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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 15 June through 21 June.
Featured articles
Ten
featured articles
were promoted this week.
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Sir William Gordon-Cumming was accused of cheating in baccarat
and sued for slander, it ruined the prince's reputation for years to come.
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- drag on the album cover. Upon its release, New York Dolls received very positive reviews from music critics, but sold poorly and only charted at number 116 on the Billboard 200. The band toured the US to promote the album, but were difficult to market and developed a reputation for excess. Despite its commercial failure, the album was an influential precursor to the 1970s punk rock movement and has since received acclaim from critics as one of the greatest debut albums in rock music.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938. He was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. Bush was a well-known policymaker and public intellectual during World War II, when he was in effect the first presidential science advisor.
- bäckahästen and the Australian bunyip. The origin of the belief in malevolent water horses may lie in the human sacrifices once made to appease the gods of water, but it also served a practical purpose in keeping children away from dangerous stretches of water, and warning young women to be wary of handsome strangers.
- Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude. It received mixed reviews from video game media outlets, scoring 72 out of 100 on review aggregate website Metacritic, and was included in Mike Rose's book 250 Indie Games You Must Play.
- bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he participated in the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946, and was involved in the development of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet in the early 1950s. He commanded the 308th Bombardment Wing and 6th Air Division in the late 1950s, and was military attaché in India from 1964 to 1966. After leaving the Air Force in 1966, he worked for Executive Jet Aviation, serving as its president from 1976 until his retirement in 1987.
- Arthur Wilson and his family. Gordon-Cumming was seen to be acting in a suspicious manner, and was subsequently pressured into signing a document that stated he would never play cards again, in exchange for the silence of the guests. The secret was not kept for long, and Gordon-Cumming demanded a retraction from the Wilson family, who he considered to blame for divulging the news. They refused and he filed a writ for slander in February 1891. Despite the efforts of the prince's courtiers to have the matter dealt with by a military court, the case was heard in June 1891. The atmosphere at trial was described as being like a theatre, and Edward was called as a witness, the first time the heir to the throne had been compelled to appear in court since 1411. Gordon-Cumming was found guilty, dismissed from the army, and ostracised from society for the rest of his life. Public opinion was on his side, and the prince was at his most unpopular for several years afterwards.
- discovery of gold in California in the 1840s caused Congress to consider new denominations of gold coinage. The gold dollar and double eagle were the result. After considerable infighting at the Philadelphia Mint, Chief Engraver James B. Longacre designed the double eagle, and it began to be issued for commerce in 1850. Only one 1849 double eagle is known to survive; it rests in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian. The coin was immediately successful; merchants and banks used it in trade. It was struck until replaced by the Saint-Gaudens double eagle in 1907, and many were melted when President Franklin D. Rooseveltrecalled gold coins from the public in 1933. Millions of double eagles were sent overseas in international transactions throughout its run to be melted or placed in bank vaults. Many of the latter have now been repatriated to feed the demand from collectors and those who desire to hold gold.
- John Scottus Eriugenaand one of the few scholars of his time to understand Greek. He wrote theological and grammatical tracts, and commentaries on the works of other philosophers and theologians.
- Fanini-Seven Up rider Stefano Tomasini of Italy placed ninth overall to finish as the best neo-professional in the general classification; Johan van der Velde of the GIS-Ecoflam-Jolly team was the winner of the points classification, and Carrera Jeans–Vagabond finished as the winners of the team classification.
Featured pictures
Eleven
featured pictures
were promoted this week.
- "Draco and Ursa Minor", "Hercules and Corona Borealis", "Camelopardalis, Tarandus and Custos Messium", and "Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Vulpecula and Anser" (created by Sidney Hall and Richard Rouse Bloxam, after Alexander Jamieson, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) The images from Urania's Mirror were widely used in articles on constellations, but were in terrible condition, or only available in very small scans. This completes an attempt by the restorationist (and one of the authors of this report) to restore all the plates available on the Library of Congress, and to source substitutes for those that weren't.
- The Red Cross rescue efforts after the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse (created and nominated by Muhammad Mahdi Karim) Some excellent photojournalism by Muhammad Mahdi Karim of the rescue efforts after the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse, in which a building with planning permission for ten floors was increased to sixteen floors during construction, and a further three floors were being built when the building collapsed onto a nearby mosque.
- New Kensington, Pennsylvania in 1896 (created by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) New Kensington, Pennsylvania is a small town on the Allegheny River, near where the restorationist and author of this sentence grew up. Unfortunately, most of the historical buildings have now been lost.
- United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, prepared, restored and nominated by Godot13) Francis B. Spinola was a United States Representativefor the State of New York's 10th district from 1887 to 1891.
- Oxford University, one of the most respected and ancient universities in the world. The "Pelican Sundial" visible in this image dates to 1581, and the college itself was founded in 1517.
- Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1895 (created by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) Altoona, Pennsylvania was the site of the Pennsylvania Railroad's car shops, or "car shop's" as this panoramic map, rather unfortunately, spells it.
- Kuwait Towers (created by Richard Bartz, nominated by Armbrust) The Kuwait Towers is a group of three towers of rather unusual design (pictured below) that serve as a mix of water towers, café, and nationally-recognized landmark.
- Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC Aspherical lens (created and nominated by David Iliff) This is a really well-shot image of the lens. We actually have an entire article on this lens, so it's a particularly valuable image of photographic equipment.
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford founded in 1517, is a new featured picture. -
The Kuwait Towers is a symbol of modern Kuwait, and a new featured picture.
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Gotta say that this weeks issue was beneficial for Featured Topics. After reading that SMS Wörth became a Featured Article (read it before it was published), I found out that Battleships of Germany reached 50% featured content, turning it from a Good Topic to a Featured Topic. Let it not be said that the newsletter is useless. GamerPro64 04:01, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]