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A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals

A new featured picture shows the departures concourse of London King's Cross railway station, opened in March 2012. It was designed by John McAslan.
Rear quarter view of HMS Vanguard showing her square or transom stern, pictured in the newly feature article on this fast battleship.
List of Connecticut Huskies in the WNBA Draft pictures Sue Bird (in white), the first Connecticut Huskies alumna to be drafted first overall in Women's National Basketball Association
draft.
Czech composer Josef Suk, 1932 silver medalist in music. From the newly featured List of Olympic medalists in art competitions.
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2011 (U.S.)
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A new featured picture is Fight with Cudgels', c. 1820–1823. Oil mural transferred to canvas. 123cm x 266cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Two featured articles were promoted this week:

  • HMS Vanguard (23) (nom) by Sturmvogel 66. HMS Vanguard, the only ship in her class, was the last battleship ever launched in the world. Ordered in 1941 by the UK government for combat against joint Japanese and German forces, the Vanguard was not completed until after the war was over. The ship was used to transport King George VI and his family on the first Royal Tour of South Africa, then as the country's flagship in the Mediterranean sea. After several years of participating in training exercises, she was broken down for scrap in 1960.
  • Chrisye (nom) by Crisco 1492. Chrismansyah Rahadi (1949–2007), better known by his stage name of Chrisye, was an Indonesian progressive-pop singer and song writer. In his 40-year career he won many awards and accolades, and several of his albums were certified silver or gold. Five albums to which he contributed were included in the Rolling Stone Indonesia list of the 150 Best Indonesian Albums of All Time. The following year, the magazine listed five of his songs (and a sixth to which he contributed) as some of the best Indonesian songs.

Delisted featured article

  • Chennai (review) was delisted based on unresolved issues of synthesis in the education section, incomplete verification of text by sources, lack of proper coverage of some topics such as art and architecture and lack of information on poverty, slums, overpopulation and other areas needed to be comprehensive.

Six featured lists were promoted this week:

Eleven featured pictures were promoted this week:

Red-necked Avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) is a water bird found throughout most of Australia
. It has a distinctive long upwardly curved bill. From the newly featured picture of the bird.