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An Egyptian soccer fan of Al-Ahly club displays scales to fans celebrating a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in 2012's soccer violence, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, in early January. Protests followed the ruling.
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Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield watches a water bubble float freely between him and the camera, showing his image refracted, in the International Space Station on January 21.
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A bolt of lightning strikes the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. (Travis Roe/ Department of the Interior)
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Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages in the Australian town of Dunalley.
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A meteor's trail over the Ural Mountains' city of Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, Russia, on February 15. The 13,000 ton meteor hit Earth's atmosphere at 42,000 mph and exploded, smashing windows and causing hundreds of minor injuries.
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Michael Kiefer, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., checks out a display of rifles at the Rock River Arms booth during the 35th annual SHOT Show, in Las Vegas.
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Revelers throw colored powders in the air during the Holi Festival of Colors in Lisbon on Sept. 15 . The festival, which is mainly celebrated during the Hindu spring festival Holi in some regions of India and Nepal, has become popular among people in other communities.
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A view of Firdos Square, in Baghdad, Iraq, at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Jerome Delay 10 years earlier, as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003. Today, the pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides.
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Aerialist Nik Wallenda walks a 2-inch-thick, quarter mile long steel cable over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona in June.
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Garrett McNamara attempts to break the Guinness World Record for largest wave ever surfed on in Nazare, Portugal. (Tó Mané / Barcroft Media / Landov)
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An anti-government protester gives a rose to a Thai soldier at the Defense Ministry during a rally in Bangkok.
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Bill Iffrig, 78, lies on the ground as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April.
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President Barack Obama looks to see if it is still raining as a Marine holds an umbrella for him during his joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
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A Bahraini anti-government protester is engulfed in flames after a shot fired by riot police hit the gasoline bomb in his hand that he was preparing to throw.
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Amateur photo taken in the decaying ruins of the Packard Plant in Detroit. (mijreggin/ Imgur)
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A man watches as Mount Sinabung erupts in Gundaling, North Sumatra, Indonesia. About 15,000 people were evacuated from 17 villages on the slope of Mount Sinabung after authorities raised the alert status of the rumbling volcano to the highest level on Nov. 24.
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A woman sits in prayer while her head is shaved to mourn the late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk ahead of his funeral in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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This photo went absolutely viral right after the government shutdown in October. A boy looks into the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which was temporarily closed due to the shutdown. (Reddit)
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A French soldier checks passengers of a transport truck arriving in Gao, northern Mali, in February.
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A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a car bombing in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan.
you make interesting threads
1 starred though?
Little creepy.
I'm moved by images - just wanted to share.
