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30 Events, Moments and Tragedies of 2013 in Photos

December 17, 2013 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

This year was an incredible one. It was filled with happiness, beautiful moments, but also tragedy and sadness. Much has happened across the Globe, and we can only thank photographers for being there to capture these heart-moving moments. Some of them are too much to endure, while others prove that there is still hope for humanity. Suddenly, all of my problems seem less important. The following photos really put things in perspective, and while some of them are sad, the message is positive. Live every day with all your might, do not be sad, because somewhere, out there, someone is having a harder time than you, also, never turn away from the problems of other people. We hope these pictures will give you an idea of the world you live in.

1. Twelve year old Nicholas is embraced by his father C.O. Vaudin of the Signal Regiment, on his return from Afghanistan
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2. Demonstrator from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is shot with rubber bullets by the police force, during a protest against corruption and price hikes.

20Image Credits: Cristophe Simon -AFP – Getty Images

3. Female topless activist from the Ukraine feminist movement is kicked by a man in front of the Great Mosque of Paris, when she raises her fist in protest against Islamists.

Image Credits – AFP – Getty Images

4. Losing the Battle With Fire: A man from Pakistan falls from the burning LDA Building right after the photo was taken. 

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Image Credits: Damir Sagolj – Photographer

A man wearing traditional white Pakistani clothes disappeared from the window back into the burning building. A minute later, a different man wearing black emerged from inside, but it looked like someone was holding his lifeless body. The body was slowly pushed over the edge of the window and then released. Twenty seconds later the man in white came out again. He sat calmly for a few seconds in the open window with his back turned outwards and then just fell. Source: WiderImage Reuters

5. Burning Man 2013: More than 60.000 people gather together for a week of art, and music, in the great outdoors.

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6. Little Boy Cries Out and Holds Mother’s Leg in front of their House, after a 6.6 Earthquake Hit.

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Image Credits: Jason Lee, Reuters

April 21, 2013: Rescuers poured into a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the death toll climbed to 164, and number of injured to 6.700. (Longmen village, Lushan County in Ya’an, Sichuan)

7. Rescue Officials Near the Crash of Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 Plane on July 6,2013. Two people were killed, and 130 hospitalized.

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Image Credits: Jed Jacobsohn – Reuters

8. A child is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed residential building from Mumbai, India.

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9. Two Engineers lose their life when a windmill they were working on catches fire. This is the last photo taken of them alive, on October 29th 2013. 

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10. Bearer Party Carries Margaret Thatcher’s Coffin to her Funeral Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral

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Image Credits: Stefan Wermuth, Reuters

11. Man Without Arms and Feet, Swimming with Sharks in Singapore

Image Credits: Edgar Su

12. Alexander Bragg Falling of his Horse During the Bramham International Horse Trials

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Image Credits: Anthony Chepel-Ross / The Press, York

13. Dog Keeping Worm in Somebody’s Jacket, on London Pavement

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Image Credits: Stefan Wermuth – Reuters

14. Free Syrian Army Fighter Being Treated at Mah’sareen field Hospital.

4Image Credits: Jack Hill – The Times

15. Man Walking through the Rubble of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in Syria

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Image Credits: Jack Hill, The Times

16. Awesome Image of World Economic Forum Attendees, as they Check Their Phones (Davos, Switzerland)

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Image Credits:  Jeson Alden – Bloomberg

17. A Bahraini Anti-Government Protester Catches Flames After his Gasoline Bomb is Hit by Bullet Fired from Police Officials

Image Credits: Hasen Jamall – AP

18. Protester With Anonymus Mask Holding Brazilian Flag in Front of the Burning Barricade, Rio de Janeiro

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19. Firefighter Trying to Extinguish Rim Fire on a Hillside near Groveland, California. 

Image Credits: Justin Sullivan – Getty Images

Over 2000 firefighters are battling with the flames that threaten to destroy 4500 homes near the Yosemite National Park.

20. The Embrace of Death: Unknown Couple Trying to Save Each Other from the Death Trap of Savar Rana Plaza.

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Image Credits: Tasuma Akhter, Savar Dhaka, Bangladesh

21. Bolt of Lightning Hits St. Peter’s Dome on the day that Pope Benedict Announces he Will be Stepping Down.

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Image Credits: ABC News

22. Terrorist Attack at the Boston Marathon: First Explosion Knocks Down Runner at the Finish Line. Police Officers draw their Guns and Attempt to Protect Contestants.

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Image Credits: John Tlumachi – Boston Globe, Getty Images

23. Indian youth tries to save his life by hanging on to the power line before diving in the flood waters of the Overflowing Ganges River.

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Image Credits: Sanjay Janjia – AFP – Getty Images

24. Grandmother Tammy Holmes tries to protect her grandchildren from a Wildfire in Dunalley, Australia

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25. Daughter Renata Teodoro holds hands through bars of border fence with her mother, that was deported 6 years ago from the U.S. 

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26. Unknown Woman Tries to Protect a Wounded Person from a Military Bulldozer during the Clashes Between security Forces and Opposition Groups in Cairo.

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Image Credits: Mohammed Abdei Monelm – AFP – Getty Images

27. Young Man Jumps from the Yangtze River Bridge, Following Another Person That Committed Suicide a Few Minutes Earlier. 

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STR – AFP – Getty Images

28. Chinese Tourists Run Away from Tidal Waves that Broke Along the Qiangtang River in Haining, China. 

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Image Credits: Getty Images

29. Pope Francis Blessing and Praying with a Severely Disfigured Man

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Image Credits: Claudio Peri – Epa – Landov

30. Mother Gives Birth to Bea Joy in a Makeshift Clinic after a Typhoon Devastated Tacloban. 

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Image Credits: Erik de Castro – Reuters

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Five Friends Take the Same Photo for 30 Years

August 20, 2012 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

In the summer of 1982, five teenage boys sat down on a wooden bench together and posed for a group photo at Copco Lake, California. 30 years later, they’re still taking that photo. High school buddies John Wardlaw, John Dickson, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney and John Molony made a pact: every five years, they gather together at the California lake, sit on that same bench and recreate the picture they took at 19 years old.

To begin with, a ritual was never intended: the original picture from ‘82 was taken simply to mark the vacation. Captured with a 35-millimetre camera on self-timer, the photo saw the young vacationers sporting curiously “dark and mysterious” expressions as Molony held up a Folgers Instant Coffee jar containing a live cockroach, a piece of butterscotch candy (food for the cockroach) and a photograph of Robert Young (company for the cockroach). Revisiting the lake in 1987 saw them taking the photo again, on the advice of cabin owner Wardlaw (nicknamed “Wedge”), with the same facial expressions and the same pose, and they’ve done so ever since.

Their touching tradition recently gained media attention when Dickson posted the photographs on a website dedicated to the pact. “Watch us lose hair and gain forehead, gain and lose and gain and lose weight,” Dickson posted on the site. “There are reasons we all decided it was better to take the photo with our shirts on.”

Such collective dedication makes for a heartfelt tribute to the power of friendship. But how long will this go on for? “We plan on doing this for the rest of our lives, no matter what,” says Dickson. “Up until there’s one guy just sitting in the same pose! Even then, maybe someone will take a picture of an empty bench for us.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: fun Tagged With: buddies, california, cnn, cool, friends, friendship, fun, heartfelt, holiday, lake, news, pals, photo, strange, summer, touching, vacation

5 Terrorist Attacks Foiled by Displays of Badassery

September 1, 2011 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

If you need to have this article explained to you in paragraph form before the examples are listed, you should leave now, because there’s no help for you. Now that those morons are out of the way, let’s get to the awesome [Read more…]

Filed Under: fun Tagged With: aeroplanes, airplanes, assassination, attempts, betty ford, bob marley, bomb, CSI, death, explosion, father, flights, futurama, goonies, idi admin dada, Jamaica, james bond, jerusalem, marine, news, planes, politics, stephen fry, terrorism, terrorists

He’s Back – Riot Dog!

December 6, 2010 By Anne Burwell Leave a Comment

Remember the story of riot dog we published last year? If not, go and see it now here! After we published his photos he become an Internet sensation and star of the mainstream media.
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Filed Under: animals, strange news Tagged With: athens, clash, dog, greece, media, news, photos, police, puppy, riot dog, riotdog crazy, street, weird, yellow

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