goings-On/October 26, 2008

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, October 26, 2008

Collaborations by topic

See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing.

New featured content

Articles that gained featured status

Ring-tailed Lemur (October 28)
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (October 28)
Pilot (House) (October 28)
Paranoid Android (October 28)
Rhinemaidens (October 28)
Harvey Milk (October 28)
Albert Speer (October 28)
Bob Windle (October 28)
No Way Out (2004) (October 28)
Amazing Stories (October 31)
LaRouche criminal trials (October 31)
Haumea (dwarf planet) (October 31)
Half-Life 2: Episode One (October 31)
Anglo-Zanzibar War (October 31)
Operation Epsom (October 31)

Lists that gained featured status

List of female Nobel Laureates (October 28)
List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry (October 28)
2002 NFL Expansion Draft (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Akon (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by David Bowie (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Coolio (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Gorillaz (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Matchbox Twenty (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by The Notorious B.I.G. (October 28)
List of awards and nominations received by Gwen Stefani (October 28)
List of Bleach episodes (season 4) (October 28)
List of Bleach episodes (season 7) (October 28)
List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service (October 28)
List of Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day starting pitchers (October 28)
List of Nashville Sounds managers (October 28)
Supergrass discography (October 28)
Extreme points of Bulgaria (November 1)
List of Carnivàle awards and nominations (November 1)
List of ISS spacewalks (November 1)
List of mergers and acquisitions by Adobe Systems (November 1)
List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the City University of New York (November 1)
List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis (November 1)
List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with Princeton University (November 1)
List of Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches (November 1)
United States Academic Decathlon National Championships (November 1)
Cy Young Award (November 1)

Pictures that gained featured status

Monarch Butterfly (October 30)
George Wallace attempting to block integration (October 30)
Leucospermum cultivar (October 30)
Armadillo Aerospace's "Pixel" in the Lunar Lander Challenge (October 30)
Construction of the Empire State Building (October 30)
Australian Pelican (October 26)
Domestic goose (October 26)

Portals that gained featured status

Sounds that gained featured status

1899 – Florodora: Tell me pretty maiden

The hit song from the 1899 musical Florodora, which played a major role in developing the. A circa 1908 Edison Records recording by the "Edison Sextette" (Ada Jones, George S. Lenox, Corinne Morgan, Grace Nelson, Bob Roberts and Frank C. Stanley).

1918 – Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning