Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2004
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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 June 2004.
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June 1
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Blue Morpho butterfly (Morpho menelaus). A butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera. As Lepidoptera, butterflies have four wings, but unlike moths, the fore and hindwings are not hooked together, permitting a more graceful flight. Unlike most insects, butterflies do not experience a nymph period, but instead go through a pupal stage. Photo credit: Gregory Phillips.
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June 2
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Tamar Bridge between Cornwall and Devon, England, showing the Tamar Valley and the Royal Albert Bridge. The Tamar Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the UK when it opened in 1961. In 2001 it became the world's first suspension bridge to be widened using cantilevers. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Photo credit: Tony Tapp
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June 3
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Epicyclic gears. A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component. Epicyclic gearing is a system consisting of outer gears, typically mounted on a movable arm, rotating about a central gear. Photo credit: Wapcaplet
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June 4
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Dust storm, Spearman, Texas, 1935. A meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. The dust picked up in such a storm can be carried thousands of kilometers: Sahara dust storms influence plankton growth in the western Atlantic Ocean .
Photo credit: US NOAA
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June 5
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Bumblebee. The honeybee, of which it is a distant relative, the bumblebee feeds on nectar and gathers pollen to feed its young. Bumblebees tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. Most, but not all, bumblebee species are gentle. Bumblebees are the pollinator of choice for modern greenhouse tomatoes and some other crops.
Photo credit: Mark Burnett
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June 6
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Physical map of physical geography of the Philippines. The Mt. Apo in Mindanao, which is 2,954 m above sea level. Most of the islands used to be covered in tropical rainforests , however, due to illegal logging, the forest cover has been reduced to less than 10% of the total land area.
Photo credit: Seav
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June 8
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The Plenty River, and the Merri Creek .
Photo credit: Russell Degnan
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June 9
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The London Eye observation wheel The Lambeth, London, England, close to Westminster Bridge. The Eye has become a major landmark and tourist attraction since its official opening on December 31, 1999
Photo credit: Fantasy
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June 10
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The USS Iowa firing during target exercises near Vieques, Puerto Rico. 21 April 2001, Iowa is part of the Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay , San Francisco.
Photo credit: Naval Historical Center
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June 11
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Looking east along the Champs-Élysées from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. The cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world. The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the kingdom of the dead in Greek mythology .
Photo credit: Michael Reeve
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June 12
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Potato plant. Potato plants are low-growing and have white flowers with yellow stamens. They grow best in cool, moist climates such as Maine, Idaho, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Germany, Russia, and Poland, though they are widely adaptable and are grown on a small scale in most temperate regions. Common varieties of potatoes do not produce seeds; the flowers are sterile. Instead, they are propagated by planting pieces of existing tubers, cut to include at least one eye. Confusingly, these pieces are called "seed potatoes". Photo credit: Agricultural Research Service
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June 13
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Earth at night. The northernmost settlement on Earth is Alert, Ellesmere Island, Canada. The southernmost is the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica. Photo credit: NASA and NOAA
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June 14
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Eastern Yellow Robin. The Cooktown, though tropical northern Queensland birds are mainly restricted to the cool heights of the Great Dividing Range .
Photo credit: Tony Wilson
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June 15
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Circlestrafing. In circlestrafing is the technique of moving around a target in a circle while facing it. It allows a player to fire continuously at a target while simultaneously dodging attacks.
In this diagram, the blue player circlestrafes around his red adversary, firing continually as he does so. Red, unable to keep track of the moving blue, misses with most shots. Blue will prevail. Photo credit: Fredrik
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June 16
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Chèche. Headgear is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head. A "chèche" or "tagelmoust" turban is a form of headgear worn by men and women in Saharan Africa as protection against wind and sand. Photo credit: Anthere
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June 17
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The near-Earth asteroid. This image shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end.
Photo credit: NASA
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June 18
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High Cross at the Rock of Cashel in Ireland. A High Cross is a standing Celtic Cross ) and the amount and quality of decoration.
The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings, is situated in county Tipperary in Ireland. Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah
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June 19
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Centre Block and Library of the Parliament of Canada. The Gothic revival suite of buildings. The best known is the Centre Block, with its prominent Peace Tower, a national symbol. The richly decorated interior of the centre block contains allegorical scenes.
Photo credit: Montréalais
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June 20
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A diagram of movement within a roundabout in a country where traffic drives on the left.
A roundabout is a type of road junction, or traffic calming device, at which traffic streams circularly around a central island after first yielding to the circulating traffic. Unlike with traffic circles, vehicles on a roundabout have priority over the entering vehicle, parking is not allowed and pedestrians are usually prohibited from the central island. Photo credit: Fredrik and Mintguy
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June 21
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Three types of .In the context of reproduction of living cells, " daughter cells . In other contexts, "cell growth" refers to increases in cell size.
Photo credit: John Schmidt
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June 22
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Spot Fetcher. U.S. President George W. Bush's dog. The English Springer Spaniel is a gun dog used for flushing and retrieving game. This cocker spaniels were not recognized as separate breeds until the 1800s .
Photo credit: Paul Morse
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June 23
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Che Guevara statue at the site of his death in Bolivia. Che Guevara was an guerrilla leader.
Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After the revolution Guevara became second only to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba. Photo credit: Augusto Starita
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June 24
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A red sky occurs primarily at sunrise or sunset, when the sun's rays are passing through the greatest thickness of atmosphere. In weather lore, morning red skies are a good indicator of coming rain, evening red skies usually indicate clearing conditions. Photo credit: Denni Windrim
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June 25
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The subtropical climate, attractive surf beaches, and savvy marketing have attracted millions of tourists .
Photo credit: Gary Curtis
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June 26
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The Nimitz (CVN-68) battle group.
Photo credit: Christopher Mobley
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June 29
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The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, England was built by James Gibbs between 1737 and 1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. The building was funded by a £40,000 bequest from John Radcliffe. After the Radcliffe Science Library eventually moved into another building, the Radcliffe Camera became a reading room of the Bodleian Library. It now holds books from the English and History collection. Photo credit: Michael Reeve
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