Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 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 March 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/March 2008#1]]
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March 1
A surfer off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, is performing a "cutback", or very sharp turn. Santa Cruz and the surrounding Northern California coastline is a popular surfing destination; however, the year-round low temperature of the Pacific Ocean in that region (averaging 57 °F or 14 °C) necessitates the use of wetsuits. Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 2
A diagram of a simple prokaryote. Prokaryotes are organisms that lack a cell nucleus (= karyon), or any other membrane-bound organelles. They differ from the eukaryotes, which have a cell nucleus. Most are unicellular, but some prokaryotes are multicellular organisms. Image credit: Mariana Ruiz
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March 3
Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 4
These two Photo credit: Taro Taylor
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March 5
A styles , which inspires the name.
Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 6
The Photo credit: Benh Lieu Song
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March 7
Annie Oakley, a 19th century sharpshooter and exhibition shooter who performed as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, demonstrates her rifle target skills in this 1894 film. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet (27 m), Oakley reputedly could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. Film credit: Edison Manufacturing Co.
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March 8
The Peablue (Lampides boeticus) is a small butterfly found in Europe, Africa and Asia that belongs to the Lycaenidae family. The eyespot and pseudo-antennae on the hindwing are a form of automimicry. Photo credit: Laitche
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March 9
A 1691 First Polish Republic, but at the time of the map's creation, the city was part of the Ottoman Empire. It shortly returned to Poland and later became part of the Russian Empire with the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.
Map credit: Nicolas de Fer
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March 10
Visualization of a Image credit: Thomas Schultz
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March 11
Built on the displayed in the British Museum. Even so, it remains one of the most important surviving buildings of Classical Greece and a symbol of Athenian democracy
Photo credit: Thermos
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March 12
Tufa towers in Mono Lake, California. Tufa are spires and knobs made of calcium carbonate formed by interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water. Tufa can reach heights of 30 ft (9.1 m). Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 13
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March 14
A portrait of Artist: Unknown, probably of the
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March 15
A true-color picture of Ireland, as seen from space, with the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Irish Sea to the east. Image credit:
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March 16
An unmarked Photo credit: John O'Neill
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March 17
Pāhoehoe lava overflows from this open lava channel on the island of Hawaiʻi as a result of a fissure vent eruption. The channel is crusting over with a V-shaped opening pointing upstream. The crusting-over process usually starts at the upstream end. The crust grows downstream for a considerable distance, then the crust founders and sinks, opening the channel to crusting over again. Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 18
The Photo credit: Paul Thomsen
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March 19
The aircraft carrier USS Franklin is afire and listing by 13° after being hit by a Japanese air attack on March 19, 1945, during World War II. The crew is clearly seen on the flaming deck, watched by the crew of the light cruiser USS Santa Fe (from where this was taken), which was alongside assisting with firefighting and rescue work. The casualties totaled 724 killed and 265 wounded. Photo credit: PHC Albert Bullock, United States Navy
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March 20
Two Photo credit: Tomas Castelazo
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March 21
The Photo credit: David Iliff
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March 22
A Chechen man prays during the First Battle of Grozny, January 1995. The flame in the background is coming from a gas pipeline which was hit by shrapnel .
This battle was the capital, Grozny, during the early months of the First Chechen War. The attack lasted from December 1994 to March 1995, resulted in the military occupation of the city by the Russian Army and rallied most of the Chechen nation around the separatist government of Dzhokhar Dudayev .
Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
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March 23
A diagram showing the parts of a . Equipped with powerful engines producing thousands of horsepower, extensive rigging equipment, and a fender of tires for protection, tugboats can push or tow large vessels with high precision and speed. Image credit: Al2/Lycaon/Jeff Dahl
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March 24
The Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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March 25
Baseball pitcher Chris Young of the San Diego Padres practices his four-seam fastball before the June 16, 2007 game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. During the game, Young hit Derrek Lee with a pitch, which led to a bench-clearing brawl. Both players were ejected from the game, which ended in a 1–0 victory for San Diego. The game took place a few weeks before Young was added to his first Major League Baseball All-Star Game roster via the All-Star Final Vote. The picture also depicts a Wrigley Field bullpen located in playable foul territory. In the background, the old-fashioned scoreboard and the 2005–06 reconstruction of the centerfield bleachers are visible. March 25 is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. Photo credit: Antonio Vernon
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March 26
The School of Athens or "Scuola di Atene" in Italian is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Artist: Raphael
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March 27
Panorama of the Court of Honor of the Louvre, one of the most visited and famous art museums in the world. In the center is I. M. Pei's glass pyramid that serves as the main entrance to the museum. Among its collection of 380,000 objects (including 11,900 paintings) are the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory of Samothrace. Photo credit: Benh Lieu Song
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March 28
The Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at night. The stadium was originally built for the 1976 Summer Olympics and its inclined tower, called la tour de Montréal, is the tallest inclined tower in the world at 175 m (574 ft) and is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers. Photo credit: Acarpentier
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March 29
The . Photo credit: Fir0002
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March 30
The Manhattan Bridge, under construction in 1909, nine months before its opening on December 31, 1909. This suspension bridge crosses the East River, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn, just upriver of the Brooklyn Bridge. All of the buildings in foreground of this photograph, with the exception of the Empire Warehouse on the left, are no longer standing. Photo credit: Irving Underhill
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March 31
The Photo credit: Chuck Szmurlo
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