Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2005
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August 1
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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 |
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August 2
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The dogs living with humans would today pass for spitzes. Photo credit: Robert Southworth |
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August 3
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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. Illustration credit: Eric Pierce |
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August 4
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In lens . The diaphragm aperture diameter is proportional to the focal length divided by the f-number.
The greater the f-number, the greater the depth of field and the less light per unit area reaches the focal plane. The standard sequence of f-stops on a camera lens represent a halving of the light intensity at each step. Photo credit: MarkSweep |
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August 5
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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 |
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August 6
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The typical anatomy of an Image credit: PioM |
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August 7
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A . Ecologists today consider wildfires part of wildland ecosystem. Some plants have evolved to survive fires. Fire tolerant traits in some plants, when their habitat is exposed to fire, allow them to gain dominance over less fire-tolerant species. Photo credit: John McColgan, US Forest Service |
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August 8
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The diving gear. Photo credit: Jawed Karim |
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August 9
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The Photo credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center |
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August 10
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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 |
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August 11
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Clivia miniata (also known as Kaffir lily) is a species of clivia. It grows in dry, shady areas, and tends to flower red or orange. It contains small amounts of poisonous .
Photo credit: Raul654 |
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August 12
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August 13
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Succulents are plants that store water in their enlarged fleshy leaves, stems, or roots, as shown in this split aloe leaf. This allows them to survive in arid environments. The enlargement is usually due to the greater amount of the parenchyma tissue. Many succulents have a waxy coating on their stems and leaves, helping them to retain moisture. Having a large internal volume for storage but minimum surface area is also important to prevent dehydration. Photo credit: Raul654 |
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August 14
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Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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August 15
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Photo credit: NASA |
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August 16
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Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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August 17
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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 |
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August 18
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The Lindisfarne Gospels is an Hiberno-Saxon art .
Illustration credit: Eadfrith of Lindisfarne |
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August 19
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An Photo credit: Chris 73 |
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August 20
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The Illustration credit: Fastfission |
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August 21
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The . Illustration credit: NASA |
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August 22
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The Mandelbrot set is a fractal that is defined as the set of points in the complex number plane for which with z0 = 0 does not tend to infinity. The Mandelbrot set was first defined by Benoît Mandelbrot . The color reflects the number of iterations it takes to reach a certain distance from the origin.
Illustration credit: Evercat |
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August 23
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The . In late summer, the Silver torch produces burgundy flowers which protude horizontally from the columns. In common with other cacti in the genus style and stamens protruding. Cultivated plants often flower freely.
Photo credit: Raul654 |
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August 24
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The Photo credit: Pollinator |
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August 25
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon during the first human Moon landing. This iconic photograph was taken by Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, from a point near the leg of the Lunar Module Eagle at its landing site on the Sea of Tranquility. Command and Service Modules Columbia in lunar orbit, waiting to rendezvous with the Lunar Module for the return journey to Earth.
Photo credit: Neil Armstrong, NASA |
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August 26
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The . Photo credit: Kokiri |
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August 27
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Photo credit: William M. Plate Jr., U.S. Air Force |
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August 28
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August 29
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Common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris). The Clownfish are a subfamily of the family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific Ocean. Clownfish are marked by their behavior of living in a comensual relationship with sea anemones. A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place. Photo credit: Jan Derk |
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August 30
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The Cannes Film Festival is the world's most prestigious film festival, held in the resort town of Cannes, France, since 1946. The top award given out at Cannes is the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film. The festival isn't open to the public, but attracts massive media exposure for the many movie stars, directors and producers who attend to promote their new films. Starlets posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore. Photo credit: Ericd |
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August 31
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Glass ball from the Rene Lalique, Dale Chihuly, and Louis Comfort Tiffany , who were responsible for extraordinary glass objects. The term "crystal glass", derived from rock crystal, has come to denote high-grade colorless glass, often containing lead, and is sometimes applied to any fine hand-blown glass.
Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah |
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