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    • A crowd doing a Mexican wave.
    Rights: Sambo_27 Published 2 May 2011 Size: 680 KB Referencing Hub media

    As each person stands up and sits down, the ‘Mexican wave’ moves around the arena. The average position of each person doesn’t change.

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