- Thelenota ananas by Diego Delso, one of our newest featured pictures.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted in August.
So, I missed an issue, but I've caught up, and I'm doing somewhat better. Actually managed to describe all the articles; Lists are just... a list, but, well, I'm doing what I can. And as can be seen from last issue, if I don't do this, no-one else does.
Featured articles
Thirty-four featured articles were promoted this period.
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- Nuremberg trials, nominated by buidhe
- Most of the stuff in this featured content report is goofy stuff appropriate for a rhyming gimmick. This article, however, concerns the trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II, in which the full extent of their deeds was exposed.
- Australiformis, nominated by Mattximus
- You might call these parasitic worms unscrupulous,
- But they'll only infect you if you're marsupulous.
- Titanis, nominated by Augustios Paleo (a.k.a. AFH)
- These birds of terror would be feared,
- But thousands of years ago they disappeared
- (Probably just waiting for us to get complacent. The Antarctic ice is thawing; the cryogenic tanks will soon open.)
- Five pounds (British gold coin), nominated by Wehwalt
- One of the largest gold coins to enter circulation,
- The "quintuple sovereign" is a strange situation.
- Still, I'll gladly pay you five pounds for one. Any takers?
- Boukephala and Nikaia, nominated by AirshipJungleman29
- In Pakistan these cities wait,
- Founded by Alexander the Great.
- One's named after a nearby victory, of course;
- ...The other one, though, is named after his horse.
- Daytona USA, nominated by Red Phoenix
- To play this racing game, for quarters we'll beg ya,
- It's still big in arcades, and was made by Sega.
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- Florence Petty, nominated by SchroCat
- She taught the working class to cook cheaply, so they could eat,
- Suet puddings were her special treat.
- Frank McGee (ice hockey), nominated by Kaiser matias
- "One-Eyed" Frank McGee
- Played hockey though one eye couldn't see.
- His team won the Stanley cup four years in a row,
- So, y'know, great job! Way to go!
- Revolutionary Girl Utena, nominated by Morgan695
- The follow-up to Sailor Moon, it's essential:
- Complex and weird and experimental!
- Five Nights at Freddy's (video game), nominated by The Night Watch
- JUMP SCARE
- (Is that unfair?)
- (Probably is, but I don't care.)
- Rodrigues night heron, nominated by FunkMonk
- A Mascarene bird, all we have are its stats:
- It just didn't survive the introduction of cats.
- 1927 World Snooker Championship, nominated by BennyOnTheLoose
- Joe Davis won first
- And also the next fourteen:
- If you love snooker,
- This article's keen!
- Daisy Bacon, nominated by Mike Christie
- Editor of Love Story Magazine, and the stories she'd tell:
- It might have been a 'pulp', but it sure sold well.
- Annie Dove Denmark, nominated by PCN02WPS
- Head of Anderson College, her worth is quite plain,
- But in ways that a couplet just cannot explain.
- "Mother" (Meghan Trainor song), nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ)
- Click here for this article's poetry, by a guest poet.
- Kyla (Filipino singer), nominated by Pseud 14
- Melanie Hernandez Calumpad
- Is not the sort of singer
- That you would describe as 'bad'.
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- Lou Henry Hoover, nominated by Thebiguglyalien
- Herbert Hoover, her husband, and her had a passion,
- And translated De re metallica from the Latin.
- First woman to graduate from geology at Stanford, it's rather shady
- That if people heard about her at all, it's just as First Lady.
- Air Board (Australia), nominated by Ian Rose
- This is the first attempt at a guide to this, so Ian asked their opinion, sensibly,
- And the Air Board got back, and said he covered it, quote, "quite comprehensively".
- Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, nominated by LunaEatsTuna
- For academic discussion of founding of your own state,
- Hobbs and Williams step up to the plate.
- Howard Florey, nominated by Hawkeye7
- Alexander Fleming gets the raves for penicillin's great discovery,
- It was a group effort, though, and Florey too helped all those patients to recovery.
- WSNS-TV, nominated by Sammi Brie
- This Chicago television channel with a nineteen seventy creation
- Grew huge, got challenged, and then became a Spanish-language station
- Affine symmetric group, nominated by JayBeeEll (JBL)
- Number lines and the triangular tiling of the plane
- Define the symmetry group that bears this here name.
- Symmetry in pure mathematics has... a somewhat complex meaning,
- So, from a poem like this, not much help you'll be gleaning.
- Venus in fiction, nominated by TompaDompa and Piotrus
- The impenetrable clouds blocked all view of what might be below,
- So if a writer got it wrong, well, no-one (then) could know.
- Ministerial by-election, nominated by John M Wolfson
- Until 1926, an M.P. given a job as minister
- Had to undergo a situation sinister.
- After they got their ministerial selection,
- They were kicked out and had to survive a new by-election.
- So if your party took power within Westminster's halls
- You'd best hope your new leaders won by-election, or everything stalls.
- The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection), nominated by Premeditated Chaos (PMC)
- A collection that was built to shock
- Based on the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
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- Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, nominated by Isaksenk
- As the English Civil War embroiled
- This Scottish Duchess helped the Royals
- "Never Forget You" (Mariah Carey song), nominated by Heartfox
- No music video, no performances live,
- Yet on the Billboard Hot 100 it still did arrive.
- Radoje Pajović, nominated by Peacemaker67
- Montenegran history from World War II
- Would be a lot less well covered were it not for this dude.
- (Eh, that's a half-rhyme, but I'm actually doing poems this issue, and it's a double-length one, so screw it, good enough.)
- Ludwig Ross, nominated by UndercoverClassicist
- A person who you ought to seek
- If you like archaeology, and like it Greek.
- John Oliver, nominated by MyCatIsAChonk
- A comedian who tells the news
- Teaching the why of his liberal views.
- 2022 Tour Championship, nominated by Lee Vilenski
- Very few things rhyme with snooker,
- But of Vilenski's work, I'm not a rebuker.
- Asimov's Science Fiction, nominated by Mike Christie
- Science fiction magazines are in decline
- This one was really important, though, in its time.
- "Gento" (song), nominated by Abacusada
- Di ka basta-basta makakita ng gento.
- Jessie Murray, nominated by SchroCat
- To discuss her psychoanalysis others would avoid
- For her failure to follow the false doctrines of Freud....
Featured pictures
Twenty-seven featured pictures were promoted this period, including the ones at the top and bottom of this article.
- Silver coin of Nader Shah by the American Numismatic Society
- Cheetahs grooming each other by Arturo de Frias Marques
- Whitehead's trogon, front view, by John Harrison
- Whitehead's trogon, back view, by John Harrison
- Cognac glass by Archaeodontosaurus (Didier Descouens)
- Pipe snifter by Archaeodontosaurus (Didier Descouens)
- Stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral by PtrQs
- Main Shiva Temple of the Wangath Temple complex by Basavaraj K. Korkar
- Red panda by Mathias Appel
- George Grossmith (photographer unknown); restored by Adam Cuerden
- Lestes dryas, side view, by Ivar Leidus
- Lestes dryas, dorsal view, by Ivar Leidus
Featured topics
Two featured topics were promoted this period:
Nominated by Pseud 14:
Nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ)
Featured lists
Nineteen featured lists were promoted this period.
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- William S. Hart filmography, nominated by Jimknutt
- List of storks, nominated by AryKun
- List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1972, nominated by ChrisTheDude
- Kyla discography, nominated by Pseud 14
- Pit Stop Challenge, nominated by EnthusiastWorld37
- List of World Heritage Sites in Yemen, nominated by Tone
- List of World Heritage Sites in Panama, nominated by Tone
- List of Colorado ballot measures, nominated by ThadeusOfNazereth
- List of lorisoids, nominated by PresN
- List of Hot Soul Singles number ones of 1973, nominated by ChrisTheDude
- List of awards and nominations received by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, nominated by MyCatIsAChonk
- Julia Michaels discography, nominated by MaranoFan
- World Video Game Hall of Fame, nominated by PresN
- Municipalities of Sinaloa, nominated by Mattximus
- List of National Football League annual passing touchdowns leaders, nominated by Hey man im josh and ULPS
- Eiji Tsuburaya filmography, nominated by Eiga-Kevin2
- Daya discography, nominated by MaranoFan
- 95th Academy Awards, nominated by RunningTiger123 and Birdienest81
- List of Mckenna Grace performances, nominated by Pamzeis
- The 1927 film Wings by William A. Wellman, another one of August's featured pictures.
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Should mention that Venus in fiction was co-nominated by Piotrus. TompaDompa (talk) 20:36, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Oltrepier and TompaDompa: Should be fixed, sorry Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 09:12, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]