Frontonia sp. digesting
cyanobacteria, a new featured picture by
Wiedehopf20. Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here in Scotland - there's
Harvest Festivals, I suppose, but good luck having something like that in the middle of
COVID-19 - and the Canadian one was back in October, so we're being a bit
Americocentric ... but, screw it, we need a title and the image is great, so "Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria" it is!
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 21 October through 11 November. For nominations and nominators, see the featured contents' talk pages.
So, we're doing a bit of a shorter timeframe on the featured content this month because, frankly, last month was a rush to get done in time, since it was meant to be finished and published so soon after the content window closed. Not ideal. Still, Wikipedia creates a lot of great content - Hell, remember when we used to do these weekly? ...Am I the only one? Damn, I feel old. Anyway! It's a bumper crop of fantastic content for your perusal! Trying something new and putting featured pictures between articles and lists to break the content up. Let us know what you think! Anyway, that's it from your friendly Signpost reporter for this week! I mean, month! ...Feeling so very old here. When did I last do these, like five years ago? Ten? Pretty sure I had techniques for doing this back then that made it a lot easier. Ah, well! Still, hope you're all having a great month, and are going to have a great holiday season of avoiding other people and not getting COVID-19!
— Adam
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The Réunion swamphen (Porphyrio caerulescens), also known as the Réunion gallinule or oiseau bleu, is a
hypothetical extinct species of
rail that was endemic to the
Mascarene island of
Réunion. While only known from 17th and 18th century accounts by visitors to the island, it was
scientifically named in 1848, based on the 1674 account by
Sieur Dubois. A considerable literature was subsequently devoted to its possible affinities, with current researchers agreeing it was derived from the
swamphen genus Porphyrio. It has been considered mysterious and enigmatic due to the lack of any physical evidence of its existence.
This bird was described as entirely blue in plumage with a red beak and legs. It was said to be the size of a
Réunion ibis or chicken, which could mean 65–70 cm (26–28 in) in length, and it may have been similar to the
takahe. While easily hunted, it was a fast runner and able to fly, though it did so reluctantly. It may have fed on plant matter and invertebrates, as do other swamphens, and was said to nest among grasses and aquatic ferns. It was only found on the
Plaine des Cafres plateau, to which it may have retreated during the latter part of its existence, whereas other swamphens inhabit lowland swamps. While the last unequivocal account is from 1730, it may have survived until 1763, but overhunting and the introduction of cats probably drove it to
extinction.
The 1984 World Snooker Championship was a
ranking professional
snooker tournament that took place between 21 April and 7 May 1984 at the
Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield, England. The event featured 94 participants, of which 78 players competed in a qualifying event held in
Bristol from 1 to 13 April. Of these, 16 players qualified for the main stage in Sheffield, where they met 16 invited
seeds. The total prize fund for the event was £200,000, the highest total pool for any snooker tournament at that time; the winner received £44,000. The defending champion was English player
Steve Davis, who had won the title twice previously. He met fellow-countryman
Jimmy White in the final, which was played as a best-of-35-
frames match. Davis took a significant lead of 12–4 after the first two sessions; although White battled back into the match, Davis eventually won 18–16, becoming the first player to retain the title at the Crucible.
Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after encountering two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other. It was considered a box-office success on its release, earning over $90.4 million to become the
fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983 in North America. It also received generally positive reviews. Reviewers were consistent in their praise for the central cast, and they appreciated the film's revival of the
screwball comedy genre prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s.
Muhammad IV was the ruler of the
Emirate of Granada on the
Iberian Peninsula from 1325 to 1333. The initial years of his reign were marked by civil war between his ministers, which ended in 1328 when Muhammad began taking a more active role in government. Castile and
Aragon, Granada's Christian neighbours, invaded in 1330. Muhammad requested help from the
Marinid Sultanate in North Africa, which sent 5,000 troops to
capture Gibraltar in 1333. The Castilians
in turn besieged Gibraltar, but after confused fighting a truce was agreed. One day later Muhammad was assassinated, aged 18.
SMS Preussischer Adler was a
paddle steamer built in the mid-1840s for commercial use. Requisitioned by the
Prussian Navy during the
First Schleswig War in 1848, she took part in the first naval battle of the Prussian fleet. During the
Second Schleswig War, in company with four other vessels, Preussischer Adler attacked a Danish force
blockading the German
North Sea ports. The resulting
Battle of Heligoland in May 1864 was tactically inconclusive, but the Danes abandoned their blockade. She was decommissioned and sunk as a
target ship during experiments with
torpedoes in 1879.
Hector was a powerful and long-lasting
tropical cyclone that traversed the Pacific Ocean during late July and August 2018. Hector was the eighth
named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the
2018 Pacific hurricane season. It originated from a disturbance located north of South America on July 22. The disturbance tracked westward and gradually organized over the next several days, becoming a tropical depression at 12:00 UTC on July 3, being upgraded into a tropical storm about 12 hours later and received the name Hector. Throughout most of its existence, the cyclone traveled due west or slightly north of west. A favorable environment allowed the fledgling tropical storm to rapidly intensify to its initial peak as a Category 2 hurricane by 18:00 UTC on August 2. Hector reached Category 3 status by 00:00 UTC on August 4 and went through an
eyewall replacement cycle soon after, which caused the intensification to halt. After the replacement cycle, the cyclone continued to organize, developing a well-defined eye surrounded by cold
cloud tops. It reached its peak intensity around 18:00 UTC August 6, with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and a pressure of 936 mbar (27.64 inHg). Hector's intensity fluctuated between Category 3 and Category 4 over the next several days before it fell below major hurricane intensity around 18:00 UTC on August 11. Hector had spent 186 hours at that intensity – longer than any other hurricane on record in the eastern Pacific basin. The impact on land from the storm was minimal.
The 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final was an
association football match played at
Wembley Stadium, London, on 22 May 2010 between
Blackpool and
Cardiff City. The match was to determine the third and final team to win
promotion from the
Championship, the second tier of
English football, to the
Premier League for the
2010–11 season. The culmination of the
2010 Football League Championship play-offs, the match saw Blackpool beat Cardiff City to earn promotion alongside the Championship winners
Newcastle United and runners-up
West Bromwich Albion. As a consequence of winning promotion, Blackpool's
Bloomfield Road stadium, which had a capacity of 16,750, became one of the smallest stadiums to host Premier League football. It also meant Blackpool returned to the top flight of English League football for the first time since the
1970–71 season, when they spent one season in the old
First Division, finishing bottom. In the
season following their 2010 play-off final victory, they were relegated back to the Championship. Cardiff reached
the play-offs again the following season but were defeated in the semi-finals.
Peter Raw was a
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot and officer. He served as a flight instructor, bomber pilot and the commander of a communications unit during World War II. He was appointed the commander of
No. 2 Squadron in 1953 and subsequently served in staff and diplomatic roles until taking command of
No. 82 Wing in 1965. Between May 1966 and April 1967, he served as the air support co-ordinator for the Australian forces in South Vietnam; his initial refusal to commit RAAF helicopters to assist the
Australian Army during the
Battle of Long Tan in August 1966 generated lasting controversy. Raw retired from the RAAF in 1978.
The 2018 FA Cup Final was an
association football match between
Manchester United and
Chelsea on 19 May 2018 at
Wembley Stadium in
London, England. It was the 137th FA Cup final overall and was the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (
FA Cup), organised by the
Football Association. It was the second successive final for Chelsea following their defeat by
Arsenalthe previous year. The match was played in sunny conditions in front of a Wembley crowd of 87,647. After a relatively even start to the match, on 21 minutes, Chelsea's
Eden Hazard was brought down in the Manchester United
box and Oliver awarded a penalty. Hazard scored from the spot to make it 1–0 to Chelsea, a lead they maintained to half time. Manchester United dominated the second half, and saw a 63rd-minute goal from
Alexis Sánchez ruled out for
offside after being referred to VAR. The match ended 1–0 to Chelsea who won the FA Cup for the eighth time.
"Favorite Son" is an episode of the American
science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, a show which follows the adventures of the
Starfleet and
Maquis crew of the starship
USS Voyager after they are stranded in the
Delta Quadrant, far from the rest of the
Federation. In the episode, Ensign
Harry Kim (
Garrett Wang) experiences
déjà vu and develops a rash when the Voyager enters a new sector of the Delta Quadrant. Mostly female aliens known as Taresians tell him that he is not human but is a member of their species. On discovering this is a ruse by the female aliens to attract and kill their men during reproduction, the crew rescues Kim and restores him to his original state.
Motorsport journalist
Nigel Roebuck later wrote that 1982 was "an ugly year, pock-marked by tragedy, by dissension, by greed, and yet, paradoxically, it produced some of the most memorable racing ever seen".
Squirm is a 1976 American
horror film written and directed by
Jeff Lieberman, starring
Don Scardino,
Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow,
Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins, and
William Newman. The film takes place in the fictional town of Fly Creek,
Georgia, which becomes infested with
carnivorous worms after a storm. Lieberman's script is based on a childhood incident in which his brother fed electricity into a patch of earth causing earthworms to rise to the surface. Millions of worms were used over the five-week filming in Port Wentworth, Georgia; worms were brought in from Maine to augment local supplies. Makeup artist
Rick Baker provided special effects using
prosthetics for the first time in his career. The film was a commercial success, but opened to lukewarm reviews. It has since become a critical favourite, and
cult classic.
The Third Punic War was the third and last of the
Punic Wars fought between
Carthage and
Rome; it lasted from 149 to 146 BC. The war was fought in what is now north-east
Tunisia. The Romans
besieged the city of
Carthage but suffered repeated setbacks. A new Roman commander took over in 148 BC, and fared equally badly.
Scipio Aemilianus was appointed commander in Africa in 147 BC and in spring 146 BC launched a final assault, systematically destroying the city and killing its inhabitants; 50,000 survivors were sold into slavery. The formerly Carthaginian territories became the
Roman province of Africa
The 2020 World Snooker Championship was a professional
snooker tournament that took place from 31 July to 16 August 2020 at the
Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield, England. It was the 44th consecutive year that the
World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible. The final
ranking event of the
2019–20 snooker season, the tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 18 April to 4 May 2020, but both the qualifying stage and the main rounds were postponed as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The event was one of the first to allow live audiences since the onset of the pandemic, but on the first day it was announced that the event would be played
behind closed doors for subsequent days. A limited number of spectators were allowed in for the final two days of the championship.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixth world title, defeating Wilson 18–8 in the final, the 37th ranking event win of his career, the highest of any player.
The Gurian Republic refers to an insurrection and protest movement that took place in the western
Georgian region of
Guria (known at the time as the
Ozurget Uyezd) against the
Russian Empire between 1902 and 1906. This rose from a revolt over land grazing rights in 1902. Several issues over the previous decades affecting the peasant population including taxation, land ownership and economic factors also factored into the start of the insurrection. It gained further traction through the efforts of
Georgian social democrats, despite some reservations within their party over supporting a peasant movement, and grew further during the
1905 Russian Revolution.
During its existence the Gurian Republic ignored Russian authority and established its own system of government, which consisted of assemblies of villagers meeting and discussing issues. A unique form of justice, where trial attendees voted on sentences, was introduced. While the movement broke from imperial administration, it was not
anti-Russian, desiring to remain within the Empire.
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American
rock band
Marilyn Manson. It was released on October 6, 2017 by
Loma Vista Recordings and
Caroline International. The record had the
working titleSay10 and was initially due to be issued on
Valentine's Day. However, the release was delayed by numerous events, most notably the death of
Marilyn Manson's father Hugh Warner, who died during production and to whom the album was later dedicated. The record features many of the same musicians who performed on the band's previous album, 2015's The Pale Emperor, including producer
Tyler Bates and drummer
Gil Sharone. Despite Manson's early implications, long-time bassist
Twiggy did not participate on the album. He left the group following a sexual assault allegation by a former girlfriend.
The album received positive reviews from
music critics upon release, with multiple publications saying it continued a creative resurgence which began with their previous album. It was also a commercial success, debuting at number eight on the
Billboard 200 and charting in the top ten in most of the
major markets.
The Australian Journal of Herpetology was a
scientific journal specialising in the study of
amphibians and
reptiles (
herpetology) published from 1981 until 1983 with an additional supplemental series released in 1985. Richard W. Wells, a first-year biology student, served as the journal's
editor-in-chief, supporting an
editorial board of three Australian researchers. In what became known as the "Wells and Wellington affair", Wells stopped communicating with the journal's editorial board for around two years before suddenly publishing three papers without peer review in the Australian Journal of Herpetology between 1983 and 1985. Co-authored by himself and high school teacher C. Ross Wellington, the papers reorganized the
taxonomy of all of Australia's and New Zealand's amphibians and reptiles and proposed over 700 changes to the
binomial nomenclature of the region's
herpetofauna. The herpetological community reacted strongly to the pair's actions and eventually brought a case to the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to suppress the scientific names they proposed. After four years of arguments, the commission opted not to vote on the case, leaving some of Wells and Wellington's names
available. The outcome highlighted the vulnerability to the established rules of biological nomenclature that
desktop publishing presented. As of 2020, 24 of the names assigned by Wells and Wellington remained valid
senior synonyms.
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The Punic Wars, originally nominated as a Good topic by
Gog the Mild, has been upgraded into Wikipedia's newest featured topic.
The
Punic Wars were a series of three wars between 264 and 146BC fought by the states of
Rome and
Carthage. All three were won by Rome. The
First Punic War broke out in
Sicily in 264BC and lasted 23 years, until 241BC, when after immense materiel and human losses on both sides the Carthaginians were defeated. The end of the war sparked a major but unsuccessful four-year-long revolt within the Carthaginian Empire known as the
Mercenary War. The
Second Punic War began in 218BC and witnessed
Hannibal's
crossing of the Alps and invasion of
mainland Italy. The successful Roman invasion of the Carthaginian homeland in Africa in 204BC led to Hannibal's recall and to Carthage
suing for peace after 17 years of war. Carthage ceased to be a military threat but Rome contrived a justification to declare war again in 149BC in the
Third Punic War. The Romans stormed the city of
Carthage in 146BC,
sacked it, slaughtered most of its population and completely demolished it.
RuPaul Charles is an American
drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, and television personality. He is considered to be the most famous drag queen ever, and in 2017 he was included in the annual
Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Since 2009, he has produced and hosted the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and its various spin-offs, which have earned Charles eight
Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the person with the most wins in the category of
Outstanding Host for a Competition Program, amongst other awards. He had already achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his single "
Supermodel (You Better Work)", from the album Supermodel of the World (1993), for which he received two
Billboard Music Awards and an
MTV Video Music Award nomination. He was also honored with the
GLAAD Vito Russo Award in 1999, presented to an openly LGBT media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community, and in 2018 he received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry, making him the first drag queen to be given such an award.
The Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album was an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the
Mexican music genre at the
Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Since its inception, the award category has had several name changes, until, in 2009, the category was split into two new fields:
Best Norteño Album and
Best Regional Mexican Album. Mexican-American artist
Pepe Aguilar is the most-awarded performer in the category with three wins. He is followed by American singers
Vikki Carr and
Linda Ronstadt, American artist
Flaco Jiménez, Mexican singers
Luis Miguel and
Joan Sebastian, and bands
La Mafia and
Los Lobos, with two wins each.
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (formerly the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation) is given each year by the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy dramatic works such as movies or television episodes. To be eligible for
Nebula Award consideration a work must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released either on a website or in an electronic edition. Only individual works are eligible, not serials such as television series, though miniseries of three or fewer parts are allowed. The award, named to honor prolific author and screenwriter
Ray Bradbury, was begun in 1992 as the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation.
There are 92 well-preserved churches from the
Middle Ages on the Swedish island
Gotland, which is more than in any other part of Sweden and unusual compared with other parts of Europe. Benefiting from its location in the middle of the
Baltic Sea, the island enjoyed an increase in trade and wealth thanks to increasing trade between
Western and
Eastern Europe, giving the inhabitants the means to build large and prestigious churches. The preserved churches date from between the early 12th century and the middle of the 14th century. The first churches were
stave churches, but of these only fragments remain. The oldest substantially preserved churches on Gotland are simple
Romanesque churches. Church architecture remained conservative on Gotland, and while
Gothic forms eventually replaced Romanesque, it never acquired the structurally light character it did elsewhere in Europe. The churches built during the first half of the 14th century on Gotland are sometimes referred to as "counter-Gothic" in Swedish literature (kontragotik).
The churches were often decorated with
paintings on walls and vaults and
stained glass windows inside, as well as decorative sculptures both inside and outside. In the Gothic period particularly the portals of the churches were adorned with stone sculptures. Workshops specialising in the production of decorated
baptismal fonts established themselves on Gotland during the 12th century and supplied the churches with fonts which in many cases still exist in the churches. Wooden sculptures were also produced from an early time, including
rood crosses and sculptures of saints like the
Viklau Madonna.
From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a
chart that ranked the top-performing
country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in
jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart. In 1945, 14 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records, in 52 issues of the magazine. The term "country music" would not come into standard usage until the late 1940s and "folk music" was one of a number of terms used for the genre in earlier years. The chart ranked "the most popular Folk records on automatic phonographs thruout [sic] the nation", based on "reports from all the country's leading operating centers", which were averaged to produce the final placings. This methodology allowed for the possibility of records tying for a position, and on several occasions during 1945 two or more songs tied for the number one spot, including the issue of Billboard dated November 24, when four songs tied for the number-one position. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current
Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
Herpestidae is a
family of
mammals in the
orderCarnivora, composed of the mongooses and the
meerkat. A member of this family is called a mongoose or a herpestid. They are widespread primarily throughout Africa and south Asia, and are found primarily in forests, savannas, shrublands, and grasslands, though some species can be found in wetlands or deserts. The 34 species of Herpestidae are split into 14
genera within 2
subfamilies, Herpestinae and Mungotinae, comprising 11 extant species native to Africa. Herpestidae is believed to have diverged from the existing
Feliformia suborder around 21.8 million years ago in the
Early Miocene.
There are 41 active Broadway theaters listed by
The Broadway League in
New York City, as well as 9 existing structures that previously hosted
Broadway theatre. Beginning with the first large long-term theater in the city, the
Park Theatre built in 1798 on
Park Row just off
Broadway, the definition of what constitutes a Broadway theater has changed multiple times. The current legal definition is based on a 1949
Actors' Equity agreement with smaller theaters in New York to allow union members to perform, dividing theater spaces in the city into the system of Broadway and
Off-Broadway seen today. Current union contracts clearly spell out if a production is "Broadway" or not, but the general rule is that any venue that mostly hosts legitimate theater productions, is generally within
Manhattan's
Theater District, and has a capacity over 500 seats is considered a Broadway theater. Previous to this legal demarcation a Broadway production simply referred to a professional theatrical production performed in a theater in Manhattan, and the theaters that housed them were called Broadway theaters. While Broadway theaters are colloquially considered to be "on Broadway", only three active Broadway theaters are physically on Broadway (the
Broadway Theatre,
Palace Theatre, and
Winter Garden Theatre).
Stupas in Nepal date back to the
Licchavi period; a
stupa is a
mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of
Buddhist monks or
nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
Swayambhunath is one of the oldest known buildings in the country and was likely built in the 5th century. It was built in Swayambhu,
Kathmandu, where the land was declared as sacred to
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), by the 3rd Emperor of the
Maurya DynastyAshoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE. According to the legends, the stupa came out of a
sacred lotus at the centre of Kathmandu when
the city was a lake.
The
Wales national football team represents Wales in international
association football and is governed by the
Football Association of Wales (FAW). Between 1920 and 1939 the side played 62 matches, the majority against the other national teams of the
Home Nations in the
British Home Championship. The side played their first official match after the end of
World War I in February 1920 on the resumption of the Home Championship, drawing 2–2 with
Ireland. A draw with
Scotland and a win over
England, their first since 1882, in the
1919–20 tournament secured the second Home Championship in Wales' history. Wales won the Home Championship again in the
1927–28 tournament but, as
Football League sides became increasingly reluctant to release Welsh players for international competition, results dropped as the decade drew to a close. When the Football League added further restrictions on releasing players ahead of the
following tournament to avoid fixture clashes, Wales were forced to call-up a mixture of
non-league and lower division players which led to the side being dubbed by media outlets as "Keenor and the ten unknowns", in reference to team captain
Fred Keenor and the relative obscurity of his teammates. The side secured a draw with Scotland but suffered a 4–0 defeat to England before being replaced by the returning first team players. When Wales relented on hosting fixtures alongside those of the Football League, they were able to call upon their first team more frequently. This coincided with one of the most successful periods in the team's history as they won four Home Championships between 1933 and 1939. The
1938–39 British Home Championship was the final hosting of the tournament before
World War II.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Award (also called the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award) is an non-competitive award presented as part of the
Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to "an agency, company or institution whose contributions over time have significantly impacted television technology and engineering." Named for
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the first fully working
all-electronic television system and
receiver, the winner is selected by a jury of
television engineers from the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ (ATAS) Engineering Emmy Awards Committee who consider "all engineering developments which have proven their efficacy during the awards year and determines which, if any, merit recognition with an Engineering Emmy statuette." The accolade was first awarded in 2003 as a result of about a year of lobbying to ATAS by Farnsworth's wife Pam Farnsworth and
Hawaii-based Skinner Entertainment management and production firm owner Georja Skinner.
From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a
chart that ranked the top-performing
country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in
jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart. In 1946, nine different songs topped the chart, which was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records. The chart was compiled based on a survey of jukebox operators nationwide, and its methodology allowed for the possibility of records tying for a position. On several occasions during 1946 two or more songs tied for the number-one spot, including the issue of Billboard dated February 2, when four songs tied for the peak position. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current
Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor who has received various awards and nominations, including an
Academy Award and a
British Academy Film Award for his starring role in Joker (2019), two
Golden Globe Awards for Joker and Walk the Line (2005), and one
Grammy Award, also for Walk the Line). Besides those he won, he was additionally nominated for three Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. That's not a comprehensive list of awards, though, which is why this article exists.
A new featured picture by Giulio Rossi, with restoration by
Adam Cuerden. Like several other recent featured pictures, this forms part of a
Wikipedian in Residence project with the
Archivio Storico Ricordi, which dropped a huge number of high-quality images primarily related to Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Set in the grounds of the
Villa Verdi, it shows
Giuseppe Verdi with his family, friends, and work colleagues, specifically: Standing:Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari (one of Verdi's estate lawyers),
Giulio Ricordi, and
Leopoldo Metlicovitz Seated: Maria Carrara Verdi (Verdi's adopted daughter), Barberina Strepponi (Verdi's sister-in-law), Giuseppe Verdi, and Giuditta Ricordi (Giulio's wife).
Frontonia sp. digesting
cyanobacteria, a new featured picture by
Wiedehopf20. Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here in Scotland - there's
Harvest Festivals, I suppose, but good luck having something like that in the middle of
COVID-19 - and the Canadian one was back in October, so we're being a bit
Americocentric ... but, screw it, we need a title and the image is great, so "Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria" it is!
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 21 October through 11 November. For nominations and nominators, see the featured contents' talk pages.
So, we're doing a bit of a shorter timeframe on the featured content this month because, frankly, last month was a rush to get done in time, since it was meant to be finished and published so soon after the content window closed. Not ideal. Still, Wikipedia creates a lot of great content - Hell, remember when we used to do these weekly? ...Am I the only one? Damn, I feel old. Anyway! It's a bumper crop of fantastic content for your perusal! Trying something new and putting featured pictures between articles and lists to break the content up. Let us know what you think! Anyway, that's it from your friendly Signpost reporter for this week! I mean, month! ...Feeling so very old here. When did I last do these, like five years ago? Ten? Pretty sure I had techniques for doing this back then that made it a lot easier. Ah, well! Still, hope you're all having a great month, and are going to have a great holiday season of avoiding other people and not getting COVID-19!
— Adam
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The Réunion swamphen (Porphyrio caerulescens), also known as the Réunion gallinule or oiseau bleu, is a
hypothetical extinct species of
rail that was endemic to the
Mascarene island of
Réunion. While only known from 17th and 18th century accounts by visitors to the island, it was
scientifically named in 1848, based on the 1674 account by
Sieur Dubois. A considerable literature was subsequently devoted to its possible affinities, with current researchers agreeing it was derived from the
swamphen genus Porphyrio. It has been considered mysterious and enigmatic due to the lack of any physical evidence of its existence.
This bird was described as entirely blue in plumage with a red beak and legs. It was said to be the size of a
Réunion ibis or chicken, which could mean 65–70 cm (26–28 in) in length, and it may have been similar to the
takahe. While easily hunted, it was a fast runner and able to fly, though it did so reluctantly. It may have fed on plant matter and invertebrates, as do other swamphens, and was said to nest among grasses and aquatic ferns. It was only found on the
Plaine des Cafres plateau, to which it may have retreated during the latter part of its existence, whereas other swamphens inhabit lowland swamps. While the last unequivocal account is from 1730, it may have survived until 1763, but overhunting and the introduction of cats probably drove it to
extinction.
The 1984 World Snooker Championship was a
ranking professional
snooker tournament that took place between 21 April and 7 May 1984 at the
Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield, England. The event featured 94 participants, of which 78 players competed in a qualifying event held in
Bristol from 1 to 13 April. Of these, 16 players qualified for the main stage in Sheffield, where they met 16 invited
seeds. The total prize fund for the event was £200,000, the highest total pool for any snooker tournament at that time; the winner received £44,000. The defending champion was English player
Steve Davis, who had won the title twice previously. He met fellow-countryman
Jimmy White in the final, which was played as a best-of-35-
frames match. Davis took a significant lead of 12–4 after the first two sessions; although White battled back into the match, Davis eventually won 18–16, becoming the first player to retain the title at the Crucible.
Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after encountering two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other. It was considered a box-office success on its release, earning over $90.4 million to become the
fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983 in North America. It also received generally positive reviews. Reviewers were consistent in their praise for the central cast, and they appreciated the film's revival of the
screwball comedy genre prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s.
Muhammad IV was the ruler of the
Emirate of Granada on the
Iberian Peninsula from 1325 to 1333. The initial years of his reign were marked by civil war between his ministers, which ended in 1328 when Muhammad began taking a more active role in government. Castile and
Aragon, Granada's Christian neighbours, invaded in 1330. Muhammad requested help from the
Marinid Sultanate in North Africa, which sent 5,000 troops to
capture Gibraltar in 1333. The Castilians
in turn besieged Gibraltar, but after confused fighting a truce was agreed. One day later Muhammad was assassinated, aged 18.
SMS Preussischer Adler was a
paddle steamer built in the mid-1840s for commercial use. Requisitioned by the
Prussian Navy during the
First Schleswig War in 1848, she took part in the first naval battle of the Prussian fleet. During the
Second Schleswig War, in company with four other vessels, Preussischer Adler attacked a Danish force
blockading the German
North Sea ports. The resulting
Battle of Heligoland in May 1864 was tactically inconclusive, but the Danes abandoned their blockade. She was decommissioned and sunk as a
target ship during experiments with
torpedoes in 1879.
Hector was a powerful and long-lasting
tropical cyclone that traversed the Pacific Ocean during late July and August 2018. Hector was the eighth
named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the
2018 Pacific hurricane season. It originated from a disturbance located north of South America on July 22. The disturbance tracked westward and gradually organized over the next several days, becoming a tropical depression at 12:00 UTC on July 3, being upgraded into a tropical storm about 12 hours later and received the name Hector. Throughout most of its existence, the cyclone traveled due west or slightly north of west. A favorable environment allowed the fledgling tropical storm to rapidly intensify to its initial peak as a Category 2 hurricane by 18:00 UTC on August 2. Hector reached Category 3 status by 00:00 UTC on August 4 and went through an
eyewall replacement cycle soon after, which caused the intensification to halt. After the replacement cycle, the cyclone continued to organize, developing a well-defined eye surrounded by cold
cloud tops. It reached its peak intensity around 18:00 UTC August 6, with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and a pressure of 936 mbar (27.64 inHg). Hector's intensity fluctuated between Category 3 and Category 4 over the next several days before it fell below major hurricane intensity around 18:00 UTC on August 11. Hector had spent 186 hours at that intensity – longer than any other hurricane on record in the eastern Pacific basin. The impact on land from the storm was minimal.
The 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final was an
association football match played at
Wembley Stadium, London, on 22 May 2010 between
Blackpool and
Cardiff City. The match was to determine the third and final team to win
promotion from the
Championship, the second tier of
English football, to the
Premier League for the
2010–11 season. The culmination of the
2010 Football League Championship play-offs, the match saw Blackpool beat Cardiff City to earn promotion alongside the Championship winners
Newcastle United and runners-up
West Bromwich Albion. As a consequence of winning promotion, Blackpool's
Bloomfield Road stadium, which had a capacity of 16,750, became one of the smallest stadiums to host Premier League football. It also meant Blackpool returned to the top flight of English League football for the first time since the
1970–71 season, when they spent one season in the old
First Division, finishing bottom. In the
season following their 2010 play-off final victory, they were relegated back to the Championship. Cardiff reached
the play-offs again the following season but were defeated in the semi-finals.
Peter Raw was a
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot and officer. He served as a flight instructor, bomber pilot and the commander of a communications unit during World War II. He was appointed the commander of
No. 2 Squadron in 1953 and subsequently served in staff and diplomatic roles until taking command of
No. 82 Wing in 1965. Between May 1966 and April 1967, he served as the air support co-ordinator for the Australian forces in South Vietnam; his initial refusal to commit RAAF helicopters to assist the
Australian Army during the
Battle of Long Tan in August 1966 generated lasting controversy. Raw retired from the RAAF in 1978.
The 2018 FA Cup Final was an
association football match between
Manchester United and
Chelsea on 19 May 2018 at
Wembley Stadium in
London, England. It was the 137th FA Cup final overall and was the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (
FA Cup), organised by the
Football Association. It was the second successive final for Chelsea following their defeat by
Arsenalthe previous year. The match was played in sunny conditions in front of a Wembley crowd of 87,647. After a relatively even start to the match, on 21 minutes, Chelsea's
Eden Hazard was brought down in the Manchester United
box and Oliver awarded a penalty. Hazard scored from the spot to make it 1–0 to Chelsea, a lead they maintained to half time. Manchester United dominated the second half, and saw a 63rd-minute goal from
Alexis Sánchez ruled out for
offside after being referred to VAR. The match ended 1–0 to Chelsea who won the FA Cup for the eighth time.
"Favorite Son" is an episode of the American
science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, a show which follows the adventures of the
Starfleet and
Maquis crew of the starship
USS Voyager after they are stranded in the
Delta Quadrant, far from the rest of the
Federation. In the episode, Ensign
Harry Kim (
Garrett Wang) experiences
déjà vu and develops a rash when the Voyager enters a new sector of the Delta Quadrant. Mostly female aliens known as Taresians tell him that he is not human but is a member of their species. On discovering this is a ruse by the female aliens to attract and kill their men during reproduction, the crew rescues Kim and restores him to his original state.
Motorsport journalist
Nigel Roebuck later wrote that 1982 was "an ugly year, pock-marked by tragedy, by dissension, by greed, and yet, paradoxically, it produced some of the most memorable racing ever seen".
Squirm is a 1976 American
horror film written and directed by
Jeff Lieberman, starring
Don Scardino,
Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow,
Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins, and
William Newman. The film takes place in the fictional town of Fly Creek,
Georgia, which becomes infested with
carnivorous worms after a storm. Lieberman's script is based on a childhood incident in which his brother fed electricity into a patch of earth causing earthworms to rise to the surface. Millions of worms were used over the five-week filming in Port Wentworth, Georgia; worms were brought in from Maine to augment local supplies. Makeup artist
Rick Baker provided special effects using
prosthetics for the first time in his career. The film was a commercial success, but opened to lukewarm reviews. It has since become a critical favourite, and
cult classic.
The Third Punic War was the third and last of the
Punic Wars fought between
Carthage and
Rome; it lasted from 149 to 146 BC. The war was fought in what is now north-east
Tunisia. The Romans
besieged the city of
Carthage but suffered repeated setbacks. A new Roman commander took over in 148 BC, and fared equally badly.
Scipio Aemilianus was appointed commander in Africa in 147 BC and in spring 146 BC launched a final assault, systematically destroying the city and killing its inhabitants; 50,000 survivors were sold into slavery. The formerly Carthaginian territories became the
Roman province of Africa
The 2020 World Snooker Championship was a professional
snooker tournament that took place from 31 July to 16 August 2020 at the
Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield, England. It was the 44th consecutive year that the
World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible. The final
ranking event of the
2019–20 snooker season, the tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 18 April to 4 May 2020, but both the qualifying stage and the main rounds were postponed as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The event was one of the first to allow live audiences since the onset of the pandemic, but on the first day it was announced that the event would be played
behind closed doors for subsequent days. A limited number of spectators were allowed in for the final two days of the championship.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixth world title, defeating Wilson 18–8 in the final, the 37th ranking event win of his career, the highest of any player.
The Gurian Republic refers to an insurrection and protest movement that took place in the western
Georgian region of
Guria (known at the time as the
Ozurget Uyezd) against the
Russian Empire between 1902 and 1906. This rose from a revolt over land grazing rights in 1902. Several issues over the previous decades affecting the peasant population including taxation, land ownership and economic factors also factored into the start of the insurrection. It gained further traction through the efforts of
Georgian social democrats, despite some reservations within their party over supporting a peasant movement, and grew further during the
1905 Russian Revolution.
During its existence the Gurian Republic ignored Russian authority and established its own system of government, which consisted of assemblies of villagers meeting and discussing issues. A unique form of justice, where trial attendees voted on sentences, was introduced. While the movement broke from imperial administration, it was not
anti-Russian, desiring to remain within the Empire.
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American
rock band
Marilyn Manson. It was released on October 6, 2017 by
Loma Vista Recordings and
Caroline International. The record had the
working titleSay10 and was initially due to be issued on
Valentine's Day. However, the release was delayed by numerous events, most notably the death of
Marilyn Manson's father Hugh Warner, who died during production and to whom the album was later dedicated. The record features many of the same musicians who performed on the band's previous album, 2015's The Pale Emperor, including producer
Tyler Bates and drummer
Gil Sharone. Despite Manson's early implications, long-time bassist
Twiggy did not participate on the album. He left the group following a sexual assault allegation by a former girlfriend.
The album received positive reviews from
music critics upon release, with multiple publications saying it continued a creative resurgence which began with their previous album. It was also a commercial success, debuting at number eight on the
Billboard 200 and charting in the top ten in most of the
major markets.
The Australian Journal of Herpetology was a
scientific journal specialising in the study of
amphibians and
reptiles (
herpetology) published from 1981 until 1983 with an additional supplemental series released in 1985. Richard W. Wells, a first-year biology student, served as the journal's
editor-in-chief, supporting an
editorial board of three Australian researchers. In what became known as the "Wells and Wellington affair", Wells stopped communicating with the journal's editorial board for around two years before suddenly publishing three papers without peer review in the Australian Journal of Herpetology between 1983 and 1985. Co-authored by himself and high school teacher C. Ross Wellington, the papers reorganized the
taxonomy of all of Australia's and New Zealand's amphibians and reptiles and proposed over 700 changes to the
binomial nomenclature of the region's
herpetofauna. The herpetological community reacted strongly to the pair's actions and eventually brought a case to the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to suppress the scientific names they proposed. After four years of arguments, the commission opted not to vote on the case, leaving some of Wells and Wellington's names
available. The outcome highlighted the vulnerability to the established rules of biological nomenclature that
desktop publishing presented. As of 2020, 24 of the names assigned by Wells and Wellington remained valid
senior synonyms.
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The Punic Wars, originally nominated as a Good topic by
Gog the Mild, has been upgraded into Wikipedia's newest featured topic.
The
Punic Wars were a series of three wars between 264 and 146BC fought by the states of
Rome and
Carthage. All three were won by Rome. The
First Punic War broke out in
Sicily in 264BC and lasted 23 years, until 241BC, when after immense materiel and human losses on both sides the Carthaginians were defeated. The end of the war sparked a major but unsuccessful four-year-long revolt within the Carthaginian Empire known as the
Mercenary War. The
Second Punic War began in 218BC and witnessed
Hannibal's
crossing of the Alps and invasion of
mainland Italy. The successful Roman invasion of the Carthaginian homeland in Africa in 204BC led to Hannibal's recall and to Carthage
suing for peace after 17 years of war. Carthage ceased to be a military threat but Rome contrived a justification to declare war again in 149BC in the
Third Punic War. The Romans stormed the city of
Carthage in 146BC,
sacked it, slaughtered most of its population and completely demolished it.
RuPaul Charles is an American
drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, and television personality. He is considered to be the most famous drag queen ever, and in 2017 he was included in the annual
Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Since 2009, he has produced and hosted the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and its various spin-offs, which have earned Charles eight
Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the person with the most wins in the category of
Outstanding Host for a Competition Program, amongst other awards. He had already achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his single "
Supermodel (You Better Work)", from the album Supermodel of the World (1993), for which he received two
Billboard Music Awards and an
MTV Video Music Award nomination. He was also honored with the
GLAAD Vito Russo Award in 1999, presented to an openly LGBT media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community, and in 2018 he received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry, making him the first drag queen to be given such an award.
The Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album was an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the
Mexican music genre at the
Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Since its inception, the award category has had several name changes, until, in 2009, the category was split into two new fields:
Best Norteño Album and
Best Regional Mexican Album. Mexican-American artist
Pepe Aguilar is the most-awarded performer in the category with three wins. He is followed by American singers
Vikki Carr and
Linda Ronstadt, American artist
Flaco Jiménez, Mexican singers
Luis Miguel and
Joan Sebastian, and bands
La Mafia and
Los Lobos, with two wins each.
The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (formerly the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation) is given each year by the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy dramatic works such as movies or television episodes. To be eligible for
Nebula Award consideration a work must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released either on a website or in an electronic edition. Only individual works are eligible, not serials such as television series, though miniseries of three or fewer parts are allowed. The award, named to honor prolific author and screenwriter
Ray Bradbury, was begun in 1992 as the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation.
There are 92 well-preserved churches from the
Middle Ages on the Swedish island
Gotland, which is more than in any other part of Sweden and unusual compared with other parts of Europe. Benefiting from its location in the middle of the
Baltic Sea, the island enjoyed an increase in trade and wealth thanks to increasing trade between
Western and
Eastern Europe, giving the inhabitants the means to build large and prestigious churches. The preserved churches date from between the early 12th century and the middle of the 14th century. The first churches were
stave churches, but of these only fragments remain. The oldest substantially preserved churches on Gotland are simple
Romanesque churches. Church architecture remained conservative on Gotland, and while
Gothic forms eventually replaced Romanesque, it never acquired the structurally light character it did elsewhere in Europe. The churches built during the first half of the 14th century on Gotland are sometimes referred to as "counter-Gothic" in Swedish literature (kontragotik).
The churches were often decorated with
paintings on walls and vaults and
stained glass windows inside, as well as decorative sculptures both inside and outside. In the Gothic period particularly the portals of the churches were adorned with stone sculptures. Workshops specialising in the production of decorated
baptismal fonts established themselves on Gotland during the 12th century and supplied the churches with fonts which in many cases still exist in the churches. Wooden sculptures were also produced from an early time, including
rood crosses and sculptures of saints like the
Viklau Madonna.
From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a
chart that ranked the top-performing
country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in
jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart. In 1945, 14 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records, in 52 issues of the magazine. The term "country music" would not come into standard usage until the late 1940s and "folk music" was one of a number of terms used for the genre in earlier years. The chart ranked "the most popular Folk records on automatic phonographs thruout [sic] the nation", based on "reports from all the country's leading operating centers", which were averaged to produce the final placings. This methodology allowed for the possibility of records tying for a position, and on several occasions during 1945 two or more songs tied for the number one spot, including the issue of Billboard dated November 24, when four songs tied for the number-one position. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current
Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
Herpestidae is a
family of
mammals in the
orderCarnivora, composed of the mongooses and the
meerkat. A member of this family is called a mongoose or a herpestid. They are widespread primarily throughout Africa and south Asia, and are found primarily in forests, savannas, shrublands, and grasslands, though some species can be found in wetlands or deserts. The 34 species of Herpestidae are split into 14
genera within 2
subfamilies, Herpestinae and Mungotinae, comprising 11 extant species native to Africa. Herpestidae is believed to have diverged from the existing
Feliformia suborder around 21.8 million years ago in the
Early Miocene.
There are 41 active Broadway theaters listed by
The Broadway League in
New York City, as well as 9 existing structures that previously hosted
Broadway theatre. Beginning with the first large long-term theater in the city, the
Park Theatre built in 1798 on
Park Row just off
Broadway, the definition of what constitutes a Broadway theater has changed multiple times. The current legal definition is based on a 1949
Actors' Equity agreement with smaller theaters in New York to allow union members to perform, dividing theater spaces in the city into the system of Broadway and
Off-Broadway seen today. Current union contracts clearly spell out if a production is "Broadway" or not, but the general rule is that any venue that mostly hosts legitimate theater productions, is generally within
Manhattan's
Theater District, and has a capacity over 500 seats is considered a Broadway theater. Previous to this legal demarcation a Broadway production simply referred to a professional theatrical production performed in a theater in Manhattan, and the theaters that housed them were called Broadway theaters. While Broadway theaters are colloquially considered to be "on Broadway", only three active Broadway theaters are physically on Broadway (the
Broadway Theatre,
Palace Theatre, and
Winter Garden Theatre).
Stupas in Nepal date back to the
Licchavi period; a
stupa is a
mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of
Buddhist monks or
nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
Swayambhunath is one of the oldest known buildings in the country and was likely built in the 5th century. It was built in Swayambhu,
Kathmandu, where the land was declared as sacred to
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), by the 3rd Emperor of the
Maurya DynastyAshoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE. According to the legends, the stupa came out of a
sacred lotus at the centre of Kathmandu when
the city was a lake.
The
Wales national football team represents Wales in international
association football and is governed by the
Football Association of Wales (FAW). Between 1920 and 1939 the side played 62 matches, the majority against the other national teams of the
Home Nations in the
British Home Championship. The side played their first official match after the end of
World War I in February 1920 on the resumption of the Home Championship, drawing 2–2 with
Ireland. A draw with
Scotland and a win over
England, their first since 1882, in the
1919–20 tournament secured the second Home Championship in Wales' history. Wales won the Home Championship again in the
1927–28 tournament but, as
Football League sides became increasingly reluctant to release Welsh players for international competition, results dropped as the decade drew to a close. When the Football League added further restrictions on releasing players ahead of the
following tournament to avoid fixture clashes, Wales were forced to call-up a mixture of
non-league and lower division players which led to the side being dubbed by media outlets as "Keenor and the ten unknowns", in reference to team captain
Fred Keenor and the relative obscurity of his teammates. The side secured a draw with Scotland but suffered a 4–0 defeat to England before being replaced by the returning first team players. When Wales relented on hosting fixtures alongside those of the Football League, they were able to call upon their first team more frequently. This coincided with one of the most successful periods in the team's history as they won four Home Championships between 1933 and 1939. The
1938–39 British Home Championship was the final hosting of the tournament before
World War II.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Award (also called the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award) is an non-competitive award presented as part of the
Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to "an agency, company or institution whose contributions over time have significantly impacted television technology and engineering." Named for
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the first fully working
all-electronic television system and
receiver, the winner is selected by a jury of
television engineers from the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ (ATAS) Engineering Emmy Awards Committee who consider "all engineering developments which have proven their efficacy during the awards year and determines which, if any, merit recognition with an Engineering Emmy statuette." The accolade was first awarded in 2003 as a result of about a year of lobbying to ATAS by Farnsworth's wife Pam Farnsworth and
Hawaii-based Skinner Entertainment management and production firm owner Georja Skinner.
From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a
chart that ranked the top-performing
country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in
jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart. In 1946, nine different songs topped the chart, which was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records. The chart was compiled based on a survey of jukebox operators nationwide, and its methodology allowed for the possibility of records tying for a position. On several occasions during 1946 two or more songs tied for the number-one spot, including the issue of Billboard dated February 2, when four songs tied for the peak position. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current
Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor who has received various awards and nominations, including an
Academy Award and a
British Academy Film Award for his starring role in Joker (2019), two
Golden Globe Awards for Joker and Walk the Line (2005), and one
Grammy Award, also for Walk the Line). Besides those he won, he was additionally nominated for three Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. That's not a comprehensive list of awards, though, which is why this article exists.
A new featured picture by Giulio Rossi, with restoration by
Adam Cuerden. Like several other recent featured pictures, this forms part of a
Wikipedian in Residence project with the
Archivio Storico Ricordi, which dropped a huge number of high-quality images primarily related to Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Set in the grounds of the
Villa Verdi, it shows
Giuseppe Verdi with his family, friends, and work colleagues, specifically: Standing:Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari (one of Verdi's estate lawyers),
Giulio Ricordi, and
Leopoldo Metlicovitz Seated: Maria Carrara Verdi (Verdi's adopted daughter), Barberina Strepponi (Verdi's sister-in-law), Giuseppe Verdi, and Giuditta Ricordi (Giulio's wife).
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Thanks for putting this together, Adam and Gog! Looks very nice. It's good to see all of the great work people do here. -- Eddie891 Talk Work 18:26, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply
On Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2020-11-29, I see "population and completely demolished it.</noinclude>", where that noinclude closing tag is visible, but not on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-11-29/Featured content. Chris857 ( talk) 23:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC) reply