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Vance Drummond (1927–1967) was a New Zealand–born Australian pilot who fought in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Posted to No. 77 Squadron in Korea, he flew Gloster Meteor jet fighters and earned the US Air Medal for his combat skills. He was shot down in 1951 and imprisoned for almost two years. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1965 after leading the Black Diamonds aerobatic team of No. 75 Squadron. Drummond was promoted to acting wing commander in 1965 and posted to South Vietnam on staff duties with the US Air Force. He joined their 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron, operating Cessna Bird Dog aircraft, as a forward air controller in July 1966. That month he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in rescuing a company of soldiers surrounded by Viet Cong forces. Returning to Australia, he took command of No. 3 Squadron in February 1967. His Dassault Mirage IIIO crashed into the sea during a training exercise in May; neither Drummond nor the aircraft was found. (Full article...)

Into Temptation is an independent drama film written and directed by Patrick Coyle. It tells the story of a prostitute—played by Kristin Chenoweth (pictured)—who confesses to a Catholic priest (Jeremy Sisto) that she plans to kill herself. The priest attempts to find her, and in doing so involves himself in the darker side of society. Partially inspired by Coyle's impressions of his father, the film's themes include temptation, sin, good and evil, redemption and celibacy, and the boundaries between providing counsel and getting personally involved in events. It was filmed and set in Coyle's hometown of Minneapolis. Into Temptation was optioned, but talks fell through due to complications from the 2008 global recession. It officially premiered on April 26, 2009, at the Newport Beach Film Festival, where Sisto won the "Outstanding Achievement in Acting" award. The film received generally positive reviews. (Full article...)

After the Deluge is an oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts. Completed in 1891, it shows a scene from the story of Noah's Flood, in which Noah opens the window of his Ark to see that after 40 days the rain has stopped. The Symbolist painting is a stylised seascape, dominated by a bright sunburst breaking through clouds. Watts intended to evoke a monotheistic God in the act of creation, without depicting the Creator directly. The unfinished painting was exhibited at a church in Whitechapel in 1886, under the intentionally simplified title of The Sun. The completed version was shown for the first time at the New Gallery in 1891 and was admired by Watts's fellow artists. It influenced many painters who worked in the two decades following. Between 1902 and 1906 the painting was exhibited around the United Kingdom. It is now in the collection of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford, Surrey. (Full article...)

"Cross Road Blues" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He sang it as a solo piece with acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The lyrics describe Johnson's grief at being unable to catch a ride at an intersection before the sun sets. Some have attached a supernatural significance to the song. One of Johnson's two recorded performances was released in 1937 as a single, heard mainly in the Mississippi Delta area. The second, which reached a wider audience, was included on King of the Delta Blues Singers, a compilation album of some of Johnson's songs released in 1961 during the American folk music revival. Elmore James recorded a version of the song in 1954, and another in either 1960 or 1961. In the late 1960s, guitarist Eric Clapton and his bandmates in the British rock group Cream (pictured) popularized it as "Crossroads". Their blues rock interpretation became one of their best-known songs, inspiring many cover versions. (Full article...)

The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War. Union Army forces commanded by Ulysses S. Grant had failed several times to bypass or capture the Confederate-held city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant decided to move his army south of Vicksburg, cross the Mississippi River, and then advance on the city. A Confederate division under John S. Bowen prepared defenses—Forts Wade and Cobun—at Grand Gulf, Mississippi. To clear the way for a Union crossing, seven ironclad warships from the Mississippi Squadron of the Union Navy commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter bombarded the Confederate defenses at Grand Gulf. Union fire silenced Fort Wade, but the overall Confederate position held. Grant decided to cross the river elsewhere. The next day, Union forces crossed the river at Bruinsburg, Mississippi. The position at Grand Gulf was abandoned and became a Union supply point. The Grand Gulf battlefield is preserved in Grand Gulf Military State Park. (Full article...)

The Inaccessible Island rail (Laterallus rogersi) is a bird found only on Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic Tristan archipelago. This rail, the smallest extant flightless bird, was described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923. The adult has brown plumage, a black bill, black feet, and red eyes. It occupies most habitats on the island, from the beaches to the central plateau, feeding on a variety of small invertebrates and some plant matter. Pairs are territorial and monogamous; both parents incubate the eggs and raise the chicks. The rail's adaptations to living on a tiny island at high densities include a low basal metabolic rate, small clutch sizes, and flightlessness. Unlike many other oceanic islands, Inaccessible Island has remained free from introduced predators, allowing this species to flourish while many other flightless rails have gone extinct. The species is nevertheless considered vulnerable, due to the danger of a single catastrophe wiping out the small, isolated population. (Full article...)

La Salute è in voi! ("Health/Salvation is in you!") was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with the Galleanisti, followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani, particularly in the United States. The anonymously written, Italian-language handbook repackaged technical content from encyclopedias and applied chemistry books into plain directions for non-technical amateurs to build explosives. It wrapped this content in a political manifesto advocating for impoverished workers to overcome their despair and commit to individual, revolutionary acts. American police and historians used the handbook to profile anarchists and imply guilt by possession. It figured prominently in the prosecution of the Bresci Circle, a case that revolved around the anarchists' right to read. Successful political bombers of this era ultimately had career backgrounds in explosives and were not the self-taught amateurs the handbook sought to create. (Full article...)

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April 25: Liberation Day in Italy (1945)

• 1643 – First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
• 1915 – First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
• 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
• 1983 – The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
• 2015 – Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people, including 22 from avalanches on Mount Everest.

April 26

• 1478 – In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Republic of Florence, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici (pictured) and killed his brother Giuliano at Florence Cathedral.
• 1915 – First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on their side.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.
• 1989 – A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.
• 1994 – Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands

• 630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
• 1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
• 1945 – World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War.
• 1965 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
• 2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

April 28: Workers' Memorial Day

• 1253 – The Japanese monk Nichiren declared the mantra Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō, now a central part of Nichiren Buddhism.
• 1789 – Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in the South Pacific.
• 1923 – The 1923 FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the Empire Stadium in London.
• 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino.
• 1983 – The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

April 29

• 1770 – On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
• 1863 – Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S. Grant's troops from crossing the Mississippi River at that point.
• 1903 – A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.
• 2006 – Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.

April 30

• 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians officially ended in the eastern Roman Empire.
• 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.
• 1963 – A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.
• 1975 – American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city, ending the Vietnam War.
• 2021 – A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.

May 1: Beltane and Samhain in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Maharashtra Day in Maharashtra, India (1960); Loyalty Day in the United States

• 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retired as co-rulers of the Roman Empire, being succeeded by Galerius and Constantius Chlorus.
• 1625 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been captured by the Dutch Republic.
• 1931 – New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
• 1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
• 1945 – Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

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The Madagascar stonechat (Saxicola sibilla) is a species of stonechat endemic to Madagascar. It is a small bird, closely similar to the African stonechat in both plumage and behaviour, but distinguished from it by the more extensive black on the throat and minimal orange-red on the upper breast of the males. This male Madagascar stonechat perching on a branch was photographed in Analamazaotra National Park, near Andasibe. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: Luis Walter Alvarez Bistorta officinalis Pelophylax cypriensis Archive More featured pictures

Lichfield Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Lichfield, in the English county of Staffordshire. A cathedral was first built on the site in 700, by Bishop Headda, to house the bones of St Chad. The original wooden building was replaced by a Norman cathedral made from stone, which in turn was replaced by the present Gothic structure, begun in 1195. The fabric of the cathedral suffered in the English Civil War, when it was used as a defensive structure. In the 18th century the interior was extensively remodelled, with major structural work organised by James Wyatt; this involved removing the high altar to make a single worship area consisting of the choir and lady chapel, and adding a massive stone screen at the entrance to the choir. This photograph shows the choir of the cathedral, which was built around 1200. Photograph credit: David Iliff Recently featured: Madagascar stonechat Luis Walter Alvarez Bistorta officinalis Archive More featured pictures

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• ... that Vicky López (pictured) took up horse riding during a six-month period when she was not allowed to play football?
• ... that Blackpink's "Pink Venom" incorporates the sounds of traditional Korean instruments such as the geomungo?
• ... that Iona Allen, "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material?
• ... that Vostok 2022 marked the most comprehensive participation of Chinese forces in a Russian military exercise to date?
• ... that the chandelier Pokémon Chandelure is a playable character in the fighting game Pokkén Tournament?
• ... that the REM de l'Est, a planned light rail network, was abandoned due to its controversial use of elevated railways in downtown Montreal?
• ... that Porter Robinson listened to excerpts of 100,000 songs in two years to create his EP Virtual Self?
• ... that tokoyama (traditional Japanese hairdressers) working in kabuki are divided into specialties named after the floors of the Kabuki-za?
• ... that the Puyallup people traditionally took ritual sweat baths before hunting, after intercourse, and even as a sport?

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• ... that Mirna El Helbawi (pictured) discovered a way to reconnect people in Gaza to the internet through donated eSIMs, and her organisation Connecting Humanity has connected more than 200,000 people so far?
• ... that John Bennet Lawes started producing superphosphate, the first chemical manure produced in the world, from fossilised dinosaur dung on an industrial scale?
• ... that World Pilots' Day is celebrated on 26 April to commemorate Fesa Evrensev's first flight, which took place 112 years ago today?
• ... that the design of Genshin Impact's Furina has elements inspired by classical stories and musicals?
• ... that Porter Robinson discovered that his song "Ghost Voices" had been nominated for a Grammy through Twitter?
• ... that one of Ukraine's largest power plants was mostly destroyed by Russians in March 2024?
• ... that Angela Doyinsola Aina helped to found the Black Mamas Matter Alliance to address the higher rate of maternal mortality faced by Black women in the United States?
• ... that the live-action drama adaptation of Our Dining Table was filmed in the hometown of one of the lead actors?
• ... that Fox bought a Philadelphia TV station started by a Fox?

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• ... that N661US (pictured) was the prototype Boeing 747-400 and was involved in the Northwest Airlines Flight 85 incident, in which the aircraft suddenly banked hard to the left in flight?
• ... that Typhoon Wutip in 2019 was the first recorded Category 5–equivalent tropical cyclone to occur in February in the Northern Hemisphere?
• ... that Yudas Sabaggalet, an Indonesian politician, worked in a Coca-Cola factory while studying at university?
• ... that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University?
• ... that Clams Casino almost lost his EP Rainforest because his computer stopped working?
• ... that William O. Raymond's 1905 Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John probably recorded the first known Black man in future New Brunswick?
• ... that Blackpink's "Forever Young" was heard being played from the group's agency's headquarters three years before it was released?
• ... that the residents of Ukraina and Gorham, North Dakota, were involved in a feud that started with Easter baskets?
• ... that an activist protested the use of Chinese characters for Taiwanese Indigenous names by changing her legal name to "Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan"?

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• ... that Francis of Delirium (pictured) overcame Luxembourg's relatively quiet alternative music scene to become a prominent artist?
• ... that the Cistern of Pulcheria is one of the best-conserved Byzantine reservoirs in Istanbul?
• ... that Saint Tarbula of Persia was martyred by being cut in half by a saw after being accused of witchcraft?
• ... that It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a radio sequel series to Dad's Army that follows three of the main characters in their attempts to renovate a seaside pier in post-war Britain?
• ... that Uwe Boll has described his 2024 crime drama film First Shift as the least violent in his body of work?
• ... that All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union?
• ... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
• ... that the promotion and hype around obtaining Mew in the the original Pokémon games resulted in the games' sales increasing more than threefold?
• ... that zombie-like obedience has been attributed to Jesuits, the military, and followers of totalitarian regimes?

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• ... that G299.2-2.9 (pictured) is one of the oldest known supernova remnants in the Milky Way?
• ... that eccentric Yorkshirewoman Camberley Kate is estimated to have cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime?
• ... that Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth was Wole Soyinka's first novel in nearly fifty years?
• ... that cricketer William O'Rourke has the best match-bowling figures by a New Zealander on a Test debut?
• ... that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction?
• ... that the terms "Palestine" and "Palestinians" were being increasingly used in 1908 by the emergent Palestinian press, which expressed anti-Zionist positions?
• ... that ice hockey player Cameron Butler "had the good fortune not to get pulled over as he raced" to reach his team's game in time for his NHL debut?
• ... that the iZombie episode "And He Shall Be a Good Man" gets its name from an Elton John lyric?
• ... that Sans's boss theme, "Megalovania", was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis?

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• ... that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder?
• ... that the Gusuku period saw massive castles built on "virtually every ridge"?
• ... that the enzyme histamine N-methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
• ... that the Labour Party received their highest share of the vote to date in the 1951 UK general election but still lost to the Conservatives, who received fewer votes?
• ... that Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022?
• ... that the 2004 documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing contains interviews from dozens of film editors, including women under-represented in the field?
• ... that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school, Chris Hill instead chose Michigan State?
• ... that country music singer Waylon Jennings earned his GED by watching tapes of a Kentucky Educational Television series on his tour bus?
• ... that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a "cadaver kidney" for her son?

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• ... that the ancient Hawaiian village known as the Kāneiolouma Complex (pictured) is across the street from a popular beach on the island of Kauaʻi?
• ... that in Vladivostok, the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement?
• ... that the crater lake produced by the 1628–1627 BCE eruption of Mount Aniakchak generated one of the largest floods of the last 10,000 years?
• ... that a Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
• ... that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again" contains multiple ABBA references?
• ... that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174?
• ... that when offered to repent before being burnt at the stake, one crypto-Jew allegedly told his tormentors to "throw more wood on the fire"?
• ... that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car?
• ... that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?

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• ... that Jex Blackmore, an American pro-choice activist and Satanist, performed art with 100 pounds (45 kg) of rotten fruit (pictured) before their second abortion?
• ... that the music video for the Weeknd's "I Feel It Coming" takes inspiration from people entombed in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
• ... that Akihiko Kondo "married" Hatsune Miku, a fictional character?
• ... that Lake Bell made her directorial debut, In a World..., after no one else would direct it?
• ... that Enoch Edgar Hume was presented as a candidate for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives without his knowledge?
• ... that the Jewish villagers of Qision dedicated an inscription for the salvation of Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family?
• ... that gymnast Andrei Muntean was Romania's first Youth Olympic Games champion?
• ... that a song from the EP In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing, written in response to the cancer diagnosis of singer Mark Foster's uncle, could be played for him before his death?
• ... that Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, who both edited and wrote contributions for The Oxford History of Christian Worship, has also served as a dog show judge?

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• ... that the Bäckadräkten (pictured) is Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
• ... that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
• ... that despite the titular character of the game Cat Bird being a hybrid of a cat and a bird, critics believed the character looked more like a bat?
• ... that the first English known by National Football League prospect Bayron Matos was "I'm hungry"?
• ... that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo?
• ... that Asha Sobhana is the first Indian player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women's Premier League?
• ... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
• ... that the last twenty residents of the only Shilshole village on Salmon Bay in Seattle were evicted in 1914 for the creation of the Ballard Locks?
• ... that the Darwin Rocksitters Club had "no funny business" as their first, third, and fifth rule?

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June 1	Ludwigsburg Palace	beginning of Ludwigsburg Festival	2
June 6	Saving Private Ryan	D-Day	2
June 8	Bill Newton	105th birthday	1
June 9	The Ecstatic	15th anniversary of release	2
June 11	Ronald Reagan	20th anniversary of funeral	1
June 13	Battle of Villers-Bocage	Date of beginning of battle	2
June 15	Death of Kevin Gately	50th anniversary of event	1
June 17	Icelandic horse	Icelandic National Day. TFA re-run from 2009.	2
June 21	Giraffe	World Giraffe Day. TFA re-run from 2012.	4
June 23	Cyclone Taylor	140th birthday	1
June 25	Mckenna Grace	18th birthday	5
June 26	Torture	International Day in Support of Victims of Torture	2

^† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

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Oceanic whitetip shark

• Most recent similar article(s): Last fish article was Smooth toadfish on October 28.
• Main editors: Yomangani
• Promoted: August 21, 2006
• Reasons for nomination: Suggesting a fish article since one hasn't run in several months. This would be a TFA re-run from 2007. Seems to be in good shape. No preference on what date it runs or if it is delayed to subsequent months.
• Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

One of the three animal articles may have to wait. Wehwalt (talk) 17:53, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

That's fine. This doesn't have to run in June, just wanted to make others aware and see if anyone has objections to an eventual run. Z1720 (talk) 17:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Likely I'll leave it for Dank, who schedules July.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Planet

• Most recent similar article(s): Mars is upcoming, Supernova recently had its rerun
• Main editors: Double sharp, Serendipodous, XOR'easter
• Promoted: 8 February 2008; saved at FAR on 19 November 2022
• Reasons for nomination: Recently saved at FAR, re-run.
• Support as nominator.  750h+ | Talk  07:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
• Support as a main editor. With that said, I don't like the proposed lede that much. "Planet" means different things to different groups of scientists, and different ones would argue with you about the clauses about clearing the neighbourhood, orbiting a star, and undergoing thermonuclear fusion. Here's one I like better.

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  bodies, and that extrasolar planets should orbit stars and not be large enough to support deuterium fusion; however, many planetary scientists continue to apply the word "planet" more broadly, including dwarf planets, planetary-mass moons, rogue planets, and brown dwarfs

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Double sharp (talk) 08:06, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Double sharp I've altered it to your suggestion.  750h+ | Talk  08:39, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@750h+: Thanks! Double sharp (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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Specific date nominations

June 1

Ludwigsburg Palace

Palace with northern courtyard

Ludwigsburg Palace is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the largest palatial estate in the country and has been called the "Versailles of Swabia". Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, began construction of the palace in 1704. The son of his successor, Charles Eugene, completed it and refurbished parts in the Rococo style, especially its theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace in 1775, and it began a decline until the future Duke, and then King, Frederick moved in in 1795. As King, Frederick, and his Queen, Charlotte, renovated the entirety of the palace in the Neoclassical style. The palace was opened to the public in 1918. It underwent periods of restoration, including for its tricentenary in 2004. It has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival annually since 1947. The palace is surrounded by gardens named Blooming Baroque (Blühendes Barock), laid out in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): don't recall any palace recently
• Main editors: Vami_IV
• Promoted: Dec 2018
• Reasons for nomination: memory of Vami_IV - 1 June is the opening of the Ludwigsburg Festival, but it could run any other day. I didn't change the blurb (it ran first 18 May 2019), but suggest a different image for variety. It shows the older sections better.
• Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
• Support in memory. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
• Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:45, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

June 2

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen in 1981

studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978, by Columbia Records. The album was recorded after a series of legal disputes between Springsteen and his former manager Mike Appel, during sessions in New York City with the E Street Band from June 1977 to March 1978. Darkness musically strips the Wall of Sound production of its predecessor, Born to Run, for a rawer hard rock sound emphasizing the band as a whole. The lyrics focus on ill-fortuned characters who fight back against overwhelming odds. Released three years after Born to Run, Darkness did not sell as well as its predecessor but reached number five in the U.S. Critics initially praised the album's music and performances but were divided on the lyrical content. In later decades, Darkness has attracted acclaim as one of Springsteen's best works and has appeared on lists of the greatest albums of all time. (Full article...

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• Most recent similar article(s): Thank You (Meghan Trainor album), scheduled to appear on May 12
• Main editors: User:Zmbro
• Promoted: October 19, 2023
• Reasons for nomination: 46th anniversary of the album's release
• Support as nominator. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 02:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
• Comment out of every number, why 46th? why not 50th?

• I mean the 50th is another four years. I'm already intent on getting Born to Run to FA before its 50th in August 2025. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 18:00, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Coordinator comment While I agree that the Trainor album is the last similar album to run, we do have another record album nomination for June 9. I'm not sure I'm justified in running both. I don't consider the June 9 to have dibs because it got here first. I would welcome comments from the community on which should be run.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Wehwalt, I see that this isn't on your rough draft for June. FWIW, I'd be happy to run it in July. - Dank (push to talk) 15:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

It isn't, but it can easily be rearranged.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:09, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• • Also pinging zmbro. - Dank (push to talk) 15:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Dank had intended to run Darkness in January 2024 but I asked if it could wait til June, which they said was ok here (for a little background on why I'm nominating it for TFA now). – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 18:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Support. For what it is worth, I don't see a 1970's rock album and a 2000's rap album to be that much in competition that they could or should not be run in the same month. We have done worse. If it is felt that they should not both appear in the same month - an entirely reasonable view - then to me it is a coin toss as to which to go with. (I realise that this is not very helpful, sorry.) Gog the Mild (talk) 11:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

June 6

Saving Private Ryan

D-Day landing

scenes were filmed

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in France during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on their mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home safely after his three brothers are killed in action. Inspired by the books of Stephen E. Ambrose and accounts of casualties among members of a single family such as the Niland brothers, Rodat drafted the script and Paramount Pictures hired him to finish the writing. Spielberg wanted to make Saving Private Ryan as authentic as possible, and hired Frank Darabont and Scott Frank to perform uncredited rewrites based on research and interviews with veterans. The cast went through a week-long boot camp to understand the soldier experience. Filming took place from June to September 1997 in England and Ireland. Saving Private Ryan earned critical acclaim for its graphic portrayal of combat. (Full article...)