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Features and admins

Approved this week

This week's TFPs
Man climbing a statue of a Buddhist idol at Borobudur
Atlantic coast at Porto Covo
Engorged Ixodes ricinus tick
Prickles of a rose plant

Soap (nom), JamesBWatson (nom) and NativeForeigner (nom) were promoted to administrator.

The following seven featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:

  • Sydney Newman, a Canadian film and television producer who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s
  • Grand Forks, the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County
  • Robert Hues, an English mathematician and geographer who made observations of the variations of the compass off the coast of Newfoundland
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, a 1980 American space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner
  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) introduced in the 1930s
  • Choral symphony, a musical composition for orchestra, choir and sometimes solo voices which in its internal workings and overall musical architecture adheres broadly to symphonic musical form
  • Funerary art, any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.