Wikipedia:Goings-on/August 24, 2008

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, August 24, 2008
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Alzheimer's disease (August 25)
 * White-breasted Nuthatch (August 25)
 * Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes (August 25)
 * History of Bradford City A.F.C. (August 25)
 * Made in the Dark (August 25)
 * William de St-Calais (August 26)
 * Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial) (August 26)
 * Amateur radio in India (August 27)
 * Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany (August 27)
 * Operation Ke (August 28)
 * Nashville Sounds (August 29)
 * My Happiness (song) (August 29)
 * Maryland Route 36 (August 29)
 * Proserpine (play) (August 29)
 * New York State Route 22 (August 29)
 * Voyage of the James Caird (August 30)
 * Edward VIII abdication crisis (August 30)

Lists that gained featured status
 * List of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup champions (August 24)
 * List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (August 24)
 * National Basketball Association awards (August 25)
 * List of Brotherhood episodes (August 25)
 * Opeth discography (August 25)
 * Timeline of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season (August 28)
 * List of USAF Test Pilot School alumni (August 28)
 * List of former Football League clubs (August 28)
 * List of Sunderland A.F.C. players (August 28)
 * List of Sendai International Music Competition winners (August 29)
 * List of Good Charlotte awards (August 29)
 * List of founding Fellows, Scholars and Commissioners of Jesus College, Oxford (August 30)

Pictures that gained featured status
 * German train wreck, World War I (August 24)
 * LAFD ladder truck (August 24)
 * Along the River During the Qingming Festival (original) (August 24)
 * WWII German Instrument of Surrender (August 24)
 * WWII Japanese Instrument of Surrender (August 24)
 * Nagoya Castle (August 24)
 * Light bulb patent (August 24)
 * Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (August 24)
 * Convair B-36 with experimental caterpillar landing gear (August 24)
 * Vernon and Irene Castle (August 25)
 * Zizina labradus (August 25)
 * Peach Glow water-lily (August 25)
 * Aerial refueling (August 26)
 * H.M.S. Pinafore (August 26)
 * Apollo 13 retrieval (August 26)
 * Stunt pyrotechnics (August 28)
 * Oswego lighthouse, 1900 (August 28)
 * Morning fog in East Frisia (August 28)
 * Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 manuscript sketch (August 29)
 * Cone Nebula (August 29)
 * Sarah Bernhardt (August 29)

Portals that gained featured status

Sounds that gained featured status

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 - Moonlight

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni). Performed by the Wichita State University Chamber Players; violin, John Harrison

Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) (Image:01 - Vivaldi Spring mvt 1 Allegro - John Harrison violin.ogg was already a featured sound)

Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)

Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno" (Autumn)

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)

Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B flat (D. 935/3; Op. 142 No. 3)

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Topics that gained featured status
 * Dwarf planets (August 27)


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