Wikipedia:Today's featured list
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Today's featured list  Today's featured list is a section included on the Main Page on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in which an introduction to one of Wikipedia's featured lists is displayed. See this month's queue. The lists appearing on the Main Page are scheduled by the featured list director, currently Giants2008. To be eligible to appear on the Main Page, a list must already be featured. For more information on the featured list promotion process, please see the featured list candidates, as well as the featured list criteria. In addition, a blurb is drafted, introducing the subject of the list. Blurbs are roughly 1,000 characters in length, with no reference tags, alternate names or extraneous boldface type, although a link to the specified featured list should be emboldened; a relevant picture is also usually included with the blurb. The previous three lists that were featured on the Main Page appear along the bottom, in reverse chronological order. You can submit a list to be scheduled at the submissions page. At the moment, lists are scheduled by the featured list director or by the featured list delegates, although we will eventually be devising a community-based system for selecting each day's list. We encourage editors to submit and to review as many blurbs as possible. If you notice a problem with an upcoming featured list to appear on the Main Page, please leave a message at the Main Page errors page or on the TFL talk page. Find out more on how to get involved. |
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From the previous featured list (Friday, August 7)
Ecuador has five sites on the list of World Heritage Sites, and a further six on the tentative list. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Ecuador acceded to the convention on 16 June 1975, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first two sites listed in Ecuador were the Galápagos Islands and the city of Quito (building pictured), in 1978; they were also the first two sites inscribed on the list as a whole, with the reference numbers 1 and 2. Three Ecuadorian World Heritage Sites are listed for their cultural properties, and two for their natural properties. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Monday, August 10)
Clint Eastwood is an American retired actor, director, producer, singer, composer, and lyricist. He appeared in over 60 films in a career that spanned 72 years. Eastwood's breakout film role was as the Man with No Name in the Sergio Leone–directed Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1971, Eastwood made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me. Also that year, he starred as San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry. The film received critical acclaim, and spawned four more films: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). He received the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his 1992 western Unforgiven and for Million Dollar Baby in 2004. His most recent acting role was for the film Cry Macho (2021). He was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, in 1996, and the National Medal of Arts in 2010. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Wednesday, August 12)
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Between 1893 and 1942, the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built a series of modern battleships. Early designs were marked by their small size, light armor, and high speed compared to contemporary foreign counterparts. Three designs of pre-dreadnought battleships were constructed: two ships of the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class, two of the Regina Margherita class, and four of the Regina Elena class, which were the fastest battleships in the world at the time of their completion. After the British battleship HMS Dreadnought was completed in 1906, its revolutionary design rendered all previous battleships obsolete. Italy built three classes of dreadnought battleships between 1913 and 1915: the Dante Alighieri, three of the Conte di Cavour class, and two of the similar Andrea Doria class. A further four-ship class was cancelled during construction. In the interwar period, the four Littorio-class battleships were begun, three of which were completed prior to the end of World War II, after which the surviving ones were scrapped. (Full list...)