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scope="row">2004: </th> <td><span style="color:gray;">January</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">February</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">March</span> </td> <td><span style="color:gray;">April</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2004">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2004">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2004">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2004">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2004">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2004">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2004">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2004">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2005: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2005">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2005">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2005">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2005">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2005">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2005">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2005">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2005">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2005">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2005">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2005">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2006: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2006">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2006">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2006">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2006">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2006">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2006">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2006">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2006">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2006">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2006">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2006">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2006">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2007: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2007">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2007">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2007">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2007">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2007">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2007">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2007">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2007">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2007">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2007">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2008: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2008">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2008">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2008">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2008">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2008">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2008">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2008">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2008">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2008">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2008">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2008">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2009: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2009">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2009">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2009">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2009">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2009">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2009">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2009">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2009">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2009">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2009">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2009">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2010: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2010">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2010">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2010">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2010">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2010">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2010">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2010">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2010">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2010">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2010">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2010">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2010">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2011: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2011">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2011">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2011">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2011">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2011">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2011">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2011">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2011">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2011">September</a> </td> <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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 August 2023. 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/August 2023<b>#1</b>]]</code> for August 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"><i class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/Special:Purge/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2023" title="Special:Purge/Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2023"><small>Purge server cache</small></a></i></span> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="1"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Ambigram"><img alt="Ambigram" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif/300px-Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif/450px-Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif/600px-Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif 2x" data-file-width="938" data-file-height="938"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>An <b><a href="/wiki/Ambigram" title="Ambigram">ambigram</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligraphic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typographic</a> design with multiple interpretations as written words. Alternative meanings are often yielded when the design is transformed or the observer moves, but they can also result from a shift in mental perspective. This animation shows a half-turn ambigram of the word <i>ambigram</i>. The word is written calligraphically with 180-degree <a href="/wiki/Rotational_symmetry" title="Rotational symmetry">rotational symmetry</a>, such that it reads identically when viewed upside down. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Calligraphy and animation credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Basile_Morin" title="User:Basile Morin">Basile Morin</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/2023-07-31" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-31">Giuseppe Verdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-30" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-30">Geoffroy's tamarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-29" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-29"><i>Officer and Laughing Girl</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/2023-08-01" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-01">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-01&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-01 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-01&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-01&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-01&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Ambigram_of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif" title="File:Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation.gif">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="2"><b>August 2</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="San Francisco cable car system"><img alt="San Francisco cable car system" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg/350px-Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="501" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg/525px-Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg/700px-Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2498" data-file-height="3578"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system" title="San Francisco cable car system">San Francisco cable car system</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/Cable_car_(railway)" title="Cable car (railway)">cable-car</a> rail network in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, California. Conceived by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie" title="Andrew Smith Hallidie">Andrew Smith Hallidie</a>, the system's first line was the <a href="/wiki/Clay_Street_Hill_Railroad" title="Clay Street Hill Railroad">Clay Street Hill Railroad</a>, which opened on August 2, 1873. By 1890, the system had expanded to twenty-three lines, of which three remain in operation as of 2023. The cars are pulled by a cable running below the street, which is held by a grip that extends from the car through a slit in the street surface, between the rails. This 2016 photograph shows a cable car traveling on <a href="/wiki/Hyde_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyde Street">Hyde Street</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Alcatraz_Island" title="Alcatraz Island">Alcatraz Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Wharf,_San_Francisco" title="Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco">Fisherman's Wharf</a> visible in the background. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Der_Wolf_im_Wald" title="User:Der Wolf im Wald">Thomas Wolf</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/2023-08-01" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-01">Ambigram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-31" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-31">Giuseppe Verdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-30" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-30">Geoffroy's tamarin</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/2023-08-02" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-02">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-02&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-02 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-02&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-02&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-02&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Cable_Car_No._1_and_Alcatraz_Island.jpg" title="File:Cable Car No. 1 and Alcatraz Island.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="3"><b>August 3</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:center; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse; padding:0.9em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sol de Mañana"><img alt="Sol de Mañana" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg/500px-Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg/750px-Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg/1000px-Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana" title="Sol de Mañana">Sol de Mañana</a></b> is an area with <a href="/wiki/Geothermal_activity" title="Geothermal activity">geothermal manifestations</a> in southern Bolivia, including <a href="/wiki/Fumarole" title="Fumarole">fumaroles</a>, hot springs and mud pools. It lies at about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft) elevation, south of <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Colorada_Airport" title="Laguna Colorada Airport">Laguna Colorada</a> and east of <a href="/wiki/El_Tatio" title="El Tatio">El Tatio</a> geothermal field. The field is located within the <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Avaroa_Andean_Fauna_National_Reserve" title="Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve">Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve</a> and is an important tourism attraction on the road between <a href="/wiki/Uyuni" title="Uyuni">Uyuni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antofagasta" title="Antofagasta">Antofagasta</a>. The field has been prospected as a possible <a href="/wiki/Geothermal_power" title="Geothermal power">geothermal power production</a> site, with research beginning in the 1970s and after a pause recommencing in 2010. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:kallerna" class="extiw" title="c:user:kallerna">kallerna</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/2023-08-02" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-02">San Francisco cable car system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-01" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-01">Ambigram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-31" title="Template:POTD/2023-07-31">Giuseppe Verdi</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/2023-08-03" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-03">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-03&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-03 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-03&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-03&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-03&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Sol_de_Ma%C3%B1ana_2018.jpg" title="File:Sol de Mañana 2018.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="4"><b>August 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon,_Vaudeville.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jacques Isnardon"><img alt="Jacques Isnardon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg/350px-Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="486" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg/525px-Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg/700px-Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon%2C_Vaudeville.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2456" data-file-height="3408"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Isnardon" title="Jacques Isnardon">Jacques Isnardon</a></b> (1860–1930) was a French <a href="/wiki/Bass-baritone" title="Bass-baritone">bass-baritone</a>, writer and <a href="/wiki/Voice_teacher" title="Voice teacher">voice teacher</a>. After winning a competition at the <a href="/wiki/Conservatoire_de_Paris" title="Conservatoire de Paris">Conservatoire de Paris</a>, he made his debut as Baxter in <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Paladilhe" title="Émile Paladilhe">Émile Paladilhe</a>'s <i>Diane</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra-Comique" title="Opéra-Comique">Opéra-Comique</a> in 1885, before moving to Brussels and the <a href="/wiki/La_Monnaie" title="La Monnaie">Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie</a>, whose history he chronicled. He sang in <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Meistersinger_von_N%C3%BCrnberg" title="Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg">Die Meistersinger</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Opera House">Covent Garden</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Manon" title="Manon">Manon</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Le_m%C3%A9decin_malgr%C3%A9_lui_(opera)" title="Le médecin malgré lui (opera)">Le médecin malgré lui</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_de_Monte-Carlo" title="Opéra de Monte-Carlo">Monte Carlo</a> before returning to the Opéra-Comique in 1894. One of his students was the American actress, writer, and translator <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Fox_Brooks" title="Virginia Fox Brooks">Virginia Fox Brooks</a>. This photograph of Isnardon was taken by French photographer <a href="/wiki/Nadar" title="Nadar">Nadar</a> in the late 19th century. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/Nadar" title="Nadar">Nadar</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-03" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-03">Sol de Mañana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-02" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-02">San Francisco cable car system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-01" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-01">Ambigram</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/2023-08-04" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-04">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-04&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-04 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-04&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-04&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-04&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Atelier_Nadar_-_Jacques_Isnardon,_Vaudeville.jpg" title="File:Atelier Nadar - Jacques Isnardon, Vaudeville.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="5"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Viburnum opulus"><img alt="Viburnum opulus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg/400px-Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg/600px-Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg/800px-Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Viburnum_opulus" title="Viburnum opulus">Viburnum opulus</a></b></i>, the guelder rose, is a species of <a href="/wiki/Flowering_plant" title="Flowering plant">flowering plant</a> in the family <a href="/wiki/Adoxaceae" title="Adoxaceae">Adoxaceae</a> native to Europe, northern Africa and central Asia. Its common name relates to the Dutch province of <a href="/wiki/Gelderland" title="Gelderland">Gelderland</a>, where a popular cultivar, the snowball tree, supposedly originated. This photograph of a <i>V. opulus</i> <a href="/wiki/Infructescence" title="Infructescence">infructescence</a> (ensemble of <a href="/wiki/Fruit" title="Fruit">fruits</a>) was taken in <a href="/wiki/Keila" title="Keila">Keila</a>, Estonia. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:lifar" class="extiw" title="c:user:lifar">Ivar Leidus</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/2023-08-04" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-04">Jacques Isnardon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-03" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-03">Sol de Mañana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-02" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-02">San Francisco cable car system</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/2023-08-05" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-05">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-05&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-05 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-05&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-05&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-05&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Viburnum_opulus_fruits_-_Keila.jpg" title="File:Viburnum opulus fruits - Keila.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="6"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="South Georgia"><img alt="South Georgia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg/400px-South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg/600px-South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg/800px-South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7618" data-file-height="5777"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia" title="South Georgia">South Georgia</a></b> is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">British Overseas Territory</a> of <a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a>. It lies around 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) east of the <a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a>. Stretching in the east–west direction, South Georgia is around 170 kilometres (106 mi) long and has a maximum width of 35 kilometres (22 mi). The terrain is mountainous, with the central ridge rising to an elevation of 2,935 metres (9,629 ft) at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Paget" title="Mount Paget">Mount Paget</a>. The northern coast is indented with numerous bays and fjords, serving as good harbours. This satellite image of South Georgia was taken by the <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sentinel-2" title="Sentinel-2"><span class="nowrap">Sentinel-2</span></a> in February 2018. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</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/2023-08-05" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-05"><i>Viburnum opulus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-04" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-04">Jacques Isnardon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-03" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-03">Sol de Mañana</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/2023-08-06" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-06">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-06&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-06 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-06&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-06&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-06&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:South_Georgia_Island_as_seen_by_Sentinel-2.jpg" title="File:South Georgia Island as seen by Sentinel-2.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="7"><b>August 7</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:Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_(NL7227C)_(50657253887).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Texas Raiders"><img alt="Texas Raiders" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg/500px-Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg/750px-Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg/1000px-Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_%28NL7227C%29_%2850657253887%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3629" data-file-height="2419"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Texas_Raiders" title="Texas Raiders">Texas Raiders</a></b></i> was an American <a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress" title="Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress">Boeing <span class="nowrap">B-17</span> Flying Fortress</a> built by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Aircraft_Company" title="Douglas Aircraft Company">Douglas-Long Beach</a>. In 1967, it was purchased by a group of the <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Force" title="Commemorative Air Force">Commemorative Air Force</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_Wing" title="Gulf Coast Wing">Gulf Coast Wing</a>, which maintained and flew the aircraft out of <a href="/wiki/Conroe-North_Houston_Regional_Airport" title="Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport">Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Conroe,_Texas" title="Conroe, Texas">Conroe, Texas</a>. It was destroyed on November 12, 2022, <a href="/wiki/2022_Dallas_airshow_mid-air_collision" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Dallas airshow mid-air collision">in a mid-air collision</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Bell_P-63_Kingcobra" title="Bell P-63 Kingcobra">Bell <span class="nowrap">P-63</span> Kingcobra</a> at an <a href="/wiki/Air_show" title="Air show">air show</a> at <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Executive_Airport" title="Dallas Executive Airport">Dallas Executive Airport</a>. All five people on board <i>Texas Raiders</i> and the pilot of the <span class="nowrap">P-63</span> were killed. This photograph, taken in 2019 at <a href="/wiki/Ellington_Airport_(Texas)" title="Ellington Airport (Texas)">Ellington Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, shows <i>Texas Raiders</i> re-enacting a scene from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Tora!_Tora!_Tora!" title="Tora! Tora! Tora!">Tora! Tora! Tora!</a></i> during a simulated attack by members of the Commemorative Air Force's Pearl Harbor re-enactment group. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: Alan Wilson</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/2023-08-06" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-06">South Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-05" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-05"><i>Viburnum opulus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-04" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-04">Jacques Isnardon</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/2023-08-07" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-07">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-07&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-07 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-07&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-07&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-07&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_B-17G-95-DL_Flying_Fortress_%E2%80%98VP-X_-_L_-_483872_-_X%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9CTexas_Raiders%E2%80%9D_(NL7227C)_(50657253887).jpg" title="File:Douglas B-17G-95-DL Flying Fortress ‘VP-X - L - 483872 - X’ “Texas Raiders” (NL7227C) (50657253887).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="8"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emerald_swift_(Sceloporus_malachiticus)_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sceloporus malachiticus"><img alt="Sceloporus malachiticus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg/400px-Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg/600px-Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg/800px-Emerald_swift_%28Sceloporus_malachiticus%29_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4095" data-file-height="2048"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sceloporus_malachiticus" title="Sceloporus malachiticus">Sceloporus malachiticus</a></b></i>, commonly known as the emerald swift or the green spiny lizard, is a species of small <a href="/wiki/Lizard" title="Lizard">lizard</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Phrynosomatidae" title="Phrynosomatidae">Phrynosomatidae</a> family, native to Central America. This photograph of a <i>S. malachiticus</i> lizard taken in <a href="/wiki/Antigua_Guatemala" title="Antigua Guatemala">Antigua Guatemala</a>, Guatemala, was <a href="/wiki/Focus_stacking" title="Focus stacking">focus-stacked</a> from nine separate images. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. Sharp</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-07" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-07"><i>Texas Raiders</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-06" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-06">South Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-05" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-05"><i>Viburnum opulus</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/2023-08-08" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-08">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-08&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-08 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-08&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-08&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-08&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Emerald_swift_(Sceloporus_malachiticus)_Finca_El_Pilar.jpg" title="File:Emerald swift (Sceloporus malachiticus) Finca El Pilar.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="9"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_(Official_Photo,_2016)_Alejandra_Vaca,_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lidia Patty"><img alt="Lidia Patty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg/300px-Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="449" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg/450px-Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg/600px-Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_%28Official_Photo%2C_2016%29_Alejandra_Vaca%2C_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1971" data-file-height="2953"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Lidia_Patty" title="Lidia Patty">Lidia Patty</a></b> (born 1969) is a Bolivian politician who is a former member of the <a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Bolivia)" title="Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia)">Chamber of Deputies</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Movimiento_al_Socialismo" title="Movimiento al Socialismo">Movimiento al Socialismo</a> (Movement for Socialism). A member of the <a href="/wiki/Kallawaya" title="Kallawaya">Kallawaya</a> – an <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" title="Indigenous peoples">indigenous people</a> native to western Bolivia – she was a domestic worker and schoolteacher before entering politics. After maintaining a low profile in parliament, Patty gained national attention after her term ended when she opened a <a href="/wiki/Complaint" title="Complaint">complaint</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_crisis" title="2019 Bolivian political crisis">2019 Bolivian political crisis</a>, which resulted in the criminal prosecution of former president <a href="/wiki/Jeanine_%C3%81%C3%B1ez" title="Jeanine Áñez">Jeanine Áñez</a>. A polemical figure for her frequent denunciations of opposition and ruling party officials, Patty ran unsuccessfully in <a href="/wiki/2022_Bolivian_ombudsman_election" title="2022 Bolivian ombudsman election">the 2022 election</a> for <a href="/wiki/Ombudsman%27s_Office_of_Bolivia" title="Ombudsman's Office of Bolivia">ombudsman of Bolivia</a>, and was briefly the Bolivian consul to <a href="/wiki/Puno" title="Puno">Puno</a>, Peru, in 2023 before being withdrawn amid <a href="/wiki/Bolivia%E2%80%93Peru_relations" title="Bolivia–Peru relations">deteriorating relations between the two countries</a>. This official portrait of Patty as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Plurinational_Legislative_Assembly" title="Plurinational Legislative Assembly">Plurinational Legislative Assembly</a> was taken in 2016. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: Alejandra Vaca</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/2023-08-08" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-08"><i>Sceloporus malachiticus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-07" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-07"><i>Texas Raiders</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-06" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-06">South Georgia</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/2023-08-09" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-09">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-09&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-09 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-09&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-09&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-09&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Lidia_Patty_Mullisaca_(Official_Photo,_2016)_Alejandra_Vaca,_Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Bolivia.jpg" title="File:Lidia Patty Mullisaca (Official Photo, 2016) Alejandra Vaca, Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="10"><b>August 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:Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Young Sabot Maker"><img alt="The Young Sabot Maker" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/350px-Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="472" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/525px-Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/700px-Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2966" data-file-height="4001"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Sabot_Maker" title="The Young Sabot Maker">The Young Sabot Maker</a></b></i> is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American artist <a href="/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner" title="Henry Ossawa Tanner">Henry Ossawa Tanner</a> in 1895. It was accepted for the 1895 <a href="/wiki/Salon_(Paris)" title="Salon (Paris)">Paris Salon</a>, and was Tanner's second painting entered for the Salon. The painting follows a theme Tanner used for his genre paintings, "age instructing youth", which can also be seen in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bagpipe_Lesson" title="The Bagpipe Lesson">The Bagpipe Lesson</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Banjo_Lesson" title="The Banjo Lesson">The Banjo Lesson</a></i>. The painting was purchased by a group of donors and sponsors and given to the <a href="/wiki/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art" title="Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art">Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City, Missouri</a>, in 1995. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner" title="Henry Ossawa Tanner">Henry Ossawa Tanner</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/2023-08-09" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-09">Lidia Patty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-08" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-08"><i>Sceloporus malachiticus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-07" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-07"><i>Texas Raiders</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/2023-08-10" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-10">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-10&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-10 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-10&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-10&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-10&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Ossawa_Tanner_-_The_Young_Sabot_Maker_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" title="File:Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Young Sabot Maker - Google Art Project.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="11"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vortex-street-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kármán vortex street"><img alt="Kármán vortex street" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vortex-street-1.jpg/300px-Vortex-street-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="538" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vortex-street-1.jpg/450px-Vortex-street-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vortex-street-1.jpg/600px-Vortex-street-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2549" data-file-height="4574"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>A <b><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_vortex_street" title="Kármán vortex street">Kármán vortex street</a></b> is a process in <a href="/wiki/Fluid_dynamics" title="Fluid dynamics">fluid dynamics</a> in which a repeating pattern of swirling <a href="/wiki/Vortex" title="Vortex">vortices</a>, caused by <a href="/wiki/Vortex_shedding" title="Vortex shedding">vortex shedding</a>, is responsible for the unsteady <a href="/wiki/Flow_separation" title="Flow separation">flow separation</a> of a fluid around blunt bodies. It is named after the Hungarian-American engineer and fluid dynamicist <a href="/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n" title="Theodore von Kármán">Theodore von Kármán</a>. This satellite image, taken by <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Landsat_7" title="Landsat 7">Landsat 7</a> in 1999, shows a Kármán vortex street caused by wind flowing around the <a href="/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Islands" title="Juan Fernández Islands">Juan Fernández Islands</a> off the Chilean coast in the South Pacific Ocean. The flow of atmospheric air over obstacles such as islands can cause visible vortex streets when a cloud layer is present at a certain altitude. It can reach a length of more than 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the obstacle in such cases, with a typical vortex diameter of 20 to 40 km (12 to 25 mi). </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Cahalan" title="Robert Cahalan">Robert Cahalan</a>, <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</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/2023-08-10" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-10"><i>The Young Sabot Maker</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-09" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-09">Lidia Patty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-08" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-08"><i>Sceloporus malachiticus</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/2023-08-11" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-11">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-11&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-11 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-11&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-11&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-11&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Vortex-street-1.jpg" title="File:Vortex-street-1.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="12"><b>August 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:1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sissieretta Jones"><img alt="Sissieretta Jones" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg/350px-1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="537" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg/525px-1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg/700px-1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7728" data-file-height="11848"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Sissieretta_Jones" title="Sissieretta Jones">Sissieretta Jones</a></b> (1868 or 1869 – 1933) was an American <a href="/wiki/Soprano" title="Soprano">soprano</a>. Sometimes nicknamed "The Black Patti" in reference to the Italian opera singer <a href="/wiki/Adelina_Patti" title="Adelina Patti">Adelina Patti</a>, her repertoire included <a href="/wiki/Grand_opera" title="Grand opera">grand opera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">light opera</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a>. Jones was trained at the Providence Academy of Music and the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Conservatory_of_Music" title="New England Conservatory of Music">New England Conservatory of Music</a>, and made her New York debut in 1888 at <a href="/wiki/Steinway_Hall" title="Steinway Hall">Steinway Hall</a>. Four years later, she performed at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> for President <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Benjamin Harrison</a>. She sang for four consecutive presidents and the <a href="/wiki/British_royal_family" title="British royal family">British royal family</a>, attaining international success. Besides the United States and the West Indies, Jones toured in South America, Australia, India, southern Africa and Europe. This color <a href="/wiki/Lithography" title="Lithography">lithograph</a> of Jones was produced in 1899 to advertise her performances. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Lithograph credit: Metropolitan Printing Company; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-11" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-11">Kármán vortex street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-10" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-10"><i>The Young Sabot Maker</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-09" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-09">Lidia Patty</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/2023-08-12" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-12">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-12&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-12 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-12&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-12&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-12&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:1899_poster_of_Mme._M._Sissieretta_Jones.jpg" title="File:1899 poster of Mme. 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Its common names in English include the southern emerald damselfly, the shy emerald damselfly, and the migrant spreadwing. The species is found across southern Europe in a band across Spain, France, Italy and Greece, and its range also extends east to India and Mongolia. It is less common in northern Europe, although some can be found as far north as Sweden. This female <i>L. barbarus</i> damselfly was photographed in Blankaart Nature Reserve near <a href="/wiki/Diksmuide" title="Diksmuide">Diksmuide</a>, Belgium. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. 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Constructed to serve as the administrative capital for <a href="/wiki/East_Punjab" title="East Punjab">the eastern half</a> of the historic British Indian <a href="/wiki/Punjab_Province_(British_India)" title="Punjab Province (British India)">Punjab province</a> that remained in India after the 1947 <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_India" title="Partition of India">partition of India</a>, the compound, along with sixteen other <a href="/wiki/The_Architectural_Work_of_Le_Corbusier" title="The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier">globally scattered buildings designed by Le Corbusier</a>, was designated a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> in 2016. The Palace of Assembly houses the legislatures of the present-day northern Indian states of <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_India" title="Punjab, India">Punjab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haryana" title="Haryana">Haryana</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: duncid, retouched by <a href="/wiki/User:UnpetitproleX" title="User:UnpetitproleX">UnpetitproleX</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Aristeas" title="User:Aristeas">Aristeas</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/2023-08-13" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-13"><i>Lestes barbarus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-12" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-12">Sissieretta Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-11" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-11">Kármán vortex street</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/2023-08-14" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-14">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-14&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-14 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-14&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-14&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-14&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Palace_of_Assembly_Chandigarh_2006.jpg" title="File:Palace of Assembly Chandigarh 2006.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="15"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashta-Matrika.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Illustration of a battle from the Devi Mahatmya"><img alt="Illustration of a battle from the Devi Mahatmya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ashta-Matrika.jpg/400px-Ashta-Matrika.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ashta-Matrika.jpg/600px-Ashta-Matrika.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ashta-Matrika.jpg/800px-Ashta-Matrika.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3318" data-file-height="1962"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <i><b><a href="/wiki/Devi_Mahatmya" title="Devi Mahatmya">Devi Mahatmya</a></b></i> is a text of <a href="/wiki/Hindu_philosophy" title="Hindu philosophy">Hindu philosophy</a> describing the goddess <a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a> as the supreme power and creator of the universe. It is part of the <i><a href="/wiki/Markandeya_Purana" title="Markandeya Purana">Markandeya Purana</a></i>. This illustration, created with <a href="/wiki/Watercolor_painting" title="Watercolor painting">watercolour</a> and ink on paper, is from an early-18th-century Nepalese folio of the <i>Devi Mahamya</i>, and depicts the goddess <a href="/wiki/Ambika_(goddess)" title="Ambika (goddess)">Ambika</a> leading the eight mother goddesses in battle against the <i><a href="/wiki/Asura" title="Asura">asura</a></i> (demon spirit) <a href="/wiki/Raktab%C4%ABja" title="Raktabīja">Raktabīja</a>. A few <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> words are written across the painting, which was gifted to the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art" title="Los Angeles County Museum of Art">Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a> in California. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: unknown</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/2023-08-14" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-14">Palace of Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-13" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-13"><i>Lestes barbarus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-12" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-12">Sissieretta Jones</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/2023-08-15" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-15">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-15&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-15 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-15&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-15&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-15&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Ashta-Matrika.jpg" title="File:Ashta-Matrika.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="16"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vermont State House"><img alt="Vermont State House" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg/400px-Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg/600px-Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg/800px-Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5320" data-file-height="3800"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Vermont_State_House" title="Vermont State House">Vermont State House</a></b>, located in <a href="/wiki/Montpelier,_Vermont" title="Montpelier, Vermont">Montpelier</a>, is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_state_and_territorial_capitols_in_the_United_States" title="List of state and territorial capitols in the United States">state capitol</a> of the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> and the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_General_Assembly" title="Vermont General Assembly">Vermont General Assembly</a>. The current <a href="/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture" title="Greek Revival architecture">Greek Revival</a> structure is the third building on the same site to be used as the State House. Designed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Silloway" title="Thomas Silloway">Thomas Silloway</a> in 1857 and 1858, it was occupied in 1859. This photograph of the Vermont State House was taken in October 2021. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:King_of_Hearts" title="User:King of Hearts">Tony Jin</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/2023-08-15" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-15"><i>Devi Mahatmya</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-14" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-14">Palace of Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-13" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-13"><i>Lestes barbarus</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/2023-08-16" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-16">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-16&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-16 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-16&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-16&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-16&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Vermont_State_House_Montpelier_October_2021_HDR.jpg" title="File:Vermont State House Montpelier October 2021 HDR.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="17"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mehoffer_self-portrait_(1897).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Józef Mehoffer"><img alt="Józef Mehoffer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg/300px-Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="401" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg/450px-Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg/600px-Mehoffer_self-portrait_%281897%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2621" data-file-height="3500"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Mehoffer" title="Józef Mehoffer">Józef Mehoffer</a></b> (1869–1946) was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the <a href="/wiki/Young_Poland" title="Young Poland">Young Poland</a> movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. This 1897 <a href="/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting">oil-on-board</a> self-portrait of Mehoffer has dimensions of 34.7 cm × 26.7 cm and is in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_in_Krak%C3%B3w" title="National Museum in Kraków">National Museum in Kraków</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Mehoffer" title="Józef Mehoffer">Józef Mehoffer</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/2023-08-16" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-16">Vermont State House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-15" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-15"><i>Devi Mahatmya</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-14" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-14">Palace of Assembly</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/2023-08-17" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-17">view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-17" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-17">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-17&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-17&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-17&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Mehoffer_self-portrait_(1897).jpg" title="File:Mehoffer self-portrait (1897).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="18"><b>August 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hazelnuts_(Corylus_avellana)_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hazelnut"><img alt="Hazelnut" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg/350px-Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg/525px-Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg/700px-Hazelnuts_%28Corylus_avellana%29_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="3375"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Hazelnut" title="Hazelnut">hazelnut</a></b> is the fruit of the <a href="/wiki/Hazel" title="Hazel">hazel tree</a>, including all nuts of the genus <i><a href="/wiki/Corylus" class="mw-redirect" title="Corylus">Corylus</a></i>, especially those of the species <i><a href="/wiki/Corylus_avellana" title="Corylus avellana">Corylus avellana</a></i>. Hazelnuts are used as a snack food, in baking and desserts, breakfast cereals such as <a href="/wiki/Muesli" title="Muesli">muesli</a>, confectionery, and also in combination with chocolate for <a href="/wiki/Chocolate_truffle" title="Chocolate truffle">chocolate truffles</a> and products such as chocolate bars, <a href="/wiki/Nutella" title="Nutella">Nutella</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frangelico" title="Frangelico">Frangelico</a> liqueur. Hazelnut oil, pressed from hazelnuts, is strongly flavored and high in <a href="/wiki/Monounsaturated_fat" title="Monounsaturated fat">monounsaturated fat</a>; it is used as a cooking oil and as a salad or vegetable dressing. Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnuts, accounting for 64% of total production in 2021. This photograph shows two whole hazelnuts alongside two <a href="/wiki/Seed" title="Seed">kernels</a>, one of which is peeled. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Iifar" class="extiw" title="c:User:Iifar">David Ifar</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/2023-08-17" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-17">Józef Mehoffer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-16" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-16">Vermont State House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-15" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-15"><i>Devi Mahatmya</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/2023-08-18" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-18">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-18&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-18 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-18&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-18&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-18&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Hazelnuts_(Corylus_avellana)_-_whole_with_kernels.jpg" title="File:Hazelnuts (Corylus avellana) - whole with kernels.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="19"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray,_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_(s.d.)_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Edgar"><img alt="Edgar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg/400px-Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg/600px-Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg/800px-Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray%2C_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_%28s.d.%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3430" data-file-height="2491"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Edgar_(opera)" title="Edgar (opera)">Edgar</a></b></i> is an opera in three acts by <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini" title="Giacomo Puccini">Giacomo Puccini</a> to an Italian <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ferdinando_Fontana" title="Ferdinando Fontana">Ferdinando Fontana</a>, freely based on the play in verse <i>La Coupe et les lèvres</i> by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_de_Musset" title="Alfred de Musset">Alfred de Musset</a>. It premiered at <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a> in Milan in 1889 and was repeatedly revised until 1905, but Puccini did not regard it as a success, describing it as "warmed-up soup". The opera is still occasionally performed, including a 2005 recording by the <a href="/wiki/Orchestra_dell%27Accademia_Nazionale_di_Santa_Cecilia" title="Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia">Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Veronesi" title="Alberto Veronesi">Alberto Veronesi</a> and featuring <a href="/wiki/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo" title="Plácido Domingo">Plácido Domingo</a>. This undated set design for act 3 of <i>Edgar</i>, from the archives of the music publisher <a href="/wiki/Casa_Ricordi" title="Casa Ricordi">Casa Ricordi</a>, was created by <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Palanti" title="Giuseppe Palanti">Giuseppe Palanti</a> with pencil and <a href="/wiki/Tempera" title="Tempera">tempera</a> on paper. It depicts an outdoor glade near <a href="/wiki/Kortrijk" title="Kortrijk">Courtray</a> in <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a>, the main setting of the opera. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Set design credit: <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Palanti" title="Giuseppe Palanti">Giuseppe Palanti</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/2023-08-18" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-18">Hazelnut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-17" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-17">Józef Mehoffer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-16" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-16">Vermont State House</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/2023-08-19" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-19">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-19&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-19 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-19&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-19&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-19&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Vasta_spianata_presso_Courtray,_bozzetto_di_Giuseppe_Palanti_per_Edgar_(s.d.)_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000128_B.jpg" title="File:Vasta spianata presso Courtray, bozzetto di Giuseppe Palanti per Edgar (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000128 B.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="20"><b>August 20</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Viscosities.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Viscosity"><img alt="Viscosity" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Viscosities.gif/400px-Viscosities.gif" decoding="async" width="400" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Viscosities.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="463"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Viscosity" title="Viscosity">viscosity</a></b> of a <a href="/wiki/Fluid" title="Fluid">fluid</a> is a measure of its <a href="/wiki/Drag_(physics)" title="Drag (physics)">resistance</a> to deformation at a given rate. The <a href="/wiki/International_System_of_Units" title="International System of Units">SI unit</a> of viscosity is the <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">pascal</a>-second. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness": for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. Viscosity quantifies the internal <a href="/wiki/Friction" title="Friction">frictional force</a> between adjacent layers of fluid that are in relative motion. For instance, when a viscous fluid is forced through a tube, it flows more quickly near the tube's axis than near its walls. This <a href="/wiki/Fluid_animation" title="Fluid animation">fluid animation</a> shows a simulation of two fluids with different viscosities being poured into identical containers. The blue liquid on the left has a lower viscosity than the orange liquid on the right. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Animation credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Gvbox" title="User:Gvbox">Gvbox</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/2023-08-19" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-19"><i>Edgar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-18" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-18">Hazelnut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-17" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-17">Józef Mehoffer</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/2023-08-20" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-20">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-20&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-20 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-20&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-20&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-20&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Viscosities.gif" title="File:Viscosities.gif">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="21"><b>August 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:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lion_(Panthera_leo)_male_6y.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lion"><img alt="Lion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg/350px-Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="420" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg/525px-Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg/700px-Lion_%28Panthera_leo%29_male_6y.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3040" data-file-height="3648"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Lion" title="Lion">lion</a></b> (<i>Panthera leo</i>) is a large cat species in the genus <i><a href="/wiki/Panthera" title="Panthera">Panthera</a></i> native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is <a href="/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism" title="Sexual dimorphism">sexually dimorphic</a>; adult males are larger than females and have a prominent mane. The lion is a <a href="/wiki/Sociality" title="Sociality">social species</a>, forming groups called prides. A pride consists of a few adult males, related females, and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on large <a href="/wiki/Ungulate" title="Ungulate">ungulates</a>. It is an <a href="/wiki/Apex_predator" title="Apex predator">apex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keystone_species" title="Keystone species">keystone predator</a>. Although some lions scavenge when opportunities occur and have been known to hunt humans, they typically do not actively seek out and prey on humans. This six-year-old male lion was photographed in the <a href="/wiki/Phinda_Private_Game_Reserve" title="Phinda Private Game Reserve">Phinda Private Game Reserve</a> in <a href="/wiki/KwaZulu-Natal" title="KwaZulu-Natal">KwaZulu-Natal</a>, South Africa. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. 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The <a href="/wiki/Presidio" title="Presidio">presidio</a> was established as a fortified location in 1776, when <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a> founded it to gain a foothold in <a href="/wiki/Alta_California" title="Alta California">Alta California</a> and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a>. It passed to Mexico in 1820, and in turn to the United States in 1848. As part of a military reduction program under the <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure" title="Base Realignment and Closure">Base Realignment and Closure</a> process from 1988, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> voted to end the presidio's status as an active military installation. In 1994, it was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a>, ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use. This lithograph, published in 1822, shows the Presidio of San Francisco and its surroundings during the Spanish era, with the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate" title="Golden Gate">Golden Gate</a> visible in the background to the right of the image. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Lithograph credit: <a href="/wiki/Victor_Adam" title="Victor Adam">Victor Adam</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Louis_Choris" title="Louis Choris">Louis Choris</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-21" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-21">Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-20" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-20">Viscosity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-19" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-19"><i>Edgar</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/2023-08-22" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-22">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-22&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-22 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-22&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-22&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-22&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Adam_after_Louis_Choris_-_Vue_du_Presidio_san_Francisco,_1822.jpg" title="File:Victor Adam after Louis Choris - Vue du Presidio san Francisco, 1822.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="23"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2022-07-03_Basketball,_M%C3%A4nner,_European_Qualifiers,_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dennis Schröder"><img alt="Dennis Schröder" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="409" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg/450px-2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg/600px-2022-07-03_Basketball%2C_M%C3%A4nner%2C_European_Qualifiers%2C_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1602" data-file-height="2184"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Schr%C3%B6der" title="Dennis Schröder">Dennis Schröder</a></b> (born 1993) is a German professional <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> player for the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA). He previously played for <a href="/wiki/SG_Braunschweig" title="SG Braunschweig">SG Braunschweig</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basketball_L%C3%B6wen_Braunschweig" title="Basketball Löwen Braunschweig">Phantoms Braunschweig</a> in Germany, before spending his first five seasons in the NBA with the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">Atlanta Hawks</a> and two years with the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a>. He is the sole owner of Braunschweig, his German hometown team, and has been the majority shareholder since 2018. This photograph depicts Schröder playing with the <a href="/wiki/Germany_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Germany men's national basketball team">German national team</a> in 2022. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Stepro" title="User:Stepro">Steffen Prößdorf</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/2023-08-22" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-22">Presidio of San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-21" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-21">Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-20" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-20">Viscosity</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/2023-08-23" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-23">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-23&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-23 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-23&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-23&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-23&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:2022-07-03_Basketball,_M%C3%A4nner,_European_Qualifiers,_Deutschland_-_Polen_1DX_1386_by_Stepro_(cropped).jpg" title="File:2022-07-03 Basketball, Männer, European Qualifiers, Deutschland - Polen 1DX 1386 by Stepro (cropped).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="24"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lemon"><img alt="Lemon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg/400px-Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg/600px-Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg/800px-Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Lemon" title="Lemon">lemon</a></b> (<i>Citrus × limon</i>) is a species of small <a href="/wiki/Evergreen" title="Evergreen">evergreen</a> tree in the <a href="/wiki/Flowering_plant" title="Flowering plant">flowering plant</a> family <a href="/wiki/Rutaceae" title="Rutaceae">Rutaceae</a>, native to Asia, primarily northeastern India (<a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a>), northern Myanmar, and China. The tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world, primarily for its juice, which has both culinary and cleaning uses. The pulp and <a href="/wiki/Peel_(fruit)" title="Peel (fruit)">rind</a> are also used in cooking and baking. The distinctive sour taste of lemon juice, derived from <a href="/wiki/Citric_acid" title="Citric acid">citric acid</a>, makes it a key ingredient in drinks and foods. This photograph shows a whole and halved lemon against a black background. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Iifar" class="extiw" title="c:User:Iifar">Ivar Leidus</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/2023-08-23" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-23">Dennis Schröder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-22" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-22">Presidio of San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-21" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-21">Lion</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/2023-08-24" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-24">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-24&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-24 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-24&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-24&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-24&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Lemon_-_whole_and_split.jpg" title="File:Lemon - whole and split.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="25"><b>August 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:Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_(1913).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pénélope"><img alt="Pénélope" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg/350px-Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="476" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg/525px-Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg/700px-Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_%281913%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7012" data-file-height="9532"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope" title="Pénélope">Pénélope</a></b></i> is an opera in three acts by the French composer <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9" title="Gabriel Fauré">Gabriel Fauré</a>. The French-language <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Fauchois" title="René Fauchois">René Fauchois</a>, is based on <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i>. Dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</a>, the opera was first performed at the <a href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_de_Monte-Carlo#Salle_Garnier" title="Opéra de Monte-Carlo">Salle Garnier</a>, Monte Carlo, in March 1913. This <a href="/wiki/Lithography" title="Lithography">lithograph</a> poster was designed by <a href="/wiki/Georges_Rochegrosse" title="Georges Rochegrosse">Georges Rochegrosse</a> for the 1913 Paris premiere of <i>Pénélope</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es" title="Théâtre des Champs-Élysées">Théâtre des Champs-Élysées</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Poster credit: <a href="/wiki/Georges_Rochegrosse" title="Georges Rochegrosse">Georges Rochegrosse</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:Adam_Cuerden" title="User:Adam Cuerden">Adam Cuerden</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-24" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-24">Lemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-23" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-23">Dennis Schröder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-22" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-22">Presidio of San Francisco</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/2023-08-25" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-25">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-25&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-25 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-25&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-25&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-25&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Georges_Rochegrosse_-_Poster_for_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9%27s_P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope_(1913).jpg" title="File:Georges Rochegrosse - Poster for Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope (1913).jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="26"><b>August 26</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:Bosque_de_Piedra,_provincia_de_Varna,_Bulgaria,_2016-05-27,_DD_73.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pobiti Kamani"><img alt="Pobiti Kamani" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg/650px-Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg" decoding="async" width="650" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg/975px-Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg/1300px-Bosque_de_Piedra%2C_provincia_de_Varna%2C_Bulgaria%2C_2016-05-27%2C_DD_73.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8688" data-file-height="3924"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Pobiti_Kamani" title="Pobiti Kamani">Pobiti Kamani</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_rock_formations" title="List of rock formations">rock formation</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Varna_Province" title="Varna Province">Varna Province</a>, Bulgaria. There are a number of theories regarding its origin, with two broad hypotheses. According to one, the formations are the result of <a href="/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">coral</a> activity, while another explains the phenomenon with the prismatic <a href="/wiki/Weathering" title="Weathering">weathering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desertification" title="Desertification">desertification</a> of the rocks, the formation of sand and limestone <a href="/wiki/Concretion" title="Concretion">concretions</a>, or lower <a href="/wiki/Eocene" title="Eocene">Eocene</a> bubbling reefs. The stone pillars were first described by the Russian archaeologist and historian Victor Teplyakov in 1829, and the site was designated a natural landmark in the late 1930s. This photograph shows the pillars of Pobiti Kamani in 2016. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco" title="User:Poco a poco">Diego Delso</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/2023-08-25" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-25"><i>Pénélope</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-24" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-24">Lemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-23" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-23">Dennis Schröder</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/2023-08-26" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-26">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-26&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-26 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-26&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-26&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-26&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Bosque_de_Piedra,_provincia_de_Varna,_Bulgaria,_2016-05-27,_DD_73.jpg" title="File:Bosque de Piedra, provincia de Varna, Bulgaria, 2016-05-27, DD 73.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="27"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gilbert_Stuart,_John_Adams,_c._1800-1815,_NGA_42933.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="John Adams"><img alt="John Adams" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg/300px-Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="364" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg/450px-Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg/600px-Gilbert_Stuart%2C_John_Adams%2C_c._1800-1815%2C_NGA_42933.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3299" data-file-height="4000"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a></b> (1735–1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Father</a> who served as the second <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president of the United States</a> from 1797 to 1801. Before <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_John_Adams" title="Presidency of John Adams">his presidency</a>, he was a leader of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> that achieved independence from <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a>. During the latter part of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a> and in the early years of the new nation, he served the U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first person to hold the office of <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a>, serving in the role from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with important contemporaries, including his wife and adviser <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Adams" title="Abigail Adams">Abigail Adams</a> and his friend and political rival <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting">oil-on-canvas painting</a> of Adams was produced by <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Stuart" title="Gilbert Stuart">Gilbert Stuart</a>, approximately between 1800 and 1815, and is in the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a> in Washington, D.C. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Stuart" title="Gilbert Stuart">Gilbert Stuart</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/2023-08-26" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-26">Pobiti Kamani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-25" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-25"><i>Pénélope</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-24" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-24">Lemon</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/2023-08-27" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-27">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-27 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-27&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-27&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-27&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Gilbert_Stuart,_John_Adams,_c._1800-1815,_NGA_42933.jpg" title="File:Gilbert Stuart, John Adams, c. 1800-1815, NGA 42933.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="28"><b>August 28</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:Treptowers,_Alt-Treptow,_Berlin,_1705252213,_ako.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Treptowers"><img alt="Treptowers" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg/500px-Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg/750px-Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg/1000px-Treptowers%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin%2C_1705252213%2C_ako.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4936" data-file-height="3291"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Treptowers" title="Treptowers">Treptowers</a></b> is a complex of buildings with a distinctive high-rise in the district of <a href="/wiki/Alt-Treptow" title="Alt-Treptow">Alt-Treptow</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, Germany, on the river <a href="/wiki/Spree_(river)" title="Spree (river)">Spree</a>. Constructed on the site of a former <a href="/wiki/AEG_(German_company)" title="AEG (German company)">AEG</a> electrical-appliance factory, the complex consists of four buildings and was the result of an architectural competition held in 1993 and won by the architect Gerhard Spangenberg. It was completed in 1998, with a final construction cost of 190 million <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Mark" title="Deutsche Mark">marks</a>. The 30-metre-tall (98 ft) sculpture <i><a href="/wiki/Molecule_Man_(sculpture)" title="Molecule Man (sculpture)">Molecule Men</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Borofsky" title="Jonathan Borofsky">Jonathan Borofsky</a> was installed in 1999 and sits in front of the complex in the Spree, seen on the right of this photograph of the Treptowers in 2017. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Code" title="User:Code">Ansgar Koreng</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/2023-08-27" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-27">John Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-26" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-26">Pobiti Kamani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-25" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-25"><i>Pénélope</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/2023-08-28" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-28">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-28&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-28 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-28&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-28&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-28&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Treptowers,_Alt-Treptow,_Berlin,_1705252213,_ako.jpg" title="File:Treptowers, Alt-Treptow, Berlin, 1705252213, ako.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="29"><b>August 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:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Strix-varia-005.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Barred owl"><img alt="Barred owl" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Strix-varia-005.jpg/400px-Strix-varia-005.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Strix-varia-005.jpg/600px-Strix-varia-005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Strix-varia-005.jpg/800px-Strix-varia-005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Barred_owl" title="Barred owl">barred owl</a></b> (<i>Strix varia</i>), also known as the northern barred owl, the striped owl or the hoot owl, is a bird in the family <a href="/wiki/True_owl" title="True owl">Strigidae</a>, the true owls. It is largely native to eastern North America, but has also expanded its range to the continent's west coast, where it is considered an <a href="/wiki/Invasive_species" title="Invasive species">invasive species</a>. Its preferred habitat is <a href="/wiki/Old-growth_forest" title="Old-growth forest">mature forest</a>, but it can also acclimate to various gradients of open <a href="/wiki/Woodland" title="Woodland">woodlands</a>. The barred owl's diet consists mainly of small mammals, but this species is an <a href="/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species" title="Generalist and specialist species">opportunistic predator</a> and is known to prey upon other small vertebrates such as birds, reptiles and amphibians, as well as a variety of <a href="/wiki/Invertebrate" title="Invertebrate">invertebrates</a>. Barred owls are brown to gray overall, with dark striping on the underside. This barred owl was photographed in <a href="/wiki/Whitby,_Ontario" title="Whitby, Ontario">Whitby</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Mdf" title="User:Mdf">Mdf</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/2023-08-28" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-28">Treptowers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-27" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-27">John Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-26" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-26">Pobiti Kamani</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/2023-08-29" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-29">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-29 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-29&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-29&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-29&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Strix-varia-005.jpg" title="File:Strix-varia-005.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="30"><b>August 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:300px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arthur Balfour"><img alt="Arthur Balfour" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg/300px-Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="419" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg/450px-Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg/600px-Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3350"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a></b> (1848–1930) was a British statesman and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> from 1902 to 1905. During his time as <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_George_ministry" title="Lloyd George ministry">Lloyd George ministry</a>, he issued the <a href="/wiki/Balfour_Declaration" title="Balfour Declaration">Balfour Declaration</a> in 1917 on behalf of the Cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>. During his tenure as prime minister, Balfour passed the <a href="/wiki/Land_Acts_(Ireland)#Land_Purchase_(Ireland)_Act_1903_(Wyndham_Land_Act)" title="Land Acts (Ireland)">Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903</a>, which bought most <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_people" title="Anglo-Irish people">Anglo-Irish</a> land in the UK, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Education_Act_1902" title="Education Act 1902">Education Act 1902</a>, which had a major long-term impact in modernising the school system in England and Wales. He secured the <a href="/wiki/Entente_Cordiale" title="Entente Cordiale">Entente Cordiale</a>, an alliance that ended <a href="/wiki/Anglo-French_Wars" title="Anglo-French Wars">centuries of intermittent conflict between Britain and France and their predecessor states</a>. This photographic portrait of Balfour was taken by <a href="/wiki/George_Charles_Beresford" title="George Charles Beresford">George Charles Beresford</a> in 1902. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/George_Charles_Beresford" title="George Charles Beresford">George Charles Beresford</a>; restored by <a href="/wiki/User:MyCatIsAChonk" title="User:MyCatIsAChonk">MyCatIsAChonk</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/2023-08-29" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-29">Barred owl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-28" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-28">Treptowers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-27" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-27">John Adams</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/2023-08-30" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-30">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2023-08-30&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2023-08-30 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-30&action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-30&action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2023-08-30&action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg" title="File:Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour.jpg">file page</a></li></ul> </div> <hr/> <p><span class="anchor nowrap" id="31"><b>August 31</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:Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Architect's Dream"><img alt="The Architect's Dream" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/500px-Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/750px-Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1000px-Thomas_Cole_-_Architect%E2%80%99s_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7615" data-file-height="4679"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em; text-align:left;"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/The_Architect%27s_Dream" title="The Architect's Dream">The Architect's Dream</a></b></i> is an 1840 <a href="/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting">oil-on-canvas painting</a> created by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cole" title="Thomas Cole">Thomas Cole</a> for the New York architect <a href="/wiki/Ithiel_Town" title="Ithiel Town">Ithiel Town</a>. Cole incorporated pieces of architecture from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture" title="Ancient Egyptian architecture">Egyptian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_architecture" title="Ancient Greek architecture">Greek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture" title="Ancient Roman architecture">Roman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a> styles in various parts of the painting, having himself done some architecture work previously. Cole finished the painting in only five weeks and displayed it in the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Design" title="National Academy of Design">National Academy of Design</a>'s annual exhibition that year. Town refused to accept the painting, claiming that it was "exclusively architectural". <i>The Architect's Dream</i> is now in the <a href="/wiki/Toledo_Museum_of_Art" title="Toledo Museum of Art">Toledo Museum of Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio" title="Toledo, Ohio">Toledo, Ohio</a>. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><small>Painting credit: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cole" title="Thomas Cole">Thomas Cole</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/2023-08-30" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-30">Arthur Balfour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-29" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-29">Barred owl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-08-28" title="Template:POTD/2023-08-28">Treptowers</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2004">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2004">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2004">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2004">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2004">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2004">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2004">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2004" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2004">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2005: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2005">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2005">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2005">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2005">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2005">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2005">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2005">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2005">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2005">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2005">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2005">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2005" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2005">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2006: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2006">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2006">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2006">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2006">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2006">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2006">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2006">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2006">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2006">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2006">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2006">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2006" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2006">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2007: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2007">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2007">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2007">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2007">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2007">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2007">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2007">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2007">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2007">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2007">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2007">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2007" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2007">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2008: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2008">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2008">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2008">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2008">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2008">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2008">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2008">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2008">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2008">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2008">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2008">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2009: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2009">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2009">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2009">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2009">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2009">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2009">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2009">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2009">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2009">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2009">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2009">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2010: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2010">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2010">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2010">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2010">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2010">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2010">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2010">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2010">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2010">September</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2010">October</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2010">November</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2010">December</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2011: </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2011">January</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 2011">February</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2011">March</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/April_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2011">April</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2011">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2011">June</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/July_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 2011">July</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/August_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2011">August</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/September_2011" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2011">September</a> </td> <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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 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