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From today's featured article Jumping Flash! is a platform video game co-developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first instalment in the Jumping Flash! series, it was released in April 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan and later the same year in Europe and North America; it was re-released through the PlayStation Network store on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in 2007. Presented in a first-person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named Robbit as he searches for missing jet pods that have been scattered by the game's antagonist character, the astrophysicist Baron Aloha. The game has been described as an early showcase for 3D graphics in console gaming. Generally well received by critics, who praised its graphics and unique gameplay, it was later overshadowed by 3D platformers of the fifth console generation. It was described as the third-most underrated video game of all time by Matt Casamassina of IGN in 2007, and holds the Guinness World Record as the "First platform video game in true 3D". (Full article...) Recently featured: Benjamin Franklin Tilley The Boat Race 1993 Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 Did you know... A Burger King Big King sandwich ... that the Big King sandwich (pictured), Burger King's take on the Big Mac, underwent five reformulations and four name changes before settling on its current recipe and name? ... that after Janet Stumbo defeated Sara W. Combs for her seat on the Kentucky Supreme Court, Combs was appointed to Stumbo's vacated seat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals? ... that the red-rust bryozoan's tolerance of copper may enable other fouling organisms to grow on the hulls of ships? ... that University of Iowa basketball player Peter Jok received offers from colleges while in eighth grade? ... that Kieran Hebden released Morning/Evening on the summer solstice because he thought it was "a lovely day"? ... that underground courier Frumka Płotnicka, who delivered weapons and instructions for making Molotov cocktails and hand grenades to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, died in the Będzin Ghetto uprising? ... that stand-up comic Jeff Ross helped write the lines for Robert De Niro playing a stand-up comic? ... that professional wrestler Ray Candy once used the name "Super Mario Man", despite being a large African American and not a short Italian plumber?

In the news EgyptAir Airbus A320-200 involved in hijack EgyptAir Flight 181 (aircraft pictured) is hijacked shortly after takeoff and forced to land at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus. A suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, targeting Christians celebrating Easter, kills at least 69 people and injures more than 300. The Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In rowing, Cambridge win the 162nd Boat Race and Oxford win the 71st Women's Boat Race. Denis Sassou Nguesso is re-elected President of the Republic of the Congo for a third term. Ongoing events: Zika virus outbreak Recent deaths: Patty Duke Garry Shandling Johan Cruyff On this day... March 30: Land Day (Palestinians) Usmar Ismail 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure. 1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights. 1950 – Usmar Ismail (pictured) began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film. 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the South Vietnamese Army as possible. More anniversaries: March 29 March 30 March 31

Today's featured picture SMS Fürst Bismarck was Germany's first armored cruiser, built for the Kaiserliche Marine before the turn of the 20th century and launched in 1900. Named for the German statesman Otto von Bismarck, the ship was primarily intended for colonial duties. She served in this capacity as part of the East Asia Squadron until she was relieved in 1909, at which point she returned to Germany. The ship was rebuilt between 1910 and 1914, and after the start of World War I, she was briefly used as a coastal defense ship. She proved inadequate to this task, and so she was withdrawn from active duty and served as a training ship for engineers until the end of the war. Fürst Bismarck was decommissioned in 1919 and sold for scrap. Illustration: Hugo Graf; restoration: Adam Cuerden Recently featured: Earthworm head Treaty of Waitangi Young Hare

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