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, 20 Mar 2010 00:05:07 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/2010-03-20 <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/2010-03-19" title="Template:POTD/2010-03-19">March 19</a></th> <th width="33%" align="center">March 20</th> <th width="33%" align="right"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2010-03-21" title="Template:POTD/2010-03-21">March 21</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:Water_Babies(Restored,_Alternate_crop_2).jpg" class="image" title="Scene from The Water-Babies"><img alt="Scene from The Water-Babies" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Water_Babies%28Restored%2C_Alternate_crop_2%29.jpg/250px-Water_Babies%28Restored%2C_Alternate_crop_2%29.jpg" width="250" height="340" /></a></td> <td> <p>An illustration from a ca. 1916 edition of <i><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water-Babies,_A_Fairy_Tale_for_a_Land_Baby" title="The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby">The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby</a></b></i>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's novel</a> written by the Reverend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a> and originally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">serialised</a> in 1862&ndash;63. The book, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didacticism" title="Didacticism">didactic</a> moral <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">fable</a>, tells the story of Tom (lower left), a young boy who drowns and is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnated</a> as a "water-baby". He undergoes a series of adventures and eventually regains his human form. It was extremely popular during its day and through the 1920s, but has since fallen out of favour, perhaps due to Kingsley's views on religious and political matters expressed in it, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_United_States" title="People of the United States">Americans</a> being chaotic and lazy and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> being greedy.</p> <p><small>Illustration: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Willcox_Smith" title="Jessie Willcox Smith">Jessie Willcox Smith</a>; Restoration: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ErikTheBikeMan" title="User:ErikTheBikeMan">ErikTheBikeMan</a></small><br /> <small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2010" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2010">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>