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These are images selected for display on the Main Page as the Picture of the day. Publishing them on this page allows users to translate the captions into other languages.
Pictures of the day will be chosen from Featured pictures of Commons. Featured pictures are the finest images on Wikimedia Commons and are selected by consensus on Commons:Featured picture candidates. Pictures of the day should be selected from images that were strongly supported during the nomination process. For instructions on how to add a Picture of the Day, see Commons:Picture of the day/Instructions.
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 Safari Endeavour vessel (232 feet (71 m) long and with up to 88 guests + 37 crew members) in front of the Lamplugh Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States. Change image |
English : Safari Endeavour vessel (232 feet (71 m) long and with up to 88 guests + 37 crew members) in front of the Lamplugh Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States.
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 Decay of Banksia spinulosa flowers Change image |
English : Decay of Banksia spinulosa flowers
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.jpg) Golda Meir, stateswoman, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, was born on this day in 1898. Change image |
English : Golda Meir, stateswoman, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, was born on this day in 1898.
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 Vischering Castle (with reflections in the mirror) in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Vischering Castle (with reflections in the mirror) in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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.jpg) Eastern chanting goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) in Awash National Park, Ethiopia. Today is Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day in Ethiopia, celebrating liberation from Italy. Haile Selassie re-entered the Ethiopian capital exactly five years after it was occupied. Change image |
English : Eastern chanting goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) in Awash National Park, Ethiopia. Today is Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day in Ethiopia, celebrating liberation from Italy. Haile Selassie re-entered the Ethiopian capital exactly five years after it was occupied.
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 Desna river, feeder of the Southern Bug, at dawn. Ukraine, Vinnytsia Raion Change image |
English : Desna river, feeder of the Southern Bug, at dawn. Ukraine, Vinnytsia Raion
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 The Salagou Lake in the Hérault department of France Change image |
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.jpg) Mute swan (Cygnus olor) cygnets huddled together on a duckweed-covered pond in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Mute swans, which got their name by being less vocal than other swans, change in color from gray to white as they become adults. When grown, they are one of the heaviest flying birds in the world. Change image |
English : Mute swan (Cygnus olor) cygnets huddled together on a duckweed-covered pond in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Mute swans, which got their name by being less vocal than other swans, change in color from gray to white as they become adults. When grown, they are one of the heaviest flying birds in the world.
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 Mangup-Kale butte. Zalisne village, Crimea, Ukraine. Change image |
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 Ceiling detail of Ivanovo railway station, Russia Change image |
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_09-05-2021._(d.j.b)_02.jpg) Closed flower of the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) in the early morning. Focus stack of 22 photos. Change image |
English : Closed flower of the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) in the early morning. Focus stack of 22 photos.
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.jpg) Portrait of John Jay (1794) by the American painter Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828). Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States. Change image |
English : Portrait of John Jay (1794) by the American painter Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828). Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States.
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 Christ church or Christuskirche, Windhoek, Namibia. The church, built beween 1907-1910 and designed by architect Gottlieb Redecker, was originally known as the Church of Peace as it was built following the wars between the Germans and the Khoikhoi, Herero, and Owambo. It was constructed from quartz sandstone mined from the vicinity and has a mixture of neo-Romanesque, Art Nouveau and Gothic revival influences. Change image |
English : Christ church or Christuskirche, Windhoek, Namibia. The church, built beween 1907-1910 and designed by architect Gottlieb Redecker, was originally known as the Church of Peace as it was built following the wars between the Germans and the Khoikhoi, Herero, and Owambo. It was constructed from quartz sandstone mined from the vicinity and has a mixture of neo-Romanesque, Art Nouveau and Gothic revival influences.
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 Czardas dancers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, circa 1908. Collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands. Change image |
English : Czardas dancers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, circa 1908. Collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands.
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 Baker's Falls, Sri Lanka Change image |
English : Baker's Falls, Sri Lanka
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English : A 95-year-old Cuban woman with her pet rooster
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_from_Mt_Ada,_Canterbury,_New_Zealand.jpg) Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō from Mt Ada in Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand Change image |
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English : Stavoren. Project "Stavers Belang".
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.jpg) Capuchin Bridge, Škofja Loka, Slovenia. Change image |
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 Viennese Banded Snail (Cepaea vindobonensis). Change image |
English : Viennese Banded Snail (Cepaea vindobonensis).
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English : Rosy pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park, Odessa region, Ukraine.
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.jpg) Roughtail rock agama (Stellagama stellio brachydactyla). Today is Independence Day (عيد الإستقلال) in Jordan. Jordan gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1946. Change image |
English : Roughtail rock agama (Stellagama stellio brachydactyla). Today is Independence Day (عيد الإستقلال) in Jordan. Jordan gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1946.
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bw.jpg) Machinery at the former Chestnut Hill Pumping Station near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. At one time, the station pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water per day, but it was decommissioned in the 1970s before being transformed into the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in 2011. Change image |
English : Machinery at the former Chestnut Hill Pumping Station near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. At one time, the station pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water per day, but it was decommissioned in the 1970s before being transformed into the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in 2011.
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 Berggasthof Aescher on the path through the Wildkirchli caves in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland, is built into the cliff of the mountains. This view of its main facade in particular is famous. Change image |
English : Berggasthof Aescher on the path through the Wildkirchli caves in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland, is built into the cliff of the mountains. This view of its main facade in particular is famous.
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English : Vegetarian Pizza
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