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 * Les Holden (Ian Rose) : Another of Ian's Australian aces, this article covers the life of a man who destroyed five German aircraft during World War I and helped establish Australia's commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was killed in 1932 when a passenger aircraft in which he was travelling crashed. The article passed GAN and ACR before achieving FA status.


 * SMS Dresden (1907) (Parsecboy) : Another in Parsecboy's series on German warships, SMS Dresden had a short but remarkably busy career. She was deployed several times to the Americas and Mediterranean in the years before World War I. Following the commencement of hostilities she attacked British shipping off South America before joining the German East Asia Squadron at Easter Island. The sole survivor of the German ships involved in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Dresden was scuttled at the remote Más a Tierra in the Pacific on 14 March 1915. The article passed GAN and ACR before achieving FA status.


 * German–Yugoslav Partisan negotiations (Peacemaker67) : Another in Peacemaker's series on the former Yugoslavia, this article covers the controversial but dimly remembered negotiations that took place between German forces and partisans in Yugoslavia in March 1943. While little came of the negotiations, they provided the partisans with an opportunity to redeploy their forces. The article passed GAN and ACR before achieving FA status.


 * Paul Kruger (Cliftonian) : In nominator Cliftonian's words, "'Uncle Paul' Kruger never read any book apart from the Bible and thought the Earth was flat, but nevertheless rose to be the four-time president of a republic that defied the British Empire... In some accounts he is a tragic folk hero who gave his all to defend his people, while in others he was an oppressive despot who ultimately brought disaster on himself and his country. The truth is in my view somewhere between these two extremes, though you will do well to find a book telling you that."


 * Edward II of England (Hchc2009) : As Hchc2009 said in his nomination statement, Edward II was "an ill-fated English monarch who remains a famous figure in modern films, plays and art". The article passed GAN and ACR before achieving FA status.


 * Ulysses S. Grant (Coemgenus) : A topic that should need no introduction, this article was first nominated for GA status in 2006 and finally achieved it thanks to efforts by Coemgenus and others in late 2013. It went through an unsuccessful featured article candidacy in mid-2014, after which it successfully negotiated ACR prior to achieving FA status.


 * List of Navy Midshipmen head football coaches (A Texas Historian) : This article provides a comprehensive list of the coaches of the Navy Midshipmen football team, which represents the United States Naval Academy. The team has had 36 head coaches, one interim coach, and two separate periods where it went without a coach since its formation in 1879.


 * HMS Nairana (1917) (Ian Rose and Sturmvogel 66) : This first-time collaboration between two A-class regulars covers the unusual career of a ship which was ordered as an Australian Bass Strait ferry, but spent its early years as one of the British Royal Navy's first aircraft carriers. Following World War I, Nairana entered service as a ferry travelling between Tasmania and Melbourne, and was the only such vessel not to be requisitioned by the military during World War II.


 * Yugoslav monitor Vardar (Peacemaker67) : Vardar saw action with the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav navies in both the world wars, and was renamed on several occasions. During World War I she served in the Danube and Black Sea regions, and in World War II she was scuttled by her crew after becoming trapped during the German invasion of Yugoslavia.


 * Battle of Kehl (1796) (Auntieruth55) : Auntieruth55 has continued her fine series of articles on battles of the Rhine Campaign of 1796 with this account of a successful French crossing of the river Rhine in 1796. While the battle was a relatively small affair, the French victory forced their enemies to withdraw deep into modern Germany.


 * SMS Königsberg (1905) (Parsecboy) : Following up on his work on SMS Dresden (see above), Parsecboy has described the career of another German cruiser which saw combat far from Europe during World War I. Königsberg attacked British shipping off the coast of East Africa during the first months of the war and was blockaded in the Rufiji River Delta from November 1914. This led to a series of complex British operations to attack the ship, involving aircraft, a battleship and finally a pair of monitors, before Königsberg's crew scuttled the ship and joined the German guerilla forces in East Africa.