Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2017
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March 1
Robert Cornelius (1809–1893) was an American photography pioneer and lamp manufacturer. Cornelius began working with his father in silver plating and metal polishing in 1832. A meeting with Joseph Saxton drew him to photography. Cornelius used his knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy to perfect the daguerreotype. Around October 1839, Cornelius took this portrait of himself, the oldest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America. Photograph: Robert Cornelius
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March 2
The Magdalen Reading is one of three surviving fragments of a large mid-15th-century oil on panel altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The panel, originally oak, was completed some time between 1435 and 1438 and has been in the National Gallery, London since 1860. It shows a woman with pale skin, high cheek bones, and oval eyelids who is identifiable as Mary Magdalene from the jar of ointment placed in the foreground, which is her traditional attribute in Christian art. Painting: Rogier van der Weyden
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March 3
A gloriette is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to its surroundings. The structural execution and shape can vary greatly, often in the form of a pavilion or tempietto, more or less open on the sides. Shown here is the gloriette of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Photograph: Thomas Wolf
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March 4
A registration card for Louis Wijnhamer (1904–1975), an ethnic Dutch humanitarian who was captured soon after the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in March 1942. Prior to the occupation, many ethnic Europeans had refused to leave, expecting the Japanese occupation government to keep a Dutch administration in place. When Japanese troops took control of government infrastructure and services such as ports and postal services, 100,000 European (and some Chinese) civilians were interned in prisoner-of-war camps where the death rates were between 13 and 30 per cent. Wijnhamer was interned in a series of camps throughout Southeast Asia and, after the surrender of Japan, returned to what was now Indonesia, where he lived until his death. Document: Japanese occupation government; scan by the
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March 5
The hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, during a plenary session in 2014. Based on the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Parliament serves together with the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to exercise the legislative function of the European Union. Members have been directly elected since 1979. Photograph: David Iliff |
March 6
Fatata te Miti is an oil painting on canvas completed by the French artist Paul Gauguin in 1892. Painted during the artist's first trip to Tahiti, it depicts two Tahitian women jumping into the sea while a man spearfishes in the background. Fatata te Miti has been identified as a genre painting that epitomizes a romantic and exotic view of Tahitians. The painting is now held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Painting: Paul Gauguin |
March 7
Engraving: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restoration: Andrew Shiva |
March 8
A 1978 portrait of Ntozake Shange (born 1948), an American playwright and poet. A black feminist, her writings frequently address issues of race and feminism. This includes her Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, a collection of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music that debuted on Broadway in 1976. Photograph: Barnard College; restoration: Chris Woodrich
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March 9
Painting: Alexander Roslin
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March 10
A Photograph: Lucasbosch
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March 11
Wivenhoe Park is an oil painting on canvas completed by the English Romantic painter John Constable in 1816. It depicts Wivenhoe Park, an English landscape garden on the eastern edge of Colchester. It is now held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Painting: John Constable
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March 12
The Chapel of the Gate of Dawn is a Catholic chapel and pilgrimage site on the city gates of the Lithuanian city of Blessed Virgin Mary in the Northern Renaissance style. In this image, the painting is covered in expensive and elaborate silver and gold clothes , leaving only the face and hands visible.
Legend tells that in 1702, when Vilnius was captured by the Swedish army during the Great Northern War, Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn rescued the city: at dawn, the heavy iron city gates of the gate fell, killing four Swedish soldiers and promoting a successful Lithuanian counter-attack near the gate. Photograph: David Iliff
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March 13
Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath, a c. 1756 Tribuna of the Uffizi .
Painting: Johan Zoffany
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March 14
Photograph: Ferdinand Schmutzer; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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March 15
. It can grow to 40 cm (16 in) in length. Photograph: Nick Hobgood
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March 16
Painting: Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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March 17
Engraving: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restoration: Andrew Shiva
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March 18
Photograph: H. Krisp
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March 19
Painting: John Simmons
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March 20
Photograph: Jörg Hempel
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March 21
Montfort Castle is a ruined crusader castle in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of the city of Haifa. The site is now a national park inside the Nahal Kziv nature reserve, and a tourist destination. Photograph: Eran Feldman
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March 22
Photograph: Diego Delso
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March 23
The Photograph: National Museum of Korea
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March 24
Painting: Edgar Degas
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March 25
Worcester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, a baronet of Worcestershire. As of July 2010[update], Worcester had a financial endowment of £16.7 million. Alumni include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, television producer Russell T Davies, justice Elena Kagan, actress Emma Watson, and novelist Richard Adams. Photograph: Andrew Shiva
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March 26
In this dance, performers come onstage carrying a metal dish with incense and flowers in it. They kneel, as if praying, before making welcoming movements to the guests. At the end of the performance, the dancers move in circles, throwing flowers at each other and the audience. Photograph: Chris Woodrich
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March 27
Roque Agando, a 180 m (590 ft) high stone formation in Garajonay National Park. Established in 1981, the park occupies 40 km2 (15 sq mi) of the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands in Spain. Photograph: Diego Delso
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March 28
The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock is an oil painting on canvas painted by Nicolaas Pieneman between 1830 and 1835. It depicts General Hendrik Merkus de Kock's capture of Prince Diponegoro in 1830, which signaled the end of the Java War (1825–1830). The painting, commissioned by De Kock, shows Diponegoro abandoning his followers and submitting peacefully, in what the art historian Werner Krauss describes as recognition that "de Kock's stern action is for the best of the Javanese". Painting: Nicolaas Pieneman
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March 29
Drifting is a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels or all tires, while maintaining control for the entirety of a corner. It is caused when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, to such an extent that often the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn. As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in 1970s Japan. Today they are held worldwide and judged according to speed, angle, showmanship, and line taken through a corner or set of corners. Photograph: Rowan Harrison |
March 30
Painting: Vincent van Gogh |
March 31
Palm Beach County Park Airport is a county-owned public use airport in Palm Beach County, Florida. It is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) south of the central business district of West Palm Beach. This airport is categorized as a relief airport. Photograph: Don Ramey Logan Jr.
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