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31 featured articles were promoted this period.

• Lewis (nominated by Therapyisgood) was a professional baseball player who played in one career game with the Buffalo Bisons of the Players' League (PL) on July 12, 1890. After asking the Bisons manager for a tryout and pitching three innings, his earned run average (ERA) of 60.00 and walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) rate of 6.667 became the highest in the history of the PL. As of May 2020, Lewis's first name, date of birth, and batting and pitching stances are unknown.
• Rigel (nominated by Lithopsian, Attic Salt, and Casliber) is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion, approximately 860 light-years (260 pc) from Earth. Rigel is the brightest and most massive component—and the eponym—of a star system of at least four stars that appear as a single blue-white point of light to the naked eye. A star of spectral type B8Ia, Rigel is calculated to be anywhere from 61,500 to 363,000 times as luminous as the Sun, and 18 to 24 times as massive, depending on the method and assumptions used.
• The vermilion flycatcher (nominated by CaptainEek) is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family found throughout South America and southern North America. It is a striking exception among the generally drab Tyrannidae due to its vermilion-red coloration. The males have bright red crown, chests, and underparts, with brownish wings and tails. Females lack the vivid red coloration and can be hard to identify—they may be confused for the Say's phoebe. Riparian habitats and semi-open environments are preferred. As aerial insectivores, they catch their prey while flying. Their several months-long molt begins in summer. Populations have declined because of habitat loss, though the species remains abundant. The overall population numbers in the millions, thus the International Union for the Conservation of Nature considers it a species of least concern.
• The 1985 World Snooker Championship (nominated by Lee Vilenski and BennyOnTheLoose) was a ranking professional snooker tournament that took place from 12 to 28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the event was the ninth consecutive World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible, the first tournament having taken place in 1977. The winner received £60,000, which was the highest amount ever received by the winner of a snooker event at that time. The defending champion was Englishman Steve Davis, who had previously won the World Championship three times. He met Northern Irishman Dennis Taylor in the final which was a best-of-35-frames match. Davis took an early 8–0 lead, but Taylor battled back into the match and drew level at 17–17, forcing a deciding frame. The 35th frame was contested over the final black ball, with the player able to pot the ball winning the world title. After both players missed the black twice, Taylor potted the ball to win his sole World Championship. The match, often referred to as the "black ball final", is commonly considered to be the best-known match in the history of snooker and a reason for the surge in the sport's popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. The final also holds the record for the most-viewed broadcast in the United Kingdom of a programme shown after midnight, with a peak of 18.5 million viewers for the match's final frame, breaking the existing records for the most-viewed sporting event and BBC2 programme.
• The 2017 EFL Championship play-off Final (nominated by The Rambling Man) was an association football match that was played on 29 May 2017 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Huddersfield Town and Reading. The match determined the third and final team to gain promotion from the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League. The match was played in front of a crowd of 76,682. It ended goalless in regular time and the deadlock was not broken by the end of extra time. Huddersfield won the final 4–3 on penalties, and their midfielder Aaron Mooy was selected as the man of the match.
• The Battle of Adys (nominated by Gog the Mild) was fought in late 255 BC during the First Punic War between a Carthaginian army and a Roman army. The Romans had successfully invaded Carthage's homeland in North Africa and 15,500 men to hold their lodgement over the winter. These advanced on and besieged the city of Adys. The Romans executed night marches to launch dawn assaults on the Carthaginian army's fortified hilltop camp. One part of this force was repulsed and pursued down the hill. After the other part charged the pursuing Carthaginians in the rear and routed them, the remaining Carthaginians panicked and fled. Despairing, the Carthaginians sued for peace, but the terms Regulus offered were so harsh that they resolved to fight on.
• Erin Phillips (nominated by Sportsfan77777) is an Australian former professional basketball player and an Australian rules footballer for Adelaide. She played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for five different teams and is a two-time WNBA champion. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Additionally, Phillips has played four seasons in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, in which she is a two-time premiership player and two-time league best and fairest.
• Sir Fabian Ware (nominated by Eddie891) was a British journalist and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He travelled to the Transvaal Colony where he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later he became editor of the British newspaper The Morning Post. In 1916, the Department of Graves Registration and Enquiries was created with Ware at its head. On 21 May 1917 the IWGC was founded and Ware served as its vice-chairman. He ended the war as a major-general. Post-war, Ware was heavily involved in the IWGC's function. When the Second World War broke out, he continued to serve as vice-chairman of the IWGC and was re-appointed director-general of Graves Registration and Enquiries.
• George Gosse (nominated by Peacemaker67) was an Australian recipient of the George Cross. Gosse served in the Royal Australian Navy between 1926 and 1933, and in 1940 joined the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve. In April 1945 he was given command of a party responsible for mine clearance in the recently captured Bremen Harbour in Germany. He displayed courage in defusing three mines under very difficult conditions between 8 May and 19 May 1945, for which he was awarded the George Cross. He died of a heart condition in 1964 and his medal set is displayed in the Hall of Valour at the Australian War Memorial.
• Hyborian War (nominated by Airborne84) is a play-by-mail game set during the Hyborian Age in the world of Conan the Barbarian within the heroic fantasy genre, also known as sword and sorcery. The game has been continuously available for worldwide play since its inception in 1985 and has changed little in its overall format. Although it relies on postal mail or email and has turnaround times which are relatively long for the digital age of video games, Hyborian War has retained a sizable player base. The game incorporates diverse landscapes and cultures, grand armies, large-scale battles, wizards tipping the scales of power, and stories of courageous and heroic deeds.
• Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (nominated by Kohlrabi Pickle) was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent of today's President of the Supreme Court. Best known for establishing unjust enrichment as a branch of English law, he has been described by Andrew Burrows as "the greatest judge of modern times".
• The Space Shuttle (nominated by Balon Greyjoy) was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system that was operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
• The Beautician and the Beast (nominated by Aoba47) is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis. It stars Fran Drescher as a New York City beautician who is hired, under the false assumption that she is a science teacher, to tutor the four children of a dictator of a fictional Eastern European nation, played by Timothy Dalton. The film was released on February 7, 1997, to generally negative reviews. Critics panned the story as more appropriate for a sitcom rather than a feature film, and called it a poor example of the romantic comedy genre. Drescher and Dalton received mixed reviews for their performances; Drescher was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. The Beautician and the Beast was a box-office bomb, grossing roughly $11.5 million against a production budget of $16 million.
• The Holocaust in Slovakia (nominated by Buidhe) was the systematic dispossession, deportation, and murder of Jews in the Slovak State, a client state of Nazi Germany. Out of 89,000 Jews in the country in 1940, 68,000 to 71,000 were murdered during the Holocaust. Between March and October 1942, 58,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and the Lublin district of German-occupied Poland. The persecution of Jews resumed after August 1944, when Germany invaded Slovakia and another 13,500 Jews were deported.
• The Wales national football team is the third-oldest side in international association football. The side played their first fixture in March 1876, four years after Scotland and England had contested the first-ever international match. From 1876 to 1976 (nominated by Kosack) the team developed. They won their first British Home Championship in the 1906–07 tournament, and between the First and Second World Wars saw great success, winning several further championships. After the end of the Second World War they began participating in more international contests, such as the FIFA World Cup. Wales entered a period of decline in the 1960s, though they shared the British Home Championship during the 1969–70 season, bringing their total wins of the championship to twelve.
• The 2020 Masters (nominated by Lee Vilenski) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 12 and 19 January 2020 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England. It was the 46th staging of the Masters tournament, which was first held in 1975, and the second of three Triple Crown events in the 2019–20 season, following the 2019 UK Championship and preceding the 2020 World Snooker Championship. From a total prize pool of £725,000, the winner of the event, Bingham, received £250,000. The tournament featured a total of 18 century breaks; the highest break was a 144 compiled by David Gilbert in the quarter-finals, for which he won £15,000.
• Andreas Palaiologos (nominated by Ichthyovenator) was the eldest son of Thomas Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea. Thomas was a brother of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the final Byzantine emperor. After his father's death in 1465, Andreas was recognized as the titular Despot of the Morea and from 1483 onwards, he also claimed the title "Emperor of Constantinople". Andreas sold his rights to the Byzantine crown in 1494 to Charles VIII of France and died in poverty in 1502.
• The Canada lynx (nominated by Sainsf) is a medium-sized North American cat that ranges across Alaska, Canada and many of the contiguous United States. It is characterized by its long, dense fur, triangular ears with black tufts at the tips, and broad, snowshoe-like paws. Similar to the bobcat (L. rufus), the hindlimbs are longer than the forelimbs, so that the back slopes downward to the front. The Canada lynx stands 48–56 cm (19–22 in) tall at the shoulder and weighs between 5 and 17 kg (11 and 37 lb). The lynx is a good swimmer and an agile climber. This lynx occurs predominantly in dense boreal forests, and its range strongly coincides with that of the snowshoe hare. Given its abundance throughout the range, and no severe threats, the Canada lynx has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. This lynx is regularly trapped for the international fur trade in most of Alaska and Canada but is protected in the southern half of its range due to threats such as habitat loss.
• Computer Space (nominated by PresN) is a space combat arcade game developed in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first arcade video game as well as the first commercially available video game. Computer Space is a derivative of the 1962 computer game Spacewar!, possibly the first video game to spread to multiple computer installations. It features a rocket controlled by the player engaged in a missile battle with a pair of hardware-controlled flying saucers set against a starfield background. The goal is to score more hits than the enemy spaceships within a set time period, which awards a free round of gameplay. While the game was successful and validated Syzygy's belief in the future of arcade video games, selling over 1,000 cabinets by mid-1972 and ultimately 1,300–1,500 units, it was not the runaway success that Nutting had hoped for. Computer Space's release marked the ending of the early history of video games and the start of the commercial video game industry.
• Ismail I of Granada (nominated by HaEr48) was the fifth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula, from 1314 to 1325. He claimed the throne during the reign of his uncle, Sultan Nasr, after a rebellion started by his father Abu Said Faraj. The war ensuing war with Castile reached its climax in the Battle of the Vega in 1319, a complete victory for Ismail's forces. Ismail followed up his victory with the capture of castles on the Castilian border in 1324 and 1325. He was murdered by his relative Muhammad ibn Ismail.
• Joseph A. Lopez (nominated by Ergo Sum) was a Mexican Catholic priest and Jesuit. Born in Cotija, Michoacán, he studied canon law at the Colegio de San Nicolás and at the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. He became acquainted with the future Empress Ana María Huarte, and was made chaplain to the imperial family. He was also put in charge of the education of all the princes in Mexico. Lopez was a close ally of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide, residing in Madrid for four years as his attorney and political informant, and accompanying him during his exile to Italy and England. Following Iturbide's execution in 1824, Lopez moved to the United States with the exiled Empress Ana María and her children, and settled in Washington, D.C. He became the chaplain to the Georgetown Visitation Monastery, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1833, working also as a novice and minister at Georgetown College. When the president of Georgetown College, William McSherry died, Lopez became acting president in 1840, making him the first Latin American president of a university in the United States. As an educator, he garnered a reputation as a strict disciplinarian. Just several months into his presidency, he fell ill and was sent to recuperate in St. Inigoes, Maryland; he died there in 1841.
• Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (nominated by Hurricane Noah and KN2731): Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect the Bahamas on record, causing catastrophic damage in the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama in early September 2019.
• The Partisan Congress riots (nominated by Buidhe) were attacks on Jews by former Slovak World War II partisans in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen people were injured, four seriously, in Bratislava alone despite police attempts to maintain order. The contemporary press played down the involvement of partisans.
• William Edward Sanders (nominated by Zawed) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC). After the outbreak of World War I he served on troopships until April 1916, when he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was given his own command, HMS Prize, in February 1917. Sanders was awarded the VC for his actions while on his first patrol as captain, when Prize engaged and drove off a German U-boat that had attacked and damaged the ship. He was killed in action when Prize was sunk by a U-boat on her fourth patrol.
• Five Go Down to the Sea? (nominated by Ceoil) were an Irish post-punk band from Cork, active from 1978 to 1989. Vocalist and lyricist Finbarr Donnelly, guitarist Ricky Dineen and brothers Philip O'Connell (bass) and Keith "Smelly" O'Connell (drums) formed the band as 'Nun Attax' when they were teenagers. They became known for Donnelly's absurdist, surreal lyrics and stage presence, Dineen's angular guitar and bass parts, and the Captain Beefheart-style rhythm section. The group later included guitarists Mick Finnegan (1979), Giordaí Ua Laoghaire (1979 to 1980) and Mick Stack (1982 to 1985), and cellist Úna Ní Chanainn (1982 to 1983). Although the band only released four EPs and did not sell many records, their reputation has grown over time.
• Nasr of Granada (nominated by HaEr48) was the fourth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada from 14 March 1309 until his abdication on 8 February 1314.
• James Ashley (nominated by HJ Mitchell) was a British man shot dead by police at his flat in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on 15 January 1998, while unarmed and naked.
• The Commissioner Government (nominated by Peacemaker67) was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist puppet government established in the German occupied territory of Serbia within the Axis-partitioned Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. It operated from 30 April to 29 August 1941 and was headed by Milan Aćimović. It was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-communist and acted as an instrument of the German occupation regime. The government actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the population and the economy, and its members regarded their own participation in the Holocaust as "unpleasant but unavoidable."
• Bayern Munich 1–2 Norwich City (1993) (nominated by The Rambling Man & Dweller & Harrias) The football match between Bayern Munich and Norwich City was played at the Olympiastadion, Munich, on 19 October 1993 as part of the second round of the 1993–94 UEFA Cup and finished in a 2–1 victory for the English side. The result was a huge upset in European football; it was the only victory by a British club against Bayern Munich in their Olympiastadion.
• Leeches (nominated by LittleJerry & Chiswick Chap & Cwmhiraeth) are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass 'Hirudinea'. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular, segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract. The majority of leeches live in freshwater habitats, while some species can be found in terrestrial and marine environments. The best-known species, such as the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, are hematophagous, attaching themselves to a host with a sucker and feeding on blood, having first secreted the peptide hirudin to prevent the blood from clotting. The jaws used to pierce the skin are replaced in other species by a proboscis which is pushed into the skin. A minority of leech species are predatory, mostly preying on small invertebrates. Leeches have been used in medicine from ancient times until the 19th century.
• Gigantorhynchus (nominated by Mattximus) is a genus of thorny-headed worms, also known as spiny-headed worms, that parasitize marsupials, anteaters, and possibly baboons by attaching themselves to the intestines using their hook-covered proboscis.

Featured lists

21 featured lists were promoted this period.

• 2019 in cue sports (nominated by Lee Vilenski) The year of 2019 included professional tournaments surrounding table-top cue sports. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and tournaments are held as doubles, or team events. The snooker season runs between May and April, whilst the pool and billiards seasons run in the calendar year. Four men's adult world championships were held in 2019, with Judd Trump winning the World Snooker Championship, Ko Ping-chung winning the WPA World Ten-ball Championship, nine-ball by Fedor Gorst and the World Billiards Championship by Peter Gilchrist respectively. Women's world championships featured a World Snooker Championship won by Reanne Evans and the World Billiards Championship won by Anna Lynch. The events in this list are professional, pro-am, or notable amateur cue sports tournaments from the year of 2019.
• In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 20–20–20 club (nominated by Bloom6132) is the group of batters who have collected 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 home runs in a single season. In total, seven players are members of the club.
• The 90th Academy Awards (nominated by Birdienest81) ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.The Shape of Water won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Dunkirk with three awards, Blade Runner 2049, Coco, Darkest Hour, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with two awards, and Call Me by Your Name, Dear Basketball, A Fantastic Woman, Get Out, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, I, Tonya, Icarus, Phantom Thread, and The Silent Child with one.
• The England cricket team represents England and Wales in Test cricket; until 1992, they also incorporated Scotland. Between 1990 and 2004 (nominated by Harrias) , England played 172 Test matches, resulting in 58 victories, 53 draws and 61 defeats.
• Between 1925 and 1990, Brown & Bigelow released a yearly calendar for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) featuring a painting (nominated by Guerillero) by illustrators Norman Rockwell (from 1925 to 1976) and (from 1977 to 1990) Joseph Cesatari. Rockwell only failed to complete a painting for two years: 1928 and 1930; Cesatari completed a painting for every year. The illustrations show scouts of different kinds – Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts at the time), Venturing (Explorers at the time), Sea Scouts, and Air Scouts – engaging in mostly outdoor activities. The calendars were large – 22 by 44.5 inches (56 by 113 centimeters) – and featured a single image for the year; the months were changed by tearing off a paper portion at the bottom
• Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1967, 23 different singles (nominated by ChrisTheDude) topped the chart, which was published at the time under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine. Chart placings were based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
• Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists (nominated by Chiswick Chap) , in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. Among notable Old Wykehamists are four archbishops, including one of the school's earliest pupils, Henry Chichele; four field marshals; commanders of both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the Second World War—Hugh Dowding and Charles Portal, respectively; and two Viceroys of India, Archibald Wavell and Frederic Thesiger. The many politicians include six Chancellors of the Exchequer: Henry Addington for the Tory Party; Robert Lowe for the Liberal Party; Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell for the Labour Party; and Geoffrey Howe and Rishi Sunak for the Conservative Party. Of these Henry Addington went on to become Prime Minister.
• List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (nominated by Tone) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Iceland accepted the convention on 19 December 1995, making its natural and cultural sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2020, Iceland has three sites inscribed on the list. The first site added to the list was the Þingvellir National Park, in 2004. Two further sites were added later, Surtsey in 2008 and Vatnajökull National Park in 2019. Þingvellir is a cultural site while the other two are natural sites. In addition to its World Heritage Sites, Iceland also maintains six properties on its tentative list. The existing site of Þingvellir is listed on the tentative list twice, as a proposal to extend the cultural site to include the natural heritage, and as a part of a new transnational nomination to cover the Viking heritage.
• Community is an American comedy television series created by Dan Harmon. The show ran for six seasons and 110 episodes, and won 11 awards out of 58 nominations (nominated by RunningTiger123 and Bilorv), including four Primetime Emmy Awards (winning one), ten Critics' Choice Television Awards (winning one), and six Satellite Awards (winning one).
• Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer Giorgio Moroder is one of the originators of Italo disco and electronic dance music, and his work with synthesizers heavily influenced several music genres such as house, techno and trance music. He has also been dubbed the "Father of Disco". He has won 18 awards out of 35 nominations (nominated by Leo Mercury), including three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards (out of nine nominations).
• Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, they typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as "shore excursions." They can carry thousands of passengers in a single trip, and are some of the largest ships (nominated by Ahecht) in the world by gross tonnage (GT), bigger than many cargo ships. Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s. In the decades since, the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater. In the two decades between 1988 and 2009, the largest cruise ships grew a third longer (268 m to 360 m), almost doubled their widths (32.2 m to 60.5 m), doubled the total passengers (2,744 to 5,400), and tripled in volume (73,000 GT to 225,000 GT). As of June 2020^[update], the largest cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas, has a gross tonnage of 228,081, is 361 metres (1,184 ft) long, 65.7 metres (216 ft) wide, and holds up to 6,680 passengers.
• List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy (nominated by Parsecboy) The British Royal Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought battleships as part of a naval expansion programme that began in 1889. These ships were characterised by a main battery of four heavy guns—typically 12-inch (305 mm) guns—in two twin mounts and a high freeboard. Fifty-two battleships of this type were built prior to the 1906 completion of the revolutionary all-big-gun Dreadnought, which gave the pre-dreadnoughts their name. They served in a variety of roles across the globe, seeing service in the Mediterranean, Home, and Atlantic Fleets, the China Station and elsewhere in the British Empire. Ten of these vessels were lost during the First World War, five of them in the Dardanelles campaign.
• Naomi Watts is a British actress and producer known for her work in Australian and American film and television (nominated by Cowlibob).
• Woody Harrelson is an American actor, director, playwright, and writer who has appeared in numerous films (nominated by HAL333)
• Ursidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes the giant panda, brown bear, and polar bear, and many other extant and extinct mammals. A member of this family is called a bear or an ursid. There are eight species in the family (nominated by PresN).
• Robert De Niro Jr. is an American actor, producer, and director, with an extensive filmography (nominated by CAPTAIN MEDUSA)
• Prince Edward Island is the least populous province in Canada with 142,907 residents as of the 2016 census and is the smallest in land area at 5,686 km² (2,195 sq mi). Prince Edward Island's 63 municipalities (nominated by Hwy43 and Mattximus) cover 29.6% of the province's land mass and were home to 72% of its population in 2016.
• The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the international championship of Twenty20 (T20) cricket. A Twenty20 International (T20I) is an international cricket match between two teams, each having T20I status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's world governing body. In cricket, a player is said to have completed a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. As of the 2016 Men's T20 World Cup, the most recent to take place, there have been eight centuries scored by seven players (nominated by Dey subrata).
• The Archbishop of Quebec (nominated by Bloom6132) is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs. As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing the north-central part of the province of Quebec, the Archbishop of Quebec also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Chicoutimi, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and Trois-Rivières. The current archbishop is Gérald Lacroix. Fifteen men have been Archbishop of Quebec; another ten were heads of its antecedent jurisdictions.
• Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 World Championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position at the end of each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's World Champion. At each Grand Prix, the driver who completes the quickest lap of the circuit is said to have completed the fastest lap. The driver who set the fastest lap in a Grand Prix was awarded a point from the 1950 season to 1959. This was reintroduced in the 2019 season. As of the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix, 134 different drivers (nominated by NapHit) have set a fastest lap in a Formula One Grand Prix.
• Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1968, 24 different singles (nominated by ChrisTheDude) topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten works (nominated by Gerda Arendt) of the then-emerging opera genre. For three of these, the music and libretto are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640), and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Seven other opera projects are known, of which four were completed and performed during Monteverdi's lifetime, while he abandoned the other three at some point. The libretto has survived for some of these lost operas.
• Mephitidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which comprises the skunks and stink badgers. A member of this family is called a mephitid. The skunks of the family are widespread across the Americas, while the stink badgers are in the Greater Sunda Islands of southeast Asia. There are twelve species of mephitids (nominated by PresN).

Featured pictures

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  Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps (painted by Camille Pissarro, 1897; nominated by Andrew J.Kurbiko)

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  Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) in Uganda (created and nominated by Charlesjsharp)

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  Mudpot at Sulphur Works, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (created by Frank Schulenburg; nominated by MER-C)

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  Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) in flight, Cuba (created and nominated by Charlesjsharp)

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  Throughout Chinese history many copies were made of Wang Xizhi's famous work Lantingji Xu, which described the beauty of the landscape around the Orchid Pavilion and the get-together of Wang Xizhi and his friends. The original is lost. Some believed that the original was buried with Emperor Taizong of Tang in his mausoleum. This Tang Dynasty copy by Feng Chengsu (馮承素) is considered the best of all the extant copies. It is located in the Palace Museum in Beijing. (created by Wang Xizhi; nominated by MER-C)

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  Elephant's Trunk in classic Hubble Palette (Ha/OIII/SII) by amateur astronomer Chuck Ayoub. (created by Cpayoub; nominated by MER-C)

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  Christmas card by Jenny Nyström showing the jultomte she popularised. (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), males fighting on Rinca, Komodo National Park, Indonesia (created and nominated by Charlesjsharp)

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  Lucy Arbell as Queen Amahelli in Jules Massenet's Bacchus (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707), a.k.a. Mademoiselle Maupin. (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Old Royal Naval College viewed from across the Thames (created by Colin; nominated by Bammesk)

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  The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft (created by ???; nominated by TheFreeWorld)

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  High quality scan of the Isaiah Scroll (created by the Israel Museum; nominated by Bammesk)

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  Advertisement for the music score of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, showing the quartette in the third act between Marcello, Musetta, Mimi, and Roldolpho. (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Wall painting - Saint Anne (fragment of figure) (created by the National Museum in Warsaw; nominated by Andrew J.Kurbiko)

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  Bombing of the Concordia Vega oil refinery in Ploești, Romania by B-24s of the United States Fifteenth Air Force on 31 May 1944 (nominated by Buidhe)

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  Set for Act II of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in the première production of 29 February 1836 at the Académie Royale de Musique - Le Peletier. No. 12 from Album de l'Opéra. Lithograph, 22.2 x 29.5 cm (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Poster for the Paris première of Gismonda by Henry Février, with lyrics by Henri Cain and Louis Payen after Victorien Sardou. Lithograph, 0.920 x 0.690 m, printed by Imp. Maquet (Paris) (restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden)

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  Blue-billed Duck male, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia (created and nominated by JJ Harrison)

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  Rose robin (created and nominated by JJ Harrison)

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  Eastern bristlebird (created and nominated by JJ Harrison)

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  James Irwin salutes the United States flag on the Moon during the Apollo 15 Moon landing, August 2, 1971 (created by David R. Scott; nominated by TheFreeWorld)

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  Bolungarvík(created and nominated by Veggies)

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  The Thomas Jefferson Building (Retouched by Mmxx; nominated by TheFreeWorld)

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  Common kingfisher (created and nominated by Charlesjsharp)

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  Green-crowned brilliant (created and nominated by Charlesjsharp)