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Josh Hutcherson (born 1992) is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his acting career at a young age with minor roles in TV commercials and pilot episodes. As he gained experience, he began taking on bigger roles, notably in Zathura (2005), RV (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). Over the course of his young career, he picked up three individual Young Artist Awards. Hutcherson has played Peeta Mellark in the science fiction adventure film series, The Hunger Games (2012, 2013 and 2014), in his best-known role. He has also taken on filmmaking and voiceover work, earning credits as an executive producer for Detention (2011), The Forger (2012), and Escobar: Paradise Lost (2015), and for voice acting in 2013's Epic, the most commercially successful of his films except for The Hunger Games series. Hutcherson received the GLAAD Vanguard Award in 2012 for his efforts in promoting equal rights for LGBT people, and he supports the gay–straight alliance chapter called "Straight But Not Narrow". (Full article...)

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• ... that Allegory of Fortune (detail pictured) almost got its painter jailed and excommunicated?
• ... that as a nurse in rural Saskatchewan, Jean Cuthand Goodwill often reached emergency patients via bush plane or dog team?
• ... that the statue of Robert Peel was the final work by Matthew Noble to be completed?
• ... that ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller once participated in the International Solidarity Movement in defending the homes of Palestinians?
• ... that Roy English, who lends his vocals to Alesso's "Cool", was originally a member of Eye Alaska?
• ... that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary?
• ... that Stephen D. Dillaye, briefly the presidential nominee of the Union Greenback Labor Party, was once beaten in the head with a cane by a former Congressman?
• ... that the "indescribable damage" caused by 5 inches (13 cm) of rain descending upon Coal Creek in 90 minutes did not qualify for federal aid?

• Mathematicians John F. Nash, Jr. (pictured) and Louis Nirenberg share the Abel Prize for their work on partial differential equations.
• Saudi Arabia conducts airstrikes against Houthi militants and their allies after their advance on the provisional Yemeni capital of Aden.
• Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
• Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, dies at the age of 91.
• A solar eclipse is visible across much of Europe, with totality over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
• Suicide bombings at two mosques in Sana'a, Yemen, kill 142 people, including 13 children.

Ongoing:

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Recent deaths:

Tomas Tranströmer – Malcolm Fraser

March 28: Earth Hour (20:30 local time in various areas, 2015); Rama Navami (Hinduism, 2015); Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet

• 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
• 1910 – Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Fabre Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power.
• 1942 – Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully disabled the key port of Saint-Nazaire.
• 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan (pictured) was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent".

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A 1901 series United States ten-dollar bill, a unit of the country's currency. On the obverse it depicts the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark together with an American bison, and on the reverse is an allegorical figure of Columbia between two Roman-styled pillars. This large-size note measured approximately 7 ²⁄₅ × 3 ¹⁄₈ inches (189 × 79 mm).

Banknote: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)