Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2011
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October 1
Photo: Søren Hoven
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October 2
The housefly (Musca domestica) is the world's most common species of fly, accounting for about 90% of all flies in human habitations, and indeed one of the most widely distributed insects, found all over the world. Adult houseflies grow to 8–12 millimetres (0.3–0.5 in) long, with females being slightly larger than males. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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October 3
The Photo: Christian Mehlführer
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October 4
The Photo: Benjamint444
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October 5
The Burmese invaders .
Photo: Benh Lieu Song
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October 6
The Photo: JJ Harrison
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October 7
The glass house at Lal Bagh, a botanical garden in Bangalore, India. The garden was commissioned by the ruler of Mysore, Hyder Ali in 1760, and completed during the reign of his son Tipu Sultan. The glass house was modeled on London's Crystal Palace and constructed at the end of the 19th century. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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October 8
Photo: Warren K. Leffler, USN≀ Restoration: Fletcher
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October 9
An animated geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem, which states that among the three sides of a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, written as a2 + b2 = c2. A large square is formed with area c2, from four identical right triangles with sides a, b and c, fitted around a small central square. Then two rectangles are formed with sides a and b by moving the triangles. Combining the smaller square with these rectangles produces two squares of areas a2 and b2, which must have the same area as the initial large square. Image: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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October 10
A composite photo showing the development of a green flash, an optical phenomenon that occurs at sunset or sunrise, when a green spot or ray is visible above the sun. Green flashes occur because higher frequency light (green/blue) curves more than lower frequency light (red/orange), so green/blue rays from the upper rim of the sun remain visible after the red rays are obstructed by the earth. Photo: Mila Zinkova
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October 11
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October 12
A Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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October 13
A cinder cone and lava flows from various eruptions on the flank of Mauna Loa, the world's largest shield volcano in terms of volume and area covered, and one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaiʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mauna Loa has probably been erupting for at least 700,000 years, and may have emerged above sea level about 400,000 years ago. Its magma comes from the Hawaii hotspot, which is the source of the Hawaiian Islands. The Mauna Loa Observatory and the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory are both located near the mountain's summit. Photo: Mila Zinkova
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October 14
Photo: Nick van Ormondt
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October 15
The Photo: JJ Harrison
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October 16
The dwarf yellow-headed gecko (Lygodactylus luteopicturatus) is a small gecko species native to the rocky areas of southern Kenya, eastern Tanzania, and Zanzibar. This individual's tail, which had been shed through autotomy, is regenerating. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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October 17
With its 54 inhabitants, Naajaat is one of the smallest settlements in the Qaasuitsup municipality of northwestern Greenland. There are no shops in the settlement. The blue building to the left is used as a church, school, and village hall. Icebergs calve off from the Greenland ice sheet, seen to the left, 22 km (14 mi) away, and drift past the settlement. Photo: Slaunger
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October 18
One Plectroctena sp. ant attacks another of its kind to protect its territory. Plectroctena ants belong to the Apocrita suborder, which also includes wasps and bees. Members of Apocrita are characterized by the narrow "waist" (petiole, seen here directly behind the rear leg on the right ant) formed between the first two segments of the actual abdomen; the first abdominal segment is fused to the thorax, and is called the propodeum. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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October 19
Alpine Photo: JJ Harrison
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October 20
A man engaging in Photo: Shalom Jacobovitz
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October 21
Crumbling scoria cliffs surround the rift at the summit of Mount Tarawera, a volcano near Rotorua in New Zealand's North Island. This 500 m (1,600 ft) wide rift was created in 1886 in the country's largest historical eruption. The famed Pink and White Terraces were lost during the eruption, and over one hundred people were killed. Photo: Avenue
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October 22
A nugget of platinum, a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal. It is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. It exhibits a remarkable resistance to corrosion, even at high temperatures, and as such is considered a noble metal. As a result, platinum is often found chemically uncombined as a native metal. Photo: Alchemist-hp
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October 23
A Photo: Benjamint444
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October 24
A Burnley Football Club , can be seen in the centre of the picture. To the right the areas of Brunshaw and Pike Hill can be seen. All of the town's 11–18 education facilities have recently been replaced and two of the construction sites can be seen, one behind the football stadium and the other in the foreground to the right of the image.
Photo: Childzy
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October 25
A . Photo: Mila Zinkova
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October 26
The Photo: JJ Harrison
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October 27
Big (right) and Small are the two main characters of Photo: Christos Kalohoridis, Kindle Entertainment
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October 28
A female . Photo: JJ Harrison
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October 29
The Paper Kite (Idea leuconoe) is a species of butterfly native to Southeast Asia. Also known as the Rice Paper or Large Tree Nymph butterfly, this species is noted for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions. Photo: Pro2
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October 30
A scene from the Ramayana, an ancient Sanskrit epic. Depicted here are several stages of the War of Lanka, with the monkey army of the protagonist Rama (top left, blue figure) fighting the demon army of the king of Lanka, Ravana, to save Rama's kidnapped wife Sita. The three-headed figure of the demon general Trisiras occurs in several places – most dramatically at the bottom left, where he is shown beheaded by Hanuman. Artist: Sahibdin
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October 31
An écorché (flayed figure) of a horseman and his horse, prepared by anatomist Honoré Fragonard and on display at the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort in Paris. Fragonard was the first professor of anatomy at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort (National Veterinary School of Alfort) and prepared thousands of anatomical pieces. In 1771, after six years of teaching, he was dismissed from his post for being a "madman". Photo: Jebulon
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