Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2016
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January 1
The Photograph: Diego Delso
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January 2
An Igorot man in traditional costume, photographed in Banaue, Philippines. Photograph: Uwe Aranas
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January 3
The follows the pass; owing to high snowfall, this road is generally closed between October and May. Photograph: Heinrich Pniok
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January 4
Lithograph: Hugo Graf; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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January 5
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, an oil painting on oak panel completed by Rembrandt in 1630. It depicts the Abrahamic prophet Jeremiah as he laments the destruction of Jerusalem. In the Biblical narrative, Jeremiah was called to prophetic ministry about one year after Babylonians .
Painting: Rembrandt
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January 6
Photograph: Pach Brothers; restoration: Chris Woodrich |
January 7
The Bonne projection is a pseudoconical equal-area map projection named after Rigobert Bonne (1727–1795). In the projection, parallels of latitude are concentric circular arcs, and the scale is true along these arcs. Shapes along the central meridian and the standard parallel are not distorted. Map: Strebe, using Geocart |
January 8
Dale D. Myers (1922–2015) was an American aerospace engineer and Deputy Administrator of NASA between October 6, 1986 and May 13, 1989. Myers became interested in aviation and engineering after meeting Charles Lindbergh at age five, and during World War II he helped develop several aircraft, including the North American F-82 Twin Mustang. He began his affiliation with NASA in 1964, working on the Apollo, Space Shuttle, and Skylab. Photograph: NASA; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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January 9
A Lantern of the Dead in Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne, France. Such small stone towers are found chiefly in the centre and west of France. They are often thought to have indicated cemeteries through lights exhibited at the top of the structures. Photograph: Jebulon
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January 10
A male Scelophysa trimeni feeding on Arctotis decurrens in Port Nolloth, South Africa. This species of scarab beetle is found exclusively in South Africa. Males are covered in minute sky-blue scales while the scales of the females are sienna brown. Both are important pollinators in the region, especially for Mesembryanthemum and some daisy species. Photograph: Julia W
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January 11
The southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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January 12
The Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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January 13
Mercury is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System. It has no known natural satellites. The planet is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger to the gods. Photograph: NASA/APL/CIS; edit: Jjron
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January 14
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A banknote from the 1896 allegorical motifs and are considered by some numismatists to be the most beautiful monetary designs ever produced by the United States. They were redeemable for their face value of silver dollar coins .
This $1 banknote features the motif History instructing Youth, designed by Will Hicok Low, on its obverse. On the reverse are portraits of George and Martha Washington. Banknote: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
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A banknote from the 1896 allegorical motifs and are considered by some numismatists to be the most beautiful monetary designs ever produced by the United States. They were redeemable for their face value of silver dollar coins .
This $2 banknote features the motif Science presenting steam and electricity to Commerce and Manufacture, designed by Edwin H. Blashfield, on its obverse. On the reverse are portraits of Robert Fulton and Samuel Morse. Banknote: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
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A banknote from the 1896 allegorical motifs and are considered by some numismatists to be the most beautiful monetary designs ever produced by the United States. They were redeemable for their face value of silver dollar coins .
This $5 banknote features the motif Electricity as the Dominant Force in the World, designed by Walter Shirlaw, on its obverse. On the reverse are portraits of Ulysses S. Grant and Philip Sheridan. Banknote: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
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January 15
Springtime is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet. It depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the Walters Art Museum. Painting: Claude Monet
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January 16
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January 17
Photograph: Ira Rosenberg; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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January 18
Young Woman Drawing, a portrait completed by the Neoclassicist painter Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821) in 1801. It has been argued that this painting, which is now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a self-portrait. Painting: Marie-Denise Villers
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January 19
The Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized migratory plover. It breeds in the Arctic tundra from northernmost Asia into western Alaska and winters in south Asia and Australasia. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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January 20
An interior view of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Bury, Greater Manchester. Though a church has existed at the site since at least 971, the current building was designed by J. S. Crowther and officially opened in 1876. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. Photograph: Michael D Beckwith
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January 21
A plasma globe is a decorative novelty item that consists of a glass orb filled with a mixture of various gases. A smaller orb in its center serves as an electrode, so that plasma filaments form connecting it to the outer glass shell. They appear as multiple, constantly moving beams of colored light. Video: Colin
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January 22
Eight Bells is an 1886 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer which depicts two sailors determining their boat's position. Though Eight Bells only sold for $400, it was praised by critics at its first exhibition in 1888. The painting is now held by the Addison Gallery of American Art. Painting: Winslow Homer
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January 23
A Map: Strebe, using Geocart
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January 24
Loligo forbesii is a commercially important species of squid in the family Loliginidae. It can be found in the seas around Europe, its range extending through the Red Sea toward the East African coast. The squid lives at depths of 10 to 500 m (30 to 1,600 ft), feeding on fish, polychaetes, crustaceans, and other cephalopods. Illustration: Comingio Merculiano
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January 25
Road Maker, or Aríìhiriš, a 19th-century Hidatsa chief. The Hidatsa are Crow, and they are sometimes considered a parent tribe to the modern Crow in Montana .
Illustration: Karl Bodmer; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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January 26
The pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura) is a small stocky wader. It breeds in northern Russia and migrates to spend the non-breeding season in southern Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia. These birds forage in mud or soft soil, probing or picking up food by sight. They mainly eat insects and earthworms, but also some plant material. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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January 27
During This photograph shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by the Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp located in the south-east of the town of Nordhausen . Numbers at the camp, which was used for sick and dying inmates from January 1945, rose from a few hundred to more than six thousand by the end of the war; up to a hundred inmates died every day.
Photograph: James E. Myers
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January 28
The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae L.) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is the National Butterfly of Denmark. Photograph: Jörg Hempel
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January 29
The south facade of Lyme Park house in Photograph: Julie Anne Workman
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January 30
The Cathedral is an abstract oil painting on canvas created by Czech artist František Kupka in 1912–1913. Measuring 180 by 150 centimetres (71 in × 59 in), the painting is held by the Museum Kampa in Prague, Czech Republic. In this painting, vertical lines running the entire length of the canvas are intersected by diagonal lines to form rectilinear shapes of various sizes and colors. Painting: František Kupka
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January 31
Aplysina archeri is a species of sponge that has long tube-like structures of cylindrical shape. Many tubes are attached to one particular part of the organism; a single tube can grow up to 5 feet (1.5 m) high and 3 inches (7.6 cm) thick. These sponges mostly live in the Atlantic Ocean. These filter feeders eat food such as plankton or suspended detritus as it passes them. Photograph: Nick Hobgood
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