Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2013
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These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in February 2013. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2013#1]] for February 1).
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February 1
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Photograph: Waqas Usman
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February 2
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American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian Jeff Dunham with his puppet "Achmed the Dead Terrorist". Dunham, whose puppets Time magazine has described as "politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered", uses Achmed to satirize terrorists. Photograph: Richard Mclaren
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February 3
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A campaign poster from the Lithograph: Currier and Ives, Restoration: Lise Broer
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February 4
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Photo: NOAA / Satellite and Information Service
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February 5
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Two . Photo: JJ Harrison
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February 6
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February 7
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The Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 8
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Photograph: Allan Warren
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February 9
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Alstroemeria × hybrida, an Alstroemeria hybrid, at the Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore, India. The genus consists of some 120 species and is native to South America. Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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February 10
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A Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera, pictured here with an EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens. The Mark II, released in 2008 and discontinued in 2012, was the first DSLR to feature 1080p video recording. It has been used to shoot several television series and films. Photograph: Charles Lanteigne; Edit: Jjron
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February 11
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The Photograph: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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February 12
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The Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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February 13
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A colour photography process for over two decades. It used dyed potato starch in its plates to provide colour. Because of additional filters necessary for the process, it required longer exposure than black-and-white plates.
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February 14
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The Jewish Bride, an oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt dating from circa 1667. Described by Christoper White as "one of the greatest expressions of the tender fusion of spiritual and physical love in the history of painting", the painting obtained its likely inaccurate current name in the 19th century. Painting: Rembrandt
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February 15
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An Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 16
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A young girl standing amid the freshly made graves of 70 children in refugee camps ; the camp in Dadaab, although built for 90,000 people, held at least 440,000 at its peak.
Photograph: Andy Hall
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February 17
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Actor Photograph: RKO publicity photographer; Edit: Chris Woodrich
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February 18
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag of the United States, part of the Lunar Flag Assembly, during Apollo 11. The Lunar Flag Assembly was designed to survive a Moon landing and to appear to "wave" as it would in a breeze on Earth. This flag fell over when the Lunar Module Eagle took off. Photograph: Neil Armstrong
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February 19
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American Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic .
Photograph: Keith Allison; Edit: Brandmeister
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February 20
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The , meaning "white headed". Photograph: W. Lloyd MacKenzie
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February 21
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Marrus orthocanna is a species of siphonophore, a colonial animal composed of a complex arrangement of zooids, some of which are polyps and some medusae. It lives at depths ranging between 200 and 800 m (660 and 2,600 ft), in the Arctic and other cold, deep waters. Photograph: Kevin Raskoff
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February 22
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Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was nominated in 2009 by President Barack Obama to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and the third woman to be appointed to the Court. Photograph: Steve Petteway
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February 23
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A brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) hauling-out on the Hippolyte Rocks off the coast of Tasmania. These large seals, which can measure over 2.2 metres (7 feet) in length, feed mostly on fish but are also known to eat squid and crabs. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 24
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A Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 25
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A pile of Photograph: Unknown; Restoration:
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February 26
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The Ames process was developed during the Manhattan Project to refine uranium. Left to right:
Photographs: Unknown
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February 27
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A portion of the terminus of Matanuska Glacier, a valley glacier in the US state of Alaska. At 27 miles (43 km) long by 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, the Matanuska Glacier is the largest glacier accessible by road in the country and the source of the Matanuska River, also seen here. Photograph: Sbork
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February 28
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An 1872 Republican Party .
Lithograph: Currier and Ives; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
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