Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007
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These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in October 2007. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007#1]] for October 1).
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October 1
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Scars of a whipped slave named Peter, photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. In his own words, "Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer." The slave pictured here escaped from a plantation in Mississippi, made his way to Union forces, and joined the U.S. Army at the Union garrison located at Baton Rouge.
Photo credit: McPherson and Oliver
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October 2
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A vast Photo credit: ASTER
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October 3
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This approximate true-color image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Photo credit: Mars Exploration Rover
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October 4
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The Egyptian Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium) is one of a dozen species that may be called a Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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October 5
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U.S. Army soldiers during the Photo credit: United States Army
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October 6
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Maslenitsa, a 1919 painting depicting the carnival of the same name, which takes place the last week before Great Lent. The painting encompasses a broad range of things associated with Russia, such as snowy winter weather, a troika, an Orthodox church with onion domes. Painted in the aftermath of the October Revolution, the canvas was intended as a farewell to the unspoilt "Holy Russia" of yore. Artist: Boris Kustodiev
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October 7
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A with the image of a "man eater" in the public mind, they typically do not target humans as prey. Photo credit: Terry Goss
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October 8
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NOTE: non-free and therefore ineligible to be Picture of the Day.
A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a SS before and during World War II . According to their own records, they were responsible for killing over one million Jewish people, almost exclusively civilians.
Photo credit: Unknown, courtesy of the
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October 9
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Detail from "The Pantomimes" by D.H. Friston from the January 6, 1872 Illustration credit: D.H. Friston
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October 10
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Buried machinery in a barn lot, Dallas, South Dakota, United States, due to Dust Bowl conditions, May 1936. Dust storms from 1930–1939 caused major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. This ecological disaster was a result of drought conditions coupled with decades of extensive farming using techniques that promoted erosion. Photo credit: Sloan,
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October 11
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A Photo credit:
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October 12
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3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walks through an alley in Methar Lam, Afghanistan, looking for signs of sickness or disease. His clothing is patterned with MARPAT, a modern form of military camouflage .
Photo credit: Cpl. James L. Yarboro,
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October 13
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The Photo credit: Bill Ingalls, NASA
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October 14
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Replica of a Image credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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October 15
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A view of Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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October 16
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Illustration: Edward Linley Sambourne
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October 17
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A crying German forces sweep into Czechoslovakia, October 1938. Originally published in the Völkischer Beobachter, it supposedly showed the intense emotions of joy which swept the populace as Hitler drove through the streets of Cheb , 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time. In contrast, when the photo was published in the U.S., it was captioned, "The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been 'won over' to Hitlerism by the 'everlasting use' of ruthless force." It is unknown what the true circumstances surrounding the photo are.
Photo credit: Völkischer Beobachter
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October 18
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Representative Hadrosauridae contains the dinosaurs commonly known as "duck-billed" dinosaurs. They were ubiquitous herbivores during the Cretaceous period, and prey to theropoda such as Tyrannosaurus. The individual drawings represent typical genera . All these groups were alive in the late Cretaceous, and are generally known only from a single fossil site. Animals are shown to scale.
Image credit: Debivort
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October 19
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This infrared image shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because cosmic dust lying between Earth and the galactic center blocks our view. Photo credit: Spitzer Space Telescope
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October 20
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This Kumon Bum Mountains before attacking Japanese troops to the south. A number of international conventions have since come into effect that try to limit the participation of children in armed conflicts. However, according to Human Rights Watch , as many as 300,000 children remain direct participants in war in over twenty countries around the world today.
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October 21
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Panel of azulejo (Portuguese blue glazed tiles) by artist Jorge Colaço (1922) representing an episode of the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) between the Portuguese and Castilian armies. The Ala dos Namorados ("Wing of the fiancés") depicted in this scene was the left wing of the Portuguese defense formation. Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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October 22
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The kiwifruit is the edible fruit of a cultivar group of Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the same genus. In North America, South America and Europe, it is commonly known as "kiwi," the same name as the bird. Originally known as the "Chinese Gooseberry" or "Melonette", the fruit was renamed for marketing reasons after New Zealand's national symbol due to a passing similarity to the small, furry-looking creature. Photo credit: André Karwath
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October 23
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A young fluffed up female Blackbird (Turdus merula). Unlike males, who are all black except for a yellow eye-ring and bill, females have brown plumage and a brown beak. Blackbirds are common in woods and gardens over all of Europe and much of Asia south of the Arctic Circle. Females are aggressive in the spring when competing with others for good nesting territory. Photo credit: Daniel Schwen
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October 24
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The first message used to publicly demonstrate the Morse Message credit: |
October 25
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Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in May 1865. The black ribbon around his left arm is a sign of mourning over Abraham Lincoln's death. During the American Civil War, Sherman received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States .
Photo credit: Mathew Brady
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October 26
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A panoramic view of the Photo credit: John O'Neill
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October 27
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An animated image demonstrating the Quicksort algorithm used to sort a list of items in computer programming. First, a pivot is selected from the list, then the list is partitioned so that the values greater than the pivot come after it and those of lower value come before it. This act is recursively performed until the entire list is sorted. Image credit: RolandH
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October 28
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A female Photo credit: Fir0002
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October 29
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The Photo credit: Mdf
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October 30
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The Murerplan, a 1576 woodcut map of Zürich, Switzerland. The caption at the top reads, "The aspect and situation of the ancient and famous town of Zurich / as it has been at this time / drawn and etched / by Jos Murer / and by Christoph Froschauer / printed for the glory of the nation / AD 1576". Map credit: Jos Murer
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October 31
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An adult female Image credit: Mariana Ruiz
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