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By Armbrust
Space-flown Robbins medallion of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 3 to 9 January.
Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.


Featured articles

Arsène Wenger is the longest-serving manager of Arsenal F.C..
Grace Road is the ground of the Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths is the largest Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire.

One featured article was promoted this week.

  • Mayabazar (nominated by Pavanjandhyala, Ssven2 and Kailash29792) is a 1957 Indian bilingual epic fantasy film directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy. The film was shot in both Telugu and Tamil with the same title, but with a few differences in the cast. It had a final film-reel length of 5,888 metres (19,318 ft). The film's Telugu version was released on 27 March 1957; the Tamil version was released two weeks later, on 12 April. Both were critically and commercially successful, with a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres, and it became a silver-jubilee film.

Featured lists

Six featured lists were promoted this week.

  • Arsenal F.C. is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Royal Arsenal, before it was renamed Woolwich Arsenal in 1893, and it was shortened to Arsenal in 1914 (a year after moving to Highbury). There have been eighteen permanent and seven caretaker managers of Arsenal (nominated by Qwghlm, Goonerak, and Lemonade51) since 1897. The most successful person to manage Arsenal is incumbent manager Arsène Wenger, who has won three Premier League titles, six FA Cups and six Charity Shields since his appointment in 1996.
  • Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English County Championship, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. The club was established on 25 March 1879. During it's history the club has used fifteen grounds (nominated by AssociateAffiliate and ChrisTheDude) to play 1351 first-class, 473 List A and 64 Twenty20 matches.
  • Since the inception of the Rugby World Cup in 1987, a total of 56 players have scored three tries or drop goals, a hat-trick (nominated by NapHit), in a single match. The first player to achieve the feat was Craig Green during the 1987 tournament. Five players have scored two World Cup hat-tricks, Julian Savea being the only one to have scored all of them in the same tournament. Only four players have scored a hat-trick of drop goals.
  • Bedfordshire is a county in the East of England. It has an area of 1,235 square kilometres (477 sq mi), and population estimated in 2015 at 630,000. There are forty Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire (nominated by Dudley Miles), designated by Natural England. Thirty-five are listed for their biological, and five for their geological interest.
  • The NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions (nominated by Godot13) were mission-specific commemorative medallions, often astronaut-designed, which were approved by NASA and carried aboard the mission spacecraft into orbit. Beginning with the first manned Gemini mission in 1965, commemorative medallions were prepared for the astronauts at their request. These were produced by a company only known as Fliteline and were struck either in a pewter-colored base metal or sterling silver, and were flown on all 10 manned Gemini missions. The Robbins Company was contracted in 1968 to produce commemorative medallions beginning with Apollo 7. These were purchased by astronauts and support crew personnel at NASA Astronaut Flight Office, and a total of over 3,000 sterling silver Robbins medallions were flown into space across the 12 manned flights of the Apollo program.
  • Keith Floyd (1943–2009) was an English broadcaster, restaurateur and food writer. The list of his works (nominated by SchroCat) includes books, television appearances (1985–2009), radio broadcasts (1981–2003) and a one-man stage show. He wrote 27 food and drink-related books, 3 autobiographies and the foreword for Carol Payne's 1993 book.

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@Armbrust: thanks, I enjoy reading the Featured content reports. --Pine✉ 17:21, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Armbrust Me too, thanks! Iry-Hor (talk) 08:10, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Altered the caption to the Grace Road photo. As far as I know, the first ground was in Wharf Street, somewhere near the music hall where Joseph Merrick appeared on stage. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 12:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Xanthomelanoussprog: It's funny. The list says their first match was played on Grace Road on 17 May 1894, while Wharf Street isn't mentioned at all. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If I'm interpreting the club website correctly, the club was formed in 1820 and played on St Margaret's Pastures, an already established ground. Wharf Street was opened in 1825 and closed in 1860- but I get the impression that the club was a user of the ground rather than a proprietor. The web page seems a bit confused to me (but it's early in the morning!) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:24, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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