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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted between 31 March and 6 April 2013.
Featured articles
Four featured articles were promoted this week.
- Prince George of Denmark (nom) by DrKiernan. George (1653–1708) was the husband of Great Britain's Queen Anne. His marriage to her was arranged in the early 1680s under the aim of establishing an alliance between the English and Danish nations to contain Dutch maritime power. William of Orange, George's brother-in-law, disliked the treaty, mostly because he was married to Anne's elder sister, Mary.
- Common Starling (nom) by Jimfbleak and Cwmhiraeth. This mid-sized passerine bird belonging to the Sturnidae family has around a dozen subspecies breeding across Europe and Western Asia. Also known as the European Starling, this species has been declining in numbers in parts of northern and western Europe since the last three decades, mostly thanks to the reduction of grassland invertebrates as food for growing chicks.
- Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari (nom) by Crisco 1492. An 1884 Malay-language syair (poem) by Lie Kim Hok that was indirectly adapted from Raja Ali Haji's 1846 poem Sjair Abdoel Moeloek. The poem tells of a woman who passes as a man to free her husband from the Sultan of Hindustan, and was written over a period of several years and influenced by European literature. Siti Akbari had two reprints and a film adaptation in 1940.
- Leg before wicket (nom) by Sarastro1. The leg before wicket is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. It first appeared in the laws in 1774, as batsmen began to use their pads to prevent the ball hitting their wicket. Following a number of failed proposals for reform, in 1935 the law was expanded, such that batsmen could be dismissed even if the ball pitched outside the line of off stump.
Featured pictures
Two featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Rainy Season in the Tropics (nom) created by Frederic Edwin Church and nominated by Keraunoscopia. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) had a highly successful career as a landscape painter. He painted Rainy Season in the Tropics in 1866.
- C. Everett Koop (nom) created by the United States Public Health Service and restored by Adam Cuerden, and nominated by Mediran. Charles Everett Koop (October 14, 1916 – February 25, 2013) was a medical doctor, a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service, and the 13th Surgeon General of the United States.
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