Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2007
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December 1
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A portrait of Appomattox Courthouse. The most celebrated general of the Confederate forces, Lee initially denounced secession as "revolution" and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders. However, Lee's loyalty was to his home state of Virginia and when it became clear that Virginia would secede, Lee became commander of the Virginia state forces. His victories against superior Union forces won him fame as a crafty and daring battlefield tactician. After the war, Lee discouraged a guerrilla campaign to continue the war, and encouraged reconciliation between the North and South.
Photo credit: Mathew Brady
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December 2
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The skyline of Seattle, Washington at dusk, viewed from the south. The Columbia Center (middle) is the second tallest building on the West Coast of the United States, and the twelfth tallest in the United States. Smith Tower (left), completed 1914, was at one time the fourth tallest building in the world. The highway in the foreground is Interstate 5. Photo credit: Cacophony
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December 3
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Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Nearly 800 oil wells were set ablaze and the fires were not fully extinguished until eight months after the end of the war.
Photo credit: United States Air Force
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December 4
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This twelve-year old Photo credit: J.F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., SPC5,
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December 5
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A male Kirby's Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) dragonfly in Tsumeb, Namibia. The species may be found throughout Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean Islands and in southern Asia. This specimen is displaying the pose that gave its genus the name "Dropwings". Photo credit: Hans Hillewaert
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December 6
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eleven (EODMU-11) members C-130 Hercules using a static line, a line connecting the deployment bag of the parachute to the aircraft from which the parachutist jumps. Static lines are used in order to make sure that a parachute is deployed immediately after leaving the plane.
Photo credit: Photographer's Mate Airman Chris Otsen, United States Navy
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December 7
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A Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1956, yet only in the last two decades has it become a busy recreational dive site.
Photo credit: Woodym555
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December 8
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Photo credit: J-E Nyström
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December 9
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Eristalis tenax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly. Adults appear similar in appearance to honey bees, likely giving it some degree of protection from this resemblance to a stinging insect. Photo credit: Fir0002
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December 10
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The pneumatic tyre, the elliptic rotary steam engine and locomotive traction engine, the portable steam crane, and numerous other inventions. The obituary preceding his is for Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington .
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December 11
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A St. Louis, Missouri skyline, as seen from across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois, centered on the Gateway Arch. The Arch, as the centerpiece of the Gateway Arch National Park, sits near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and commemorates the Louisiana Purchase, the first civil government west of the Mississippi, and the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case .
Photo credit: Brian Uphoff
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December 12
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health care system .
Photo credit: Jon Zander
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December 13
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The main Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramids are the sole remainders of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and, along with the ancient city of Memphis and the pyramids of Dahshur, are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites .
Photo credit: Ricardo Liberato
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December 14
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North Africa and into Egypt against the British .
Photo credit: Istituto Nazionale Luce
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December 15
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A female red-veined darter (Sympetrum fonscolombei), a dragonfly common to southern Europe and, from the 1990s onwards, has increasingly been found in northwest Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland. Adults are red (males) or yellow (females), showing beautiful saturated colours. Juveniles are greenish with black stripes on the thorax and abdomen. Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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December 16
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The Puget Sound Navy Yard under her own steam.
Photo credit: United States Navy
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December 17
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An animated cut-away diagram of a typical Image credit: WikipedianProlific
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December 18
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A downtown Portland, Oregon on the Willamette River , taken from the east waterfront.
Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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December 19
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A borough of Manhattan, New York City, from the year 1900. Mulberry Street is the center of New York's Little Italy and continues into Chinatown. The street is often misidentified as the setting of Dr. Seuss' story, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, but that distinction belongs to Springfield, Massachusetts .
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December 20
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A motorcycle safety clothing .
Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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December 21
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth, one of the most popular actors of his day and an outspoken advocate of the Confederacy, originally planned to kidnap Lincoln, but after that plan failed, plotted to kill the President upon hearing Lincoln's plan to give suffrage to former slaves. Herold was supposedly to have killed Vice President Andrew Johnson at the same time, but this attack was never carried out. After the assassination, Herold and Booth fled to a farmhouse in Virginia where they were discovered by Union Army soldiers on April 26. Booth was shot and killed, but Herold surrendered and was later executed for his actions. Surratt, meanwhile, had been involved in the kidnapping plot, but not the assassination attempt. He fled the country and was arrested in Vatican City , but was never convicted on any charges relating to the shooting.
Image credit: United States Department of War
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December 22
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Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, later Image credit:
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December 23
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Rye, by Artist: Ivan Shishkin
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December 24
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The interior of the Neue Wache, the central memorial of Germany for victims of war and tyranny. Located in Berlin, the building was originally built as a guardhouse, and has been used as a war memorial since 1931. The statue, Mother with her Dead Son is directly under the oculus, and so is exposed to the rain, snow and cold, symbolising the suffering of civilians during World War II. Photo credit: Daniel Schwen
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December 25
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One of the earliest depictions of the modern Santa Claus by Thomas Nast, which appeared on the cover of the January 3, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. At this time, the image of Santa Claus had not yet merged with that of Father Christmas. This version was likely based on the Belsnickel ("Furry Nicholas"), a mythical being who visited naughty children in their sleep. The name originated from the fact that the person appeared to be a huge beast since he was covered from head to toe in fur. This image appeared as a small part of a larger illustration titled "A Christmas Furlough" in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. This Santa was a man dressed up handing out gifts to Union Army soldiers. Artist: Thomas Nast
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December 26
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A Photo credit: Inklein
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December 27
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Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London, c. 1949. The Circus, a famous traffic intersection and public space in the City of Westminster was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made it a busy meeting point and a tourist attraction in its own right. Photo credit: Chalmers Butterfield
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December 28
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A lioness in Ishasha Southern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Ishasha lions are famed for tree climbing, a trait only shared with lions in the Lake Manyara region. They often spend the hottest parts of the day in the large fig trees found throughout the area. It is still unclear why so few lions exhibit this behavior. Photo credit: Cody Pope
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December 29
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A male Photo credit: Richard Bartz
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December 30
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The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth Realms, and their combined population is over 129 million. In practice she herself wields almost no political power in any of her realms. Photo credit: NASA
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December 31
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A sequence of images from the Photo credit: Fir0002
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