Wikipedia Picture of the Day - February 4th, 2020 - Rosa Parks (Narrated by Salli) Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected a bus driver's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger after the whites-only section was filled, inspiring the African-American community to boycott the Montgomery buses for more than a year. Her act of defiance and the boycott became important symbols of the civil rights movement and resistance to racial segregation. After her conviction for disorderly conduct, her appeal became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit, Browder v. Gayle, succeeded in overturning bus segregation in November 1956. Upon her death, Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. This photograph of Parks being fingerprinted was taken on February 22, 1956, when she was arrested again, along with 73 others, after a grand jury indicted 113 African Americans for organizing the Montgomery bus boycott. Photograph credit: Associated Press; restored by Adam Cuerden Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2020-02-04 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQXylUt9kQ

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - March 26th, 2023 - Somapura Mahavihara (Narrated by Emma) Somapura Mahavihara is a Buddhist vihara (monastery) at Paharpur in Badalgachhi, Bangladesh. Built during the reign of the second Pala emperor Dharmapala (circa 781 to 821), it was one of five great Mahaviharas of the period. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the country and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. This aerial photograph, depicting the structure of the central shrine of Somapura Mahavihara, was taken in 2021. Photograph credit: Md. Ahsanul Haque Nayem Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-03-26 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4cn2_c6Ec

Astronomy Picture of the Day - June 22nd, 2020 - Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse (Narrated by Emma) What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday's solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon's center directly in front of the Sun's center. The Moon, though, was too far from the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around all of the edges of the Moon is called a ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon's perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, the dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified shadows of mountains at the Moon's edge. Bright areas are called Bailey's Beads. Only a narrow swath across Earth's Eastern Hemisphere was able to see yesterday's full annular solar eclipse. Next June, though, a narrow swath across Earth's Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the next annular solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse will be visible at the bottom of the world near the end of this year. Gallery: Notable images of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2020 June submitted to APOD Image Credit & Copyright: Wang LetianEyes at Night Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200622.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf1IBfu4qMI

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - August 28th, 2022 - Treasury Note (Narrated by Emma) $1: Edwin Stanton $2: James B. McPherson $5: George Henry Thomas $10: Philip Sheridan $20: John Marshall $50: William H. Seward $100: David Farragut $500: William Tecumseh Sherman $1000: George Meade The Treasury Note (also known as a Coin Note) was a type of representative money issued by the United States government from 1890 until 1893 to individuals selling silver bullion to the Treasury. A distinguishing feature of the 1890 series of Treasury Notes (and one that greatly appeals to collectors) is the extremely ornate designs on the reverse of the banknotes. It was intended to make counterfeiting much more difficult, but opponents argued that the extensive detail would make it more difficult to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit notes. Consequently, the designs for the reverse were simplified on the 1891 series of Treasury Notes, of which a complete set, comprising nine denominations from $1 to $1000, is pictured here. Each bears the engraved signatures of James Fount Tillman (Register of the Treasury) and Daniel N. Morgan (Treasurer of the United States), and a portrait of a different individual, identified above. The banknotes are part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Banknote design credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; scanned by Andrew Shiva Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2022-08-28 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdmNvS3ZCBk