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Today's featured article SMS Hindenburg was a battlecruiser of the Imperial German Navy, the third ship of the Derfflinger class. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship of any type built for the German navy during World War I. Hindenburg took part in short fleet operations as the flagship of I Scouting Group in 1917–18, but saw no major action. The proposed final sortie of the fleet in the last weeks of the war ended when the crews of the capital ships mutinied. Hindenburg was interned with other German battlecruisers at Scapa Flow in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered that the ships be scuttled on 21 June 1919; Hindenburg was the last of the ships to sink. She was raised in 1930 and broken up for scrap the following two years. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battlecruisers of Germany.) (Full article...) Recently featured: Battle of Warsaw (1705) Scanners (collection) Gaetano Bresci Today's featured picture {{{caption}}} Archive More featured pictures @  Air pollution from a brick factory ... that air pollution (example pictured) increases the risk of miscarriages, strokes and dementia? ... that a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision helped to protect comic books from government regulation and censorship? ... that, although Ray Prohaska's father beat him to dissuade him from becoming an artist, he had a lengthy, successful career as an illustrator? ... that Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! featured a Domino's Pizza mascot as an antagonist? ... that Hannah Sharts played soccer for the UCLA Bruins over twenty years after her mother fought to create the NCAA team? ... that a narcotics addict appealed his drug possession charges on the argument that his addiction compelled him to take drugs, but he narrowly lost? ... that Broadway Jones refused to join the original production of the musical Show Boat due to low pay, despite the song "Ol' Man River" being created for him? ... that The Republic of Nothing inspired Rush drummer Neil Peart to write a letter to the author, leading him to write his own book? ... that Giovanni Battista Bugatti performed 516 executions for six popes?

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