Template:Motd/2011-05

English : Mating of Empis ciliata (a species of dance fly)

English : Internal jugular vein puncture with the aid of ultrasound

English : This animation shows the development of the weather system that spurred widespread tornadoes in the Southern United States between April 26 - 28, 2011. The animation starts on April 26 and runs through the morning of April 28. The ingredients for severe weather are evident in the cloud patterns.

English : Baratang Island is located at about 100 Km off Port Blair on the Andaman Trunk Road towards Diglipur. The total length of the Island is around 22 Kms and totally separated by Creeks on both sides.

English : "The Standing Ones", track 8 on Hungry Lucy's 2010 release Pulse of the Earth

English : The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

English : Meeting of two white-lipped snails (Cepaea hortensis)

English : Life among the rubble in Hiroshima in March and April 1946. Film footage taken by Lieutenant Daniel A. McGovern (director) and Harry Mimura (cameraman) for a United States Strategic Bombing Survey project.

English : Movement V of Suite du Premier Ton (Suite in C major) from Louis-Nicolas Clérambault's 1710 set of compositions, Livre d'Orgue, performed by Ashtar Moïra.

English : Tidal currents at Pointe du Raz in France.

English : Cantharis fusca mating.

English : The Shukhov tower in Vyksa (Russia)

English : Animation: the formation of a pulsar
A star in a binary star system has collapsed to a neutron star. It begins to gain material from its companion star (known as "accretion"). The infalling matter causes it to speed up and begin emitting high energy radiation, eventually forming a pulsar rotating at up to 1000 times a second.

English : Protest against nuclear power (Madrid, 8th May 2011)

English : The Swan Song of the Laysan Honeyeater
This silent clip taken in 1923 may be the last recorded image of the now extinct Laysan Honeycreeper (Himatione sanguinea freethi) or Laysan `apapane as they are now called.

English : Lake Lucerne side-wheel paddle steamer "Unterwalden" at the "steamer parade" celebrating her comprehensive restoration and re-entering service, 7 May 2011. "Unterwalden" is the only steamer on Lake Lucern which is able to retract her chimney, steering cabin and venting tubes as well as to lower the masts, all in order to pass the low Acheregg bridge near Stansstad. This video shows her with everything retracted/lowered and passing the bridge. As it's the inauguration act after restoration, it's accompanied by water jets from fire engines, which also let their sirens sound. At the moment of passing the bridge, the accompanying steamships (not visible) as well as the "Unterwalden" herself let their steam whistles sound.

English : A ceremonial dance by HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi with background dancers from the Royal Ballet of Cambodia.

English : Breaking wave on a slope in a laboratory wave channel.

English : Video of the Sarcoptes scabiei mite.

English : Recording from April 20, 1945, of Jewish survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp singing Hatikvah five days after their liberation.

English : Water flooding into the dry riverbed of Wadi al Khaynagh, Yemen after heavy spring rains. The water flows over the dry alluvial sand and rock debris.

English : The beginner basics of drumming.

English : The STS-134 crew led by Commander Mark Kelly are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 8:56 a.m. EDT Monday, May 16. The crew of Kelly, pilot Greg Johnson, mission specialists Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and critical supplies to the space station. The supplies include two communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional parts for the Dextre robot. The AMS is a particle physics detector designed to search for various types of unusual cosmic matter. The crew also will transfer Endeavour's orbiter boom sensor system, where it could assist spacewalkers as an extension for the station's robotic arm. The STS-134 mission is the next-to-last for the Space Shuttle Program and the final one for shuttle Endeavour.

English : Development of the Orchard Ermine (Yponomeuta padella) from caterpillar to butterfly

English : Flight through a µCT image stack of a piece of concrete, found at Montpellier beach, France. Air inclusions caused by now dissolved former calcium-objects (clam shells, snail shells) visible.

English : Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visits the Wilhelmina Coal Mine in Heerlen shortly after liberation.

English : Abriss Raiffeisen Silo Uetersen 03.ogv Demolition work on the silo in Raiffeisen Uetersen on 11/04/2011; this is the sorting of recyclable materials with a hydraulic excavator. The 60 meter high silo Raiffeisen Uetersen was Europe's largest and most modern Feed Mill.

English : American President Barack Obama announcing the death of Osama bin Laden.

English : Giant Samson (and a couple of dwarves) in a Parade at Mariapfarr/Lungau Austria.

English : Several lightning strikes in a very short time.

English : Out of the Inkwell - The Tantalizing Fly - 1919; produced by American animator Max Fleischer's The Bray Studios Inc. New York, N.Y.