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Celestial Fireworks as Official Hubble 25th Anniversary Image

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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 05 July to 12 July.

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Featured articles

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Three Featured articles were promoted this week.

• Capon Chapel (nominated by West Virginian) Capon Chapel is situated two miles south of Capon Bridge, West Virginia, USA. It's a small church, built from logs in the 1850s. The area was a stronghold of the Baptists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and there was probably a Baptist church on the site. The first burial in the cemetery occurred in 1816, but the first certain mention of a church was in a land grant of 1852, referring to a house of worship "for the use of all orthodox Christians"'.

• Tom Simpson (nominated by BaldBoris) The British cyclist Tom Simpson learned to ride at the age of twelve. He joined a cycling club aged 13 and participated in his first road race. was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. In the thirteenth stage of the 1967 Tour de France, Simpson collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. He was 29 years old. The post-mortem examination found that he had mixed amphetamines and alcohol; this diuretic combination proved fatal when combined with the heat, the hard climb of the Ventoux and a stomach complaint.
• Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) (nominated by Ceoil) Francisco Goya painted Witches' Sabbath in the early 1820s, in oils on the plaster wall of his home near Madrid.

Featured lists

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Dorothy L Sayers in 1928

Two Featured lists were promoted this week.

• 73rd Academy Awards (nominated by Birdienest81)
• List of works by Dorothy L. Sayers (nominated by SchroCat) Best known for her mystery's Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a prolific English crime writer, poet, playwright. In the 1930s, Sayers stopped writing crime stories and turned instead to religious players and essays, and to translations..

Featured pictures

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Twenty-nine Featured picturess were promoted this week.

• Alexis of Russia (created by Unknown; nominated by Crisco 1492) Aleksey Mikhailovich became Tsar Alexis I of Russia in 1645. His reign was marked by a Cossack revolt in the south and a schism in the Orthodox church. He also invaded Poland, taking advantage of her weakness following another Cossack rebellion. His "crowning merit" was apparently in discovering great men and employing them, such as Fyodor Rtishchev, who not only did great charitable works and founded a school, but also survived several attempts to assassinate him and wrote a book on falconry.
• Funeral of Alfonso XII of Spain (created by Mr. Campuzano (illustration), Auguste Tilly (engraving); nominated by Adam Cuerden) Alfonso XII died aged 27 from dysentery in 1885.
• Napoleon on the gold franc: First Consul to Emperor (created by Paris Mint; nominated by Godot13)
• Napoleon on the gold franc: First Consul to Emperor (created by Paris Mint; nominated by Godot13)
• L'éclair (created by Paul Gavarni, restored by Adam Cuerden; nominated by Adam Cuerden) L'éclair by the French Jewish composer Fromental Halévy is a comic opera in three acts. It was published in 1835, and utilises a small company of two tenors and two sopranos in a story of blind love.
• Rigoletto redux (created by Adam Cuerden; nominated by Adam Cuerden)
• Crew of an M-24 Chaffee Tank in Korea (created by SGT. RILEY (U.S. Army); nominated by TomStar81) M3 grease gun
• Horse Gram (created by Blacknclick; nominated by Blacknclick)
• Lyriothemis acigastra (created by Jkadavoor; nominated by J Milburn)
• Lyriothemis acigastra (created by Jkadavoor; nominated by J Milburn)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45 (created by ???; nominated by Godot13)
• Madonna of the Rose Garden (created by Michelino da Besozzo; nominated by Brandmeister)
• Westerlund 2 (created by NASA; nominated by Armbrust) The cluster of 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2 resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located just 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. Nice place for a day trip.
• Netherlands Indies gulden coin (created by Java Mint, Netherlands Indies (coin), Heritage Auctions (image); nominated by Crisco 1492)
• Blangkon (created and nominated by Chris Woodrich) This Ngayogyakarta-style blangkon, Decorated with glitter and usually worn at weddings was taken by Chris Woodrich with the Canon EOS 60D with a 50 mm lens. & some execlent lighting on the pure white background. The belangkon (Indonesian) is a traditional Javanese headdress worn by men and made of batik fabric.
• Nowruz Zoroastrian.jpg (created by Ipaat; nominated by Alborzagros) in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull (personifying the Earth), and a lion (personifying the Sun), are equal.
• Richèl Hogenkamp (created by Kadellar; nominated by Tomer T) Tennis Player Richèl Hogenkamp at the Masters in Madrid 2015, Madrid, Spain.
• Witch doctor (created by Lycaon; nominated by Tomer T) A traditional healer or nganga of the Shona people, photographed near the site of Great Zimbabwe. The nganga treats problems of illness and afflictions in his village. Although (according to ethnographer Michael Gelfand) the nganga is neither overly deferred to or feared by his fellow villagers, he acts as the "kingpin of African society" with his influence extending to the selection of tribal chiefs.
• Ariadne auf Naxos (created by Adam Cuerden; nominated by Adam Cuerden) Ariadne auf Naxos is a short opera about a short opera called Ariadne auf Naxos. It was written by Richard Strauss, Austrian composer. The Prologue is set in the home of "the richest man in Vienna"; the evening's after-dinner entertainment is a burlesque followed by a serious opera, presented by a company of saucy comediennes and a company of opera singers respectively. The dinner overruns, and the two companies are instructed to combine their productions, resulting in a combination of "slapstick comedy and consummately beautiful music".
• Wrocław Główny railway station (created by Pudelek; nominated by Crisco 1492) Laready a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons, User:Pudelek captured this fine image on the NIKON D3100.

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"I see you're reading Edward II by Philip Marlowe… he came to a rather sticky end did he not?"

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Is there a reason, why the images in the "Japanese invasion money (Malaya and Borneo) 1942–45" set are all piped the same way? Or that one of the others contains "redux"? This could be done better. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:51, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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