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* '''''[[Gallimimus]]''''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Gallimimus/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:FunkMonk|FunkMonk]])''</small> is a [[genus]] of [[Theropoda|theropod]] [[dinosaur]] that lived in what is now [[Mongolia]] during the [[Late Cretaceous]] [[Period (geology)|period]], about 70 [[Mya (unit)|million years ago]] (mya). It is the largest known [[Ornithomimidae|ornithomimid]]. ''Gallimimus'' was featured in the movie ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'', in a scene that was important to the history of [[Special effect|special effects]], and in shaping the common conception of dinosaurs as bird-like animals.

* '''[[Edmonds station (Washington)]]''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Edmonds station (Washington)/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:SounderBruce|SounderBruce]])''</small> is a [[train station]] serving the city of [[Edmonds, Washington]], in the United States. Edmonds station has a passenger waiting area, a single platform, and a [[model railroad]] exhibit. Opened in 1957, the station serves approximately 30,000 Amtrak passengers a year.

* '''[[Japanese battleship Hyūga|Japanese battleship ''Hyūga'']]''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Japanese battleship Hyūga/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:Sturmvogel 66|Sturmvogel 66]])''</small> was the second and last [[Ise-class battleship|''Ise''-class]] [[battleship]] built for the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] (IJN) during the 1910s. Completed in 1918, she served during the [[Siberian Intervention]] before being partially reconstructed and serving in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]. She served a minor role in [[World War II]], and was scrapped in 1946–1947.

* '''[[The Thing (1982 film)|''The Thing'' (1982 film)]]''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Thing (1982 film)/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:Darkwarriorblake|Darkwarriorblake]])''</small> is a 1982 American [[Science fiction film|science fiction]] [[horror film]] directed by [[John Carpenter]] and written by [[Bill Lancaster]]. It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms. Originally receiving negative reviews, it has since been reappraised as one of the best science fiction or horror films ever made, and gained a [[cult following]].

* '''[[Operation Retribution (1941)]]''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Retribution (1941)/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:Peacemaker67|Peacemaker67]])''</small> was the April 1941 [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[Strategic bombing|bombing]]<nowiki/> of [[Belgrade]], the capital of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], in retaliation for the [[Yugoslav coup d'état|coup d'état]] that overthrew the government that had signed the [[Tripartite Pact]].

* '''[[SMS Elsass|SMS ''Elsass'']]''' <small>''([[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/SMS Elsass/archive1|nominated]] by [[User:Parsecboy |Parsecboy]])''</small> was the second of five [[pre-dreadnought]] [[Battleship|battleships]] of the [[Braunschweig-class battleship|''Braunschweig'' class]] in the [[Imperial Germany|German]] [[Kaiserliche Marine|Imperial Navy]]. Completed in 1905, ''Elsass'' was quickly made obsolete by the launching of the revolutionary [[HMS Dreadnought (1906)|HMS ''Dreadnought'']] in 1906; as a result, her career as a frontline battleship was cut short. She served in various capacities, eventually being scrapped in 1935.

 

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