Photos of the week: March 17-24

Here are photos from stories that happened last week.

Scroll through to to see if you’ve missed any.

Looking west away from the stage, the crowd fills Pennsylvania Avenue during the “March for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the arrival of a 36-year-old male Asian elephant named Spike on Friday. (Roshan Patel, Smithsonian's National Zoo)
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the arrival of a 36-year-old male Asian elephant named Spike on Friday. (Courtesy Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)
On March 23 and 24, more than 40,000 tulips will be on display at The Park at CityCenterDC for the inaugural Field of Tulips festival. (Courtesy TAA Public Relations)
Deputies, federal agents and rescue personnel, converge on Great Mills High School, the scene of a shooting, Tuesday morning, March 20, 2018 in Great Mills, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon )
The discovery was made at a construction site where Robinson Terminal South was located, according to the city of Alexandria. (Courtesy city of Alexandria)
Two additional centuries-old ships have been unearthed in Old Town Alexandria, not far from where an 18th-century vessel was unearthed a few years ago. (Courtesy city of Alexandria)
Photo shows cars involved in a crash on I-270
Multiple vehicles have been involved in a crash on southbound Interstate 270. The crash, which involved a truck spilling its load, occurred Monday, March 19, 2017. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue/Pete Piringer)
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue saved a man from the Potomac River on March 18, 2018. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue saved a man from the Potomac River on March 18, 2018. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
A Tecal theater group performer looks at the camera during the inaugural parade kicking off the 16th Ibero-American Theatre Festival, in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, March 17, 2018. The 17-day festival celebrates the performing arts, including circus, cabaret, musicals, live bands and dance. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A worker in protective clothing works at the furnace of the steel producer Salzgitter AG, in Salzgitter, Germany on Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
This image made from drone video provided by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services shows firefighters from the Folsom, Calif., Fire Department rescuing a motorist whose car became stuck as a flash flood washed over a road near Folsom on Thursday, March 22, 2018. A powerful storm spread more rain across California on Thursday, swelling rivers, flooding streets and causing some mud and rock slides but, so far, sparing communities a repeat of the disastrous debris flows that hit during a downpour early this year. (Kelly B. Huston/California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services via AP)
People shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they march during a protest by pensioners in Bilbao, northern Spain, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Tens of thousands of elderly Spaniards rallied across the country Saturday to demand an increase in public pension payouts. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
In this long exposure photo, the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz MS-08 spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station launches from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. The rocket carries Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, and U.S. astronauts Richard Arnold and Andrew Feustel. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Officials investigate near a vehicle, center, where a suspect in the deadly bombings that terrorized Austin blew himself up as authorities closed in on him, in Round Rock, Texas, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Authorities say Mark Conditt built bombs planted in different parts of Austin that killed two people and severely wounded four others over three weeks starting on March 2. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Light shines from from a building in Roemer Square during the official opening of the “Luminale” light festival in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Visitors raise their arms to receive the sun’s energy as they celebrate the Spring equinox atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Although the official vernal equinox occurred on Tuesday, thousands of visitors were expected to climb the ancient pyramid Wednesday to greet the sun and celebrate the beginning of Spring. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the arrival of a 36-year-old male Asian elephant named Spike on Friday. (Roshan Patel, Smithsonian's National Zoo)
The discovery was made at a construction site where Robinson Terminal South was located, according to the city of Alexandria. (Courtesy city of Alexandria)
Photo shows cars involved in a crash on I-270
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue saved a man from the Potomac River on March 18, 2018. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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