Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2006

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	The prey down. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	The first aircraft F-16 a second before it crashed on September 14 2003 ; Stricklin was not seriously injured. Photo credit: U.S. Air Force Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark, of the US Army. Photo credit: Clark, William Archive - Nominate new image

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	cirrus uncinus), or may seem tangled, an indication of high level turbulence . Photo credit: Piccolo Namek Archive - Nominate new image

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	The sour taste; its pH is 2.3, so because of its acidity, lemon juice is commonly used in chemistry experiments. Photo credit: Jon Sullivan of PD Photo.org Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Da Vinci and others is considered one of the great achievements leading to the Italian Renaissance . Artist: Leonardo da Vinci Archive - Nominate new image

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	Jakarta suffers from major urbanization problems. The population has risen sharply from 2.7 million in 1960 to 8.3 million in 2000. The rapid population growth has outgrown the government's ability to provide basic needs. A drug addiction, alcoholism , and despair. Picture credit: Jonathan McIntosh Archive - Nominate new image

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	The 2 November 1931 , but crashed less than two years later. Photo credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Salticidae and Linyphiidae ). The web has always been thought of as an engineering marvel. Photo credit: Piccolo Namek Archive - Nominate new image

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	A plant's leaves are the primary sites for photosynthesis. The green colour is from chlorophyll, a pigment that absorbs the energy from sunlight falling on the leaf. The veins are the vascular tissue of the leaf, moving water into the leaf and the sap produced by photosynthesis back out. Photo credit: PDPhoto.org Archive - Nominate new image

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	circus-art disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire. Typically these objects have one or more bundles of wicking, which are soaked in fuel and lit. Some of these disciplines are related to juggling, and there is also an affinity between firedancing and rhythmic gymnastics. Firedancing is often performed to music . Photo credit: Haloeffect Archive - Nominate new image

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The atolls in the world, spanning an area of the Pacific Ocean roughly the size of Western Europe. Despite the vast spread of the archipelago, the combined land area is only about 885 km² (345 sq. mi.). The climate is warm tropical, without pronounced seasons and a relatively continuous average temperature of 26°C (79°F). Water sources such as lakes or rivers are absent, leaving the only source of fresh water as catchments of rain water. Photo credit: Frédéric Jacquot Archive - Nominate new image

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	An 18th Century Persian astrolabe - maker unknown. The points of the curved spikes on the front rete plate mark the positions of the brightest stars. The name of each star is labeled at the base of each spike. The back plate, or mater, is engraved with projected coordinate lines. From the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge. Photo credit: Solipsist Archive - Nominate new image

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	A lepidopterists . Photo credit: William M. Connolley Archive - Nominate new image

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Three Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu (SSN 718) while surfaced 280 miles from the North Pole . Sighted by a lookout from the bridge (sail) of the submarine, the bears investigated the boat for almost 2 hours before leaving. USS Honolulu is the 24th Los Angeles-class submarine, and the first original design in her class to visit the North Pole region. Photo credit: Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs U.S. Navy Archive - Nominate new image

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Plasma lamps (also called plasma globes, plasma balls, plasma domes, plasma spheres, or plasma orbs) are novelty items which were most popular in the 1980s. The technology used in the plasma sphere, high frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube, was invented by the artist Bill Parker, while an undergraduate student at MIT. Later he developed it into the now ubiquitous product while he was an Artist in Residence at the Exploratorium science museum. Photo credit: Luc Viatour Archive - Nominate new image

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The Moscow Metro is the world's most heavily used metro system. Kievskaya station is one of the oldest stations on the network and lies on the Kol'tsevaya line (the central ring line) which was completed in 1937. Several of the central stations are remarkable for their ornate architecture, with marble columns, granite floors and chandeliers. Kievskaya station is particularly noted for its wall mosaics which depict socialist realist scenes from the history of the Ukraine. Photo credit: Worldtraveller Archive - Nominate new image

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	The American West, catalyzing the transition from the wagon trains of previous decades to a modern transportation system. Photo credit: Archive - Nominate new image

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	A bootlegged alcohol, the bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other liquors and non-alcoholic drinks. Photo credit: Nik Frey Archive - Nominate new image

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A portrait of V-2 rocket at Peenemünde. Along with his team of engineers, he surrendered to the American forces in the closing stages of the war, then helped to establish the military rocket program in the United States. In 1958 he transferred to the newly established NASA program, developing the Saturn V rocket that successfully delivered a man to the moon in 1969 . Photo credit: NASA Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Intel 80486DX2 is a Intel 80486DX -based system at the same processor speed. Chart created by: uberpenguin Archive - Nominate new image

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The Dettifoss is a waterfall located in the Mývatn area of North Central Iceland. It is situated in the Jökulsá á Fjöllum river which flows from glaciers. It is reputed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe having a flow variously estimated at between 200 and 500 cubic metres of water per second depending on the season and the summer ice melt. The falls are 100 m wide with a drop of 44 m. Photo credit: Roger McLassus Archive - Nominate new image

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A railborne vehicle, lighter than a train, designed for the transport of passengers (and/or, very occasionally, freight) within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities. Trams are distinguished from other forms of rail-bourne vehicles in that they travel wholly or partly along tracks laid down in streets, usually on track reserved for the tram system. A cable car is a special type of tram. The car shown here is one of the oldest currently in use on Vienna, Austria's tracks. Photo credit: KF Archive - Nominate new image

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The Coyote is a wild member of the dog family found in North America. Being intelligent and highly adaptable, the coyote is one of only a few larger animals who have been able to increase their territory in the face of human encroachment, despite being actively hunted. In the mythology of Native American peoples, the coyote plays a similar role to that of the fox in Europe and Japan — that of being a cunning and wily trickster. Photo credit: vxdigital Archive - Nominate new image

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	joints mixed with tobacco or Cannabis buds. It can also be added to cookies or other food and ingested. Hash is used for its relaxing and mind-altering effects. Many people have claimed that using it gives them great insights. Photo credit: Roger McLassus Archive - Nominate new image

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The bony fish from Southeast Asia. Its four varieties are native to the rivers of Southeast Asia and Indonesia . The Asian Arowana has a long body; large pectoral fins; dorsal and anal fins located far back on the body; and a much larger caudal fin than that of its relative, the Silver arowana. Its scales are large and usually metallic colored, and it has paired barbels on the end of the lower jaw. It is a mouthbrooder. It is sometimes called Dragon Fish by fish enthusiasts because of its resemblance to the mythical Chinese dragon. Photo credit: Cele4 Archive - Nominate new image

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	The prey hanging head down in the centre of the web. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family, Phascolarctidae. Koalas are found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near Victorian stock. Photo credit: Diliff Archive - Nominate new image

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	nuclear tests. Today the island is part of the Republic of Kiribati . Photo credit: Crew of Mission 4, ISS, NASA Archive - Nominate new image

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A resident species and tremendous biodiversity . Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to secure public funding. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	A selection of false berries. The common use of the word berry, simply refers to any small, sweet, fleshy fruit. The botanical use of the word is based on which part of the plant's ovary develop into the fruit. Photo credit: United States Fish and Wildlife Service Archive - Nominate new image

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