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First page of The Art of Cookery

Hannah Glasse (1708–1770) was an English cookery writer. Her first book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (page pictured), published in 1747, became a best-selling recipe book that century. It appeared in 20 editions in the 18th century, and continued to be published until well into the 19th century. She later wrote the less successful The Servants' Directory (1760) and The Compleat Confectioner, which was probably published in 1760. Around a third of the recipes in The Art of Cookery were copied from other publications. Among her original recipes are the first known curry recipe written in English, as well as three recipes for pilau, an early reference to vanilla in English cuisine, the first recorded use of jelly in trifle, and an early recipe for ice cream. She was also the first to use the term "Yorkshire pudding" in print. The Art of Cookery has been admired by many English cooks, including Elizabeth David, Fanny Cradock and Clarissa Dickson Wright. (Full article...)

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... that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown (pictured) lost his father to Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
... that Dreamcar's "All of the Dead Girls" was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman?
... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
... that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker?
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
... that John Frankenheimer's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia?
... that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome?
... that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats, Tommy Turtle's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?

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Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal

The cargo ship Ever Given runs aground and blocks the Suez Canal (satellite image shown), resulting in a traffic jam of more than 350 vessels.
A fire at the Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, kills at least 15 people and injures hundreds of others.
In Australia, floods in New South Wales force the evacuation of more than 18,000 people.
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes the first female president of Tanzania, following the death of John Magufuli at the age of 61.

On this day

March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

Vesta

1430 – Ottoman–Venetian Wars: After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta (pictured), the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
1941 – Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1981 – Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.
1999 – The strongest earthquake to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years killed at least 100 people.

Matthew Palaiologos Asen (d. 1467)
Friedrich Traun (b. 1876)
Harry Price (d. 1948)

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Headquarters of the Royal Society

The Leverhulme Medal is awarded by the Royal Society (headquarters pictured) every three years "for an outstandingly significant contribution in the field of pure or applied chemistry or engineering, including chemical engineering". It was created in 1960 after a donation by the Leverhulme Trust to mark the 300-year anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society, and is accompanied by a 2000-pound gift. Since its creation, it has been awarded 21 times, and unlike other Royal Society medals such as the Royal Medal, it has never been awarded to the same person multiple times. Citizens of the United Kingdom have won the medal 19 of the 21 times. Two Leverhulme Medal winners have also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Archer John Porter Martin, who won the medal in 1963 for "his distinguished and fundamental discoveries in chromatography and its application" and the Nobel Prize in 1952, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, who won the medal in 1960 for "his outstanding contributions to physical chemistry" and the Nobel Prize in 1956. Anne Neville became the first woman to receive the award in 2016. (Full list...)

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Haliotis laevigata is a species of marine mollusc in the family Haliotidae, endemic to Tasmania and the southern and western coasts of Australia. This picture shows five views of a green H. laevigata shell, 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) in length. The holes in the shell, characteristic of abalones, are respiratory apertures for venting water from the gills and for releasing sperm and eggs into the water column.

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