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featured articles were promoted.
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Edward the Elder (
nominated by
Dudley Miles) was
King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death. He was the elder son of
Alfred the Great and his wife
Ealhswith. When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin
Æthelwold, who had a strong claim as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor,
Æthelred.
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Ficus macrophylla (
nominated by
Cas Liber) is a large evergreen
banyan tree of the family
Moraceae native to eastern Australia, from the
Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the
Illawarra in
New South Wales, as well as
Lord Howe Island.
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Royal Naval Division War Memorial (
nominated by
HJ Mitchell) is a
First World War memorial located on
Horse Guards Parade in central
London, and dedicated to members of the
63rd (Royal Naval) Division (RND) killed in that conflict.
Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the memorial, which was unveiled on 25 April 1925—ten years to the day after the
Gallipoli landings, in which the division suffered heavy casualties.
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Lord Howe swamphen (
nominated by
FunkMonk) is an
extinct species of
rail which lived on
Lord Howe Island, east of
Australia. It was first encountered when the crews of British ships visited the island between 1788 and 1790, and all contemporary accounts and illustrations were produced during this time. Today, two specimens exist: the
holotype in the
Natural History Museum of Vienna, and another in
Liverpool's
World Museum.
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Construction of Rockefeller Center: (
nominated by
epicgenius) The construction of
New York City's
Rockefeller Center complex was conceived as an
urban renewal project, spearheaded by
John D. Rockefeller Jr., to help revitalize
Midtown Manhattan. Rockefeller Center is located on one of
Columbia University's former campuses and is bounded by
Fifth Avenue to the east,
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west, 48th Street to the south, and 51st Street to the north. The center occupies 22 acres (8.9 ha) in total, with some 17 million square feet (1.6×106 m2) of office space.
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Australian Air Corps (AAC) (
nominated by
Ian Rose) was a temporary formation of the Australian military that existed in the interval between the disbandment of the
Australian Flying Corps (AFC) of World War I and the establishment of the
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in March 1921. Raised in January 1920, the AAC was commanded by Major
William Anderson, a former AFC pilot.
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Tutupaca (
nominated by
Jo-Jo Eumerus) is a volcano in the region of
Tacna in
Peru. It is part of the Peruvian segment of the
Central Volcanic Zone, one of several volcanic belts in the
Andes. Tutupaca consists of three overlapping volcanoes formed by
lava flows and
lava domes made out of
andesite and
dacite, which grew on top of older volcanic rocks. The highest of these is usually reported to be 5,815 metres (19,078 ft) high and was
glaciated in the past.
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Lazarus (
nominated by
Argento Surfer) is a
dystopian
science fiction comic book series created by writer
Greg Rucka and artist
Michael Lark.
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Black Hours, Morgan MS 493 (
nominated by
Ceoil) is an
illuminated
book of hours produced in
Bruges between 1460 and 1475, although dates as late as 1480 have been suggested. It consists of 121 leaves, most containing blocks of Latin text written in
Gothic minuscule
script, arranged in rows of fourteen lines.
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Antiochus X Eusebes (
nominated by
Attar-Aram syria) as a
Hellenistic
Seleucid monarch who reigned as the
King of Syria between 95 and 92 or 89 BC.
- The
red warbler (
nominated by
MeegsC) is a small
passerine bird of the
New World warbler family Parulidae
endemic to the highlands of Mexico, north of the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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Guy Burgess (
nominated by
Brianboulton) was a British diplomat and
Soviet agent, a member of the
Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the
Cold War. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow-spy
Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in
Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.
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Nicholas Hoult (
nominated by
Numerounovedant) is an English actor. His
body of work includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in
independent projects in both the
American and the
English
film industries. He has been nominated for such awards as a
British Academy Film Award, a
Critics Choice Award, and a
Gold Derby Award. Hoult was included in
Forbes magazine's 2012 list of
30 under 30.
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Hoodening (
nominated by
Midnightblueowl) is a
folk custom found in
Kent, a county in
south-eastern
England. The tradition entails the use of a wooden
hobby horse known as a hooden horse that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a
sackcloth. Originally, the tradition was restricted to the area of
East Kent, although in the twentieth century it spread into neighbouring
West Kent. It represents a regional variation of a "hooded animal" tradition that appears in various forms throughout the British Isles.
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Gevninge helmet fragment (
nominated by
Usernameunique) is the
dexter eyepiece of a
Danish helmet from the
Viking Age or end of the
Nordic Iron Age. It was found in 2000 during the
excavation of a Viking farmstead at
Gevninge, near
Lejre.
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Ceratosaurus (
nominated by
Jens Lallensack) was a predatory
theropod
dinosaur in the
Late Jurassic
Period (
Kimmeridgian to
Tithonian).
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Cleopatra (
nominated by
Pericles of Athens) was the
last active ruler of the
Ptolemaic Kingdom of
Egypt, nominally survived as
pharaoh by her son
Caesarion. She was also a diplomat,
naval commander,
linguist, and
medical author.
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Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar (
nominated by
Wehwalt) is a
commemorative
fifty-cent piece struck by the
United States Bureau of the Mint in 1935. The coin was designed by
Chester Beach. Its
obverse depicts
Half Moon, flagship of
Henry Hudson, after whom the city of
Hudson is named. In addition to showing the ship, the coin depicts a version of the Hudson city seal, with
Neptune riding a whale, a design that has caused commentary over the years.
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The featured article section for the Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar has an i missing from the word "is". Just though I'd let you know. Alduin2000 ( talk) 17:13, 2 July 2018 (UTC) reply