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Today's featured article Shin Sang-ok, director and producer Pulgasari is an epic monster film directed and produced by Shin Sang-ok (pictured) during his abduction in North Korea. Filmed in 1985 as a co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is supposedly a remake of a lost 1962 South Korean film. The story is set during the Goryeo dynasty and centers on Ami (played by Chang Sŏnhŭi), a peasant who animates the fabled creature Pulgasari (played by Kenpachiro Satsuma) that her late father contrived to overthrow the monarchy. Intended to capitalize on the success of The Return of Godzilla (1984), Pulgasari was Shin's seventh and final film for Kim Jong Il, whose agents kidnapped Shin and Choi Eun-hee in 1978. An international ban on its distribution was imposed when Shin and Choi escaped their North Korean overseers to the United States in 1986. The film was ultimately released on VHS in Japan in 1995 and Japanese theaters in 1998, to critical and commercial success. Pulgasari is now considered a cult classic. (Full article...) Recently featured: 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season Matthew Brettingham Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Selected anniversaries March 13: Fast of Esther (Judaism, 2025) British attack on Cartagena de Indias 1741 – War of Jenkins' Ear: The British began an assault against Spanish forts in the Caribbean in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (pictured). 1848 – Klemens von Metternich was forced to resign as the foreign minister of Austria following student demonstrations in Vienna. 1964 – Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City, prompting research into the bystander effect due to the false story that neighbors witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her. 1996 – A mass shooting at a primary school occurred in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and a teacher and prompting tighter gun control in the United Kingdom. John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (b. 1719) Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879) Meinhard Michael Moser (b. 1924) Jan Howard (b. 1929) More anniversaries: March 12 March 13 March 14	In the news Rodrigo Duterte In Pakistan, the Balochistan Liberation Army hijacks a train traveling from Quetta to Peshawar, with 38 people killed and at least 440 taken hostage before their later rescue. Former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) is arrested on the basis of an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity. Intuitive Machines' Athena lands on the Moon at an incorrect angle and is unable to complete its mission. In computing, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are awarded the Turing Award for their work on reinforcement learning. Ongoing: M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Junior Bridgeman Marc Neil-Jones Athol Fugard Brad Sigmon Jean-Louis Pichon Art Schallock Did you know... NGC 1700 ... that the galaxy NGC 1700 (pictured) has a rotating hot gas disk glowing in X-rays after merging with another galaxy three billion years ago? ... that coach Ed Storm, after seeing his American football team losing late in a game, put on a uniform, entered the game, and made the game-winning score? ... that the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut did not become popular in France until after it was banned for immorality? ... that it took 12 and a half hours for Rashid Israr to reach his highest score in cricket? ... that the American play His Majesty Bunker Bean was a national hit that had "been seen by most of the country east of the Mississippi River" before it reached Broadway? ... that singer Andrew Cushin used to play as a goalkeeper in Newcastle Benfield F.C.'s youth team? ... that a model prototype of the Helmover torpedo went out of control while under test and struck a motor launch? ... that Bradley Smalley, the political boss of the Vermont Democratic Party, once received the Republican nomination for alderman? ... that Comorian football club Djabal Club d'Iconi were deducted two points in the 2023–24 season after a player was found guilty of witchcraft?
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