March 8, 2005
- A very high plume of ash and steam is seen coming from the direction of active volcano Mount St. Helens in the United States state of Washington. The plume is visible as far away as Portland, Oregon. (Wikinews) (ABCnews)
- A CT scan of King Tutankhamun revealed that he may have died of complications from a broken leg. (BBC)
- Bone protein osteocalcin extracted from a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraq dating to approximately 75,000 years old, was sequenced. This is the oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced. (EurekAlert!)
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)