Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2009
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February 1
A photochrom from the late 19th century showing two peddlers selling milk from a dogcart near Brussels, Belgium. Dog-drawn carts were prohibited in Great Britain in the early 1900s on animal welfare grounds, but some still exist in France and Belgium. The modern-day sport of carting involves large dogs pulling carts. Image credit:
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February 2
A Dallas, Texas, April 1, 1913. Dallas, which was incorporated on February 2, 1856, is the third-largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States.
Photo credit: Johnson & Rogers
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February 3
Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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February 4
A 1897 Arctic balloon expedition, an attempt to reach the North Pole via hydrogen balloon, in which all three crew members died. They survived for three months after their crash, but their remains were not discovered until 1930.
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February 5
Hélène Dutrieu, shown here in her aeroplane ca. 1911, was the fourth woman in the world (the first from Belgium) to earn a pilot's license and reputedly the first woman to carry passengers and to fly a seaplane. Besides being a pilot, she was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital. Photo credit: Bain News Service
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February 6
Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. The painting is currently housed at The Mauritshuis in The Hague. It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa". Artist: Johannes Vermeer
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February 7
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February 8
A 19th century cartoon from Punch showing men's and children's sea bathing swimsuits of the time. The caption reads, "Now then, Mossoo, your Form is of the Manliest Beauty, and you are altogether a most attractive Object; but you've stood there long enough. So jump in and have done with it!" Although swimwear from that era was quite modest, it was very common for men to swim naked when away from women in the UK. Image credit: George du Maurier
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February 9
A Burrard Street Bridge (background with through truss).
Photo credit: Matthew Field
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February 10
A table d'hôte menu from 1893. A table d'hôte meal, literally "host's table" in French, is a multi-course meal with only a few choices, which is charged at a fixed price. The phrase originally meant literally a particular table, "a common table for guests at a hotel or eating-house". The meaning transferred thence to "a public meal served (at a common table) at a stated hour and at a fixed price". Eventually, the elements required for a meal where guests eat together, that is, at the same table at the same time, fell away so that the phrase persisted where only the fixed price element remained. This menu was from a dinner given in honor of the conductor Walter Damrosch, whose autograph can be seen in the lower left.
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February 11
The Dark Small-branded Swift (Pelopidas mathias) is a butterfly found throughout much of Southeast and East Asia, and as far as the Philippines. It is considered a pest to rice-growing cultures, although it is not as damaging to rice plants as Parnara guttata. Newly hatched caterpillars are especially voracious in eating young seedlings. Photo credit: Laitche
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February 12
A portrait of naturalist Charles Darwin in his old age, from the Victorian photography studio Elliott & Fry. By his final years Darwin's fame had spread far and wide, as had his image—always with his iconic beard—in the form of carte de visite and cabinet card photographs. This portrait is from a photography session at Darwin's home, Down House, in 1879. It is one of the most widely distributed images of Darwin: it was issued by Elliott & Fry on heavy card stock around 1880 and subsequently reproduced on postcards, cigarette cards, commemorative stamps, and other memorabilia. Photo credit: Elliott & Fry
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February 13
Hilda Clark, shown here in an 1890s advertisement for Coca-Cola, was an American model and actress. She was born in 1872 in Leavenworth, Kansas, and moved east to Boston to become a popular music hall songstress and actress. However, Clark became famous as a model in 1895 when she became the first woman to be featured on a tin Coca-Cola tray. She remained the advertising "face" of Coca-Cola until February 1903. Image credit: The Coca-Cola Company
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February 14
A Leucanthemum paludosum flower, one of the about 70 species of plants in the Photo credit: Laitche
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February 15
A hand-drawn map showing the military positions of both the Thomas J. Jackson .
Map credit: Robert Knox Sneden
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February 16
Vernon and Irene Castle, shown here sometime between 1910 and 1918, were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers. The Castles' initial fame began in Paris where they introduced American ragtime dances such as the Turkey Trot and the Grizzly Bear. When the Castles returned to the U.S., their success was repeated on a far wider scale. They are best known for popularizing the Foxtrot. Vernon was fatally injured in an airplane crash in 1918; Irene went on to become a silent film star and lived until 1969. Photo credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston
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February 17
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February 18
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February 19
Ever since vaccine controversy, which is dispute over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, or safety of vaccination. This cartoon from 1802, entitled The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! mocks the rumour that cowpox vaccine would cause cow-like appendages to emerge.
Image credit: James Gillray
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February 20
An assassin bug belonging to the Reduviidae family of insects. A predatory insect so named because of its tendency to wait in ambush for its prey, the assassin bug uses its long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the internal structures of the prey, which are then sucked out. Photo credit: Fir0002
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February 21
An illustration of Act IV Scene 3 from The Taming of the Shrew, published in The Illustrated London News, November 3, 1886. This early comedy by William Shakespeare (believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594) has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, and musical theatre; the most famous adaptation being Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate. Image credit: C. R. Leslie
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February 22
A fabric, colours, cut , and embroidery motifs (or lack thereof) in a given woman's apparel.
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February 23
A preparatory study for Discovery of the Land, a mural in the United States Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room, by Candido Portinari. Portinari was a Brazilian painter who was a prominent and influential practitioner of the neorealism style. The mural depicts two sailors who might have been found in either the fleets of Christopher Columbus or Pedro Álvares Cabral , and is part of a series of four that show the colonization of the Americas by Europeans.
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February 24
A ca. 1890–1900 . After the war it was rebuilt on a smaller scale.Image credit:
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February 25
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February 26
A flower of the 'Peach Glow' cultivar of hardy water lily (genus Nymphaea), photographed just after rain at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There are about 50 species in the genus, which has a cosmopolitan distribution. Despite their name, water lilies are not related to the true lilies. Photo credit: Ragesoss
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February 27
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February 28
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