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Well, here we are again! Thanks to the vagaries of the fortnightly schedule, I can already tell next issue's is going to be a bit overpacked with featured articles since five were promoted the day after the cutoff.

Other than that... well, remember this guy?

He's been keeping me from seeing my father for three years. Finally saw him at the start of this month, which I'm exceedingly happy about. Since he lives in picturesque Arizona, probably going to have a gallery in this issue or the next. He actually has a connection to our first featured article, by the way: He worked for the University of Arizona designing mounts for a good proportion of the giant telescopes that have come out in the last few decades, and I remember him telling me about the danger to Mount Graham International Observatory.

Featured articles

Seven

Frye Fire, nominated by Vami_IV

The Frye Fire was a

strep throat

outbreak.

Tara Lipinski, nominated by Christine (a.k.a. Figureskatingfan)

Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American former competitive

Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998) and the 1997 U.S. national champion. She won every competition she entered during her professional career. Until 2019, she was the youngest single skater to win a U.S. Nationals and the youngest to become an Olympic and World champion in figure skating history. She is the first woman to complete a triple loop-triple loop combination, her signature jump element, in competition. Starting in 1997, Lipinski had a rivalry with fellow skater Michelle Kwan, which was played up by the American press, and culminated when Lipinski won the gold medal at the 1998 Olympics, after which she retired from competitive figure skating. Lipinski, along with sports commentator Terry Gannon and fellow figure skater and good friend Johnny Weir, became NBC

's primary figure skating commentators in 2014.

Alan Rawlinson, nominated by Ian Rose

Alan Charles Rawlinson,

OBE, DFC & Bar, AFC (31 July 1918 – 27 August 2007) was an Australian airman who became a fighter ace

in World War II. He was credited with at least eight aerial victories, as well as two aircraft probably destroyed, and another eight damaged.

Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, Rawlinson joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1938. He was posted to the Middle East in July 1940 and saw action with No. 3 (Army Cooperation) Squadron. Twice credited with shooting down three enemy aircraft in a single sortie, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in October 1941 and took command of No. 3 Squadron the next month. He returned to Australia in March 1942, but was posted to the South West Pacific as the inaugural commanding officer of No. 79 Squadron in May 1943, flying Supermarine Spitfires in New Guinea. After serving as commanding officer of the RAAF's Paratroop Training Unit at Richmond, New South Wales, he returned to the Pacific to command No. 78 (Fighter) Wing, and held command of No. 78 Wing until his discharge from the RAAF in December 1946.

Rawlinson was commissioned into the

Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1958, he commanded RAF Buchan in 1960–61 before retiring from the military to live in South Australia

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Czar

La Salute è in voi! was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with the

right to read

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The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia, nominated by buidhe

The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia resulted in the deportation, dispossession, and murder of most of the pre-World War II population of Jews in the Czech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.

Before the Holocaust, the

extermination camps

, and other killing sites farther east. By mid-1943, most of the Jews remaining in the Protectorate were in mixed marriages and therefore exempt from deportation.

About 80,000 Jews from Bohemia and Moravia were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, surviving Jews—especially those who had identified as Germans before the war—faced obstacles in regaining their property and pressure to assimilate into the Czech majority. Most Jews emigrated; a few were deported as part of the

Communist Czechoslovakia, but resurfaced in public discourse after the fall of the Iron Curtain

in 1989.

Theodosius III, nominated by Iazyges

Theodosius III (

Armeniacs under their respective strategoi (generals) Leo the Isaurian and Artabasdos

.

Leo declared himself emperor in the summer of 716 and allied himself with the Islamic empire of the

abdicate

and recognize Leo as emperor. Leo entered Constantinople and definitively seized power on 25 March 717, allowing Theodosius and his son to retire to a monastery. Exactly when Theodosius died is uncertain, but it may have been on 24 July 754.

Alexis Soyer, nominated by Tim riley

Alexis Benoît Soyer (4 February 1810 – 5 August 1858) was a French chef, writer and inventor, who made his reputation in

Victorian England

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Born in north-east France, Soyer trained as a chef in Paris, and quickly built a career that was brought to a halt by the July Revolution of 1830. Moving to England he worked in the kitchens of royalty, the aristocracy and the landed gentry until 1837. He was then appointed head chef of the Reform Club in London, where he designed the kitchens on radical modern lines and became celebrated for the range and excellence of his cooking. His best-known dish, lamb cutlets Reform, has remained on the club's menu since the 1840s and has been taken up by later chefs from Auguste Escoffier to Prue Leith.

Soyer became a well-known author of cookery books. He took a keen interest in public health, and when the Irish potato famine struck in the 1840s he went to Dublin and set up a soup kitchen that could feed 1,000 people an hour; he published recipes for inexpensive and nutritious food and developed cheaper alternatives to bread.

During the Crimean War, reports reached London of the appalling privations endured by British soldiers, with disease rife and food inadequate. At the request of the British government Soyer travelled to the Crimea in 1855 and worked with the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale to improve conditions for the troops. He ensured that in all parts of the army there were nominated cooks, useful recipes, and the means to cook food properly − in particular, the portable Soyer stove which he invented and which remained in army use, with modifications, for more than a century. In the Crimea, Soyer became seriously ill; he never fully recovered his health. A little over a year after his return to London in 1857 he died of a stroke.

Featured pictures

Eight

featured pictures

were promoted this period, including those at the top and bottom of this article.

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  Hohenschwangau Castle by Thomas Wolf
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  Roosilawaty by Tati Photo Studio, Jakarta; restored by Chris Woodrich
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  Palm cockatoo by JJ Harrison
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  Karyogram of the human genome by Mikael Häggström
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  Banz Abbey by Ermell
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  Filipendula vulgaris by Ivar Leidus

Featured lists

Four

featured lists

were promoted this period.

List of Music Bank Chart winners (2015), nominated by EN-Jungwon and Jal11497

The Music Bank Chart is a

Music Bank. Every week during its live broadcast, the show gives an award for the best-performing single

on the South Korean chart.

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, nominated by PresN

The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is an award given annually to a book published for

young adult readers in the field of science fiction or fantasy. The name of the award was chosen because a lodestar is "a star that guides or leads, especially in navigation, where it is the sole reliable source of light—the star that leads those in uncharted waters to safety." The nomination and selection process is administered by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), and the award is presented at the Hugo Award ceremony at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon

, although it is not itself a Hugo Award.

Arsenal Player of the Season, nominated by Idiosincrático

The Arsenal Player of the Season award is an official award given by Arsenal Football Club to the best performing player from the club over the course of the season. The award is given based on votes by Arsenal fans on the club's website, and was previously based on votes by the Arsenal Supporters' Trust.

List of accolades received by Guardians of the Galaxy (film), nominated by Chompy Ace

powerful artifact

. The film has received various awards and nominations.