Smoke rising from Saigon after facilities and ships in the city were attacked by United States Navy aircraft during the 12 January 1945
South China Sea raid
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 2 February through 2 March. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
Featured articles
23 featured articles were promoted. – E
- Bill McCann (nominated by Peacemaker67) was a decorated soldier of World War I, a barrister, and a prominent figure in the military and ex-service community of South Australia during the interwar period.
- Operation PBHistory (nominated by Vanamonde93) was a covert operation carried out in Guatemala by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It followed Operation PBSuccess, which led to the overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz in June 1954 and ended the Guatemalan Revolution.
- Henry Petre (nominated by Ian Rose) was an English solicitor who became Australia's first military aviator and a founding member of the Australian Flying Corps, the predecessor of the Royal Australian Air Force.
- The Wood stork (nominated by RileyBugz) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Globally, the wood stork is considered to be least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
- Margaret (singer) (nominated by ArturSik) is a Polish singer-songwriter. She was included on a 2014 list of the 100 most-valuable stars of Polish show business compiled by the Polish edition of Forbes.
- Elasmosaurus (nominated by FunkMonk) is a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, about 80.5 million years ago. Measuring 10.3 meters (34 ft) long, Elasmosaurus would have had a streamlined body with paddle-like limbs, a short tail, a small head, and an extremely long neck.
- The Murder of Yvonne Fletcher, (nominated by SchroCat) a Metropolitan Police officer, occurred on 17 April 1984, when she was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London, by an unknown gunman. Fletcher had been deployed to monitor a demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and died shortly afterwards. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.
- James K. Polk (nominated by Wehwalt) was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). During Polk's presidency, the United States expanded significantly with the annexation of the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession following the American victory in the Mexican–American War.
- Revival (comics) (nominated by Argento Surfer) is a horror-science fiction comics series created by writer Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton. Revival follows the aftermath of the dead coming back to life.
- Livyatan (nominated by Dunkleosteus77) is an extinct genus of sperm whale containing one species: L. melvillei. Its name was inspired by the biblical sea monster Leviathan, and the author of the book Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, where the antagonist is a large sperm whale.
- HMS Vanguard (1909) (nominated by Sturmvogel 66) was one of three St Vincent-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. Shortly before midnight on 9 July 1917 at Scapa Flow, Vanguard suffered a series of magazine explosions. She sank almost instantly, killing 843 of the 845 men aboard. The wreck was heavily salvaged after the war, but was eventually protected as a war grave in 1984. It was designated as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, and diving on the wreck is generally forbidden.
- The Equestrian statue of Edward Horner (nominated by HJ Mitchell) stands inside St Andrew's Church in the village of Mells in Somerset, south-western England. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens; the sculpture was executed by Alfred Munnings. It is a memorial to Edward Horner, who died of wounds in the First World War.
- Loev (film) (nominated by Numerounovedant) is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Sudhanshu Saria. Produced by Saria and Bombay Berlin Film Productions, the film stars Dhruv Ganesh and Shiv Pandit as two friends who set off to the Western Ghats for a weekend trip and focuses on their complex emotional and sexual relationship.
- SMS Pommern (nominated by Parsecboy) was one of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. The ships of her class were already outdated by the time they entered the service, being inferior in size, armor, firepower, and speed to the revolutionary new battleship HMS Dreadnought. After commissioning, Pommern was assigned to the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, where she served throughout her peacetime career and the first two years of World War I. In the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, Pommern was the only battleship of either side sunk during the battle.
- Nodar Kumaritashvili (nominated by Kaiser matias) was a Georgian one-man luger who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony. He became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, and the seventh athlete to die in either a Summer or Winter Olympic Games.
- The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (nominated by Factotem) was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve.
- All Souls (TV series) (nominated by Aoba47) is an American paranormal hospital drama created by Stuart Gillard and Stephen Tolkin and inspired by Lars von Trier's miniseries The Kingdom. It originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network (UPN) from April 17, 2001, to August 31, 2001. The series follows the medical staff of the haunted teaching hospital All Souls. While working as a medical intern, protagonist Dr. Mitchell Grace (Grayson McCouch) encounters various spirits, and discovers that the doctors are running unethical experiments on their patients.
- The Pioneer Helmet (nominated by Usernameunique) is a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet from the late seventh century found in Wollaston, Northamptonshire. It was discovered during a March 1997 excavation before the land was to be exploited for gravel, and was part of the grave of a young man. Other objects in the grave, such as a hanging bowl and a pattern welded sword, suggest that it was the burial mound of a high-status warrior.
- The South China Sea raid (nominated by Nick-D) was an operation conducted by the United States Third Fleet between 10 and 20 January 1945 during the Pacific War of World War II. The raid was undertaken to support the liberation of Luzon in the Philippines, and targeted Japanese warships, supply convoys and aircraft in the region.
- Neferirkare Kakai (nominated by Iry-Hor) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the third king of the Fifth Dynasty. Neferirkare was acknowledged by his contemporaries as a kind and benevolent ruler, intervening in favour of his courtiers after a mishap. His rule witnessed a growth in the number of administration and priesthood officials. His rule witnessed continuing trade relations with Nubia to the south and possibly with Byblos on the Levantine coast to the north. Neferirkare started a pyramid for himself in the royal necropolis of Abusir.
- Andrew Jackson (nominated by Display name 99) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress.
- MV Darlwyne (nominated by Brianboulton) was an unlicensed pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, which disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one (two crew and twenty-nine passengers including eight children). Twelve bodies and a few artefacts were later recovered, but the rest of the victims and the main body of the wreck were never found.
- The 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake (nominated by Ceranthor) struck Riley County, Kansas, in the United States on April 24 at 20:22 UTC, or about 2:30 local time. The strongest earthquake to originate in the state, it measured 5.1 on a seismic scale that is based on an isoseismal map or the event's felt area. The earthquake's epicenter was by the town of Manhattan. The earthquake had a maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It caused minor damage, reports of which were confined to Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Featured lists
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Featured pictures
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The amount of work that all of these articles represent is impressive. I still find it a strong witness of the health of the wikipedia project that so much Featured Articles are been written.Iry-Hor (talk) 07:34, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]