#March18

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2025-03-25



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Pentagon “OPSEC special bulletin” seen by NPR reporters and sent on 18 March, Russian hacking groups may exploit the vulnerability in Signal to spy on encrypted organizations, potentially targeting “persons of interest”

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

2025-03-18

March 18

This day in history:

  • 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
  • 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
  • 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
  • 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Births:

  • 1969 – Michael Bergin, American actor
  • 1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
  • 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)

Deaths:

  • 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
  • 1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
  • 1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)

Holidays:

  • Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia)
  • Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia)
  • Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Random Article of the day:

Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux

2025-03-18

The Red Marconi and Jalapeno peppers, or chilies, are getting their first true leaves. The California Wonder 300 are all up 100% from last years bought seed, 100% dud on saved seeds. I'll have to make sure to grow one of them well into a non green color for seeds.

A photo showing a Red Marconi pepper chili seedling that has it's first true leaves and has been started from seeds saved from 2024. It's is a sweet pepper variety that will grow a large long 3 sided pepper that will turn red in color. It is in a taller type 3.5 inch / 90mm square pot. It has a white plant stake that has 'red marconi' hand written on it.A photo showing a Jalapeno pepper chilli seedling in a square pot with a plant stake that says TAM Jalapeno on a printed label. It is from a saved seed from a 2024 pepper. It is starting to form it's first true leaves. The plant is about 50 mm tall. There are other seedlings around it in pots.A photo showing a 1020 tray with 13 square pots of Red Marconi and Jalapeno seedlings.A photo of a 1020 tray that has 5 small 50mm square pots that each have two California Wonder 300 seedlings in them. One of the seedlings is not quite up all the way. They have plant stakes with the name printed on a label.
2025-03-18

The local deer that's been around a year or two in the winter and spring. It acts different and is always ... by itself. 🤣 It loves the Euonymus bushes. I always thought the long tips just had some winter kill until I realized something was eating the leaves.

A photo of a Mule Deer on March 18, 2025. It is facing the camera, ears turned to the sides, One rear foot lifted. It is between Euonymus and forsythia shubs. Beyond it is a small orchard with dormant fruit trees and brown grass.A photo of the mule deer with it's head in the Euonymus bush. It is facing to the right. It's color is sort of a gray brown with white and black markings.A photo of the mule deer standing towards the right and looking away and to the left. It has a white tail with a black tip, the back of it's head is ruffled a bit with it's winter fur. It's belly is white, it's legs are tan. There is a hazel in the foreground.A photo of the mule deer again eating on the Euonymus bush. It's tail is towards the camera and left a bit, it's ears are visible over it's rump. There are brown decayed flowering plants to it's right leaning over or sticking up to give food and cover for the birds.
2025-03-18

14 years since the #Syrian Revolution.

I walked through war, exile, and loss. I lost my home, my father, and my dreams but never my belief that freedom is worth everything.

Was it worth it? Yes. Because today, I breathe freedom. Today, I feel human.

#Syria #March18 #Freedom
youtu.be/FqIYTEtkwBw

2011-03-29

Bashar Assad's cousin is bagging him right now on @bbcnews. That's gotta make for some awkward wedding receptions. #Syria #March18

2024-03-18

March 18

This day in history:

  • 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
  • 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
  • 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
  • 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Births:

  • 1989 – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
  • 1075 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
  • 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (d. 1898)

Deaths:

  • 978 – Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
  • 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
  • 1582 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)

Holidays:

  • Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia)
  • Ordnance Factories' Day (India)
  • Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Random Article of the day:

Lithuania women's national basketball team

The Lithuania women's national basketball team (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinė moterų krepšinio rinktinė) represents Lithuania in international women's basketball competitions. They are regulated by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Lithuania.
The team is currently ranked 31st in the FIBA World Rankings.

#wikipedia #March18 #Lithuaniawomen'snationalbasketballteam

Durrn Thunderwingdurrn@macrofurs.social
2024-03-18
A pen quote of Trey Parker that reads, “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”  Written in Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki, Jacques Herbin Emerauld de Chivor and Dominant Industry Ginger Chicken.

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