Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 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 January 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/January 2013#1]]
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January 1
Photo: Agência Brasil
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January 2
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January 3
The Ivan Vazov National Theatre, located in the centre of Sofia, is the national theatre of Bulgaria. It is named after the "patriarch of Bulgarian literature", Ivan Vazov. The neoclassical structure was designed by Viennese architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner. Since its opening on 3 January 1907, it has undergone reconstruction several times, the latest in 2006. Photo: Plamen Agov
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January 4
The Photo: JJ Harrison |
January 5
The main reading room of the United States facade and elaborately decorated interior, designed during the "American Renaissance ".
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith |
January 6
Image: Mmxx |
January 7
The Photo: Łukasz Golowanow
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January 8
Two male Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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January 9
The Photo: Eric Pouhier
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January 10
The Photo: JJ Harrison
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January 11
The Photo: Kallerna
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January 12
This photo, taken the day after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, shows the damage it caused to the National Palace of Haiti. The palace's collapsed cupola has become a symbol of the devastation caused by the quake. The Haitian government is currently in the process of demolishing the remains in preparation for reconstruction. Photo: Logan Abassi, UNDP Global
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January 13
The Photo: Mbz1 |
January 14
A panoramic view of Photo: David Iliff |
January 15
Artist: John Tenniel
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January 16
Photo: Kallerna
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January 17
Three bars of pure Photo: Alchemist-hp
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January 18
Schematic diagram of a piano, one of the most popular musical instruments in the world. The diagram (see legend) shows a grand piano, one of two basic piano configurations, the other being the upright piano. Full-size grand pianos are preferred for concerts, because larger pianos with longer strings have larger, richer sound and lower inharmonicity of the strings. Image: Olek Remesz/Bechstein
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January 19
St. Michael's Cathedral in Izhevsk, Russia, is one of the two main Orthodox churches of Udmurtia. It is built in the Russian Revival style and its tent-like roof is 67 m (220 ft) tall. The church was originally built in 1915, but destroyed by the Soviets in 1937. It was then reconstructed in 2007. Photo: Richard Bartz/Murdockcrc
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January 20
A diagram of the Art: N. Mendal Shafer; Restoration:
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January 21
The Photo: Benjamint444 |
January 22
The comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) is found in temperate areas of Europe and Asia and is named after a white 'C' shape on the underside of the wings resembling a comma. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge, apparently a cryptic form as the butterfly resembles a fallen leaf. Photo: Quartl |
January 23
A 1905 photograph of the Executive Mansion, the official residence of the Governor of Virginia. Designed by Alexander Parris and completed in 1813, it is the oldest occupied governor's mansion in the United States. It is both a Virginia and a National Historic Landmark, and has had a number of successive renovations and expansions during the 20th century. Photo:
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January 24
A sketch of a longnose sawshark (Pristiophorus cirratus), a species of sawshark found in the eastern Indian Ocean around southern Australia on the continental shelf at depths of between 40 and 310 m (130 and 1,020 ft). It is a medium-sized shark with a saw-like flattened snout which measures up to thirty percent of its body size. Artist: William Buelow Gould
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January 25
The Photo: David Iliff
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January 26
A panoramic view of the business district .
Photo: Dimitri Destugues
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January 27
The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis, ssp. tippelskirchi shown here) is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. There are nine subspecies, which are distinguished by their coat patterns. Fully grown giraffes stand 5–6 m (16–20 ft) tall, with males taller than and weighing nearly twice as much as females. The giraffe's scattered range extends from Chad in the north to South Africa in the south, and from Niger in the west to Somalia in the east. Giraffes usually inhabit savannas, grasslands, and open woodlands. Their primary food source is acacia leaves, which they can browse at heights which most other herbivores cannot reach. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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January 28
Painting: Gerlach Flicke
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January 29
Three types of nail clippers, used to cut finger- and toenails as part of grooming. The left is in the plier style, while the centre and right cutters are in the compound lever style. Like most clippers on the market, these three are made of stainless steel. Photograph: Evan-Amos
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January 30
The Photograph: JJ Harrison
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January 31
An Photograph: Sergey Kustov
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