Sunday, April 29, 2018

Picture of the day for April 30, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 30, 2018: Zhavoronki are traditional Eastern Slavic cookies. Photographed in Shebekinsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lob_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8_95.jpg

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Picture of the day for April 29, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 29, 2018: Palm Springs International Airport, final approach on runway 13R https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm_Springs_International_Airport_photo_D_Ramey_Logan.jpg

Monday, April 23, 2018

Picture of the day for April 24, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 24, 2018: The Spring path at the island of Mainau during the tulip blooming. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingsallee_Tulpenbl%C3%BCte_2010_(1).jpg

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Picture of the day for April 23, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 23, 2018: Exemplar of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), Punta Pitt, San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pel%C3%ADcano_pardo_de_las_Gal%C3%A1pagos_(Pelecanus_occidentalis_urinator),_Punta_Pitt,_isla_de_San_Crist%C3%B3bal,_islas_Gal%C3%A1pagos,_Ecuador,_2015-07-24,_DD_81.JPG

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Picture of the day for April 22, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 22, 2018: Panorama of the Imperial Academy of Arts building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_Academy_of_Arts_Panorama.jpg

Friday, April 20, 2018

Picture of the day for April 21, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 21, 2018: A port security boat assigned to Martime Expeditionary Squadron (MSRON) 1 patrols the waters near Kuwait Naval Base. MSRON-1 is deployed supporting maritime security operations and port security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_090210-N-9671T-144_A_port_security_boat_patrols_the_waters_near_Kuwait_Naval_Base.jpg

Monday, April 16, 2018

Picture of the day for April 17, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 17, 2018: View of the Castle of Zafra, Campillo de Dueñas, Guadalajara, Spain. The castle was built in the late 12th or early 13th centuries on a sandstone outcrop and stands on the site of a former Visigothic and Moorish fortification that fell into Christian hands in 1129. It had considerable strategic importance as a virtually impregnable defensive work on the border between Christian and Muslim-ruled territory. The castle was never conquered and was successfully defended against the King of Castile in the 13th century. The successful completion of the Reconquista at the end of the 15th century ended its military significance. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_de_Zafra,_Campillo_de_Due%C3%B1as,_Guadalajara,_Espa%C3%B1a,_2017-01-04,_DD_41-46_PAN.jpg

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Picture of the day for April 16, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 16, 2018: A MK-46 exercise torpedo is launched from the deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) during a torpedo launch exercise in Philippine Sea. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MK46_torpedo_launch.jpg

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Picture of the day for April 15, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 15, 2018: Panorama of the Tobolsk Kremlin from the Cape Chukman. Tobolsk, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD.jpg

Friday, April 13, 2018

Picture of the day for April 14, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 14, 2018: Indosylvirana urbis, Urban Golden-backed Frog, is a species of frog known only in the southern Western Ghats in Kerala. Here it is resting comfortably in the pink colored boat-shaped bract of the Curcuma angustifolia (East Indian Arrowroot) flower. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-05-05-001.jpg

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Picture of the day for April 12, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 12, 2018: The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, launched Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members docked with the International Space Station on October 14. Garriott returned to Earth on October 24 with two members of the Expedition 17 crew, while Fincke and Lonchakov remained on the station for six months. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-13_Edit.jpg

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Picture of the day for April 11, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 11, 2018: Overview of the courtyard of the Agha Bozorg mosque, a historical mosque in Kashan, Iran. The mosque, located in the center of the city, was built in the late 18th century by master-mimar Ustad Haj Sa'ban-ali. The mosque has of two large iwans, one in front of the mihrab and the other by the entrance and the courtyard in the middle. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mezquita_de_Agha_Bozorg,_Kashan,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-19,_DD_81.jpg

Monday, April 9, 2018

Picture of the day for April 10, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 10, 2018: Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Zoo of Madrid, Spain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynx_lynx_-_05.jpg

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Picture of the day for April 9, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 9, 2018: Peugeot 208 T16 at Rally Serras de Fafe 2017 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pepe_Lopez_Peugeot_208_T16_(3).jpg

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Picture of the day for April 8, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 8, 2018: The crenellated parapet on a bastion of Kyrenia Castle, Cyprus. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyrenia_01-2017_img07_Castle_bastion.jpg

Friday, April 6, 2018

Picture of the day for April 7, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 7, 2018: The Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronze_Horseman_02.jpg

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Picture of the day for April 6, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 6, 2018: These well-preserved basalt columns are known as "Symphony of the Stones" and are located in the Garni Gorge, near Yerevan, capital city of Armenia. The columns are visible because they were carved out by the Goght River. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sinfon%C3%ADa_de_las_Piedras,_valle_de_Garni,_Armenia,_2016-10-02,_DD_33.jpg

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Picture of the day for April 5, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 5, 2018: Diesel multiple units IC4 under the Ringgade bridge with "Hesitation of Light" light installation in Aarhus, Denmark https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lysets_t%C3%B8ven.jpg

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Picture of the day for April 4, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 4, 2018: Hochofenstraße in the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duisburg,_Landschaftspark_Duisburg-Nord_--_2016_--_1238-44.jpg

Monday, April 2, 2018

Picture of the day for April 3, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 3, 2018: Yellow-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus africanus) perch on a zebra in Senegal. Tomorrow, April 4, is Independence Day in Senegal https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow-billed_oxpeckers_(Buphagus_africanus_africanus)_on_zebra.jpg

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Picture of the day for April 2, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 2, 2018: Office building of the LVM, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%BCnster,_LVM_--_2017_--_9343-7.jpg

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Picture of the day for April 1, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on April 1, 2018: View of the arches in the interior of the Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque, also known as the Pink Mosque, which is a traditional mosque located in Shiraz district of Gowad-e-Arabān, Iran. The mosque was built from 1876 to 1888, by the order of Mirzā Hasan Ali (Nasir ol Molk), a Qajar ruler. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mezquita_de_Nasirolmolk,_Shiraz,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-24,_DD_60-62_HDR.jpg

Friday, March 30, 2018

Picture of the day for March 31, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 31, 2018: Panoramic view from Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge with the Kremlin to the right. Moscow, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_to_Moscow_river_from_Bolshoy_Moskvoretsky_Bridge.jpg

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Picture of the day for March 30, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 30, 2018: Winged altar at the parish- and pilgrimage church Maria Laach am Jauerling, Lower Austria. View with closed inner wings, showing the passion and resurrection of Christ. Anonymous master, 1480. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Laach_Kirche_Fl%C3%BCgelaltar_Sonntagsseite_02.jpg

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Picture of the day for March 29, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 29, 2018: Et selskab af danske kunstnere i Rom painted by Constantin Hansen in 1837. A group of Danish artists in Rome. Lying on the floor is the architect Gottlieb Bindesbøll. From left to right: Constantin Hansen, Martinus Rørbye, Wilhelm Marstrand, Albert Küchler, Ditlev Blunck and Jørgen V. Sonne. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constantin_Hansen,_Et_selskab_af_danske_kunstnere_i_Rom,_1837,_KMS3236,_SMK.jpg

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Picture of the day for March 28, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 28, 2018: The main office complex of the ADAC (General German Automobile Club) in Munich was designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2012. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ADAC-Zentrale,_Munich,_March_2017-04.jpg

Monday, March 26, 2018

Picture of the day for March 27, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 27, 2018: Illustration of the relative sizes of the one-man Mercury spacecraft, the two-man Gemini spacecraft, and the three-man Apollo spacecraft. Also shows line drawing of launch vehicles (Saturn V, Titan II and Atlas-D) to show their relative size to each other and the position of the spacecraft at launch (highlighted at top). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_spacecraft_comparison.jpg

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Picture of the day for March 26, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 26, 2018: The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Bay_Bridge_Western_Span_at_night.jpg

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Picture of the day for March 25, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 25, 2018: A potrait of a jaguar (Panthera onca) at the Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaguar_head_shot-edit2.jpg

Friday, March 23, 2018

Picture of the day for March 24, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 24, 2018: Panoramic view of the city of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia from the Narikala fortress. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista_de_Tiflis,_Georgia,_2016-09-29,_DD_52-55_PAN.jpg

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Picture of the day for March 23, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 23, 2018: A Meteor-type hydrofoil on a floating dockyard at the Volga in Kazan, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kazan_River_port_area_08-2016_img3.jpg

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Picture of the day for March 22, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 22, 2018: World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In 1993, the first World Water Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly and since, each year focuses on a different issue. This image shows light reflections on the water surface of Lake Stappitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mallnitz_Stappitzer_See_Wasseroberfl%C3%A4che_02.jpg

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Picture of the day for March 21, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 21, 2018: Male common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii) in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa. Tomorrow is World Water Day https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_warthog_(Phacochoerus_africanus_sundevallii)_male.jpg

Monday, March 19, 2018

Picture of the day for March 20, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 20, 2018: An automobile with 2 men and 2 children in Paris, France, 1910. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Brouhot_car_in_Paris,_1910.jpg

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Picture of the day for March 16, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 16, 2018: Eastern wing of the General Staff Building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Staff_Building_Eastern_Wing.jpg

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Picture of the day for March 15, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 15, 2018: Entrance hall of Kammergericht (higher regional court) in Berlin-Schöneberg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kammergericht,_Berlin-Sch%C3%B6neberg,_Treppenhalle_(1),_160809,_ako.jpg

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Picture of the day for March 14, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 14, 2018: Fractal forms on the coverside of a microwaved DVD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microwaved_disks-cover_fractal_trees-scann_PNr%C2%B00050.jpg

Monday, March 12, 2018

Picture of the day for March 13, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 13, 2018: RhB Ge 4/4 III with a Regio Express train from St. Moritz to Chur on the Landwasser Viaduct. The locomotive carries advertisement for the UNESCO world heritage Albula and Bernina lines. The stylized viaduct pictured on the locomotive is the very same that it is currently passing over. Also note the two first coaches of a train have panoramic windows. This type of panoramic coach is normally used on the Bernina line, but because there's less traffic on that line during winter the coaches are used on other parts of the network. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RhB_Ge_4-4_III_UNESCO_Weltkulturerbe_auf_Landwasserviadukt.jpg

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Picture of the day for March 12, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 12, 2018: Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) surfs the wake of a research boat on the Banana River - near the Kennedy Space Center. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tursiops_truncatus_01.jpg

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Picture of the day for March 11, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 11, 2018: Ruined armenian church inside Lori Berd (Lori Fortress), a 11th-century fortress located in the Lori Province, Armenia. The fortress was built by David Anhoghin to become the capital of Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget in 1065. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lori_Berd,_Armenia,_2016-09-30,_DD_63-65_HDR.jpg

Friday, March 9, 2018

Picture of the day for March 10, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 10, 2018: Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) from Uganda. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marabou_stork_(Leptoptilos_crumenifer)_head.jpg

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Picture of the day for March 9, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 9, 2018: A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III T-1 flies over Owens Valley to Edwards Air Force Base, California, after 208 days of life-extension modifications in San Antonio, Texas. The T-1 is the first Air Force C-17 built to perform developmental testing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C-17_test_sortie.jpg

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Picture of the day for March 8, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 8, 2018: International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It commemorates the movement for women's rights. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veiled_in_Red.jpg

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Picture of the day for March 7, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 7, 2018: View of three peaks of the Chuya Alps in the Altai Mountains. Altai Republic, Russia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B0,%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%82%D0%B0,%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0.jpg

Monday, March 5, 2018

Picture of the day for March 6, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 6, 2018: Steel monument of a biking couple on a Harley-Davidson Fat Bob at a roundabout on Rosental Strasse in Faak am See, market town Finkenstein on the Lake Faak, district Villach Land, Carinthia, Austria, EU https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finkenstein_Faak_am_See_Kreisverkehr_Rosental_Strasse_Bikermonument_20022016_0601.jpg

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Picture of the day for March 5, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 5, 2018: Fountain in the Old City of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuente_en_Baku,_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n,_2016-09-26,_DD_227-229_HDR.jpg

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Picture of the day for March 4, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 4, 2018: Melanitis leda, Common Evening Brown, is a species of butterfly found flying at dusk. This is wet season form. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanitis_leda-Kadavoor-2017-04-26-001.jpg

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Friday, March 2, 2018

Picture of the day for March 3, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 3, 2018: Entrance to building on Sonnenstraße 15, Munich. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_on_Sonnenstrasse,_Munich,_February_2017.jpg

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Picture of the day for March 2, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 2, 2018: Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Essen, Germany, escalator to former coal washing plant. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rolltreppe_Zeche_Zollverein.JPG

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Picture of the day for March 1, 2018


Wikipedia picture of the day on March 1, 2018: Panoramic view of the ancient Naqsh-e Rustam necropolis located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. The site includes rock reliefs of Achaemenid and Sassanid periods, 4 tombs of Achaemenid kings and a Cube of Zoroaster (far left). The reliefs are the oldest elements (the oldest one from 1000 BC) of Elamite origin. The tombs were carved out of the rock and belong (left to right) to Darius II (c. 423-404 BC), Artaxerxes I (c. 465-424 BC), Darius I (c. 522-486 BC) and Xerxes I (c. 486-465 BC). The Cube of Zoroaster belongs to the Achaemenid era (5th century BC) and its purpose is still unclear. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naghsh-e_rostam,_Ir%C3%A1n,_2016-09-24,_DD_20-24_PAN.jpg