Wikipedia:Today's second feature/December 2005
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- December 1
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- December 2
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- December 3
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Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Segovia in Castile-Leon. It is situated about an hour north of Madrid. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has the highest concentration of Romanesque churches in Europe. It is also noted for its 16th century Gothic cathedral (shown here), its Roman aqueduct and fairy-tale castle, or Alcázar.
Photo credit: Óscar Ibáñez Fernández
- December 4
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The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was commissioned by the 17th century Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, as a mausoleum for his Persian wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Built over a period of 23 years, it is a masterpiece of Mughal architecture, featuring the finest materials from all over India and Asia. Its gleaming facade is clad in white marble from Rajasthan and inlaid with 28 types of precious and semi-precious stones.
Photo credit: Sandeep Dhirad
- December 5
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- December 6
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- December 7
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- December 8
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- December 9
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- December 10
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Biological dispersal refers to those processes by which a species maintains or expands the distribution of a population. For non-aquatic, terrestrial plants, the wind is an obvious supplier of energy of movement, and many plant adaptations exist that clearly take advantage of this fact. Perhaps most familiar are the feather-light fibre parachutes with attached achenes that are produced by a number of species of Asteraceae, a well-known example being the dandelion.
Photo credit: PiccoloNamek
- December 11
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Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). Pollination by insects, or entomophily, is a common pollination strategy. Here a wild Melissodes bee crawls among the stamens of a rose collecting pollen on its hindlegs. The female reproductive organ of the rose (the pistil) can be seen as the globular rough surfaced structure to the left of the bee; it is surrounded by dozens of pollen-bearing stamens.
Photo credit: Debivort
- December 12
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- December 13
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- December 14
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- December 15
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- December 16
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- December 17
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. The entire bridge including the approach spans is 1.7 miles (2,727 m) long, whilst the main span between the towers is 4200 feet (1280 m). The two towers rise 746 feet (230 m) above the water. From its completion in 1937, the center span was the longest among suspension bridges until 1964 when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was erected.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwen
- December 18
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The lavenders are 25 to 30 species of flowering plants in the genus Lavandula and the family Lamiaceae (mints) native to regions from the Mediterranean south to tropical Africa and east to India. Lavenders are widely grown in gardens. The fragrant, pale purple flowers and flower buds are used in potpourris. The plant is also grown commercially for extraction of lavender oil from the flowers. This oil is used as an antiseptic and for aromatherapy.
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- December 19
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- December 20
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- December 21
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- December 22
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- December 23
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- December 24
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SN 1572, or Tycho's Nova, was a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia, one of the few supernovae visible by the naked eye. It was first observed on November 11 1572 by Tycho Brahe, when it was brighter than Venus.
This is a false-colour x-ray image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory in which the energy levels of the x-rays have been assigned red, green and blue colors in three bands from 0.95 keV to 6.1 keV. The red and green bands highlight the expanding cloud of plasma with temperatures in the millions of degrees. The blue band shows a surrounding shell of extremely high energy electrons.
Photo credit: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Warren & J.Hughes et al.
- December 25
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. The dramatic water vista of the bridge together with the nearby Sydney Opera House (left) is an iconic image. The bridge is affectionately known as "the Coathanger" by many Sydneysiders on account of its arch-based design. It was the city's tallest structure until 1967.
Photo credit: Diliff
- December 26
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- December 27
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- December 28
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- December 29
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- December 30
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- December 31
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Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days (which vary greatly according to latitude) and the lowest temperatures.
During winter, there is much snow and cold, especially in areas that are farther away from the Equator. Blizzards often develop and cause many delays. A rare meteorological phenomenon encountered during winter is ice fog, which is composed of ice crystals suspended in the air and occurs only at very low temperatures (at least 10 degrees below zero).
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