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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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2021" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2021">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 October 2010. 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/October 2010<b>#1</b>]]</code> for October 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/October_2010" title="Special:Purge/Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2010"><span>Purge server cache</span></a></span></span> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="1"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pūkeko"><img alt="Pūkeko" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg/250px-Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg/375px-Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg/500px-Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="1600"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Pukeko" class="mw-redirect" title="Pukeko">Pūkeko</a></b> (<i>Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Subspecies" title="Subspecies">subspecies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Purple_Swamphen" class="mw-redirect" title="Purple Swamphen">Purple Swamphen</a>, native to <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> and elsewhere in <a href="/wiki/Australasia" title="Australasia">Australasia</a>. The name comes from the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori language</a>; the bird is highly revered in <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_culture" title="Māori culture">Māori culture</a> because the colour red is associated with nobility and power, and the species has red beaks and legs. It is unknown how the species spread to New Zealand from Australia. It may have been brought by ancestors of Māori, or it may have arrived there on its own. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Fir0002" title="User:Fir0002">Fir0002</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/2010-09-30" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-30">Charles Pomeroy Stone and daughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-09-29" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-29"><i>Don Quixote</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-09-28" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-28">Bismuth crystal</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/2010-10-01" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-01">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-01&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-01 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-01&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-01&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-01&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Purple_Swamphen_-_Pukeko02.jpg" title="File:Purple Swamphen - Pukeko02.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="2"><b>October 2</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:ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"><img alt="Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg/550px-ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg" decoding="async" width="550" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg/825px-ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg/1100px-ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8000" data-file-height="2049"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Panoramic_photography" title="Panoramic photography">panoramic</a> view of South 9th Street, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, which is the location of the <b><a href="/wiki/Italian_Market,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Italian Market</a></b>, a commercial area of the city featuring a strong <a href="/wiki/Italian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian American">Italian American</a> influence. Italian immigrants began to move into the area around 1884 and many of the present vendors can trace the founding of their businesses back to the first decade of the 20th century. The mural on the left shows <a href="/wiki/Frank_Rizzo" title="Frank Rizzo">Frank Rizzo</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mayors of Philadelphia">mayor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> from 1972 to 1980. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Massimo_Catarinella" title="User:Massimo Catarinella">Massimo Catarinella</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/2010-10-01" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-01">Pūkeko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-09-30" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-30">Charles Pomeroy Stone and daughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-09-29" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-29"><i>Don Quixote</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/2010-10-02" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-02">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-02&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-02 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-02&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-02&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-02&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg" title="File:ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="3"><b>October 3</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:Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Aldabra Giant Tortoise"><img alt="Aldabra Giant Tortoise" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg/350px-Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg/525px-Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg/700px-Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1066"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise" class="mw-redirect" title="Aldabra Giant Tortoise">Aldabra Giant Tortoise</a></b> (<i>Geochelone gigantea</i>), from the islands of the <a href="/wiki/Aldabra" title="Aldabra">Aldabra</a> Atoll in the <a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a>, is one of the largest <a href="/wiki/Tortoise" title="Tortoise">tortoises</a> in the world. Similar in size to the famous <a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise" title="Galápagos tortoise">Galapagos Giant Tortoise</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Carapace" title="Carapace">carapace</a> averages 120 centimetres (47 in) in length. The average weight is around 250 kilograms (550 lb) for males and 150 kilograms (330 lb) for females. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Muhammad_Mahdi_Karim" title="User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim">Muhammad Mahdi Karim</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/2010-10-02" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-02">Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-01" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-01">Pūkeko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-09-30" title="Template:POTD/2010-09-30">Charles Pomeroy Stone and daughter</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/2010-10-03" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-03">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-03&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-03 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-03&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-03&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-03&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Aldabra_Giant_Tortoise_Geochelone_gigantea_edit1.jpg" title="File:Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="4"><b>October 4</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:Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceriagrion glabrum"><img alt="Ceriagrion glabrum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg/250px-Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg/375px-Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg/500px-Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2265"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ceriagrion_glabrum" title="Ceriagrion glabrum">Ceriagrion glabrum</a></b></i> is a species of <a href="/wiki/Damselfly" title="Damselfly">damselfly</a> found throughout much of <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, except for arid locations. The males are orange and green (seen on top here) whilst the females (bottom) range from light brown to dark brown depending on their maturity. The darkened colours in females aid in reproduction. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Muhammad_Mahdi_Karim" title="User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim">Muhammad Mahdi Karim</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/2010-10-03" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-03">Aldabra Giant Tortoise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-02" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-02">Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-01" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-01">Pūkeko</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/2010-10-04" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-04">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-04&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-04 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-04&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-04&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-04&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Ceriagrion_glabrum_male_and_female.jpg" title="File:Ceriagrion glabrum male and female.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="5"><b>October 5</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:Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ornamental initial letters"><img alt="Ornamental initial letters" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg/350px-Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg/525px-Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg/700px-Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="486"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A set of 16th-century <b><a href="/wiki/Initial" title="Initial">initial</a></b> capitals, missing a few letters. An initial is a <a href="/wiki/Letter_(alphabet)" title="Letter (alphabet)">letter</a> at the beginning of a work, <a href="/wiki/Chapter_(books)" title="Chapter (books)">chapter</a> or <a href="/wiki/Paragraph" title="Paragraph">paragraph</a> that is larger than the rest of the text. It is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts sometimes ornately decorated. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Artist: Unknown; Vectorization: <a href="/wiki/User:JovanCormac" title="User:JovanCormac">JovanCormac</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/2010-10-04" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-04"><i>Ceriagrion glabrum</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-03" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-03">Aldabra Giant Tortoise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-02" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-02">Italian Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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/2010-10-05" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-05">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-05&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-05 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-05&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-05&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-05&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Ornamental_Alphabet_-_16th_Century.svg" title="File:Ornamental Alphabet - 16th Century.svg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="6"><b>October 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kew_Gardens_Palm_House,_London_-_July_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Palm House, Kew Gardens"><img alt="Palm House, Kew Gardens" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg/350px-Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg/525px-Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg/700px-Kew_Gardens_Palm_House%2C_London_-_July_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7499" data-file-height="4240"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The Palm House at the <b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew" title="Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew">Royal Botanic Gardens</a></b> in <a href="/wiki/Kew" title="Kew">Kew</a>, an area in the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Richmond_upon_Thames" title="London Borough of Richmond upon Thames">London Borough of Richmond upon Thames</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_West_(London_sub_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="South West (London sub region)">South West London</a>. The institution has the world's largest collection of living plants (over 30,000) as well as one of the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Herbarium" title="Herbarium">herbariums</a>, with over <span class="nowrap">7 million</span> specimens. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <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/2010-10-05" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-05">Ornamental initial letters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-04" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-04"><i>Ceriagrion glabrum</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-03" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-03">Aldabra Giant Tortoise</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/2010-10-06" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-06">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-06&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-06 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-06&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-06&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-06&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Kew_Gardens_Palm_House,_London_-_July_2009.jpg" title="File:Kew Gardens Palm House, London - July 2009.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="7"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red Flowering Gum"><img alt="Red Flowering Gum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg/250px-Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg/375px-Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg/500px-Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="1730"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The flower of a <b><a href="/wiki/Corymbia_ficifolia" title="Corymbia ficifolia">Red Flowering Gum</a></b> (<i>Corymbia ficifolia</i>), one of the most commonly planted <a href="/wiki/Ornamental_plant" title="Ornamental plant">ornamental</a> trees in the broader <a href="/wiki/Eucalyptus" title="Eucalyptus">eucalyptus</a> family. It is native to a very small area of <a href="/wiki/South_Coast_Western_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="South Coast Western Australia">South Coast Western Australia</a>, but is not considered under threat in the wild. The <a href="/wiki/Common_name" title="Common name">common name</a> is somewhat of a misnomer, as the flowers may not necessarily be red, nor is it really a gum tree, but a <a href="/wiki/Bloodwood" title="Bloodwood">bloodwood</a> instead. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-06" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-06">Palm House, Kew Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-05" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-05">Ornamental initial letters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-04" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-04"><i>Ceriagrion glabrum</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/2010-10-07" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-07">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-07&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-07 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-07&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-07&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-07&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Corymbia_ficifolia_Flowers.jpg.jpg" title="File:Corymbia ficifolia Flowers.jpg.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="8"><b>October 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cheetah cub"><img alt="Cheetah cub" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg/298px-Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg" decoding="async" width="298" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg/446px-Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg/595px-Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1428" data-file-height="1200"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A close-up view of a <b><a href="/wiki/Cheetah" title="Cheetah">cheetah</a></b> (<i>Acinonyx jubatus</i>) cub. Unlike some other <a href="/wiki/Felidae" title="Felidae">cats</a>, the cheetah is born with its characteristic spots, as well as a downy underlying fur on their necks extending to mid-back, which gives the cub the appearance of the <a href="/wiki/Honey_Badger" class="mw-redirect" title="Honey Badger">Honey Badger</a>, to scare away potential aggressors. Despite this, up to 90% of cheetah cubs are killed by <a href="/wiki/Predation" title="Predation">predators</a> in the early weeks of life. Healthy adult cheetahs have few predators because of their speed. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Muhammad_Mahdi_Karim" title="User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim">Muhammad Mahdi Karim</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/2010-10-07" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-07">Red Flowering Gum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-06" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-06">Palm House, Kew Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-05" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-05">Ornamental initial letters</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/2010-10-08" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-08">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-08&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-08 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-08&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-08&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-08&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Cheetah_cub_close-up_edit2.jpg" title="File:Cheetah cub close-up edit2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="9"><b>October 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:Titan-crystal_bar.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Titanium crystal bar"><img alt="Titanium crystal bar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Titan-crystal_bar.JPG/350px-Titan-crystal_bar.JPG" decoding="async" width="350" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Titan-crystal_bar.JPG/525px-Titan-crystal_bar.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Titan-crystal_bar.JPG/700px-Titan-crystal_bar.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5572" data-file-height="3500"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A 99.995% pure <b><a href="/wiki/Titanium" title="Titanium">titanium</a></b> <a href="/wiki/Crystal" title="Crystal">crystal</a> bar, about 14 cm (5.5 in) in length and weighing about 283 g (10.0 oz), made by the <a href="/wiki/Crystal_bar_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Crystal bar process">iodide process</a>. Titanium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any <a href="/wiki/Metal" title="Metal">metal</a> and is resistant to <a href="/wiki/Corrosion" title="Corrosion">corrosion</a>. It can be <a href="/wiki/Alloy" title="Alloy">alloyed</a> with other metals for a wide variety of industrial purposes. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Alchemist-hp" title="User:Alchemist-hp">Alchemist-hp</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/2010-10-08" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-08">Cheetah cub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-07" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-07">Red Flowering Gum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-06" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-06">Palm House, Kew Gardens</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/2010-10-09" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-09">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-09&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-09 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-09&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-09&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-09&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Titan-crystal_bar.JPG" title="File:Titan-crystal bar.JPG">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="10"><b>October 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:MeanMonthlyPJan.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Mean precipitation by month"><img alt="Mean precipitation by month" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/MeanMonthlyPJan.png/350px-MeanMonthlyPJan.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/MeanMonthlyPJan.png/525px-MeanMonthlyPJan.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/MeanMonthlyPJan.png/700px-MeanMonthlyPJan.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="744"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p style="font-size:150%; text-align:center;" class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/MeanMonthlyP.gif">View animation</a></p> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">animated image</a> showing the long-term <a href="/wiki/Arithmetic_mean" title="Arithmetic mean">mean</a> monthly <b><a href="/wiki/Precipitation_(meteorology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Precipitation (meteorology)">precipitation</a></b> around the world. Precipitation occurs when a local portion of the <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere" title="Atmosphere">atmosphere</a> becomes saturated with <a href="/wiki/Water_vapor" title="Water vapor">water vapor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Condensation" title="Condensation">condenses</a>, forming rain drops or ice crystals within a <a href="/wiki/Cloud" title="Cloud">cloud</a> via collision that then fall to the surface, except for <a href="/wiki/Virga" title="Virga">virga</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Evaporation" title="Evaporation">evaporates</a> while in the air. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Image: <a href="/wiki/User:PZmaps" title="User:PZmaps">PZmaps</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/2010-10-09" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-09">Titanium crystal bar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-08" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-08">Cheetah cub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-07" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-07">Red Flowering Gum</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/2010-10-10" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-10">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-10&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-10 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-10&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-10&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-10&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:MeanMonthlyP.gif" title="File:MeanMonthlyP.gif">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="11"><b>October 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:Skylark_2,_Lake_District,_England_-_June_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Skylark"><img alt="Skylark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg/333px-Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="333" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg/500px-Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg/667px-Skylark_2%2C_Lake_District%2C_England_-_June_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A <b><a href="/wiki/Skylark" class="mw-redirect" title="Skylark">Skylark</a></b> (<i>Alauda arvensis</i>), with two <a href="/wiki/Beetle" title="Beetle">beetles</a> in its beak. Skylarks are found throughout much of the world. It is a mostly dull-looking bird, being mainly brown above and paler below. They are known for the <a href="/wiki/Bird_vocalization" title="Bird vocalization">song</a> of the male, which is delivered in hovering flight from heights of 50 to 100 m (160–330 ft). </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <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/2010-10-10" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-10">Mean precipitation by month</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-09" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-09">Titanium crystal bar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-08" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-08">Cheetah cub</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/2010-10-11" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-11">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-11&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-11 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-11&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-11&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-11&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Skylark_2,_Lake_District,_England_-_June_2009.jpg" title="File:Skylark 2, Lake District, England - June 2009.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="12"><b>October 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:Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1639 Hispaniola map"><img alt="1639 Hispaniola map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg/350px-Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg/525px-Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg/700px-Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8594" data-file-height="6055"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A c. 1639 nautical map of <b><a href="/wiki/Hispaniola" title="Hispaniola">Hispaniola</a></b> (center-left), the most populous island in the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> (right). The name originally given by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a>, who founded the first European colonies in the New World here during his <a href="/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus" title="Voyages of Christopher Columbus">first two voyages</a>, was <i>La Isla Española</i> ("the Spanish island"), which was shortened to <i>Española</i> and then <a href="/wiki/Latinisation_(literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latinisation (literature)">Latinised</a> to <i>Hispaniola</i>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Map: <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Vingboons" title="Johannes Vingboons">Johannes Vingboons</a>; Restoration: <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/2010-10-11" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-11">Skylark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-10" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-10">Mean precipitation by month</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-09" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-09">Titanium crystal bar</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/2010-10-12" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-12">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-12&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-12 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-12&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-12&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-12&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Hispaniola_Vinckeboons4.jpg" title="File:Hispaniola Vinckeboons4.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="13"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="B'nai B'rith membership certificate"><img alt="B'nai B'rith membership certificate" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg/250px-B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg/375px-B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg/500px-B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2450" data-file-height="3081"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A blank membership certificate for <b><a href="/wiki/B%27nai_B%27rith" title="B'nai B'rith">B'nai B'rith</a></b>, the world's oldest continually operating <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> <a href="/wiki/Service_club" title="Service club">service organization</a>. B'nai B'rith was founded on <span class="nowrap">October 13</span>, 1843, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Jones_(B%27nai_Brith)" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Jones (B'nai Brith)">Henry Jones</a> and 11 others as a Jewish counterpart of <a href="/wiki/Fraternity" title="Fraternity">fraternal orders</a> then flourishing in the United States, but soon began to exercise political influence on behalf of world <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewry</a>. Today, B'nai B'rith engages in community service and welfare activities in more than 50 countries. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Image: Louis Kurz; Restoration: <a href="/wiki/User:Durova" title="User:Durova">Lise Broer</a> and <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/2010-10-12" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-12">1639 Hispaniola map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-11" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-11">Skylark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-10" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-10">Mean precipitation by month</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/2010-10-13" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-13">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-13&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-13 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-13&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-13&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-13&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:B%27nai_B%27rith_membership_certificate_1876.jpg" title="File:B'nai B'rith membership certificate 1876.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="14"><b>October 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lophyra sp tiger beetle"><img alt="Lophyra sp tiger beetle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg/350px-Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg/525px-Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg/700px-Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A <i><a href="/wiki/Lophyra" title="Lophyra">Lophyra</a></i> species <b><a href="/wiki/Tiger_beetle" title="Tiger beetle">tiger beetle</a></b>, one of a large group of <a href="/wiki/Insectivore" title="Insectivore">insectivorous</a> <a href="/wiki/Beetle" title="Beetle">beetles</a> found <a href="/wiki/Cosmopolitan_distribution" title="Cosmopolitan distribution">throughout the world</a>. Both adults and <a href="/wiki/Larva" title="Larva">larvae</a> are <a href="/wiki/Predation" title="Predation">predatory</a>. The latter live in cylindrical burrows and will capture prey that wanders above the ground. Some species can run at a speed of 8 km/h (5 mph), making them the fastest running land animals for their size. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Muhammad_Mahdi_Karim" title="User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim">Muhammad Mahdi Karim</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/2010-10-13" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-13">B'nai B'rith membership certificate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-12" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-12">1639 Hispaniola map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-11" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-11">Skylark</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/2010-10-14" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-14">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-14&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-14 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-14&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-14&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-14&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Lophyra_sp_Tiger_beetle_edit1.jpg" title="File:Lophyra sp Tiger beetle edit1.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="15"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Munttoren, Amsterdam"><img alt="Munttoren, Amsterdam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg/250px-Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="482" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg/375px-Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg/500px-Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2593" data-file-height="5000"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Munttoren" title="Munttoren">Munttoren</a></b>, a <a href="/wiki/Tower" title="Tower">tower</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, as seen from the river <a href="/wiki/Amstel" title="Amstel">Amstel</a> at dusk. The tower was originally part of the Regulierspoort, one of the main gates in Amsterdam's medieval <a href="/wiki/Defensive_wall" title="Defensive wall">city wall</a>, dating to 1487. After a fire destroyed the gate in 1618, the tower was rebuilt in the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_in_the_Low_Countries" title="Renaissance in the Low Countries">Amsterdam Renaissance</a> style, with an eight-sided top half and open spire designed by <a href="/wiki/Hendrick_de_Keyser" title="Hendrick de Keyser">Hendrick de Keyser</a>, featuring a clock with four faces and a <a href="/wiki/Carillon" title="Carillon">carillon</a> of bells. The name ("Mint Tower") refers to the time when it was temporarily used to <a href="/wiki/Mint_(coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mint (coin)">mint</a> coins in the <i><a href="/wiki/Rampjaar" title="Rampjaar">Rampjaar</a></i> ("disastrous year") of 1672 when both <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> declared war on the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> could not be safely transported to <a href="/wiki/Dordrecht" title="Dordrecht">Dordrecht</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enkhuizen" title="Enkhuizen">Enkhuizen</a>, where coins were normally minted. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Massimo_Catarinella" title="User:Massimo Catarinella">Massimo Catarinella</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/2010-10-14" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-14"><i>Lophyra</i> sp tiger beetle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-13" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-13">B'nai B'rith membership certificate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-12" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-12">1639 Hispaniola map</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/2010-10-15" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-15">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-15&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-15 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-15&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-15&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-15&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Munttoren_Amsterdam.jpg" title="File:Munttoren Amsterdam.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="16"><b>October 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:Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Rosemary Grevillea"><img alt="Rosemary Grevillea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg/350px-Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg/525px-Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg/700px-Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1849" data-file-height="1271"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Flower" title="Flower">flower</a> of a <b><a href="/wiki/Grevillea_rosmarinifolia" title="Grevillea rosmarinifolia">Rosemary Grevillea</a></b> (<i>Grevillea rosmarinifolia</i>), a popular <a href="/wiki/Evergreen" title="Evergreen">evergreen</a> garden plant native to <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> in Australia. The <a href="/wiki/Leaf" title="Leaf">leaves</a> are needle-like, 0.8 to 3.8 cm (0.3–1.5 in) long, which gives the plant an appearance similar to <a href="/wiki/Rosemary" title="Rosemary">rosemary</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-15" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-15">Munttoren, Amsterdam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-14" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-14"><i>Lophyra</i> sp tiger beetle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-13" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-13">B'nai B'rith membership certificate</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/2010-10-16" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-16">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-16&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-16 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-16&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-16&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-16&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Grevillea_rosmarinifolia.jpg" title="File:Grevillea rosmarinifolia.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="17"><b>October 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; width:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Midas_gold2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="King Midas"><img alt="King Midas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Midas_gold2.jpg/250px-Midas_gold2.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="372" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Midas_gold2.jpg/375px-Midas_gold2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Midas_gold2.jpg/500px-Midas_gold2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1120" data-file-height="1665"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>An illustration from an 1893 version of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Wonder-Book_for_Girls_and_Boys" title="A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys">A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>, which recounted the tale of <b><a href="/wiki/Midas" title="Midas">King Midas</a></b>. In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, Midas was given ability to turn everything he touched into <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> by the god <a href="/wiki/Bacchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bacchus">Bacchus</a>. However, he soon discovered that he was unable to even eat. Bacchus told him to wash in the river <a href="/wiki/Pactolus" title="Pactolus">Pactolus</a>, and the power flowed in the river, which was supposedly the reason for why the river was so rich in gold in later years. In Hawthorne's version, Midas' touch even turned his daughter to gold (pictured here). </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Artist: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Crane" title="Walter Crane">Walter Crane</a>; Restoration: <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/2010-10-16" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-16">Rosemary Grevillea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-15" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-15">Munttoren, Amsterdam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-14" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-14"><i>Lophyra</i> sp tiger beetle</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/2010-10-17" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-17">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-17&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-17 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-17&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-17&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-17&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Midas_gold2.jpg" title="File:Midas gold2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="18"><b>October 18</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:Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Trumpet piston valve"><img alt="Trumpet piston valve" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg/250px-Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="394" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg/375px-Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg/500px-Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1628" data-file-height="2566"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The anatomy of a Périnet <b><a href="/wiki/Piston_valve" title="Piston valve">piston valve</a></b>, this one taken from a <a href="/wiki/Transposing_instrument" title="Transposing instrument">B♭</a> <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpet</a>. When depressed, the valve diverts the air stream through additional tubing, thus lengthening the instrument and lowering the <a href="/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)" title="Harmonic series (music)">harmonic series</a> on which the instrument is vibrating (i.e., it lowers the <a href="/wiki/Pitch_(music)" title="Pitch (music)">pitch</a>). Trumpets generally use three valves, with some variations, such as a <a href="/wiki/Piccolo_trumpet" title="Piccolo trumpet">piccolo trumpet</a>, having four. When used singly or in combination, the valves make the instrument fully <a href="/wiki/Chromatic_scale" title="Chromatic scale">chromatic</a>, or capable of playing all twelve pitches of <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>. Trumpets may also use <a href="/wiki/Rotary_valve" title="Rotary valve">rotary valves</a> instead. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Eusebius" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Eusebius">Guillaume Piolle</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/2010-10-17" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-17">King Midas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-16" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-16">Rosemary Grevillea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-15" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-15">Munttoren, Amsterdam</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/2010-10-18" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-18">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-18&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-18 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-18&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-18&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-18&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Trompette_-_premier_piston_-_montage_perspective.jpg" title="File:Trompette - premier piston - montage perspective.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="19"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Honey fungus"><img alt="Honey fungus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg/250px-Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg/375px-Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg/500px-Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="1944"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><a href="/wiki/Mushroom" title="Mushroom">Mushrooms</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Armillaria_hinnulea" title="Armillaria hinnulea">Armillaria hinnulea</a></i>, a species of <b><a href="/wiki/Honey_fungus" class="mw-redirect" title="Honey fungus">honey fungus</a></b> (or "pidpenky", from <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>). Honey fungi are <a href="/wiki/Parasite" class="mw-redirect" title="Parasite">parasitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungi</a> that live on trees and woody shrubs. As a forest <a href="/wiki/Pathogen" title="Pathogen">pathogen</a>, it can be very destructive because unlike most parasites, it does not need to moderate its growth in order to avoid killing its host, since it will continue to thrive on the dead material. Honey fungi are long lived and form some of the <a href="/wiki/Largest_organisms" title="Largest organisms">largest living organisms</a> in the world, including one that covers more than 3.4 sq mi (8.8 km<sup>2</sup>) and is thousands of years old. The mushrooms are <a href="/wiki/Edible_mushroom" title="Edible mushroom">edible</a>, but can be easily confused with <a href="/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning" title="Mushroom poisoning">poisonous</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Galerina" title="Galerina">Galerina</a></i> species, which can grow side-by-side with <i>Armillaria</i>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-18" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-18">Trumpet piston valve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-17" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-17">King Midas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-16" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-16">Rosemary Grevillea</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/2010-10-19" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-19">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-19&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-19 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-19&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-19&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-19&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Armillaria_sp_Marriott_edit.jpg" title="File:Armillaria sp Marriott edit.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="20"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte,_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo,_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de,_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_(1763-1844).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Charles XIV John"><img alt="Charles XIV John" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg/250px-Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="387" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg/375px-Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg/500px-Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte%2C_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo%2C_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de%2C_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_%281763-1844%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3897" data-file-height="6030"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A full-length portrait of then-<a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_France" title="Marshal of France">French Marshal</a> Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (1763–1844), who later became <b><a href="/wiki/Charles_XIV_John" title="Charles XIV John">King Charles XIV John</a></b> of <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>. Bernadotte had a long and decorated career in the <a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">French Army</a>, when he was unexpectedly elected the heir to the childless <a href="/wiki/Charles_XIII" title="Charles XIII">King Charles XIII</a>. His election was due to two main factors: the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Army" title="Swedish Army">Swedish Army</a> were in favour of electing a soldier in view of future complications with Russia, and he had shown kindness to Swedish prisoners during the recent war with <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>. Although he never learned to speak <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>, during his reign, Sweden and Norway became <a href="/wiki/Union_between_Sweden_and_Norway" title="Union between Sweden and Norway">united</a>, and both experienced great material development. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Artist: Joseph Nicolas Jouy</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/2010-10-19" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-19">Honey fungus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-18" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-18">Trumpet piston valve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-17" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-17">King Midas</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/2010-10-20" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-20">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-20&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-20 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-20&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-20&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-20&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste-Jules_Bernadotte,_Prince_de_Ponte-Corvo,_roi_de_Su%C3%A8de,_Mar%C3%A9chal_de_France_(1763-1844).jpg" title="File:Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte-Corvo, roi de Suède, Maréchal de France (1763-1844).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="21"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge"><img alt="Samuel Taylor Coleridge" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg/250px-Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg/375px-Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg/500px-Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4308" data-file-height="5899"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraving</a> of English philosopher and poet <b><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></b> (1772–1834), most famous for his poems <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Kubla_Khan" title="Kubla Khan">Kubla Khan</a></i>. Coleridge was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Lake_Poets" title="Lake Poets">Lake Poets</a> who, with his friend <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, founded the <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romantic Movement</a> in England. He also helped introduce <a href="/wiki/German_idealism" title="German idealism">German idealism</a> to English-speaking culture and was influential on American <a href="/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">transcendentalism</a> (via <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>). Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of <a href="/wiki/Anxiety" title="Anxiety">anxiety</a> and <a href="/wiki/Depression_(mood)" title="Depression (mood)">depression</a>, which he chose to treat with <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a>, becoming an <a href="/wiki/Substance_dependence" title="Substance dependence">addict</a> in the process. He died at age 61 due to symptoms typical of prolonged opium usage. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Engraving: <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Cousins" title="Samuel Cousins">Samuel Cousins</a>; Artist: <a href="/wiki/Washington_Allston" title="Washington Allston">Washington Allston</a>; Restoration: <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/2010-10-20" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-20">Charles XIV John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-19" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-19">Honey fungus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-18" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-18">Trumpet piston valve</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/2010-10-21" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-21">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-21&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-21 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-21&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-21&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-21&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_at_age_42.jpg" title="File:Samuel Taylor Coleridge at age 42.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="22"><b>October 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:275px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:First_parachute2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute"><img alt="André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/First_parachute2.jpg/275px-First_parachute2.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/First_parachute2.jpg/413px-First_parachute2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/First_parachute2.jpg/550px-First_parachute2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4359" data-file-height="4604"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Schematic" title="Schematic">schematic</a> depiction of the first successful frameless <a href="/wiki/Parachute" title="Parachute">parachute</a>, invented by <b><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Jacques_Garnerin" title="André-Jacques Garnerin">André-Jacques Garnerin</a></b> (1769–1823). On <span class="nowrap">October 22</span>, 1797, Garnerin rode in a basket hanging from the parachute, which was attached to the bottom of a <a href="/wiki/Hot_air_balloon" title="Hot air balloon">hot air balloon</a> (centre). At a height of approximately 3,000 feet (910 m), he severed the rope that connected his parachute to the balloon. The basket swung during descent, then bumped and scraped when it landed, but Garnerin emerged uninjured. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Artist: Unknown; Restoration: <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/2010-10-21" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-21">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-20" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-20">Charles XIV John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-19" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-19">Honey fungus</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/2010-10-22" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-22">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-22&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-22 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-22&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-22&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-22&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:First_parachute2.jpg" title="File:First parachute2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="23"><b>October 23</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:Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Superb Lyrebird"><img alt="Superb Lyrebird" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg/350px-Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg/525px-Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg/700px-Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Superb_Lyrebird" class="mw-redirect" title="Superb Lyrebird">Superb Lyrebird</a></b> (<i>Menura novaehollandiae</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Pheasant" title="Pheasant">pheasant</a>-sized <a href="/wiki/Songbird" title="Songbird">songbird</a> <a href="/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> to Australia. At approximately 100 cm (39 in) long, it is the longest of all songbirds. The male (shown here) has a showy tail, with the two outermost <a href="/wiki/Feather" title="Feather">feathers</a> forming the shape of a <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Fir0002" title="User:Fir0002">Fir0002</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/2010-10-22" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-22">André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-21" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-21">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-20" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-20">Charles XIV John</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/2010-10-23" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-23">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-23&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-23 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-23&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-23&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-23&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Superb_lyrbird_in_scrub.jpg" title="File:Superb lyrbird in scrub.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="24"><b>October 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Junonia_villida_tas.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Meadow Argus"><img alt="Meadow Argus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Junonia_villida_tas.jpg/350px-Junonia_villida_tas.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Junonia_villida_tas.jpg/525px-Junonia_villida_tas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Junonia_villida_tas.jpg/700px-Junonia_villida_tas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1931" data-file-height="1322"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A <b><a href="/wiki/Meadow_Argus" class="mw-redirect" title="Meadow Argus">Meadow Argus</a></b> (<i>Junonia villida</i>) <a href="/wiki/Butterfly" title="Butterfly">butterfly</a>, with its <a href="/wiki/Insect_wing" title="Insect wing">wings</a> closed in a resting position. The species is found mainly in Australia and neighboring islands, but it was also accidentally <a href="/wiki/Introduced_species" title="Introduced species">introduced</a> to the United Kingdom, where it is known as Albin's Hampstead Eye. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-23" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-23">Superb Lyrebird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-22" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-22">André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-21" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-21">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</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/2010-10-24" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-24">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-24&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-24 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-24&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-24&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-24&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Junonia_villida_tas.jpg" title="File:Junonia villida tas.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="25"><b>October 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:William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade,_25th_Oct._1854,_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava"><img alt="The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg/350px-William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg/525px-William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg/700px-William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4353" data-file-height="2880"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>On <span class="nowrap">October 25</span>, 1854, during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava" title="Battle of Balaclava">Battle of Balaclava</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Cavalry" title="Cavalry">cavalry</a> units <a href="/wiki/Charge_(warfare)" title="Charge (warfare)">charged</a> heavily fortified <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian</a> opposition, an action known as the <b><a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade" title="Charge of the Light Brigade">Charge of the Light Brigade</a></b>. By mischance, they attacked the wrong target, as the orders were unclear, and as a result suffered great casualties. <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)">famous poem</a> made the charge a symbol of warfare at both its most courageous and its most tragic. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Artist: <a href="/wiki/William_Simpson_(Scottish_artist)" title="William Simpson (Scottish artist)">William Simpson</a>; Restoration: <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/2010-10-24" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-24">Meadow Argus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-23" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-23">Superb Lyrebird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-22" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-22">André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute</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/2010-10-25" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-25">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-25&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-25 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-25&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-25&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-25&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade,_25th_Oct._1854,_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.jpg" title="File:William Simpson - Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="26"><b>October 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:Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Blue Potato Bush"><img alt="Blue Potato Bush" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg/250px-Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg/375px-Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg/500px-Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1344" data-file-height="1972"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Lycianthes_rantonnetii" title="Lycianthes rantonnetii">Blue Potato Bush</a> is one of about 200 species in the <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> <i><b><a href="/wiki/Lycianthes" title="Lycianthes">Lycianthes</a></b></i>, which are found mostly in <a href="/wiki/Tropics" title="Tropics">tropical regions</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a>, and others located in the <a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a> region. <i>Lycianthes</i> is apparently closely related to the chili peppers (<i><a href="/wiki/Capsicum" title="Capsicum">Capsicum</a></i>). However, it was long confused with the nightshades (<i><a href="/wiki/Solanum" title="Solanum">Solanum</a></i>), and several little-known <i>Solanum</i> species presumably should be included with <i>Lycianthes</i>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-25" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-25"><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-24" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-24">Meadow Argus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-23" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-23">Superb Lyrebird</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/2010-10-26" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-26">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-26&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-26 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-26&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-26&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-26&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Lycianthes_rantonnetii.jpg" title="File:Lycianthes rantonnetii.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="27"><b>October 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:220px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mandarin Ducks"><img alt="Mandarin Ducks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg/220px-Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="492" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg/330px-Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg/440px-Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3886" data-file-height="8688"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i>Mandarin Ducks</i> by <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing_in_Japan" title="Woodblock printing in Japan">Japanese woodblock</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Hiroshige" title="Hiroshige">Hiroshige Utagawa</a>, accompanied by a poem which reads: </p><p><i>Out in a morning wind,</i><br/> <i>Have seen a pair of mandarin ducks parting.</i><br/> <i>Even the best loving couple makes a quarrel.</i> </p><p>Hiroshige was a member of the <b><a href="/wiki/Utagawa_school" title="Utagawa school">Utagawa school</a></b>, which was founded by <a href="/wiki/Utagawa_Toyoharu" title="Utagawa Toyoharu">Utagawa Toyoharu</a>, whose primary innovation was his adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)" title="Perspective (graphical)">linear perspective</a> to Japanese subject matter. His pupil, <a href="/wiki/Utagawa_Toyokuni" title="Utagawa Toyokuni">Toyokuni I</a>, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century, so much so that today more than half of all surviving <a href="/wiki/Ukiyo-e" title="Ukiyo-e">ukiyo-e</a> prints are from it. In addition to Hiroshige, <a href="/wiki/Kunisada" title="Kunisada">Kunisada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi" title="Utagawa Kuniyoshi">Kuniyoshi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tsukioka_Yoshitoshi" title="Tsukioka Yoshitoshi">Yoshitoshi</a> were Utagawa students. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Restoration: <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/2010-10-26" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-26">Blue Potato Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-25" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-25"><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-24" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-24">Meadow Argus</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/2010-10-27" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-27">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-27 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-27&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-27&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-27&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Mandarin_duck_woodcut3.jpg" title="File:Mandarin duck woodcut3.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="28"><b>October 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bank of Tanzania"><img alt="Bank of Tanzania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg/350px-Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg/525px-Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg/700px-Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The headquarters of the <b><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Tanzania" title="Bank of Tanzania">Bank of Tanzania</a></b>, located in <a href="/wiki/Dar_es_Salaam" title="Dar es Salaam">Dar es Salaam</a>, the central bank of the <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">United Republic of Tanzania</a>. It is responsible for issuing the national <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currency</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tanzanian_shilling" title="Tanzanian shilling">Tanzanian shilling</a>. Since 1995, <a href="/wiki/Monetary_policy" title="Monetary policy">monetary policy</a> has been its only responsibility. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Muhammad_Mahdi_Karim" title="User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim">Muhammad Mahdi Karim</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/2010-10-27" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-27"><i>Mandarin Ducks</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-26" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-26">Blue Potato Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-25" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-25"><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava</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/2010-10-28" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-28">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-28&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-28 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-28&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-28&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-28&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Bank_of_Tanzania_golden_hour.jpg" title="File:Bank of Tanzania golden hour.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="29"><b>October 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:275px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bromine"><img alt="Bromine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg/275px-Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg/413px-Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg/550px-Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3421" data-file-height="3387"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A sealed vial of liquid <b><a href="/wiki/Bromine" title="Bromine">bromine</a></b>, encased in an <a href="/wiki/Acrylate_polymers" class="mw-redirect" title="Acrylate polymers">acrylic</a> cube, which is a common and secure way of presenting the <a href="/wiki/Chemical_element" title="Chemical element">chemical element</a> for teaching purposes, as its vapors are <a href="/wiki/Corrosive_substance" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrosive substance">corrosive</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toxicity" title="Toxicity">toxic</a>. In nature, bromine exists exclusively as <a href="/wiki/Bromide" title="Bromide">bromide</a> salts in diffuse amounts in <a href="/wiki/Crust_(geology)" title="Crust (geology)">crustal</a> rock. Organobromine compounds are used in a wide variety of products, including <a href="/wiki/Fire_retardant" title="Fire retardant">fire retardant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gasoline_additive" class="mw-redirect" title="Gasoline additive">gasoline additives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pesticide" title="Pesticide">pesticides</a>, and anti-<a href="/wiki/Convulsion" title="Convulsion">convulsant</a> medicines. It has no known essential role in human or mammalian health. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Alchemist-hp" title="User:Alchemist-hp">Alchemist-hp</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/2010-10-28" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-28">Bank of Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-27" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-27"><i>Mandarin Ducks</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-26" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-26">Blue Potato Bush</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/2010-10-29" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-29">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-29 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-29&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-29&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-29&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Bromine_vial_in_acrylic_cube.jpg" title="File:Bromine vial in acrylic cube.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="30"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mycena_sp.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mycena sp. mushrooms"><img alt="Mycena sp. mushrooms" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mycena_sp.jpg/250px-Mycena_sp.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mycena_sp.jpg/375px-Mycena_sp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mycena_sp.jpg/500px-Mycena_sp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="1944"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>Unidentified species of <a href="/wiki/Mushroom" title="Mushroom">mushrooms</a> belonging to the <i><b><a href="/wiki/Mycena" title="Mycena">Mycena</a></b></i> genus, a large grouping of <a href="/wiki/Saprotrophic_nutrition" title="Saprotrophic nutrition">saprotrophic</a> <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungi</a>. <i>Mycena</i> mushrooms are characterized by a white <a href="/wiki/Spore_print" title="Spore print">spore print</a>, a small conical or bell-shaped <a href="/wiki/Pileus_(mycology)" title="Pileus (mycology)">cap</a>, and a thin fragile <a href="/wiki/Stipe_(mycology)" title="Stipe (mycology)">stem</a>. They are hard to identify to the species level and some are distinguishable only by microscopic features such as the shape of the <a href="/wiki/Cystidia" class="mw-redirect" title="Cystidia">cystidia</a>. These specimens were observed in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Field_National_Park" title="Mount Field National Park">Mount Field National Park</a> in Tasmania, Australia. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photo: <a href="/wiki/User:Noodle_snacks" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Noodle snacks">Noodle snacks</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/2010-10-29" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-29">Bromine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-28" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-28">Bank of Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-27" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-27"><i>Mandarin Ducks</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/2010-10-30" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-30">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2010-10-30&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2010-10-30 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-30&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-30&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2010-10-30&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Mycena_sp.jpg" title="File:Mycena sp.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="31"><b>October 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:250px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Raven_Manet_D2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""The Raven""><img alt=""The Raven"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Raven_Manet_D2.jpg/250px-Raven_Manet_D2.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="379" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Raven_Manet_D2.jpg/375px-Raven_Manet_D2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Raven_Manet_D2.jpg/500px-Raven_Manet_D2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3416" data-file-height="5185"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>An illustration by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a> for a French publication of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Narrative_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrative poem">narrative poem</a> <b>"<a href="/wiki/The_Raven" title="The Raven">The Raven</a>"</b>. In the poem, the <a href="/wiki/Raven" title="Raven">raven</a> flies into the narrator's home and perches on a <a href="/wiki/Bust_(sculpture)" title="Bust (sculpture)">bust</a> of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Pallas Athena</a> (seen here). The narrator then asks the bird a series of questions, to which the bird only replies, "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 is <a href="/wiki/The_Raven_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="The Raven in popular culture">referenced throughout popular culture</a> in films, television, music and more. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Restoration: <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/2010-10-30" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-30"><i>Mycena</i> sp. mushrooms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-29" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-29">Bromine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-10-28" title="Template:POTD/2010-10-28">Bank of Tanzania</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" 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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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 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