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31 March 2017
- 02:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
![Self-portrait of Lucie Ingemann](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Lucie_Ingemann_self_portrait.jpg/100px-Lucie_Ingemann_self_portrait.jpg)
Lucie Ingemann
30 March 2017
- 00:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
![Priyanka Chopra in 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Priyanka_Chopral_at_Save_the_Girl_Child_music_video_launch.jpg/100px-Priyanka_Chopral_at_Save_the_Girl_Child_music_video_launch.jpg)
Priyanka Chopra in 2010
29 March 2017
- 00:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
![Samuel Noble Monument](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Samuel_Noble_Monument_April_2014_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Samuel_Noble_Monument_April_2014_2_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Samuel Noble Monument
28 March 2017
- 00:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
![Trump Tower](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/New_York_City_Mai_2009_PD_045.JPG/150px-New_York_City_Mai_2009_PD_045.JPG)
Trump Tower
27 March 2017
- 00:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
![PlayStation Vita](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/PlayStation-Vita-1101-FL_%28DYK%29.png/204px-PlayStation-Vita-1101-FL_%28DYK%29.png)
PlayStation Vita
- ... that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the PlayStation Vita console (pictured), such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
- ... that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb?
- ... that the population of Marysville, Washington, grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
- ... that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
- ... that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
- ... that despite being severely wounded in the American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
- ... that King John's Hill, near Alton, Hampshire, is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort, and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John?
- ... that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day?
26 March 2017
- 00:00, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
[[File:|178px|
G3DP glass printing process ]]
G3DP glass printing process
25 March 2017
- 00:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
![INSV Tarini](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tari1_0.jpg/125px-Tari1_0.jpg)
INSV Tarini
24 March 2017
- 00:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
![Mariah Carey in 1998](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Mariah_Carey11_Edwards_Dec_1998.jpg/100px-Mariah_Carey11_Edwards_Dec_1998.jpg)
Mariah Carey
23 March 2017
- 00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
![Giant panda feeding on bamboo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Giant_Panda_Tai_Shan.JPG/133px-Giant_Panda_Tai_Shan.JPG)
Giant panda
22 March 2017
- 00:00, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
![South African Defence Force Ensign](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ensign_of_the_South_African_Defence_Force_%281981%E2%80%931994%29.svg/120px-Ensign_of_the_South_African_Defence_Force_%281981%E2%80%931994%29.svg.png)
South African Defence Force Ensign
- ... that the South African National Defence Force initially used the South African Defence Force Ensign (pictured), which contained the former flag of South Africa, despite the adoption of a new national flag?
- ... that convicted murderer David Martin Long was on life support two days before he was executed?
- ... that Sébastien Bourdais won the 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after starting in last place?
- ... that Y. D. Sharma established a genomic library of Plasmodium vivax, a protozoan parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
- ... that the title of Edna O'Brien's book, The Little Red Chairs, refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of Radovan Karadžić?
- ... that Canadian football player Dave Amer played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
- ... that Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon, France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
- ... that the Sacramento Valley Development Association built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair?
21 March 2017
- 00:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
![Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1379](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Meister_Bertram_von_Minden_-_Rest_on_the_Flight_to_Egypt%2C_panel_from_Grabow_Altarpiece_-_WGA14312.jpg/100px-Meister_Bertram_von_Minden_-_Rest_on_the_Flight_to_Egypt%2C_panel_from_Grabow_Altarpiece_-_WGA14312.jpg)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
20 March 2017
- 00:00, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
![Licancabur](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Licancabur_volcano_summit_chile_ii_region.jpg/133px-Licancabur_volcano_summit_chile_ii_region.jpg)
Licancabur
19 March 2017
- 00:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
![Bryant McIntosh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/20170301_NW-UM_Bryant_McIntosh_in_the_halfcourt.jpg/100px-20170301_NW-UM_Bryant_McIntosh_in_the_halfcourt.jpg)
Bryant McIntosh
- ... that Bryant McIntosh (pictured) holds the single-season and career assist records for Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball?
- ... that Blewburton Hill in Oxfordshire features unusual lynchets of unknown age and function?
- ... that civil rights activist Theodora Lacey helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in Teaneck, New Jersey, becoming the first town in the United States to vote for school integration?
- ... that the Peñol de Cerquín, a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
- ... that Peter Van Hoesen, an American Civil War deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a Medal of Honor-worthy deed at Fort Fisher in 1864 for which he got no credit?
- ... that when Siegfried Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld!, he used themes from many fairy tales?
- ... that Annora Brown was commissioned to paint 200 Albertan wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
- ... that the 2014 annexation of Crimea by "little green men" was typical of a long history of Russian military deception dating back to the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380?
18 March 2017
- 12:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
![Holy conversation, early 16th century](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tiziano%2C_Madonna_and_Child_with_Sts_Dorothy_and_George.jpg/149px-Tiziano%2C_Madonna_and_Child_with_Sts_Dorothy_and_George.jpg)
Sacra conversazione
- 00:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
![4th-century fresco of Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Crispus_Crispinianus_Benedicta_fresco_Case_Romano_Celio_%28square_crop%29.jpg/120px-Crispus_Crispinianus_Benedicta_fresco_Case_Romano_Celio_%28square_crop%29.jpg)
Fresco of Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta
17 March 2017
- 12:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
![The São Vicente Suspension Bridge in 1914](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Benedito_Calixto_-_Ponte_P%C3%AAnsil%2C_1914_%2811x7%29.jpg/157px-Benedito_Calixto_-_Ponte_P%C3%AAnsil%2C_1914_%2811x7%29.jpg)
São Vicente Suspension Bridge
- 00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
![Hanover Lodge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/THOMAS_COCHRANE_and_DAVID_EARL_BEATTY_-_Hanover_Lodge_Outer_Circle_Regent%27s_Park_London_NW1_4RJ_%282%29.jpg/150px-THOMAS_COCHRANE_and_DAVID_EARL_BEATTY_-_Hanover_Lodge_Outer_Circle_Regent%27s_Park_London_NW1_4RJ_%282%29.jpg)
Hanover Lodge
- ... that London's Hanover Lodge (pictured) sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
- ... that Hans Larwin painted Soldat und Tod in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy?
- ... that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near Saunders Creek, Alberta, including an upper molar from a possible pantodont?
- ... that the voice of Hawaiian soprano Nani Alapai was compared to the music of the singing snails?
- ... that a Taiwanese religious movement teaching feng shui and I Ching since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
- ... that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena, and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
- ... that in the upcoming film LAbyrinth, Johnny Depp portrays a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.?
- ... that Denver, Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother?
16 March 2017
- 12:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
![A Man with a Quilted Sleeve](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Titian_-_Portrait_of_a_man_with_a_quilted_sleeve.jpg/100px-Titian_-_Portrait_of_a_man_with_a_quilted_sleeve.jpg)
A Man with a Quilted Sleeve
- 00:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
![Bugatti Type 37A](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Bugatti_Typ_37A_1929_2.jpg/200px-Bugatti_Typ_37A_1929_2.jpg)
Bugatti Type 37A
15 March 2017
- 12:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
![Bricard octahedron](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Br2-anim.gif/144px-Br2-anim.gif)
Bricard octahedron
- 00:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
![Erythranthe peregrina](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Erythranthe_peregrina.jpg/133px-Erythranthe_peregrina.jpg)
Erythranthe peregrina
14 March 2017
- 12:00, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- 00:00, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
![Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Man_Fat_Tsz_%28Ten_Thousand_Buddhas_Monastery%29%2C_Man_Fat_Din%2C_Sha_Tin_%28Hong_Kong%29_-_cropped.jpg/200px-Man_Fat_Tsz_%28Ten_Thousand_Buddhas_Monastery%29%2C_Man_Fat_Din%2C_Sha_Tin_%28Hong_Kong%29_-_cropped.jpg)
Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery
13 March 2017
- 12:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
![Manet's portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Manet_Emilie_Ambre_as_Carmen.jpg/100px-Manet_Emilie_Ambre_as_Carmen.jpg)
Manet's portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen
- ... that the soprano Émilie Ambre was portrayed by artist Édouard Manet in the title role of Bizet's Carmen (pictured)?
- ... that the family of Yue Yi-chin, a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War, claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei?
- ... that the top-three finishers in the 2010 Pepsi Max 400 all drove Chevrolets?
- ... that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis?
- ... that the Church of Scientology used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain tax exemption in the United States?
- ... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron, a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
- ... that Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez, sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
- ... that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?
- 00:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
![Ace of Clubs House](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Texarkana_April_2016_109_%28Ace_of_Clubs_House%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Texarkana_April_2016_109_%28Ace_of_Clubs_House%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Ace of Clubs House
- ... that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House (pictured) was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?
- ... that Charmian Gooch's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
- ... that a new electrical substation in Seattle will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
- ... that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne, Hugo, and an alphabet for children?
- ... that Beacon Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
- ... that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
- ... that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
- ... that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
12 March 2017
- 12:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
![Audrey Hepburn in 1953](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Audrey_Hepburn_screentest_in_Roman_Holiday_trailer_2.jpg/100px-Audrey_Hepburn_screentest_in_Roman_Holiday_trailer_2.jpg)
Audrey Hepburn
- 00:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
![Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Snugburys_Lovell_Telescope_straw_sculpture_2007_10.jpg/150px-Snugburys_Lovell_Telescope_straw_sculpture_2007_10.jpg)
Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope
11 March 2017
- 12:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
[[File:|133px|A young ground pangolin ]]
Ground pangolin
- 00:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
![A bouncing basketball](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Bouncing_ball_strobe_edit.jpg/156px-Bouncing_ball_strobe_edit.jpg)
A bouncing basketball
10 March 2017
- 12:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
![Lightning rod umbrella](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Umbrella_fitted_with_lightning_conductor.jpg/100px-Umbrella_fitted_with_lightning_conductor.jpg)
Lightning rod umbrella
- 00:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
![Lamborghini Miura P400SV](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Lamborghini_Miura_P400SV_%28cropped%29.jpg/167px-Lamborghini_Miura_P400SV_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Lamborghini Miura SV
9 March 2017
- 12:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
![Tsukemen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Tsukemen_at_a_Tokyo_restaurant.jpg/150px-Tsukemen_at_a_Tokyo_restaurant.jpg)
Tsukemen
- 00:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
![Mary Hardy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Mary_Hardy_by_Huquier_1785_%28Cozens-Hardy_Collection%29.jpg/100px-Mary_Hardy_by_Huquier_1785_%28Cozens-Hardy_Collection%29.jpg)
Mary Hardy
8 March 2017
- 12:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
![Mary Hogarth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Mary_Scott_Hogarth%2C_aged_16.jpg/100px-Mary_Scott_Hogarth%2C_aged_16.jpg)
Mary Hogarth
- 00:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
![Jesse Ashbridge house](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Ashbridge_Estate.jpg/146px-Ashbridge_Estate.jpg)
Jesse Ashbridge house
7 March 2017
- 12:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
![Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in October 1910](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/Claude_Grahame-White_landing_his_biplane_on_West_Executive_Avenue_October_14th%2C_1910_%28wide_crop%29.jpg/200px-Claude_Grahame-White_landing_his_biplane_on_West_Executive_Avenue_October_14th%2C_1910_%28wide_crop%29.jpg)
Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in 1910
- 00:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
![1000 Second Avenue, Seattle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/1000_Second_Avenue%2C_Seattle_from_2nd_%26_Marion_%28tall_crop%29.jpg/80px-1000_Second_Avenue%2C_Seattle_from_2nd_%26_Marion_%28tall_crop%29.jpg)
1000 Second Avenue
- ... that construction of 1000 Second Avenue (pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for fire testing?
- ... that seen from Bolívar Square, Bogotá, the Sun on the solstices rises directly over Monserrate and Guadalupe, the two best known Eastern Hills?
- ... that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar, Bhabatosh Soren, and S.K. Dhara, resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government?
- ... that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
- ... that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
- ... that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus?
- ... that when the Islamic State captured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
- ... that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
6 March 2017
- 12:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
- 00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
![The missionary ship Duff](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/The_missionary_ship_%22Duff%22_arriving_%28ca._1797%29_at_Otaheite%2C_lithograph_by_Kronheim_%26_Co.jpg/140px-The_missionary_ship_%22Duff%22_arriving_%28ca._1797%29_at_Otaheite%2C_lithograph_by_Kronheim_%26_Co.jpg)
The missionary ship Duff
- ... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in Tahiti aboard the Duff (pictured)?
- ... that Alice Hirson played Eileen Riley Siegel, an Irish Catholic married to a Jew, on the soap opera One Life to Live?
- ... that the early Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone by Francis Poulenc was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
- ... that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the nuclear football, was officially on the U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
- ... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
- ... that construction on the 179th Street terminal station on the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line was delayed for almost 20 years?
- ... that every single ballot cast for the Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
- ... that the first three video game titles in the popular edutainment franchise Carmen Sandiego saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across the world (1985), the United States (1986), and Europe (1988)?
5 March 2017
- 12:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
![Miami Railway Station](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Miami_Railway_Station.jpg/133px-Miami_Railway_Station.jpg)
Miami Railway Station
- 00:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
![Pärnu River](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/P%C3%A4rnu_j%C3%B5gi_Toris.jpg/120px-P%C3%A4rnu_j%C3%B5gi_Toris.jpg)
Pärnu River
4 March 2017
- 12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
![Souper Salad restaurant](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Souper_Salad_Metrocenter.jpg/133px-Souper_Salad_Metrocenter.jpg)
Souper Salad restaurant
- 00:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
![John Plankinton statue](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/John_Plankinton_statue_in_circular_atrium_close-up_%28cropped%29.jpg/80px-John_Plankinton_statue_in_circular_atrium_close-up_%28cropped%29.jpg)
John Plankinton statue
- ... that William Plankinton, for whom the William Plankinton Mansion is named, commissioned the John Plankinton statue (pictured) from the sculptor who was his sister's ex-fiancé?
- ... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
- ... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
- ... that most members of the woodpecker family have four toes on each foot, but the rufous piculet and the white-browed piculet have just three?
- ... that TROPEX 2017 witnessed the participation of forty-five major surface ships, five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the Indian Navy's Western and Eastern Naval Command?
- ... that "Es woll uns Gott genädig sein", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?
- ... that during the American Civil War, William V. Rinehart served as an officer in both the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment?
- ... that software company Lucas Learning did not know whether to market Star Wars: Droid Works on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?
3 March 2017
- 12:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
- ... that Francis Poulenc composed Litanies à la Vierge Noire, a French litany to the Black Virgin at Rocamadour (statue pictured), after a pilgrimage to the shrine?
- ... that Yale University architecture professor Louis Kahn said he would have given a failing grade to Uris Buildings Corporation's Three Penn Center?
- ... that the use of puns by Peter Adamson in his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series, has been both praised and criticized?
- ... that HMS Pearl escorted troops to Kip's Bay during the American Revolutionary War in September 1776?
- ... that actor Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live, one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
- ... that Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, besieged the Illyrians at Pelion (in modern Albania) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the Achaemenid Empire?
- ... that Printer's Devilry crossword puzzles were among Ximenes' most popular, even though they break Ximenes' rules of cryptic crossword setting?
- ... that economist Susan Dynarski, who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
- 00:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
![East Base on Stonington Island in Antarctica](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/East_Base_-_Stonington_Island_%28cropped%29.jpg/160px-East_Base_-_Stonington_Island_%28cropped%29.jpg)
East Base
- ... that East Base (pictured) in Antarctica housed Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington, the first women to spend a winter on the continent?
- ... that M. J. Thirumalachar named two genera of fungi he discovered, Narasimhania and Narasimhella, after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
- ... that readers requested that Glenn McCoy be terminated from the Belleville News-Democrat after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, Trying to trash Betsy DeVos?
- ... that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 MLAs because of the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, effective at the snap election today?
- ... that professional American football player Butch Allison was the brother of another professional athlete?
- ... that Akatombo, or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet Rofū Miki and composed by Kosaku Yamada, is one of the most-loved Japanese songs according to a 1989 survey?
- ... that during the last decade, Lance Ryan appeared as Siegfried at three Bayreuth Festivals?
- ... that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
2 March 2017
- 12:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
![Lake Meke](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Lake_Meke_-_Meke_G%C3%B6l%C3%BC_07.JPG/160px-Lake_Meke_-_Meke_G%C3%B6l%C3%BC_07.JPG)
Lake Meke
- ... that Lake Meke (pictured), a crater lake beside a volcanic cone, is a natural monument and a Ramsar site in Turkey?
- ... that King Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua, G. W. Pilipō and J. Nāwahī, and campaigning against them?
- ... that, no matter how n non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least 0.258n of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset?
- ... that in 1891, a fire at the State Normal School at Cheney destroyed the school's only building?
- ... that intratracheal instillation, the introduction of a substance directly into the trachea, is a widely used alternative to inhalation for respiratory toxicity testing?
- ... that through his political associations, Jesse Root Grant secured an appointment for enrollment at West Point for his son, Ulysses S. Grant?
- ... that two former Princes of Wallachia ran for deputy seats in 1857, both of them losing at Buzău and recovering to win at Dolj?
- ... that The Learning Company's educational video game franchise Reader Rabbit sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?
- 00:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
![Rossa Matlida Richter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Zazel_%28tall_crop%29.jpg/100px-Zazel_%28tall_crop%29.jpg)
Rossa Matlida Richter
1 March 2017
- 12:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
![Karolina Styczyńska in 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/WOSC-2013-Styczynska.JPG/106px-WOSC-2013-Styczynska.JPG)
Karolina Styczyńska
- 00:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
![Water flowing from Oroville Dam's eroded spillway](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Oroville_dam_spillway_2017-02-11.jpg/133px-Oroville_dam_spillway_2017-02-11.jpg)
Oroville Dam