This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 17 to 24 August 2014. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists, or their nominations; see their page histories for attribution.
Noye's Fludde(
nominated by
Brianboulton &
Alfietucker) is a one-act opera by the British composer
Benjamin Britten, which tells the story of the Biblical character
Noah and his
ark. The multi-FA writer Brianboulton teamed up with first-time FA-er Alfietucker for this delightful article and we can only hope for more top-notch stuff from both, either singly or in future collaborations.
Harry Glicken(
nominated by
ceranthor) was an American
volcanologist killed by a lava flow on
Mount Unzen, Japan at the age of 33. Described by the nominator Ceranthor as "a first-rate scientist and one strange dude", Glicken was an acknowledged expert in the field of volcanic debris avalanches.
Frédéric Chopin(
nominated by
Smerus) was a Polish composer and pianist, who is also listed as one of the level 3
vital articles; he was one of the leading musicians of the
Romantic era. Another excellently written and beautifully presented article, one of three FAs promoted this week from the classical music sphere.
The Boat Race 2012(
nominated by
The Rambling Man) Part of The Rambling Man's drive to put as many articles about the annual
Boat Race, the article on the 2012 race is the first to reach featured status. The race—between crews from the Universities of
Oxford and
Cambridge along the
River Thames—was won by Cambridge in a controversial year for the contest, which saw the race stopped because of a protester who swam in front of the boats.
George Formby(
nominated by
SchroCat &
Cassianto) was a music hall star, singer-songwriter, comedian and film star—and an unlikely one at that. While still trying to find his place on screen, one film producer thought him "too stupid to play the bad guy and too ugly to play the hero". The producer reckoned without the cheeky grin and the ingrained need of the British to have double entendre and smut in its cultural output, not forgetting the
ukulele, of which he was a maestro, his playing still revered by amateurs and professionals alike.
John Gielgud(
nominated by
Tim riley &
SchroCat) was one of the true greats of the British stage—and one of our level 4
vital articles to boot. A member of the
Terry family theatrical dynasty, he enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades. Tim riley—notching up the first of two FAs in two days—led an overhaul, with co-nom SchroCat going one better with two FAs in one day.
The Bread-Winners(
nominated by
Wehwalt) is an 1883 novel by
John Hay, former
secretary to
Abraham Lincoln, although published anonymously. It was controversial when published, as it presented a hostile view of organised labour; less contentious now, it is the latest FA from the hugely prodigious Wehwalt.
Katy Perry(
nominated by
SNUGGUMS &
Samjohnzon) is an American singer, songwriter and actress who started her career singing
gospel music before moving into pop. As is compulsory for modern celebrities, Perry has also released her own brand of perfume and gone through a short-lived and public marriage and divorce.
Nagato-class battleship(
nominated by
Sturmvogel 66) The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of
dreadnought battleships built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the First World War, although not finished until after the war's end. Both were ineffectual during the Second World War, with one destroyed in a magazine explosion, and one was a target for US
nuclear weapon tests during
Operation Crossroads in mid-1946. She survived the first test with little damage, but was sunk by the second test.
John Plagis(
nominated by
Cliftonian) was a
Southern Rhodesianflying ace in the
RAF during the Second World War, particularly as "part of the multinational group of Allied pilots that successfully defended the strategically important island ... [
of Malta] against numerically superior
Axis forces". Plagis ended the war having been awarded the
DSO,
DFC &
Bar.
List of accolades received by Her (film)(
nominated by
Sock &
Cowlibob) Her, the 2013
comedy-drama film, earned 110 nominations from mainstream sources, and garnered 46 awards. Receiving particular praise was the script by
Spike Jonze, which described the life of a man who develops a relationship with a female voice produced by an intelligent computer operating system.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan filmography(
nominated by
Krimuk90) The screen career of the Indian actress
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan began in 1997, with her appearance in Iruvar, a
Tamil-language political drama. Since then she has gone on to appear in over forty films in five different languages: Krimuk90 has catalogued the lot—his fifth filmography nomination on an Indian celebrity.
Four Freedoms(
nominated by
TonyTheTiger) With the promotion this week of Freedom from Want, the series of Four Freedoms paintings by the American artist
Norman Rockwell becomes a Featured Topic. The nominator, TonyTheTiger, describes the four works as an important "series of works that served as illustrations for a series of essays in response to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's human rights declaration,
Four Freedoms".
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 17 to 24 August 2014. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists, or their nominations; see their page histories for attribution.
Noye's Fludde(
nominated by
Brianboulton &
Alfietucker) is a one-act opera by the British composer
Benjamin Britten, which tells the story of the Biblical character
Noah and his
ark. The multi-FA writer Brianboulton teamed up with first-time FA-er Alfietucker for this delightful article and we can only hope for more top-notch stuff from both, either singly or in future collaborations.
Harry Glicken(
nominated by
ceranthor) was an American
volcanologist killed by a lava flow on
Mount Unzen, Japan at the age of 33. Described by the nominator Ceranthor as "a first-rate scientist and one strange dude", Glicken was an acknowledged expert in the field of volcanic debris avalanches.
Frédéric Chopin(
nominated by
Smerus) was a Polish composer and pianist, who is also listed as one of the level 3
vital articles; he was one of the leading musicians of the
Romantic era. Another excellently written and beautifully presented article, one of three FAs promoted this week from the classical music sphere.
The Boat Race 2012(
nominated by
The Rambling Man) Part of The Rambling Man's drive to put as many articles about the annual
Boat Race, the article on the 2012 race is the first to reach featured status. The race—between crews from the Universities of
Oxford and
Cambridge along the
River Thames—was won by Cambridge in a controversial year for the contest, which saw the race stopped because of a protester who swam in front of the boats.
George Formby(
nominated by
SchroCat &
Cassianto) was a music hall star, singer-songwriter, comedian and film star—and an unlikely one at that. While still trying to find his place on screen, one film producer thought him "too stupid to play the bad guy and too ugly to play the hero". The producer reckoned without the cheeky grin and the ingrained need of the British to have double entendre and smut in its cultural output, not forgetting the
ukulele, of which he was a maestro, his playing still revered by amateurs and professionals alike.
John Gielgud(
nominated by
Tim riley &
SchroCat) was one of the true greats of the British stage—and one of our level 4
vital articles to boot. A member of the
Terry family theatrical dynasty, he enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades. Tim riley—notching up the first of two FAs in two days—led an overhaul, with co-nom SchroCat going one better with two FAs in one day.
The Bread-Winners(
nominated by
Wehwalt) is an 1883 novel by
John Hay, former
secretary to
Abraham Lincoln, although published anonymously. It was controversial when published, as it presented a hostile view of organised labour; less contentious now, it is the latest FA from the hugely prodigious Wehwalt.
Katy Perry(
nominated by
SNUGGUMS &
Samjohnzon) is an American singer, songwriter and actress who started her career singing
gospel music before moving into pop. As is compulsory for modern celebrities, Perry has also released her own brand of perfume and gone through a short-lived and public marriage and divorce.
Nagato-class battleship(
nominated by
Sturmvogel 66) The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of
dreadnought battleships built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the First World War, although not finished until after the war's end. Both were ineffectual during the Second World War, with one destroyed in a magazine explosion, and one was a target for US
nuclear weapon tests during
Operation Crossroads in mid-1946. She survived the first test with little damage, but was sunk by the second test.
John Plagis(
nominated by
Cliftonian) was a
Southern Rhodesianflying ace in the
RAF during the Second World War, particularly as "part of the multinational group of Allied pilots that successfully defended the strategically important island ... [
of Malta] against numerically superior
Axis forces". Plagis ended the war having been awarded the
DSO,
DFC &
Bar.
List of accolades received by Her (film)(
nominated by
Sock &
Cowlibob) Her, the 2013
comedy-drama film, earned 110 nominations from mainstream sources, and garnered 46 awards. Receiving particular praise was the script by
Spike Jonze, which described the life of a man who develops a relationship with a female voice produced by an intelligent computer operating system.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan filmography(
nominated by
Krimuk90) The screen career of the Indian actress
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan began in 1997, with her appearance in Iruvar, a
Tamil-language political drama. Since then she has gone on to appear in over forty films in five different languages: Krimuk90 has catalogued the lot—his fifth filmography nomination on an Indian celebrity.
Four Freedoms(
nominated by
TonyTheTiger) With the promotion this week of Freedom from Want, the series of Four Freedoms paintings by the American artist
Norman Rockwell becomes a Featured Topic. The nominator, TonyTheTiger, describes the four works as an important "series of works that served as illustrations for a series of essays in response to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's human rights declaration,
Four Freedoms".
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