Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2006
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May 1 - Mon
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May 2 - Tue
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Coloured smoke reveals a vortex of air created by the wing of an airplane, also known as wake turbulence or jetwash. This turbulence can be especially hazardous during the landing and take off phases of flight, where an aircraft's proximity to the ground makes a timely recovery from turbulence-induced problems unlikely. Photo credit: NASA Langley Research Center |
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May 3 - Wed
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A wickiup is a domed hut-like dwelling used by the semi-nomadic Native American tribes of southwestern North America. A wigwam is a similar structure but the term is used for those found in the northeastern part of America. Shown here is an Apache wickiup from 1903. Photo credit: Edward S. Curtis |
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May 4 - Thu
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The Nez Perce tribe lived in the northwestern United States, although they were known to head as far east as the Great Plains. They fought the last great battle between the U.S. government and an Indian nation as Chief Joseph and his warriors battled U.S. Cavalry troops over 1,600 miles (2,560 km) towards Canada before surrendering on October 5, 1877. This photograph was taken in 1910. Photo credit: Edward S. Curtis |
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May 5 - Fri
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Photo credit: Airman Ricardo J. Reyes, U.S. Navy |
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May 6 - Sat
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Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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May 7 - Sun
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Photo credit: Diliff |
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May 8 - Mon
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In organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the chloroplast containing cells (chlorenchyma tissue) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues. This chart shows three aspects of leaf morphology : shape, margin (edge), and venation (arrangement of the veins).
Image credit: Debivort |
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May 9 - Tue
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The Photo credit: Diliff |
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May 10 - Wed
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A Photo credit: Fir0002/Didactohedron |
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May 11 - Thu
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The Photo credit: mdf/Fir0002 |
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May 12 - Fri
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Photo credit: Softeis |
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May 13 - Sat
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San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO) opened on May 7, 1927 on 150 acres (607,000 m²) of cow pasture leased from prominent local landowner Ogden L. Mills, and was named Mills Field Municipal Airport. During the economic boom of the 1990s and the dot com boom, SFO became the 6th busiest international airport in the world. However, since the boom times ended, it has fallen back out of the top twenty. Photo credit: Andrew Choy |
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May 14 - Sun
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Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States dating from the War of 1812. During World War I and World War II, Uncle Sam's image was used for military recruitment in this poster. The poster uses an artistic trick: if the pupils are drawn exactly centered in the eyes of a portrait, this gives an impression that the portrait "looks back" at the viewer wherever the viewer stands. Image credit: James Montgomery Flagg |
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May 15 - Mon
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Photo credit: Mschlindwein |
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May 16 - Tue
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The Photo credit: NASA |
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May 17 - Wed
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| Vatnajökull (IPA: [ˈvahtnajœːkʏtl ̥]), the largest glacier in Iceland, is located in the southeast and covers more than 8% of the country. The lakes on the glacier known as Grímsvötn, pictured here, are caused by volcanic eruptions which melt enough ice to fill the Grímsvötn caldera with water. |
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May 18 - Thu
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The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum is a covered square designed by the architects Foster and Partners. It opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The roof is a glass and steel construction with 1,656 pairs of uniquely shaped glass panes. At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room, which is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there. Photo credit: Andrew Dunn |
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May 19 - Fri
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| Cumulus clouds are characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower. They are formed due to convection. Buoyant, upward air currents, known as thermals rise to a height at which the moisture in the air can condense. Because of this, they "grow" vertically instead of horizontally. Though most common in warm, summer weather, cumulus clouds can be formed at any time of year. |
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Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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May 20 - Sat
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Artist: Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry |
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May 21 - Sun
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On main engines and solid rocket booster exhaust plumes entwined around a ball of gas from the external tank . Because shuttle launches had become almost routine after fifty successful missions, those watching the shuttle launch in person and on television found the sight of the break up especially shocking and difficult to believe until NASA confirmed the accident.
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May 22 - Mon
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landkreis of Zwickauer Land, Germany .
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| Photo credit: André Karwath |
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May 23 - Tue
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Lava tubes are natural conduits through which lava travels beneath the surface of a lava flow. They can be actively draining lava from a source, or can be extinct, meaning the lava flow has ceased and the rock has cooled and left a long, cave-like channel. Tubes form in one of two ways: by the crusting over of lava channels and from Pahoehoe flows where the lava is moving under the surface. Photo credit: Michael Oswald |
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May 24 - Wed
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Cuttlefish are small relatives of squids and nautilus, sometimes called the chameleon of the sea because of their remarkable ability to rapidly alter their skin color at will. They have an internal shell, large eyes, and eight arms and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which they secure their prey. There are 119 species of cuttlefish. Photo credit: Diliff |
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May 25 - Thu
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Photo credit: Kazutoshi Hando |
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May 26 - Fri
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The bush is a term used for rural, undeveloped land or country areas in many places, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Alaska. Because the geography varies greatly between these different places, what constitutes bush also widely differs. In Australia (as seen here), the term is quite specific: It can include agricultural areas and regional settlements, and does not include the even more remote areas that constitute the outback .Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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May 27 - Sat
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Sea anemones are water-dwelling, filter feeding animals, closely related to coral and jellyfish. They are composed of a small sac, attached to the bottom by an adhesive foot, with a column shaped body ending in an oral disc which contains the mouth, surrounded by the tentacles with stinging cells. The tentacles contain neurotoxins, which serve to paralyze and capture the prey, which is then moved by the tentacles to the mouth for digestion inside a central cavity. Anemones tend to stay in the same spot unless they are unhappy with that location, or a predator is attacking them. In the case of an attack, anemones can uproot themselves and swim away to a new location. Image credit: Ernst Haeckel |
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May 28 - Sun
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A Photo credit: Wing-Chi Poon |
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May 29 - Mon
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Photo credit: Abubakr Hussain et al |
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May 30 - Tue
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Photo credit: Michael Ströck |
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May 31 - Wed
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The Photo credit: Chowells |
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