Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005

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	The central electrode of a energy states. These processes emit light in a spectrum characteristic of the gas being excited. Photo credit: PiccoloNamek Archive - Nominate new image

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Carts have many different shapes but the basic idea of transporting material (or maintaining a collection of materials in a portable fashion) remains. Carts usually have two or four wheels. Those with four wheels (also known as drays or wagons) will often have a pivoting front axle that has a pole connected to the collars or yoke of the two guiding draught animals. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	functional MRI scan (shown in the image) measures signal changes in the brain that are due to changing neural activity. Image credit: Fastfission Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Himalayan altitudes. The Pangong Lake in Ladakh is a fine example of a mountain lake in the Himalayas. Photo credit: Martin Louis Archive - Nominate new image

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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: Daniel Mayer , U.S. Forest Service and USGS Archive - Nominate new image

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	aerosol canisters . Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	A newborn newborn to climb to the pouch and attach to a teat . It will not re-emerge for several months, during which time it develops fully. Photo credit: Geoff Shaw Archive - Nominate new image

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	Caucasus mountains overlooking the Black Sea . This picture of the Prokudin-Gorskii in 1915, is an example of early colour photography . Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Archive - Nominate new image

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	The sub-tropical areas. It is probably the best-known of all ducks. The females are light brown, with plumage much like most female dabbling ducks. They can be distinguished from other ducks, by the distinctive speculum . Photo credit: Martin Correns Archive - Nominate new image

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	The kilotons, 25 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II). Under the unratified START II treaty, all are to be removed from service by 2005 . Photo credit: U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command Photographer David James Paquin. Archive - Nominate new image

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The Nafaanra, is also spoken in the northwest of Ghana . 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: Mark Dingemanse Archive - Nominate new image

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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 Archive - Nominate new image

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	A whiskers on the face. The lynx inhabits high altitude forests with dense cover of shrubs, reeds and grass. Photo credit: Bernard Landgraf Archive - Nominate new image

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	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 Archive - Nominate new image

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	A head. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the brain against injury. This example of a canine teeth , used for fighting, which can grow up to 50 cm long. Photo credit: Raul654 Archive - Nominate new image

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	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 Archive - Nominate new image

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	A United States during the late 19th century, and was most commonly used there in New York City . Photo credit: Solipsist Archive - Nominate new image

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	Panjim is the state's capital, and Vasco da Gama (Vasco) its largest town. Photo credit: Nichalp Archive - Nominate new image

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	sculptor who helped to introduce modernism into Britain. By the end of his life, Moore was internationally famous for his abstract monumental bronze and carved marble sculptures. Reclining Figure (1951), an abstract female figure intercut with voids, is typical of Moore's style. Photo credit: Solipsist Archive - Nominate new image

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	A funfairs and fêtes. The game consists of throwing wooden balls at a row of coconuts balanced on posts. The origins of the game are unclear, although it probably derives from the similar, older game called Aunt Sally . Photo credit: Solipsist Archive - Nominate new image

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	"Promenade des Anglais" in municipal liberties . Photo credit: W. M. Connolley Archive - Nominate new image

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The Red-whiskered Bulbul, Pycnonotus jocosus, is a member of the bulbul family. It is resident in tropical Asia from India through to southeast Asia and China. It has been introduced to New South Wales, Mauritius and Florida. These passerine birds feed on fruit, nectar and insects. The loud and evocative call is a sharp kink-a-joo, and the song is a scolding chatter. Photo credit: Shiva shankar Archive - Nominate new image

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	Cree word for "magnificent." Photo credit: Michael Rogers Archive - Nominate new image

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	Controlling Archeological studies indicates that ancestors of modern humans such as Homo erectus may have been using controlled fire as early as 790,000 years ago. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	The prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling their feet, flushing prey into view. Snowy egrets may also stand still and wait to ambush prey. Photo credit: David Hall USFWS Archive - Nominate new image

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	fermented soybeans, popular especially at breakfast, when it is eaten on top of rice. A rich source of protein, nattō and the soybean paste miso formed a vital source of nutrition in feudal Japan. An acquired taste due to its powerful smell and sticky consistency, even in Japan nattō is consumed mostly in the eastern Kantō region . Photo credit: Gleam Archive - Nominate new image

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	The Gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae. Most gulls, particularly Larus species, are ground nesting omnivores , which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - Nominate new image

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	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 Archive - Nominate new image

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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 Archive - Nominate new image

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	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 Archive - Nominate new image

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	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 Archive - Nominate new image

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