Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2006

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	voting rights . Photo credit: John Mullen Archive - More featured pictures...

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	2001: A Space Odyssey, and its iconic buttes (seen here) have served as the backdrop for Marlboro cigarette ads since the 1950s. Photo credit: Huebi Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, Shipka Pass was the scene of a series of conflicts collectively named the Battle of Shipka Pass . Photo credit: Psy guy Archive - More featured pictures...

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The hydraulic machinery still opens the bridge, although it has been modernised. The central span of 200 feet (61 m) between the towers is split into two equal bascules or leaves, which can be raised to an angle of 83 degrees to allow river traffic to pass. The high-level walkways between the towers houses an exhibition on the bridge's history. Photo credit: Diliff Archive - More featured pictures...

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	amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons. They are found as plankton throughout the ocean, and their shells are important fossils found from the Cambrian onwards. This plate by Ernst Haeckel was one of many he drew of radiolarians, helping to popularize these protists among Victorian parlor microscopists. Image credit: Ernst Haeckel Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The term minerals . Photo credit: Eraticus Archive - More featured pictures...

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	crampon and axe technique. Photo credit: Brad Mering Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The aurora australis . Photo credit: Chris Danals, National Science Foundation Archive - More featured pictures...

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The euro is the official currency of the European Union. It is the single currency in the eurozone as well as in some non-member states. All euro coins have a common side showing the denomination and a national side specific to the issuing country. All coins can be used in all member states where the euro is in use. The euro sign is inspired by the Greek letter epsilon and refers to the first letter of the word Europe. The two parallel lines symbolize the stability of the euro. Image credit: Agateller Archive - More featured pictures...

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Grand Central Terminal (often still called Grand Central Station) is a train station in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. The four-faced clock on top of the information booth in the center of the Main Concourse (shown here) is perhaps the station's most recognizable icon. Photo credit: Diliff Archive - More featured pictures...

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Hanko is a small port city on the south coast of Finland, 130 km west of Helsinki. The city has a coastline of approximately 130 km (80 miles), of which 30 km (19 miles) are sandy beaches. There are also over 90 small islands and islets within the city limits. The skyline of Hanko is dominated by the church and the water tower (from which this photo was taken). Both of them received their current appearance after World War II, as their predecessors were either damaged or destroyed by the Soviet Army. Photo credit: J-E Nyström Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A Eleutherodactylus lineatus species (center left) carry their young on their back. Illustration credit: Ernst Haeckel Archive - More featured pictures...

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The Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) is considered one of the greatest periods in the entire history of China. During this time, China officially became a Confucian state and prospered domestically. Meanwhile, the empire extended its political and cultural influence over its neighbors before it finally collapsed under a combination of domestic and external pressures. The ethnic majority of Chinese people are known today as Han Chinese, named after this dynasty . Map credit: Yeu Ninje Archive - More featured pictures...

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Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city, or the outer elements of a conurbation. Although suburbs are stereotyped as having McMansions and a predominantly white and middle- or upper-class population, this image only applies to some suburbs in the United States and Canada. Photo credit: Ian Duke Archive - More featured pictures...

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The Reading Room of the British Museum is situated in the centre of the Great Court. It used to be the main reading room of the British Library, but that relocated to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London. The old Reading Room was opened to the public in 2000, following a renovation by noted architect Sir Norman Foster. It contains a collection of books on history, art, travel, and other subjects relevant to the British Museum's collections, on open shelves. Photo credit: Diliff Archive - More featured pictures...

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	cylindrically shaped 'round' or 'rolled' bales (shown here). Round bales can weigh several tons, and are well-suited for modern large scale farming operations such as a dairy with 200 or more cows. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

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	selectively bred to come in many colours. A common urban legend is that carrots aid a human being's night vision . Lack of Vitamin A can, however, cause poor vision and can be restored by adding Vitamin A back into the diet. Photo credit: Stephen Ausmus, USDA Archive - More featured pictures...

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The orb-weaver spiders build spiral wheel-shaped webs. In building it, the spider starts with a line, floated on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of non-sticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The name Giant African Snail, which can measure up to 30 cm. The biggest of all snails is Syrinx aruanus, a marine species living in Australia . Photo credit: Jürgen Schoner Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The alternative sweetener, can be extracted from raspberries and can prevent or reverse tooth decay . Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Marquess of Queensberry rules . Currently, there are two distinct branches of boxing: Professional and Olympic, which have different rules, but are similar in execution. Photo credit: Wayne Short/Shawnc Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The light blue soldier crab ( low tide, and bury themselves in a corkscrew pattern during high tide, or whenever they are threatened. Photo credit: liquidGhoul Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The air superiority in aerial combat. As of 2005, the F-15 in all air forces has a combined kill record of 104 confirmed kills to zero losses in air combat, although some F-15s have been claimed by surface-to-air missiles . Photo credit: Master Sgt. Michael Ammons, USAF Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Cassini orbiter was one of 26 thousand images taken of Jupiter during the course of its flyby and is the most detailed global color portrait of the planet ever produced. Photo credit: Cassini probe (NASA ) Archive - More featured pictures...

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"Root-maggot flies" are of the family Anthomyiidae, so named as the species' larvae are typically found in the decaying stems and roots of plants. Some species within the family include the onion fly (Delia antiqua), the wheat bulb fly (D. coarctata), the turnip root fly (D. floralis), the bean seed fly (D. platura) and the cabbage root fly (D. radicum). Photo credit: André Karwath Archive - More featured pictures...

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Perhaps one of the most famous and easily-recognized space objects, the Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster in the constellation Serpens, about 7,000 light-years away. These interstellar gas pockets of molecular hydrogen act as cosmic incubators for the creation of new stars. Pictured here are columns of gas which have been called the "Pillars of Creation" or "elephant trunks". Within these columns, heavy gas collapses upon itself, and then expands as it absorbs more hydrogen mass from the cocoon-like walls, until a star is finally formed. These columns may reach a light-year in length. Photo credit: Jeff Hester (NASA) and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University) Archive - More featured pictures...

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	periwinkles, volutes, and whelks. They all have an operculum , a horny plate situated at the foot, by which the snail can close the aperture, when the body is retracted into the shell. Most have spirally coiled shells. Their nervous system has twisted into a figure-8 shape. The eyes are situated on tentacles. Illustration credit: Ernst Haeckel Archive - More featured pictures...

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	allotropes (different molecular configurations) that pure carbon can take (top to bottom, left to right): a) Diamond, b) Graphite, c) Lonsdaleite, d) Buckminsterfullerene (C60), e) C540, f) C70, g) Amorphous carbon, h) single-walled carbon nanotube . Image credit: Michael Ströck Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The term mouse . Illustration credit: Gustavb Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A bog is a wetland type that accumulates acidic peat, a deposit of dead plant material. Bogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climates, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. Shown here is a bog in Lütt-Witt Moor, Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany, in late August 2005. Photo credit: Jan van der Crabben Archive - More featured pictures...

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