Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 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 July 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/July 2013#1]]
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July 1
Poster for Poster: Uncredited; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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July 2
The Dog is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya which is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. One of the Black Paintings which Goya painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823, the work was transferred to canvas in 1874. Interpretations of the work vary greatly, such that art critic Robert Hughes said "We do not know what it means, but its pathos moves us on a level below narrative." Painting: Francisco Goya
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July 3
The Photograph: JJ Harrison
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July 4
Official portrait of the 1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, an American football team which represented the University of Michigan in the 1899 season. Coached by Gustave Ferbert, the Wolverines opened the season with six consecutive shutouts, outscoring opponents in those six contests by a combined score of 109 to 0. However, they finished the season by going 2–2 in their final four games, losing against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and a championship game against the Wisconsin Badgers. Photograph: Fred Rentschler
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July 5
The Photograph: Steve Jurvetson
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July 6
Painting: Hans Holbein the Younger
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July 7
The Photo: Evan Amos
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July 8
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July 9
The Photograph: John O'Neill
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July 10
Two adult Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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July 11
The Church of St. John the Baptist in Harescombe, a small village in Gloucestershire, England. The church, consecrated in 1315, is a Grade II* listed building. It has an unusual bellcote, a small octagonal stone spire, and is home to the oldest bell in the county. Photograph:
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July 12
Photograph: Pierre-Selim
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July 13
The Rokeby Venus is a painting by Diego Velázquez which was completed between 1647 and 1651. It depicts the Roman goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by her son Cupid. The painting is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Since 1906 it has been in the National Gallery in London. Painting: Diego Velázquez
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July 14
Photograph: Sanyam Bahga; edit: Ottojula
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July 15
The Photo: JaGa
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July 16
Zoe Lyons (born 1971) is a British comedian who has appeared on shows such as Dave's One Night Stand, Mock the Week, and The Wright Stuff. Photo: Steve Ullathorne
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July 17
Painting: Vincent van Gogh
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July 18
Fredrik Pettersson (born 1987) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, pictured while with Frölunda HC and now playing for HC Donbass in the Kontinental Hockey League. A right winger, Pettersson's international record includes a gold at the 2013 IIHF World Championship and bronze in 2010. Picture: Krm500
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July 19
A map showing Camp Sumter, an American Civil War-era prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Georgia, United States. Prisoner-of-war camps are used for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war. During the Civil War, it was common for prisoners to die of starvation or disease; in Sumter, for instance, 28 percent of the 45,000 Union soldiers died.
Drawing: John L. Ransom; restoration: Jujutacular
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July 20
A Photograph: JJ Harrison
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July 21
A map (full view) showing the progression of the Second Battle of Guam (July 21 – August 10, 1944), in which the United States recaptured the Japanese-held island of Guam. The Japanese, who had taken the island almost three years earlier, saw more than 18,000 casualties during the campaign, most of whom were killed; the American forces took nearly 8,000 casualties, with over 1,700 killed. The first date of the battle is now celebrated as Liberation Day in Guam. Map: Grandiose
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July 22
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July 23
The sperm whale is the largest toothed animal on Earth. The species was hunted extensively by humans throughout history, until protected by a worldwide moratorium on whaling starting in 1985–86. Photograph: Gabriel Barathieu
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July 24
St Luke's Church in Frampton Mansell. Built in 1843 by Lord Bathurst, the church is of Neo-Norman conventicle design (by J. Parish). It is an English Heritage Grade II Listed Building. Photograph: |
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July 26
A Photograph: Pierre Selim
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July 27
The Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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July 28
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France. Completed in the same year, the painting shows a woman personifying Liberty, leading the people forward over the bodies of the fallen. Painting: Eugène Delacroix
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July 29
A mating pair of Papilio demoleus, a common and widespread Swallowtail butterfly, photographed at Kadavoor, Kerala, India. After successful mating the female goes from plant to plant, laying a single egg at a time on top of a leaf, and flies off as soon as the egg is laid. Photograph: Jkadavoor
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July 30
Photograph: NASA/Dan Burbank
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July 31
Persimmons are the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. Though not popularly considered to be berries, in terms of botanical morphology the fruit is, in fact, a berry. Pictured here is a Jiro persimmon. Photograph: Joe Ravi
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