Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2005

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The Ring-tailed Lemur is a relatively large prosimian, a lemur belonging to the family Lemuridae. Ring-tailed Lemurs are the only species within the genus Lemur and are found only on the island of Madagascar. Although threatened by habitat destruction in their native forests, Ring-tailed Lemurs are the most populous lemurs in zoos worldwide; in part because they reproduce readily in captivity. Photo credit: Sannse Archive - Nominate new image

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	The nocturnal and hunts for rodents, insects, lizards, birds and eggs at night. The fennec is rare and is not often seen. It is often hunted by humans, even though the fox does not cause any harm to human interests. Photo credit: Ralf Schmode Archive - Nominate new image

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	domesticated animals , that may be kept or raised in pens, houses, pastures, or on farms as part of an agricultural or farming operation, whether for commerce or private use. The picture shows the maze of livestock pens and walkways at Chicago's stockyards, ca. 1947. Photo source: NARA Archive - Nominate new image

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	A thunderstorm is a form of severe weather involving lightning and thunder. Thunderstorms have had a lasting and powerful influence on mankind. Romans thought them to be battles waged by Jupiter. Thunderstorms were associated with the Thunderbird, held by Native Americans to be a servant of the Great Spirit. Photo credit: John Kerstholt Archive - Nominate new image

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	The colloquial names such as Fish Hawk, Sea Hawk or Fish Eagle. The Osprey is particularly well adapted to its diet, with reversible outer toes, closable nostrils to keep out water during dives, and backwards facing scales on the talons which act as barbs to help catch fish. Photo credit: NASA Archive - Nominate new image

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Metropolitan Police Service who are responsible for policing Greater London. The name derives from its original location on a street off Whitehall called Great Scotland Yard. The exact origins of this name are unknown, though a popular explanation is that it was the former site of the residence of the Scottish kings or their ambassadors when staying in England. Photo credit: ChrisO Archive - Nominate new image

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	Neo-Gothic design of the castle was created by the architect Carl Alexander Heideloff . Photo credit: Andreas Tille Archive - Nominate new image

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	The municipal water for several Arizona communities. Photo credit: US Bureau of Reclamation Archive - Nominate new image

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	A venom. Animals with stingers include scorpions, bees and wasps (as shown here). The stinger, which may be barbed so as to lodge in the flesh of the victim, is typically located near the tail. For creatures such as jellyfish, stinger can refer to the tentacles that carry cnidocytes to capture and paralyze prey. Photo credit: Pollinator Archive - Nominate new image

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	Inca emperor Pachacuti starting in about 1440 and was inhabited until 1532. The city was re-discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham. This World Heritage Site is a popular tourist attraction. Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah Archive - Nominate new image

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	countryside, although in practice the ambient noise level is still higher than the near absolute quiet found in an anechoic chamber . This view of Lake Mapourika in New Zealand captures the essence of tranquillity. Photo credit: Wombat Archive - Nominate new image

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A mackerel sky is an indicator of moisture and instability at high levels. If the lower atmosphere is stable and no moist air moves in, the weather will most likely remain dry. However, moisture at lower levels combined with temperature instability can lead to spectacular thunderstorms should the rising moist air reach this layer. In weather lore, a mackerel sky portends changeable weather . Photo credit: Denni Windrim Archive - Nominate new image

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	United States Supreme Court . Later in life, when a land speculation bankrupted him, his uncle District of Columbia circuit court, where he served until his death. Photo credit: Mathew Brady (1850) Archive - Nominate new image

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	wharves serving the Pool of London (a stretch of the River Thames ). Photo credit: ChrisO Archive - Nominate new image

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	Edward Curtis, with his early 20th century photographs of American Indian traditional life, such as this Hupa fisherman. Photo credit: Edward Curtis Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Emberizidae , they are sometimes known as the North American buntings. They have short tails and short slim legs. They have smaller bills than other Cardinalidae; they mainly eat seeds in winter and insects in summer. Photo credit: U.S. National Park Service Archive - Nominate new image

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	Navajo . The cliffs of the canyon are pockmarked with hand carved caves — the ruins of former villages. This photograph of the canyon by Edward S. Curtis, showing 'seven riders on horseback and dog', is one of his most celebrated images from The North American Indian. Photo credit: Edward S. Curtis Archive - Nominate new image

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	U.S. supersonic. When an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, an unusual cloud sometimes forms. A drop in pressure, in this case due to shock wave formation, causes water droplets to condense and form the cloud. Photo credit: John Gay Archive - Nominate new image

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The Jet-A fuel. Photo credit: NASA Archive - Nominate new image

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	three kingdoms era used airborne lanterns for military signalling. Photo credit: Randy Oostdyk Archive - Nominate new image

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	Zurich, combining photography and color lithography. Popular in the 1890s, the technique was frequently used to print postcards of landscapes and towns, such as this view of Hildesheim townhall. Photo credit: Library of Congress Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Montreal Island with a connection to Longueuil and, soon, Laval . Montreal metro lines are identified by colour, by number, and by terminus station. Image credit: Montrealais Archive - Nominate new image

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Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital city of New Zealand and the country's third-largest urban area. Wellington stands at the southern tip of the North Island in the geographical centre of the country. With a latitude of 41°S, it is the world's southernmost capital city. Photo credit: Donovan Govan Archive - Nominate new image

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	crafts and architecture ). Dancel ( Alfons Mucha with its strong, flowing, organic lines, is typical of the style. Illustration credit: Alfons Mucha Archive - Nominate new image

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amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon . Photo credit: Daniel Mayer Archive - Nominate new image

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Ansel Adams was one of the masters of landscape photography. Born in San Francisco in 1902, he is famous for his black & white photographs of the western United States and national parks, most especially Yosemite. Adams was a co-founder of Group f/64, who pioneered the use of a camera's smallest aperture to capture a scene with maximum sharpness and depth of field — a technique known as 'Realism' or straight photography. The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) Photo credit: Ansel Adams Archive - Nominate new image

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	The movement and the flow of chemicals into the mucosa . Illustration credit: Prisonblues Archive - Nominate new image

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	During a aeroplane is always falling. However a pilot can gain height by circling within a strong thermal — a column of air that is rising at a faster rate than the plane is falling. On a good day, an experienced pilot can travel hundreds of miles before landing. Photo credit: www.whiteplanes.com Archive - Nominate new image

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	Frederic Edwin Church was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole at eighteen and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Design in 1849. Twilight Wilderness (1860) Picture credit: Frederic Edwin Church Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Sony Center in Berlin, with its tent-like roof covering the central Forum, border on post-modernism . Photo credit: Andreas Tille Archive - Nominate new image

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	The insides of a typical chip (item 4). The second (item 2) is a device which implements the USB networking and mass-storage interface. Photo credit: John Fader Archive - Nominate new image

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