Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2009
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August 1
Early morning Budawang Mountains and has a reputation for the cleanest, least polluted waters of any major river in Eastern Australia .
Photo credit: John O'Neill
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August 2
NGC 1300 is a barred spiral galaxy located roughly 69 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Eridanus. In its core, the nucleus shows its own extraordinary and distinct "grand-design" spiral structure that is about 3,300 light-years long. Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope
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August 3
Metriorrhynchus rhipidius is a species of beetle in the Lycidae family, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. Photo credit: Fir0002
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August 4
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo" or "Pops", was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser and as a scat singer. Photo credit: New York World-Telegram and Sun
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August 5
The Photo credit: Fir0002
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August 6
and the end of the sediment deposits. "Excavation" usually refers to the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains.
Photo credit: Mario Modesto Mata
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August 7
A map detailing the events of the Map credit: Andrei nacu
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August 8
Panoramic view of a portion of Austins Ferry, Tasmania, a suburb of the capital Hobart, with the River Derwent behind it. Austins Ferry is named after James Austin, who along with his cousin John Earl, established a ferry service across the river and later a punt which proved very conveniently located for vehicular traffic travelling between Hobart and regions to the north. Photo credit:
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August 9
The resignation letter from U.S. President Richard Nixon, following the wake of the Watergate scandal, signed August 9, 1974, making him the first and, to date, only President to resign from office.
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August 10
The construction of Mount Rushmore, a United States National Monument depicting the heads of four U.S. Presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota, began on August 10, 1927, with the bust of George Washington. This first phase was completed in seven years (partial completion in 1932 shown here), culminating in its unveiling in 1934. The remaining three heads—Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt—took only an additional seven years to complete. Photo credit: Rise Studio
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August 11
An apparent retrograde motion of Mars in 2003 as seen from Earth. All the true planets appear to periodically switch direction as they cross the sky. Because Earth completes its orbit in a shorter period of time than the planets outside its orbit, we periodically overtake them, like a faster car on a multi-lane highway. When this occurs, the planet will first appear to stop its eastward drift, and then drift back toward the west. Then, as Earth swings past the planet in its orbit, it appears to resume its normal motion west to east.
Image credit: Seav
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August 12
The Flaming Cliffs is a region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made, such as the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. The name comes from the glowing orange colour of the rocks. Photo credit: Zoharby |
August 13
Immature .Photo credit:
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August 14
Two Yellow Striped Hunter (Austrogomphus guerini) dragonflies mating. The male (top) is grasping the female's head in this photo, and the female is bringing her abdomen forwards to receive sperm, and the two are in what is known as the "Wheel Position". Photo credit: Fir0002
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August 15
An illustration from the first edition of Artist:
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August 16
The flood that was sent by God to destroy all life, futilely attempting to save their children and cubs. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the Book of Genesis, chapters 6–9, wherein God tells Noah to build a large vessel to save his family and a representation of the world's animals before He destroys the world. Although traditionally accepted as historical, by the 19th century the discoveries of archaeologists and biblical scholars had led most people to abandon a literal interpretation of the Ark story.
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August 17
An adult male rooster is distinguished from the hen by the prominent fleshy crest on its head called a comb and hanging flaps of skin on either side under its beak called wattles. Both the adult male and female have wattles and combs, but in most breeds these are more prominent in males, an example of sexual dimorphism .
Photo credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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August 18
Early Autumn (13th century), a well-known example of Artist: Qian Xuan
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August 19
A roughly 180 degree panoramic view of the eastern side of Photo credit: David Iliff
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August 20
Phobos, the larger and closer of the two moons of Mars, as seen from about 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) away. A small, irregularly shaped object, Phobos orbits about 9,377 km (5,827 mi) from the center of Mars, closer to its primary than any other planetary moon. The illuminated part of Phobos seen in the images is about 21 km (13 mi) across. The most prominent feature in the images is the large crater Stickney in the lower right. With a diameter of 9 km (5.6 mi), it is the largest feature on Phobos. Photo credit: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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August 21
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August 22
Protesters in International reaction came from many countries with the majority condemning Israel and a few supporting. Also notable was the level of civilian demonstrations, which sometimes displayed sentiment significantly different from the respective government's official position.
Photo credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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August 23
The redeye (Psaltoda moerens) is a species of cicada found throughout southeastern Australia, from southern Queensland to South Australia, as well as Tasmania. As the name implies, the eyes are a deep red colour, although pinkish- and brownish-eyed specimens are seen. They feed primarily on eucalyptus but also on Angophora trees. Photo credit: Fir0002
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August 24
The chapel of Keble College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Keble was established in 1870, having been built as a monument to John Keble, a leading member of the Oxford Movement, which sought to stress the Catholic nature of the Church of England. It remains distinctive for its red-brick Gothic Revival buildings designed by William Butterfield. Photo credit: David Iliff
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August 25
French Republic and the exile of the Vichy government to Sigmaringen in Germany.
Photo credit: United States Office of War Information
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August 26
A sketch of the original
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August 27
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August 28
NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of spiral galaxies about 144 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major that are in the process of colliding and merging together. In about a billion years time they will merge and become an elliptical galaxy. Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope
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August 29
Gazania rigens is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Southern Africa, but widely cultivated as an ornamental garden plant. It is grown for the brilliant colour of its flowers which appear in the late spring and early summer. Photo credit:
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August 30
A person traverses in front of a hot springs that bubble up into pools in the limestone.
Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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August 31
A seventeenth century drawing of a camera obscura, an optical device whose invention eventually led to photography. Light from a scene enters through a hole in side of a room, as depicted here in a cutaway view (a box may be used, such as with a pinhole camera), and strikes a surface where it is reproduced, in color, and upside-down. Artist: Unknown
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