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University of Washington is a light rail station located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, United States. The station is served by Sound Transit's Link light rail system and is the current northern terminus of Line 1. University of Washington station is located adjacent to Husky Stadium and the University of Washington Medical Center. It consists of an underground island platform connected to a surface entrance by elevators and escalators. A pedestrian bridge over Montlake Boulevard connects the station to the University of Washington campus, the Burke–Gilman Trail, and a set of bus stops served by King County Metro and Sound Transit Express routes. Light rail trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods with reduced frequency at other times. The station was built as part of the University Link Extension, which began construction in 2009 and opened on March 19, 2016. (Full article...)

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Peter Thorburn

... that rugby coach Peter Thorburn (pictured), who had a keen interest in Thoroughbred racing, owned two horses that won multiple Group I races?
... that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center?
... that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist-backed Republican Party in 1935?
... that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury, then two more years for failing to pay it back?
... that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice?
... that Idaho's first television station, KFXD-TV, was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
... that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
... that the Comanche Springs pupfish no longer lives in Comanche Springs?

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John Magufuli

President of Tanzania John Magufuli (pictured) dies at the age of 61 and is succeeded by his vice-president, Samia Suluhu.
Mathematicians Avi Wigderson and László Lovász share the Abel Prize for their work in complexity theory and graph theory.
In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Team New Zealand beating Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge.
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are jointly awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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March 19: Saint Joseph's Day (Western Christianity)

Clara Zetkin

1279 – Mongol conquest of Song China: Emperor Bing, the last emperor of the Song dynasty, drowned at the end of the Battle of Yamen, bringing the dynasty to an end after three centuries.
1563 – The Edict of Amboise was signed, ending the first war in the French Wars of Religion and inaugurating a period of official peace that lasted until 1567.
1911 – Established by Clara Zetkin (pictured), Käte Duncker, and others, International Women's Day was first observed.
1979 – The American cable television network C-SPAN, dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public-affairs programming, was launched.
2011 – First Libyan Civil War: The French Air Force launched Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.

Jan Zamoyski (b. 1542)
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Standard RNA codon table organized in a wheel

A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon table, because when proteins are made in a cell by ribosomes, it is messenger RNA that directs protein biosynthesis. The mRNA sequence is determined by the sequence of genomic DNA. It can also be represented in a DNA codon table. The DNA codons in such tables occur on the sense DNA strand and are arranged in a 5′-to-3′ direction. Different tables with alternate codons are used depending on the source of the genetic code, such as from a cell nucleus, mitochondrion, plastid, or hydrogenosome. There are 64 different codons in the genetic code and the tables; most specify an amino acid. Three sequences, UAG, UGA, and UAA, known as stop codons, do not code for an amino acid but instead signal the release of the nascent polypeptide from the ribosome. (Full list...)

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Francis B. Spinola (March 19, 1821 – April 14, 1891) was an American politician and military leader of Portuguese and Irish ancestry. He is considered by some authorities as the first Italian American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving as a representative from New York between 1887 and 1891. Spinola also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

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