Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2014
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March 1
Photograph: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team
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March 2
A fossil of Steneosaurus bollensis, from the extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliforms Steneosaurus. This specimen was found in Holzmaden, Germany, and dates from the Early Jurassic (185 million years ago). Photograph: Didier Descouens
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March 3
The Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany, named after its founding director, is a museum of antiquities including sculpture, Byzantine art and numismatics. Designed by Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904, the building was restored extensively from 1997 to 2006. Photograph: Thomas Wolf
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March 4
Riin Tamm (born 1981) is an Estonian geneticist working at the University of Tartu, and a science popularizer. Her writings have appeared in various popular and academic media. Photograph: Lauri Kulpsoo
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March 5
A depiction of the Boston Massacre, an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others in Boston, Massachusetts. Eight soldiers, one officer, and four civilians were arrested and charged with murder, though all but two were acquitted; two soldiers were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to branding. During the era of discontent that led to the American Revolution, this event was used for anti-British propaganda. Engraving: Paul Revere
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March 6
The Photograph: JJ Harrison; edit: John O'Neill
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March 7
The lake at Photograph: Colin
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March 8
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was an American anarchist writer and feminist, prolific in her opposition to the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women's lives. She began her activist career in the freethought movement, initially drawn to individualist anarchism but evolved through mutualism to an "anarchism without adjectives." Emma Goldman described her as "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced". Photograph: Unknown; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 9
"Mariana" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1830. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, though possibly drawing on influences from sources as varied as Sappho and Keats. It depicts a young woman lamenting her isolation from society, and her despair at her lover's absence, using imagery of a decaying wasteland surrounding Mariana's house to convey her emotions and isolation. The poem was well received at publication; one modern scholar described Mariana as "the most famous heroine of the 1830 volume". Photogravure illustration: W. E. F. Britten; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 10
The of northeastern Asia and south to Mongolia, and winters in Southeast Asia and southern China; this specimen was photographed in Thailand. Photograph: JJ Harrison
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March 11
Vyborg Castle is a Swedish-built medieval fortress around which the town of Vyborg evolved. Built in the 13th century, it served to defend the Swedes against Russians for over 400 years, although it is now located in the latter country. The castle currently serves as a museum. Photograph: A.Savin
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March 12
An 1873 print promoting The central scene shows a farmer with one foot on his shovel, captioned "I Pay for All". From left to right, the top insets show a farmer's fireside and the Grange in session; the bottom ones show a harvest dance, a broken-down cabin signposted "Ignorance" and "Sloth", and a Biblical scene of the .Poster: J. Hale Powers & Co. Fraternity & Fine Art Publishers; restoration: Trialsanderrors
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March 13
The Zanzibar red colobus (Procolobus kirkii) is a species of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Brought to attention of Western science by Sir John Kirk, this colobus was first described by John Edward Gray in 1868. It is now considered an endangered species, and extensive conservation efforts have been undertaken since the mid-1990s. Photograph: Hasin Shakur
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March 14
The villages of Ambleside and Waterhead, Cumbria, North West England, as viewed from Loughrigg Fell; Ambleside is centre-left, and Waterhead is the smaller village on the right at the edge of Windermere. Photograph: David Iliff
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March 15
The Photograph: JJ Harrison
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March 16
Photograph: Unknown; Restoration: Bruce C. Cooper, Chris Woodrich
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March 17
Centaurus A, a prominent galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, in a colour composite of images obtained with three instruments. Discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop, Centaurus A is a highly visible starburst galaxy which is only visible from low northern latitudes and the southern hemisphere. Photograph:
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March 18
An advertisement for a 1927 enactment of the Poster: The Otis Lithograph Co.; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 19
The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes, painted by Michael Ancher in oils on canvas in 1883. It is representative of themes the painter often covered, fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. Painting: Michael Ancher
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March 20
The Bernina railway .
Photo: David Gubler
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March 21
Dense Photo: NASA Earth Data - LANCE Web Mapping Service, MODIS Rapid Response System
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March 22
The burning of Engraving: William Waud; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 23
A panorama of the east face of hills showing strata from the John Day Formation in the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The strata, which vary in age from 18 million to 39 million years, were formed mainly from ashfalls from volcanoes to the west. The sediment layers vary in their chemical composition and color owing to the ash and other debris falling during varied climatic and volcanic conditions. Photograph: Finetooth
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March 24
Painting: Gilbert Stuart
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March 25
Photograph: Chuck Szmurlo
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March 26
John Herschel was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer. He named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus, invented the cyanotype and actinometer, and wrote extensively on topics including meteorology, physical geography and the telescope. Photograph: Julia Margaret Cameron; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 27
Photo: William P. Gottlieb; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 28
The Photo: JJ Harrison
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March 29
Saint-Augustin Church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris was built between 1860 and 1871 by Victor Baltard. This structure, almost 100 metres (330 ft) in length and with a dome height of 80 metres (260 ft), was built around a metal frame. Photo:
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March 30
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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, the piece involves Prince Hilarion and his two friends sneaking into a women's college, disguised as women, to woo Princess Ida, to whom he was wed in infancy. Ida, a feminist, has rejected all mankind, and when Hilarion's identity is accidentally revealed, a battle of the sexes ensues. This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a illustrated compilation of four of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. This illustrates a line in the abrasive King Gama's introductory song "I can tell a woman's age in half a minute—and I do!"
Illustration: William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, the piece involves Prince Hilarion and his two friends sneaking into a women's college, disguised as women, to woo Princess Ida, to whom he was wed in infancy. Ida, a feminist, has rejected all mankind, and when Hilarion's identity is accidentally revealed, a battle of the sexes ensues. This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a illustrated compilation of four of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. This illustration presents a scene from the Act I Finale: "Must we, till then, in prison cell be thrust?"
Illustration: William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, the piece involves Prince Hilarion and his two friends sneaking into a women's college, disguised as women, to woo Princess Ida, to whom he was wed in infancy. Ida, a feminist, has rejected all mankind, and when Hilarion's identity is accidentally revealed, a battle of the sexes ensues. This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a illustrated compilation of four of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. This illustration presents the stage direction "Enter Princess, reading."
Illustration: William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, the piece involves Prince Hilarion and his two friends sneaking into a women's college, disguised as women, to woo Princess Ida, to whom he was wed in infancy. Ida, a feminist, has rejected all mankind, and when Hilarion's identity is accidentally revealed, a battle of the sexes ensues. This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a illustrated compilation of four of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. The illustration depicts Hilarion, in disguise as a woman, trying to convince Ida to look on his true self more kindly: "If it be well to droop and pine and mope,
Illustration: William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 31
The Photo: Nicolas Sanchez
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