Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-03-02/Featured content



This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 21 to 27 February. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles
featured articles were promoted this week.
 * Calutron (nominated by Hawkeye7) is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest O. Lawrence during the Manhattan Project and was based on his earlier invention, the cyclotron. They were used in the industrial-scale Y-12 uranium enrichment plant at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The uranium-235 produced there was used in the Little Boy atomic bomb that was detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
 * The House of Plantagenet (nominated by Norfolkbigfish) was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The family held the English throne from 1154, with the accession of Henry II, until 1485, when Richard III died. The rivalry between the House of Plantagenet's two cadet branches of York and Lancaster brought about the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long fight for the English succession, culminating in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, when the reign of the Plantagenets ended.
 * Jumping Flash! (nominated by Jaguar) is a platform video game co-developed by Exact and Ultra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The first installment in the eponymous series, it was first released for the PlayStation on 28 April 1995 in Japan. Presented in a first-person perspective, the game follows a robotic rabbit named "Robbit" as he searches for missing jet pods that have been scattered by the game's astrophysicist antagonist character Baron Aloha. Robbit must explore each section of Crater Planet to retrieve all of the jet pods, stop Aloha and save the world from being destroyed. The game has been described as an ancestor of and as well as an early showcase for 3D graphics in console gaming, and was generally well-received by critics.
 * Persoonia terminalis (nominated by Casliber and Checkingfax) is a rare shrub belonging to the family Proteaceae, and native to northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. It grows to 1.5 m with an upright or spreading habit and narrow short leaves up to 1 cm in length. The yellow flowers mainly appear in December and January and are followed by purple-striped green drupes. The fruit of persoonias are edible to and dispersed by wild vertebrates.

Featured lists
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 * Arshad Warsi (born 1968) is an Indian film actor, choreographer and a dancer. This list (nominated by Skr15081997) presents all his film credits, awards and nominations. He began his career as an assistant director, before dancing in the music video Aag Se Khelenge and choreographing Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja. He made his acting debut in Tere Mere Sapne, and has played in 49 more films since than. He's currently filming two films and The Legend of Michael Mishra is in post-production. During his career he was nominated for 25 awards, and won 11 from them.

Featured pictures
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