Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 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 March 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/March 2007#1]] for March 1).
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March 1
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The Sears Tower (tall black building), the Aon Center (tall white building), and the John Hancock Center (black trapezoidal building).
Photo credit: Buphoff
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March 2
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The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, often incorrectly described as a daguerreotype. It is believed to have been taken in 1849 during the degenerative stages of his tuberculosis, shortly before his death. Chopin, a Polish pianist and composer of the Romantic era, is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, admired and prolific composers for the piano. He moved to Paris at the age of twenty, adopting the French variant of his name, "Frédéric-François", by which he is now known. Photo credit: Louis-Auguste Bisson
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March 3
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A female , but some move short distances by foot to a different location for winter. Photo credit: Mdf
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March 4
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A head-and-shoulders His assassination, in 1865, made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
Photo credit: Alexander Gardner
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March 5
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The quadrangle of Windsor Castle, one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. On the far left is the State Apartments, at the end of the quad is the Private Apartments, where Queen Elizabeth II resides on weekends, and on the right, the South Wing. Located at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, it is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, the oldest in continuous occupation. Photo credit: Diliff
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March 6
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Pere Lachaise in 1804 in Paris. The idea then spread through Europe with the Napoleonic invasions .
Photo credit: R. Neil Marshman
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March 7
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D-Day invasion. Eisenhower's success in planning and executing the battle led him to be seen as a hero by the American public.
Photo credit: United States Army
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March 8
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An 1877 photo of Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French pioneer of color photography. This is one of the earliest examples of subtractive color and one of the first to be printed on paper. The overlapping, subtractive yellow, cyan and red (magenta) image elements can clearly be seen at the edges. The CMYK color model, used for all color printing today, is an example of a subtractive color space .
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March 9
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A street corner in the William S. Bodey who discovered gold in the area in 1859. By 1880 Bodie had a population of nearly 10,000. Bodie is also notable for a hydroelectric plant built 13 miles (21 km) away in 1893, one of the first transmissions of electricity over long distance. The town was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and has been in a state of arrested decay ever since.
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March 10
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An caliper, which is a caliper that uses a vernier scale to interpolate linear measurements. Vernier calipers can measure internal and external dimensions using, respectively, the uppermost and lower jaws, and also depths, using the depth probe (located at the right end). In this example, the first two digits (2.4) are decided by the location of the zero of the vernier scale in the centimeter scale, and the last digit (0.07), by the first line of the vernier scale that exactly matches a line of the centimeter scale above.
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March 11
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Photo credit: Diliff
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March 12
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A painting depicting Artist: Viktor Vasnetsov
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March 13
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The Photo credit: Jon Sullivan
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March 14
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March 15
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A photo of two maiko (apprentice Photo credit: Daniel Bachler
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March 16
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The first successful permanent photograph, created in 1826, is titled "View from the Window at Le Gras". It required an eight-hour exposure in bright sunshine and was printed on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. Due to the long exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left. Photo credit: Nicéphore Niépce
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March 17
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A scene from Artist: Gustave Doré
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March 18
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The . Despite the name, the gull's head is only black during the summer. In winter the head becomes white as seen here, leaving just dark vertical streaks. Photo credit: Diliff
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March 19
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The are blue. Photo credit: Landsat 7
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March 20
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A test firing of twin linear XRS-2200 aerospike engines, originally built for the Lockheed Martin X-33, a next-generation, commercially operated reusable launch vehicle. The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its efficiency across a wide range of altitudes through the use of an aerospike nozzle. A vehicle with an aerospike engine uses 25-30% less fuel at low altitudes, where most missions have the greatest need for thrust. Photo credit: Marshall Space Flight Center
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March 21
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This photo of an opened .Photo credit: Ed Uthman, M.D.
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March 22
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Three Photo credit: Benjamint444
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March 23
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The first permanent Photo credit: James Clerk Maxwell
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March 24
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Two Melangyna viridiceps (called Common Hoverflies in Australia) mating in mid-air. The male, which can be identified by the eyes meeting at the top of its head, is on top. The term "hoverfly" refers to about 6,000 species of flying insects in the family Syrphidae. They are often seen hovering at flowers and are important pollinators. Photo credit: Fir0002
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March 25
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A Photo credit: Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker (
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March 26
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The Map credit: Olaus Magnus
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March 27
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A nuclear bomb at the start of the test.
Photo credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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March 28
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The Photo credit: Fir0002
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March 29
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Aisles of packaged food in a Fred Meyer hypermarket in Portland, Oregon. A hypermarket is a combination of a supermarket and a department store, and the Fred Meyer chain is one of the pioneers of the hypermarket format in the United States. Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer, is the top grocery retailer and the third largest general retailer in the country. Photo credit: Lyza Danger
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March 30
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A 1942 Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. This twin-engine aircraft was used with devastating effect against German and Japanese targets in every combat theater of World War II . More than half of the 10,000 planes built during the war were constructed at Fairfax Airport.
Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer,
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March 31
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A small partial map of the Internet. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. This graph contains over 40,000 nodes, which represents about 2% of the Class C network address space. Image credit: Matt Britt
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