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This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2011. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies averaged from 2007 to 2011.   Problems playing the file?

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{{Motd|width=300|float=right|lang=en}}
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[[Media:{{Motd/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}}}]]
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{{Motd/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}} (en)}}

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English : Looking east as hundreds take the Polar Bear Club's 2011 New Year plunge (27s). Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-01 thumbtime

2

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English : A common wasp eating a grape (60s) Advanced options thumbtime : 60

3

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English : Warthog feeding. Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa Advanced options thumbtime : 15

4

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English : Ski lift in Bodental valley in the Karawanken montains near Ferlach, Austria. Advanced options thumbtime : 13

5

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English : Irreler Bauerntradition carding, spinning and knitting in the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum Advanced options thumbtime : 10

6

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English : Amoeba motility under a Differential interference contrast microscope. Time compressed. 1min in real time=1sec in video. Advanced options thumbtime : 4

7

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English : Example of baling small rectangular bales designed to be handled by one person. Advanced options thumbtime : 30

8

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English : The lunar rover bounces across the lunar surface, driven by astronaut John W. Young during the Apollo 16 mission. 21 April 1972 Advanced options thumbtime : 7.2

9

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English : 70 years ago today, Billion Dollar Limited, the third of the 1940s Superman animated Technicolor short films, was released. Advanced options thumbtime : 1:19.4

10

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English : Heat-shrink tubing applied using hot air gun Advanced options thumbtime : 12

11

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English : An Archimedes' screw pump in action in Zoetermeer, Netherlands Advanced options thumbtime : 15

12

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English : Demonstration of a boilover of burning oil by pouring a small amount of water(!). Still image circa 1.6 seconds after pouring the water; total duration 1:14. Advanced options thumbtime : 0:47.1

13

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English : Newsreel from the 1950's of ten female models riding Bongo Board balance boards. Palo Alto, California Advanced options thumbtime : 33

14

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English : 1908 rendition of Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Edward Meeker Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-14 thumbtime

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English : JATO (jet-fuel assisted take off) of a USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules Advanced options thumbtime : 16

16

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English : Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart) in the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League at the 2009 RoboCup German Open Advanced options thumbtime : 15

17

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English : Consumption of earth (geophagy) by Silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar. Advanced options thumbtime : 30

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English : A clownfish swimming in an and out of an anemone. Coral reef off Hideaway Island, Mele Bay, Vanuatu. Advanced options thumbtime : 5

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English : NASA TV coverage of the New Horizons Pluto probe launch on January 19, 2006. The spacecraft is expected to perform a fly-by of the Pluto-Charon system in 2015. Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-19 thumbtime

20

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English : "Cherubs", track 2 on Josh Woodward's 2010 release Ashes Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-20 thumbtime

21

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English : Calling males of Bufo balearicus (Syn: Pseudepidalea balearica) males at San Vincenzo (Tuscany, Italy). Advanced options thumbtime : 0:32.3

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English : The "Little Sure Shot" of the "Wild West" exhibition of rifle shooting at glass ball by Annie Oakley, 1894 Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-22 thumbtime

23

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English : Coracle riding in Hogenakkal Falls (South India on the river Kaveri). Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-23 thumbtime

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English : Video of the water wheel of the mill of Storckensohn (Haut-Rhin, France). Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-24 thumbtime

25

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English : Time-lapse video of a Hippeastrum cultivar (Amaryllis) Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-25 thumbtime

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English : A pair of Boxing Bennett's Wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus), Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-26 thumbtime

27

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English : A video of a can being opened with a rotary opener. Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-27 thumbtime

28

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English : STS-51-L, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster., 28 January 1986 Advanced options thumbtime : 29

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English : Allacma fusca is a small (about 2 mm long) species of springtail endemic to western parts of Europe. Advanced options thumbtime : 0:54.9

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English : This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2011. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies averaged from 2007 to 2011. Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-30 thumbtime

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English : Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia Blackout SOPA January 18, 2012 Advanced options thumbtime : Template:Motd/2012-01-31 thumbtime

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