilliard. She made her film debut in the drama Jolene (2008), and gained wide recognition in 2011 for starring roles in half a dozen films, including The Help, which earned her a nomination...

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On this day: March 23

March 23: Pakistan Day (1956) Mir space station 1848 – Scottish settlers on the John Wickliffe, captained by William Cargill, arrived at what is now Port Chalmers in the Otago Region of New Zealand. 1888 – Led by William McGregor, ten football clubs met in London for the purpose of founding the English Football League, the oldest league competition in world football. 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of...

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Thomas Paine The Age of Reason is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine (pictured), arguing for the philosophical position of Deism. Following in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, it challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. It was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, and became a best-seller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival....

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On this day: March 22

March 22: World Water Day Valery Polyakov 238 – Because of his father's advanced age, Gordian II was proclaimed joint Roman emperor with Gordian I. 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp. 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was massacred by Nazi forces, with participation...

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The Thaddeus McCotter presidential campaign of 2012 began when he filed papers on July 1, 2011, to run for the Republican Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States. He officially announced his candidacy the next day at a rock festival near Detroit. McCotter, who had been a congressman from Michigan since 2003, was first mentioned as a potential presidential candidate on an April 2011 episode of the Fox News show Red Eye. During...

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On this day: March 21

March 21 Battle of Karameh aftermath 1556 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for heresy. 1918 – First World War: The German Army opened the Spring Offensive with Operation Michael, attempting to break through the Allied lines and to seize ports on the English Channel. 1952 – The first major rock and roll concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, was held at the...

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Capella is a star system of four stars in the constellation of Auriga, appearing as a single star to the naked eye. It is the third-brightest star or star system in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus and Vega. Always above the horizon for observers north of 44°N, the Capella system is only 42.9 light-years from the Sun. Its two largest stars are Capella Aa and Capella Ab, bright yellow giant stars in a binary pair, both around 2.5...

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On this day: March 20

March 20: March equinox (16:15 UTC, 2018); Independence Day in Tunisia (1956) Harriet Beecher Stowe 235 – Maximinus Thrax succeeded to the throne of the Roman Empire, a so-called barracks emperor who gained power by virtue of his command of the army. 1852 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (pictured) was first published, profoundly affecting attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States. 1922 – The United States...

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Barry Voight (born 1937) is an American geologist, volcanologist, author, and engineer. He was a professor of geology at Pennsylvania State University from 1964 until his retirement in 2005. He still conducts research on rock mechanics, plate tectonics, disaster prevention, and geotechnical engineering. In April 1980, Voight's publications on landslides, avalanches and other mass movements convinced Rocky Crandell of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to ask him to look at a growing bulge on the Mount St. Helens volcano in the state of Washington....

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