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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 5 to 11 April. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
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- armoury. It has not always been as protected as it ought; from 1962 to 1966 it stood empty and suffered vandalism and neglect. A survey of the house undertaken in January 1965 revealed that the exterior stonework was badly decayed, dry rot had eaten through the roof and the structural floor timbers, and the attics were infested with pigeons. Vandals had stripped the lead from the water tanks and had damaged the mirrors, fireplaces, and carving work. The most notable loss was the theft of the carved figure of Fame from the dining room chimneypiece. The house was later owned by the actor Richard Harris, followed by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, both of whom had restoration work carried out.
- early-warning radar; she was the first aircraft carrier in the world to be fitted with radar before completion. The main armament of the Illustrious class consisted of sixteen quick-firing (QF) 4.5-inch (110 mm) dual-purpose guns in eight twin-gun turrets, four on each side of the hull in sponsons.
- Freikorp) Blackrock is a 1997 Australian film about the rape and murder of a young girl after a party in Blackrock, a fictional "Australian beachside working-class suburb". The film follows Jared, a young surfer who witnesses his friends raping a girl. When she is found murdered the next day, Jared is torn between revealing what he saw and protecting his friends. The movie was based on the murder of Leigh Leigh, a 14-year-old girl from the east coast of Australia who was murdered in 1989. Twenty detectives, led by Detective Sergeant Lance Chaffey, were originally assigned to the case. An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. A truly sad case. (In happier news, or perhaps additional sad news, Blackrock features the first credited film performance of the late Heath Ledger.)
- that year's U.S. Open Cup, an annual American soccer competition open to all United States Soccer Federation-affiliated teams, from amateur adult club teams to the professional clubs of Major League Soccer(MLS). The 2014 competition was the 101st edition of the oldest soccer tournament in the United States.
- insane asylum—Cooper would be dragged offstage and return in a straitjacket, and the show climaxed with Cooper's mock execution in a prop electric chair during "Black Juju".
Major-General Stanley. Hmm. Well, allow me to try. So, dactylic hexameter, then pentameter
. Should be able to... Roses, my Emperor? Wow! you have brought us exceedingly many!
Bugger it! Crushed beneath! Help! I will die! (Now I'm dead.)
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- weightlifting, throwing around soldiers and stones like that.... The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dating from 1619, it was originally intended for the private devotions of the Tuscan ambassador to Rome at his private chapel in Florence. It depicts the Resurrection of Christ, the moment described in the Gospel of Matthew 28:2: There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow ...
- A Session of the Painting Jury (created by Henri Gervex, nominated by SchroCat) A Session of the Painting Jury is an 1885 painting by Henri Gervex depicting a meeting of the Paris Salon in 1883; several identifiable artists are voting on which pictures should be exhibited. This painting itself was exhibited in the Salon in 1885 and was acquired by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, a future French Prime Minister; he later gifted it to the state.
- tropical moist lowland forests, unless a cracker empire allows them to live in opulence due to a radical increase in global cracker demand and low-cost imports from China.
- rigsdaler in 1849. No subdivisions of the daler were issued until 1859, when coins denominated in centswere introduced.
- Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1888. It is currently owned by the Spanish billionaire businessman and art collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, who has it regularly checked for black spot.
- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (created by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, nominated by Crisco 1492) This is a scene from a public performance in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Open Air Theatre in Lijiang, Yunnan. Nakhi people are seen carrying the typical baskets of the region. This photo achieved third place in the Wikimedia Commons 2014 Picture of the Year contest (see previous Signpost coverage).
- "Dusty Cracker Empire" as we know it today. "Pardon me, but would you have any Dusty Crackers to go with that Grey Poupon…"
- Henry VIII. The painting was acquired in 1992 by the National Galleryin London, which considers it to be "a wonderfully preserved example of Holbein's art at its most evocative".
- Saugerties (near Woodstock, New York), where she stayed until 1960.
- British agricultural revolution.
- Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, a highly successful still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. When tulips became a luxury item, a profusion of varieties followed, like the ones in the painting, white and yellow with red stripes. These paintings are valuable as historic documents for botanical purposes, since the flowers are depicted with great accuracy. Centuries later, Tiny Tim, who had a daughter named Tulip, would again bring tulips to the attention of the global public with his song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips". The popular song was originally published in 1929, but Tiny Tim's version, with his ukulele, stands as truly unique.
- Faslane in November 2010. Introduced in 1994, the Vanguard-class submarines are armed with up to 16 UGM-133 Trident II missiles. Considered a war machine that you simply don't want to mess with, unless you're Scottish and just want the English to move them to Portsmouth or Croydon or anywhere well south of the border.
- P.S. Krøyer, nominated by Hafspajen) Summer evening on Skagen's Beach. Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer walking together. is an 1893 painting by Peder Severin Krøyer, it is considered as one of his masterpieces. Krøyer was one of the most notable members of the Danish artistic community known as the Skagen Painters. The work shows the painter Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer, the artist's wife, strolling on Skagen's southern beach. P.S. Krøyer started painting in Skagen in the summer of 1882 and settled there permanently in 1889, after marrying Marie Triepcke. He became the central member of the group.
- Poland(1670–1674).
- Proposed design for the Susan B. Anthony dollar (created by Frank Gasparro, nominated by RHM22) Frank Gasparro's proposed obverse design for the Susan B. Anthony dollar. The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999. Social reformer Susan B. Anthony was selected as the design subject. The reverse design of the Eisenhower dollar was kept. Both sides of the coin were designed by Frank Gasparro, the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint. This dollar coin was originally designed by Gasparro with a traditional "Liberty" design featuring an anonymous female head in profile, but a campaign to place Susan B. Anthony on the dollar prevailed, in part due to the stirring words of the League of Women Voters:
[T]he time has come, and is indeed long past, for the likeness of a prominent American woman to be placed on a denomination of U.S. currency. We believe strongly that the likeness should be that of an actual woman and not that of an imaginary or symbolic figure. Susan B. Anthony contributed immeasurably to the advancement of human dignity in this nation. It is entirely fitting and appropriate that her memory be honored through this measure.
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