Wikipedia:Goings-on/October 18, 2009

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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday, October 18, 2009
Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing.	New featured content Articles that gained featured status Amagi class battlecruiser (Oct 20) Lindsay Hassett with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (Oct 20) Z. Marcas (Oct 20) "What'd I Say" (Oct 20) "Interactions" (The Spectacular Spider-Man) (Oct 20) Remain in Light (Oct 20) Gray's Inn (Oct 24) We Are the World (Oct 24) Lists that gained featured status Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award (Oct 21) 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (Oct 21) Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame (Oct 21) Central Florida University alumni (Oct 21) Pink discography (Oct 22) List of recessions in the United States (Oct 24) Territorial pick (Oct 24) Premier League Player of the Month (Oct 24) List of Major League Baseball players with 100 triples (Oct 24) List of church restorations, amendments and furniture by John Douglas (Oct 24) List of counties in Missouri (Oct 24) List of Oklahoma Sooners football seasons (Oct 24) List of 1924 Winter Olympics medal winners (Oct 24) List of places of worship in Adur (Oct 24) Pictures that gained featured status Jumping spider with prey (Oct 18) Wakehurst Place Mansion (Oct 18) Admiralty Extension (Oct 18) Australia from space (October 18) Hamatsa shaman (October 18) A poilu on leave (October 18) Indian Palm Squirrel (October 18) Gama (October 18) Synagogue on D-Day (October 18) Marasmius elegans (October 18) Tremella mesenterica (October 18) Pholiota malicola (October 18) Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (October 20) Vauxhall Gardens (Oct 22) A carpenter ant drinking (Oct 22) Marken, a peninsula in the North Holland province of the Netherlands (Oct 22) Turdus merula, the Common Blackbird, nesting (Oct 22) Édouard Manet set of "The Raven" prints (plates B2, C2, D2, E2) (Oct 24) Helen Keller (Oct 24) Portals that gained featured status Portal:Horses (Oct 23) Portal:United States Air Force (Oct 23) Portal:Baseball (Oct 23) Sounds that gained featured status 22 October Topics that gained featured status No Doubt albums (October 19) Bloc Party albums (October 24)
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