Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2007

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Photo credit: N.H. McMasters, United States Army

An illustrated comparison of different types of bird beaks, displaying the different shapes that are a result of different feeding adaptations. Bird heads are not shown to scale.

Image credit: L. Shyamal

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A Bark Mimicking Grasshopper (Coryphistes ruricola), one of the many members of the family Acrididae, which comprises some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. This specimen is approximately 60 mm (2.4 in) in length

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Image credit: Jason Hise

A scene from The Happy Land, an 1873 play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, showing the actors dressed as William Gladstone, Robert Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton. The play created a scandal due to its satirical portrayal of public officials, which was in violation of the rules against doing so then governing theatre in England.

Illustration credit: D.H. Friston

An 18th century map of the Iberian Peninsula illustrating various topographic features of the land. The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra.

Map credit: Robert Wilkinson

The stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) is often confused with the housefly, but unlike its common cousin, it is one of the few members of the Muscidae family that will drink blood from mammals.

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Pink pimelea (Pimelea spicata) is an endangered plant species native to New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as rice flower. The pictured specimen was grown at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.

Photo credit: Peter Halasz

Holoplatys semiplanata, a member of the Holoplatys genus of jumping spiders. This specimen is approximately 12 mm (0.5 in) in length.

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Neurons (also known as neurones and nerve cells) are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals, neurons are the core components of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.

Image credit: Mariana Ruiz

Divers preparing to recover bodies from the wreck of the Northfleet in the English Channel, a major shipwreck of 1873. Of the 379 people aboard the ship, 293 died, including 41 women and 50 children, with only one woman and two children surviving. The outfits used are the standard diving dress, the basic diving equipment from its invention in 1837 until replaced by the rise of SCUBA and other modern diving outfits in the 1960s. On the left of the picture, one of the support crew is tightening the wingnuts that connect the helmet to the canvas suits, creating a watertight seal that protects the helmet from flooding.

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