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March 2026
Happy Holi
Happy Holi
In March every year, the Festival of Colors takes place in India! There is a different date every year, this year, it will be on the fourth of the month. The timing is aligned with the moon, it falls on the day of the full moon. Depending on the region, Holi can be a singular day celebration or multiple. Holi is typically celebrated in South Asia, and many people celebrate at Hindu temples or cultural centers. Many Hindu temples also hold religious services inside the temple. Throughout many spring Hindu festivals, Holi is the most widely observed festival. Color is thrown on everyone to celebrate. Color is thrown to welcome spring and also to celebrate good over evil.
Written By: Jasmeet K. Sidhu
Sources: Hindu American Foundation, National Geographic Kids
(G) Train Is Smoking!
(G) Train Is Smoking!
On February 24th, 2026, an R211T (G) undercarriage caught fire while enroute to 21st Street Station. The train did not activate the emergency brakes and the train began smoking as it was heading to the station with videos showing the conflict at hand.
Now, the damage wasn’t severe as the train was able to return back to the yard. However, it was a scary situation for passengers.
The next day on February 25th, 2026, an R211A (G) started smoking at Classon Avenue. The doors wouldn’t open until minutes later when the train began smoking.
Hours after the second incident, another (G) caught fire at the 21st Street Station AGAIN. More incidents of fires would surface on the (G) around Court Square.
Now it seems to have been a train issue, however MTA has addressed that the first and third incidents were caused by the train striking unusual items on the tracks. Not really specifying what exactly the item was. The third report said it was “rubbish on the tracks”. Videos that have recently circulated lead to that claim as it looks like the train had dragged something along the third rail.
As of the week of March 1st, the fire incidents seem to have paused. It appears that the MTA has found the cause of these issues during the weekend service change. However, another train was loaned from another yard to fill in for the shortage of the R211s caused by these incidents.
The issue has seemed to have been resolved, however this will definitely be instituted in the history of the MTA with “Smoking (G) Trains”
Written By: Mieszko Pekala
Source: Green Pointers
Et Tu? The Ides Of March
Et Tu? The Ides Of March
Once again, the Ides of March is arriving. The fateful day that the somewhat-beloved dictator was assassinated. Stabbed in the back not once, not twice, but approximately twenty-three times, is the muse for many pieces of fiction and a pretty good salad dressing, Julius Caesar. March 15th, circa 44 BC Rome was a normal day for most, as it was simply another day. However, for many Roman Senators, it was a day of change. A day of revision. A day of new leadership. A day to kill. A day to assassinate the Great Uncle of the (yet to be) first Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar.
Born in July 100 BC, Julius Caesar was a man of many talents. Going from a Priest to a politician, to soldier to author and poet, Caesar wore many hats, some lasting for longer than others. His priesthood, as a Priest of Jupiter, for example, only lasted a few years, as it was only appointed to him as a way to wed a then prominent politician’s daughter, and then revoked as a means to keep her as his (first) wife. After his short time living for Jupiter, Caesar entered politics by serving under a governor, before travelling to Buthynia where he had a supposed homosexual relationship with the nation’s King. To refocus on his career as a politician, his positions changed many times, eventually leading to his participation in some attacks on the aristocracy of the times. Eventually receiving a promotion, he was elected into the Senate, the same one he was eventually reining over as a dictator.
Julius Caesar’s life was one of hardships and trials, though much of what history says of him has been blown up and embellished, as he has been the subject of many pieces of media, from plays to videogames. One of the most well known and widely spread pieces of media centered around Julius Caesar is William Shakespeare’s play by the same name. Based off of another piece of media, the book of biographies, Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi) by Plutarch, Shakespeare’s play was preformed in the Globe Theatre in London, and was seen by hundreds then, now known by thousands, as one of his most famous, to the point where it is common to have read through or performed it by the time a student graduates high school. Along with Shakespeare, many other authors found Caesar’s life to have been interesting leading to many books written about him and his rule, such as The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti, Emperor: The Gates of Rome: A Novel of Julius Caesar; A Roman Empire Novel by Conn Iggulden, and many others. Not just books and plays have been written about him, as he is also mentioned in videogames! A very popular videogame franchise, Assassin’s Creed, has his assassination in one of their games, where the actions of the playable character leads to the death of Julius Caesar. The ARPG is one of many that are based on historical events, but in this case, it is centered around Julius Caesar and his assassination.
Like the movie that Assassin’s Creed has produced (though it is not about Julius Caesar), there are many films and shows based around Julius Caesar, some attempting to be as truthful and like what occurred in history, while others are more fictitious. These films and shows have been produced for decades, shown by one episode of the show “You are there”, “The Assassination of Julius Caesar (March 15, 44 B.C.)” directed by Bernard Girard, which was aired on March 8, 1953.
While Julius Caesar to us may just be the name of someone from History class or a book we had to read in English class, he was at one time a renowned ruler and dictator, who was both loved by some, while hated by others. Though he was a dictator, he was the reason Rome shifted into an empire, as his heir and adopted son was the first Emperor of Rome. So this March, on the 15th, remember that over two millennia ago, history was changed, and a man had some really bad back pains.
Written By: Lucinda Wilson-Petty
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