Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-03-19/Featured content

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This edition covers content promoted between 11 and 17 March 2012
A newly featured picture is a poster for The Mummy, a 1932 horror film directed by Karl Freund and released by Universal Studios. The most expensive American film poster, it fetched US$435,500 in 1997.
Electric stimulation was used to treat nervous disorders. In this 1862 photograph, electricity is used to stimulate facial muscles. From the new featured article on the British doctor, Golding Bird.
Lienzo de Tlaxcala image depicting Tlaxcalan soldiers leading a Spanish conquistador and a native porter, from the new featured article Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
An adult Common Tern brings a sand eel to a juvenile. From the newly featured article on this bird.
Alonzo Babers of the United States won gold medals in the 400 meters and the 4 × 400 meter relay. He is seen here with the gold medals around his neck. From the new featured list 1984 Summer Olympics medal table.
USS Ohio, the first in its class of ballistic missile submarines when ordered in 1974, undergoing an extensive overhaul to become a cruise missile carrier. From the newly featured list of Ohio class submarines.
Map showing the swelling of "the Bulge" as the German offensive progressed creating the nose-like salient during 16–25 December 1944, from the newly featured picture.
A newly featured picture is perhaps the first photograph of men drinking beer, circa 1844 in Scotland, by Hill & Adamson.

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