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"Nightswimming" is the eighth episode of the American television police procedural fantasy drama Awake, which originally aired on NBC in 2012. Written by Leonard Chang and co-executive producer Davey Holmes, and directed by executive producer Jeffrey Reiner, the episode received mixed reviews. Awake stars Jason Isaacs (pictured) as Michael Britten, a detective living in two separate realities after a car crash. In one reality, his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) survived the crash; in the other, his son Rex (Dylan Minnette) survived. In this episode, Michael helps accountant Marcus Ananyev (Elijah Alexander) and his wife Alina (Ayelet Zurer) start a new life in the Witness Protection Program after a gang member attempts to kill Marcus in Rex's reality. In the other reality, Michael and Hannah prepare for a new life in Oregon, and go swimming at a college pool to celebrate their love. During filming, a woman who was near the swimming pool confronted Isaacs about his nudity. The episode featured Otis Redding's "Pain in My Heart". "Nightswimming" drew 2.8 million viewers on its debut. (Full article...)

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Suffragetto game board

... that the board game Suffragetto (pictured) featured suffragettes trying to storm the House of Commons?
... that Jonah ibn Janah, one of the most important medieval Hebrew grammarians, wrote his major works in Arabic?
... that The Homecoming statue depicts a Canadian sailor reuniting with his daughter and her dog?
... that the script of Who Framed Roger Rabbit originally intended Judge Doom to be the killer of Bambi's mother?
... that London South Africa RFC started as a new club at the bottom of English rugby after the RFU blocked their attempts to buy a National League 1 club and Wimbledon RFC?
... that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, a winner of the Met Auditions, appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival, and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a space mission?
... that the proposed city of Greenhaven, Georgia, would have a population of 300,000, making it the state's second largest city after Atlanta?
... that Shalimar Sharbatly's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre?

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Steve Smith

Cricket Australia bans Steve Smith (pictured), David Warner and Cameron Bancroft from international and Australian domestic cricket for nine to twelve months over a ball-tampering scandal.
A fire at a police station in Valencia, Venezuela, kills at least 68 people.
Russia and over 20 countries expel each other's diplomats in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
At least 64 people die in a shopping complex fire in Kemerovo, Russia.
March for Our Lives rallies are held across the United States and worldwide in support of tighter gun control.

On this day...

March 31: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2018); Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states

João Goulart

1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began the massacre of over 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios.
1899 – Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
1964 – Brazilian Armed Forces led an overthrow of Brazilian President João Goulart (pictured) and established a military government that lasted for 21 years.
1995 – American singer-songwriter, Selena, known as "The Queen of Tejano music", was murdered in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar.

Guru Angad (b. 1504) · Franz Abt (d. 1885) · J. P. Morgan (d. 1913)

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He-gassen is a Japanese art scroll created during the Edo period by one or more unknown artists. It depicts various scenes, all of which depict at least one character directing flatulence against other characters. The scroll, which measures 29.6 cm × 1003.1 cm (11.7 in × 394.9 in), may have been made in response to political and social change in Japan following the arrival of outside cultures.

Painting: Unknown (image courtesy of the Waseda University Library)

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