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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 10 January through 6 February. Quotes are generally from the articles, but may be abridged or simplified for length.

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“ “Now! Now!” cried the Queen. “Faster! Faster!” And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy.

The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, “You may rest a little now.”

Alice looked round her in great surprise. “Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!”

“Of course it is,” said the Queen, “what would you have it?”

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”

“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” —Lewis Carroll, ''Through the Looking-Glass

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It's the Red Queen's race again, where keeping up with Featured Content requires us to run very fast, just to end up next month right where we started. On the upside, I got to do a lot of things away from Wikipedia this month that vastly improved my mood. On the downside, it's 26 March as I write this, and we're meant to publish in two days, and I currently have... this introduction. Well, let's see how we do!

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The Ba Congress was called by the Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović.

Ba Congress, nominated by Peacemaker67

The Ba Congress, also known as the Saint Sava Congress or Great People's Congress, was a meeting of representatives of Draža Mihailović's Chetnik movement held between 25 and 28 January 1944 in the village of Ba in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II. It sought to provide a political alternative to the plans for post-war Yugoslavia set out by the Chetnik's rivals, the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans, and attempted to reverse the decision of the major Allied powers to provide their exclusive support to the Yugoslav Partisans while withdrawing their support of the Chetniks.

Islanders (video game), nominated by Premeditated Chaos

Islanders (stylized in all uppercase) is a casual city-building game developed and published by German indie game studio Grizzly Games. In Islanders, players earn points by strategically placing buildings from their inventory onto a procedurally generated island. Earning points restocks the building inventory, eventually unlocking new types of buildings and the ability to move to a new island and continue the session. The session ends when no more points can be gained because no buildings are available or there is no space to place them. The overall goal of the game is to obtain the highest score possible in a single session.

Shops along the boardwalk, with the Parachute Jump in the background

Riegelmann Boardwalk, nominated by Epicgenius

The Riegelmann Boardwalk (also known as the Coney Island Boardwalk) is a 2.7-mile-long (4.3 km) boardwalk along the southern shore of the Coney Island peninsula in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Opened in 1923, the boardwalk runs between West 37th Street at the edge of the Sea Gate neighborhood to the west and Brighton 15th Street in Brighton Beach to the east. The boardwalk connects several amusement areas and attractions on Coney Island, including the New York Aquarium, Luna Park, Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, and MCU Park. It has become an icon of Coney Island, with numerous appearances in the visual arts, music, and film. The boardwalk has been considered the most important public works project in Brooklyn since the Brooklyn Bridge, with an impact comparable to the Catskill Watershed and Central Park.

Haane Manahi, nominated by Zawed

Haane Te Rauawa Manahi, DCM (28 September 1913 – 29 March 1986) was a New Zealand Māori soldier during the Second World War whose gallantry during the Tunisian campaign resulted in a recommendation that he be awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). The subsequent award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) disappointed his fellow soldiers who, after his death, advocated greater recognition of his valour. This eventually resulted in a special award in 2007 of an altar cloth for use in a local church, ceremonial sword and a personal letter from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his gallantry.

1st Missouri Field Battery, nominated by Hog Farm

The 1st Missouri Field Battery was a field artillery battery that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The battery was formed by Captain Westley F. Roberts in Arkansas in September 1862 as Roberts' Missouri Battery and was originally armed with two 12-pounder James rifles and two 6-pounder smoothbore guns. The unit fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, as part of a Confederate offensive. Roberts' Battery withdrew after the battle and transferred to Little Rock, Arkansas, where Roberts resigned and was replaced by Lieutenant Samuel T. Ruffner.

During the middle of 1863, the unit, as Ruffner's Missouri Battery, was part of a force sent to the Mississippi River under the command of Colonel John Bullock Clark Jr., with the intent of harassing Union shipping. Clark's force was eventually recalled to Little Rock, which was being threatened by the Union Army of Arkansas under Major General Frederick Steele. The Confederates abandoned Little Rock on September 10, and Ruffner's Battery saw action during the retreat as part of the rear guard. After the retreat from Little Rock, Ruffner's Battery was temporarily assigned to Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke's cavalry division. The battery accompanied Marmaduke in an expedition against the Union garrison of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, seeing action at the Battle of Pine Bluff on October 25.

Chandler's Ford shooting, nominated by HJ Mitchell

Paper Mario: The Origami King, nominated by Panini!

Star Trek Generations, nominated by Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (David Fuchs)

American logistics in the Northern France campaign, nominated by Hawkeye7

"Shake It Off", nominated by HĐ

Pepi I Meryre, nominated by Iry-Hor

Hi-5 (Australian band), nominated by SatDis

Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar, nominated by Wehwalt

Sennacherib, nominated by Ichthyovenator

Battle of the Saw, nominated by Gog the Mild

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  Warming stripes, nominated by Name
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  Bay Area Rapid Transit train, nominated by Name
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  Press conference after "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, nominated by Name
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  Yellow-throated miner, nominated by Name
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  Galle Lighthouse, nominated by Name
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  Kourion, nominated by Name
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  A Negress, nominated by Name
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  Mount Ngauruhoe, nominated by Name
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  Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam, nominated by Name

Featured lists

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List of songs recorded by Billie Eilish, nominated by Name

Wales national football team results (1946–1959), nominated by Name

List of international goals scored by Vivianne Miedema, nominated by Name

List of awards and nominations received by Better Call Saul, nominated by Name

List of awards and nominations received by Benicio del Toro, nominated by Name

List of songs recorded by Bruno Mars, nominated by Name

List of Latvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, nominated by Name

List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2020, nominated by Name

List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1956, nominated by Name

List of awards and nominations received by The Good Place, nominated by Name

List of accolades received by The Big Short (film), nominated by Name

List of Burnley F.C. internationals, nominated by Name

List of international goals scored by Phil Younghusband, nominated by Name

List of Changeling: The Dreaming books, nominated by Name

DNA and RNA codon tables, nominated by Name

List of Kim Hee-chul performances, nominated by Name

Sushmita Sen filmography, nominated by Name

Clint Eastwood filmography, nominated by Name

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