Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007
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June 1
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
The maze of meat packing industry.
Photo credit: John Vachon, FSA
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June 3
The Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 4
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
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June 5
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
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June 6
A fluoresce .
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June 7
A Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 8
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
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June 9
The 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
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June 10
The openings cut out of the structural concrete. Photo credit: Diliff
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June 11
A Image credit: NASA, Deuar, TotoBaggins, KFP
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June 12
The Photo credit: Diliff
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June 13
A Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 14
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
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June 15
A Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944. His remains are currently buried in Chardon, Ohio .
Photo from: National Museum of Lithuania
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June 16
Photo credit: Andreas Tille
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June 17
The Great Hall inside the Photo credit: Diliff
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June 18
Two Image credit: Søren Peo Pedersen
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June 19
A collapse of the Soviet Union having rendered void the Spirit's primary mission.
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III,
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June 20
The style. Photo credit:
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June 21
A female Great Eggfly ( Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 22
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
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June 23
A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, a photograph of a 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
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June 24
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
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June 25
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
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June 26
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
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June 27
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
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
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June 29
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
The Photo credit: Mdf
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