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Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series that ran from 1998 to 2003. It was created by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his 1997 one-off comedy of the same name. The series, set and largely filmed in Greater Manchester, follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance. Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt, pictured, and Helen Baxendale) are a new couple who go through dating, marriage and the birth of a child. Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) experience parenthood, adultery, separation and divorce. Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) live an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but their marriage disintegrates after each has an affair. The show was a critical and ratings success. Critics analysed the depiction of social issues, the use of popular music, and the relevance of the series to contemporary audiences compared to big-budget BBC costume dramas. The series was a regular nominee at the British Comedy Awards, the National Television Awards and elsewhere. It has been broadcast in over 30 countries and has been remade for local audiences in the United States and European countries. (Full article...)

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Rebels capture Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, as President François Bozizé (pictured) flees the country.

The World Baseball Classic concludes with the Dominican Republic defeating Puerto Rico in the final.

Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman dies in a Singapore hospital at the age of 84.

Bosco Ntaganda, leader of the March 23 Movement, surrenders to the U.S. embassy in Rwanda in response to an International Criminal Court indictment on war crimes.

Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Prize.

Recent deaths: Boris Berezovsky – Chinua Achebe

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On this day...

March 28: Maundy Thursday (Western Christianity, 2013); Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet

193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.

1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (pictured) discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

1933 – A passenger aboard the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool set a fire on board, causing it to break apart in mid-air and crash.

1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.

2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry, killing one and injuring five British soldiers.

More anniversaries: March 27 – March 28 – March 29

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Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) was a Russian political activist and writer who helped establish the Socialist Realism literary method. This portrait dates from a trip Gorky made to the United States in 1906, on which he raised funds for the Bolsheviks. During this trip he wrote his novel The Mother.

Photo: Herman Mishkin; Restoration: Fallschirmjäger

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