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By Adam Cuerden
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 1 to 15 July

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. So, this issue, we're publishing what I had done when what happened happened. It's hard to be silly after that.[1]

Fourteen featured articles were promoted this period.

Portrait of Suckling by Bardwell, which makes this sound like porn.
Maurice Suckling, nominated by Pickersgill-Cunliffe
'Twould seem a minor officer, who, for historical merit would suck,
Were his nephew not Horatio Nelson, who is noted for his pluck!
Suckling used his rank to push him into high positions
But died unexpectedly 'fore he was forty of longstanding conditions.
Order of Brothelyngham, nominated by Serial Number 54129
They played as monks to poke fun of them, the bishops raging daily,
Going around and beating up fellows, robbing them quite gaily.
It's fun mediaeval blasphemy! The one weird trick that clergy hate
So head on down to Exeter, the fourteenth century's the date!
...You do have a time machine, right?
Thank You (Meghan Trainor album), nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ)
Half sovereign, nominated by Wehwalt and Platonist Rainbow
Kyriakos Pittakis, nominated by UndercoverClassicist
Esplanade MRT station, nominated by ZKang123
Angel Aquino, nominated by Pseud 14
Abishabis, nominated by Z1720
A leader of a religious movement amongst the Cree,
He encouraged many to stop hunting fur
The fur traders really didn't like this fact,
And he was vaguely accused of a mur-
-Der.
He was killed before trial, and information on what he was supposed to have done is vague. Well, that's one way to keep the economy going. Or maybe he was guilty. Who knows?
British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany, nominated by Hawkeye7
Mars in fiction, nominated by TompaDompa
From religious allegory, little green men, and Barsoom,
To Marvin the Martian who makes Earth go "boom".
(List incomplete; please add thirty more stanzas. —Ed.)
40 Wall Street, nominated by Epicgenius
Its good reputation now hits quite a slump,
Since, after he bought it, it was renamed after Trump.
Josette Simon nominated by BennyOnTheLoose
Actress from Blake's 7, but her effect is long-lasting
In getting British directors to choose to use race-blind casting.
In the Royal Shakespeare Company she's been quite adored,
Which likely has got many other theatres "on-board".
Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication, nominated by Vaticidalprophet
If we could speak to lions, could we understand them?
Now consider a species not even of this world
How could their communications then be unfurled?
Or be determined as just something random?
(You know, like TikTok, or whatever crap the younger generation are doing.)
Private Case, nominated by SchroCat
From its nomination:
Set up by the Victorian-minded and rather strait-laced administrators at the British Museum, the Private Case was the place they stashed the erotica and pornography to keep it away from the lascivious eyes of the hoi polloi. The BM denied its existence to the public and didn't list the works on the main public catalogue until the early twentieth century. As social mores changed in the 1960s, the museum began to liberalise their approach, and the collection is now entirely open access. From being a hidden dirty secret, it is now considered a superb resource to study the attitudes held by previous generations on sexuality, gender, etc.

Eighteen featured pictures were promoted this period, including the one at the top of this article which I never got to show my father, and the one at the bottom.

Eight featured lists were promoted this period.

brown bandicoot
Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunni), a peramelemorph
List of peramelemorphs, nominated by PresN
Bilbies and bandicoots,
From Australia and nearby;
In the Crash Bandicoot games
They occasionally fly.
(I think you went off-topic there. -Ed.)
12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, nominated by TheUzbek
Bộ Chính trị Ban Chấp hành trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam Khoá XII[2]
Covers the laws and regulations that they passed by
26 January Twenty-twenty-one
At which time the 12th Politburo was done.
List of awards and nominations received by Angel Aquino, nominated by Pseud 14
While an actress worthy of much love,
She's in "featured articles". Please see above.
Well, the intent was there.
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist, nominated by PanagiotisZois
If you promote acceptance of LGBTs[3]
In your music, you might get one of these.
List of accolades received by Toy Story 3, nominated by Chompy Ace
List of awards and nominations received by Joan Allen, nominated by Jovian Eclipse
List of National Football League annual receiving touchdowns leaders, nominated by Hey man im josh
List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007, nominated by Cyclonebiskit

References

  1. ^ Due to the circumstances, the customary snarky banter between Adam and myself will not be in this report. —J
  2. ^ XII=mười hai, at least according to Google Translate.
  3. ^ ...Yeah, "LGBTs" is a little weird phrasing, but it rhymes.
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I hope everything's OK. Just to say how beautiful your work is and how much it's appreciated. Blythwood (talk) 03:35, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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