http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day This RSS feed is a screen scrape of the Wikipedia:Picture of the Day page en-us GNU Free Documentation License Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:05:03 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss wikipedia@jeays.net XML::RSS 1.45 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2009-11-07 <div class="boilerplate metadata vfd" style="background-color: #F3F9FF; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 1px 0 0; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; font-size:10px"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <th width="33%" align="left"><span style="color:gray">&lt;</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2009-11-06" title="Template:POTD/2009-11-06">November 6</a></th> <th width="33%" align="center">November 7</th> <th width="33%" align="right"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2009-11-08" title="Template:POTD/2009-11-08">November 8</a> <span style="color:gray">&gt;</span></th> </tr> </table> </div> <table cellspacing="5" style="border: #ccccff solid; padding: 5px; text-align: center; background-color: white; width: 600px; margin:0.5em"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size:150%"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">Picture of the day</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Bresson_-_Machaon-1_(by)_edit.jpg" class="image" title="Old World Swallowtail"><img alt="Old World Swallowtail" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Thomas_Bresson_-_Machaon-1_%28by%29_edit.jpg/300px-Thomas_Bresson_-_Machaon-1_%28by%29_edit.jpg" width="300" height="223" /></a></td> <td> <p>The <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_Swallowtail" title="Old World Swallowtail">Old World Swallowtail</a></b> (<i>Papilio machaon</i>) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly" title="Butterfly">butterfly</a> throughout the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palearctic_ecozone" title="Palearctic ecozone">Palearctic</a> region in Europe and Asia, as well as North America, and thus is not restricted to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World" title="Old World">Old World</a>, despite the common name. It is yellow with black wing and vein markings and a wingspan of 8 to 10 centimetres (3.1 to 3.9&#160;in). The hind wings have a pair of protruding tails, similar to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow" title="Swallow">swallow</a>.</p> <p><small>Photo credit: Thomas Bresson</small><br /> <small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/November_2009" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2009">Archive</a> &ndash; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></small></p> </td> </tr> </table>