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Vikidia:Image of the week/2016
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This page displays all the images featured as "image of the week" on Vikidia:Main page during the year 2016.
Week 1![]() In a sled dog racing, the person (the musher) conducts his sled dogs (here huskies) by means of voice commands addressed to the lead dogs. |
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Week 3![]() Heidi is a novel written by Johanna Spyri "for children and those who love children". It is now part of the Swiss culture. This drawing is an illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith. |
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Week 6![]() Chinese New Year is celebrated with banquets, parades, decorations and fireworks. The Chinese "Year of the Monkey" starts on Monday 8 February 2016. |
Week 7 There was no image for that week. |
Week 8 There was no image for that week. |
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Week 10 The Encyclopædia Britannica (here the 3rd edition, dated 1797) is the oldest English language encyclopedia still being produced. |
Week 11![]() Earth drawn to scale |
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Week 13 There was no image for that week. |
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Week 17![]() A wild chicory flower. |
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Week 19![]() The Peasant Wedding, painted in 1567 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. |
Week 20![]() The dancing procession of Echternach, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, takes place every year on Pentecost Tuesday. |
Week 21![]() A traditional go game board set. |
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Week 23![]() A fog bow, kind of rainbow appearing in fog, photographed from the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 лет Победы (which translates as "50 Years of Victory") in the Arctic Ocean. |
Week 24![]() Signed 170 years ago on 15 June 1846, the Oregon Treaty established the western part of the frontier between the United States and the British North America, hence Canada today. |
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Week 27![]() An aircraft breaking the sound barrier. |
Week 28![]() The Eden Project is a major visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. It simulates diverse climates and environments, such as a rainforest and a Mediterranean environment. |
Week 29 CSIRO's Parkes Observatory (New South Wales, Australia) features a 64 m radio telescope completed in 1961 and still in operation today. It played crucial roles during the Apollo missions, including the relay of television images broadcasted from Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20 July 1969. |
Week 30![]() A barn owl (Tyto alba). |
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Week 36 There was no image for that week. |
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Week 48![]() Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan, inspired by the Carnival of the Animals by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. |
Week 49![]() MS Nautica leaving the harbour of Bordeaux and sailing under its new vertical-lift bridge, on september the 25th. |
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