Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2005
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February 1
The . Photo credit: NASA |
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February 2
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is one of the world's most recognisable buildings and a symbol of France. The 300 m (986 ft) high tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel as a gateway to the Exposition Universelle of 1889. It was the world's tallest structure for forty years. Eiffel used his experience in building railway bridges when designing the tower, prefabricating the 18,038 wrought iron pieces off site then assembling the pieces with the help of 300 workers. Photo credit: Tristan Nitot |
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February 3
The Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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February 4
Photo credit: W. M. Connolley |
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February 5
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February 6
Photo credit: Keith Weller ( |
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February 7
Camouflage is a survival technique employed by many animals. The most common approach is disruptive camouflage, in which the skin is patterned with shapes and colours to match those in the natural background — making it difficult or confusing to detect the outline of the animal. This young cuttlefish uses a more advanced adaptive camouflage strategy. Like chameleons, cuttlefish have the ability to change their surface pigmentation to adapt to the colours of their environment. Cuttlefish also use fast-changing, vivid skin patterns as a means of communication between themselves. Photo credit: Raul654 |
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February 8
The Peacock is the national bird of India and is featured in coins and currencies of the country. Photo credit: Adrian Pingstone |
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February 9
A selection of fresh .Photo credit: Photo credit: Solipsist |
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February 10
The (8201 m). Photo credit: NASA |
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February 11
This Photo credit: NASA |
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February 12
The oil extracted from Photo credit: Bruce Fritz ( |
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February 13
The Photo credit: Stan Shebs |
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February 14
The Photo credit: Chris 73 |
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February 15
Photo credit: Photo credit: Scott Bauer USDA |
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February 16
An image of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), a type of electron microscope capable of producing high resolution images of a sample surface. Due to the manner in which the image is created, SEM images have a characteristic 3-dimensional quality and are useful for judging the surface structure of the sample.
Photo credit: Rippel Electron Microscope Facility |
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February 17
The United States of America. The species was on the brink of extinction late in the 20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population. Its diet is varied, including fish, smaller birds, rodents, and sometimes food scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics .
Photo credit: Adrian Pingstone |
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February 18
The American White Ibis is a species of wading bird of the ibis family, indigenous to the southern USA and the Caribbean. It lives in marshy wetlands, and on beaches, and has become common in city parks. They build a stick nest in a tree or bush over water, and 2-5 eggs are laid. This ibis feeds on various fish, frogs and other water creatures, and also insects. Adults are 65 cm long with a 95 cm wingspan. They are all-white except for black wing-tips and red bills and legs. Juveniles are largely brown with duller bare parts.
Photo credit: Jaap Folmer |
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February 19
Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as square B. |
An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. There are physiological illusions and cognitive illusions. A mirage is an example of a natural illusion that is an optical phenomenon, another example is the variation in the apparent size of the Moon (smaller when overhead, larger when near the horizon), this is not an optical phenomenon, but rather a cognitive or perceptual illusion.
Photo credit: Edward H. Adelson |
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February 20
The radio antennae , each of which has a dish diameter of 25 meters and weighs 230 tons. There are four commonly used configurations, designated A (the largest, when the furthest dishes are 36 km apart) through D (the tightest, when all 27 are within 600 m of the center point).
Photo credit: Hajor |
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February 21
The ANZAC and Canadian soldiers against the German army near Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) in West Flanders, northwestern Belgium over the control of the village of Passchendaele. As the village is now known as Passendale, the term Passchendaele alone is now used to refer to this battle. The label "Passchendaele" should properly apply only to the battle's later actions in October–November 1917, but has come to be applied also to the entire campaign from July 31. After three months of fierce fighting, the Canadian Corps took Passchendaele on November 6 1917, ending the battle. Passendale today forms part of the community of Zonnebeke, Belgium .
Photo credit: Imperial War Museum |
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February 22
hulls of large ships, and structural components for buildings. The first signs of use of iron come from the Sumerians and the Egyptians, where around 4000 BC, small items were being fashioned from iron recovered from meteorites .
Photo credit: NASA |
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February 23
Pillar corals are a type of hard coral which live in the western Atlantic Ocean. They are one of the digitate corals which resemble fingers, or a cluster of cigars growing up from the sea floor, but without any secondary branching. Pillar corals can grow to be up to 2.5 m (8 ft) tall. They can grow on both flat and sloping sea floors at a depth of between 1 and 20 m (65 ft). They are one of the few types of hard coral whose polyps can commonly be seen feeding during the day.
Photo credit: NOAA |
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February 24
A wakizashi is a traditional daisho, by samurai warriors.
Towards the end of the Edo period, samurai swords became elaborate status symbols, with lavish decoration on the hilt and scabbard displaying the owner's wealth. Photo credit: Chris 73 |
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February 25
Photo credit: pdphoto.org |
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February 26
Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and her daughters, became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. Its one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resilience in the face of adversity. In actual fact, Thompson wasn't the destitute pea picker implied by the photograph. She had only stopped at the camp temporarily whilst her sons and partner tried to get their car repaired. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange (FSA) |
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February 27
The On its opening day the bridge exhibited alarmingly large lateral vibrations. The initial small sideways movements encouraged synchronisation with the sway, forcing the vibrations to a level where they became uncomfortable. As a result the bridge was swiftly nicknamed the Wobbly Bridge. Two days later the bridge was closed for several months of remedial work to correct the problem.
Photo credit: Paul Lomax |
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February 28
" Photo credit: The Apollo 17 crew |
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