Photos of the Month: March
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March 2022 has been an eventful month globally, from International Women’s Day to the Worm Moon to tragedy hitting a new high in Ukraine. To commemorate the month, here are an assortment of 10 photos in no particular order of importance or chronography that are essential to fully comprehending what has occurred in March 2022.
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1. People are walking through a road filled with anti-tank barriers to protect historic landmarks in Odesa, Ukraine, on March 14, 2022. Odesa is a Ukrainian naval base that is home to a fishing fleet. The city is known for its outdoor market, the Seventh-Kilometer Market—the largest of its kind in Europe.
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2. The reddish moon is behind a statue of William Penn on top of City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 16, 2022. The March full moon is known as the Worm Moon, which causes the moon to appear larger because of the “moon illusion,” according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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3. Students at Guru Nanak Dev smear colored power to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colors, on March 17, 2022. This ancient Hindu festival signifies the victory of good over evil and is celebrated as a day of spreading happiness and love. It is a festive day to meet each other, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.
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4. In Valencia, Spain, the festival of Las Fallas occurred on March 19, 2022. The festival dates back to the Middle Ages when local carpenters piled up their winter cut-offs and burned them in the streets to honor the coming of spring and their patron saint Joseph—the ultimate carpenter.
Photo By Esteban Felix / AP
5. A woman performs the song “Un Violador en Tu Camino” or “A Rapist in Your Path” during a demonstration against gender-based violence on International Women’s Day in Santiago, Chile, on March 7, 2022. Based on the work of Rita Segato, the piece was created by the Valparaíso feminist collective Las Tesis. Although this is a Chilean feminist performance, it has been performed in Latin America, the United States, and Europe.
Photo By Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty
6. A young girl carries her cat in her backpack while she waits to get on a bus that will transport her from the temporary shelter for refugees that were housed in a former shopping center between the border of Ukraine and Przemysl, Poland, on March 8, 2022.
Photo By Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty
7. Here is a Chinese Paralympic skier during a training session for the men’s downhill sitting event at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing, which occurred before the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games. This photo was taken on March 3, 2022.
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8. The Pyre of the Devil during carnival celebrations in Pont-Saint-Martin, Italy, on March 1, 2022. Since 1902, this celebration’s characters depicted Saint Martin, Satan, the Roman Consul, the Lysc Nymph along with her handmaids, the Tribunes of the People, and the Roman Guards who all parade the streets of the Old Town.
Photo By Gustavo Basso / NurPhoto / Rex / Shutterstock
9. In Lviv, Ukraine, men say goodbye to their wives, children, and mothers at the central station on March 8, 2022. Lviv is the largest city in Western Ukraine and is one of the main cultural centers of Ukraine. The coat of arms is one of the seals of the city, and their slogan is “Lviv — open to the world.”
Photo By Emrah Gurel / AP
10. Near Galata Bridge, a man is covered in snow during a snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 12, 2022. There was a relatively warm spell that pervaded west Turkey, and that came to a dramatic close with a week-long cold wave that gripped that part of the country with heavy snowfall. The snowstorm was called “Aybar Blizzard,” and Aybar is a name that translates to mean there is the moon.
