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Just one of a number of stunning new featured pictures coming from historic buildings in the UK; this one is from Wells Cathedral. See more below!
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 3 August through 9 August 2014. Descriptions for the articles borrow shamelessly from the article's text.

Eight featured articles were promoted this week. We're holding one back until next week, though, for sufficiently awesome reasons.

A wonderful moustache in a wonderful article: a new FA this week is about John Hay, secretary to Abraham Lincoln
A roughly-contemporaneous depiction of the Battle of Öland, a 1676 battle in the Scanian War that pitted the Danes and Dutch against the Swedish.
Two Avro Ansons fused together after the 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision, a bizarre but wonderful tale now the subject of a featured article.

Six featured lists were promoted this week.

Cover of the novelization of Wanita dan Satria, one of the seven Indonesian films made by Union Films, the subject of a new featured topic.

Seventeen featured pictures were promoted this week.

The William Crooks.
Mandarin ducks A pair of ducks! A pair of ducks! A most ingenious pair of ducks! We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks but none to beat this pair of ducks! (...I've been doing Pirates of Penzance rehearsals for months.)

Two featured topics were promoted this week.

We've all had nights like this: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
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Infamous?

Just wondering why the dodo is "infamous". According to my dictionary, infamous means "well known for some bad quality or deed". What, exactly, is it supposed to have done — other than have the audacity to go extinct after being overhunted by humans, of course? MeegsC (talk) 20:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

















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