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By Ian Rose, SchroCat and Adam Cuerden
Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

Five featured articles were promoted this week.

The wreck of the SS Arctic, 1854, is a new featured article.
Charles I in Three Positions by Anthony Van Dyck is a new featured picture.
  • Roy Phillipps (nominated by Ian Rose) was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action over France on 12 June 1918. A grazier between the wars, Phillipps joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year. This is the second article on an Australian World War I ace that Ian has taken to Featured status this year.
  • Head VI (nominated by Ceoil) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series. It shows a bust view of a single figure, modelled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. It was the first of Bacon's paintings to reference the Velázquez, a portrait that was to haunt him throughout his career, and was the beginning of his sequence of "screaming popes". In his nomination statement, Ceoil confessed "this painting has fascinated and unnerved me for 25 years".
  • Cuban macaw (nominated by FunkMonk), also known as the Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor), was a species of macaw native to the main island of Cuba and the nearby Isla de la Juventud that went extinct in the late 19th century. It may have been closely related to the scarlet macaw and the Jamaican red macaw. No modern skeletons are known, but a few subfossil remains have been found. This is the second of FunkMonk's articles on extinct birds to reach Featured status this year.
  • Anachronox (nominated by GamerPro64 and ZeaLitY) is a third-person role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio, released in 2001. It centers on Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli, a down-and-out private investigator who looks for work in the slums of Anachronox, a once-abandoned planet near the galaxy's jumpgate hub. He travels to other planets, amasses an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. This is GamerPro64's first Featured Article.
  • SS Arctic disaster (nominated by Brianboulton). The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sank on September 27, 1854, after a collision with the much smaller SS Vesta 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland. Passenger and crew lists indicate that there were probably more than 400 on board; of these, only 88 survived, of whom most were members of the crew. All the women and children on board perished. Brian was inspired to develop the article after coming across the book Women and Children Last in a second-hand store.

Six featured lists were promoted this week.

The Yarn Market, Dunster is one of the National Trust properties in Somerset.
František Kupka's The Cathedral (Katedrála), an early example of abstract art.

Nine featured pictures were promoted this week.

The Delfsevaart before the bombing of Rotterdam in World War II.
Mount Merapi, an active volcano in Indonesia, spewing smoke from the crater.
  • The Pont du Gard, the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges, beautifully photographed from a well-chosen angle by Benh Lieu Song.
    The Pont du Gard, the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges, beautifully photographed from a well-chosen angle by Benh Lieu Song.
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Beautiful work Ian Rose, SchroCat and Adam Cuerden. --Pine✉ 06:42, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for mentioning the fact that Anachronox was my first Featured Article (and hopefully not the last). It should be noted that the nomination was co-nom'd by User:Zeality, who helped set the ground work for getting the article to where it is now. GamerPro64 18:20, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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