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* The <b>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Cedar_Keys_hurricane 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane]</b> <small>''([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton])''</small> was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated much of the East Coast of the United States, starting with Florida's Cedar Keys, near the end of September 1896. The storm's rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its intensity after landfall and cause significant damage over a broad area; as a result, it became one of the costliest United States hurricanes at the time.
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# The <b>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Cedar_Keys_hurricane 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane]</b> <small>''([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton])''</small> was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated much of the East Coast of the United States, starting with Florida's Cedar Keys, near the end of September 1896. The storm's rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its intensity after landfall and cause significant damage over a broad area; as a result, it became one of the costliest United States hurricanes at the time.
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* <b>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Althea Cyclone Althea]</b> <small>''([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton])''</small> was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the 1971–1972 Australian region cyclone season. After forming near the Solomon Islands and heading southwest across the Coral Sea, the storm reached its peak intensity with 10-minute average maximum sustained winds of {{convert|165|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}. On Christmas Eve, Althea struck the coast of Queensland near Rollingstone, about {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Townsville. Althea produced copious rainfall over central and western Queensland as it turned toward the southeast, and emerged over open waters. After briefly re-intensifying, the system dissipated.
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# <b>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Althea Cyclone Althea]</b> <small>''([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton])''</small> was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the 1971–1972 Australian region cyclone season. After forming near the Solomon Islands and heading southwest across the Coral Sea, the storm reached its peak intensity with 10-minute average maximum sustained winds of {{convert|165|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}. On Christmas Eve, Althea struck the coast of Queensland near Rollingstone, about {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Townsville. Althea produced copious rainfall over central and western Queensland as it turned toward the southeast, and emerged over open waters. After briefly re-intensifying, the system dissipated.
  
 
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Women

Men

Fauna

Dinosaurs

  1. Nemegtomaia (article candidates/Nemegtomaia/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nemegtomaia/archive1|nominated by User:FunkMonk|FunkMonk) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from what is now Mongolia that lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70Template:Nbspmillion years ago. The first specimen was found in 1996, and became the basis of the new genus and species N. barsboldi in 2004. The original genus name was Nemegtia, but this was changed to Nemegtomaia in 2005, as the former name was preoccupied. The first part of the generic name refers to the Nemegt Basin, where the animal was found, and the second part means "good mother", in reference to the fact that oviraptorids are known to have brooded their eggs. The specific name honours the palaeontologist Rinchen Barsbold. Two more specimens were found in 2007, one of which was found on top of a nest with eggs, but the dinosaur had received its genus name before it was found associated with eggs.
  2. 'Amargasaurus (article candidates/Amargasaurus/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Amargasaurus/archive1|nominated by Lallensack|Jens Lallensack User:Jens Lallensack|Jens Lallensack) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch of what is now Argentina. The only known skeleton was discovered in 1984 and is virtually complete, including a fragmentary skull, making Amargasaurus one of the best-known sauropods of its epoch. The animal was small for a sauropod, reaching Template:Convert in length. Most distinctively, it sported two parallel rows of tall spines down its neck and back, taller than in any other known sauropod. It is unclear how these spines appeared in life, because they could have stuck out of the body as solitary structures supporting a keratinous sheath, or, alternatively, could have formed a scaffold supporting a skin sail.

Birds

  1. The yellow-faced honeyeater (article candidates/Yellow-faced honeyeater/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yellow-faced honeyeater/archive1|nominated by User:Casliber|Casliber) (Caligavis chrysops) is a medium-small bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. Its loud clear call often begins twenty or thirty minutes before dawn. It is widespread across eastern and south eastern Australia. Comparatively short-billed for a honeyeater, it is thought to have adapted to a diet of flies, spiders, and beetles, as well as nectar and pollen from the flowers of plants, and soft fruits. It catches insects in flight as well as gleaning them from the foliage of trees and shrubs. While some yellow-faced honeyeaters are sedentary, hundreds of thousands migrate northwards between March and May to spend the winter in southern Queensland and return in July and August to breed in southern New South Wales and Victoria. They form socially monogamous pairs and lay two or three eggs in a delicate cup-shaped nest.
  2. The white-rumped swallow (article candidates/White-rumped swallow/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/White-rumped swallow/archive1|nominated by User:RileyBugz|RileyBugz) (Tachycineta leucorrhoa) is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. First described and given its binomial name by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1817, it was for many years considered a subspecies of the Chilean swallow. The species is monotypic with no known population variations. The white-rumped swallow is solitary and nests in distributed pairs during the breeding season. The breeding season is from October to December in Brazil and from October to February in neighboring Argentina. Usually only one brood with four to seven eggs is laid, although a second one will occasionally be laid. The female incubates the eggs over a period usually between 15 and 16 days, with the fledging after usually between 21 and 25 days.
  3. The Rodrigues parrot (article candidates/Rodrigues parrot/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rodrigues parrot/archive1|nominated by User:FunkMonk|FunkMonk) (Necropsittacus rodricanus) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. It is unclear to which other species it is most closely related, but it is classified as a member of the tribe Psittaculini, along with other Mascarene parrots. The Rodrigues parrot bore similarities to the broad-billed parrot of Mauritius, and may have been related. Two additional species have been assigned to its genus based on descriptions of parrots from the other Mascarene islands, but their identities and validity have been debated.
  4. The red-headed myzomela (article candidates/Red-headed myzomela/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Red-headed myzomela/archive1|nominated by User:Casliber|Casliber) (Myzomela erythrocephala) is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It was described by John Gould in 1840. Two subspecies are recognised, with the nominate race M. e. erythrocephala distributed around the tropical coastline of Australia, and M. e. infuscata in New Guinea. At Template:Convert, it is a small honeyeater with a short tail and relatively long down-curved bill. It is sexually dimorphic; the male has a glossy red head and brown upperparts and paler grey-brown underparts while the female has predominantly grey-brown plumage.
  5. Carnaby's black cockatoo (article candidates/Carnaby's black cockatoo/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Carnaby's black cockatoo/archive1|nominated by User:Casliber|Casliber and User:RileyBugz|RileyBugz) is a large black cockatoo endemic to south western Australia. It was described in 1948 by naturalist Ivan Carnaby. Measuring Template:Convert in length, it has a short crest on the top of its head. This cockatoo usually lays a clutch of one to two eggs. It generally takes 28 to 29 days for the female to incubate the eggs, and the young fledge ten to eleven weeks after hatching. The young will stay with the family until the next breeding season, and sometimes even longer. With much of its habitat lost to land clearing and development and threatened by further habitat destruction, Carnaby's black cockatoo is listed as endangered by the Federal and Western Australian governments. It is also classified as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
  6. The golden swallow (article candidates/Golden swallow (bird)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Golden swallow (bird)/archive1|nominated by User:RileyBugz|RileyBugz) (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a passerine in the swallow family, Hirundinidae. This swallow is an aerial insectivore, foraging for insects at heights that are usually under Template:Convert, and very rarely at heights over Template:Convert. When foraging, it is known to explore most habitats except forests. It is considered to be a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
  7. The white-naped xenopsaris (article candidates/White-naped xenopsaris/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/White-naped xenopsaris/archive1|nominated by Sunbird|Sabine's Sunbird User:Sabine's Sunbird|Sabine's Sunbird) (Xenopsaris albinucha) is a species of suboscine bird in the family Tityridae. The bird is Template:Convert in length, with whitish undersides, a black crown and grey-brown upperparts. The sexes are similar in appearance, though the females have duller upperparts. It feeds on insects in the foliage of trees and bushes, and sometimes on the ground. Nesting occurs in a simple cup nest placed in the fork of a tree. Both parents incubate the eggs and help feed the chicks. When the chicks fledge the parents may divide up the brood to continue helping.
  8. The Cape sparrow (article candidates/Cape sparrow/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cape sparrow/archive1|nominated by User:Innotata|Innotata) (Passer melanurus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae found in southern Africa. A medium-sized sparrow at Template:Convert, it has distinctive plumage, including large pale head stripes in both sexes. The species inhabits semi-arid savannah, cultivated areas, and towns, and ranges from the central coast of Angola to eastern South Africa and Swaziland. Three subspecies are distinguished in different parts of its range.

Sheep

  1. The North Ronaldsay sheep (article candidates/North Ronaldsay sheep/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/North Ronaldsay sheep/archive1|nominated by User:TheMagikCow|TheMagikCow) is a breed of domestic sheep from North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island of Orkney. It belongs to the Northern European short-tailed sheep group of breeds, and has evolved without much cross-breeding with modern breeds. It is a smaller sheep than most, with the rams horned and ewes mostly hornless. It was formerly kept primarily for wool, but now the two largest flocks are feral. The Rare Breeds Survival Trust lists the breed as "vulnerable", with fewer than 600 registered breeding females in the United Kingdom.

Flora

  1. Alloxylon pinnatum (article candidates/Alloxylon pinnatum/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Alloxylon pinnatum/archive1|nominated by User:Casliber|Casliber) is a tree of the family Proteaceae found in warm-temperate rainforest of eastern Australia. It has shiny green leaves that are either lobed and up to Template:Convert long, or spear-shaped and up to Template:Convert long. The prominent pinkish-red flower heads, known as inflorescences, appear in spring and summer; these are made up of 50 to 140 individual flowers arranged in corymb or raceme. These are followed by rectangular woody seed pods, which bear two rows of winged seeds.

War

  1. August Meyszner (article candidates/August Meyszner/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/August Meyszner/archive1|nominated by User:Peacemaker67|Peacemaker67) (1886–1947) was an Austrian gendarmerie officer, right-wing politician, and senior Ordnungspolizei officer who held the post of Higher SS and Police Leader in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from 1942 to 1944, during World War II. He has been described as one of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's most brutal subordinates. #Nazi
  2. Alan Shepard (article candidates/Alan Shepard/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Alan Shepard/archive1|nominated by User:JustinTime55|JustinTime55 and User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7) (1923–1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II. He became a naval aviator in 1946, and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in 1961 he made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. In 1971, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lunar module to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. At age 47, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to do so. He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1963 to 1969, and from 1971 until his retirement from the United States Navy and NASA in 1974. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1971, the first astronaut to reach that rank. #astronaut
  3. Project Y (article candidates/Project Y/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Project Y/archive1|nominated by User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7) was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II. Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs. Robert Oppenheimer was its first director, from 1943 to 1945, when he was succeeded by Norris Bradbury. For scientists freely to discuss their work while preserving security, the laboratory was located in a remote part of New Mexico. #bomb
  4. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (article candidates/1954 Guatemalan coup d'état/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1954 Guatemalan coup d'état/archive1|nominated by User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93) was a covert operation carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala. #coup
  5. Operation Mincemeat (article candidates/Operation Mincemeat/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Mincemeat/archive1|nominated by Bounder|The Bounder User:The Bounder|The Bounder) was a successful British disinformation strategy used during the Second World War. As a deception intended to cover the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily, two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as Captain (Acting Major) William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals which suggested that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on the body. #infowars
  6. Operation Bernhard (article candidates/Operation Bernhard/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Bernhard/archive1|nominated by Bounder|The Bounder User:The Bounder|The Bounder) was an exercise by the Nazis to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy. They successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near-identical engraving blocks and broke the algorithm used to create the alpha-numeric serial code on each note. In 1942 the aim was changed to forging money to finance German intelligence operations. Much of the output of the unit was dumped into Lake Toplitz and Grundlsee at the end of the war, but enough went into general circulation that the Bank of England stopped releasing new notes, and issued a new design after the war. The operation has been dramatised in a comedy-drama miniseries Private Schulz by the BBC and in a 2007 Austrian film, The Counterfeiters.
  7. Clare Stevenson (article candidates/Clare Stevenson/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Clare Stevenson/archive1|nominated by Rose|Ian Rose User:Ian Rose|Ian Rose) (1903–1988) was the inaugural Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, from 1941 to 1946. As such, she was described in 2001 as "the most significant woman in the history of the Air Force". Formed as a branch of the Royal Australian Air Force in 1941, the WAAAF was the first and largest uniformed women's service in Australia during World War II. #AirForceWomensAuxiliary
  8. The Royal Yugoslav Air Force (VVKJ) operated the British Hawker Hurricane Mk I (article candidates/Hawker Hurricane in Yugoslav service/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hawker Hurricane in Yugoslav service/archive1|nominated by User:Peacemaker67|Peacemaker67) fighter aircraft from 1938 to 1941. Between 1938 and 1940, the VVKJ obtained 24 Hurricane Mk I's from early production batches, marking the first foreign sale of the aircraft. Twenty additional aircraft were built by Zmaj under licence in Yugoslavia. When the country was drawn into World War II by the German-led Axis invasion of 1941, a total of 41 Hurricane Mk I's were in service as fighters. They achieved some successes against Luftwaffe aircraft, but all Yugoslav Hurricanes were destroyed or captured during the 11-day invasion. Hurricanes remained in service with the post-war Yugoslav Air Force until the early 1950s. #aircraft

Flotsam (boats & convoys of same)

  1. Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō (article candidates/Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō/archive1|nominated by 66|Sturmvogel 66 User:Sturmvogel 66|Sturmvogel 66) was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the IJN in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Completed in 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles during the Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during several battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns. She was torpedoed in 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively hulked for the rest of the war. After the surrender of Japan in September, the Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was broken up in 1946–1947.#boat
  2. The Lion-class battlecruiser (article candidates/Lion-class battlecruiser/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lion-class battlecruiser/archive1|nominated by 66|Sturmvogel 66 User:Sturmvogel 66|Sturmvogel 66) was a pair of battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I. Nicknamed the "Splendid Cats", the ships were a significant improvement over their predecessors of the Indefatigable class in terms of speed, armament and armour. These improvements were in response to the German battlecruisers of the Moltke class, which were in turn larger and more powerful than the first British battlecruisers of the Invincible class. #boat
  3. HMS Levant (1758) (article candidates/HMS Levant (1758)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/HMS Levant (1758)/archive1|nominated by User:Euryalus|Euryalus) was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Coventry class, which saw Royal Navy service against France in the Seven Years' War, and against France, Spain and the American colonies during the American Revolutionary War. Principally a hunter of privateers, she was also designed to be a match for small French frigates, but with a broader hull and sturdier build at the expense of some speed and manoeuvrability. Launched in 1758, Levant was assigned to the Royal Navy's Jamaica station from 1759. The ageing frigate was removed from Navy service in 1779, and her crew discharged to other vessels. She was broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1780, having secured a total of 31 victories over 21 years at sea. #boat
  4. St Vincent (1908) (article candidates/HMS St Vincent (1908)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/HMS St Vincent (1908)/archive1|nominated by 66|Sturmvogel 66 User:Sturmvogel 66|Sturmvogel 66) was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. After commissioning in 1910, she spent her whole career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, often serving as a flagship. Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, during which she damaged a German battlecruiser, and the inconclusive Action of 19 August several months later, her service during World War I generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. The ship was deemed obsolete after the war and was reduced to reserve and used as a training ship. St Vincent was sold for scrap in 1921 and broken up the following year. #boat
  5. INS Vikrant (article candidates/INS Vikrant (R11)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/INS Vikrant (R11)/archive1|nominated by Chaitanya Velaga|Krishna Chaitanya Velaga User:Krishna Chaitanya Velaga|Krishna Chaitanya Velaga) was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS Hercules for the British Royal Navy during World War II, but construction was put on hold when the war ended. India purchased the incomplete carrier in 1957, and construction was completed in 1961. Vikrant was commissioned as the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and played a key role in enforcing the naval blockade of East Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. In the later years, the ship underwent major refits to embark modern aircraft, before being decommissioned in 1997. She was preserved as a museum ship until 2012. In 2014, the ship was sold through an online auction and scrapped after final clearance from the Supreme Court. #boat
  6. Yugoslav torpedo boat T3 (article candidates/Yugoslav torpedo boat T3/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yugoslav torpedo boat T3/archive1|nominated by User:Peacemaker67|Peacemaker67) was a sea-going torpedo boat that was operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941. Originally 78 T, a 250t-class torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy built in 1914, she saw active service during World War I, performing convoy, escort and minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore bombardment missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, she was allocated to the Navy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and was renamed T3. The ship was captured by the Italians during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. She served with the Royal Italian Navy under her Yugoslav designation, although she was only used for coastal and second-line tasks. Following the Italian capitulation in 1943, she was captured by Germany, and she served with the German Navy or the Navy of the Independent State of Croatia as TA48. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in 1945 while in the port of Trieste. #boat
  7. Operation Pamphlet (article candidates/Operation Pamphlet/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Pamphlet/archive1|nominated by User:Nick-D|Nick-D) was a World War II convoy operation conducted during January and February 1943 to transport the Australian Army's 9th Division home from Egypt. The convoy involved five transports, which were protected from Japanese warships during their trip across the Indian Ocean and along the Australian coastline by several Allied naval task forces. No contact was made between Allied and Japanese ships, and the 9th Division arrived in Australian ports during late February with no losses from enemy action. #NavalConvoy
  8. The St Vincent-class battleships (article candidates/St Vincent-class battleship/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/St Vincent-class battleship/archive1|nominated by 66|Sturmvogel 66 User:Sturmvogel 66|Sturmvogel 66) were a group of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The sister ships spent their entire careers assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and the inconclusive Action of 19 August several months later, their service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. Vanguard was destroyed in 1917 by a magazine explosion. The remaining pair were obsolete by the end of the war, and spent their remaining time either in reserve or as training ships before being sold for scrap in the early 1920s.
  9. SMS Kaiser Friedrich III (article candidates/SMS Kaiser Friedrich III/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/SMS Kaiser Friedrich III/archive1|nominated by User:Parsecboy|Parsecboy) was the lead ship of the Kaiser Friedrich III class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft in Wilhelmshaven in 1895, launched in 1896, and finished in 1898. The ship was armed with a main battery of four Template:Convert guns in two twin gun turrets supported by a secondary battery of eighteen Template:Convert guns. Kaiser Friedrich III was extensively modernized in 1908; her secondary guns were reorganized and her superstructure was cut down to reduce top-heaviness. After returning to service in 1910, she was placed in the Reserve Formation; and spent the next two years laid up, being activated only for the annual fleet maneuvers. Though obsolete, Kaiser Friedrich III and her sister ships served in a limited capacity as coastal defense ships in the V Battle Squadron in the early months of the World War I. By February 1915, she was withdrawn from service and eventually decommissioned in November, thereafter being employed as a prison ship and later as a barracks ship. She was scrapped in 1920.

Battles

  1. The Battle of Goodenough Island (article candidates/Battle of Goodenough Island/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Goodenough Island/archive1|nominated by User:AustralianRupert|AustralianRupert and User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7) was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Allies attacked the Special Naval Landing Force to deny the Japanese the ability to use the island prior to the Buna campaign. "Drake Force" landed on the southern tip of Goodenough Island, and following a short but heavy fight, the Japanese forces withdrew to Fergusson Island. After the battle, Goodenough Island was developed by the Allies and became a major base for operations later in the war.
  2. The Battle of Hochkirch (article candidates/Battle of Hochkirch/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Hochkirch/archive1|nominated by User:Auntieruth55|Auntieruth55) occurred in 1758 during the Seven Years' War. After several weeks of maneuvering for position, an Austrian army commanded by Leopold Josef Graf Daun surprised the Prussian army commanded by Frederick the Great. The Austrian army overwhelmed the Prussians and forced a general retreat. The battle took place in and around the village of Hochkirch, Template:Convert east of Bautzen, Saxony.

War Monuments

  1. The North Eastern Railway War Memorial (article candidates/North Eastern Railway War Memorial/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/North Eastern Railway War Memorial/archive1|nominated by Mitchell|HJ Mitchell User:HJ Mitchell|HJ Mitchell) is a First World War memorial in York, England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to commemorate employees of the North Eastern Railway who left to fight in the First World War and were killed while serving. It was unveiled in 1924 by Field Marshal Lord Plumer. It consists of a Template:Convert high obelisk which rises from the rear portion of a three-sided screen wall. The wall forms a recess in which stands Lutyens' characteristic Stone of Remembrance. The wall itself is decorated with several carved swags and wreaths. The memorial is a grade II* listed building, and is part of a "national collection" of Lutyens' war memorials.
  2. The York City War Memorial (article candidates/York City War Memorial/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/York City War Memorial/archive1|nominated by Mitchell|HJ Mitchell User:HJ Mitchell|HJ Mitchell) is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and located in York, England. Proposals for commemorating York's war dead originated in 1919 but proved controversial. Several functional proposals were examined until a public meeting in January 1920 opted for a monument. The city engineer produced a cost estimate and the war memorial committee engaged Lutyens, who had recently been commissioned by the North Eastern Railway (NER) to design their own war memorial, also to be sited in York. Lutyens' first design was approved, but controversy enveloped proposals for both the city's and the NER's memorials. Members of the local community became concerned that the memorials as planned were not in keeping with York's existing architecture, especially as both were in close proximity to the ancient city walls, and that the NER's memorial would overshadow the city's. Continued public opposition forced the committee to abandon the proposed site in favour of one on Leeman Road, just outside the walls, and Lutyens submitted a new design of a War Cross and Stone of Remembrance to fit the location. This was scaled back to the cross alone due to lack of funds.

Sport

  1. Ben Crosby (article candidates/Ben Crosby/archive3|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ben Crosby/archive3|nominated by Texas Historian|A Texas Historian User:A Texas Historian|A Texas Historian) (1868–1892) was an American football player, coach, and law student. Crosby attended Yale University beginning in 1889; while there, he was a popular student and sportsman. He was a two-year starter on the football team and a backup on the crew team. After graduation he enrolled at the New York Law School. Crosby was invited in 1892 to serve as head coach of the United States Naval Academy football program. He accepted the position, and, using unusually rigorous practicing strategies, led the team to a 5–2 record, culminating in an upset victory over rival Army in the Army–Navy Game. He received commendation for the victory, including a gift of a personalized trophy.
  2. The CMLL World Heavyweight Championship (article candidates/CMLL World Heavyweight Championship/archive2|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/CMLL World Heavyweight Championship/archive2|nominated by User:MPJ-DK|MPJ-DK) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship established in 1991 and promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). CMLL introduced the championship to signal their independence from the National Wrestling Alliance, whose titles they had continued to promote after leaving the alliance in the late 1980s. The Heavyweight Championship was the first CMLL title to be created, and the inaugural champion was Konnan el Bárbaro. The current champion is Máximo Sexy, the fifteenth overall person to hold the championship and the eighteenth overall champion.

Corporations

  1. The CMLL World Heavyweight Championship (article candidates/CMLL World Heavyweight Championship/archive2|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/CMLL World Heavyweight Championship/archive2|nominated by User:MPJ-DK|MPJ-DK) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship established in 1991 and promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). CMLL introduced the championship to signal their independence from the National Wrestling Alliance, whose titles they had continued to promote after leaving the alliance in the late 1980s. The Heavyweight Championship was the first CMLL title to be created, and the inaugural champion was Konnan el Bárbaro. The current champion is Máximo Sexy, the fifteenth overall person to hold the championship and the eighteenth overall champion.

Weather

  1. The 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane (article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1896 Cedar Keys hurricane/archive1|nominated by User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton) was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated much of the East Coast of the United States, starting with Florida's Cedar Keys, near the end of September 1896. The storm's rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its intensity after landfall and cause significant damage over a broad area; as a result, it became one of the costliest United States hurricanes at the time.
  2. Cyclone Althea (article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Althea/archive1|nominated by User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton) was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the 1971–1972 Australian region cyclone season. After forming near the Solomon Islands and heading southwest across the Coral Sea, the storm reached its peak intensity with 10-minute average maximum sustained winds of Template:Convert. On Christmas Eve, Althea struck the coast of Queensland near Rollingstone, about Template:Convert north of Townsville. Althea produced copious rainfall over central and western Queensland as it turned toward the southeast, and emerged over open waters. After briefly re-intensifying, the system dissipated.

Music

Video games

  • Donkey Kong 64 (article candidates/Donkey Kong 64/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Donkey Kong 64/archive1|nominated by talk:Czar|Czar User talk:Czar|Czar) is a 1999 adventure platform video game for the Nintendo 64 console, and the first in the Donkey Kong series to feature 3D gameplay. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores the themed levels of an island to collect items and rescue his kidnapped friends from K. Rool. The player completes minigames and puzzles as five playable Kong characters to receive bananas and other collectibles. In a separate multiplayer mode, up to four players can compete in deathmatch and last man standing games. The game received universal acclaim from reviewers and was Nintendo's top seller during the 1999 holiday season, with 2.3 million units sold by 2004. It won the 1999 E3 Game Critics award for Best Platform Game, and multiple awards and nominations from games magazines. Reviewers noted the game's exceptional size and length, but criticized its emphasis on item collection and backtracking.
  • Phantasmagoria (video game) (article candidates/Phantasmagoria (video game)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Phantasmagoria (video game)/archive1|nominated by Kahn|Hunter Kahn User:Hunter Kahn|Hunter Kahn and talk:GamerPro64|GamerPro64 User talk:GamerPro64|GamerPro64) is a point-and-click adventure game designed by Roberta Williams for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Released by Sierra On-Line in 1995, it tells the story of Adrienne Delaney, a writer who moves into a remote mansion and finds herself terrorized by supernatural forces. Made at the peak of popularity for interactive movie games, Phantasmagoria features live-action actors and footage, both during cinematic scenes and within the three-dimensional rendered environments of the game itself. Upon release, it was noted for its graphic gore, violence, and sexual content.
  • Homeworld (video game) (article candidates/Homeworld/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Homeworld/archive1|nominated by User:PresN|PresN) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. Set in space, the science fiction game follows the Kushan exiles of the planet Kharak after their home planet is destroyed by the Taiidan Empire in retaliation for developing hyperspace jump technology. The survivors journey with their spacecraft-constructing mothership to reclaim their ancient homeworld of Hiigara from the Taiidan, encountering a variety of pirates, mercenaries, traders, and rebels along the way. In each of the game's levels, the player gathers resources, builds a fleet, and uses it to destroy enemy ships and accomplish mission objectives. The player's fleet carries over between levels, and can travel in a fully three-dimensional space within each level rather than being limited to a two-dimensional plane. Critics praised the game's graphics, unique gameplay elements, and multiplayer system, though opinions were divided on the game's plot and high difficulty. The game sold over 500,000 copies in its first 6 months, and received several awards and nominations for best strategy game of the year and best game of the year.
  • Wipeout 2048 (article candidates/Wipeout 2048/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Wipeout 2048/archive1|nominated by User:Jaguar|Jaguar) is a racing video game in which players pilot anti-gravity ships around futuristic race tracks. It was developed by Sony Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. A launch title for the PlayStation Vita, the game was released in 2012. It is the ninth instalment of the Wipeout series and the last game to be developed by Studio Liverpool before its 2012 closure. Wipeout 2048 is a prequel to the first game in the series, and is set in the years 2048, 2049, and 2050. The game received mainly positive reviews. Critics agreed that its graphics and visuals showcased the power of the PlayStation Vita, but criticised its long loading time and other technical issues.

Law

  • The Oran fatwa (article candidates/Oran fatwa/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Oran fatwa/archive1|nominated by User:HaEr48|HaEr48) was a responsum fatwa, or an Islamic legal opinion, issued in 1504 to address the crisis that occurred when Muslims in the Crown of Castile were forced to convert to Christianity in 1500–1502. The fatwa sets out detailed relaxations of the sharia requirements, allowing the Muslims to conform outwardly to Christianity and perform acts that are ordinarily forbidden in Islamic law, when necessary to survive. It includes relaxed instructions to fulfill the ritual prayers, the ritual charity and the ritual ablution, and recommendations when obliged to violate Islamic law, such as worshipping as Christians, performing blasphemy, and consuming pork and wine. #fatwa

Literature

Fictional Characters

  1. Eve Russell (article candidates/Eve Russell/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Eve Russell/archive1|nominated by User:Aoba47|Aoba47) is a fictional character on the American soap opera Passions, which aired on NBC from 1999 to 2007 and on DirecTV in 2007–08. Created by the soap's head writer, James E. Reilly, Eve was played by Tracey Ross for the series' entire run. Eve, part of PassionsTemplate:' Russell family, is introduced as the perfect wife of T. C. Russell and mother of Whitney and Simone. Eve's desperation to conceal all evidence of her past relationship—and child—with Julian Crane leads to the breakup of her marriage and family, especially when her adoptive sister Liz Sanbourne arrives and ruins Eve's life for abandoning her first family.
  2. Naruto Uzumaki (article candidates/Naruto Uzumaki/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Naruto Uzumaki/archive1|nominated by User:1989|1989) is a fictional character in the anime and manga franchise Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. The eponymous protagonist of the series, he is a teen ninja from the fictional village of Konohagakure. The villagers ridicule Naruto on account of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox—a malevolent creature that attacked Konohagakure—sealed in his body; despite that, he aspires to become the village's leader, the Hokage. His carefree, optimistic and boisterous personality enables him to befriend other Konohagakure ninja, as well as ninja from other villages. Naruto appears in the series' films and in other media related to the franchise, including video games and original video animations. Naruto's character development has been praised by anime and manga publications, and has drawn scholarly attention. Although some initially saw him as a typical manga and anime protagonist comparable to those in other shōnen manga, others have praised his personality and development as he avoids stereotypes.
  3. Simone Russell (article candidates/Simone Russell/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Simone Russell/archive1|nominated by User:Aoba47|Aoba47) is a fictional character on the American soap opera Passions, which aired on NBC from 1999 to 2007 and on DirecTV in 2007–2008. A member of the Russell family, Simone is introduced as the youngest daughter of Eve Russell and T. C. Russell, and the younger sister of Whitney Russell. Her early appearances center on her love triangle with Chad Harris-Crane and her sister Whitney; the character later gains more prominence on the show through her experience coming out as a lesbian to her family, and her relationship with Rae Thomas. Simone's storyline made daytime television history when Passions became the first soap opera to show two women having sex. The character was also daytime television's first African-American lesbian.

Film / Video

  1. Andha Naal (article candidates/Andha Naal/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Andha Naal/archive1|nominated by User:Kailash29792|Kailash29792 and User:Vensatry|Vensatry) is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language mystery-thriller film, produced by A. V. Meiyappan and directed by Sundaram Balachander. It is the first film noir in Tamil cinema, and the first Tamil film to be made without songs, dance, or stunt sequences. Set in the milieu of World War II, the story is about the killing of a radio engineer Rajan. The suspects are Rajan's wife Usha, the neighbour Chinnaiah Pillai, Rajan's brother Pattabi, Rajan's sister-in-law Hema, and Rajan's mistress Ambujam. Each one's account of the incident points to a new suspect. It was critically acclaimed and was awarded a Certificate of Merit for Second Best Feature Film in Tamil at the 2nd National Film Awards. Despite being a commercial failure at the time of its original release, it has acquired cult status over the years, and is regarded as an important film in Tamil cinema.
  2. Hrithik Roshan (article candidates/Hrithik Roshan/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hrithik Roshan/archive1|nominated by User:FrB.TG|FrB.TG) (born 1974) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. The son of the filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, he has portrayed a variety of characters and is known for his dancing ability. He is one of the highest-paid actors in India and has won many awards, including six Filmfares. Roshan has also performed on stage and debuted on television with Just Dance. He is involved with a number of humanitarian causes, endorses several brands and products and has launched his own clothing line. Roshan was married for fourteen years to Sussanne Khan, with whom he has two children.

Money

  1. Operation Bernhard (article candidates/Operation Bernhard/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Bernhard/archive1|nominated by Bounder|The Bounder User:The Bounder|The Bounder) was an exercise by the Nazis to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy. They successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near-identical engraving blocks and broke the algorithm used to create the alpha-numeric serial code on each note. In 1942 the aim was changed to forging money to finance German intelligence operations. Much of the output of the unit was dumped into Lake Toplitz and Grundlsee at the end of the war, but enough went into general circulation that the Bank of England stopped releasing new notes, and issued a new design after the war. The operation has been dramatised in a comedy-drama miniseries Private Schulz by the BBC and in a 2007 Austrian film, The Counterfeiters.

Americana

Coins (US)

  1. The Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar (article candidates/Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar/archive1|nominated by User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt) was a commemorative fifty-cent coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1920 and 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. After a promising start, sales tailed off, and tens of thousands of coins from each year were returned to the Philadelphia Mint for melting. Numismatist Q. David Bowers has cited the fact that the coins were struck in a second year as the start of a trend to force collectors to buy more than one piece in order to have a complete set.
  2. The Maine Centennial half dollar (article candidates/Maine Centennial half dollar/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Maine Centennial half dollar/archive1|nominated by User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt) is a commemorative coin struck in 1920 by the United States Bureau of the Mint. It was sculpted by Anthony de Francisci, following sketches by an unknown artist from the U.S. state of Maine. Fifty thousand pieces, were struck for release to the public. They were issued too late to be sold at the centennial celebrations in Portland, but eventually the coins were all sold.
  3. The Roosevelt dime (article candidates/Roosevelt dime/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roosevelt dime/archive1|nominated by User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt) is the current dime, or ten-cent piece, of the United States. Struck by the United States Mint continuously since 1946, it displays President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse and was authorized soon after his death in 1945. Chief Engraver John R. Sinnock prepared models, but faced repeated criticism from the Commission of Fine Arts. He modified his design in response, and the coin went into circulation in 1946.
  4. The Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar (article candidates/Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar/archive1|nominated by User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1927. The coin was designed by Charles Keck, and on its obverse depicts early Vermont leader Ira Allen. The coins did not sell out; over a fourth of the issue was returned for redemption and melting. The coins sell for at least in the hundreds of dollars today, depending on condition.

Bowling Alley

  1. Kona Lanes (article candidates/Kona Lanes/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kona Lanes/archive1|nominated by User:ATS|ATS) was a bowling center in Costa Mesa, California, that opened in 1958 and closed in 2003 after 45 years in business. Known for its futuristic design, it featured 40 wood-floor bowling lanes, a game room, a lounge, and a coffee shop that eventually became a Mexican diner. Built during the advent of Googie architecture, its Polynesian Tiki-themed styling extended from the large roadside neon sign to the building's "flamboyant neon lights and ostentatious rooflines". Much of Kona's equipment was sold prior to the demolition; and a portion of the distinctive sign was saved and sent to Cincinnati, Ohio, for display in the American Sign Museum.

Road

  1. Interstate 675 (Michigan) (article candidates/Interstate 675 (Michigan)/archive1|nominated Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 675 (Michigan)/archive1|nominated by User:Imzadi1979|Imzadi1979) (I-675) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Michigan. The freeway is a Template:Convert loop route through downtown Saginaw, as Interstate 75 passes on the east side of the city. Construction of I-675 started in 1969 and the freeway opened in 1971. Since then, sections near downtown were reconstructed from 2009 through 2011 to update one of the freeway's interchanges and rebuild the bridge over the Saginaw River.

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