15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017. The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea.  They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport. All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.
Tajikistan had never competed at the Winter Paralympics before 2018. These Games are their Winter Games debut. The country has only compete at four Summer Paralympics. They were the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games. Tajikistan has three total people compete at these four Games. They never won a medal.
The country did not send any competitors to the 2018 Winter Olympics. They had competed at every Winter Games since 2002. No one competed in qualifying competitions for the Olympics.
Tajikistan has a skier competing in para-Nordic skiing. They trained in Germany and China before the start of the Games.
On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM. Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM - 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.
American Gold Star Mothers
American Gold Star Mothers are the mother of a soldier that died on duty.
Dance Again
"Dance Again" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. It features Cuban-American rapper Pitbull. The song was released as the lead single from Lopez' first greatest-hits album, "Dance Again... the Hits", on April 2, 2012. The song was produced by RedOne, who also produced Lopez' and Pitbull's collaboration "On the Floor".
The song has reached the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Italy, and Canada and the top twenty in countries like the US, Germany, New Zealand. and the UK.
The music video features Lopez dancing with masked dancers, including her then-boyfriend, Casper Smart. It has reached over 428 million views on YouTube as of February 2018.
Flag of Mongolia
The flag of Mongolia (, state flag of Mongolia) was created in 1992.
It has a vertical bands of red (hoist-side and fly-side) and blue with the Soyombo symbol centered on the hoist-side of the red band.
Flag of Laos
The flag of Laos has three horizontal bands of red, blue, and red. There is a white circle in the center of the flag. The diameter of white circle is four-fifths the height of blue band). This became the flag on December 2, 1975 when Laos became a socialist state.
Brunswick monogrammist
The Brunswick monogrammist was a Renaissance painter, active in the first half of the 16th century. The painter's name is unknown, but he or she was very important for art history. The painter was probably Dutch.
Deaths in March 2018
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in March 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
Toko Shinoda
She returned to Japan and continues to work. She turned 100 in March 2013. Shinoda died on March 1, 2021 in Tokyo, aged 107.
Agustinia
Agustinia is a genus of sauropod dinosaur with a type of armour unique to "Agustinia" individuals only. It lived about 116 to 100 million years ago in Argentina. The type species ("Agustinia lugabuei") is named in honour of Dr. Giancarlo Ligabue, the discoverer of "Augustinia". The original generic name was ""Augustia"", which, as it turned out, was already preoccupied by a beetle (see also: "Megapnosaurus", "Protognathosaurus").
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauromorpha are a clade of archosaurs that includes dinosaurs and other closely related animals. Birds are the only surviving dinosauromorphs.
The name was coined by Michael J. Benton in 1984. The first clade definitions were by Paul Sereno in 1991. He defined the concept as:
Another term, with somewhat different coverage is Avemetatarsalia.
2023
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Stanleycaris
Stanleycaris (meaning "crab of Stanley Glacier") is an extinct, monotypic genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian. Its fossils were found in the Burgess Shale in and also informally reported from Mount Odaray.
Putative lobopodian species "Aysheaia prolata" from Utah, United States were reinterpreted as an isolated frontal appendage of a member of the genus "Stanleycaris" by Pates, Daley & Ortega-Hernández (2017).
Altispinax
Altispinax (meaning "with high spines") is an predatory theropod dinosaur that lived near Sussex, England. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 137 million years ago. It was closely related to "Becklespinax", another dinosaur from Sussex.
Becklespinax
Becklespinax is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England. It was found in Sussex, England and lived alongside the related "Altispinax".
Jimmy Hibbert
James Christian "Jimmy" Hibbert is an English screenwriter and voice actor best known for his work for Cosgrove Hall, mainly voicing Dr Von Goosewing, Ruffles, Gaston and many other characters in "Count Duckula", Victor in "Victor & Hugo", Bluey, Harry Slime and Bella in "Avenger Penguins" and Big Ears, Mr Plod, Mr Sparks, Mr Milko, Clockwork Clown, Gobbo and various male characters in "Noddy's Toyland Adventures".
Hibbert studied drama at the University of Manchester. From until 1974 until 1982, he was member of the band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, performing with them on records and in the play "Sleak" produced at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1977.
2011 World Series
The 2011 World Series is the 107th edition of the World Series, the championship game of Major League Baseball. It was between the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League and the Texas Rangers of the American League. The series lasted seven games and was won by the Cardinals.
Flag of Kyrgyzstan
The flag of Kyrgyzstan was created in 1992. The flag has a red background with a yellow sun that consists of 40 flames to represent the 40 tribes. The X shape in the middle is a Yurt.
It has a red field charged with a yellow sun with forty uniformly spaced rays; the sun is crossed by two sets of three lines.
Flag of Nepal
The national flag of Nepal () was created in December 1962. It is the only non-quadrilateral national flag in the world.
It has a combination of two red pennants) with the large blue border around the unique shape of two overlapping right triangles: the smaller upper triangle bears the white stylised moon (the rising sun on the horizontal crescent moon) and the larger lower triangle displays the white twelve-pointed sun.
Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence David Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018) was an American educator and statistic analyzer. Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1992-93. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
William H. T. Bush