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• George Tucker (nominated by Hoppyh) (1775–1861) was an American attorney, politician, historian, author, and educator. His literary works include the first fiction work about colonial life in Virginia and another which is among the nation's earliest science fiction. Tucker also published the first comprehensive biography of Thomas Jefferson, as well as a history of the United States. He was elected in 1816 to the Virginia House of Delegates for one term, and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1819 to 1825. He served as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the newly-founded University of Virginia until 1845.

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• Piku is a 2015 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by N.P. Singh, Ronnie Lahiri and Sneha Rajani. It tells the story of a headstrong Bengali architect, who along with her hypochondriac father and a helpful businessman embark on a road trip from New Delhi to Kolkata. Made on an estimated budget of ₹420 million (US$5.0 million), Piku grossed approximately ₹1.41 billion (US$17 million) worldwide. The film garnered awards and nominations (nominated by Ssven2 and Krimuk90) in several categories, with particular praise for its writing, music, and the performances of Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. As of May 2016, the film has won at least 32 awards.

Seven featured pictures were promoted this week.

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  Nils Olav
  (created by Mark Owens; nominated by Spongie555)
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  Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station
  (created by NASA/Paolo Nespoli; edited and nominated by Mikael Häggström)
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  Esperanza Base
  (created and nominated by Godot13)
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  Peter Martyr Vermigli
  (created by Hans Asper; nominated by J Milburn)
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  Mattie Edwards Hewitt
  (created by Frances Benjamin Johnston; restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)
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  Frontispiece of Rootabaga Stories
  (created by Maud and Miska Petersham; restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)
• Aurora Australis
  (created by crew of Expedition 28; nominated by TomStar81)

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That aurora photo is beautiful ... but when I click on it, nothing happens; when I hit Play Media, I get sent to this screen without the annotation. What I really want is File:Aurora Australis.ogv, which gives data from which it might be deduced that the photo is a 40:1 time lapse, but I have to cut and paste from the link to get there. As pretty as these pictures are, I think we forget sometimes that we don't just want to ooh and aah, we want to be educational. Ideally the video would be paired with an ugly little panel that tells us the time and the position of the satellite, allowing us to cross-reference a map with the usual extent of the aurora etc. We'd see how high the satellite is and have a link to understand what that lovely little "membrane" that seems to bound the atmosphere of the Earth really is, etc. There has to be some way to add a whole lot of context into videos so they can be better understood. "HVML" has not yet been invented (those awful annotations on YouTube don't even count as far as I'm concerned) but it's about time we do so! Wnt (talk) 10:47, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]