Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2021
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December 1
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December 2
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December 3
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December 4
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December 5
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December 6
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December 7
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December 8
The 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election took place on 8 December, triggered by the resignation of Member of Parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips, a Conservative, who left Parliament due to policy differences with Theresa May over Brexit. The constituency had been held by the Conservatives since it was first contested in the 1997 general election and was considered a safe seat for the party. Sleaford and North Hykeham was estimated to have had a vote share of more than 60 per cent in favour of leaving the EU in the June 2016 EU membership referendum and Brexit was a key issue in the by-election campaign. The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson (pictured), a paediatrician; she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote. The UK Independence Party came second with 13 per cent of the vote, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 11 per cent and Labour with 10 per cent. The result was widely seen as poor for the Labour Party, whose vote share decreased by 7 per cent. (Full article...)
December 9
Southampton Cenotaph is a First World War memorial in Watts Park in the southern English city of Southampton. The cenotaph was the first memorial of dozens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be built in permanent form and it influenced his later designs, including the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. It is a tapering, multi-tiered pylon featuring a recumbent figure of a soldier, a prominent cross, the town's coat of arms, and two lion sculptures. In front is an altar-like Stone of Remembrance. Later cenotaphs by Lutyens, although similar in outline, were much more austere and featured almost no sculpture. By the beginning of the 21st century, the engravings on the memorial had deteriorated noticeably. They have been supplemented by a series of glass panels, unveiled in 2011, which bear all the names from the cenotaph, as well as names from the Second World War and later conflicts. The memorial was upgraded in 2015 to a Grade I listed building. (Full article...)
December 10
Prison education is any educational activity that occurs inside prison. Courses can include basic literacy programs, secondary school equivalency programs, vocational education and tertiary education. The history of and current practices in prison education vary greatly among countries. Staff and budget shortages, a lack of educational resources and computers, and the transfer of prisoners between facilities are common barriers. Studies consistently show that education in prison is an effective way of reducing the rates of recidivism, which saves the expense of future prison sentences. In the US, every dollar spent on prison education saves taxpayers four to five dollars. Despite the benefits of prison education programs, rates of education within prisons remain low in many countries, and attempts to increase the rate of and funding for prison education have been opposed. Opponents argue that prison education is a waste of money and that prisoners are not deserving of the benefit. (Full article...)
December 11
James Longstreet (1821–1904) was a Confederate general of the American Civil War. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy he served in the Mexican–American War, where he was wounded. In June 1861, he resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army. He significantly contributed to most major Confederate victories in the Eastern Theater, primarily as a corps commander under General Robert E. Lee. Longstreet's most controversial service was at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, where he disagreed with Lee and reluctantly supervised several unsuccessful attacks. Afterward, Longstreet was briefly sent to the Western Theater, but returned to the east in 1864, where he was seriously wounded by friendly fire, recovered and returned to the field. After the war he worked as a diplomat, civil servant, and administrator. In 1874 he led African-American militia troops against the White League, an anti-Reconstruction group. Many modern historians consider him among the war's most gifted commanders. (Full article...)
December 12
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December 13
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December 14
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December 15
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December 16
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December 17
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December 18
The Surrogate's Courthouse is a historic building at the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in New York City. A seven-story, steel-framed structure in the Beaux-Arts style, with a granite facade and elaborate marble interiors, it was completed in 1907. John Rochester Thomas created the original plans while Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. Slattery oversaw the building's completion. The exterior is decorated with fifty-four sculptures by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, as well as three-story Corinthian-style colonnades on Chambers and Reade Streets. The building's basement houses the New York City Municipal Archives. The fifth floor contains the surrogate's court for New York County, which handles probate and estate proceedings for the New York State Unified Court System. The Surrogate's Courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark, and its facade and interior are both New York City designated landmarks. (Full article...)
December 19
Dracophyllum fiordense, the Fiordland grass tree, is a tree or shrub endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. A heath, it is 1.5–5.0 metres (5–16 feet) tall and has tufts of distinctive long leaves at the ends of its branches. It has pyramidal flower spikes hidden under each clump of leaves, with over 100 pink flowers on each spike that later produce reddish-brown fruit. It inhabits shrubland, forests, and tussock grassland. Its range is mainly within Fiordland, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks. D. fiordense was first described by the New Zealand naturalist Walter Oliver in 1928 and placed by him in the subgenus Dracophyllum, in a group with D. menziesii, which genetic sequencing later confirmed. In 2017, it was classed as a declining species. The kākāpō, a flightless bird, feeds on the bases of the leaves by making incisions in new shoots. D. fiordense is likely pollinated by insects and its seeds are dispersed by the wind. (Full article...)
December 20
The seventeenth season of Grey's Anatomy was ordered in May 2019, by ABC, as part of a double renewal with the sixteenth season. For the 2020–2021 U.S. broadcast television season, filming began in September 2020 while the season did not premiere until November 12, 2020, both delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on U.S. television only allowed seventeen episodes to be produced, the fewest of any season since the fourth. COVID-19 safety protocols were also implemented during production, and most main storylines dealt with the pandemic in the U.S. with some also connecting to spin-off series Station 19 through fictional crossover events. Numerous former starring cast members guest starred throughout the season, which received mixed reviews from critics but remained ABC's most-watched scripted series. It concluded on June 3, 2021. Despite initial uncertainty from the cast, crew, and network, the series was eventually renewed for an eighteenth season. (Full article...)
December 21
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December 22
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December 23
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December 24
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December 25
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December 26
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December 27
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December 28
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December 29
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December 30
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December 31
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