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From today's featured article ...And Justice for All is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1988 by Elektra Records, and the first to feature bassist Jason Newsted after the death of Cliff Burton in 1986. The album is musically progressive, with long and complex songs and fast tempos. Producer Flemming Rasmussen was absent during the mixing process, and the production has been criticized as "dry". The lyrics feature themes of political and legal injustice seen through the prisms of censorship, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. The album's front cover features a representation of Lady Justice; the phrase "...And Justice for All" appears spray-painted in the lower right corner. Originally released on one vinyl disc, the album was quickly re-released as a double album without additional tracks. The album was included in The Village Voice '​s annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best albums, and the single "One" earned Metallica its first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1990. The group's best-selling album at the time and second best-selling ever, it was the first underground metal album to achieve chart success in the US, shipping eight million copies by 2003. (Full article...) Recently featured: Peru national football team – Portrait of a Young Girl (Christus) – Hugh Walpole Did you know... From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: ... that Via dei Coronari in Rome (pictured) maintains the character of an Italian Renaissance street? ... that Naomi Sager helped develop the first computer program to parse English? ... that the budget for the development of Red Dead Redemption was estimated at between US$80 million and $100 million? ... that the Australian Pacific blue-eye was described from a specimen taken to Vienna? ... that when Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi learned of the Takenaga incident, he shed tears while praying to the emperor? ... that contralto Marga Höffgen, known as a Bach singer for Karajan and as Erda in Bayreuth, recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions? ... that The Village in the Jungle has been described as "the first novel in English literature to be written from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's"? ... that years of clashes with the far right cost Romanian Germanist Traian Bratu an earlobe?

In the news Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed (pictured) is convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. In the South Pacific, Cyclone Pam causes at least twenty-five deaths, with dozens more reported but unconfirmed. The first successful human penis transplant is announced by Stellenbosch University in South Africa. German architect Frei Otto wins the Pritzker Prize shortly before his death. Ten people, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, are killed in a mid-air collision between two helicopters in Argentina. The Iraqi government reports that the pre-Islamic cities of Hatra and Nimrud have been destroyed by ISIL, who claimed they were blasphemous. Ongoing: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Recent deaths: Terry Pratchett – Sam Simon On this day... March 16: Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires 1322 – Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years. 1621 – Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims when he strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English. 1872 – In the first-ever final of the FA Cup, today the oldest association football competition in the world, Wanderers F.C. defeated Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians (pictured) in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. More anniversaries: March 15 – March 16 – March 17 It is now March 16, 2015 (UTC) – Reload this page

From today's featured list Terry-Thomas's career on radio, film, television and record lasted from 1933 until his retirement in the late 1970s. Terry-Thomas made his debut as an uncredited extra in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII, and continued to work as an extra and in smaller roles until wartime service with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and Stars in Battledress helped to sharpen his stage and cabaret routine. After the war he appeared on the popular London stage revue Piccadilly Hayride, before he became the star of the first comedy series on British television, How Do You View? (1949). He continued broadcasting on British television and radio and successfully moved into film work, being most creative in the 1950s with appearances in a series of popular comedies. In the 1960s he moved into American films, before he began appearing in European films from the mid-1960s. In 1971 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which slowly brought his career to a conclusion. (Full list...)

Today's featured picture A five-member team playing speedball, a variant of paintball in which teams are given an equal playing field through the use of bunkers (such as the inflatable Sup'Air seen here). Teams are placed on a small, open field, and must act cooperatively and aggressively to reach the goal. Photograph: Stefan Krause Recently featured: Palm House, University of Helsinki Botanical Garden – The Mikado – Swallow-tailed gull

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