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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2005">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2005">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2005">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2005">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2005">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2005">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2005">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2005">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2005">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2005">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2006: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2006">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2006">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2006">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2006">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2006">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2006">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2006">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2006">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2006">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2006">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2006">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2006">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2007: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2007">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2007">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2007">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2007">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2007">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2007">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2007">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2007">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2007">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2007">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2008: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2008">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2008">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2008">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2008">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2008">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2008">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2008">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2008">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2008">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2008">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2008">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2009: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2009">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2009">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2009">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2009">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2009">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2009">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2009">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2009">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2009">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2009">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2009">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2010: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2010">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2010">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2010">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2010">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2010">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2010">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2010">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2010">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2010">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2010">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2010">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2010">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2011: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2011">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2011">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2011">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2011">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2011">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2011">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2011">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2011">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2011">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2011">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2011">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2011">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2012: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2012">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2012">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2012">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2012">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2012">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2012">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2012">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2012">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2012">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2012">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2012">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2012">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2013: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2013">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2013">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2013">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2013">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2013">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2013">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2013">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2013">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2013">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2013">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2013">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2013">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2014: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2014">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2014">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2014">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2014">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2014">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2014">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2014">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2014">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2014">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2014">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2014">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2014">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2015: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2015">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2015">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2015">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2015">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2015">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2015">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2015">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2015">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2015">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2015">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2015">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2015">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2016">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2016">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2016">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2016">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2016">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2016">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2016">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2016">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2016">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2016">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2016">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2016">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2017">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2017">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2017">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2017">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2017">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2017">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2017">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2017">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2017">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2017">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2017">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2018: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2018">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2018">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2018">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2018">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2018">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2018">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2018">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2018">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2018">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2018">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2018">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2018" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2018">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2019: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2019">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2019">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2019">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2019">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2019">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2019">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2019">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2019">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2019">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2019">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2019">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2019" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2019">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2020: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2020">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2020">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2020">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2020">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2020">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2020">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2020">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2020">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2020">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2020">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2020">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2020" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2020">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2021: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2021">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2021">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2021">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2021">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2021">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2021">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2021">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2021">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2021">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2021">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2021">November</a> </td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2022: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2022">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2022">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2022">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2022">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2022">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2022">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2022">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2022">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2022">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2022">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2022">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2022" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2022">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2023: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2023">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2023">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2023">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2023">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2023">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2023">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2023">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2023">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2023">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2023">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2023">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2023" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2023">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2024: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2024">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2024">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2024">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2024">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2024">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2024">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2024">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2024">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2024">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2024">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2024">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2024" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2024">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2025: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2025">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2025">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2025">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2025">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2025">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2025">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2025">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2025">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2025">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2025">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2025">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2025" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2025">December</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <hr/> <p>These <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">featured pictures</a>, as scheduled below, appeared as the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">picture of the day</a> (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> in December 2021. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the <a href="/wiki/Help:Link#Section_linking_(anchors)" title="Help:Link">anchor</a> name (e.g. <code class="nowrap">[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2021<b>#1</b>]]</code> for December 1). </p><p>You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">user page</a> using <code class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Pic_of_the_day" title="Template:Pic of the day">Pic of the day</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></code> (version with <a href="/wiki/Blurb" title="Blurb">blurb</a>) or <code class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD" title="Template:POTD">POTD</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></code> (version without blurb). For instructions on how to make custom POTD layouts, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">Wikipedia:Picture of the day</a>.<span style="float:right"><span class="noprint" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%"><a href="/wiki/Special:Purge/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2021" title="Special:Purge/Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2021"><span>Purge server cache</span></a></span></span> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="1"><b>December 1</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Northern royal albatross"><img alt="Northern royal albatross" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg/400px-Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg/600px-Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg/800px-Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3911" data-file-height="2607"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Northern_royal_albatross" title="Northern royal albatross">northern royal albatross</a></b> (<i>Diomedea sanfordi</i>) is a large <a href="/wiki/Seabird" title="Seabird">seabird</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Albatross" title="Albatross">albatross</a> family, Diomedeidae. It nests only on the <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Islands" title="Chatham Islands">Chatham Islands</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Enderby_Island" title="Enderby Island">Enderby Island</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Taiaroa_Head" title="Taiaroa Head">Taiaroa Head</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Otago_Peninsula" title="Otago Peninsula">Otago Peninsula</a> of New Zealand. It spends the rest of the year away from land, in circumpolar flights over the Southern Ocean, feeding on <a href="/wiki/Squid" title="Squid">squid</a>, fish, <a href="/wiki/Crustacean" title="Crustacean">crustaceans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salp" title="Salp">salps</a> and carrion. The species is listed on the <a href="/wiki/IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List">IUCN Red List</a> as endangered, but predators have been eliminated from the islands where it breeds, and conservation efforts have proved successful at the Taiaroa Head colony. This northern royal albatross was photographed off the southeastern coast of <a href="/wiki/Tasmania" title="Tasmania">Tasmania</a>, Australia. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:JJ_Harrison" title="User:JJ Harrison">John Harrison</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-11-30" title="Template:POTD/2021-11-30">Henry Taube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-11-29" title="Template:POTD/2021-11-29">Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-11-28" title="Template:POTD/2021-11-28"><i>A Meeting in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-01" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-01">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-01&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-01 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-01&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-01&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-01&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Diomedea_sanfordi_-_SE_Tasmania_2019.jpg" title="File:Diomedea sanfordi - SE Tasmania 2019.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="2"><b>December 2</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_(illustrated,_1876).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seal of Indiana"><img alt="Seal of Indiana" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg/300px-Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="343" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg/450px-Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg/600px-Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_%28illustrated%2C_1876%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3241" data-file-height="3710"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>This historical <b><a href="/wiki/Seal_of_Indiana" title="Seal of Indiana">coat of arms of Indiana</a></b> is an illustration from <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_armorial_of_U.S._states_from_1876" title="Historical armorial of U.S. states from 1876">State Arms of the Union</a></i> by Henry Mitchell, published by Louis Prang in 1876. The sun rising over the <a href="/wiki/Allegheny_Mountains" title="Allegheny Mountains">Allegheny Mountains</a> suggests that <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> has a bright future. The woodsman represents civilization subduing the wilderness, while the <a href="/wiki/American_bison" title="American bison">American bison</a> represents the wilderness fleeing westward away from the advance of civilization. This design is also used on <a href="/wiki/Seal_of_Indiana" title="Seal of Indiana">the state seal</a>, introduced in 1816, the year in which Indiana became a U.S. state. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Illustration credit: Henry Mitchell; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Godot13" title="User:Godot13">Andrew Shiva</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-01" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-01">Northern royal albatross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-11-30" title="Template:POTD/2021-11-30">Henry Taube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-11-29" title="Template:POTD/2021-11-29">Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-02" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-02">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-02&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-02 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-02&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-02&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-02&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Indiana_state_coat_of_arms_(illustrated,_1876).jpg" title="File:Indiana state coat of arms (illustrated, 1876).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="3"><b>December 3</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse; padding:0.9em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1771 Russian one-ruble coin"><img alt="1771 Russian one-ruble coin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg/450px-Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg" decoding="async" width="450" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg/675px-Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg/900px-Russia_1771_Sestroretsk_Rouble.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4355" data-file-height="2250"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Ruble" title="Ruble">ruble</a></b> is the name of a currency unit in a number of countries in eastern Europe. This one-ruble coin was issued by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> in 1771, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Catherine_the_Great" title="Catherine the Great">Catherine the Great</a>. It is made of solid <a href="/wiki/Copper" title="Copper">copper</a>, weighing just over 1.022 kg (2.25 lb), and was designed to be kept in the imperial treasury as metallic backing for the country's paper-ruble issue. Marginally larger than a standard <a href="/wiki/Hockey_puck" title="Hockey puck">hockey puck</a>, it is reportedly the largest copper coin ever issued. The coin now forms part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Numismatic_Collection" title="National Numismatic Collection">National Numismatic Collection</a> at the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_American_History" title="National Museum of American History">National Museum of American History</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Coin design credit: <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>; photographed by the <a href="/wiki/National_Numismatic_Collection" title="National Numismatic Collection">National Numismatic Collection</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-02" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-02">Seal of Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-01" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-01">Northern royal albatross</a></li> <li><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Blank300.png" decoding="async" width="900" height="3" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="1"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 214.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 212.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oustalet%27s_chameleon_(Furcifer_oustaleti)_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_1e.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_1e.jpg/319px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_1e.jpg" decoding="async" width="213" height="227" class="mw-file-element" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg/319px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg" decoding="async" width="213" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg/479px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg/638px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_2e.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2132" data-file-height="2272"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 214.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 212.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oustalet%27s_chameleon_(Furcifer_oustaleti)_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg/319px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg" decoding="async" width="213" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg/479px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg/638px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_3e.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2132" data-file-height="2272"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 214.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 212.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oustalet%27s_chameleon_(Furcifer_oustaleti)_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg/319px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg" decoding="async" width="213" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg/478px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg/638px-Oustalet%27s_chameleon_%28Furcifer_oustaleti%29_male_feeding_Anja_Community_Reserve_4e.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2132" data-file-height="2273"/></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_giant_chameleon" title="Malagasy giant chameleon">Malagasy giant chameleon</a></b> or Oustalet's chameleon is a large <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> of chameleon <a href="/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> to Madagascar. This male, photographed in the Anja Community Reserve, is catching a grasshopper by projecting its long tongue at tremendous speed to capture prey located some distance away. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. 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His financial acumen was recognized by President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Franklin Pierce</a> who appointed him <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">Secretary of the Treasury</a> in 1853. He strongly opposed proposals for Kentucky to secede from the United States and attended the <a href="/wiki/Peace_Conference_of_1861" title="Peace Conference of 1861">Peace Conference of 1861</a>, siding with the <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> during the Civil War. This picture is a <a href="/wiki/Line_engraving" title="Line engraving">line engraving</a> of Guthrie, produced around 1902 by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury">Department of the Treasury</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing" title="Bureau of Engraving and Printing">Bureau of Engraving and Printing</a> (BEP), as part of a <a href="/wiki/US_Treasury_specimen_book" title="US Treasury specimen book">BEP presentation album</a> of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Engraving credit: <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing" title="Bureau of Engraving and Printing">Bureau of Engraving and Printing</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Godot13" title="User:Godot13">Andrew Shiva</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-04" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-04">Malagasy giant chameleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-03" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-03">Ruble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-02" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-02">Seal of Indiana</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-05" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-05">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-05&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-05 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-05&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-05&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-05&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:GUTHRIE,_James-Treasury_(BEP_engraved_portrait).jpg" title="File:GUTHRIE, James-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="6"><b>December 6</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_(1913_silent_film).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Quo Vadis"><img alt="Quo Vadis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg/300px-Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="438" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg/450px-Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg/600px-Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_%281913_silent_film%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3664" data-file-height="5349"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Quo_Vadis_(1913_film)" title="Quo Vadis (1913 film)">Quo Vadis</a></b></i> is an Italian <a href="/wiki/Silent_film" title="Silent film">silent film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Guazzoni" title="Enrico Guazzoni">Enrico Guazzoni</a> for <a href="/wiki/Cines" title="Cines">Cines</a> in 1913, based on the <a href="/wiki/Quo_Vadis_(novel)" title="Quo Vadis (novel)">1896 novel of the same name</a> written by <a href="/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz" title="Henryk Sienkiewicz">Henryk Sienkiewicz</a>. It was one of the first <a href="/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)" title="Blockbuster (entertainment)">blockbusters</a> in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_film" title="History of film">history of cinema</a>. This poster for <i>Quo Vadis</i>, produced for <a href="/wiki/George_Kleine" title="George Kleine">George Kleine</a>, the U.S. distributor of the film, depicts the Roman emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a> playing a <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a> while Rome burns in the background, with the caption "Nero sings while Rome burns". </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Poster credit: National Printing & Engraving Company; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-05" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-05">James Guthrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-04" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-04">Malagasy giant chameleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-03" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-03">Ruble</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-06" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-06">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-06&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-06 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-06&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-06&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-06&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Poster_for_Quo_Vadis_(1913_silent_film).jpg" title="File:Poster for Quo Vadis (1913 silent film).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="7"><b>December 7</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cape_glossy_starling_(Lamprotornis_nitens).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cape starling"><img alt="Cape starling" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg/350px-Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg/525px-Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg/700px-Cape_glossy_starling_%28Lamprotornis_nitens%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3598" data-file-height="2863"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Cape_starling" title="Cape starling">Cape starling</a></b> (<i>Lamprotornis nitens</i>) is a medium-sized <a href="/wiki/Passerine" title="Passerine">passerine</a> bird in the <a href="/wiki/Starling" title="Starling">starling</a> family, Sturnidae, found in southern Africa. It is a gregarious bird and forms large flocks outside the breeding season. It usually feeds on the ground, often foraging alongside other species of <a href="/wiki/Starling" title="Starling">starlings</a>. Habituated to humans, its diet includes fruit, insects and nectar. It sometimes feeds on <a href="/wiki/Parasitism#Ectoparasite" title="Parasitism">ectoparasites</a> that it picks off the backs of animals or visits <a href="/wiki/Bird_feeder" title="Bird feeder">bird tables</a> for scraps. This Cape starling, of the subspecies <i>L. n. phoenicopterus</i>, was photographed in <a href="/wiki/Damaraland" title="Damaraland">Damaraland</a>, Namibia. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles James Sharp</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-06" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-06"><i>Quo Vadis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-05" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-05">James Guthrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-04" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-04">Malagasy giant chameleon</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-07" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-07">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-07&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-07 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-07&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-07&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-07&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Cape_glossy_starling_(Lamprotornis_nitens).jpg" title="File:Cape glossy starling (Lamprotornis nitens).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="8"><b>December 8</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson,_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson"><img alt="Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg/250px-Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="358" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg/375px-Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg/500px-Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson%2C_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2949" data-file-height="4222"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson" title="Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></b> (8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the <a href="/wiki/The_Four_Greats_(Norwegian_writers)" title="The Four Greats (Norwegian writers)">four great Norwegian writers</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen" title="Henrik Ibsen">Ibsen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonas_Lie_(writer)" title="Jonas Lie (writer)">Lie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kielland" title="Alexander Kielland">Kielland</a>, and is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "<a href="/wiki/Ja,_vi_elsker_dette_landet" title="Ja, vi elsker dette landet">Ja, vi elsker dette landet</a>". </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: Erwin Raupp; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-07" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-07">Cape starling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-06" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-06"><i>Quo Vadis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-05" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-05">James Guthrie</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-08" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-08">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-08&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-08 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-08&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-08&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-08&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Portrett_av_Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson,_1909_-_no-nb_digifoto_20150129_00043_bldsa_BB0791_-_Restoration.jpg" title="File:Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="9"><b>December 9</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Attacus taprobanis"><img alt="Attacus taprobanis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg/350px-Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg/525px-Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg/700px-Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Attacus_taprobanis" title="Attacus taprobanis">Attacus taprobanis</a></b></i> is a species of <a href="/wiki/Moth" title="Moth">moth</a> in the family <a href="/wiki/Saturniidae" title="Saturniidae">Saturniidae</a> native to southern India and Sri Lanka. This adult male, photographed in <a href="/wiki/Kadavoor" title="Kadavoor">Kadavoor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, developed from a <a href="/wiki/Larva" title="Larva">larva</a> feeding on a <a href="/wiki/Swietenia_macrophylla" title="Swietenia macrophylla">mahogany tree</a>. When ready to pupate, the larva formed a papery cocoon 7.5 cm (3 in) long interwoven with a leaf; before doing this, the larva had attached the leaf to the stem with a silken thread and cut the leaf stalk. The colours of the dying leaf provided camouflage for the pupa, and the adult insect emerged some 24 days later. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Jeevan_Jose" title="User:Jeevan Jose">Jeevan Jose</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-08" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-08">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-07" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-07">Cape starling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-06" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-06"><i>Quo Vadis</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-09" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-09">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-09&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-09 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-09&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-09&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-09&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Attacus_taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg" title="File:Attacus taprobanis-Kadavoor-2018-07-07-001.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="10"><b>December 10</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ubu Roi"><img alt="Ubu Roi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg/350px-Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg/525px-Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg/700px-Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4494" data-file-height="3409"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ubu_Roi" title="Ubu Roi">Ubu Roi</a></b></i> is a play by the French writer <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jarry" title="Alfred Jarry">Alfred Jarry</a>, first performed in Paris on December 10, 1896, at the <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_Paris" title="Théâtre de Paris">Nouveau-Théâtre</a>. Considered to be a wild, bizarre and comic play, significant for the way it overturns cultural rules, norms and conventions, it is now seen by some to have opened the door for what became known as <a href="/wiki/Literary_modernism" title="Literary modernism">modernism</a> in the 20th century. This illustration by Jarry was included in the programme for the play's premiere. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Illustration credit: <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jarry" title="Alfred Jarry">Alfred Jarry</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-09" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-09"><i>Attacus taprobanis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-08" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-08">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-07" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-07">Cape starling</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-10" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-10">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-10&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-10 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-10&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-10&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-10&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Programme_for_the_premi%C3%A8re_of_Ubu_Roi.jpg" title="File:Programme for the première of Ubu Roi.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="11"><b>December 11</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_(42773).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eldridge Street Synagogue"><img alt="Eldridge Street Synagogue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg/350px-Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="387" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg/525px-Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg/700px-Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_%2842773%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2917" data-file-height="3226"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Eldridge_Street_Synagogue" title="Eldridge Street Synagogue">Eldridge Street Synagogue</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/Synagogue" title="Synagogue">synagogue</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a> in the neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Manhattan" title="Chinatown, Manhattan">Chinatown</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York City. Built in 1887, it was one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_synagogues_in_the_United_States" title="List of the oldest synagogues in the United States">first synagogues erected in the United States</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Eastern European Jews</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Moorish_Revival_architecture" title="Moorish Revival architecture">Moorish Revival</a> building has a 70-foot-high (21 m) dome, a <a href="/wiki/Barrel_vault" title="Barrel vault">barrel-vaulted</a> ceiling, and stained-glass <a href="/wiki/Rose_window" title="Rose window">rose windows</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Rhododendrites" title="User:Rhododendrites">Rhododendrites</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-10" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-10">Ubu Roi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-09" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-09"><i>Attacus taprobanis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-08" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-08">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-11" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-11">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-11&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-11 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-11&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-11&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-11&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Eldridge_Street_Synagogue_(42773).jpg" title="File:Eldridge Street Synagogue (42773).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="12"><b>December 12</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="New Zealand dotterel"><img alt="New Zealand dotterel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg/350px-Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg/525px-Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg/700px-Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4746" data-file-height="3164"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_dotterel" title="New Zealand dotterel">New Zealand dotterel</a></b> (<i>Charadrius obscurus</i>) is a species of shorebird found only in certain areas of New Zealand. The <a href="/wiki/Southern_New_Zealand_dotterel" title="Southern New Zealand dotterel">southern subspecies</a> (<i>C. o. obscurus</i>) is considered critically endangered by the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature">International Union for Conservation of Nature</a>, with only 60 to 80 mature individuals remaining in 2017. This individual, from the more numerous <a href="/wiki/Northern_New_Zealand_dotterel" title="Northern New Zealand dotterel">northern subspecies</a> (<i>C. o. aquilonius</i>), was photographed at <a href="/wiki/Point_Chevalier" title="Point Chevalier">Point Chevalier</a>, Auckland. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:JJ_Harrison" title="User:JJ Harrison">John Harrison</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-11" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-11">Eldridge Street Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-10" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-10">Ubu Roi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-09" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-09"><i>Attacus taprobanis</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-12" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-12">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-12&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-12 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-12&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-12&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-12&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Charadrius_obscurus_aquilonius_-_Point_Chevalier.jpg" title="File:Charadrius obscurus aquilonius - Point Chevalier.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="13"><b>December 13</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_(Drottningholm).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Drottningholm Palace"><img alt="Drottningholm Palace" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg/300px-MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg/450px-MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg/600px-MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_%28Drottningholm%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4047" data-file-height="6070"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Drottningholm_Palace" title="Drottningholm Palace">Drottningholm Palace</a></b> is the private residence of the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_royal_family" title="Swedish royal family">Swedish royal family</a>, located on an island on the outskirts of Stockholm. The gardens and parks surrounding the castle are one of the main attractions for the tourists who visit the palace each year. This photograph shows a view of the <a href="/wiki/Baroque_garden" title="Baroque garden">Baroque garden</a> through a window of the palace. Along with the rest of the palace grounds, the garden was neglected during the 19th century, but was restored in the 1950s and 1960s on the initiative of King <a href="/wiki/Gustaf_VI_Adolf" title="Gustaf VI Adolf">Gustaf VI Adolf</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Martin_Kraft" title="User:Martin Kraft">Martin Kraft</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-12" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-12">New Zealand dotterel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-11" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-11">Eldridge Street Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-10" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-10">Ubu Roi</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-13" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-13">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-13&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-13 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-13&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-13&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-13&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:MJK_54041_Barocktr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_(Drottningholm).jpg" title="File:MJK 54041 Barockträdgården (Drottningholm).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="14"><b>December 14</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_(73854).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Camp: Notes on Fashion"><img alt="Camp: Notes on Fashion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg/300px-Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="433" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg/450px-Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg/600px-Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_%2873854%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3189" data-file-height="4608"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Camp:_Notes_on_Fashion" title="Camp: Notes on Fashion">Camp: Notes on Fashion</a></b></i> was the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Haute_couture" title="Haute couture">high fashion</a> art exhibition of the <a href="/wiki/Anna_Wintour_Costume_Center" title="Anna Wintour Costume Center">Anna Wintour Costume Center</a>, a wing of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> in New York that houses the collection of the Costume Institute. The exhibition ran from May 8 through September 9, 2019, and was preceded by the annual <a href="/wiki/Met_Gala" title="Met Gala">Costume Institute Gala</a> on May 6. The display for the exhibition included this rainbow cape, created by the British fashion designer <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Bailey_(fashion_designer)" title="Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)">Christopher Bailey</a> for the luxury fashion house <a href="/wiki/Burberry" title="Burberry">Burberry</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Fashion design credit: <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Bailey_(fashion_designer)" title="Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)">Christopher Bailey</a>; photographed by <a href="/wiki/User:Rhododendrites" title="User:Rhododendrites">Rhododendrites</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-13" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-13">Drottningholm Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-12" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-12">New Zealand dotterel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-11" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-11">Eldridge Street Synagogue</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-14">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-14&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-14 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-14&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-14&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-14&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Camp_-_Notes_on_Fashion_at_the_Met_-_Burberry_rainbow_cape_(73854).jpg" title="File:Camp - Notes on Fashion at the Met - Burberry rainbow cape (73854).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="15"><b>December 15</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night,_Shinjuku,_Tokyo,_Japan.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kabukichō"><img alt="Kabukichō" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg/350px-Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg/525px-Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg/700px-Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night%2C_Shinjuku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Japan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4950" data-file-height="4411"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Kabukich%C5%8D" title="Kabukichō">Kabukichō</a></b> is an entertainment and <a href="/wiki/Red-light_district" title="Red-light district">red-light district</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo" title="Special wards of Tokyo">special ward</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shinjuku" title="Shinjuku">Shinjuku</a> in Tokyo, Japan. The location of many <a href="/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs" title="Host and hostess clubs">host and hostess clubs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Love_hotel" title="Love hotel">love hotels</a>, shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, the district is often called the "Sleepless Town", and includes <a href="/wiki/Shinjuku_Golden_Gai" title="Shinjuku Golden Gai">Shinjuku Golden Gai</a>, famous for its plethora of small bars. This photograph depicts the Kabukichō Ichiban-gai gate, with numerous colorful neon street signs visible in the background. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Basile_Morin" title="User:Basile Morin">Basile Morin</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-14"><i>Camp: Notes on Fashion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-13" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-13">Drottningholm Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-12" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-12">New Zealand dotterel</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-15">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-15&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-15 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-15&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-15&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-15&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Kabukicho_red_gate_and_colorful_neon_street_signs_at_night,_Shinjuku,_Tokyo,_Japan.jpg" title="File:Kabukicho red gate and colorful neon street signs at night, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="16"><b>December 16</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Zinnia elegans"><img alt="Zinnia elegans" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg/350px-Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg/525px-Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg/700px-Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5182" data-file-height="3886"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Zinnia_elegans" title="Zinnia elegans">Zinnia elegans</a></b></i>, known as the youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an <a href="/wiki/Annual_plant" title="Annual plant">annual</a> flowering plant in the daisy family, <a href="/wiki/Asteraceae" title="Asteraceae">Asteraceae</a>. It is <a href="/wiki/Native_species" title="Native species">native</a> to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in a number of countries, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia and Italy. This photograph of a <i>Z. elegans</i> bloom in a garden in <a href="/wiki/Bamberg" title="Bamberg">Bamberg</a>, Germany, was <a href="/wiki/Focus_stacking" title="Focus stacking">stacked</a> from fifteen separate images. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ermell" class="extiw" title="c:User:Ermell">Reinhold Möller</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-15">Kabukichō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-14"><i>Camp: Notes on Fashion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-13" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-13">Drottningholm Palace</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-16">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-16&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-16 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-16&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-16&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-16&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Zinnienbl%C3%BCte_Zinnia_elegans_stack15_20190722-RM-7222254.jpg" title="File:Zinnienblüte Zinnia elegans stack15 20190722-RM-7222254.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="17"><b>December 17</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; text-align:center;"><div style="display:flex;"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Orville Wright"><img alt="Orville Wright" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg/200px-Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg/300px-Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg/400px-Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3582" data-file-height="4477"/></a></span></div><div style="margin-left:0.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wilbur Wright"><img alt="Wilbur Wright" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg/200px-Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg/300px-Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg/400px-Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3284" data-file-height="4105"/></a></span></div></div> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Wright_brothers" title="Wright brothers">Wright brothers</a></b> – Orville (1871–1948) and Wilbur (1867–1912) – were American <a href="/wiki/Aviation" title="Aviation">aviation</a> pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated <a href="/wiki/Airplane" title="Airplane">airplane</a>. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, <a href="/wiki/Aircraft#Heavier-than-air_–_aerodynes" title="Aircraft">heavier-than-air aircraft</a> with the <i><a href="/wiki/Wright_Flyer" title="Wright Flyer">Wright Flyer</a></i> on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Kitty_Hawk,_North_Carolina" title="Kitty Hawk, North Carolina">Kitty Hawk, North Carolina</a>. The brothers were also the first to invent <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_flight_control_system" title="Aircraft flight control system">aircraft controls</a> that made fixed-wing <a href="/wiki/Powered_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Powered aircraft">powered flight</a> possible. These portrait photographs of Orville <i>(left)</i> and Wilbur <i>(right)</i> were taken by the brothers themselves in 1905. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Scewing" title="User:Scewing">Scewing</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Bammesk" title="User:Bammesk">Bammesk</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-16"><i>Zinnia elegans</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-15">Kabukichō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-14"><i>Camp: Notes on Fashion</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-17" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-17">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-17&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-17 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-17&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-17&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-17&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li>file pages <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Orville_Wright_1905-crop.jpg" title="File:Orville Wright 1905-crop.jpg">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Wilbur_Wright-crop.jpg" title="File:Wilbur Wright-crop.jpg">2</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="18"><b>December 18</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse; padding:0.9em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Contrabandista"><img alt="The Contrabandista" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg/450px-Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg" decoding="async" width="450" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg/675px-Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg/900px-Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2406" data-file-height="1730"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/The_Contrabandista" title="The Contrabandista">The Contrabandista</a></b></i> is a two-act <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> and <a href="/wiki/F._C._Burnand" title="F. C. Burnand">F. C. Burnand</a>. It premiered at <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Hall,_London" title="St. George's Hall, London">St. George's Hall</a> in London on 18 December 1867 under the management of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_German_Reed" title="Thomas German Reed">Thomas German Reed</a> for a run of 72 performances; this poster was produced to advertise the original production. There were brief revivals in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> in 1874 and the United States in 1880. In 1894, it was revised into a new opera, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chieftain" title="The Chieftain">The Chieftain</a></i>, with a completely different second act. The work was the first of Sullivan's full-length operas to be produced. It was not a great success, with Burnand's libretto coming in for the most criticism, but its music exhibits many of the qualities and techniques that Sullivan would employ in composing his twenty further comic operas, including the famous series of fourteen <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operas produced between 1871 and 1896. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Poster credit: Robert Jacob Hamerton; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-17" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-17">Wright brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-16"><i>Zinnia elegans</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-15">Kabukichō</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-18" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-18">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-18&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-18 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-18&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-18&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-18&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Jacob_Hamerton_-_Poster_for_F._C._Burnand_and_Arthur_Sullivan%27s_The_Contrabandista.jpg" title="File:Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan's The Contrabandista.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="19"><b>December 19</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating,_ventral_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Common house gecko"><img alt="Common house gecko" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg/300px-Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg/450px-Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg/600px-Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating%2C_ventral_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3353" data-file-height="5030"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Common_house_gecko" title="Common house gecko">common house gecko</a></b> (<i>Hemidactylus frenatus</i>) is a species of lizard native to southern and southeastern Asia. The undersides of this mating pair are viewed through the glass of a window. The male has inserted one of his two <a href="/wiki/Intromittent_organ" title="Intromittent organ">intromittent organs</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hemipenis" title="Hemipenis">hemipenis</a>, into the <a href="/wiki/Cloaca" title="Cloaca">cloaca</a> of the female. The adhesive <a href="/wiki/Lamella_(surface_anatomy)" title="Lamella (surface anatomy)">lamellae</a> with <a href="/wiki/Seta" title="Seta">setae</a> on the underside of the feet adhere to the glass and allow the reptiles to maintain traction on the smooth surface. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Basile_Morin" title="User:Basile Morin">Basile Morin</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-18" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-18"><i>The Contrabandista</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-17" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-17">Wright brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-16"><i>Zinnia elegans</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-19" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-19">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-19&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-19 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-19&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-19&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-19&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Hemidactylus_frenatus_mating,_ventral_view.jpg" title="File:Hemidactylus frenatus mating, ventral view.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="20"><b>December 20</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Court_1_Interior,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Supreme Court of the United Kingdom"><img alt="Supreme Court of the United Kingdom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg/400px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg/600px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg/800px-Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Court_1_Interior%2C_London%2C_UK_-_Diliff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7289" data-file-height="5137"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Supreme Court of the United Kingdom">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a></b> is the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_court" title="Supreme court">final court of appeal</a> in the United Kingdom for all civil cases, as well as for criminal cases originating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population. The court is located in the <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_Guildhall" title="Middlesex Guildhall">Middlesex Guildhall</a> on <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Square" title="Parliament Square">Parliament Square</a>, London; this photograph depicts the interior of Court 1, the largest of the three courtrooms in the building. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Diliff" title="User:Diliff">David Iliff</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-19" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-19">Common house gecko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-18" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-18"><i>The Contrabandista</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-17" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-17">Wright brothers</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-20" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-20">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-20&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-20 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-20&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-20&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-20&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Court_1_Interior,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg" title="File:Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Court 1 Interior, London, UK - Diliff.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="21"><b>December 21</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Raven_Manet_B2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""The Raven""><img alt=""The Raven"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Raven_Manet_B2.jpg/400px-Raven_Manet_B2.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Raven_Manet_B2.jpg/600px-Raven_Manet_B2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Raven_Manet_B2.jpg/800px-Raven_Manet_B2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4025" data-file-height="2964"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>"<b><a href="/wiki/The_Raven" title="The Raven">The Raven</a></b>" is a <a href="/wiki/Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">narrative poem</a> by the American writer <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>. This illustration by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a> was drawn for a French publication, and depicts the narrator half asleep, poring over ancient books at midnight on a drear winter night. He hears a tapping sound, and on investigation finds a <a href="/wiki/Raven" title="Raven">raven</a> at the window, which flies into his room and perches on a <a href="/wiki/Bust_(sculpture)" title="Bust (sculpture)">bust</a> of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Pallas Athena</a>. The narrator asks the bird a series of questions, to which the bird replies only "Nevermore". Eventually, the narrator falls into despair and ends with his final admission that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted "nevermore". Originally published in 1845, the poem was widely popular and made Poe famous, though it did not bring him much financial success. "The Raven" has influenced many modern works and <a href="/wiki/Allusions_to_Poe%27s_%22The_Raven%22" title="Allusions to Poe's "The Raven"">is referenced throughout popular culture</a> in films, television, books, and music. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Illustration credit: <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Durova" title="User:Durova">Lise Broer</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-20" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-20">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-19" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-19">Common house gecko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-18" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-18"><i>The Contrabandista</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-21" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-21">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-21&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-21 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-21&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-21&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-21&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Raven_Manet_B2.jpg" title="File:Raven Manet B2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="22"><b>December 22</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Volcano_hummingbird_(Selasphorus_flammula)_female_in_flight_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Scintillant hummingbird"><img alt="Scintillant hummingbird" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg/400px-Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg/600px-Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg/800px-Volcano_hummingbird_%28Selasphorus_flammula%29_female_in_flight_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3381" data-file-height="2339"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Scintillant_hummingbird" title="Scintillant hummingbird">scintillant hummingbird</a></b> (<i>Selasphorus scintilla</i>) is a species of <a href="/wiki/Hummingbird" title="Hummingbird">hummingbird</a> endemic to Costa Rica and Panama. With a length of 6.5–8 cm (2.6–3.1 in), including the bill, and a weight of around 2 g (0.071 oz), it is one of the smallest known species of bird, marginally larger than the <a href="/wiki/Bee_hummingbird" title="Bee hummingbird">bee hummingbird</a>. This female scintillant hummingbird was photographed in Panama feeding on a flower in the genus <i><a href="/wiki/Abutilon" title="Abutilon">Abutilon</a></i>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles James Sharp</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-21" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-21">The Raven</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-20" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-20">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-19" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-19">Common house gecko</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-22" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-22">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-22&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-22 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-22&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-22&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-22&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Volcano_hummingbird_(Selasphorus_flammula)_female_in_flight_2.jpg" title="File:Volcano hummingbird (Selasphorus flammula) female in flight 2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="23"><b>December 23</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse; padding:0.9em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_(Trumbull).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General George Washington Resigning His Commission"><img alt="General George Washington Resigning His Commission" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg/500px-BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg/750px-BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg/1000px-BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_%28Trumbull%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="13296" data-file-height="7464"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/General_George_Washington_Resigning_His_Commission" title="General George Washington Resigning His Commission">General George Washington Resigning His Commission</a></b></i> is a large-scale oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a> depicting General <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>'s resignation as the <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-chief" title="Commander-in-chief">commander-in-chief</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> on December 23, 1783, to the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a>. The painting now hangs in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_rotunda" title="United States Capitol rotunda">United States Capitol rotunda</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraved</a> vignette, produced for the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing" title="Bureau of Engraving and Printing">Bureau of Engraving and Printing</a>, draws heavily on Trumbull's painting, and was used on the reverse of the 1000-dollar denomination of the first issue of <a href="/wiki/National_Bank_Note" title="National Bank Note">National Bank Notes</a> from 1875. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Engraving credit: Luigi (Louis) Delnoce and Frederick Girsch, after <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Godot13" title="User:Godot13">Andrew Shiva</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-22" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-22">Scintillant hummingbird</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-21" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-21">The Raven</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-20" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-20">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-23" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-23">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-23&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-23 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-23&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-23&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-23&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:BEP-DELNOCE_%26_GIRSCH-Washington_Resigning_his_Commission_(Trumbull).jpg" title="File:BEP-DELNOCE & GIRSCH-Washington Resigning his Commission (Trumbull).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="24"><b>December 24</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_(24207693358).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jenny Nyström"><img alt="Jenny Nyström" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg/300px-Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="439" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg/450px-Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg/600px-Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_%2824207693358%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5712" data-file-height="8350"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Nystr%C3%B6m" title="Jenny Nyström">Jenny Nyström</a></b> (1854–1946) was a Swedish painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the creator of the image of the <i><a href="/wiki/Nisse_(folklore)" title="Nisse (folklore)">jultomte</a></i> used on numerous <a href="/wiki/Christmas_card" title="Christmas card">Christmas cards</a> and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Gnome" title="Gnome">gnomes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nisse_(folklore)" title="Nisse (folklore)">tomtar</a> of Scandinavian folklore. This illustration for a Christmas card, depicting three <i>jultomte</i> working, was painted by Nyström around 1899. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Illustration credit: <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Nystr%C3%B6m" title="Jenny Nyström">Jenny Nyström</a>, restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-23" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-23"><i>General George Washington Resigning His Commission</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-22" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-22">Scintillant hummingbird</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-21" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-21">The Raven</a>"</li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-24" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-24">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-24&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-24 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-24&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-24&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-24&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Julemotiv_tegnet_av_Jenny_Nystr%C3%B8m_(24207693358).jpg" title="File:Julemotiv tegnet av Jenny Nystrøm (24207693358).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="25"><b>December 25</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fouquet_Madonna.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Melun Diptych"><img alt="Melun Diptych" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Fouquet_Madonna.jpg/350px-Fouquet_Madonna.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="389" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Fouquet_Madonna.jpg/525px-Fouquet_Madonna.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Fouquet_Madonna.jpg/700px-Fouquet_Madonna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3153" data-file-height="3508"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Melun_Diptych" title="Melun Diptych">Melun Diptych</a></b> is a two-panel oil painting by the French court painter <a href="/wiki/Jean_Fouquet" title="Jean Fouquet">Jean Fouquet</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1420–1481) created around 1452. The name of the diptych came from its original home in the <a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Church_of_Notre-Dame,_Melun" title="Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Melun">Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame</a> in <a href="/wiki/Melun" title="Melun">Melun</a>. The left panel depicts <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Chevalier" title="Étienne Chevalier">Étienne Chevalier</a> with his patron saint <a href="/wiki/Saint_Stephen" title="Saint Stephen">Saint Stephen</a> and the right panel, seen here, depicts the Virgin and Christ child. The Madonna wears a blue dress, white mantle and a jewel-encrusted crown. On her lap sits the Christ child, who is making a pointing gesture at the patron and the saint. The two are surrounded by blue and red <a href="/wiki/Cherub" title="Cherub">cherubim</a>, which greatly contrast with the pale skin of the Virgin and Christ child. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Jean_Fouquet" title="Jean Fouquet">Jean Fouquet</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-24" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-24">Jenny Nyström</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-23" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-23"><i>General George Washington Resigning His Commission</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-22" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-22">Scintillant hummingbird</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-25" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-25">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-25&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-25 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-25&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-25&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-25&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Fouquet_Madonna.jpg" title="File:Fouquet Madonna.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="26"><b>December 26</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_(Rome)_-_Ceiling.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi"><img alt="Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg/250px-San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="472" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg/375px-San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg/500px-San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_%28Rome%29_-_Ceiling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2544" data-file-height="4800"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Santo_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi" title="Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi">Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi</a></b> is a Catholic church in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, Italy, situated on Via delle Botteghe Oscure in the <a href="/wiki/Rioni_of_Rome" title="Rioni of Rome">rione</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sant%27Angelo_(rione_of_Rome)" title="Sant'Angelo (rione of Rome)">Sant'Angelo</a>. It is the <a href="/wiki/National_churches_in_Rome" title="National churches in Rome">national church</a> of Poland in Rome and is dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Stanislaus_of_Szczepan%C3%B3w" title="Stanislaus of Szczepanów">Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów</a>. The ceiling of its single <a href="/wiki/Nave" title="Nave">nave</a> is decorated with this painting by <a href="/wiki/Ermenegildo_Costantini" title="Ermenegildo Costantini">Ermenegildo Costantini</a>, entitled <i>The Glory of Saint Stanislaus</i>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Ermenegildo_Costantini" title="Ermenegildo Costantini">Ermenegildo Costantini</a>; photographed by <a href="/wiki/User:Livioandronico2013" title="User:Livioandronico2013">Livioandronico</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-25" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-25">Melun Diptych</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-24" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-24">Jenny Nyström</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-23" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-23"><i>General George Washington Resigning His Commission</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-26" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-26">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-26&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-26 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-26&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-26&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-26&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:San_Stanislao_dei_Polacchi_(Rome)_-_Ceiling.jpg" title="File:San Stanislao dei Polacchi (Rome) - Ceiling.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="27"><b>December 27</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:South-western_black_rhinoceros_(Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis)_female.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="South-western black rhinoceros"><img alt="South-western black rhinoceros" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg/400px-South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg/600px-South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg/800px-South-western_black_rhinoceros_%28Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis%29_female.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5082" data-file-height="3388"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/South-western_black_rhinoceros" title="South-western black rhinoceros">south-western black rhinoceros</a></b> (<i>Diceros bicornis occidentalis</i>) is a subspecies of the <a href="/wiki/Black_rhinoceros" title="Black rhinoceros">black rhinoceros</a> found primarily in Namibia. The chief threat it faces is from illegal <a href="/wiki/Poaching" title="Poaching">poaching</a> for its valuable horn. It is listed as <a href="/wiki/Near-threatened_species" title="Near-threatened species">near threatened</a> by the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature">International Union for Conservation of Nature</a>. The total population is increasing, and numbered 1,920 animals in 2010. This female south-western black rhinoceros was photographed in <a href="/wiki/Etosha_National_Park" title="Etosha National Park">Etosha National Park</a>, Namibia. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles James Sharp</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-26" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-26">Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-25" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-25">Melun Diptych</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-24" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-24">Jenny Nyström</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-27" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-27">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-27 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-27&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-27&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-27&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:South-western_black_rhinoceros_(Diceros_bicornis_occidentalis)_female.jpg" title="File:South-western black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis occidentalis) female.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="28"><b>December 28</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_(II).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat"><img alt="Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg/400px-Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg/600px-Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg/800px-Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_%28II%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5395" data-file-height="3596"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Wat_Phra_Si_Rattana_Mahathat" title="Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat">Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat</a></b> (Temple of the Great Jewelled Reliquary), colloquially referred to as Wat Phra Si or Wat Yai, is a Buddhist temple (<i><a href="/wiki/Thai_temple_art_and_architecture" title="Thai temple art and architecture">wat</a></i>) in <a href="/wiki/Phitsanulok_province" title="Phitsanulok province">Phitsanulok Province</a>, Thailand. It is located on the east bank of the <a href="/wiki/Nan_River" title="Nan River">Nan River</a>, near Naresuan Bridge. The temple is famous for its gilded statue of the <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Gautama Buddha">Buddha</a>, shown in this photograph. The statue is considered to be one of the most beautiful and classically magnificent figures of the Buddha in Thailand, and worthy of the highest respect among the Thai people. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Supanut_Arunoprayote" title="User:Supanut Arunoprayote">Supanut Arunoprayote</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-27" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-27">South-western black rhinoceros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-26" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-26">Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-25" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-25">Melun Diptych</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-28" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-28">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-28&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-28 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-28&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-28&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-28&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Phra_Phuttha_Chinnarat_(II).jpg" title="File:Phra Phuttha Chinnarat (II).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="29"><b>December 29</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:340px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador,_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes"><img alt="Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/340px-Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="340" height="422" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/510px-Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/680px-Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador%2C_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3139" data-file-height="3900"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gravier,_comte_de_Vergennes" title="Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes">Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes</a></b> (29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787), was a French statesman and diplomat. He served as the French foreign minister from 1774 during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XVI" title="Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a>, notably during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. This oil-on-canvas portrait, by the French painter <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Favray" title="Antoine de Favray">Antoine de Favray</a>, depicts Vergennes in Turkish attire as ambassador to the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>. The painting is in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Pera_Museum" title="Pera Museum">Pera Museum</a> in Istanbul. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Favray" title="Antoine de Favray">Antoine de Favray</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-28" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-28">Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-27" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-27">South-western black rhinoceros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-26" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-26">Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-29" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-29">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-29 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-29&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-29&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-29&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Antoine_de_Favray_-_Portrait_of_Charles_Gravier_Count_of_Vergennes_and_French_Ambassador,_in_Turkish_Attire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" title="File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="30"><b>December 30</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_(Mark)--Ringelnatter.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Grass snake"><img alt="Grass snake" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg/400px-2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg/600px-2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg/800px-2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_%28Mark%29--Ringelnatter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4126" data-file-height="2925"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Grass_snake" title="Grass snake">grass snake</a></b> (<i>Natrix natrix</i>) is a Eurasian non-venomous <a href="/wiki/Colubridae" title="Colubridae">colubrid</a> snake that grows to around a metre (3 ft) in length. It is often found near water and feeds almost exclusively on <a href="/wiki/Amphibian" title="Amphibian">amphibians</a>. Its prey, often <a href="/wiki/Common_frog" title="Common frog">common frogs</a> or <a href="/wiki/Common_toad" title="Common toad">toads</a>, is caught and swallowed whole. While digesting a large meal, the snake does not travel far, preferring to bask in the sun. Two or three significant food items may supply an individual's needs for the whole season, with the snake finding an underground refuge, not subject to freezing, in which to overwinter. This grass snake was photographed near <a href="/wiki/Storkow,_Brandenburg" title="Storkow, Brandenburg">Storkow</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>, Germany. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hockei" class="extiw" title="c:User:Hockei">Andreas Eichler</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-29" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-29">Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-28" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-28">Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-27" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-27">South-western black rhinoceros</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-30" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-30">view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:POTD/2021-12-30" title="Template talk:POTD/2021-12-30">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-30&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-30&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2021-12-30&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer_See_oder_Grubensee-Storkow_(Mark)--Ringelnatter.jpg" title="File:2017.07.17.-17-Tiefer See oder Grubensee-Storkow (Mark)--Ringelnatter.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="31"><b>December 31</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_(%3F)_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach,_Olympia_act.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Tales of Hoffmann"><img alt="The Tales of Hoffmann" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg/400px-Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg/600px-Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg/800px-Pierre-Auguste_Lamy_%28%3F%29_-_Les_contes_d%27Hoffmann_by_Jacques_Offenbach%2C_Olympia_act.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4552" data-file-height="3329"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann" title="The Tales of Hoffmann">The Tales of Hoffmann</a></b></i> is an <i>opéra fantastique</i> by the French composer <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach" title="Jacques Offenbach">Jacques Offenbach</a>. The French <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> was written by <a href="/wiki/Jules_Barbier" title="Jules Barbier">Jules Barbier</a>, based on three short stories by <a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a>, the opera's <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in October 1880, four months before it premiered in Paris. This illustration of the opera's premiere, attributed to <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Lamy" title="Pierre-Auguste Lamy">Pierre-Auguste Lamy</a>, depicts the Olympia act, based on a portion of Hoffmann's "<a href="/wiki/The_Sandman_(short_story)" title="The Sandman (short story)">Der Sandmann</a>". </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Illustration credit: <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Lamy" title="Pierre-Auguste Lamy">Pierre-Auguste Lamy</a> (attributed); restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-30" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-30">Grass snake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-29" title="Template:POTD/2021-12-29">Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes</a></li> <li><a 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style="color:gray;">January</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">February</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">March</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">April</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2004">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2004">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2004">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2004">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2004">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2004">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2004">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2004">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2005: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2005">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2005">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2005">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2005">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2005">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2005">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2005">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2005">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2005">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2005">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2005">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2006: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2006">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2006">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2006">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2006">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2006">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2006">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2006">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2006">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2006">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2006">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2006">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2006">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2007: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2007">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2007">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2007">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2007">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2007">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2007">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2007">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2007">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2007">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2007">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2008: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2008">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2008">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2008">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2008">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2008">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2008">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2008">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2008">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2008">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2008">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2008">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2009: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2009">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2009">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2009">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2009">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2009">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2009">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2009">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2009">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2009">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2009">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2009">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2010: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2010">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2010">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2010">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2010">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2010">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2010">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2010">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2010">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2010">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2010">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2010">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2010">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2011: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2011">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2011">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2011">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2011">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2011">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2011">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2011">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2011">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2011">September</a> </td> 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2012">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2012">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2012">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2012">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2012">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2012">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2012">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2012" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2012">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2013: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2013">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2013">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2013">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2013">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2013">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2013">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2013">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2013">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2013">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2013">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2013">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2013" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2013">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2014: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2014">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2014">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2014">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2014">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2014">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2014">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2014">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2014">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2014">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2014">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2014">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2014" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2014">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2015: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2015">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2015">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2015">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2015">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2015">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2015">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2015">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2015">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2015">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2015">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2015">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2015">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2016: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2016">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2016">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2016">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2016">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2016">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2016">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2016">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2016">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2016">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2016">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2016">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2016" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2016">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2017: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2017">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2017">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2017">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2017">April</a> </td> <td><a 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