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Featured content

"We cater to White Trade Only", and other, less depressing topics.

By Adam Cuerden

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  Glacier Point at Sunset, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Let's start with something beautiful, before we get into America's dark past.

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Featured articles

Ten featured articles were promoted this week.

Signs like this made it necessary to produce The Negro Motorist Green Book, to help the emerging black middle class to navigate the segregated United States.

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• Live and Let Die (novel) ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• McKinley Birthplace Memorial dollar ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• Susan B. Anthony dollar ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• Mind Meld ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• The Negro Motorist Green Book ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• Radiocarbon dating ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.2
• Air Mata Iboe ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.8
• Texas Revolution ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.8
• Portrait of Monsieur Bertin ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.8
• Mark Oliphant ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.8

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  Louis Pasteur, as painted by Albert Edelfelt &emdash; a new featured picture.
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  Frederic Leighton's Perseus and Andromeda

Featured lists

Nine featured lists were promoted this week.

Picture of Allan Quatermain, probably H. Rider Haggard's most popular character, as depicted by Thure de Thulstrup for a serialization of Haggard's novel Maiwa's Revenge

• List of awards and nominations received by Lana Del Rey ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• List of five-wicket hauls in Twenty20 International cricket ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• 83rd Academy Awards ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• List of public art in the City of Westminster ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• List of Bermuda T20I cricketers ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.4
• List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Olivier ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.7
• List of accolades received by Argo (2012 film) ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.7
• List of works by H. Rider Haggard ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.7

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  Pancuran Tujuh

Featured pictures

Twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

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• [[:File: |Name]] (created by [[ ]], restored by [[User: | ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...

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• Junot Díaz (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...12

• The Fighting Temeraire (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...12

• Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...12

• La Schiavona (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...12

• The Elder Sister (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...12

• A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...13

• Ancient Rome (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...13

• Modern Rome (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...13

• Pancuran Tujuh (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...13

• Japanese yen (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...14

• Anthidium florentinum (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...14

• Gorakhpur Junction railway station (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...14

• Eristalinus taeniops (created by [[ ]], [[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description...14

• An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (created by Joseph Wright of Derby, nominated by Crisco 1492) An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. It shows a natural philosopher ecreating one of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments, in which a bird is deprived of air, before a varied group of onlookers. The group exhibits a variety of reactions, but for most of the audience scientific curiosity overcomes concern for the bird. The picture has been owned by the National Gallery, London since 1863 and is still regarded as a masterpiece of British art.]]

• The Adoration of the Kings (created by [[ ]], nominated by SchroCat) – The Adoration of the Kings (1564) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Many of those surrounding Christ—including the Three Kings—are caricatured slightly or shown as a grotesque, and the Virgin is shown naturally and not idealized. The viewpoint is from a slightly elevated position, which has the effect of focusing attention on the Christ figure in the Virgin's lap, which is shown in the exact center of the painting.

• Larabanga Mosque (created by User:Sathyan.velumani, nominated by User:Adam Cuerden) The Larabanga Mosque is a historic mosque, built in the Sudanese architectural style in the village of Larabanga, Ghana. It is the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in West Africa, and has been referred to as the "Mecca of West Africa". The mosque has an old Quran, believed by the locals to have been given as a gift from heaven in 1650 to Yidan Barimah Bramah, the Imam at the time, as a result of his prayers. The mosque, built with mud and reeds, has two tall towers in pyramidal shape, buttressed by twelve bulbous shaped structures, which are fitted with timber elements.

• Hollister Municipal Airport (created & nominated by WPPilot)Looking for a nice hundred dollar hamburger? Hollister Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Hollister, a city in San Benito County, California, United States, just south of San Jose.

• Madonna of Loreto (created by Raphael, nominated by Crisco 1492) The Madonna of Loreto is a painting finished around 1508-1509 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France. It has been widely copied throughout the centuries. It shows the Christ Child playing with the Madonna's veil, while a melancholic St. Joseph looks on.]]

• Pampus (created by Johan Bakker, nominated by GVR) Pampus is an artificial island and late 19th Century sea fort located in the IJmeer near Amsterdam. It now belongs to the municipality of Muiden and is open to visitors.]]

• Gabrielle Cot (created by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, nominated by Alborzagros) Gabrielle Cot, daughter of Pierre Auguste Cot by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

• Dutch men-o'-war and other shipping in a calm (created by Willem van de Velde the Younger, nominated by Alborzagros) Dutch men-o'-war and other shipping in a calm. c. 1665 by Willem van de Velde the Younger

• Yacine Brahimi (created by Clément Bucco-Lechat, nominated by Crisco 1492) Yacine Brahimi (right) in a May 2014 friendly, attacking against Taron Voskanyan of Armenia]]
• Battle of Scheveningen (created by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, nominated by Alborzagros ) Battle of Scheveningen by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten - between 1653 and 1666

• Perseus and Andromeda (created by Lord Frederic Leighton, [[ |nominated]] by Hafspajen) Perseus is flying above on his winged horse Pegasus, shooting his arrow, towards the sea monster.

• Baturraden (created by Crisco 1492, nominated by Crisco 1492) An overview of the Baturraden tourist resort, on the slopes of Mount Slamet in Banyumas Regency.

• Yosemite National Park (created by Ðiliff, nominated by Alborzagros) View from Glacier Point looking towards Half Dome. left to right: Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Liberty Cap, Little Yosemite Valley, Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall.

• Papilio demodocus larva (created by William Warby, nominated by Alborzagros) Citrus swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio demodocus) at Stratford Butterfly Farm

• The Trinity and Mystic Pietà (created by Hans Baldung, nominated by SchroCat) While God supporting his crucified son was a relatively popular artistic subject in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, it's fairly rare outside that time, and this is a good example of it; the Holy Spirit, in his traditional guise of a dove, completes the holy trinity of the title. The presence of the grieving Virgin Mary (along with St. John) provide the pietà part of the name.

Good articles

Apart from these featured contents, forty-six good articles were promoted this week.

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  Your shipping forecast, by Willem van de Velde, calls for smooth sailing today.
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  ...Well, we're never 100% accurate. Scheveningen happens.
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  Perhaps D. Ramey Logan can fly you there.
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  Or take the train from the longest railway platform in the world instead.

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• Since there's nothing about racial segregation in South Africa (apartheid) in this report, I've removed it from the title and added "racial segregation" in its place, which evidently refers to racial segregation in the United States. Apartheid as a concept is specific to South Africa. While I'm sure many here think it's cool and PoMo to use words outside their original context, I am sorry to say that this is entirely incorrect, as it is an obvious anachronism. Viriditas (talk) 04:51, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks Viriditas, I'd just like to publicly dissociate myself from that. I tried taking my name off the byline, but it got put back. I've change the heading to something more anodyne. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:55, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

• If you or any FC contributor feels strongly enough about a disagreement that they want to remove their byline, please let me or User:Go Phightins! know before publicaton and we will try to address the problem. Gamaliel (talk) 21:29, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

• Seems like the forecast should be clear, with a 100% chance of metallic hail :) TomStar81 (Talk) 05:03, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
• Not enough Dusty this week. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:19, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Like — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
• Should Mr. Big in the first entry actually link to the Sex and the City character?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
  

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