This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 23 April through 26 May. For nominations and nominators, see the featured contents' talk pages.
Featured articles
A bomb exploding near the
Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence at
Obersalzberg, on 25 April 1945
The bombing of Obersalzberg(
nominated by
Nick-D) was an air raid carried out by the
Royal Air Force'sBomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of
World War II in Europe. The operation targeted
Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in
Bavaria which had been built for
Adolf Hitler and other key members of Germany's leadership. Many buildings in the complex were destroyed, though Hitler's residence and the bunker network were only slightly damaged. Two
Allied bombers were shot down with the loss of four airmen, and 31 Germans were killed.
Coropuna(
nominated by
Jo-Jo Eumerus) is a
dormantcompound volcano located in the
Andes mountains of southeast-central
Peru. The upper reaches of Coropuna consist of several perennially snowbound conical summits, lending it the name Nevado Coropuna in Spanish. The complex extends over an area of 240 square kilometres (93 square miles) and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 6,377 metres (20,922 feet) above sea level. This makes the Coropuna complex the
third-highest of Peru. Its thick ice cap is the most extensive in Earth's
tropical zone, with several
outlet glaciers stretching out to lower altitudes. Below an elevation of 5,000 metres (16,000 feet), there are various vegetation belts which include trees,
peat bogs, and grasses; and
agricultural areas and
pastures.
The football match(
nominated by
Harrias and
The Rambling Man) between
Manchester United and
Ipswich Town played at
Old Trafford,
Manchester, on 4 March 1995 as part of the
1994–95 FA Premier League finished in a 9–0 victory for Manchester United. The result stands alone as the record home win in the competition's history and the joint biggest win either home or away. The two teams went into the match at opposite ends of the table; Manchester United were second, while Ipswich Town were second-last. Manchester United won in front of the highest attendance in the league to that point in the season.
SMS Niobe(
nominated by
Parsecboy and
Peacemaker67) was the second member of the ten-ship
Gazelle class of
light cruisers that were built for the
GermanKaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier
unprotected cruiser and
aviso designs, combining the best aspects of both types in what became the progenitor of all future light cruisers of the Imperial fleet. Built to be able to serve with the main German fleet and as a colonial cruiser, she was armed with a battery of ten
10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and a top speed of 21.5
knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph). The ship had a long career, serving in all three German navies, along with the
Yugoslav and
Italian fleets over the span of more than forty years.
The MAX Red Line(
nominated by
Truflip99) is a
light rail service in
Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by
TriMet as part of the
MAX Light Rail system. It serves 26 stations between
Beaverton and Portland, running predominantly east–west. It is the second-busiest service in the MAX system, carrying an average of 22,530 passengers per weekday in September 2019.
The Mercenary War(
nominated by
Gog the Mild) was a
mutiny by troops employed by
Carthage at the end of the
First Punic War (264 to 241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements revolting against Carthaginian control. It lasted from 241 to late 238 or early 237 BC and ended with Carthage suppressing both the mutiny and the revolt.
Tropical Storm Zelda(
nominated by
Nova Crystallis) was the last
tropical cyclone of the
1991 Pacific typhoon season and caused damage in the
Marshall Islands on November 28. It strengthened into a tropical depression on November 27 and reached peak intensity on November 29 , weakening into a tropical storm on December 2 before dissipating on the 7. Zelda caused significant damage in the Marshall Islands, and operations at
Kwajalein Missile Range were disrupted severely. No deaths or injuries were reported. About 60 percent of homes were destroyed in
Ebeye Island, leaving 6,000 people without residence. Nearly all crops on the islands were destroyed, and food and other supplies were contaminated by salt.
Lythronax(
nominated by
FunkMonk,
Lythronaxargestes, and
IJReid) is a
genus of
tyrannosauriddinosaur that lived in North America around 80.6–79.9 million years ago during the
Late Cretaceousperiod. The only known specimen was discovered in
Utah in the
Wahweap Formation of the
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in 2009, and consists of a partial skull and skeleton. Size estimates for Lythronax have ranged between 5 and 8 m (16 and 26 ft) in length, and between 0.5 and 2.5 t (1,100 and 5,500 lb) in weight. It was a heavily built tyrannosaurid; as a member of that group, it would have had small, two-fingered forelimbs, strong hindlimbs, and a very robust skull.
Spacewar!(
nominated by
PresN) is a
space combatvideo game developed in 1962 by
Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen,
Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. Spacewar! is one of the most important and influential games in the
early history of video games. It was extremely popular in the small programming community in the 1960s and the
public domain code was widely
ported and recreated at other computer systems at the time, especially after computer systems with monitors became more widespread towards the end of the decade. It has also been recreated in more modern programming languages for PDP-1
emulators. It directly inspired many other electronic games, such as the first commercial
arcade video games, Galaxy Game and Computer Space (1971), and later games such as Asteroids (1979). In 2007, Spacewar! was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time, which formed the start of the
game canon at the
Library of Congress.
Sega(
nominated by
Red Phoenix) is a Japanese
multinational video game
developer and publisher headquartered in
Shinagawa, Tokyo. Sega produces
multi-million-selling game franchises including Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, and Yakuza, and is the world's most prolific arcade game producer. It also operates
amusement arcades and produces other entertainment products, including
Sega Toys. Sega is recognized for its time supporting its own video game consoles, its creativity, and its innovations. In more recent years, it has been criticized for its business decisions and the quality of its creative output.
Minerva's Den(
nominated by
David Fuchs) is a
single-playerdownloadable content (DLC) campaign for the 2010
first-person shooter game BioShock 2, developed by
2K Marin and published by
2K Games. The player assumes the role of Subject Sigma, an armored human or "
Big Daddy"; Sigma must travel through Minerva's Den, the technological hub of the underwater city of Rapture, to download a schematic of the city's supercomputer. Gameplay is similar to that of BioShock 2, with new enemies and weapons.
French battleship Bouvet(
nominated by
Parsecboy) was a
pre-dreadnoughtbattleship of the
French Navy that was built in the 1890s. She was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, along with
Charles Martel,
Jauréguiberry,
Carnot, and
Masséna, which were ordered in response to the British
Royal Sovereign class. Bouvet was the last vessel of the group to be built, and her design was based on that of Charles Martel. Like her half-sisters, she was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns in individual turrets. She had a top speed of 18
knots (33 km/h; 21 mph), which made her one of the fastest battleships in the world at the time. Bouvet proved to be the most successful design of the five, and she was used as the basis for the subsequent
Charlemagne class. Nevertheless, she suffered from design flaws that reduced her stability and contributed to her loss in 1915.
Knap Hill(
nominated by
Mike Christie) lies on the northern rim of the
Vale of Pewsey, in northern
Wiltshire, England, about a mile (1.6 km) north of the village of
Alton Priors. At the top of the hill is a
causewayed enclosure, a form of
Neolithic earthwork which began to appear in England from about 3700 BC onwards, characterized by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. It is not known what they were used for; they may have been settlements, or meeting places, or ritual sites of some kind. The site has been scheduled as an
ancient monument.
The Mexican National Tag Team Championship(
nominated by
MPJ-DK) is a national Mexican
professional wrestling championship controlled by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling
Commission) and competed for by two-man
tag teams. The championship was created in 1957, promoted regularly until 2003, and intermittently until 2011 when the last known defense took place. The championship was reintroduced in 2020.
Bandai Namco Holdings is a Japanese holdings company, based in Tokyo, that specializes in video games,
anime, toys,
arcades and
amusement parks. Since its foundation in September 2005, the company has maintained numerous video game franchises(
nominated by
Namcokid47), notably Pac-Man is its highest-grossing franchise with over US$12.8 billion by 2016 and Tekken is its best-selling franchise with over 49 million copies across multiple platforms. By the late 2010s, Bandai Namco was the largest toy company by revenue and the eighth-largest video game company.
The
New York City Marathon, one of the six
World Marathon Majors, is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) race which has been held in
New York City since 1970. It is the largest marathon in the world; since 2013, every race except one has had over 50,000 finishers.There have been many winners of the marathon(
nominated by
Harrias). In total, 35 men and 30 women have won the open division of the New York City Marathon, while 9 men and 7 women have won the wheelchair division. The winners have represented 22 different countries: Americans have won the marathon the most, doing so on 32 occasions; Kenyans have won 26 times; and Norwegians 10 times.
The Mahasattva of Truc Lam Coming out of the Mountain is a 14th century scroll depicting the retired Vietnamese emperor
Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm. (assembled by
Jar.ciurus;
nominated by
MER-C)
A poster of cutaway diagram of the
Supermarine Spitfire(created by Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services.;
nominated by
MER-C)
Correction on 23:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC): A previous version of this article mis-identified the featured topic nominator as Sephiroth BCR and omitted a description.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 23 April through 26 May. For nominations and nominators, see the featured contents' talk pages.
Featured articles
A bomb exploding near the
Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence at
Obersalzberg, on 25 April 1945
The bombing of Obersalzberg(
nominated by
Nick-D) was an air raid carried out by the
Royal Air Force'sBomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of
World War II in Europe. The operation targeted
Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in
Bavaria which had been built for
Adolf Hitler and other key members of Germany's leadership. Many buildings in the complex were destroyed, though Hitler's residence and the bunker network were only slightly damaged. Two
Allied bombers were shot down with the loss of four airmen, and 31 Germans were killed.
Coropuna(
nominated by
Jo-Jo Eumerus) is a
dormantcompound volcano located in the
Andes mountains of southeast-central
Peru. The upper reaches of Coropuna consist of several perennially snowbound conical summits, lending it the name Nevado Coropuna in Spanish. The complex extends over an area of 240 square kilometres (93 square miles) and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 6,377 metres (20,922 feet) above sea level. This makes the Coropuna complex the
third-highest of Peru. Its thick ice cap is the most extensive in Earth's
tropical zone, with several
outlet glaciers stretching out to lower altitudes. Below an elevation of 5,000 metres (16,000 feet), there are various vegetation belts which include trees,
peat bogs, and grasses; and
agricultural areas and
pastures.
The football match(
nominated by
Harrias and
The Rambling Man) between
Manchester United and
Ipswich Town played at
Old Trafford,
Manchester, on 4 March 1995 as part of the
1994–95 FA Premier League finished in a 9–0 victory for Manchester United. The result stands alone as the record home win in the competition's history and the joint biggest win either home or away. The two teams went into the match at opposite ends of the table; Manchester United were second, while Ipswich Town were second-last. Manchester United won in front of the highest attendance in the league to that point in the season.
SMS Niobe(
nominated by
Parsecboy and
Peacemaker67) was the second member of the ten-ship
Gazelle class of
light cruisers that were built for the
GermanKaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier
unprotected cruiser and
aviso designs, combining the best aspects of both types in what became the progenitor of all future light cruisers of the Imperial fleet. Built to be able to serve with the main German fleet and as a colonial cruiser, she was armed with a battery of ten
10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and a top speed of 21.5
knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph). The ship had a long career, serving in all three German navies, along with the
Yugoslav and
Italian fleets over the span of more than forty years.
The MAX Red Line(
nominated by
Truflip99) is a
light rail service in
Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by
TriMet as part of the
MAX Light Rail system. It serves 26 stations between
Beaverton and Portland, running predominantly east–west. It is the second-busiest service in the MAX system, carrying an average of 22,530 passengers per weekday in September 2019.
The Mercenary War(
nominated by
Gog the Mild) was a
mutiny by troops employed by
Carthage at the end of the
First Punic War (264 to 241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements revolting against Carthaginian control. It lasted from 241 to late 238 or early 237 BC and ended with Carthage suppressing both the mutiny and the revolt.
Tropical Storm Zelda(
nominated by
Nova Crystallis) was the last
tropical cyclone of the
1991 Pacific typhoon season and caused damage in the
Marshall Islands on November 28. It strengthened into a tropical depression on November 27 and reached peak intensity on November 29 , weakening into a tropical storm on December 2 before dissipating on the 7. Zelda caused significant damage in the Marshall Islands, and operations at
Kwajalein Missile Range were disrupted severely. No deaths or injuries were reported. About 60 percent of homes were destroyed in
Ebeye Island, leaving 6,000 people without residence. Nearly all crops on the islands were destroyed, and food and other supplies were contaminated by salt.
Lythronax(
nominated by
FunkMonk,
Lythronaxargestes, and
IJReid) is a
genus of
tyrannosauriddinosaur that lived in North America around 80.6–79.9 million years ago during the
Late Cretaceousperiod. The only known specimen was discovered in
Utah in the
Wahweap Formation of the
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in 2009, and consists of a partial skull and skeleton. Size estimates for Lythronax have ranged between 5 and 8 m (16 and 26 ft) in length, and between 0.5 and 2.5 t (1,100 and 5,500 lb) in weight. It was a heavily built tyrannosaurid; as a member of that group, it would have had small, two-fingered forelimbs, strong hindlimbs, and a very robust skull.
Spacewar!(
nominated by
PresN) is a
space combatvideo game developed in 1962 by
Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen,
Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. Spacewar! is one of the most important and influential games in the
early history of video games. It was extremely popular in the small programming community in the 1960s and the
public domain code was widely
ported and recreated at other computer systems at the time, especially after computer systems with monitors became more widespread towards the end of the decade. It has also been recreated in more modern programming languages for PDP-1
emulators. It directly inspired many other electronic games, such as the first commercial
arcade video games, Galaxy Game and Computer Space (1971), and later games such as Asteroids (1979). In 2007, Spacewar! was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time, which formed the start of the
game canon at the
Library of Congress.
Sega(
nominated by
Red Phoenix) is a Japanese
multinational video game
developer and publisher headquartered in
Shinagawa, Tokyo. Sega produces
multi-million-selling game franchises including Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, and Yakuza, and is the world's most prolific arcade game producer. It also operates
amusement arcades and produces other entertainment products, including
Sega Toys. Sega is recognized for its time supporting its own video game consoles, its creativity, and its innovations. In more recent years, it has been criticized for its business decisions and the quality of its creative output.
Minerva's Den(
nominated by
David Fuchs) is a
single-playerdownloadable content (DLC) campaign for the 2010
first-person shooter game BioShock 2, developed by
2K Marin and published by
2K Games. The player assumes the role of Subject Sigma, an armored human or "
Big Daddy"; Sigma must travel through Minerva's Den, the technological hub of the underwater city of Rapture, to download a schematic of the city's supercomputer. Gameplay is similar to that of BioShock 2, with new enemies and weapons.
French battleship Bouvet(
nominated by
Parsecboy) was a
pre-dreadnoughtbattleship of the
French Navy that was built in the 1890s. She was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, along with
Charles Martel,
Jauréguiberry,
Carnot, and
Masséna, which were ordered in response to the British
Royal Sovereign class. Bouvet was the last vessel of the group to be built, and her design was based on that of Charles Martel. Like her half-sisters, she was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns in individual turrets. She had a top speed of 18
knots (33 km/h; 21 mph), which made her one of the fastest battleships in the world at the time. Bouvet proved to be the most successful design of the five, and she was used as the basis for the subsequent
Charlemagne class. Nevertheless, she suffered from design flaws that reduced her stability and contributed to her loss in 1915.
Knap Hill(
nominated by
Mike Christie) lies on the northern rim of the
Vale of Pewsey, in northern
Wiltshire, England, about a mile (1.6 km) north of the village of
Alton Priors. At the top of the hill is a
causewayed enclosure, a form of
Neolithic earthwork which began to appear in England from about 3700 BC onwards, characterized by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. It is not known what they were used for; they may have been settlements, or meeting places, or ritual sites of some kind. The site has been scheduled as an
ancient monument.
The Mexican National Tag Team Championship(
nominated by
MPJ-DK) is a national Mexican
professional wrestling championship controlled by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling
Commission) and competed for by two-man
tag teams. The championship was created in 1957, promoted regularly until 2003, and intermittently until 2011 when the last known defense took place. The championship was reintroduced in 2020.
Bandai Namco Holdings is a Japanese holdings company, based in Tokyo, that specializes in video games,
anime, toys,
arcades and
amusement parks. Since its foundation in September 2005, the company has maintained numerous video game franchises(
nominated by
Namcokid47), notably Pac-Man is its highest-grossing franchise with over US$12.8 billion by 2016 and Tekken is its best-selling franchise with over 49 million copies across multiple platforms. By the late 2010s, Bandai Namco was the largest toy company by revenue and the eighth-largest video game company.
The
New York City Marathon, one of the six
World Marathon Majors, is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) race which has been held in
New York City since 1970. It is the largest marathon in the world; since 2013, every race except one has had over 50,000 finishers.There have been many winners of the marathon(
nominated by
Harrias). In total, 35 men and 30 women have won the open division of the New York City Marathon, while 9 men and 7 women have won the wheelchair division. The winners have represented 22 different countries: Americans have won the marathon the most, doing so on 32 occasions; Kenyans have won 26 times; and Norwegians 10 times.
The Mahasattva of Truc Lam Coming out of the Mountain is a 14th century scroll depicting the retired Vietnamese emperor
Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm. (assembled by
Jar.ciurus;
nominated by
MER-C)
A poster of cutaway diagram of the
Supermarine Spitfire(created by Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services.;
nominated by
MER-C)
Correction on 23:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC): A previous version of this article mis-identified the featured topic nominator as Sephiroth BCR and omitted a description.
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The part about the Featured Topic that was promoted is lackluster and doesn't even accurately mention who nominated the topic. GamerPro64 23:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC) reply