This week, there were too many fantastic oil paintings to select from. So we went with... all of them. Indulgent? Oh, yes.
Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore (Danish: Sommeraften ved Skagen. Kunstnerens hustru med hund ved strandkanten)
The Maids of Honour (Spanish: Las Meninas)
Woman Holding a Balance
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 14 through 20 September. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
Oriental Film(nominated by Crisco 1492), a film production company in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), established by an ethnic Chinese businessman in 1940.
Chris Gragg(nominated by Seattle), an American football tight end who plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
"all things"(nominated by Gen. Quon). Written by lead actress Gillian Anderson, this is the 17th episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.
Fanny Bullock Workman(nominated by Adam Cuerden). The nominator wrote: "She was a mountaineer, rock climber, suffragette, and feminist. It was one of the last articles being worked on by Adrianne Wadewitz before her untimely death, and between her excellent work and those of us wishing to finish it, we'd like to raise this up in her memory."
Daniel in the Lions' DenThe Great Day of His Wrath, a painting based on the Book of Revelation, showing the destruction of Babylon. Or something in it, anyway. Scholars seem to be in doubt.
Daniel in the Lions' Den(created by Peter Paul Rubens, nominated by Hafspajen) The prophet Daniel is thrown into the den of the lions by the Persian king, Darius, due to the persian noblemen and ministers conspirations. An early work by Rubens.
The Great Day of His Wrath(created by John Martin, nominated by Hafspajen) Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. - Revelation 18:2-3.
Looking Glass Studios video games(originally nominated by JimmyBlackwing as a good topic; automatically promoted due to Flight Unlimited III reaching featured status) "Looking Glass Studios was an American video game developer founded in 1990 as Blue Sky Productions by Paul Neurath in Salem, New Hampshire. The company's first game was Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss in 1992, which received widespread critical acclaim and sold nearly 500,000 units. Looking Glass proceeded to develop titles in multiple genres, including role-playing, sports, flight simulation, and stealth video games. These titles were primarily published by Origin Systems, Electronic Arts and Eidos Interactive, with three titles self-published by Looking Glass Studios."
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Just to make it more clear since the feature doesn't mention it, the promotion of Flight Unlimited III resulted in Looking Glass Studios video games upgrading from a Good Topic to Featured Topic. GamerPro64 14:26, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't know what you mean. I think the connection is made perfectly clear now. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:10, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I just love the Signpost, my favorite part about Nexus Learning dot net was Wikipedia! 24.211.179.19 (talk) 15:57, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]