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Historic last launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour; Teddy Roosevelt's threat to behead official; 18th-century London sex directory

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By Tony1 and Dabomb87
Newly promoted featured picture: the last launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in May; a higher-resolution version can be viewed at the description page (see below).


This week's "Featured content" covers Sunday 10 – Saturday 16 July


From the new featured article, the frontispiece and title page of the 1773 edition of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small, attractive pocketbook, it apparently sold about 8,000 copies annually.
A photograph showing many types of cirrus clouds all jumbled together floating above a plain
From the new featured article, a single sky filled with many types of cirrus cloud
From the new featured article White-bellied Sea Eagle, an opportunistic carnivore that consumes a wide variety of animal prey: here, one is about to seize waterborne prey.
New featured picture: Hayley McFarland, an actress in the US television series Lie to Me
Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status:
  • Indian Head eagle (nom), the sixth in a projected ten-article series about the Great Redesign of US coinage between 1907 and 1921. This article includes coverage of the initial battles between sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber and President Theodore Roosevelt, who went so far as to threaten Barber with decapitation. (Nominated by Wehwalt)
  • Gumbo (nom), a stew or soup that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. (Nominated by Karanacs)
  • "Indian Camp" (nom), the first short story Ernest Hemingway published. Some critics consider that it shows the genesis of many of his themes in subsequent stories and novels. (Truthkeeper88)
  • White-bellied Sea Eagle (nom), this WikiProject Birds collaboration for April 2011 concerns a large diurnal bird of prey that is resident from India and Sri Lanka through southeast Asia to Australia on coasts and major waterways. It issues a loud goose-like honk. (Casliber)
  • Anfield (nom), an association football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, UK, with a seating capacity of 45,276. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since their formation in 1892. (NapHit)
  • Cirrus cloud (nom), which are characterised by thin, wispy strands, often bunched into tufts. The word cirrus is Latin for curl. They range in colour from white to a faint grey and form when water vapour undergoes deposition at altitudes above 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) in temperate regions and above 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) in tropical regions. (Reaper Eternal)
  • SMS Friedrich der Grosse (1911) (nom), the flagship of the German Imperial Navy's High Seas Fleet for most of World War I. The ship saw heavy service, including the Battle of Jutland, and was ultimately scuttled in Scapa Flow at the end of the war and later raised for scrapping. (Parsecboy)
  • Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (nom), a relatively unknown game by Looking Glass Studios. The poorly planned development and massive commercial failure of the game helped put an early end to the company's self-publishing venture. (JimmyBlackwing)
  • Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (nom). Nominator Parrot of Doom says, "Forget what you've read about stuffy old-fashioned Georgian social values—the truth was that if you wanted a bit of how's-your-father, London, specifically Covent Garden, was the place to go."
  • Astonishing Stories (nom), a minor American pulp science-fiction magazine in the early 1940s that managed to publish early fiction by some of the biggest names in the field, such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. (Mike Christie)
  • Resident Evil 2 (nom), a survival horror video game originally released for the PlayStation in 1998. (Prime Blue)
  • No. 79 Squadron RAAF (nom), the history and current role of one of the Royal Australian Air Force's most interesting squadrons. No. 79 Squadron saw combat in World War II between 1943 and 1945, was reformed to be deployed to Thailand for six years during the Cold War, was briefly active as a fighter unit based in Malaysia in the late 1980s and has provided initial jet aircraft training to new RAAF pilots since 1998. (Nick-D)
  • London Necropolis Company (nom). Nominator Iridescent says, "Depending on your point of view, the LNC was either a visionary attempt to use new technology to solve a public health crisis and to introduce the concept of dignity to funerals for the poor, or it ranks alongside Mirabel Airport and the Atmospheric Railway as one of the great examples of harebrained overengineering schemes."
  • Javan slow loris (nom), a primate native to the western and central portions of the island of Java in Indonesia. (Visionholder)

One featured article was delisted:

Six lists were promoted:

Four images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":


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Minor clarification: For the sake of discussion, Hayley McFarland (Emily in the show) is not the main actress, she's the third or fourth most important actress in the series, and is somewhere in the range of sixth on the list most important characters. Sven Manguard Wha? 00:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just changed that myself before noticed your comment. NW (Talk) 01:50, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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