The baobab trees, Madagascar. [900 x 590]

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Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps. Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945. [526 x 469]

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Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960. [674 x 1040]

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Would-be suicide bomber hog-tied before he managed to set off his bomb. (x-post - morbidreality)

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A red blood cell on the end of a needle.

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On Kiska Island, after Allied troops had landed, this grave marker was discovered in a small graveyard amid the bombed-out ruins. The marker was made and placed by members of the occupying Japanese Army, after they had buried an American pilot who had crashed on the island. August 1943. [1247 x 825]

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Blue pond and first snow. Hokkaido, Japan. [991 x 660]

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A house exploded in Indiana, killing two. 200 people are displaced from their homes, and property damage is more than 3 million dollars. [2000 x 1225]

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Polar bear cub. [991 x 641]

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The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. To avoid poisonous gas discharge, they burned it off. They had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas is still burning today. [800 x 533]

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Male lion while on safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa. His disdain for the light clearly shows his imperiousness for those around him. [991 x 647]

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British Infantrymen in position in a shallow trench near Bardia, a Libyan Port, which had been occupied by Italian forces, and fell to the Allies on January 5, 1941, after a 20-day siege. [991 x686]

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A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders. May 17, 1945. [1403 x 1091]

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Tomb of Omar Khayyam, Iran. [400 x 600]

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A monk prays for a dead man in the station hall of the Shanxi Taiyuan Train Station, China. [1024 x 680]

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Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat, Yankee Stadium, 1965.

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Heart breaking photo of polar bear and ice breaking expedition ship.

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It is common for koalas to roam back to their home range afterwards and become confused to find nothing there. A worker noticed a koala had been sitting stationary in broad daylight on top of wood piles for over an hour.

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This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in the position in which he died, attempting to rise and escape his horrible death. He was one of 150 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops. Gardelegen, Germany. April 16, 1945. [1101 x 1391]

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Lightning from a thunderstorm strikes amid the wreckage of twisted cars and structures at Plaza Elementary School, where earlier in the week a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, on May 23, 2013. [1247 x 822]

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This is a fifty-six-leafed clover, the most ever seen and it is registered in the Guinness Book of Records since the 21th of May 2009. [461 x 343]

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Photographer Joe McNally on top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa. At 829.9 meters (2,722 ft), the Burj Khalifa is the tallest man-made structure in the world. [612 x 612]

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Vladimir Putin (left with camera around neck) when he was KGB agent, posing as a family member out for a stroll in Red Square when Reagan was visiting the USSR. May 1988. [681 x 450]

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American soldiers supported by an M4 Sherman medium tank move through a smoke filled street in Wernberg, Germany - April 1945. [1461 x 1049]

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Japanese soldiers involved with street fighting in Shanghai, China, 1937. [991 x 686]

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A 25-year-old loggerhead turtle is on her 27th pair of prosthetic limbs after a shark attack five years ago left her seriously wounded. [940 x 530]

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Australian troops approach a German-held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, in Northern Africa on November 27, 1942. [991 x 688]

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A marine moves on to catch up with his unit after he has covered a dead comrade with a poncho cover and marked his position with his bayoneted rifle. Battle of Saipan, 1944. [500 x 467]

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German soldiers move through a burning Norwegian village, in April 1940, during the German invasion. [991 x 659]

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The giraffe notices that the squirrel needs a bath. [500 x 354]

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Members of the Nazi Youth participate in burning books, Buecherverbrennung, in Salzburg, Austria, on April 30, 1938. The public burning of books that were condemned as un-German, or Jewish-Marxist was a common activity in Nazi Germany. [991 x 714]

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Sigiriya, the spectacular 'Lion rock' fortress, stands majestically overlooking the luscious green jungle surroundings, and is one of Sri Lanka's major attractions. [600 x 670]

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An American young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the October 21, 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Photo by Marc Riboud. [518 x 343]

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The golden spruce of Haida Gwaii, cut down years ago (1997) by Grant Hadwin in protest of the logging industry. [1067 x 1600]

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