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Today's featured article Hurricane Cindy was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana in July 2005. The third named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Cindy developed from a tropical wave on July 3, off the east coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Soon after, it moved over land before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. It tracked toward the northern Gulf Coast and strengthened to reach maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), making it a Category 1 on the Saffir–Simpson scale. The hurricane struck Louisiana, on July 5 at peak intensity, but weakened by the time it made a second landfall along southern Mississippi. It weakened over the southeastern US and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on July 7. The remnants of Cindy produced an outbreak of 42 tornadoes across six states before they moved into Atlantic Canada and dissipated on July 13 over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Cindy caused six traffic deaths and its damage was significant. (Full article...) Recently featured: Interstate 182 The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) Pierre Boulez Selected anniversaries March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947) Mariner 10 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne. 1882 – The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 (pictured) became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury. 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Thomas Coram (d. 1751) Emilia Baeyertz (b. 1842) Sam Loxton (b. 1921) Ruth A. M. Schmidt (d. 2014) More anniversaries: March 28 March 29 March 30

In the news Riek Machar A magnitude-7.7 earthquake leaves more than 1,600 people dead in Myanmar and Thailand. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition unilaterally voids the 2018 peace agreement after South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar (pictured) and interior minister Angelina Teny are detained. The Sudanese Armed Forces recapture Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces after almost two years of fighting. Ongoing: Gaza war M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Masahiro Shinoda Terry Manning Stef Wertheimer Fuad Noman Nona Faustine Jessica Aber Did you know... De Lamar Mansion ... that the exterior of the De Lamar Mansion (pictured) was cleaned using toothbrushes during the 2000s? ... that Edward Skeletrix, to promote his album Museum Music, held an exhibition during which he sat inside a glass box? ... that the fortified walls surrounding the Iron Age Tell Ruqeish in Palestine are up to 5.5 metres (18 feet) thick? ... that the Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House was one of fewer than half a dozen houses built in Manhattan during 1934? ... that the sustainability of the Baggu reusable bag is challenged by collector culture? ... that NFL player Obe Wenig was named an All-Pro even though he played only one game? ... that director Isao Takahata reportedly stayed overnight at a doss-house to ensure that the Japanese animated film Jarinko Chie accurately depicts the city of Osaka? ... that the least populous of Oregon's cities has three people? ... that journalist Ivan Miller was once bitten by a disgruntled Santa Claus? Today's featured picture Picture of the day Silene flos-cuculi, commonly known as the ragged robin, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Native to Europe and Asia, it is found along roads and in wet meadows and pastures, and has also become naturalized in parts of North America. It forms a rosette of low growing foliage with numerous stems that are 30 to 90 centimetres (12 to 36 inches) tall. The stems rise above the foliage and branch near the top of the stem, the stems having barbed hairs which point downward and make the plant rough to the touch. The middle and upper leaves are linear-lanceolate with pointed apexes. Butterflies and long-tongued bees feed on the flowers' nectar. In addition to these pollinators, the flowers are visited by many other types of insects, and can be characterized by a generalized pollination syndrome. This S. flos-cuculi flower was photographed in Niitvälja, Estonia. This picture was focus-stacked from 27 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus