Wikipedia:Goings-on/July 12, 2009

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, July 12, 2009
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New featured content
Articles that gained featured status
 * Battle of Corydon (July 14)
 * Cloud Gate (July 14)
 * Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's road race (July 14)
 * Diocletianic Persecution (July 14)
 * Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (July 14)
 * Ruff (July 14)

Lists that gained featured status
 * List of lemur species (July 18)
 * Crafoord Prize (July 18)
 * Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (July 18)
 * Templeton Prize (July 18)
 * List of Gold Glove Award winners at outfield (July 18)
 * List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions (July 18)
 * List of Wario video games (July 18)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (July 18)
 * List of listed buildings in Runcorn (rural area) (July 18)
 * Mayor of San Francisco (July 18)
 * List of Big Brother (U.S.) HouseGuests (July 18)
 * List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008 (Canada) (July 18)

Pictures that gained featured status Portals that gained featured status
 * Don Quixote (July 12)
 * Queenston, Ontario, c. 1895 (July 12)
 * Oncometopia orbona (July 12)
 * "A Word of Comfort", Joseph Priestley caricature (July 12)
 * Plantain Walk, Jamaica (July 12)
 * Cirrus clouds (July 12)
 * Rainbow lorikeet (July 12)
 * Geastrum saccatum (July 12)
 * A mating pair of Laothoe populi (July 12)
 * Cinnabar on dolomite (July 12)
 * Waterskiing on the Yarra River, Melbourne, Australia (July 12)
 * Royal Spoonbill (July 12)
 * Male house sparrow (July 12)
 * Sand wasp feeding (July 13)
 * Sand wasp digging its nest (July 13)
 * Phaneroptera sp. (July 13)
 * Ivanhoe (July 16)
 * Lynching (July 16)
 * Homoneura sp. (July 16)
 * Grevillea rosmarinifolia (July 17)
 * Corymbia ficifolia (July 17)
 * Jade plant (July 17)
 * Sawfly larvae (Pergidae sp.) (July 17)
 * Hardhead duck (July 18)

Sounds that gained featured status

Topics that gained featured status
 * Jupiter (July 17)
 * State highways in Essex County, New York (July 17)


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