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<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg" class="image" title="Scots Monastery, Regensburg"><img alt="Scots Monastery, Regensburg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg/300px-Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg" width="300" height="375" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg/450px-Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg/600px-Schottenkirche_St._Jakob_Innenraum_Unten.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4400" data-file-height="5500" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Scots_Monastery,_Regensburg" title="Scots Monastery, Regensburg">Scots Monastery</a></b> is the former <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of St. Benedict">Benedictine</a> <a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">Abbey</a> of <a href="/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee" title="James, son of Zebedee">St James</a> in <a href="/wiki/Regensburg" title="Regensburg">Regensburg</a>, Germany. It was founded in the 11th century by <a href="/wiki/Irish_mission" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish mission">Irish missionaries</a> and for most of its history was in the hands of first Irish, then Scottish monks. It has been used as a <a href="/wiki/Seminary" title="Seminary">seminary</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Regensburg" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg">Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg</a> since 1862. </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:Richard_Bartz" title="User:Richard Bartz">Richard Bartz</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-24" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-24">Water rail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-23" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-23">Carl Linnaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-22" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-22">Wells Cathedral</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170526000000/en 2017-05-26T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:center; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; padding:0.9em"> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:National_Press_Monument,_Solo_(panorama)_Diliff.jpg" class="image" title="National Press Monument"><img alt="National Press Monument" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg/500px-National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg" width="500" height="234" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg/750px-National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg/1000px-National_Press_Monument%2C_Solo_%28panorama%29_Diliff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5436" data-file-height="2539" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0.9em 0.9em;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/National_Press_Monument" title="National Press Monument">National Press Monument</a></b> is a monument and museum to the national Indonesian press. Established in 1978, the monument is located in <a href="/wiki/Surakarta" title="Surakarta">Surakarta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Java" title="Central Java">Central Java</a>, and operated by the Ministry of Communications and Information. The complex consists of an old society building as well as several subsequent expansions. It has a collection of over a million newspapers and magazines, as well as a variety of exhibitions and artefacts related to the history of the <a href="/wiki/Media_of_Indonesia" title="Media of Indonesia">press in Indonesia</a>. Facilities include a multimedia room, free-to-read newspapers, and a library. </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:Crisco_1492" title="User:Crisco 1492">Chris Woodrich</a>; edit: <a href="/wiki/User:Diliff" title="User:Diliff">David Iliff</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-25" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-25">Scots Monastery, Regensburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-24" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-24">Water rail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-23" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-23">Carl Linnaeus</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170527000000/en 2017-05-27T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Peacock_butterfly_(Aglais_io)_2.jpg" class="image" title="Peacock butterfly"><img alt="Peacock butterfly" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg/380px-Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg" width="380" height="253" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg/570px-Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg/760px-Peacock_butterfly_%28Aglais_io%29_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3792" data-file-height="2528" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>A <b><a href="/wiki/Aglais_io" title="Aglais io">peacock butterfly</a></b> (<i>Aglais io</i>) resting on <a href="/wiki/Prunus_spinosa" title="Prunus spinosa">blackthorn</a> at <a href="/wiki/Otmoor_RSPB_reserve" title="Otmoor RSPB reserve">Otmoor RSPB reserve</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, England. The peacock's four large <a href="/wiki/Eyespot_(mimicry)" title="Eyespot (mimicry)">eyespots</a> on its wings act as an <a href="/wiki/Anti-predator_adaptation" title="Anti-predator adaptation">anti-predator defence mechanism</a>. </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. Sharp</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-26" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-26">National Press Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-25" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-25">Scots Monastery, Regensburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-24" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-24">Water rail</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170528000000/en 2017-05-28T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg" class="image" title="All Souls College, Oxford"><img alt="All Souls College, Oxford" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg/300px-UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg" width="300" height="375" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg/450px-UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg/600px-UK-2014-Oxford-All_Souls_College_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="7491" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>Hawksmoor Towers at <b><a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford" title="All Souls College, Oxford">All Souls College</a></b>, a <a href="/wiki/Colleges_of_the_University_of_Oxford" title="Colleges of the University of Oxford">constituent college</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> in England. All Souls is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford, with a <a href="/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment">financial endowment</a> of £286.4m (2014), but only ranks nineteenth among Oxford colleges with respect to total income. The college has no undergraduate members; each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for <a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford#Examination_Fellowships" title="All Souls College, Oxford">Examination Fellowships</a> through a <a href="/wiki/Competitive_examination" title="Competitive examination">competitive examination</a> and an interview. </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:Godot13" title="User:Godot13">Andrew Shiva</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-27" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-27">Peacock butterfly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-26" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-26">National Press Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-25" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-25">Scots Monastery, Regensburg</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170529000000/en 2017-05-29T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg" class="image" title="Charles II of England"><img alt="Charles II of England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg/300px-King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg" width="300" height="383" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg/450px-King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg/600px-King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3060" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II of England</a></b> (1630–1685) was king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Ireland</a>. He was king of Scotland from 1649 from <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">his father's execution</a> until being deposed by <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the <a href="/wiki/Restoration_(1660)" title="Restoration (1660)">restoration of the monarchy</a> in 1660 until his death. Internationally, Charles became involved in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Second Anglo-Dutch War">Second</a> and <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Third Anglo-Dutch War">Third Anglo-Dutch Wars</a>. Domestically, Charles attempted to introduce <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">religious freedom</a> for Catholics and Protestant <a href="/wiki/Dissenter" title="Dissenter">dissenters</a> with his 1672 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Declaration_of_Indulgence" title="Royal Declaration of Indulgence">Royal Declaration of Indulgence</a>, but the <a href="/wiki/English_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="English Parliament">English Parliament</a> forced him to withdraw it. </p> <p><small>Painting: <a href="/wiki/John_Michael_Wright" title="John Michael Wright">John Michael Wright</a> or studio</small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-28" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-28">All Souls College, Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-27" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-27">Peacock butterfly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-26" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-26">National Press Monument</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170530000000/en 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg" class="image" title="Black-sided hawkfish"><img alt="Black-sided hawkfish" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg/380px-Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg" width="380" height="259" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg/570px-Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg/760px-Paracirrhites_forsteri_Forsters_Hawkfish_juvenile_PNG_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1502" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>A juvenile <b><a href="/wiki/Black-sided_hawkfish" title="Black-sided hawkfish">black-sided hawkfish</a></b>, a <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hawkfish" title="Hawkfish">hawkfish</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Pacific" title="Indo-Pacific">Indo-Pacific</a>. It is occasionally found in the <a href="/wiki/Aquarium" title="Aquarium">aquarium</a> trade and is also of minor importance to local <a href="/wiki/Commercial_fisheries" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial fisheries">commercial fisheries</a>. It grows to a <a href="/wiki/Fish_measurement" title="Fish measurement">total length</a> of 22&#160;cm (9&#160;in). </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:Nhobgood" title="User:Nhobgood">Nick Hobgood</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-29" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-29">Charles II of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-28" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-28">All Souls College, Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-27" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-27">Peacock butterfly</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170531000000/en 2017-05-31T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation,_Lily,_Lily,_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="image" title="Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"><img alt="Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/300px-John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" width="300" height="339" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/450px-John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/600px-John_Singer_Sargent_-_Carnation%2C_Lily%2C_Lily%2C_Rose_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3330" data-file-height="3762" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Carnation,_Lily,_Lily,_Rose" title="Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose">Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose</a></b></i> is an <a href="/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting">oil painting</a> on canvas completed by the Anglo-American painter <a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a> between 1885 and 1886. It depicts two small children who are lighting <a href="/wiki/Paper_lantern" title="Paper lantern">paper lanterns</a> in a garden strewn with pink <a href="/wiki/Rose" title="Rose">roses</a>, accents of yellow <a href="/wiki/Carnation" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnation">carnations</a> and tall white <a href="/wiki/Lily" class="mw-redirect" title="Lily">lilies</a>. The work received a mixed reception at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_Summer_Exhibition" title="Royal Academy Summer Exhibition">Royal Academy Summer Exhibition</a>. It is now displayed at <a href="/wiki/Tate_Britain" title="Tate Britain">Tate Britain</a>. </p> <p><small>Painting: <a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-30" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-30">Black-sided hawkfish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-29" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-29">Charles II of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-28" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-28">All Souls College, Oxford</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170601000000/en 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg" class="image" title="Monkey selfie"><img alt="Monkey selfie" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg/300px-Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg" width="300" height="415" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg/450px-Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg/600px-Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2912" data-file-height="4030" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>One of two <b><a href="/wiki/Monkey_selfie" title="Monkey selfie">monkey selfies</a></b> taken by <a href="/wiki/Celebes_crested_macaque" title="Celebes crested macaque">Celebes crested macaques</a> using equipment belonging to the British nature photographer David Slater. In mid-2014, the images' hosting on <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" title="Wikimedia Commons">Wikimedia Commons</a> was part of a dispute over whether copyright could be held on <a href="/wiki/Animal-made_art" title="Animal-made art">artworks made by non-human animals</a>. Slater argued that, as he had "<a href="/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow" title="Sweat of the brow">engineered</a>" the shot, he held copyright, while Wikimedia considered the photographs <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> on the grounds that they were made by an animal rather than a person. In December 2014, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Copyright_Office" title="United States Copyright Office">United States Copyright Office</a> stated that works by a non-human are not subject to US copyright, a view reaffirmed by a <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge">US federal judge</a> in 2016. </p> <p><small>Photograph: Depicted <a href="/wiki/Celebes_crested_macaque" title="Celebes crested macaque">Celebes crested macaque</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-31" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-31"><i>Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-30" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-30">Black-sided hawkfish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-29" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-29">Charles II of England</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170602000000/en 2017-06-02T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-(1939)ND.jpg" class="image" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia banknote"><img alt="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia banknote" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg/320px-BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg" width="320" height="368" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg/480px-BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg/640px-BOH%26MOR-1-Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia-1_Koruna-%281939%29ND.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3556" data-file-height="4084" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>The first issue (March 1939) of paper currency in the <b><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a></b>, an unissued 1938 Republic of Czechoslovakia one koruna note originally intended for the Czech army. During the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia" title="German occupation of Czechoslovakia">German occupation of Czechoslovakia</a>, an oval stamp was applied to the unissued 1938 stock of notes, identifying the currency as valid in the Protectorate. The overprint reads "Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren, Protektorát Čechy a Morava". </p> <p><small>Banknote: <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-06-01" title="Template:POTD/2017-06-01">Monkey selfie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-31" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-31"><i>Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-30" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-30">Black-sided hawkfish</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20170603000000/en 2017-06-03T00:00:00Z

<div class="mw-parser-output"><table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Odiham_Castle.jpg" class="image" title="Odiham Castle"><img alt="Odiham Castle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Odiham_Castle.jpg/380px-Odiham_Castle.jpg" width="380" height="297" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Odiham_Castle.jpg/570px-Odiham_Castle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Odiham_Castle.jpg/760px-Odiham_Castle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2944" data-file-height="2304" /></a> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Odiham_Castle" title="Odiham Castle">Odiham Castle</a></b> is a ruined castle situated near <a href="/wiki/Odiham" title="Odiham">Odiham</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>, England. It is one of only three fortresses built by <a href="/wiki/King_John_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="King John of England">King John</a> during his reign. Completed between 1207 and 1214, it fell to a French siege in 1216 but was later rebuilt. Used to host <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> and, later, as a prison in the 13th and 14th centuries, by 1605 Odiham was described as a ruin. Its only visible remains today are part of the octagonal <a href="/wiki/Keep" title="Keep">keep</a> and outlying earthworks. </p> <p><small>Photograph: <a href="/wiki/User:BabelStone" title="User:BabelStone">BabelStone</a></small></p> <div class="potd-recent" style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-06-02" title="Template:POTD/2017-06-02">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia banknote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-06-01" title="Template:POTD/2017-06-01">Monkey selfie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2017-05-31" title="Template:POTD/2017-05-31"><i>Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose</i></a></li></ul> </div></div> <div class="potd-footer hlist noprint" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/June_2017" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2017">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></table> </div>