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Post by metal_j on May 15^th, 2012 at 5:46pm

The night sky on May 5 was animated by the once-a-year cosmic event of the perigee moon. Popularly known as the "Supermoon", the moon appears much larger above us when the elliptical orbit brings it within 221,802 miles to Earth, the closest point. The effect is magnified during a full moon, when we see our nearest celestial neighbour appear roughly 20 percent brighter and 15 percent larger.

The moon shines behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on May 6, 2012.

Lanterns released by Buddhist worshippers fly as the full moon shines in the background during a procession commemorating Waisak, which marks the birth, death and enlightenment of Buddha at the 9th century Borobudur temple in Magelang, Indonesia

A full moon shines behind the minaret of Mohamed Ali Mosque in Cairo on May 5, 2012

The full moon rises behind a mosque in Amman on May 5, 2012.

Tourists look at the moon rising over the ancient temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece on May 5, 2012

The moon appears behind the Mare shanty town complex in Rio de Janeiro on May 6, 2012.

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Post by pansi1951 on May 15^th, 2012 at 5:53pm

Beautiful photography.

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Post by metal_j on May 16^th, 2012 at 1:23pm

May 2012. A Syrian rebel rode a bicycle in Syria’s Homs province. The violence around the country is eroding a peace plan that many U.N. observers see as the last hope to calm the 14-month-old crisis

May 2012. Israeli policemen detained a Palestinian boy in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya, during protests to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates the exodus after Israel’s independence in 1948.

May 2012. Swimmer Xavi Torres of Spain carried his orthopedic legs after a training session in Palma de Mallorca . He currently owns four world swimming records in different categories

A Homless boy sleeping inside a train , Jakarta, Indonesia

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Post by metal_j on May 17^th, 2012 at 7:59pm

A vendor jumps from the top of one overcrowded train to another as thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims try to return home after attending the three-day Islamic congregation on the banks of the River Turag in Tongi, outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, on Jan. 23 2011.

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Post by Annie Anthrax on May 17^th, 2012 at 8:09pm

Hi.

Great photographs. Where did you get the one with the Palestinian boy?

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 17^th, 2012 at 8:19pm

Annie Anthrax wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:

Hi.

Great photographs. Where did you get the one with the Palestinian boy?

This is for your propaganda collection Annie?

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Post by Annie Anthrax on May 17^th, 2012 at 8:24pm

No, Avram. I'd like to read the story. I'd like to understand why it takes 4 big strong policemen in riot gear to detain a little boy.

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Post by metal_j on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:24pm

Hi Annie Anthrax , I'm glad you like the images ...sometimes a single image can tell a story more than the written word , granted that those images are far and few in-between...but... nevertheless it's very possible.
As for the image of the Palestinian boy, I took it from a news paper article ... I'm sorry to say that I did not keep the page.
I spend a lot of my free time scouring through magazines and newspapers not so much for its article but for its images .

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Post by freediver on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:27pm

That photo is a great analogy for the power struggles in the middle east.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:48pm

freediver wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:27pm:

That photo is a great analogy for the power struggles in the middle east.

Yes that they send their youths to cause the trouble.

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Post by metal_j on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:09pm

Thousands of armored US military vehicles sit in huge lots at Camp Victory, a giant sprawling military base on the edge of Baghdad airport, on June 24, 2010 as American troops sort through the mass of hardware and supplies that must either be taken home, sent to Afghanistan, or destroy.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:29pm

Gilad Shalit ( גלעד שליט , born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who was captured inside Israel by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid via underground tunnels near the Israeli border with Gaza on 25 June 2006.

The Hamas militants held him for over five years, until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal.

During his captivity, Hamas turned down requests from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to be allowed to visit Shalit claiming that any such visit could betray Shalit's location. However, multiple human rights organizations criticize this stance, claiming that the conditions of Shalit's confinement were contrary to international humanitarian law.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:32pm

Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomes home freed IDF Soldier Gilad Shalit after securing his release from Hamas Terrorists.

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:35pm

Its good to see he wasn't tortured and murdered like the many Palestinian and Lebanese children kidnapped and incarcerated in Israeli gaols.

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:36pm

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:37pm

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:38pm

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:39pm

adelcrow wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:35pm:

Its good to see he wasn't tortured and murdered like the many Palestinian and Lebanese children kidnapped and incarcerated in Israeli gaols.

During his captivity, Hamas turned down requests from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to be allowed to visit Shalit claiming that any such visit could betray Shalit's location.

However, multiple human rights organizations criticize this stance, claiming that the conditions of Shalit's confinement were contrary to international humanitarian law.

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:40pm

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:42pm

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:43pm

Civilian Apartment building hit by Terrorist Hizbollah Katusha rockets in Haifa.

Civilian casualties be helped by Israeli Emergency services.

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:43pm

And lucky last for now

Jesus wept

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Post by adelcrow on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:46pm

Sorry..found another one

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:46pm

This cynical use of women and children as human shields is a widely spread practice and in April of 2008 Hamas MP Fathi Hamad, who now is Hamas’ Interior Minister, proudly stated:

“For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ‘We desire death like you desire life.’

Below Hamas Children used as shields from IAF air strikes.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:49pm

But we believe our children are beautiful and to be protected.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:48am

Here are the brave "heroes" who run away when we come.

Ready to fire another rocket with no guidance so it can hit anything, schools, children playing, apartments.

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Post by metal_j on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:51am

A Pakistani boy, 8, who works in a brick factory, takes a break on a pile of damaged bricks, on the outskirts of Islamabad, May 9, 2012

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Post by bobbythebat1 on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:54am

Avram,
If you search history you will find that
Lawrence of Arabia promised the holy land to the Arabs.

Go & check it out & you'll see I'm right.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:14am

Bobby. wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:54am:

Avram,
If you search history you will find that
Lawrence of Arabia promised the holy land to the Arabs.

Go & check it out & you'll see I'm right.

God promised the holy land to the Jews bobby.

Lawrence of Arabia was a British army person. I will prefer God's view.

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Post by Neo Imperium on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:42am

i can make up fake people and things and claim they promised stuff to me too, doesnt mean i should get that stuff.

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Post by falah on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:42am

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:49pm:

But we believe our children are beautiful and to be protected.

By invading and occupying someone else's country?

Israeli's teach their children to be oppressive murderers

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:48am

Entrance to Al-Almari.

Palestinians sending their children up to tanks.

This is looking after children - allowing them to do this?

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:49am

You teach your children you can stop tanks with stones?

It is no wonder you can not ever win.

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Post by metal_j on May 19^th, 2012 at 12:11pm

FACE/OFF: Students faced off against a policemen in downtown Montreal during a protest against tuition hikes Thursday. Police made 122 arrests in the early hours of Thursday and the windows of five banks were smashed.

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Post by metal_j on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:07pm

In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away.

Carter eventually won a Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later.

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Post by Annie Anthrax on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:17pm

James Nachtwey

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Post by MOTR on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:20pm

The photo of the vulture watching over the child is disturbing. The 2nd Nachtwey photograph is amazing.

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Post by Annie Anthrax on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:29pm

All of Nachtwey's photography is amazing.

She is mourning her brother.

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Post by Annie Anthrax on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:32pm

Nachtwey calls famine a "man made weapon of mass extermination."

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Post by MOTR on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:47pm

That's exactly what it is.

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Post by metal_j on May 19^th, 2012 at 8:04pm

James Nachtwey is a brilliant photographer ... if you have time, please view this magnificent 96 min doco called "War Photographer" regarding this incredible mild mannered man on you-tube ...you get a feel of how this man operates and why he does what he does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdjbLO_SQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdjbLO_SQQ

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Post by metal_j on May 19^th, 2012 at 8:05pm

MOTR wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 7:20pm:

The photo of the vulture watching over the child is disturbing. The 2nd Nachtwey photograph is amazing.

Totally agree.

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Post by bobbythebat1 on May 20^th, 2012 at 9:57am

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:14am:

Bobby. wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:54am:

Avram,
If you search history you will find that
Lawrence of Arabia promised the holy land to the Arabs.

Go & check it out & you'll see I'm right.

God promised the holy land to the Jews bobby.

Lawrence of Arabia was a British army person. I will prefer God's view.

God doesn't exist but Lawrence of Arabia & the British empire did.

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Post by Avram Horowitz on May 20^th, 2012 at 10:00am

Bobby. wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 9:57am:

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:14am:

Bobby. wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:54am:

Avram,
If you search history you will find that
Lawrence of Arabia promised the holy land to the Arabs.

Go & check it out & you'll see I'm right.

God promised the holy land to the Jews bobby.

Lawrence of Arabia was a British army person. I will prefer God's view.

God doesn't exist but Lawrence of Arabia & the British empire did.

That is your opinion.

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Post by metal_j on May 20^th, 2012 at 7:55pm

Facebook employees moved into this new campus in Menlo Park, Calif., in December 2011... One of the main roads leading to the new Facebook campus is called Hacker Way.

Hacker Square is the cultural center, where employees congregate for movies and parties. The red bridges are painted the same color as the Golden Gate Bridge in a nod to the campus’s proximity to San Francisco.

Mini kitchens stocked with free snacks and drinks are found throughout the Facebook campus.

Mini bars also abound...Notice how their isn't a bottle that isn't open ...exept for the bottle at the very front which looks like a sports/fruit drink.

Throughout the offices, there are many open meeting and lounging spaces

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Post by metal_j on May 23^rd, 2012 at 6:14pm

The most dangerous walk in the world .
Camino del Rey, (English: The King's little pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in the province of Málaga, Spain.
In 1901 it became apparent that workers at the hydroelectric power plants at Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide for transport of materials, and for the inspection and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years and it was finished in 1905.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgW9zvgLuY

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Post by Kat on May 23^rd, 2012 at 7:11pm

Bobby. wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 9:57am:

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:14am:

Bobby. wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 10:54am:

Avram,
If you search history you will find that
Lawrence of Arabia promised the holy land to the Arabs.

Go & check it out & you'll see I'm right.

God promised the holy land to the Jews bobby.

Lawrence of Arabia was a British army person. I will prefer God's view.

God doesn't exist but Lawrence of Arabia & the British empire did.

SNAP!

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing.....

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Post by Cofgod on May 24^th, 2012 at 4:59am

Here are a couple of photos of a 78 plane flyover over Windsor Castle on Saturday to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

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Post by Cofgod on May 24^th, 2012 at 5:00am

Quote:

God doesn't exist

Prove it.

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Post by Cofgod on May 24^th, 2012 at 5:03am

falah wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 11:42am:

Avram Horowitz wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:49pm:

But we believe our children are beautiful and to be protected.

By invading and occupying someone else's country?

Israeli's teach their children to be oppressive murderers

Here are some Palestinian kids being taught to be oppressive murderers.

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Post by falah on May 24^th, 2012 at 8:28am

Jewish kids learning how to treat non-Jews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPF7vbEDwE

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Post by metal_j on May 24^th, 2012 at 7:25pm

The Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan also known as “The Door to Hell” was discovered when a rig drilling for gas hit the gas-filled cavern. The hole was soon lit on fire to avoid releasing methane into the air and has been burning for 40 years.

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Post by metal_j on May 25^th, 2012 at 4:54pm

Pro-Western lawmakers and lawmakers from President Viktor Yanukovych’s party fought in Ukranian Parliament in Kiev over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals and elsewhere in Russian-speaking regions of the country. A legislator was hospitalized with blood streaming down his face .24/05/12

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Post by metal_j on May 26^th, 2012 at 12:46am

Quote:

Anti-African street violence surges in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Surging street violence against African migrants in Israel, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom", drew statements of empathy for the rioters as well as censure from the government on Thursday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-israel-migrantsbre84n14s-20120524,0,3657372.story

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Post by metal_j on May 26^th, 2012 at 5:25pm

A sheepdog watches another dog in the auction ring at Skipton Auction Mart on May 18 in Skipton, England

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Post by metal_j on May 27^th, 2012 at 7:45pm

33,000 American flags are on display on the Boston Common in honor of Memorial Day and fallen soldiers in Boston, Massachusetts

A young girl carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas as she visits with her mother

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Post by metal_j on May 29^th, 2012 at 8:51pm

This color-coded perspective view shows elevations in the ancient volcanic plains that lie the northern high latitudes of Mercury, as revealed by NASA's Messenger spacecraft. Purple colors are low and white is high, spanning a vertical range of about 2.3 kilometers.

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Post by metal_j on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 12:32pm

A man transported ducks on a motorcycle to a market in Nam Ha province, Vietnam May 30 2012.

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Post by metal_j on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 5:43pm

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011

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Post by metal_j on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 7:41pm

This photo depicts the exact moment this boy, Harold Whittles, hears for the very first time ever. The doctor treating him has just placed an earpiece in his left ear. Date unknown

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Post by metal_j on Jun 9^th, 2012 at 1:12pm

Miner fired an exploding firework from a homemade pipe launcher toward a line of civil guards during a confrontation over cuts to coal subsidies in Aller, Spain, Friday.

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Post by metal_j on Jun 10^th, 2012 at 11:50am

Peter Norman was an Australian track athlete best known for winning the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. His time of 20.06 seconds still stands as the Australian 200m record.
Norman, a Australian, donned a badge on the podium in support of the cause , Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR).
After the race, Carlos and Smith ( the other two on the podium ) told Norman what they were planning to do during the ceremony, Norman told them that he believed in there cause and will support them .
Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his gloves in the Olympic Village, this is the reason for Tommie Smith raising his right fist, while John Carlos raised his left.
Australia's Olympic authorities reprimanded Norman and the Australian media ostracised him; Norman was also banned for two years on his return. Despite Norman running qualifying times for the 100m five times and 200m 13 times during 1971/72, the Australian Olympic track team did not send him, or any other male sprinters, to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Australian organising authorities overlooked Norman as being involved in any way with the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney; he was however eventually part of the event after being invited by the Americans when they heard that his own country had failed to do so.] On 17 October 2003 San Jose State University unveiled a statue commemorating the 1968 Olympic protest; Norman was not included as part of the statue itself—his empty podium spot intended for others viewing the statue to "take a stand"—but was invited to deliver a speech at the ceremony.
Norman died of a heart attack on 3 October 2006 in Melbourne at the age of 64. US Track and Field Federation proclaimed 9 October 2006, the date of his funeral, as Peter Norman Day. Thirty-eight years after the three made history, both Smith and Carlos gave eulogies and were pallbearers at Norman's funeral.

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Post by metal_j on Jun 23^rd, 2012 at 5:50pm

Near the city of Morondava, on the West coast of Madagascar lies an ancient forest of Baobab trees. Unique to Madagascar, the endemic species is sacred to the Malagasy people, and rightly so. Walking amongst these giants is like nothing else on this planet. Some of the trees here are over a thousand years old. It is a spiritual place, almost magical

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Post by metal_j on Jun 29^th, 2012 at 2:55pm

Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart

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Post by metal_j on Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 7:54pm

The Waldo Canyon fire burns an entire neighbourhood near the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 26, 2012. Colorado endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters