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 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:05:02 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/2009-11-04 <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/2009-11-03" title="Template:POTD/2009-11-03">November 3</a></th> <th width="33%" align="center">November 4</th> <th width="33%" align="right"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2009-11-05" title="Template:POTD/2009-11-05">November 5</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:The_battle_of_Mazandaran.jpg" class="image" title="The Battle of Mazandaran, from the Hamzanama"><img alt="The Battle of Mazandaran, from the Hamzanama" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/The_battle_of_Mazandaran.jpg/250px-The_battle_of_Mazandaran.jpg" width="250" height="331" /></a></td> <td> <p>The 38th painting in the seventh volume of the <i><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamzanama" title="Hamzanama">Hamzanama</a></b></i>, an illustrated story of the fantastic exploits of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_ibn_%E2%80%98Abd_al-Muttalib" title="Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib">Amir Hamza</a>, the uncle of the prophet of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>. Commissioned by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal</a> emperor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_the_Great" title="Akbar the Great">Akbar the Great</a> in the late 16th century, it depicts a scene from the Battle of Mazandaran, in which the protagonists Khwajah 'Umar and Hamza and their armies engage in fierce battle. The faces seen here were repainted some time after having been erased at one point by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm" title="Iconoclasm">iconoclasts</a>. The entire work consists of 1,400 folios, with the painting on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso" title="Recto and verso">recto</a> side and text written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script" title="Nastaʿlīq script">Nastaʿlīq script</a> narrating the story on the verso.</p> <p><small>Artist: Unknown</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>