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Featured articles

Four featured articles were promoted this week.

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Fremantle Prison (15 Aug) Fremantle Prison is in the place of the same name, Western Australia. It is now a tourist destination. The prison was constructed between 1851 and 1859 by convict labour. It is a complex of cell blocks, a gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages and tunnels- these were sunk into the limestone rock on which the prison was built, and were used to supply water to the town from an aquifer. Prisoners were required to pump the water by hand into a tank; in 1896 a steam-driven pump was installed which the prisoners stoked with wood.
Last Gasp (Inside No. 9) (15 Aug):The Last Gasp was an episode of the comedy series Inside No. 9. A seriously ill young girl receives a visit from a singer, as arranged by a charity. The singer dies whilst (Drmies hates this word) blowing up a balloon. The singer's "last gasp" imprisoned in the balloon acquires some monetary value.
American Pharoah (15 Aug): A bay colt with a faint star on his forehead, American Pharoah is so named because his breeder and owner, Ahmed Zayat, is of Egyptian-American background. The mispelling of the name was allegedly the result of holding a competition on social media; the winning name was copied and pasted into an email sent to The Jockey Club, although the submitter claimed she knew how to spell "Pharaoh" and someone else must have transposed the vowels.
Serpens (15 Aug) Another article about some bright dots in the night sky. There are billions and billions of these, and we shall be occupied into our dotage writing synopses of the damn FAs.

Featured lists

Five featured lists were promoted this week.

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LIST ([[ |nominated]] by [[User: | ]]) Description
List of Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire (10 Aug)
List of awards and nominations received by Leonardo DiCaprio (10 Aug)
List of songs recorded by Lana Del Rey (10 Aug)
List of ODI cricket centuries scored on debut (10 Aug)
List of Attorneys General of West Virginia (14 Aug)

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Featured pictures

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

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Rock ptarmigan (9 Aug) The rock ptarmigan is a cold-climate loving gamebird from the grouse family, that prefers high and barren habitats. They are the official bird of Toyama Prefecture in Japan and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It's feathers are brow in the summer and white in the winter. Rock ptarmigan meat is part of festive meals in Icelandic cuisine.
Black-tailed godwit (9 Aug)The black-tailed godwit is a rather large, wader shorebird Can be found from western and central Europe to central Asia and Asiatic Russia. It has long leggs, a long bill they live and breed around freshwater lakes, floods, damp meadows, moorlands. It's call sounds like : weeka weeka weeka.
Polypogon monspeliensis (9 Aug)Polypogon monspeliensis or annual rabbitsfoot grass is soft, fluffy annual grass native to southern Europe.
Hudson's Soap advertisement, front Hudson's Soap advertisement, back (9 Aug) Hudson's Soap was a laundry soap created and sold by Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight, England, in 1908 by Robert Spear Hudson. Hudson's Soap was one of the first mass-marketed soap powders, widely advertised in the United States. The brand is called nowadays Rinso, wich is the brand name now marketed by Unilever; used in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Take the plunge in the washing facilities with Hudson's Soap.
Swiss franc (9 Aug) The Swiss franc is the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; issued by Swiss National Bank and the Swissmint.
Sameer Khan (10 Aug) Sameer Khan is a stylish and elegant model in the Indian fashion industry. Sameer is also a fashion choreographer, model contest trainer with expertise in choreography and grooming models. His career begin in the in 2002, and ever since he participated in major shows and beauty contest as a choreographer and groomer and a national level contest judging Miss Queen of India & Miss South India.

Annika Beck (11 Aug)
Gold stater of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (11 Aug) Eucratides the Great, loved coins and loved himself depicted on coins. He was an important Greco-Bactrian king. He engaged in wars against the Indo-Greek kings, the Hellenistic rulers in northwestern India. Eucratides went so far as the Indus, until the twist of fate made him loose. He was defeated and returned to Bactria.
Dancer in a café (11 Aug) Dancer in a café is an abstract Cubists painting by Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). It was considered as 'barbaric' art when exhibited. It depict a woman dancing in a café, wearing an elaborate gown, made by embroidered green silk velvet and a chiffon caped evening gown and she is holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand. In her right hand. The rest of the painting is subdivided in multiple facets and planes, presenting parts of the café scene.
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (11 Aug) Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

Marian Dawkins (12 Aug)

Pretty Nose (12 Aug)Pretty Nose was an Arapaho woman war chief who participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Pretty Nose lived to be 101-year-old.

Achillea millefolium (12 Aug)Achillea millefolium or yarrow is smallish common perennial plant found in grasslands, gardens and open forests traditionally used as medicinal plant. Some cultivars are used as ornamental plants.