Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2013
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December 1
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2008. Endeavour stood by at pad B in case a rescue mission was necessary during Atlantis' mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the left of each shuttle are the open rotating service structures, with the payload changeout rooms visible. These structures provided weather protection and access to the shuttle. Photo: NASA/Troy Cryder
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December 2
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The European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is a subspecies of wildcat that inhabits the forests and grasslands of Europe, as well as Turkey and the Caucasus Mountains; it can be distinguished from the domestic cat by its bulkier body, thick fur, and non-tapered tail. This cat was photographed in Wisentgehege Springe game park, near Springe, Hanover, Germany. Photo: Michael Gäbler |
December 3
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Tachina praeceps, one of more than 600 species in the fly genus Tachina, part of the suborder Brachycera. The suborder is best differentiated from other fly suborders by the reduced antenna segmentation. Photo: Alvesgaspar |
December 4
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The Point Reyes Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the Gulf of the Farallones on Point Reyes in Marin County, California. Built in 1870 as a twin of the Cape Mendocino Light, the Point Reyes Lighthouse was automated in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Photo: Frank Schulenburg
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December 5
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Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. Earlier, he was the eighth vice president (1833–1837), and before that, the tenth secretary of state (1829–1831), both under Andrew Jackson. Photo: Mathew Brady
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December 6
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Wulfenite is a lead molybdate mineral with the formula PbMoO4. It can be most often found as thin tabular crystals with a bright orange-red to yellow-orange color, sometimes brown, although the color can be highly variable. This specimen was collected in Mexico. Photo: Didier Descouens
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December 7
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The sinking USS Arizona, photographed shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On 7 December 1941, Japanese aircraft struck the US' Pacific Fleet while in port. Arizona was struck several times before a bomb blew up the forward ammunition magazines, causing a cataclysmic explosion. The ship's destruction killed 1,177 of the 1,512 crewmen on board at the time, representing almost half of the American fatalities in the attack. Photo: Unknown; Restoration: Mmxx
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December 8
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Mating Ulysses butterflies (Papilio ulysses), photographed in Vienna, Austria. Females, such as the top specimen here, can be distinguished from males by crescents of blue in the back, upside sections of their hind wings. Photo: Michael Gäbler
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December 9
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The Photo: JJ Harrison
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December 10
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Windmills are machines which convert the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Originally used for milling grain, they have been adapted to many other uses. This windmill was photographed in Kuremaa, Estonia. Photo: Ivar Leidus
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December 11
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A section of the Photo: Idobi1
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December 12
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An Photo: Claude Meisch
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December 13
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Kallima inachus, also known as the Dead Leaf or Orange Oakleaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in tropical Asia. The species uses mimicry, resembling a dead leaf when it closes its wings, in order to avoid predators. Photo: Quartl
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December 14
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The Photo: JJ Harrison
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December 15
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A diagram showing an
aboral view of a partially dissected starfish
Diagram: Hans Hillewaert
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December 16
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Two Cuban acrobats on the Chinese pole, performing at Grenoble. Chinese poles are vertical poles on which circus performers climb, slide down and hold poses. The poles are generally between 3 and 9 metres (10 and 30 ft) in height and approximately 5 to 8 cm (2 to 3 inches) in diameter. Photo: Ludovic Péron
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December 17
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Photo: David Iliff
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December 18
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The Photo: Gregory H. Revera
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December 19
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Photo: Quartl
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December 20
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Taagepera Castle is a mansion in Taagepera village, Helme Parish, Valga County, Estonia. It currently serves as a hotel. Photo: Ivar Leidus
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December 21
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A 360° panorama of the Heron Island, Queensland, Australia, along the Great Barrier Reef. The image was taken with the Seaview SVII underwater survey camera, which is being used by the Catlin Seaview Survey to create visual records of the health of coral reefs and to raise public awareness of threats to coral reefs. The distortion evident near the top and bottom of the image is the result of rendering this image in a rectangular form rather than a 3D model. (View as a 360° panorama on the Toolserver )
Photo: Underwater Earth/Catlin Seaview Survey
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December 22
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A potter at work in Jaura, Madhya Pradesh, India. Pottery, defined by ASTM International as "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products", originated during the Neolithic period. Photo: Yann
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December 23
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The . Around 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 in) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. Photo: Pierre-Selim
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December 24
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Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. During her nearly six-decade career she toured much of Europe and the United States. She also acted in a film, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra (2007). Photo: Alexey Yushenkov; edit: David Iliff
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December 25
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"The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1789. In the first stanza, the speaker asks the lamb – considered a pure and gentle creature – who his creator is. In the second stanza, comparisons are made between the lamb and the infant Jesus, as well as between the lamb and the speaker's soul. In the last two lines the speaker identifies the lamb's creator as God. Illustration: William Blake; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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December 26
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Space Shuttle Endeavour in a photograph taken from the International Space Station, in which the shuttle appears to straddle the stratosphere and mesosphere. During this mission, STS-130, the shuttle's primary payloads were the Tranquility module and the Cupola, a robotic control station which provides a 360-degree view around the station. Photo: NASA/Crew of Expedition 22
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December 27
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Morpho peleides, also known as the Peleides Blue Morpho, Common Morpho, or The Emperor, is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in the Western Hemisphere. The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. Photo: Thomas Bresson
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December 28
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The Photo: JJ Harrison
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December 29
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Sign painting is the art of painting announcements or advertisements on buildings, billboards or signboards. The occupation has become less common with the advent of computer printing. Here two painters are creating a new sign on a wall of the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Photo: John O'Neill
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December 30
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The frontispiece to the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "They saw a small, brown ... pointy-eared person ... step quietly into the Ring". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Weyland's Sword" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Then he made a sword". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Young Men at the Manor" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "At this she cried that I was a Norman thief". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Young Men at the Manor" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Said he, 'I have it all from the child here'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Young Men at the Manor" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'Sir Richard, will it please you enter your Great Hall?'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Knights of the Joyous Venture" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'And we two tumbled aboard the Dane'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Knights of the Joyous Venture" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Thorkild had given back before his Devil, till the bowmen on the ship could shoot it all full of arrows". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Knights of the Joyous Venture" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'So we called no more'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Old Men at Pevensey" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'A' God's Name write her free, before she deafens me!'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Old Men at Pevensey" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "He drew his dagger on Jehan, who threw him down the stairway". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "A Centurion of the Thirtieth" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'You put the bullet into that loop'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "On the Great Wall" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'And that is the Wall!'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Winged Hats" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'Hail, Caesar!'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Winged Hats" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'We dealt with them thoroughly through a long day'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Winged Hats" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'The Wall must be won at a price'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Winged Hats" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Where they had suffered most, there they charged in most hotly". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Hal o' the Draft" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'I reckon you'll find her middlin' heavy,' he says". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "Dymchurch Flit" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'I know what sort o' man you be,' old Hobden grunted, groping for the potatoes". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Treasure and the Law" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Doors shut, candles lit". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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An illustration from the story "The Treasure and the Law" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'They drove me across the drawbridge'". The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Puck , or told by Puck himself.
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December 31
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