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Today is Holi, the festival of colors. it is the time when friends come together and all the differences throughout the year sink in the colors of holi. Bangladesh is a country where the Hindus are a minority community. But as it is a land of multicultural diaspora, the hindus celebrate holi with a riot of colors and they embrace their muslim brothers with the extravagant colors of holi. it is the time when all disputes are forgotten in the myriads of gulal or colored powders, with which holi is celebrated. the folklore about holi is that, lord krishna played holi with his divine fiance radha and her friends. thus friendship is the fervor of this auspicious festival, and holi is the time when the spirit of camaraderie overpowers all evil forces.

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Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Katelyn Beecroft

Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third crewed mission in the United States’ Apollo program. Launched by a Saturn V and flown in low Earth orbit, the mission flight-qualified the Lunar Module, showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock, as would be required for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing. Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. A spacewalk tested the extravehicular life support backpack. McDivitt and Schweickart, entering the Lunar Module through the docking tunnel, became the first humans to pass between spacecraft without going outside them, two months after Soviet cosmonauts spacewalked to transfer between Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. Apollo 9, a complete success, was followed by Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. This photograph shows Schweickart operating a Hasselblad camera on the porch of the Lunar Module during an extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission. The image was taken by Scott while standing in the hatch of the Command Module Gumdrop.

And a second photo with him almost fully secured in the containment capsule:

Was headed home when the whole city lost power. Even the traffic lights were out. Pulled I to a parking lot to wait for the bad drivers to clear.

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Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg, Germany [OC]

The historic Geigersberg vineyard, northeast of the Sachsenheim district of Ochsenbach in Germany, still retains many of its old dry stone walls and is home to rare plant and animal species. This photo shows the northern part, seen from south-south-east in March.

Text on Sticker: “Wieso so allein?” - “Wollte furzen.”

She would be in service until 2006 when she sunk outside of Japan during transport. Numerous attempts at salvage has been attempted, but under sea currents and ship traffic has made it too difficult.

Photographer: Reinhold Möller

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Context: Kōtoku Shūsui was a Japanese journalist and activist who started out as a socialist but shifted toward radical anarcho-syndicalism after reading Kropotkin while in prison.

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Context: Yi Hoeyŏng was a Korean independence activist who basically gave up everything to fight the Japanese occupation through anarchism. After fleeing into exile in China, he eventually moved away from mainstream nationalism and became a pioneer of the Korean anarchist movement. He was the driving force behind the Korean Anarchist Federation in China and pushed for a post-independence society based on local autonomous communities and self-management rather than a centralised government. Even in the face of constant danger, he stayed committed to the idea that true liberation required an anarchist framework, eventually dying in Japanese custody while trying to coordinate more militant resistance in Manchuria.

Westminster Cathedral, officially the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, is a Catholic church at Westminster, London, England. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster. Designed by John Francis Bentley in a Christian neo-Byzantine style influenced by ninth-century architecture, it is constructed almost entirely of brick, without steel reinforcements. The site on which the cathedral stands was purchased by the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1885 with construction taking place from 1895 to 1903. The cathedral has been visited by Pope John Paul II in 1982, by Queen Elizabeth II in 1995 – the first reigning monarch to attend a Catholic service since the Reformation – and by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. This picture shows Westminster Cathedral’s chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.