Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005
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October 1
The central electrode of a energy states. These processes emit light in a spectrum characteristic of the gas being excited.
Photo credit: PiccoloNamek |
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October 2
Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 3
activity. Image credit: Fastfission |
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October 4
The is a fine example of a mountain lake in the Himalayas. Photo credit: Martin Louis |
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October 5
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, US. Mount St. Helens from Monitor Ridge showing the cone of devastation, the huge crater open to the north, and the post eruption lava dome inside it. The small photos were taken from Spirit Lake before and after the eruption. Spirit Lake can also be seen in the larger image, as well as two other Cascade volcanos. Image credit: |
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October 6
Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 7
A newborn Photo credit: Geoff Shaw |
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October 8
This picture of the Prokudin-Gorskii in 1915, is an example of early colour photography .
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October 9
The . Photo credit: Martin Correns |
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October 10
The Photo credit: U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command |
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October 11
The The Senufo languages are like Gur languages in that they have a suffixal noun class system and that verbs are marked for aspect. Most Gur languages to the north of Senufo have a two tone downstep system, but the tonal system of the Senufo languages is mostly analysed as a three level tone system. Photo credit: |
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October 12
A red sunset. The red-hue is explained by the phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering. The sunset is often more brightly coloured than the sunrise because there is more dust at the end of the day than at its beginning. Because the light from the Sun is bent by the variable density of the Earth's atmosphere, the Sun is still seen after it is below the horizon. Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 13
A Photo credit: Bernard Landgraf |
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October 14
In the eggs in a shallow pond or creek, where they will be sheltered from the current and from predators. The eggs, known as frogspawn, hatch into tadpoles . The tadpoles develop gradually into adolescent froglets and finally the froglet develops into an adult frog.
Photo credit: Tarquin |
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October 15
A against injury. This example of a canine teeth , used for fighting, which can grow up to 50 cm long.
Photo credit: Raul654 |
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October 16
For five years after their completion in Muslim heritage.
In an unusual move, a different construction company was contracted to build each tower and set to compete against each other. The builders of Tower 2 won the race, despite starting a month behind Tower 1. Photo credit: Ángel Riesgo Martínez |
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October 17
A Photo credit: Solipsist |
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October 18
Photo credit: Nichalp |
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October 19
and carved marble sculptures. Reclining Figure (1951), an abstract female figure intercut with voids, is typical of Moore's style. Photo credit: Solipsist |
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October 20
A Photo credit: Solipsist |
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October 21
"Promenade des Anglais" in Photo credit: W. M. Connolley |
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October 22
The Photo credit: Shiva shankar |
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October 23
Photo credit: Michael Rogers |
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October 24
Controlling Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 25
The Photo credit: David Hall |
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October 26
Photo credit: Gleam |
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October 27
The , which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically. Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 28
birds. Fire ants cannot be killed by flooding. If the ants sense a change in water levels in their nests , they will come together and form a huge ball that is able to float on the water and protects the queen in its center.
Photo credit: Scott Bauer |
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October 29
Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into a plasma, producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere. Photo credit: Nelumadau |
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October 30
Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants, that are adapted for feeding on nectar. They play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are called pollinators. Bees have a long proboscis that they use in order to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have two pairs of wings, the back pair being the smaller. Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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October 31
The thorax and abdomen. These tubules are called 'spiracles', and inside the body they connect together into a network of airtubes or 'tracheae '.
Photo credit: Sannse |
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