Godot13 took this lovely photograph of the Hawksmoor Towers at All Souls College, Oxford. The bridge was bypassed in 20, but it continues to see use in local road service.įive featured lists were promoted this week. Designed and constructed in the 1930s, Clackline was quickly outdated and had to be widened in 19, but continuing concerns about safety led to further alterations in the 1970s.
Clackline Bridge ( nominated by Evad37 ) is an unusual Australian work of engineering-it carried a major highway over both a waterway and a railroad by using a curved, sloped design.The nominator says that Matilda was "one of the few female war-time leaders of the medieval period", and that "even at the end of her long life she was felt to still be a powerful personality". Empress Matilda ( nominated by Hchc2009) was a claimant to the English throne during a nearly twenty-year civil war ("The Anarchy").Partly translated from the companion French Wikipedia article, Przevalski's nuthatch was only given a separate species designation from the white-cheeked nuthatch in 2005, though many bird organizations have not followed suit. Przevalski's nuthatch ( nominated by Fuhghettaboutit ) is a bird endemic to parts of Tibet and China.
The latest in a lengthy series of Indonesian film articles from the nominator, Union Films produced seven movies before it was dissolved in 1942 as a result of a Japanese invasion and occupation. Union Films ( nominated by Crisco 1492) was a film production company located in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.It has been championed as the most effective civil rights law ever enacted in the US. Designed to supplement the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US constitution, the Voting Rights Act ended widespread disenfranchisement of racial minorities, particularly in the Southern region of the country. Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( nominated by Prototime ) prohibited discrimination in voting.Outside baseball, Ruth was a celebrity known just as much for his drinking and womanizing as for his baseball skills. Starting in 1914, Ruth changed baseball to focus far more on home runs, something that endures in the present iteration of the game. Babe Ruth ( nominated by Wehwalt ) was quite likely the greatest baseball player of all time.Its name stems from the difficulty of finding it a German ornithologist commented in the 1930s that "I am solidly confident no European has ever seen this rail alive, for that requires such a degree of toughening and such demands on oneself as I cannot so easily attribute to others." Invisible rail ( nominated by Jimfbleak) might sound like an unusual train, but it is actually a large flightless bird.Calls for Allen's resignation began after it came to light that he was partially responsible for D'Oliveira's initial exclusion from the team. This was a complicated situation involving Basil D'Oliveira, a mixed-race South African cricketer who was playing for English teams, and the threatened cancellation of a tour of South Africa should he be included on the national English team. Gubby Allen (1902–1989) ( nominated by Sarastro1) A cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches, later served in the administration of cricket and had a role in the subject of another recently-promoted featured article, the D'Oliveira affair.
Seriously, just read the article, it's an amazing story of someone who never saw what he saw as a just war without hurrying over to help out in it, and who, at the end of his life, tried to use his fortune to help educate and free the American slaves, although his plans were thwarted after his death.
Deathrow (video game) ( nominated by czar) An Xbox science-fiction sports game created by Ubisoft centred around the fictional sport of Blitz, a more-violent combination of basketball, hockey, and American football, with a Blade Runner-like design æsthetic.Here's another one by Diliff, of Wells Cathedral. We have a lot of gorgeous architectural pictures this week.