Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2008
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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 September 2008. 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/September 2008#1]]
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September 1
An punches and a die , and then the punches must be pressed together with great force to fuse the material together.
Image credit: Jeff Dahl
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September 2
A fabric , colors, cut, and embroidery motifs (or lack thereof) in a given woman's apparel.
Photo credit: American Colony Photographers
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September 3
An ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence .
Photo credit: Nicolas Sanchez
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September 4
The light waves travel from a medium with a given refractive index to a medium with another, whereupon the wave's phase velocity is altered, causing the wave to change direction; its wavelength increases or decreases but its frequency remains constant.
Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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September 5
The Photo credit: Eborutta
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September 6
A buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), a very common species in southern Europe, robbing nectar, which is when an animal collects nectar from a flower without pollinating it. The bee uses its long and slender tongue to reach the space between the flower's sepal and corolla. These bees form annual colonies of which only mated queens survive the winter. Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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September 7
The Photo credit: David Iliff
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September 8
The Photo credit: Mdf
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September 9
Photo credit: Mathew Brady
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September 10
A map of Map credit: Eric Gaba/Jeff Dahl
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September 11
A September 11, 2001 attacks .
Photo credit: Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres, United States Navy
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September 12
A 360° stitched image is composed of 405 individual images taken with five different filters on the panoramic camera over the course of five Martian days.
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September 13
A Photo credit: Mike Spenard
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September 14
Vindula arsinoe, commonly known as the "cruiser", is a day butterfly from the family Nymphalidae. It ranges from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. Photo credit: Benjamint444
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September 15
Parallax causes the reflection of the sun in the water to appear directly behind the street light, even though it appears much higher than the light in the sky. The location of the virtual image is below the surface of the water and thus simultaneously offers a different vantage point of the street light, which appears to be shifted relative to the stationary, background sun. Photo credit: Mila Zinkova
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September 16
A flagellum is a long, slender projection from the cell body, whose function is to propel an organism. The depicted type is found in bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella, and rotates like a propeller when the bacterium swims. Image credit: Mariana Ruiz
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September 17
The Photo credit: LiquidGhoul
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September 18
The Category 5 hurricane was the costliest and deadliest in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. It quickly weakened over land and became extratropical over western Pennsylvania the next day. Moderate to severe damage extended up the Atlantic coastline and as far inland as West Virginia . Throughout the path of Isabel, damage totaled about $3.6 billion (2003 USD, $4.1 billion 2008 USD). Sixteen deaths in seven U.S. states were directly related to the hurricane, with 35 deaths in six states and one Canadian province indirectly related to the hurricane.
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September 19
The Photo credit: Mike Baird
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September 20
Major General George Armstrong Custer of the United States Army, seated, in field uniform, 1865. Custer, an officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars, had a reputation as an aggressive commander willing to take personal risks by leading his Michigan Brigade into battle. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes, an event popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand".
Photo credit: George L. Andrews
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September 21
The Illustration credit: M. Jackson,
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September 22
A Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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September 23
The Justine McAllister, a Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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September 24
Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. It is commonly referred to as "Grand Central Station", which is the name of the nearby post office as well as a previous rail station on the site. Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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September 25
The River Thames in London at sunset, with the Tower Bridge and London skyline in the background. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the Thames flows 215 miles (346 km) across southern England. The river gives its name to the Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and west London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London. Photo credit: David Iliff
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September 26
A California Gold Rush. Merchant sailing ships crowd San Francisco Bay and Yerba Buena Island can be seen in the background. During this time, the harbor would become so crowded that ships often had to wait days before unloading their passengers and goods.
Photo credit: Unknown
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September 27
A pre-Mercator nautical chart of West Africa from 1571, by Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado. It is done using the so-called "plane chart model", where observed latitudes and magnetic directions were plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were flat. Map credit: Fernão Vaz Dourado
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September 28
A 300° panorama of the Photo credit: Samuel Louie
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September 29
, Eagle was left in lunar orbit and eventually crashed on the surface of the moon.
Photo credit: Neil Armstrong
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September 30
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, a painting by Novgorod and his human wife there. The story inspired both an opera and musical tableau .
Artist: Ilya Repin
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