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Speyer Pilgrim

The St. James pilgrim route runs through Speyer in the Rhine-Palatinate. Source.

Charles Darwin

Statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury, where he went to school. Source.

Louis Agassiz

During the San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906, a statue of geologist Louis Agassiz was shaken from its second-storey perch and fell head-first into the pavement below, prompting someone to remark, 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.' Source.

H.W.M. Olbers

Heinrich William Matthias Olbers discovered the minor planet Pallas on this date in 1802. Five years and a day later he spotted Vesta. Source.

Undersea Creatures Against Partick

That sealife sculpture on the Greenock waterfront could take Kingsley. Source.

Morton host Partick Thistle. This is the final meeting between these two unless they pair up in the playoffs. Partick have won twice, Morton once. Partick arrive with a newly appointed permanent manager, Kris Doolan, who has been interim manager since McCall was sacked. Thistle is his first managerial gig.

Partick's top scorer is Brian Graham with 11 goals.

The schedule is three-quarters done. Every Championship side has played 27 games. But the Scottish Cup quarter-finals introduce a new set of postponements that won't be cleared away until April 11th.

[Morton 0 - 0 Partick Thistle.]

The other Championship matches:

Queen's Park 1 - 0 Cove Rangers (last night)

Dundee vs Ayr United (postponed)

ICT vs Arbroath (postponed)

Raith Rovers vs Hamilton Academical (postponed)

It's the Scottish Cup quarter-finals:

Inverness CT 2 - 1 Kilmarnock (yesterday)    Upset

Hearts [0 - 3] Celtic

Rangers [3 - 0] Raith Rovers (Sunday)

Falkirk [2 - 1] Ayr United (Monday)    Upset

Other matches:

Gala Fairydean Rovers [1 - 1] Cowdenbeath

I project Celtic B to win the Lowland League by 1 point, and The Spartans to finish second and represent the league in the pyramid playoff.

Forres Mechanics [1 - 1] Formartine United

Five teams can still win the Highland League: Buckie, Brechin, Brora, Formartine or Fraserburgh, though realistically it'll come down to Buckie or Brechin, and I think it'll be Brechin.

Largs Thistle [3 - 1] Irvine Meadow XI

UCD 0 - 4 Derry City (March 6)

UCD 0 - 1 Drogheda (yesterday)

Willem II 2 - 3 PEC Zwolle (yesterday)

Minaj [1 - 1] Oleksandriya

Norwich Victoria [1 - 1] FC Isle of Man (tomorrow)

Grasshoppers [2 - 1] Winterthur (tomorrow)

Hutchison Vale [2 - 3] Morton Women (tomorrow)

NPL2 Vic: Western United [0 - 1] Preston Lions (tomorrow)

Machida Zelvia [3 - 0] Mito HollyHock (tomorrow)

Vegalta Sendai [0 - 1] Iwaki FC (tomorrow)

Urawa Reds [1 - 0] Elfen Saitama (tomorrow)

The 2023 JFL starts tomorrow. I've dumped on Honda FC plenty for for their refusal to get a J League license. This year, let's accept them for what they are and follow them through the season.

Honda [3 - 1] Okinawa SV

Tokyo Cup, Round Two (tomorrow):

Tokyo United [2 - 0] Aries

Tokyo 23 FC [4 - 0] Cerveza

2023 Concacaf Champions League, Round of 16, first leg (March 8):

Vancouver Whitecaps 5 - 0 RCD España (Honduras)

Historical matches:

March 11, 1967    Morton 4 - 0 Berwick Rangers

March 8, 1978    Morton 0 - 1 Hearts

March 11, 1978    Aberdeen 2 - 2 Morton

Scottish Cup, Round Five. Goals by Goldthorp and Ritchie.

Alexandra Athletic in the Scottish Cup:

1873/10/18    R1    Alexandra Athletic 2 - 0 Callander

1873/11/22    R2    Alexandra Athletic 0 - 2 Blythswood

1874/10/24    R1    Dumbreck 5 - 1 Alexandra Athletic

1875/10/16    R1    Queen's Park 3 - 0 Alexandra Athletic

1876/9/30      R1    Alexandra Athletic 1 - 1 Eastern

1876/10/7      R1    Eastern 2 - 0 Alexandra Athletic (protested)

1876/10/14    R1    Alexandra Athletic 1 - 0 Eastern

1876/10/21    R2    Northern 4 - 0 Alexandra Athletic

1877/9/29      R1    Alexandra Athletic 2 - 0 Lancefield

1877/10/27    R2    Rangers 8 - 0 Alexandra Athletic

1878/9/28      R1    Alexandra Athletic 3 - 1 Jordanhill

1878/10/19    R2    Alexandra Athletic 3 - 0 Partick Burnside

1878/11/9      R3    Alexandra Athletic 2 - 0 John Elder

1878/11/30    R4    Rangers 3 - 0 Alexandra Athletic

1879/9/20      R1    Alexandra Athletic 4 - 0 Albatross

1879/10/11    R2    Alexandra Athletic 5 - 0 Harmonic Good Templars

1879/11/1      R3    Parkgrove 6 - 2 Alexandra Athletic

1880/9/18      R1    Alexandra Athletic 4 - 1 Kelvinbank

1880/10/2      R2    Alexandra Athletic 1 - 0 Athole

1880/10/23    R3    Cowlairs 2 - 1 Alexandra Athletic (protested)

1880/11/6      R3    Cowlairs 2 - 1 Alexandra Athletic

1881/8/17      R1    Alexandra Athletic wo/scr Possil Blue Bell

1881/10/1      R2    Alexandra Athletic 4 - 1 Whitefield

1881/10/22    R3    Rangers 3 - 1 Alexandra Athletic

1882/9/9        R1    Pollokshields Athletic 6 - 5 Alexandra Athletic

1883/9/8        R1    Whitehill 3 - 1 Alexandra Athletic

(Source: The Beautiful Dribbling Game.)

Alexandra Athletic played at Alexandra Park in east central Glasgow. Despite what Wikipedia will tell you they made it past the first round of the Scottish Cup seven out of eleven times.

Brunonia

Brunonia is the personification of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony. Source.

Bronze Horse from Yemen

An equestrian bronze from 2nd-century Yemen, now at Dumbarton Oaks. Source.

Poetry atop the Palais Garnier

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Walter Seymour Allward, Peterborough

Civilization personified by Walter Seymour Allward in Peterborough, Ontario. Source.

The Golem of Prague

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