Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2008
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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 2008. 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 2008#1]] for June 1).
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June 1
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After being forced to leave the Japanese victory in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur vowed, "I shall return." 31 months later, he waded ashore at Palo Beach at the outset of the Battle of Leyte , fulfilling his pledge as the United States retook the island.
Photo credit: United States Army
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June 2
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Scorpionfish is another common name of Pterois, as its spines are venomous .
Photo credit: Christian Mehlführer
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June 3
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An American Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer, FSA-OWI
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June 4
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The Photo credit: John O'Neill
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June 5
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An 1851 public square established in Yerba Buena, the Mexican community that became San Francisco. It is named after the USS Portsmouth, which raised the American flag here at the onset of the Mexican–American War .
Daguerreotype credit: Unknown
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June 6
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A Photo credit: Richard Bartz
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June 7
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A male Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia cyane), a species of heliconiine butterfly found in South Asia. Photo credit: Airbete
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June 8
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An adult Dunlin (Calidris alpina) in breeding plumage. This bird is one of the most common and best-known waders throughout its breeding and wintering ranges, and it is the species with which other waders tend to be compared. Photo credit: Mdf
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June 9
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This true-color image, taken by the Cape Verde, Mars. Cape St. Vincent is the promontory visible on the left of the photo. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, on the inner crater wall, is the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot)-tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio.
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June 10
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Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment move down a street in Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, searching for a fugitive after a recent raid by the 63rd Infantry Division in 1945. Photo credit: 2d Lt. Jacob Harris, U.S. Army
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June 11
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A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866. Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
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June 12
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A collage of six mustard images: Seeds of the mustard plant (top left) may be ground (top right) to make different kinds of mustard. The four mustards pictured are a simple table mustard with turmeric coloring (center left), a Bavarian sweet mustard (center right), a Dijon mustard (lower left), and a rough French mustard made mainly from black mustard seeds (lower right). Image credit: Rainer Zenz
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June 13
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railway cars south of Wonsan, North Korea, an east coast port city, during the Korean War. Trains in North Korea were targets of attack by U.S. and other U.N. forces, so much so that both military and civilian trains often had to wait out the daylight hours in tunnels .
Photo credit: United States Army
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June 14
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A Common Brown Robber fly (Zosteria sp.), one of the 7,100 described species of Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 15
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A map of Brunswick. Beginning 15 June 1815, the combatants fought successively in the Battle of Quatre Bras, the Battle of Ligny, the Battle of Waterloo, and lastly the Battle of Wavre .
Map credit: Gsl/I. Pankonin
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June 16
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Diagram showing the appearances and relative sizes of 18 basal species of Ceratopsians were beaked quadrupeds and developed elaborate facial horns and a neck frill.
Image credit: ArthurWeasley
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June 17
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The 71st plate from German biologist radiolarians of the order Stephoidea. Radiolarians form intricate mineral skeletons, usually with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions. Radiolarians are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean and are important diagnostic fossils, found from the Cambrian period onwards.
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel
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June 18
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A Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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June 19
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. Photo credit: Tobias Alt
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June 20
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Valentino, and Vivienne Westwood , among others.
Photo credit: Peter Duhon
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June 21
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A panorama of Upernavik, Greenland, a small town in the Arctic Circle. The series of photos was taken at 23:50 (11:50 PM) local time, showing the midnight sun. Upernavik (pop. 1140) is a town in the Upernavik district, which covers an area comparable to the United Kingdom but has only 3,000 inhabitants. With a population density of only 0.015 persons/km², the district is one of the least populated areas of the world. Photo credit: Kim Hansen
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June 22
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Lilium 'Citronella', a are considered "true lilies". Photo credit: Derek Ramsey/Chanticleer Garden
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June 23
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The Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 24
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statistical graphic ever drawn.
Image credit: Charles Joseph Minard
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June 25
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A Photo credit: Fir0002
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June 26
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A newsreel showing the breaking of the sound barrier on 14 October 1947 by Chuck Yeager in the rocket-powered Bell X-1. Flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13.7 km), Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight. Film credit: United States Air Force
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June 27
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The Mice Galaxies, NGC 4676A (right) and NGC 4676B (left), are two spiral galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices that are presently in the process of colliding and merging. Their name refers to the long tails produced by galactic tides. Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope
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June 28
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Photo credit: Chr. Barthelmess
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June 29
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A Poster credit: Unknown
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June 30
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The "Double O Arch", a natural sandstone arch in Arches National Park in Utah, United States. This is one of over 2,000 natural arches found in the park and is so named because there are two arches that form circular holes: the easily visible large one, and the smaller hole underneath it. Photo credit: Flicka
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