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31 March 2024

  • 12:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Rachelle Ann Go
  • 00:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Horne Book

30 March 2024

  • 12:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
  • ... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher (pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets?
  • ... that "End Zone" Jones ran for a career high in his final regular season game with Nebraska to finish third in the school's history in career rushing yards?
  • ... that the Khalij, an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
  • ... that following a boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month?
  • ... that Mexican filmmaker David Zonana wrote his first feature film after producing for two other directors?
  • ... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
  • ... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
  • ... that in the Çöpler mine disaster in Turkey, nine gold miners were trapped under a collapse of heap leach material?
  • ... that Townsends, a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese?
  • 00:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Jack A. Bade

29 March 2024

  • 12:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Caldera of Mount Okmok
  • ... that Mount Okmok (pictured) in Alaska may have contributed to the downfall of Ptolemaic Egypt?
  • ... that Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, tended flowers for a living before becoming an Olympic runner?
  • ... that Apollo 17 carried a 6-pound (2.7 kg) explosive charge as part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment?
  • ... that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
  • ... that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
  • ... that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
  • ... that Ian Begg restored Muckrach Castle after over 200 years without a roof?
  • ... that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
  • ... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
  • 00:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Three bowls of sobá

28 March 2024

  • 12:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Anna Filosofova
  • 00:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Sheet music for The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (1901)

27 March 2024

  • 12:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Jerome and Schwartz
  • 00:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Paleoallium billgenseli fossil

26 March 2024

  • 12:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Billy Garrett Jr.
  • 00:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Salar del Huasco

25 March 2024

  • 00:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Halley's Comet

24 March 2024

  • 00:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Proprietor of the Mussel Inn pouring a beer

23 March 2024

  • 00:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Portrait of a woman from the Myanmar Photo Archive

22 March 2024

  • 00:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Safe House Black History Museum

21 March 2024

  • 00:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Sumner Z. Kaplan

20 March 2024

  • 00:00, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Sheet-music cover for The Red Moon

19 March 2024

  • 00:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Joseph Bosworth

18 March 2024

  • 00:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Making a Stand, Leeds

17 March 2024

  • 00:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Front cover of "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899)

16 March 2024

  • 00:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Muqarnas vault at the Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib

15 March 2024

  • 00:00, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Olivetti Valentine

14 March 2024

  • 00:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Elbert E. Martin
  • ... that former football player Elbert E. Martin (pictured) stopped an assassin from killing former US president Theodore Roosevelt?
  • ... that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
  • ... that Lovro Šitović, a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
  • ... that the creators of the cartoon Jade Armor filmed live-action martial arts stunts to visualize the show's animated action sequences?
  • ... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly?
  • ... that the dish gogi-guksu, from South Korea's Jeju Island, developed in part because of the Japanese colonial period?
  • ... that So Sethaputra compiled his authoritative English–Thai dictionary while in prison, with the manuscripts smuggled out for publication?
  • ... that after being named the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings for three years, Fran Foley served in the position for just three months?

13 March 2024

  • 04:28, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Thoon Kramom

12 March 2024

  • 00:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Onekaka Dam under construction in the late 1920s

11 March 2024

  • 00:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Horsham Friends Meeting House in 2018

10 March 2024

  • 00:00, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Ford Strikers Riot

9 March 2024

  • 00:00, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Korowai gecko

8 March 2024

  • 00:00, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Five-Pavilion Bridge

7 March 2024

  • 00:00, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Joseph Pierce

6 March 2024

  • 00:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 
The One

5 March 2024

  • 00:00, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Stieler's portrait of Beethoven

4 March 2024

  • 00:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Eufriesea purpurata

3 March 2024

  • 00:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Float at the Gasparilla Pirate Festival

2 March 2024

  • 00:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 
John Cowans

1 March 2024

  • 00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 
Tōrō-dō Hall, Okunoin
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