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Picture o' th' day
Picture of the day
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Mouth of the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska.  
Media o' th' day
Media of the day
Time-lapse video of a Magnolia stellata flower opening  

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Th'day in images
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Image donation by mineral collector Robert Lavinsky
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Robert Lavinsky, PhD, has donated his complete picture database oan mindat.org (about 29,000) 'n' a' images frae his ain homepage irocks.com tae Wikimedia Commons. He haes an' a' shored aboot 20,000 additional picters frae his archive tae be used as needed.

We hulp translating th' description o' a' picters, screening th' picters oan irocks.com fur missing picters, 'n' uploading thaim tae Commons. Ye kin read mair aboot howfur ye kin hulp us 'ere.

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If yer browsing Commons fur th' foremaist time, ye kin wantae stairt wi' Featured picters, Quality images or Valued images. Ye kin an' a' see some wirk created by oor gey skilled contreibuters Meet oor photographers and Meet oor illustrators.

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