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England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16, 1856 is an artwork by William Simpson and George Zobel. This act of diplomacy had long-lasting results: besides improving relations, upon the ship finally being put out of service, a desk was made from its wood and presented to the United States President. This Resolute desk has been a mainstay of the White House furniture for most presidents ever since.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 22 June 2014 through 27 June 2014.

Six featured articles were promoted this week.

Banksia coccinea
The Blind Leading the Blind. Unfortunately, this excellent article only has a low-resolution image of the painting in question.

Five featured lists were promoted this week.

A gorgeous featured picture of a Common Kingfisher by Andreas Trepte
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis's illustration The Fairy Tale of Kings.

Seventeen featured pictures were promoted this week.

The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
The death of the Aral Sea: Left, 1989; Right, 2008.
One of John Bauer's famous illustrations of folk tales for Among Gnomes and Trolls.
SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, one ship in the new featured topic by Parsecboy.

One featured topic was promoted this week.

  • Battleships of Germany (automatic promotion from good topic; originally nominated in August 2011 by Parsecboy) You know, it gets hard, weeks on end, to keep praising Parsecboy for his incredible work on ship articles. Nonetheless, this is an amazing achievement: There are sixty-two articles in this topic, covering every single German battleship, and the classes they're divided into. Over half of the sixty-two articles are featured (the rest being good articles)—and this isn't even the only topic that Parsecboy is working on. Alongside Sturmvogel 66, he's probably Wikipedia's most prolific naval expert.