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File:PuckMagazine13Oct1909.jpg, featured edit

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  •   Comment Thanks. That's a big improvement. I'm thinking that for FP, there should be more explanation in the file description than there is. For example, what does Lost Lenore - Poe have to do with Peary's expedition? Who's the Man with the Iron Mask? And how does "Honest Graft" and so forth relate to this event? Ideally, everything that could possibly need explanation should be explained. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:46, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Ikan Kekek: It's kind of in the caption: "The North Pole leaves the ranks of the undiscovered". Everything else is things unfound or unfindable (or buying into a stupid conspiracy theory, but no-one's perfect. To whit:
  • South pole: Wouldn't be reached until 1911.
  • Fountain of Youth - famously searched for by Ponce de Leon
  • Lost Lenore: Reference to Edgar Allan Poe, specificially The Raven which describes the narrator's "sorrow for the lost Lenore". (Also, arguably, his poem Lenore about mourning the dead, though the exact phrase is from The Raven).
  • Universal Peace: World Peace has been sought for years, hasn't been achieved yet.
  • Captain Kidd's Treasure: Famously lost pirate treasure.
  • Something for nothing/Shares: Reference to expression "You can't get something for nothing" Basically, a working get-rich-quick scheme.
  • The Great American Novel: One of those things that's always discussed in American literary circles, never had a universally-agreed candidate
  • Honest graft: Using one's political power to take advantage of opportunities without corruption. Probably not possible.
  • Perpetual motion: The idea that a machine can be built that generates power without cost.
  • The Man who wrote Shakespeare: Reference to the conspiracy theory that Shakespeare's works were written by someone other than Shakespeare.
  • The Man in the Iron Mask: A prisoner in 18th century France forced to wear an iron mask. There's a Dumas story about him, but his actual identity is unknown. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:18, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Added! PDMagazineCoverUploading (talk) 00:26, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 13:22, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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