Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2004
Featured picture tools: |
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in August 2004.
You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using {{Pic of the day}}
(version with blurb) or {{POTD}}
(version without blurb). For instructions on how to make custom POTD layouts, see Wikipedia:Picture of the day.Purge server cache
August 1
elk .
Photo credit: Daniel Mayer
Recently featured:
|
August 2
File unavailable |
Royal Doulton Darby and Joan figurines. " poem by Henry Woodfall in 1735. At that time Woodfall was apprentice to Darby, a printer from the town of Bartholemew Close .
Photo credit: Paul Darby
Recently featured:
|
August 3
islands , each topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean.
Photo credit: David Stewart
Recently featured:
|
August 4
The Deodat de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the mineral Dolomite which is responsible for the characteristic shapes of these great limestone mountains.
Photo credit: Fantasy
Recently featured:
|
August 5
London by night. 50 AD. By the 18th century London was the biggest city in the world. It was the most populous city in the world from 1825 until 1925, when it was overtaken by New York City .
Photo credit: NASA
Recently featured:
|
August 6
File unavailable |
The nocturnal and hunts for rodents, insects, lizards, birds and eggs at night. The fennec is rare and is not often seen. It is often hunted by humans, even though the fox does not cause any harm to human interests.
Photo credit: Ralf Schmode
Recently featured:
|
August 7
A thunderstorm is a form of severe weather involving lightning and thunder. Thunderstorms have had a lasting and powerful influence on mankind. Romans thought them to be battles waged by Jupiter. Thunderstorms were associated with the Thunderbird, held by Native Americans to be a servant of the Great Spirit. Photo credit: Johan Kerstholt
Recently featured:
|
August 8
Metropolitan Police Service who are responsible for policing Greater London .
The name derives from its original location on a street off Whitehall called Great Scotland Yard. The exact origins of this name are unknown, though a popular explanation is that it was the former site of the residence of the Scottish kings or their ambassadors when staying in England. Photo credit: ChrisO
Recently featured:
|
August 9
The Lake Havasu City into central and southern Arizona.
The Central Arizona Project is a multipurpose water resource development and management project that was designed to provide water to nearly one million acres of Indian and non-Indian municipal water for several Arizona communities.
Photo credit: US Bureau of Reclamation
Recently featured:
|
August 10
Inca emperor Pachacuti starting in about 1440 and was inhabited until 1532. The city was re-discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham. This World Heritage Site is a popular tourist attraction.
Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah
Recently featured:
|
August 11
A mackerel sky is an indicator of moisture and instability at high levels. If the lower atmosphere is stable and no moist air moves in, the weather will most likely remain dry. However, moisture at lower levels combined with temperature instability can lead to spectacular thunderstorms should the rising moist air reach this layer. In weather lore, a mackerel sky portends changeable weather .
Photo credit: Denni Windrim
Recently featured:
|
August 12
Skyline Boulevard runs through the Santa Cruz Mountains, here near Palo Alto, California. The Santa Cruz Mountains, part of the San Francisco, separating the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley, and continuing south, bordering Monterey Bay and ending at the Salinas Valley .
Photo credit: Jawed Karim
Recently featured:
|
August 13
City Hall in London is the headquarters of the Greater London Authority, and stands on the south bank of the River Thames near to Tower Bridge. The building was designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in July 2002. It has an unusual bulbous shape, intended to reduce the building's surface area and thus improve energy efficiency. City Hall was constructed on a site formerly occupied by wharves serving the Pool of London (a stretch of the River Thames ).
Photo credit: ChrisO
Recently featured:
|
August 14
A medieval image resembling the cartoon character Mickey Mouse was discovered on November 14 2002 during restoration of a church's outside wall in the town of Malta in Austria. It is part of a 14th century fresco depicting Saint Christopher of the Catholic Church, who is often shown accompanied by fabulous creatures. Photo credit: Unknown 14th century source
Recently featured:
|
August 15
The Painted Bunting (Passerina cirisgenus) belongs to the Photo credit: U.S. National Park Service
Recently featured:
|
August 16
U.S. F/A-18 Hornet breaking the sound barrier.
In sometimes forms. A drop in pressure, in this case due to shock wave formation, causes water droplets to condense and form the cloud.Photo credit: John Gay
Recently featured:
|
August 17
three kingdoms era used airborne lanterns for military signalling.
Photo credit: Randy Oostdyk
Recently featured:
|
August 18
The . Montreal metro lines are identified by colour, by number, and by terminus station.Photo credit: Montrealais
Recently featured:
|
August 19
amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon .
Photo credit:
Recently featured:
|
August 20
The movement and the flow of chemicals into the stomach are controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and by various digestive system hormones. mucosa .
Photo credit: Prisonblues
Recently featured:
|
August 21
Twilight Wilderness, by Frederic Edwin Church. Frederic Edwin Church was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole at eighteen and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Design in 1849.
Recently featured:
|
August 22
Highgate Cemetery, located in Highgate, London, England, was opened in 1839 as part of an initiative to provide seven large, modern cemeteries in a ring round the outside of London. Highgate was a fashionable place for burials. The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings. Photo credit: Michael Reeve
Recently featured:
|
August 23
Exploded view of an Enigma rotor. The Enigma was a small, portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. Key: (1) notched ring; (2) marking dot for "A" contact; (3) alphabet tyre; (4) plate contacts; (5) wire connections; (6) pin contacts; (7) spring-loaded ring adjusting lever; (8) hub; (9) finger wheel; (10) ratchet Photo credit: Eric Pierce
Recently featured:
|
August 24
File unavailable |
Perito-Moreno glacier in Patagonia, Argentina A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth, and second only to the oceans as the largest reservoir of total water. Glaciers are found on every continent except Australia. Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah
Recently featured:
|
August 25
David Scott in a space suit. A spacesuit is a complex system of diving gear.Photo credit: Jawed Karim
Recently featured:
|
August 26
The Java in Indonesia .
A volcano is a geological landform where magma erupts through the surface of the planet. There are numerous volcanoes on the Solar System's rocky planets and moons. On Earth at least, this phenomenon tends to occur near the boundaries of the continental plates. Photo credit: Jan-Pieter Nap
Recently featured:
|
August 27
August 28
Hawaiians, Pearl Harbor was regarded as the home of the shark goddess Ka'ahupahau and her brother Kahi'uka. Pearl Harbor is well known for the attack by Japan in 1941 which brought the United States into World War II .
Satellite image credit: NASA
Recently featured:
|
August 29
light years . Messier 3 is visible to the naked eye in certain conditions.
Photo credit: Ryan Bruels
Recently featured:
|
August 30
Pitstone Windmill, believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles A Persian sources indicate windmill use as early as the 7th century BC. In the United States , the development of water-pumping windmills was a major factor in allowing the farming of vast areas of North America.
Photo credit: Michael Reeve
Recently featured:
|
August 31
Sagittarius constellation. Sagittarius, depicted as a centaur drawing a bow, lies between Scorpius to the west and Capricornus to the east. The Milky Way is at its densest as it passes through this constellation.
Photo credit: Ryan Bruels
Recently featured:
|
Picture of the day archives and future dates