Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2016
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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 2016. 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 2016#1]]
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February 1
Portrait of an African Man is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance painter Jan Mostaert from between c. 1520 and 1530. The exact subject of the painting has long been unclear. Suggestions include that the subject is Christophle le More (Christopher the Moor), a black archer at the court of Emperor Charles V, or Saint Maurice, who was typically portrayed as black. If it is a portrait of a specific real individual, it appears to be the earliest known portrait of a black man in European painting. Painting: Jan Mostaert
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February 2
Lithograph: Carl Saltzmann; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 3
Shrinika performing Photograph: Augustus Binu
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February 4
A plate from Urania's Mirror depicting the constellations Delphinus (the dolphin), Sagitta (the arrow), and Aquila (the eagle), as well as the former constellation Antinous (according to legend, a young man who saved Hadrian from drowning). Illustration: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 5
Photograph: Taro Taylor; edit: Dapete
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February 6
A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Traditional windmills were often used to mill grain, pump water, or both. Most modern windmills take the form of wind turbines used to generate electricity, or windpumps used to pump water, either for land drainage or to extract groundwater. Here, the smock mill Goliath is viewed in front of the wind farm Growind in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. Photograph: Uberprutser
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February 7
The "Streatham" portrait is an oil painting on panel from the 1590s believed to be a later copy of a portrait of the English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey dating to her lifetime (1536/1537–54). It is in poor condition and damaged, as if it has been attacked. Although of historical interest, it is generally considered to be of poor artistic quality. As of January 2015[update] the portrait is in Room 3 of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Painting: Unknown
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February 8
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February 9
The black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers. They are sexually dimorphic: males have a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace") while females are duller and lack the black markings. Their call is similar to that of the Asian paradise flycatcher. In tropical forest habitats, pairs may join mixed-species foraging flocks. Populations differ slightly in size and plumage colour. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 10
The van der Grinten projection is a compromise map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal. It projects the entire Earth into a circle, though the polar regions are subject to extreme distortion. The projection was the first of four proposed by Alphons J. van der Grinten in 1904, and, unlike perspective projections, is an arbitrary geometric construction on the plane. It was adopted as the National Geographic Society's reference map of the world from 1922 until 1988. Map: Strebe, using Geocart
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February 11
Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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February 12
The Photograph: Evan Amos
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February 13
Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, in England. The sixth-oldest college in Cambridge, it is the only one established by the townspeople. It is among Cambridge's wealthier colleges, as well as one of the more academically successful. Photograph: David Iliff
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February 14
Two Lovers is a 1630 painting in miniature by the Persian artist Reza Abbasi towards the end of his career. Using tempera and gold on paper, Abbasi depicted two lovers in a sensual embrace, becoming, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "inextricably bound together, merged volumes confined within one outline." Painting: Reza Abbasi
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February 15
The Photograph: Joe Ravi
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February 16
Lithograph: Hugo Graf; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 17
Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high growing, generally woody, plants such as shrubs. In this photograph, a chital (Axis axis) is attempting to browse at Nagarhole National Park. Photograph: Yathin S Krishnappa
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February 18
was thus forced to kill him. Rubens painted The Fall of Phaeton in Rome c. 1604/1605; the painting was probably reworked later, around 1606/1608. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art. Painting: Peter Paul Rubens
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February 19
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The burning of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution , following a failed attempt by the Ukrainian police to capture the building. After the fire, the damaged building was covered with large canvas screens on two sides with the words "Glory to Ukraine" printed on them in large letters.
Photograph: Amakuha
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The burning of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution , following a failed attempt by the Ukrainian police to capture the building. After the fire, the damaged building was covered with large canvas screens on two sides with the words "Glory to Ukraine" printed on them in large letters.
Photograph: Amakuha
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February 20
The worms. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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February 21
A twelve-shilling note from the U.S. dollar .
Banknote: Province of New Jersey and I. Collins (printer); image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution
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February 22
Photograph: Jens L. Franzen, Philip D. Gingerich, Jörg Habersetzer1, Jørn H. Hurum, Wighart von Koenigswald, B. Holly Smith
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February 23
Aries and Musca Borealis as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c. 1825. Aries, one of the constellations of the zodiac, is located in the northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces and Taurus. Its name is Latin for ram, an animal it has represented since late Babylonian times. Aries is one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations, while Musca Borealis does not. Illustration: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 24
Lithograph: Strobridge Litho. Co.; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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February 25
The Photograph: Didier Descouens
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February 26
Photograph: Étienne Carjat; restoration: Scewing
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February 27
The , and others. Cylindrical projections stretch distances east-west as a function of latitude; as such, cylindrical equal-area projections have a north-south compression precisely the reciprocal of east-west stretching. The various specializations of this projection differ only in the ratio of the vertical to horizontal axis. Map: Strebe, using Geocart
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February 28
The 1648 ratification of the Peace of Münster, as painted the same year by Gerard ter Borch. With this treaty, which was reached after seven years of negotiations, Spain formally recognized the independence of the United Netherlands. The treaty contributed to the Peace of Westphalia, which ended both the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. Painting: Gerard ter Borch
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February 29
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