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From today's featured article

Audie Murphy (19251971) was one of the most

Former Maldivian President Mohamed

decorated American combat soldiers of World War

Nasheed (pictured) is convicted of

II, receiving every military combat award for valor

terrorism charges and sentenced to

available from the U.S. Army, as well as French

thirteen years in prison.

and Belgian awards for heroism. Coming from a

In the South Pacific, Cyclone Pam

poor sharecropping family of Irish descent in

causes at least twenty-five deaths, with dozens more

Texas, he served in nine World War II campaigns, receiving the

reported but unconfirmed.

Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company

The first successful human penis transplant is

of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France. After

announced by Stellenbosch University in South

the war, he appeared in more than forty feature films, mostly

German architect Frei Otto wins the Pritzker Prize

shortly before his death.

commissioned as an officer in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas

Ten people, including French athletes Florence

National Guard. Possessing a natural gift for rhyme, he collaborated

Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, are killed

on numerous songs between 1962 and 1970. He suffered from what

in a mid-air collision between two helicopters in

would today be termed posttraumatic stress disorder, and was

The Iraqi government reports that the pre-Islamic

refused offers to appear in alcohol and cigarette commercials to

cities of Hatra and Nimrud have been destroyed by

avoid setting a bad example. Murphy died in a plane crash in

ISIL, who claimed they were blasphemous.

Virginia, and was interred with full military honors at Arlington

Ongoing: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Part of the Audie Murphy series, one of Wikipedia's featured topics.

Recently featured: ...And Justice for All (album) Peru national

football team Portrait of a Young Girl (Christus)

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March 17: Saint Patrick's Day

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

1452 Reconquista: The combined

... that Persoonia media (pictured) can range

forces of Castile and Murcia defeated

from a 30-centimetre (12 in) shrub to a 25-metre

the Emirate of Granada at the Battle of

(82 ft) tree?

Los Alporchones around the city of Lorca.

... that the lack of minorities and women in

1776 American Revolutionary War: The British

Shirley M. Malcom's college classes later inspired her to

Army garrison in Boston, Massachusetts, withdrew

manage the National Science Foundation's Minority Institutions

from the city, ending the 11month Siege of