August 2017

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Nature

(Summer 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere):

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  Photo of Eupatorium cannabinum,

  Deutsch: Gewöhnlicher Wasserdost

  
  (weitere Fotos von einem Spaziergang durch die Natur an diesem Tag sind in
  → Category:Photographs taken on 2017-08-09)
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  The full moon,
  lunar eclipse of 2017 August 7,
  behind mountains of Schwyzer Alpen (Rossstock)

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  Head of a seagull in Kent
  (Larus argentatus, Silbermöwe)
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  Buckwheat field in Austria
  (Buchweizenfeld in Österreich)

(→ Photos of 21 August 2017)

Politics and elections

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  March held on 20 August 2017 in support of jailed pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong

Society and community

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  Wikimania 2017 in Montreal,
  Group Photo (Closing Ceremony)
  

  Deutsch: Gruppenbild auf der Wikimania

  .
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  2017 holiday of Vladimir Putin in the Nature of Tuva (Russia)

Sports:

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  etape 1 du Tour d'Espagne 2017. 19 août de 2017. (↑photo↑ Nîmes, France)
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  stage 2, arrival in Sète

Buildings – technics – traffic – science

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  restored hill windmill in Albufeira
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  Modern wind turbines in Fukushima prefecture (Nunobiki Wind Farm, Japan) and sunflowers.
• train on Albula line (Albulabahn), Solis Viaduct, Schin gorge (Schinschlucht) and bridges (aerial video, Switzerland)
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  Cycling in Mexico City
  (Parque España - Ciudad de México)

See also: → Category:Solar eclipse of 2017 August 21:

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  animation of the shadow with the tiny dot of totality in the middle on map of North America

  Deutsch: Sonnenfinsternis mit Sichtbarkeit überwiegend in Nordamerika
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  Corona of the darkened sun seen at Tennessee Technological University soon after noon
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  Sequence of Solar Total Eclipse starting 9:06am, ending at 10:21am
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  watching the sun (photo) ...
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  ... view
  through a telescope in New York
• Time-lapse-video,
  
  taken in Greenville, South Carolina, length 30 s
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  the dark shaddow of the moon as seen from space
  (International Space Station),
  taken by team of ISS Expedition 52
• Composite image with ISS transit
  
  
  and ↑video of ISS transit↑, ISS in shaddow seen from Earth (Wyoming)
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  Tree leaves projecting sunny crescent shadows
  (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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  ... crescents of the partial eclipse seen in Florida

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  Photographing in Washington (state)
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  projection
  of partial eclipse on street ...
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  with projected sun crescents through the holes of a kitchen utensil
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  using a colander
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  fotografia, ciudad de Chihuahua, México
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  Partial eclipse at sunset in Europe, taken from Zarautz, Basque Country (Spain),
  
  evening of 21 August 2017

Disasters and Catastrophes

Floods in North India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh (en-Wikipedia article):

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  3 days after
  the attack with a van in Barcelona
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  Tropical cyclone,
  Hurricane Harvey
  (on 2017-08-25)
• The huge cyclone in 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
  shortly before landfall in Texas (→ video from ISS)
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  2 people of Texas National Guard in the subtropical 'summer cycloon rain'
  (not an Indian monsoon rain!)
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  water goes up on 2017-08-26 ...
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  heavily flooded area in Houston
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  flooded area on August 27
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  aerial search and rescue with helicopter
  in Rockport, Holiday Beach, and Port Aransas area near the coast
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  rising level of water in Houston - August 27
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  Harvey after landfall (center=red)
  with heavy rainfall in parts of Texas and the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana
  (red and yellow colour in the right of map)
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  Rainfall potential of subtropical storm Harvey from 27 August to 1 September

weather

 → Daily NCEP weather maps for August 2017 (for USA)

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  Cumulonimbus cloud, August 2017 in Kent

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  2017-08-01 Surface Weather, NOAA.
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  2017-07-01 24-hr Precipitation, NOAA.
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  2017-08-01 500-Millibar Height Contour Map, NOAA.
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  2017-08-26 Surface Weather Map, with cyclone Harvey in Texas.

More August 2017 Photos and other media are in the larger Wikimedia Commons category "August 2017".