Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2015
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February 1
Photograph: Mary Garrity; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 2
Photograph: Cephas
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February 3
Painting: John Singer Sargent
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February 4
The Photograph: Hans Stieglitz
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February 5
The . Animation: Uwe Kils |
February 6
The Ducati 748 was a Ducati sport bike made in various models from 1994 to 2002. The smaller version of the 916, the 748 was succeeded in 2003 by the 749; a higher horsepower model, the 996, was also produced. Photograph: Stefan Krause |
February 7
The Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic, is a medieval settlement. The wall and moat that once surrounded it were dismantled in the 14th century; the remains of the moat now lie under several streets. The Old Town is home to Old New Synagogue, Old Town Square (pictured here), the Astronomical Clock, Malá Strana ("Lesser Quarter"), and Josefov. Photograph: David Iliff
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February 8
Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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February 9
The . Photograph: Andreas Trepte
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February 10
Painting: Vincent van Gogh
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February 11
New Moon is a 1940 musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the operetta The New Moon, this film stars Nelson Eddy as a French nobleman who heads to New Orleans and serves as a bondsman, later leading a revolt against his ship's captain. Poster: Tooker Litho Co.; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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February 12
lithograph was completed during that year's presidential elections, in which Lincoln was the Republican candidate. Running against three other men while taking a moderate position regarding the practice of slavery, Lincoln swept the northern states and became president, but southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy. Over the remainder of his life President Lincoln used both military action and political means to reunite the nation and abolish slavery.
Lincoln has been consistently ranked as among the best American presidents, and his birthday on February 12 is a legal holiday in some states. Lithograph: Thomas Hicks (artist), Leopold Grozelier (lithography); restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 13
Dik-diks are antelopes in the genus Madoqua which can be found in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa. These herbivores, named for the females' alarm calls, are quite small, measuring only 30–40 cm (12–16 in) at the shoulder, 50–70 cm (20–28 in) in length, and 3–6 kg (7–16 lb) in weight. Photograph: Yathin S Krishnappa
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February 14
The Map: Strebe, using Geocart
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February 15
The Reading Power Station is a natural gas-fueled power station which supplies electric power to the Tel Aviv District in central Israel. Commissioned in 1938 and named for Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, this power station at the mouth of the Yarkon River was designed by Ed Rosenhak. Photograph: Andrew Shiva
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February 16
The short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) is a species of seahorse in the family Syngnathidae. Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and parts of the North Atlantic, it is often found in shallow muddy waters, estuaries or seagrass beds. Photograph: Hans Hillewaert
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February 17
Raden Saleh (1811–1880) was a Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Born in Semarang, in 1829 he was sent to the Netherlands to study portraiture and landscape painting under artists such as Cornelis Kruseman and Andreas Schelfhout. Upon returning to Java in 1851, Saleh focused predominantly on the day-to-day lives of the Javanese, although he also completed his magnum opus, The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro, in this period. This painting, though long thought to be a self-portrait, is now attributed to Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel, a German artist whom Saleh knew during his time in Europe. Painting: Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel
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February 18
A male (top) and female purple finch (Haemorhous purpureus), photographed in the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area in Quebec. This species, part of the finch family, mainly eats seeds, berries and insects. They breed in the coniferous and mixed forests of Canada and the northeastern United States; birds from the northern part of this species' range will migrate in the winter. Photograph: Simon Pierre Barrette
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February 19
Photograph: Unknown; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 20
Painting: Gilbert Stuart
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February 21
The Photograph: Brian Gratwicke
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February 22
The Sella Pass is a high mountain pass in Italy which connects the Val Gardena in South Tyrol and Canazei in the Fassa Valley in Trentino. Lying 2,244 metres (7,362 ft) above sea level, together with Pordoi Pass, Gardena Pass, and Campolongo Pass, it forms a quadrangle around the Sella group. Photograph: Dmitry A. Mottl
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February 23
A panoramic view of the southern part of Shun Lee, an area north of Sau Mau Ping and east of Ngau Chi Wan in Hong Kong. Named after the first public housing estate in the area, it is located in a valley surrounded by hills. Visible from left to right are the ECF Saint Too Canaan College, United Christian College, Shun Lee Fire Station, and the Shun Lee Disciplined Services Quarters. Photograph: Samuel Louie; edit: Chris Woodrich
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February 24
The Orion molecular cloud complex is a large group of bright nebulae, dark clouds, and young stars located in the constellation of Orion. The cloud itself is between 1,500 and 1,600 light-years away and is hundreds of light-years across. Its brightest stars include the supergiants Rigel (bottom right) and Betelgeuse (top left), as well as Orion's Belt, the asterism of three stars near the center in the image. Photograph: Rogelio Bernal Andreo, edited by Benison P. Baby
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February 25
The Photograph: Luc Viatour
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February 26
The Goode homolosine projection is a map projection invented by John Paul Goode in 1923 as an alternative to the Mercator projection. This pseudocylindrical, equal-area projection is generally presented with multiple interruptions. The most common form, seen here, interrupts the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic (separately), the Indian Ocean, and the entire 180th meridian. A composite projection, Goode's homolosine uses the Mollweide projection for higher latitudes and the sinusoidal projection for lower latitudes. Map: Strebe, using Geocart
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February 27
Photograph: Susan Gerbic
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February 28
A Senegalese wrestling match between Mame Balla and Pape Mor Lô during the World African Wrestling world tour in Paris Bercy. This type of folk wrestling is traditionally practiced by the Serer people of Senegal and part of the larger West African form of traditional wrestling, the only such tradition to allow blows with the hands. In this form of wrestling, fighters attempt to throw their opponents to the ground by lifting them up and over, usually outside a given area. Originating as a preparatory exercise among Serer warriors, this form of wrestling is known as njom in Serer; the term is from the Serer principle of Jom and means heart or honor. The sport is a national sport in Senegal and parts of The Gambia. Photograph: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
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