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(Vanguard in guard)

By Adam Cuerden

Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol

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Featured articles

Six featured articles were promoted this week.

Engraving of The Tower House in 1878 from The Building News

• ARTICLE ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.
• The Tower House ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) The building of the Tower House in Holland Park, London, was the home of the architect and designer William Burges. He is regarded as one of the greatest of the Victorian "art-architects", with a short but illustrious career beginning in 1863. By 1875 Burges was no longer receiving major commissions, and the Tower House was to be his last significant work. The first des
• HMS Illustrious ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) HMS Illustrious (87) was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, launched in April 1939 and scrapped in 1957. She participated in the Battle of Taranto in 1940 when her aircraft sank one Italian battleship and badly damaged two others.
• Blackrock (film) ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Blackrock is a 1997 Australian film about the rape and murder of a young girl after a party in Blackrock, a fictional "Australian beachside working-class suburb".
• 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.
• Love It to Death ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description.

Featured pictures

Fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Dusty wanted a cracker so, like the rest of the world:

Dusty then contracted these Lijiang Yunnan China-Naxi-people, to mass produce crackers fill baskets with them and deliver them directly to her, in the Gembira Loka Zoo, in Yogyakarta - via container ship.

Dusty now has a nice winter home in Schwäbisch and runs a global cracker empire from here over the web with her business partner, User: Crisco 1492.

• The Resurrection (created by [[ ]], nominated by Crisco 1492) The Resurrection (Cecco del Caravaggio) is one of the artist’s most notable works. The angel is surely into heavy weightlifting, throwing around soldiers and stones like that... The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.] The artwork is from 1619, and was a painting intended for private devotion for the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, for his private chapel in Florence. It depicts the Resurrection of Christ, the moment described in the Gospel of Matthew 28:2:There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow ...

• A Session of the Painting Jury (created by [[ ]], nominated by [[User: | ]]) A Session of the Painting Jury (1885) by Henri Gervex; This shows a meeting of the Paris Salon in 1883 in which several identifiable artists are voting on which pictures should be exhibited. This picture itself was exhibited in the Salon in 1885 and was subsequently acquired by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, who later became the Prime Minister of France, before it was gifted by him to the state

• Dusky lory (created by Chris Woodrich, nominated by Crisco 1492) Dusky lory (Pseudeos fuscata), Gembira Loka Zoo, Yogyakarta

• Danish West Indian daler (created by [[ ]], nominated by Godot13) 10 daler gold coin (1904) depicting Christian IX of Denmark. Only year of issue for the denomination (10 daler/50 Francs), only 2,005 were struck. Talk about a rare coin..

• The Roses of Heliogabalus (created by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, nominated by Brandmeister) The Roses of Heliogabalus by the Anglo-Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888. The theme is based on a probably invented episode from the life of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, taken from the Augustan History.

• Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (created by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, [[ |nominated]] by Crisco 1492) Crisco 1492 nominates some wonderful photos, here again is another example: Lijiang, Yunnan, China: Nakhi people carrying the typical baskets of the region; scene from a public performance in Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Open Air Theatre. This photo came in third place in the Wikimedia Commons 2014 Picture of the Year contest (see previous Signpost coverage).

• Marktplatz of Schwäbisch Hall (created by Petar Milošević, nominated by PetarM) Schwäbisch Hall (Marktplatz) in winter.Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

• A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (created by Hans Holbein the Younger, nominated by SchroCat ) A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (1526–28) by Hans Holbein the Younger was painted during Holbein's first visit to Britain. The sitter was unidentified for years, although now it is thought to be Anne Lovell, the wife of Francis, a squire to Henry VIII. The painting was acquired in 1992 by the National Gallery in London, which considers it to be "a wonderfully preserved example of Holbein's art at its most evocative.

• Augusta Savage (created by (unknown) Harmon Foundation / NARA, nominated by Yann) Augusta Fells (Savage) was born 2/29/1829 in Green Cove Springs. She began making clay figures as a child, mostly small animals, but her father would beat her when he found her sculptures. This was because at that time, he believed her sculpture to be a sinful practice, based upon his interpretation of the "graven images" portion of the Bible. After the family moved to West Palm Beach, she sculpted a Virgin Mary figure, and, upon seeing it, her father changed his mind. Savage opened two galleries, whose shows were well attended and well reviewed, but few sales resulted, and the galleries closed. Deeply depressed by the financial struggle, in the 1940s Savage moved to a farm in Saugerties (near Woodstock, New York), where she stayed until 1960.

• Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (after Godfrey Kneller; nominated by Crisco 1492) "Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674–1738) was a British Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State, directing British foreign policy. He was often known as Turnip Townshend because of his strong interest in farming turnips and his role in the British agricultural revolution."]]

• Flower Still Life (created by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, nominated by [[User: | ]]) Painting, true sophistication and complexity by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, a highly successful still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. When tulips became a luxury item, a profusion of varieties followed, like the ones in the painting, white and yellow with red strips. These paintings are valuable as historic documents for botanical purposes, since the flowers are depicted with great accuracy.

• HMS Vanguard (created by CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald, nominated by TomStar81) The Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine HMS Vanguard (S28), photographed as she arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol, November 2010

• Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (created by P.S. Krøyer, nominated by [[User: | ]]) Summer evening on Skagen's Beach. Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer walking together. Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach is a painting by Peder Severin Krøyer, from 1893, and is counted as one of his masterpieces. Krøyer was one of the most notable members of the Danish artistic community known as the Skagen Painters. The work shows the painter Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer, the artist's wife, strolling on Skagen Southern beach during the blue hour, when the horizon is almost dissolved in the evening skies mist and dispersed blue light, reflected in the sea.

• Mehmed IV (created by a unknown artist, nominated by Crisco 1492 ) Taking the throne at age six, Sultan Mehmed IV's reign was significant as he changed the nature of the Sultan's position forever by giving up most of his executive power to his Grand Vizier. Sultan Mehmed IV was known as Avcı, "the hunter", as this outdoor exercise took up much of his time. His reign is notable for a brief revival of Ottoman fortunes led by the Grand Vizier Mehmed Köprülü and his son Fazıl Ahmet. They regained the Aegean islands from Venice, and Crete, during the Cretan War (1645–1669). They also fought successful campaigns against Transylvania (1660) and Poland (1670–1674).

• Proposed design for the Susan B. Anthony dollar (created by Frank Gasparro, nominated by RHM22) Frank Gasparro's proposed obverse design for the Susan B. Anthony dollar. In the early 1960s, as the price of silver rose, Treasury Department vaults were depleted of silver dollars by the public. No silver dollars had been minted in the United States since 1935, and a shortage developed in the Western United States, especially in areas in which gambling was common. As a result, Congress voted to authorize production of 45 million new silver Peace dollars on August 3, 1964. The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999. Social reformer Susan B. Anthony was selected as the design subject. The reverse design of the Eisenhower dollar was kept. Both sides of the coin were designed by Frank Gasparro, the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.

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• I, for one, welcome our new lory overlords. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
• "Salt was distilled here by the Celts on the site of Schwäbisch Hall..." I'm pretty sure you can't distill salt (what with it not evaporating). Johnbod (talk) 15:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

• Actually the article itself says "distilled"! Seems to be referring to the production of salt by evaporation of salty groundwater. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:29, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
  

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