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Today's featured article Members of the victorious Blondie crew The Boat Race 2018 took place on 24 March. Held annually, The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames in south-west London, England. For the third time in the history of the event, the men's, the women's and both reserves' races were all held on the Tideway on the same day. The women's race saw Cambridge lead from the start, eventually winning by a considerable margin to take the overall record to 43–30 in their favour. In the women's reserve race, Cambridge's Blondie (crew pictured) defeated Oxford's Osiris by nine lengths. The men's reserve race was won by Cambridge's Goldie, who defeated Oxford's Isis by a margin of four lengths. The men's race was the final event of the day and completed a whitewash as Cambridge won, taking the overall record to 83–80 in their favour. The races were watched by around 250,000 spectators live, and broadcast around the world. (Full article...) Recently featured: Radar, Gun Laying, Mk. I and Mk. II Andrea Navagero Nosy Komba Did you know... Kitty Marion ... that Kitty Marion (pictured) was force-fed over 200 times during a hunger strike? ... that the North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon is the largest ship constructed for the Korean People's Navy? ... that after the release of High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter? ... that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is? ... that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui? ... that Joy Laking predicted in a school writing assignment that within ten years she would be making a living as an artist? ... that the Taiwanese restaurant chain Formosa Chang drew inspiration from McDonald's for its non-greasy atmosphere and corporate practices? ... that Haridas Mitra had his death sentence commuted after the intervention of Mahatma Gandhi? ... that "Steve's Lava Chicken" recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?

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