Wikipedia picture of the day on January 1, 2021:
Issued 100 years ago: 50 Pfennig Notgeld (emergency money) banknote, Stadt Mainz, Jan. 1, 1921, AV: Mainz Cathedral, RV: Marktbrunnen.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 30, 2020:
10 Pfennig Notgeld banknote issued 100 years ago, on Dec. 30, 1920, by the town of Lutter am Barenberge signed: F. Jüttner. The reverse shows a scene of the Battle of Lutter on Aug. 27, 1626. Text: The flight of Christian of Denmark after the Battle of Lutter a. Barenberge - 1626.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 29, 2020:
Bleu de Gex is a French cow’s-milk blue cheese, made in the Jura mountains.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 28, 2020:
Rue des Marchands from Koïfhus in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France).
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Liked on YouTube: That Time Sweden Changed Its Traffic Direction in a Single Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__4BPK8JU1M
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 27, 2020:
Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 26, 2020:
Statue “Elisabeth of Thuringia” in the St. Paul’s Cathedral in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 25, 2020:
Nativity of Jesus by Hans Pleydenwurff, around 1460. Panel painting at the Altar of the Magi (Dreikönigsaltar) in St. Lorenz Church Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 24, 2020:
View of a frosty evening through a window on a Scottish farm in Trossachs, United Kingdom
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 23, 2020:
Gold rim swallowtail (Battus polydamas jamaicensis) Green Castle Estate, Jamaica. Over twenty subspecies of this swallowtail butterfly have evolved in the Caribbean Islands and South America. This one is endemic to Jamaica.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 22, 2020:
Christmas lights on display in the Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The neighborhood is nicknamed “Dyker Lights” for its elaborate holiday lights displays.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 21, 2020:
Female pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) in Ethiopia. Unlike other kingfishers, it usually hunts for fish by hovering over the water.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 20, 2020:
Chapter house located in today’s museum of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Quito, Historic Center of Quito, capital of Ecuador. The construction of the catholic temple began in 1562 and it was consecrated 10 years later, but this hall was inaugurated in the 17th century by order of bishop Alfonso de la Peña y Montenegro. The chapter house contains paintings of all bishops and achbishops of the Archdiocese of Quito since 1545.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 19, 2020:
Twelve Apostles at Port Campbell National Park, Princetown, Victoria, Australia
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 18, 2020:
“The Nile and the Sinai, to Israel and beyond. One sweeping glance of human history” by astronaut Chris Hadfield. Photo made from the International Space Station.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 17, 2020:
Colonnade of the Gorky Park main portal in Moscow, Russia
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 17, 2020:
Colonnade of the Gorky Park main portal in Moscow, Russia
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 16, 2020:
Acavus haemastoma fastuosa (Albers, 1854); Diameter 4.4 cm; Originating from Galle, Sri Lanka.
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Liked on YouTube: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhlDbZ4SmY
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 15, 2020:
Great egret (Ardea alba) during mating season at Smith Oaks Sanctuary, High Island
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 12, 2020:
Chaukhandi tombs near Karachi, Pakistan
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 10, 2020:
Cave in the area of the Terra Ronca State Park, São Domingos, Goiás, Brazil.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 9, 2020:
Wrocław Town Hall and a modernist Santander Municipal Savings Bank Building on the background
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Liked on YouTube: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”: I. Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yjcqZBVXEQ
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 6, 2020:
A red and white tulip cultivar (probably ‘Flaming Club’) in Myddelton House garden, a garden developed by Edward Augustus Bowles (1865 – 1954), botanist, horticulturalist and Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society, in Bulls Cross, Enfield, London, England.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 5, 2020:
Initial and final positions of the stylus on a record sitting on a turntable
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 4, 2020:
Colorful neon street signs in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 3, 2020:
Headlands of Point Reyes National Seashore, California.
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Liked on YouTube: Inger Lorentzon Stockman, Så länge man kan skratta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpiJgzuDfzQ
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