In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter: Thanks to the vagaries of the fortnightly schedule, I can already tell next issue's is going to be a bit overpacked
ThisSignpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted in the first two weeks of February. Quotes are generally from the articles, but may be abridged or simplified for length.
This guy sucks
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 theUniversity 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 toMount Graham International Observatory.
The Frye Fire was awildfire that burned 48,443 acres (19,604 ha) inGraham County, Arizona, United States, from June 7 to September 1, 2017. The fire was ignited by a lightning strike onMount Graham, within theCoronado National Forest, and spread rapidly until it was mostly contained on July 12. The Frye Fire destroyed three buildings, briefly threatened theMount Graham International Observatory, cost $26,000,000 to contain and suppress, and involved more than 800 firefighters. There were no fatalities, but 63 firefighters were quarantined as a result of astrep throat outbreak.
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American former competitivefigure skater, actress, sports commentator, and documentary film producer. A former competitor inwomen's singles, she is the1998 Olympic champion, the1997 World champion, a two-timeChampions Series Final champion (1997–1998) and the1997 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 tripleloop-triple loop combination, her signaturejump element, in competition. Starting in 1997, Lipinski had a rivalry with fellow skaterMichelle 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 commentatorTerry Gannon and fellow figure skater and good friendJohnny Weir, becameNBC's primary figure skating commentators in 2014.
Alan Charles Rawlinson,OBE,DFC &Bar,AFC (31 July 1918 – 27 August 2007) was an Australian airman who became afighter 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.
La Salute è in voi! was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with theGalleanisti, followers ofanarchistLuigi Galleani, particularly in the United States. Translated as "Health Is in You!" or "Salvation Is within You!", its anonymous authors advocated for impoverished workers to overcome their despair and commit to individual,revolutionary acts. TheItalian-language handbook offered plain directions to give non-technical amateurs the means to buildexplosives. Though this technical content was already available inencyclopedias,applied chemistry books, and industrial sources,La Salute è in voi wrapped this content within apolitical manifesto. Its contents included aglossary, basicchemistry training, and safety procedures. Its authors were likely Galleani and his friendEttore Molinari, a chemist and anarchist. American police and historians would use the handbook to profile anarchists and imply guilt by possession. A decade after its release,La Salute è in voi! figured prominently in the prosecution of the 1915Bresci Circle failed bombing of New York City'sSt. Patrick's Cathedral, in which the case revolved around the anarchists'right to read.
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 theCzech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.
Before the Holocaust, theJews of Bohemia were among the most assimilated and integratedJewish communities in Europe; antisemitic prejudice was less pronounced than elsewhere on the continent. The first anti-Jewish laws inCzechoslovakia were imposed following the 1938Munich Agreement and the German occupation of theSudetenland. In March 1939, Germany invaded and partially annexed the rest of the Czech lands as theProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. More anti-Jewish measures followed, imposed mainly by the Protectorate administration (which included both German and Czech officials). Jews werestripped of their employment and property, required to performforced labor, and subject to discriminatory regulations including, in September 1941, the requirement to wear ayellow star. Many were evicted from their homes and concentrated into substandard housing. Some 30,000 Jews, from the pre-invasion population of 118,310, managed to emigrate. Most of the remaining Jews were deported to other Nazi-controlled territories, starting in October 1939 as part of theNisko plan. In October 1941, mass deportations of Protectorate Jews began, initially toŁódź Ghetto. Beginning in November 1941, the transports departed forTheresienstadt Ghetto in the Protectorate, which was, for most, a temporary stopping-point before deportation to other ghettos,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 theexpulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The memory of the Holocaust was suppressed inCommunist Czechoslovakia, but resurfaced in public discourse after the fall of theIron Curtain in 1989.
Leo declared himself emperor in the summer of 716 and allied himself with the Islamic empire of theUmayyad Caliphate. Leo then marched his troops to Constantinople, seizing the city ofNicomedia, and capturing many officials, including Theodosius' son, also namedTheodosius. With his son in captivity, Theodosius negotiated with Leo, agreeing toabdicate 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 Benoît Soyer (4 February 1810 – 5 August 1858) was a French chef, writer and inventor, who made his reputation inVictorian England.
Born in north-east France, Soyer trained as a chef in Paris, and quickly built a career that was brought to a halt by theJuly Revolution of 1830. Moving to England he worked in the kitchens of royalty, the aristocracy and thelanded gentry until 1837. He was then appointed head chef of theReform 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 fromAuguste Escoffier toPrue Leith.
Soyer became a well-known author of cookery books. He took a keen interest inpublic health, and when theIrish potato famine struck in the 1840s he went to Dublin and set up asoup kitchen that could feed 1,000 people an hour; he published recipes for inexpensive and nutritious food and developed cheaper alternatives to bread.
During theCrimean 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 theCrimea in 1855 and worked with the nursing pioneerFlorence 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.
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Eightfeatured pictures were promoted this period, including those at the top and bottom of this article.
The FLList ofMusic Bank Chart winners (2015) includesGirls' Generation, who marked their 100th music show win on the July 17 broadcast. With it, the band became the first artist to accumulate 100 music show wins in Korea.
TheMusic Bank Chart is arecord chart established in 1998 on the South KoreanKBS televisionmusic programMusic Bank. Every week during its live broadcast, the show gives an award for the best-performingsingle on the South Korean chart.
The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is an award given annually to a book published foryoung adult readers in the field ofscience fiction orfantasy. 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 theHugo Award ceremony at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, orWorldcon, although it is not itself a Hugo Award.
The Arsenal Player of the Season award is an official award given byArsenal Football Club to the best performing player from the club over the course of the season. The award is given based on votes byArsenal fans on the club's website, and was previously based on votes by theArsenal Supporters' Trust.
Just out of curiosity, afterOther than that... well, remember this guy? He's been keeping me from seeing my father for three years. anthropomorphized COVID, did anyone else read the rest of the paragraph (permalink) with "he" referring to COVID rather than the author's father?Anomie⚔13:28, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. An unsignalled change in what the he/him pronoun is referring to is always going to be confusing. "It's been keeping me from ...." would have avoided the confusion, which instead continued with "Finally saw him ...." which reads as though the writer had caught COVID, which then seemed to be a strange thing to be happy about.Philh-591 (talk)21:48, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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