Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-02-26/Featured content
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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 February 2014 through 22 February 2014.
Featured articles
Eight articles were promoted to featured status this week:
- SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm (Nominator: Parsecboy) was an early battleship of Germany's Imperial Navy. Constructed at the end of the 19th century, it served as the national fleet's flagship for several years before being deployed to China during the Boxer Rebellion. The ship was sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1910 and served in the Balkan and First World Wars before being sunk in 1915.
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (Nominator: Eb.hoop) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics: his work on thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science, and he independently invented modern vector calculus.
- Profumo affair (Nominator: Brianboulton) was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual liaison in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.
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- Gold dollar (Nominator: Wehwalt) was a coin struck as a regular issue by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1849 to 1889. The coin had three types over its lifetime, all designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. In terms of diameter, the Type 1 issue was the smallest United States coin ever minted.
- Interstate 470 (Ohio–West Virginia) (Nominator: Admrboltz) is a 10.63-mile-long (17.11-kilometer) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-70 that bypasses the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, in the United States. The portion of the highway in West Virginia is named the USS West Virginia Memorial Highway.
- Billy Joe Tolliver (Nominator: Wizardman) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League and Canadian Football League for twelve seasons. He played for six teams and appeared in 79 games, completing 891 of 1,707 passes for 10,760 yards, 59 touchdowns, and 64 interceptions.
- Gods' Man (Nominator: Curly Turkey) is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward, first published in 1929. In 139 captionless woodblock prints, it tells the Faustian story of an artist who signs away his soul for a magic paintbrush.
- Thirty Flights of Loving (Nominator: Hahc21) is a first-person interactive fiction adventure video game developed by Blendo Games. The game is a non-direct sequel to Gravity Bone (2008).
Featured lists
Three lists were promoted to featured status this week:
- List of New York Islanders players (Nominator: Gloss) The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York.
- List of bowlers who have taken over 300 wickets in Test cricket (Nominator: The Rambling Man) is a feat, first accomplished by Englishman Fred Trueman in 1964, that has only been achieved by twenty-seven players in the history of the game.
- How I Met Your Mother (season 1) (Nominator: Haha169) is an American sitcom. Its first season of 22 episodes ran in the US from 19 September 2005 to 15 May 2006.
Featured pictures
Nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week
- SMS Odin (Nominator and restorationist: Adam Cuerden, art by Hugo Graf.) was a late 19th century coastal defense ship built for Germany's Imperial Navy. While the ship was active at the beginning of the First World War, it was quickly reduced to a reserve status to allow its crew to work on other ships.
- Nils Torvalds (Nominator and photographer: Diliff) is a Finnish-Swede broadcast journalist, writer and politician, MEP. Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.
- Willow Tit (Nominator and photographer: Baresi franco) is a passerine bird in the titfamily Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and northern Asia.
- Self-Portrait with Physalis (Nominator: Crisco 1492.) is the self portrait of a Austrian painter Egon Schiele. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
- Kasubi Tombs (Nominator: Theparties, photographed by not not phil.) in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas (kings of Buganda), and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem (Nominator: Adam Cuerden, art by Rembrandt) was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations. The picture depicts him in his one of the famous postures.
- Edward Gibbon (Nominator: Yerevantsi, art by Henry Walton.) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
- Paris Street; Rainy Day (Nominator: Crisco 1492, art by Gustave Caillebotte.) is a large (212.2 cm x 276 cm) 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte. The piece depicts the Place de Dublin, an intersection near the Gare Saint-Lazare, a railroad station in north Paris. One of Caillebotte's best known works, it debuted at the Third Impressionist Exhibition of 1877 and is currently owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Alexander Dumas (Nominator: Crisco 1492, art by Nadar.) was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
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