Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007

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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 2007. 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/June 2007#1]] for June 1).

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June 1

Edgar Allan Poe

A daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe taken in 1848, less than a year before his death. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. A copyright statement is inscribed on this image because it is a photograph of the original daguerreotype.

Daguerreotype credit: W.S. Hartshorn

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June 2

Union Stock Yards

The maze of

meat packing
industry.

Photo credit: John Vachon, FSA


June 3

Cairns Birdwing

The

Queensland
.

Photo credit: Fir0002


June 4

Oscar

The Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) is a species of fish from the cichlid family. In South America, where the species occurs, they are often found for sale as a food fish in the local markets. The species is also a popular aquarium fish. They have been reported to grow to a length of 45 cm (ca. 18 in) and a mass of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb).

Photo credit: Jón Helgi Jónsson


June 5

Bassoons

Two views of a Renard bassoon, a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that plays in the tenor range and below. The instrument is made of black maple, with silver-plated nickel silver keys.

The bassoon evolved from the dulcian. Although the process of evolution from its predecessor is unknown, the bassoon much as it appears in its current form appeared in a late 17th century painting, and a three-keyed bassoon has been dated to 1699. The modern bassoon exists in two distinct primary forms, the Buffet system and the Heckel system. The Buffet system is played primarily in France but also in Belgium and parts of Latin America, while the Heckel system is played in the majority of the world.

Photo credit: Gregory Maxwell


June 6

Helix Nebula

A

fluoresce
.

Photo credit:

CTIO

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June 7

Western honey bee

A

Colony Collapse Disorder threatens the existence of commercial beekeeping
operations worldwide.

Photo credit: Fir0002

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June 8

Hrant Dink funeral

Over 100,000 people attended the funeral of

denigrating Turkishness, receiving multiple death threats which culminated in his assassination on January 19, 2007. During the march, funeral attendees carried placards reading "We are all Hrant Dink" and "We are all Armenians" in Turkish, Armenian and Kurdish. The building on the right with the black banner is the office of Agos
, where Dink was killed.

Photo credit: Kerem Özcan/Diliff


June 9

Osprey

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


June 10

Torre Agbar

The

facade of glass, and over 4,500 window
openings cut out of the structural concrete.

Photo credit: Diliff


June 11

Moons of the solar system

A

orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. Such objects are often called moons. Shown here are 28 of the 240 moons of the Solar System, including those of the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris as well as that of asteroid 243 Ida. The Earth
is included for scale.

Image credit: NASA, Deuar, TotoBaggins, KFP


June 12

Palace of Westminster

The

Saint Margaret's Church, the palace is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
.

Photo credit: Diliff


June 13

Mole cricket

A

nocturnal
and spend nearly all their lives underground in extensive tunnel systems, they are rarely seen. This specimen is likely to be Gryllotalpa brachyptera and is about 3.5 cm (1.4 in.) in size.

Photo credit: Fir0002


June 14

Lilac chaser

A demonstration of the lilac chaser optical illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. When one stares at the cross in the center of the image for 10–20 seconds, two effects will appear in order: One, the moving empty space between dots will appear as a green dot. Two, the moving green dot will appear to wipe out the purple dots, until only the green dot is visible. A separate effect appears if the eyes move away from the center, showing a ring of green dots.

Image credit: Jeremy.Hinton


June 15

Antanas Smetona

A

Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944. His remains are currently buried in Chardon, Ohio
.

Photo from: National Museum of Lithuania


June 16

Lichtenstein Castle

Neo-Gothic design of the castle was created by the architect Carl Alexander Heideloff
.

Photo credit: Andreas Tille


June 17

Library of Congress Great Hall

The Great Hall inside the

facade and interior, for which more than forty American painters and sculptors produced commissioned works of art. Originally called simply the "Library of Congress Building" its name was changed to honor former President Thomas Jefferson
, who had been a key figure in the establishment of the Library in 1800.

Photo credit: Diliff


June 18

TRS connectors

Two

cylindrical in shape, with two or more contacts. Originally invented for use in telephone switchboards, jack plugs are still widely used, both in the original ¼-inch (6.3 mm) size and in miniaturized versions. The top plug in this image is for stereo connections, while the bottom is for mono
.

Image credit: Søren Peo Pedersen


June 19

B-2 Spirit

A

collapse of the Soviet Union
having rendered void the Spirit's primary mission.

Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III,

USAF


June 20

Smithsonian Institution Building

The

James Renwick, Jr. and is constructed of red sandstone in the Norman
style.

Photo credit:

Noclip


June 21

Great Eggfly

A female Great Eggfly (

mimics the inedible Euploea core
.

Photo credit: Fir0002


June 22

Luna Park Scenic Railway

The Scenic Railway, the world's oldest continually-operating roller coaster, found at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1912, this is a side-friction wooden roller coaster, meaning it lacks an extra set of wheels under the track to prevent cars from becoming airborne. Instead, a brakeman stands between the two cars (visible here wearing a purple vest and a backwards cap) and slows the ride down when necessary. It is one of only nine remaining side-friction coasters in the world.

Photo credit: Stevage


June 23

Hupa fisherman

A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, a photograph of a

Athabaskan tribe of over 2,600 individuals that inhabits northwestern California. They are the southernmost representatives of the Northwest Coast
culture, although some of their customs are not characteristic of that culture area.

Curtis was a practitioner of salvage ethnography, which is the practice of documenting what is left of a culture before it disappears. This assumed a particular significance during the 18th century and early 19th century as the American Indians were becoming separated from their traditional culture.

Photo credit: Edward S. Curtis


June 24

NGC 602

NGC 602 is the designation for a particular young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way. Radiation and shock waves from the star cluster have pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula. These even younger stars are still enshrouded in dust but are visible to the Spitzer Space Telescope at infrared wavelengths. A number of other, more distant galaxies also appear in the background of the image.

Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope


June 25

Zabriskie Point

A

stitched panorama of Zabriskie Point, a section of Death Valley National Park (in the United States) noted for its strikingly beautiful erosional landscape. The terrain is referred to as badlands due to its very difficult-to-traverse topography. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago — long before Death Valley
came into existence.

Photo credit: Jonathan Kramer


June 26

Aviator

This photo of an

gender-specific term. In civilian usage, the word airman is analogous with the nautical term seaman
.

Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer, USOWI


June 27

Tomato

A whole and cross-sectioned tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). The tomato is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. The Spanish, after their colonization of the Americas, spread the tomato throughout their colonies and back to Europe, whereupon it became commonly used in various cuisines.

Photo credit: Fir0002

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June 28

The Starry Night

Starry Night Over the Rhone
, he announced "a new study of a starry sky." He finished The Starry Night in September 1889, but was unsatisfied with the final work, feeling it lacked "individual intention and feeling in the lines."

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

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June 29

Egeskov Castle

Egeskov Castle is a Danish castle located on the island of Funen. The castle is constructed on oaken piles and located in a small lake of maximum depth five meters. Originally, the only access was by means of a drawbridge. According to legend, it took an entire forest of oak trees to build the foundation, hence the name Egeskov (literally: Oak forest).

Photo credit: Malene Thyssen

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June 30

Red-necked Grebe

The

Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) is a member of the grebe family of water birds. In summertime, adults are unmistakable, due to their red neck and white throat. In winter, the Red-necked Grebe is duskier than most grebes, with no white above the eye, and a thick, yellowish bill. It is a somewhat large grebe, about the same size as an average duck
.

Photo credit: Mdf



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