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Did you know ...
- ... that the bondiola sandwich (example pictured) is a popular street food in Argentina?
- ... that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier, who had killed his father and uncles?
- ... that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
- ... that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there?
- ... that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers?
- ... that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
- ... that Charles Norris-Newman was a war correspondent, a corrupt British colonial official and a Russian intelligence officer?
- ... that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia, opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?
In the news
- A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills at least 32 people.
- At least 65 migrants are killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Calabria, Italy.
- Floods and landslides (pictured) leave more than 64 people dead in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
- At the British Academy Film Awards, All Quiet on the Western Front wins Best Film and six other awards.
On this day
March 1: Disability Day of Mourning; Saint David's Day; Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- 1870 – Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.
- 1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion began following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in Russia with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces in New Guinea.
- Thomas Campion (d. 1620)
- Théophile Delcassé (b. 1852)
- Lupita Nyong'o (b. 1983)
Today's featured picture
The Port Hills are a range of hills in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, so named because they lie between the city of Christchurch and its port at Lyttelton. The hills are an eroded remnant of the Lyttelton volcano, which erupted millions of years ago. Starting at Godley Head, the range runs approximately east–west along the northern side of Lyttelton Harbour and thence to the south, terminating near Gebbies Pass above the head of the harbour. It includes a number of summits between 300 and 500 metres (980 and 1,640 feet) above sea level. This photograph shows a panoramic view of the Port Hills from Mount Ada, looking towards Lyttelton Harbour in the distance. Photograph credit: Michal Klajban
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