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Today's featured list  Today's featured list is a section included on the Main Page on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in which an introduction to one of Wikipedia's featured lists is displayed. See this month's queue. The lists appearing on the Main Page are scheduled by the featured list director, currently Giants2008. To be eligible to appear on the Main Page, a list must already be featured. For more information on the featured list promotion process, please see the featured list candidates, as well as the featured list criteria. In addition, a blurb is drafted, introducing the subject of the list. Blurbs are roughly 1,000 characters in length, with no reference tags, alternate names or extraneous boldface type, although a link to the specified featured list should be emboldened; a relevant picture is also usually included with the blurb. The previous three lists that were featured on the Main Page appear along the bottom, in reverse chronological order. You can submit a list to be scheduled at the submissions page. At the moment, lists are scheduled by the featured list director or by the featured list delegates, although we will eventually be devising a community-based system for selecting each day's list. We encourage editors to submit and to review as many blurbs as possible. If you notice a problem with an upcoming featured list to appear on the Main Page, please leave a message at the Main Page errors page or on the TFL talk page. Find out more on how to get involved. |
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From the previous featured list (Friday, August 21)
Nine tholos tombs were constructed at the site of Mycenae in southern Greece during the Late Bronze Age. Mycenae gives its name to Mycenaean civilisation. Tholos tombs, or tholoi, are a form of monumental burial that originated in Messenia, in southwest Greece, at the end of the Middle Helladic III period (that is, c. 1700 – c. 1675 BCE). They consist of a narrow rectangular entrance passage, known as the dromos, which leads into an underground burial chamber, separated from the dromos by an entrance-way called the stomion, which would usually be sealed with a dry-stone wall. The walls of the chamber, and sometimes of the dromos, were lined with dry-stone masonry. The chamber was capped with a rounded roof constructed by the technique of corbelling, by which courses of blocks were overlapped in increasingly small circles. They were typically used for multiple burials, perhaps of members of the same family, and many were periodically re-opened for additional interments and for ritual activity. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Monday, August 24)
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The 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best artistic and technical achievements in American primetime television programming from June 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented on September 7 and 8, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. A total of 106 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 99 categories. The ceremonies were broadcast in the United States by FXX on September 14. Shōgun won 14 awards, the most of any program, followed by The Bear, with 7 awards. Shōgun also received the greatest number of nominations, with 17, followed by Only Murders in the Building and Saturday Night Live, with 15 nominations each. Among networks and platforms, FX earned the most awards, with 27 wins; Netflix received the most nominations, with 83. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Wednesday, August 26)
There are 97 World Heritage Sites in the Arab States designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The organization designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage that have been nominated by signatories to the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Cultural heritage consists of monuments, groups of buildings, and sites, while natural heritage consists of natural features, geological and physiographical formations, and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation, or natural beauty. The Arab States are one of the five regions defined by UNESCO, alongside Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It consists of 19 Arab nations that have accepted the World Heritage Convention. Of the World Heritage Sites in the region, 88 were inscribed for their cultural significance, 6 for their natural significance, and 3 for both their natural and cultural significance. (Full list...)