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By Tony1
New featured picture: a reproduction of Jorge de Aguiar's chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe and African Coast (1492). It is the oldest known signed and dated chart of Portuguese origin. The original is 1030 × 770 mm, held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven.
From the new featured article Norwich Market, the watercolour Norwich Market Place, 1788, by Thomas Rowlandson
A photograph from about 1940 of the English novelist Evelyn Waugh, from the new featured article
Six articles were promoted to featured status:


The Northern Mockingbird
One sound was promoted: Northern Mockingbird singing
A video version of this sound recording
(nom and link to a related article), the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. The recording was praised by reviewers for its clarity (created by ZooFari in June 2010).

Six images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

One of our new featured pictures, a 3D glass molecular model created and photographed by Purpy Pupple. After reviewers' comments, the creator modified the settings to show greater depth of field.
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I realize that everyone has limited time, but I'm disappointed there was no 'picks of the week'. Will they be back for next week? :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:47, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It does take a lot of fiddling around to organise, and we tend to postpone if there are six or fewer items. Next week, there will almost certainly be judges. Tony (talk) 01:45, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I just want to give a shout out to the featured sound process. Why would I do this? Well, for one, it suffers from absurdly low participation, and seeing as the people who come to this page all have an interest, at least at some level, in featured content, I figured maybe I could rouse some people to head on over to the Featured Sound space more often. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:01, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I really enjoyed that bird song featured sound. It had a really calming effect on me. Thank you. -- œ 12:47, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]



       

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