Picture of the day for January 1, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 1, 2017: Sunrise in the Lake Titicaca, near Puno, in the Peruvian Andes, not far from Bolivia. The lake is, by volume of water, the largest in South America and, with a surface elevation of 3,812 metres (12,507 ft), it's considered the highest navigable lake in the world. The lake has a max. length of 190 kilometres (120 mi) and width of 80 kilometres (50 mi) and a surface of 8,372 square kilometres (3,232 sq mi), whereas the water volume is 893 cubic kilometres (214 cu mi) with a max. depth of 281 metres (922 ft) and an average depth of 107 metres (351 ft). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amanecer_en_el_lago_Titicaca,_Puno,_Per%C3%BA,_2015-08-01,_DD_01.JPG

Picture of the day for December 31, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 31, 2016: Besides New Year's Eve fireworks are often used to celebrate many important events. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:July_4th_fireworks,_Washington,_D.C._(LOC).jpg

Picture of the day for December 30, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 30, 2016: Ceiling frescos in Sonntagberg Basilica (Lower Austria) by Daniel Gran (1738–43) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sonntagberg_Basilika_Deckenfresken_02.JPG

Picture of the day for December 29, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 29, 2016: Lighthouse “Memmertfeuer” at the harbor, island Juist, Lower Saxony, Germany. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juist,_Memmertfeuer_--_2014_--_3533.jpg

Picture of the day for December 28, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 28, 2016: Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare), the Pantanal, Brazil. On 28 December 1973, the Endangered Species Act became law in the USA. The Yacare Caiman was reclassified to threatened status on 5 April 2000. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yacare_caiman_(Caiman_yacare)_2.jpg

Picture of the day for December 27, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 27, 2016: Romanesque Chapel of St. John in Pürgg, Styria, Austria. The frescos date from the 12th century, probably around 1160, the crucifix from the 11th century. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P%C3%BCrgg_Johanneskapelle_Innenraum_01.JPG

Picture of the day for December 26, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 26, 2016: Winter landscape in Kuznetsk Alatau, South Siberia, Russia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuznetsk_Alatau_1.jpg

Picture of the day for December 25, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 25, 2016: Image of Grace Our Lady with six Fingers at the parish- and pilgrimage church Maria Laach am Jauerling, Lower Austria. Anonymous master, 2nd half of 15th century. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Laach_Kirche_Gnadenbild_01.JPG

Picture of the day for December 24, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 24, 2016: Interior of a chapel at the Vordere Niedere alp in the mountains near Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, Austria. The chapel was designed by architects Cukrowicz Nachbaur and built in 2008. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cukrowicz_nachbaur_Kapelle_1.JPG

Picture of the day for December 23, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 23, 2016: The Reichstag building in Berlin at night with a Christmas tree in front of it. At the left of the Reichstag, the International Trade Centre (Friedrichstrasse) and the television tower on Alexanderplatz can be seen. Above the TV tower there's the moon. The cupola of the Reichstag building was designed by Norman Foster. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstagsgeb%C3%A4ude_mit_Weihnachtsbaum_bei_Nacht,_Berlin,_151223,_ako.jpg

Picture of the day for December 22, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 22, 2016: Seebach Valley and Ankogel (3,252 metres (10,669 ft)) in the High Tauern National Park near Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mallnitz_Seebachtal_01.jpg

Picture of the day for December 21, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 21, 2016: Schloss Nymphenburg, "Castle of the Nymph (or Nymphs)", is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany. The palace was the main summer residence of the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nymphenburger_Schloss_at_sunset.JPG

Picture of the day for December 20, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 20, 2016: Laguna Honda (in English "Deep Lagoon") is a salt lake located at 4,114 metres (13,497 ft) over the sea level in the bolivian Potosí Department, close to the border with Chile. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laguna_Honda,_Bolivia,_2016-02-03,_DD_34.JPG

Picture of the day for December 19, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 19, 2016: Larva of Death's-head hawkmoth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acherontia-Kadavoor-2016-06-23-001.jpg

Picture of the day for December 18, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 18, 2016: Dülferstraße is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munich_subway_station_D%C3%BClferstra%C3%9Fe.jpg

Picture of the day for December 17, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 17, 2016: Vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima), Strawberry Hill, Jamaica https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vervain_hummingbird_(Mellisuga_minima).jpg

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Picture of the day for December 16, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 16, 2016: Warwick Castle from the bridge over the River Avon in Warwickshire, England. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warwick_Castle_May_2016.jpg

Picture of the day for December 15, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 15, 2016: Brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) in flight, Mumbai Harbour, India. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thane_Creek_and_Elephanta_Island_03-2016_-_img32_flying_gull.jpg

Picture of the day for December 14, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 14, 2016: Near-elegant Frog Shell Bufonaria perelegans. Shell length 83 mm. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bufonaria_perelegans_2010_G1.jpg

Picture of the day for December 13, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 13, 2016: The Palace of Justice in Munich was constructed in 1890-1897 by the architect Friedrich von Thiersch in neo-baroque style at the west side of Stachus. The building of the Gründerzeit is dominated by a glass dome (67 meters). It houses the Bavarian Department of Justice and the District Court I of Munich. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justizpalast_at_dusk_2.JPG

Picture of the day for December 12, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 12, 2016: Interior view of Chuquicamata, a state-owned copper mine located 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level just outside Calama, north of Chile. It is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world. The huge hole was started in 1882 as a mine to extract gold and copper. It is 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long, 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) wide and with a depth of 850 metres (2,790 ft) it is the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, USA). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mina_de_Chuquicamata,_Calama,_Chile,_2016-02-01,_DD_121.JPG

Picture of the day for December 11, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 11, 2016: River Skeiðará and Skeiðarársandur as seen from the Skaftafellsheiði plateau, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_from_Skaftafell_National_Park_July_2014_-4.jpg

Picture of the day for December 10, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 10, 2016: A Tree trunk spider (Hersilia sp.) capturing a cicada. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hersilia-2016-06-19-002.jpg

Picture of the day for December 9, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 9, 2016: Scene of a car accident by the road near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The wreck of the car has been left there and a memorial has been built right next to it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A1pida_cerca_de_San_Pedro_de_Atacama,_Chile,_2016-02-01,_DD_147.JPG

Picture of the day for December 8, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 8, 2016: Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, who began designing and building Monticello at age 26 after inheriting land from his father. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson using slaves for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to changing markets. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Jefferson%27s_Monticello.JPG

Picture of the day for December 7, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 7, 2016: The beach of Reynisfjara and Reynisdrangar, basalt sea stacks, as seen from Dyrhólaey, Iceland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynisfjara_and_Reynisdrangar,_Iceland.jpg

Picture of the day for December 6, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 6, 2016: View of "the Amfitheater", a rock formation in Valle de la Luna (Spanish for "Moon Valley") during the golden hour, Atacama Desert, Chile. Valle de la Luna is a part of the Reserva Nacional los Flamencos and was declared a Nature Sanctuary in 1982 for its great natural beauty and strange lunar landscape, from which its name is derived. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anfiteatro,_Valle_de_la_Luna,_San_Pedro_de_Atacama,_Chile,_2016-02-01,_DD_149.JPG

Picture of the day for December 5, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 5, 2016: Neo-byzantine dome in Christian IX's Chapel in Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Denmark. Built by architect Andreas Clemmensen, born on August 7, 1852, died December 5, 1928. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_IXs_Chapel_Dome_Interior_2015-03-31-4812.jpg

Picture of the day for December 4, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 4, 2016: Vault with hanging keystones in St. Barbara's Chapel of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephansdom_Barbarakapelle_Gew%C3%B6lbe_01.JPG

Picture of the day for December 3, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 3, 2016: Köln Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international hub, with many ICE, Thalys and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional and local trains. It has frequent connections to Frankfurt by way of the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line, which starts in southern Cologne. On an average day, about 280,000 travellers frequent the station, making it the fifth busiest station in Germany. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cologne_Main_Station_May_2015.JPG

Picture of the day for December 2, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 2, 2016: Tallinn bay during December storm from region Merivälja, Estonia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torm_detsembris._Meriv%C3%A4lja_Muul.jpg

Picture of the day for December 1, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 1, 2016: Rheinturm in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCsseldorf,_Rheinturm_--_2015_--_8127.jpg

Picture of the day for November 30, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 30, 2016: Colourful shop oasis at the Laguna Hedionda, Nor Lípez Province southwestern Bolivia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laguna_Hedionda,_Bolivia,_2016-02-03,_DD_50.JPG

Picture of the day for November 29, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 29, 2016: Am Hart is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munich_subway_station_Am_Hart.JPG

Picture of the day for November 28, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 28, 2016: Ceriagrion cerinorubellum pair with male transferring sperm from the primary to the secondary sex organs. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceriagrion_cerinorubellum-Kadavoor-2016-04-11-002.jpg

Picture of the day for November 27, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 27, 2016: View of the Carribbean Sea and the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius from UNESCO World Heritage site Brimstone Hill Fortress on St. Kitts. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Kitts_-_Brimstone_Hill_Fortress_03.JPG

Picture of the day for November 26, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 26, 2016: View of a row of corners of the walls of Saksaywaman, a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, historic capital of the Inca Empire, today Peru. The first sections of the citadel were first built by the Killke culture about 1100 and expanded by the Inca from the 13th century. The dry stone walls are composed of huge stones, which boulders are carefully cut by workers to fit them together extremely tightly without mortar. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n,_Cusco,_Per%C3%BA,_2015-07-31,_DD_05.JPG

Picture of the day for November 25, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 25, 2016: Topiary (practice of clipping the foliage and twigs of trees and shrub to develop and maintain defined shapes) gardener (or artist?) working a cypress in the cemetery of Tulcán, located in the city of Tulcán, capital of the Carchi Province, north of Ecuador. The cemetery, of a surface of 8 hectares (20 acres), was founded in 1932 to replace the former on that was damaged in the 1923 earthquake. José María Azael Franco Guerrero was back in 1936 in charge of the city parks and started topiary works in the Tulcán cemetery. In the meanwhile the cemetery park has become internationally popular in the art of topiary and was renamed in 2007 to cemetery Azael Franco to honour his work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cementerio,_Tulc%C3%A1n,_Ecuador,_2015-07-21,_DD_60.JPG

Picture of the day for November 24, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 24, 2016: Hverarönd is a geothermal area with fumaroles, mudpots, and hot springs in northern Iceland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hverar%C3%B6nd_July_2014.JPG

Picture of the day for November 23, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 23, 2016: Wasserschloss at night, Speicherstadt, Hamburg, Germany https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg,_Speicherstadt,_Wasserschloss_--_2016_--_3265-71.jpg

Picture of the day for November 22, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 22, 2016: Skull of Crocodylidae (crocodile) prepared using the Bone maceration technique and on display at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skul_of_crocodile_(Crocodylidae).jpg

Picture of the day for November 21, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 21, 2016: Peder Severin Krøyer's From Copenhagen Stock Exchange from 1895. Measuring 254 × 409 centimeters, it is the largest painting he made. The painting is in Børsen in Copenhagen. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fra_K%C3%B8benhavns_B%C3%B8rs.jpg

Picture of the day for November 20, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 20, 2016: Bottom view of the crossing of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Seville, Seville, Spain. The temple is a World Heritage Site according to UNESCO since 1987, is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. When it was completed, at the beginning of the 16th century, it became the successor of Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedral in the world, a title the Byzantine church had held for nearly a thousand years. The cathedral is also the burial site of Christopher Columbus. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crucero,_Catedral_de_Sevilla,_Sevilla,_Espa%C3%B1a,_2015-12-06,_DD_94-96_HDR.JPG

Picture of the day for November 19, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 19, 2016: View from Kosygina Street at Sparrow Hills in Moscow, Russia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KosyginaStreet_Moscow_view_to_Khamovniki_06-2015_img1.jpg

Picture of the day for November 18, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 18, 2016: North Sea coastline at Nørre Vorupør, Denmark photographed on November 18, 2012 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%B8rre_Vorup%C3%B8r_Coast_one_third_sky_2012-11-18.jpg

Picture of the day for November 17, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 17, 2016: Round view of the interior of the Royal Gniezno Cathedral, located in the historical city of Gniezno, old capital of Poland (before Kraków and Warsaw) located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The cathedral served as the coronation place for several Polish monarchs and as the seat of Polish church officials continuously for nearly 1000 years. Throughout its long and tragic history, the building stayed mostly intact making it one of the oldest and most precious sacral monuments in Poland. The religious temple dates back to the end of the ninth century, when an oratory was built in the shape of a rectangular nave. At the end of the tenth century Duke Mieszko I of Poland built a new temple on a cruciform plan and remodeled the existing nave oratory. Prince Bolesław I the Brave, later the first king of Poland, rebuilt the temple according to the plan of a rectangle, elevating it later to the rank of a Cathedral. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Gniezno,_Gniezno,_Polonia,_2014-09-17,_DD_19-21_HDR.jpg

Picture of the day for November 16, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 16, 2016: Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) in Pärnu River, Estonia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnocephalus_cernuus_P%C3%A4rnu_River_Estonia_2010-01-06.jpg

Picture of the day for November 15, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 15, 2016: The Salvador Dalí Desert is located in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Potosí Department, southwestern Bolivia. The place is called like this because similar landscapes have been painted by Salvador Dalí, although he was never there or knew about it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desierto_de_Dal%C3%AD,_Bolivia,_2016-02-02,_DD_107.JPG

Picture of the day for November 14, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 14, 2016: Panoramic view of Laguna Hedionda, Nor Lípez Province southwestern Bolivia. The lagoon lies at an altitude of 4,121 metres (13,520 ft) and occupies an area of 3 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laguna_Hedionda,_Bolivia,_2016-02-03,_DD_51-54_PAN.JPG

Picture of the day for November 13, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 13, 2016: Clermont-Ferrand tramway of type Translohr STE4 in France. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Translohr_STE4_-_143.jpg