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Stongdey is a village in the Zanskar valley in Ladakh, India, situated on the right bank of the Zanskar River, about 18 km (11 mi) northeast of Padum. Stongdey and the neighbouring village of Kumik had a combined population of 914 in the 2011 census.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist who was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. He created the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago , and is one of 16 scientists who have elements named after them.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cinnamon flycatcher (Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus) is a species of tyrant flycatcher found in the cloud forests of the Andes and other South American mountain ranges, from Venezuela and Colombia south to Argentina.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The pin tumbler lock is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock from opening without the correct key. The mechanism has ancient origins in Mesopotamia, while the modern form was developed in the 19th century by Linus Yale Sr. and Linus Yale Jr..

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The French Polynesian franc is the currency of French Polynesia and has formed part of the CFP franc system since 1945. Before its introduction, the French franc circulated alongside locally issued franc-denominated banknotes.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The common Mormon (Papilio polytes) is a species in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. Widely distributed across Asia, it is typically black with white markings and has a wingspan of around 90 to 100 millimetres (3.5 to 3.9 in).

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Tower of Hercules is an ancient Roman lighthouse in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, overlooking the Atlantic coast. Built in the 1st century AD, it is the only fully preserved Roman lighthouse still used for maritime signalling.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) is a species of bird in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae. It is found in Sri Lanka and parts of India, where it inhabits low-altitude forests, particularly near rivers, as well as plantations.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vertumnus is a 1591 oil painting by the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, depicting Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, as Vertumnus, the Roman god of changing seasons, gardens, fruit trees, and plant growth.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Lambert conformal conic projection is a conic map projection introduced by the Swiss mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772. It is widely used for aeronautical charts because straight lines closely approximate great-circle routes over typical flight distances.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in the dry areas of southern and southwestern Africa. A slender, long-legged bovid, it reaches 71 to 86 centimetres (28 to 34 in) at the shoulder and weighs between 27 and 42 kilograms (60 and 93 lb).

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Saint Sarkis Cathedral is an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Tehran, Iran, named after Saint Sarkis the Warrior. Built between 1964 and 1970, it is the cathedral of the Armenian Diocese of Tehran and the largest church in the city.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first orbiter of the United States' Space Shuttle program, built by Rockwell International for NASA and unveiled on September 17, 1976.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Found across much of the Northern Hemisphere, it has dark-brown plumage with a golden-brown crown and nape, broad wings and powerful talons.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sunita Williams (born 1965) is an American former NASA astronaut and retired United States Navy captain. Selected as an astronaut in 1998, she first flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2006.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The salema porgy (Sarpa salpa) is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the seabream and porgy family, Sparidae.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Wounded Angel is a 1903 painting by Finnish symbolist artist Hugo Simberg. It depicts two boys carrying an injured angel, who has a bandaged forehead and a bloodied wing. The scene is set in Eläintarha, Helsinki, with Töölönlahti Bay in the background.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex featured landmark twin towers, which opened on April 4, 1973, and were the tallest buildings in the world from 1970 to 1973.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird in the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chief Joseph (1840–1904), also known as Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce people in the northwestern United States.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lilium bulbiferum, commonly known as the orange lily, is a herbaceous European lily in the family Liliaceae.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) is a species of bat in the family Emballonuridae, found in Central America and northern South America. It is a small bat, with a head-and-body length of 37 to 43 mm (1.5 to 1.7 in) and a weight of 2.1 to 4.3 g (0.074 to 0.152 oz).

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in the Pacific Northwest at the confluence of the Willamette River and the Columbia River, it had a population of 652,503 at the 2020 census.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is a member of the Anatidae family native to Sub-Saharan Africa and the Nile valley. It inhabits open or semi-open habitats, typically near fresh water, and feeds on cereal crops, leaves, grasses, and occasionally small animals.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Great Day of His Wrath is an 1851–1853 oil painting by the English artist John Martin. Inspired by the Book of Revelation, it depicts the destruction of Babylon and the material world in a cataclysm.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The atmosphere of Pluto is the layer of gases surrounding the dwarf planet Pluto. It consists mainly of nitrogen, with smaller amounts of methane and carbon monoxide, produced by the sublimation of surface ices.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Natrix maura, commonly known as the viperine snake or the viperine water snake, is a semiaquatic natricine snake in the family Colubridae.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is a 1634 etching by the Dutch artist Rembrandt.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The 2020–2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan concluded the United States' twenty-year military involvement in the country.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is found along the east coast of Australia, from northern Queensland to South Australia, and inhabits forest, shrubland, wetlands and some artificial habitats.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, in which the mythical founders, Romulus and Remus, are suckled by a she-wolf.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lophocampa caryae, commonly known as the hickory tiger moth or the hickory tussock moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae, found widely across eastern North America.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dracaena cinnabari, also known as the Socotra dragon tree or the dragon blood tree, is a species of dragon tree native to the island of Socotra, part of Yemen, in the Arabian Sea.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Erzi is a medieval aul (fortified village) in Dzheyrakhsky District in Ingushetia, Russia.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The brown parrotbill (Paradoxornis unicolor), also known as the brown suthora, is a species of bird in the parrotbill family, Paradoxornithidae. It is found in the central and eastern Himalayas.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He was seen, during his lifetime and afterwards, as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

An aurora is a natural light display in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with atmospheric atoms. The collisions excite oxygen and nitrogen, producing colours including green, red and purple.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Calumma fallax, also known as the deceptive chameleon, is a species of chameleon endemic to eastern Madagascar. It is a medium-sized species, with males measuring 43 to 51 mm (1.7 to 2.0 in) and females 41 to 51 mm (1.6 to 2.0 in) in snout–vent length.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Scream is an art composition first created by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. Its imagery has been interpreted as expressing the anxiety of modern humanity and influenced the Expressionist movement.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The western reef heron (Egretta gularis), also known as the western reef egret, is a medium-sized bird in the heron family, Ardeidae. It is found mainly along coasts in Africa and parts of Europe and Asia. The species occurs in white, dark grey and intermediate plumage forms.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Royal Palace of Amsterdam is a royal residence in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Opened in 1655 as a town hall, its main architect was Jacob van Campen, who designed the building in the Dutch Baroque style.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and was the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Saint Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi, and is located near the Empress Market in Saddar, a neighbourhood of Karachi, Pakistan. The cathedral was completed in 1881 and can accommodate 1,500 worshippers.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also known as the white antelope, is a species of antelope in the subfamily Hippotraginae, native to the Sahara. It is adapted to some of the world's most arid environments and can survive for long periods without drinking water.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a sweet citrus fruit that is a hybrid of the willowleaf mandarin and the orange. It was discovered in the late 19th century in Misserghin, Algeria, in the garden of the French missionary Clément Rodier, after whom it was named.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. In the Shaivite tradition of Hinduism, Shiva is the supreme lord who creates, protects and transforms the universe.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The palm warbler (Setophaga palmarum) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, Parulidae.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil-rights activist, and federal appointee.

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