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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 15:43, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

• ... that over its 300 years the area of the Field of Mars has been a miltary parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and a location for sports and exercises (pictured)? Source: Numerous mentions in sources, most are found in this one "The territory on which the Field of Mars is now located was, at the beginning of the 18th century, marshy land with trees and shrubs."
  "Under Empress Anna Ioannovna, military exercises and parades were held on the Great Meadow for two weeks every autumn"
  "Since 1869 folk festivals once more began to be organised on the Field of Mars."
  "The Field of Mars was periodically used for sporting events." ([1])

• Reviewed: Chang Liyi
• Comment: Would be a good chance to get a rare video on DYK.

5x expanded by Spokoyni (talk). Self-nominated at 16:49, 30 June 2019 (UTC).

• Article expanded more than 5x (from 2.8kb of text to 23kb of text today), and long enough. A review of earwig looks clean. Hook is within policy, and cited. QPQ done. Video is out of copyright (107 years old) and music from original youtube video has been removed. Good to go. Onceinawhile (talk) 08:03, 4 July 2019 (UTC)