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Image of the week[edit | edit source]

Please change the Pascaline image. This pic has been displayed since May. Thanks! SeeSpotRun (talk) 06:02, 22 June 2014 (CEST)

The image should change on Monday (UTC+2), when the new week starts (according to the software). Wynter (talk) 06:51, 22 June 2014 (CEST)
Indeed. The Pascaline image is the one of this week and it changed every week in May and June, as can be seen hereunder. Klipe (talk) 12:28, 22 June 2014 (CEST)
Images of the week, from mid-April to mid-August
Week 16
Last Supper, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, depicts the origin of the sacrament Eucharist which Christians commemorate on Maundy Thursday.
Week 17
Mount Hood, located in Oregon, United States, is one of the volcanos part of the Cascade Range.
Week 18 (incl. 1 May)
Patio of the Lions in Granada at the Alhambra.
Week 19
In the thirteenth century, a Mongolian sovereign named Kublai Khan conquered China, where he then founded the Yuan dynasty. Marco Polo served him for two decades.
Week 20
The mayflower, also known as trailing arbutus, is an emblem of both Nova Scotia, in Canada, and Massachusetts, in the United States of America.
Week 21
This week, the citizens of the European Union will elect new members of the European Parliament (here at work in Strasbourg, France).
Week 22 (incl. 1 June)
Fortifications in Valletta, the capital city of Malta.
Week 23
Mushrooms are the fruiting parts of some fungi. Many of them bear lamellae (also known as gills), which they use to disperse their spores.
Week 24 (= last week)
Hoodoos in the Cappadocia region, Turkey. Also known as Fairy Chimneys, such geologic structures consist of tall columns of eroded soft rocks capped with less eroded harder rocks.
Week 25 (= this week)
The Pascaline is an early calculator invented and built in the 17th century by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and writer.
Week 26 (= next week)
Most carrots are orange due to the presence of β-carotene. An enzyme in the intestine of the human body can convert this pigment into vitamin A, a substance important for our development, our immune system and our vision.
Week 27 (incl. 1 July)
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The Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa, was established on 1 July 1867.
Week 28
A herd of African elephants in the savanna (Serengeti National Park, Tanzania).
Week 29
“Breakfast under the big birch tree” by Swedish painter Carl Larsson, 1896.
Week 30
The Hohenzollern Castle is a castle about 50 km south of Stuttgart, Germany. It is considered the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern family, which emerged in the Middle Ages and eventually became German Emperors.
Week 31 (incl. 1 August)
Edelweiss is a mountain flower, protected in several countries.
Week 32
Two thatch covered houses, a big canoe with a long wooden float attached parallel to it, palm trees in the background.
Traditional houses and outrigger canoe at the end of the 19th century on the Nauru island in the Pacific Ocean.
Week 33
An 18th century Persian astrolabe.