Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2010
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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 2010. 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 2010#1]] for June 1).
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June 1
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A female Thomisus onustus Yellow Chamomile flower. Thomisus spiders are found worldwide, with the notable exception of most of South America .
Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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June 2
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June 3
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The perennial evergreen tree that bears fruit commonly known as "pineapple guava" or "guavasteen". It is native to central South America, but has been introduced to a number of locations around the world, most notably New Zealand , where the fruit is especially popular.
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June 4
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A male bedbug (Cimex lectularius) traumatically inseminates a female bedbug. The female's ventral carapace is visibly cracked around the point of insemination. Bedbugs reproduce solely by this process, in which the male pierces the female's abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm through the wound.
Photo: Rickard Ignell, SLU
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June 5
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A Grand Duchy of Moscow, and his wife Beatrix van der Laen. Massa first went to Moscow in 1601 for business, wherein he witnessed the Time of Troubles, and his memoirs of that time are considered the least biased of contemporary sources. This painting is considered unique in composition for the period; the novel composition was probably Massa's own design.
Artist: Frans Hals
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June 6
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Damage to Richmond, Virginia, at the end of the American Civil War. Being the capital of the Confederacy and a vital source of materiel and manpower, Richmond was the target of numerous attacks by the Union Army during the war. When the city's capture became imminent, the Confederate Army abandoned the city, setting fire to its military stores as they retreated. Photo: Andrew J. Russell; Restoration: Lise Broer |
June 7
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A scene from an 1886 edition of betrothed to one man in an arranged marriage, but in love with another. On her wedding night, Janet stabbed her husband. She was judged to be insane and died within a month. The book is part of Scott's Tales of My Landlord series and is the basis for Gaetano Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor .
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June 8
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A 'Kensington Pride' mango fruit and the cross-section of another. Worldwide, hundreds of mango cultivars exist. In mango orchards, multiple cultivars are often grown together to improve cross-pollination. Photo: Fir0002 |
June 9
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An illustration of a John of England . King John was once one of Shakespeare's most frequently staged plays, but its popularity has decreased over the years and stagings of it today are very rare.
Image: The Illustrated London News
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June 10
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Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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June 11
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A trolling for bluefish, a technique consisting of one or more fishing lines being drawn through the water, whether in a moving boat or from a static position. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as salmon, mackerel and billfish. It should not be confused with trawling, another fishing technique that requires a net .
Artist: Frances F. Palmer; Restoration: Lise Broer
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June 12
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A Lilium longiflorum flower, which is typical of all Lilium (lily) species. Labeled parts are: Lilies flower in the summer, and come in a range of colours ranging through whites, yellows, oranges, pinks, reds and purples. Markings include spots, brush strokes and picotees. Photo:
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June 13
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A Bluewater, a shopping centre located in Greenhithe, Kent. With a sales floor area of 154,000 m2 (1,600,000 ft2) over two levels, it is the second largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom, and the fourth largest overall in Europe.
Photo: David Iliff
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June 14
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A Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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June 15
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A man climbs a statue of a Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. Evidence suggests Borobudur was abandoned following the 14th-century decline of Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms in Java, and the Javanese conversion to Islam. The monument is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the most popular tourist attraction in the country.
Photo: William Henry Jackson; Restoration: Lise Broer
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June 16
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The Atlantic Sines, Portugal. Well known for its beaches, it is located on the western coast of Portugal, about 170 km (110 mi) south of Lisbon. The name "Porto Covo" probably means Port of the covos, where a covo is a kind of fishing net for capturing lobsters and crabs .
Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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June 17
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A in sheep.Photo: Richard Bartz
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June 18
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An rotation period on its axis to match its orbital period around the earth. These two periods nearly cancel each other out, except that the Moon's orbit is elliptical. This causes its orbital motion to speed up when closer to the Earth, and slow down when farther away, causing the Moon's apparent diameter to change, as well as the wobbling motion observed.
Image: Tom Ruen
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June 19
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In this scene from Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Uncle Toby's colonel invents a device for firing multiple miniature cannons at once, based on a hookah. Unfortunately, he and Toby find the puffing on the hookah pipe so enjoyable that they keep setting the cannons off. The novel was published in nine volumes over ten years, starting in 1759. Although it was not always held in high esteem by other writers, its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English, as well as a forerunner for many modern narrative devices and styles. Illustration: George Cruikshank; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
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June 20
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A panoramic view of the municipality of Bad Hindelang, located in the Oberallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany, in the Northern Limestone Alps along the border with Austria. Photo: Jürgen Matern
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June 21
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The prickles of a rose plant. Prickles, which are needle-like extensions of the cortex and epidermis, are often confused with thorns, which are modified branches or stems, and spines, which are modified leaves. All three are hard structures with sharp, pointy ends, which are generally used by plants to protect themselves from herbivores. Thorns likely first evolved as a defense mechanism in plants growing in sandy environments which provided inadequate resources for fast regeneration. Photo:
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June 22
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The Photo: Massimo Catarinella
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June 23
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A 1933 view of the Photo: Samuel H. Gottscho; Restoration: Michel Vuijlsteke
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June 24
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Architect George R. Mann's design for the Arkansas State Capitol, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The image is labeled as the Montana State Capitol because it was the winning entrant in the first design competition for that building. It was never actually built, and Mann resubmitted it for the Arkansas building. Restoration: Jake Wartenberg
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June 25
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A portmanteau of helicopter and attack, first appeared in a 1956 Los Angeles Times article describing a series of tests by the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD). Helicopters had been used in combating wildfires in California as early as 1947, and the LACoFD established the first helitack crew in 1957.
Photo: Gnangarra
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June 26
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A juvenile altricial birds, brightly colored gapes help the parents determine how to distribute food among their chicks.
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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June 27
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A male Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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June 28
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An 1886 advertisement for a hosiery firm that depicts its factory floor with workers using knitting machines. Knitting machines produce various types of knitted fabrics, usually either flat or tubular, and of varying degrees of complexity. There are numerous types of knitting machines, ranging from the simple, non-mechanical, to the highly complex and electronic. Pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, or with push-buttons and dials, mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern-reading devices and computers. Image: Cooper, Wells & Co.; Restoration: Lise Broer
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June 29
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One of Medici collection which Botticelli had opportunity to study.
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June 30
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