Picture of the day for June 29, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 29, 2017: View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_hist%C3%B3rica_de_Boroujerdi,_Kashan,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-19,_DD_40-42_HDR.jpg

Picture of the day for June 28, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 28, 2017: Moon light view of the Bode Museum, located on the Museum Island of Berlin, Germany. The museum, originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (after Emperor Frederick III) and later honored to its curator, Wilhelm von Bode, was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904. The museum hosts a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, coins and medals. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_Bode,_Berl%C3%ADn,_Alemania,_2016-04-22,_DD_30-Edit.jpg

Picture of the day for June 27, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 27, 2017: Oxyopes javanus is a spider in the family Oxyopidae, commonly known as Lynx spiders. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxyopes_javanus-Kadavoor-2016-06-17-002.jpg

Picture of the day for June 26, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 26, 2017: Large-leaved Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), invasive species in wild in Ukraine. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lupinus_polyphyllus_UA_2015_G5.jpg

Picture of the day for June 25, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 25, 2017: Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 square miles) and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence (Firenze). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, traditions, history, artistic legacy and its influence on high culture. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuscan_Landscape_6.JPG

Picture of the day for June 24, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 24, 2017: Ceiling of the Sioni Cathedral, a Georgian Orthodox cathedral in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. The cathedral is situated in historic Sionis Kucha (Sioni Street) in downtown Tbilisi. It was initially built in the 6th and 7th centuries. Since then, it has been destroyed by foreign invaders and reconstructed several times. The current church is based on a 13th-century version with some changes from the 17th to 19th centuries. The Sioni Cathedral was the main Georgian Orthodox Cathedral and the seat of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia until the Holy Trinity Cathedral was consecrated in 2004. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Sioni,_Tiflis,_Georgia,_2016-09-29,_DD_97-99_HDR.jpg

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Picture of the day for June 23, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 23, 2017: Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris): the largest sub-species of jaguar. To celebrate Olympic Day. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established on 23 June 1894. The Team Brazil (Time Brasil) mascot for Rio 2016 was a jaguar in Brazil's national colours of green and yellow. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaguar_(Panthera_onca_palustris)_male_Rio_Negro_2.JPG

Picture of the day for June 22, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 22, 2017: Red-legged seriema Cariama cristata, to celebrate Ladies Day (Gold Cup Day) at Royal Ascot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-legged_seriema_(Cariama_cristata)_head.JPG

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Picture of the day for June 21, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 21, 2017: Panorama of Tolbachik volcano. Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tolbachik_volcano_1975_cone_pano_Kamchatka_on_2015-07-28.png

Picture of the day for June 20, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 20, 2017: Kyoto Station is a major railway station and transportation hub in Kyoto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest station building and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. The current station opened in 1997, commemorating Kyoto's 1,200th anniversary. It is 70 meters high and 470 meters from east to west, with a total floor area of 238,000 square meters. Architecturally, it exhibits many characteristics of futurism, with a slightly irregular cubic façade of plate glass over a steel frame. The architect was Hiroshi Hara. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyoto_Station_November_2016_-02.jpg

Picture of the day for June 19, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 19, 2017: Retrochoir of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Seville, Seville, Spain. This wonderful Baroque style retrochoir is work of Miguel de Zumárraga and was finalized in 1635. It was constructed with precious materials like marmor or jasper and it's decorated with bas-relieves and bronce busts. The gothic painting in the middle shows the Virgin of Los Remedios, very popular in the Reconquista times and still very devoted in Spain. The temple is since 1987 a World Heritage Site according to the UNESCO and 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:Trascoro,_Catedral_de_Sevilla,_Sevilla,_Espa%C3%B1a,_2015-12-06,_DD_109-111_HDR.JPG

Picture of the day for June 18, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 18, 2017: Himeji Castle, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 buildings with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himeji_Castle,_November_2016_-02.jpg

Picture of the day for June 17, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 17, 2017: Remains of an old pier on the beach of Juliusruh (Isle of Rügen, Germany) at sunrise. The pier was used by the fishermen of the bay Tromper Wiek. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alter_Steg,_Juliusruh_(R%C3%BCgen),_Sonnenaufgang,_150617,_ako.jpg

Picture of the day for June 16, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 16, 2017: Theretra clotho, Common Hunter Hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The larva is found in two color forms; green and brown. Here this brown form is on its host plant, Amorphophallus paeoniifolius. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theretra_clotho-Kadavoor-2016-08-29-001.jpg

Picture of the day for June 15, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 15, 2017: Typical landscape in the Atacama desert, the most arid place in the world, but with a special viewer, near Calama, northern Chile. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paisajes_cerca_de_Calama,_Chile,_2016-02-01,_DD_84.JPG

Picture of the day for June 14, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 14, 2017: Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 273, a group of interacting galaxies, lying 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UGC_1810_and_UGC_1813_in_Arp_273_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope).jpg

Picture of the day for June 13, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 13, 2017: Ardon's Gate (Porte d'Ardon), Laon, Picardy, France https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laon_Porte_d%27Ardon_01.JPG

Picture of the day for June 12, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 12, 2017: Night view of the fortress of Bordj el Kebir and the moon over it, Mahdia, Tunisia. The fortress was built in 1595 over a squared Fatimid Caliphate palace by the Ottomans in order to resist the attacks of Spanish and Maltese vessels. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuerte_Bordj_el_Kebir,_Mahdia,_T%C3%BAnez,_2016-09-03,_DD_34-36_HDR.jpg

Picture of the day for June 11, 2017

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 11, 2017: Carthusian Pink (Dianthus carthusianorum) at the Buchberg near Neulengbach, Lower Austria https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dianthus_carthusianorum_Neulengbach_20160611_01.jpg