Wikipedia Picture of the Day: 2022-11-15 - Wilhering Abbey (Narrated by Salli)
Wikipedia Picture of the Day - November 15th, 2022 - Wilhering Abbey (Narrated by Salli)
Wilhering Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in Wilhering in Upper Austria, about 8 km (5 mi) from the city of Linz. The buildings, re-constructed in the 18th century, are known for their spectacular Rococo decoration. According to the German art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, "the abbey church of Wilhering is the most brilliant achievement of the Rococo style in the German-speaking world". This photograph depicts the interior of the church, looking towards the high altar, featuring the intricate ceiling frescoes and stucco work.
Wikipedia Picture of the Day - June 9th, 2023 - Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah (Narrated by Brian)
Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah (1797–1816) was the fourth king of Nepal, ruling from 1799 to 1816. This drawing of the king was produced by an unknown artist around 1815 with opaque watercolor and gold on paper, and is now in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Illustration credit: unknown; restored by Captain Medusa
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - May 13th, 2024 - Monteleone chariot (Narrated by Brian)
The Monteleone chariot is an Etruscan chariot, dated to circa 530 BC, that was uncovered in 1902 at Monteleone di Spoleto in Umbria, Italy, in an underground tomb covered by a mound. It was part of a chariot burial, containing the remains of two human corpses along with two drinking cups. Measuring 131 centimetres (51+5⁄8 inches) in height and designed to be drawn by two horses, the chariot itself is constructed of wood covered with hammered bronze plates and carved ivory decoration. The Monteleone chariot is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Artifact credit: unknown Etruscan sculptor; photographed by the Rogers Fund and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - January 13th, 2022 - Queen bee (Narrated by Joanna)
A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female (gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. The queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the hive. This close-up photograph shows numerous workers of the East African lowland honey bee surrounding a queen of the European honey bee. The queen bee is marked with a pink dot on the top of its thorax for identification.
Photograph credit: Scott Bauer
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Beautiful News Daily - December 29th, 2019 - Almost 4,500 Microgrids Are Planned or Installed Globally (Narrated by Matthew)
The main problem with renewables is that they provide intermittent energy, not continuous flows of energy like coal and gas. Our existing electrical power grids are not designed for energy levels that rise and fall like solar and wind.
Enter microgrids - part of the transition to a post carbon world. They can be used on their own - in villages, communities or individual houses - or linked up to support the main ‘macrogrid’ when energy supply is variable.
Credits: David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net.
License: Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - May 22nd, 2022 - Mars (Narrated by Emma)
This is a high-resolution topographic map of the surface of Mars, colored according to elevation, based on research led by Maria Zuber and David Smith on data collected by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, an instrument on board the NASA space probe Mars Global Surveyor. North is at the top of the main map, accompanied by two insets for the northern and southern polar regions. Highlands (red and orange) dominate the southern hemisphere of Mars, while lowlands (blue) predominate in the north – a feature known as the Martian dichotomy. Notable large surface features visible on the map include Olympus Mons (the highest mountain on Mars) and the volcanoes of Tharsis in the west, the Valles Marineris to the east of Tharsis, and the Hellas basin in the southern hemisphere.
Map credit: NASA/JPL/USGS; edited by WolfmanSF
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - September 11th, 2020 - Masih Alinejad (Narrated by Brian)
Masih Alinejad (born 11 September 1976) is an Iranian journalist, author, political activist, and women's-rights activist. She currently lives in the United States where she works as a presenter and producer at the Voice of America Persian News Network, a correspondent for Radio Farda, a frequent contributor to Manoto television, and a contributing editor to IranWire. This photograph was taken in 2018, in the year when she published her memoir, The Wind in My Hair, dealing with her journey from a tiny village in northern Iran to becoming a journalist and creating an online movement that sparked nationwide protests against the compulsory wearing of hijab.
Photograph credit: Kambiz Foroohar
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - July 24th, 2021 - John Adams Dix (Narrated by Amy)
John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. This line engraving of Dix was produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.
Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - December 9th, 2020 - Arecibo Telescope Collapse (Narrated by Salli)
This was one great scientific instrument. Starting in 1963, the 305-meters across Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico USA reigned as the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world for over 50 years. Among numerous firsts and milestones, data from Arecibo has been used to measure the spin of Mercury, map the surface of Venus, discover the first planets outside of our Solar System, verify the existence of gravitational radiation, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and, reportedly, locate hidden military radar by tracking their reflections from the Moon. Past its prime and in the process of being decommissioned, the Arecibo Telescope suffered a catastrophic structural collapse early this month, as seen in the featured composite video.
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