Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2006

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View of Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano, Switzerland, from the foot of Monte San Salvatore in 1909. Lying on the border of Italy, Lugano is located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino. This image was taken before the advent of color film. It is composed of three monochrome pictures shot through different colored filters and could only be viewed at the time via projection. It was only with digital image processing that the images could be satisfactorily combined into one. Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Archive - More featured pictures...

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Earthrise, the first occasion in which humans saw the Earth seemingly rising above the surface of the Moon, taken during the Apollo 8 mission on December 24 1968. This view was seen by the crew at the beginning of its fourth orbit around the Moon, although the very first photograph taken was in black-and-white. Note that the Earth is in shadow here. A photo of a fully lit Earth would not be taken until the Apollo 17 mission. Photo credit: William Anders Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus), seen at Fishing Pier, Goose Island State Park, Texas. Native across the United States and Canada, the population of this member of the Curlew family was significantly reduced at the end of the 19th century by hunting. Numbers have rebounded somewhat in more recent times. Photo credit: Alan D. Wilson Archive - More featured pictures...

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	exhaust stroke . Animation credit: UtzOnBike Archive - More featured pictures...

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Marie Curie, and Louis Braille . Photo credit: Jean-Pierre Lavoie/Ravedave Archive - More featured pictures...

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	An overlay diagram showing four of the largest Airbus A380-800 (the largest passenger aircraft), and the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (soon to be the largest version of the 747 ). Diagram credit: Clem Tillier Archive - More featured pictures...

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The Weedy sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) is a marine fish related to the seahorse. It is native to the shallow water around the southern coastline of Australia, between Port Stephens and Geraldton, as well as Tasmania. Weedy sea dragons are named for the weed-like projections on their bodies, which serve to camouflage them as they move among the seaweed beds where they are usually found. Photo credit: Richard Ling Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A female mallard and ducklings. Mallards are probably the best-known of all ducks. The breeding male is unmistakable, with a green head, black rear end and blue speculum feathers edged with white. The female mallard is light brown and can be distinguished from other ducks, by the distinctive speculum. Photo credit: Alan D. Wilson/Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Map of the Old Kingdom monuments were already over 2,000 years old. Map credit: MesserWoland Archive - More featured pictures...

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Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American Bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the nineteenth century and were reduced to a few hundred head by the mid-1880s, from which all the present day's managed herds are descended. The commercial take arguably was anywhere from 2,000 to 100,000 animals per day, though there are no statistics available. Photo credit: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Heaven's Gate cult . Photo credit: Philipp Salzgeber Archive - More featured pictures...

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Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in Ard na Caithne . Photo credit: Steve Ford Ellis/ Howcheng Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Morphology of a sterile female worker wasp. It can be identified as a female by both the number of divisions on its antenna and by its sting. This particular wasp is very close in likeness to a yellowjacket found commonly all around the world. Diagram credit: WikipedianProlific Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The record for being the "World's Hottest Spice". Photo credit: André Karwath Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The eastern face of the Weisshorn , have higher summits. Photo credit: Dirk Beyer/Quasipalm Archive - More featured pictures...

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	An early colour photograph of the Bukharan People's Republic . Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Archive - More featured pictures...

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Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and her daughters in Nipomo, California, became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. It is one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resilience in the face of adversity. In the 1930s, the FSA employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great Depression on the population of America. Many of the photographs can also be seen as propaganda images to support the U.S. government's policy distributing support to the worst affected, poorer areas of the country. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange Archive - More featured pictures...

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A Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) in Mount Rainier National Park, its cheek pouches full of food. This species of squirrel is native throughout North America and can be found in a wide variety of forest habitats as well as rocky meadows, and even sagebrush flats. It is similar to a chipmunk not only in appearance but behavior as well. Photo credit: K.lee Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The F/A-18 Hornet ). Photo credit: Mark Probst Archive - More featured pictures...

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	Animated cut-away view of a radial engine, a configuration of internal combustion engine, in which the cylinders are arranged pointing out from a central crankshaft like the spokes on a wheel. This configuration was formerly very commonly used in aircraft engines before being superseded by turboshaft and turbojet engines. Animation credit: Duk Archive - More featured pictures...

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	The stone fruit (drupes), and have only one seed each, often called a "stone". Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A Metung, Victoria, Australia. Metung is a small town located 315 km (197 mi) east of Melbourne , a popular holiday spot, near to larger towns, but off any main routes itself. Photo credit: John O'Neill Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A portrait of African Americans . Photo credit: Mathew Brady or Levin C. Handy Archive - More featured pictures...

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	U.S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original monument boundary. It was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938 . Photo credit: National Park Service Archive - More featured pictures...

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	36 Views of Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic representations of the Japanese style of art known as ukiyo-e. The scene is of a great wave (often mistaken for a tsunami) about to devour the men and boats, with the distant Mount Fuji minimized by the size of the wave. Image credit: Hokusai Archive - More featured pictures...

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	water sports . Photo credit: Kuresh Anbari Archive - More featured pictures...

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	An foliage (like tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way light is reflected from snow. Photo credit: Daniel Schwen Archive - More featured pictures...

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A head-and-shoulders Pueblo peoples, who live beside the Zuni River, in western New Mexico, United States. The Zuni language is unique and unrelated to the languages of the other Pueblo peoples. The Zuni continue to practice their traditional shamanistic religion with its regular ceremonies and dances and an independent mythology. Archaeological evidence shows they have lived in their present location for about 1,300 years. Photo credit: Edward S. Curtis Archive - More featured pictures...

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	A Class IV rapids. Photo credit: Hamad Darwish Archive - More featured pictures...

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A composite photo of the Orion Nebula, the closest region of star formation to Earth. It is composed of 520 separate images and NASA calls it "one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced". The nebula is located below Orion's Belt and is visible to the naked eye at night. It is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely-studied celestial features. Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope Archive - More featured pictures...

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