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The news in pictures. A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics from politics and current events to celebrity and royalty.
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February 21, 2013 2:56 PM
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February 21, 2013 9:48 AM
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“Apparently, Mao didn’t like fruit. It was an easy re-gift."Now an exhibition about the mango's short-lived sanctification has opened a...
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February 21, 2013 9:45 AM
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We’ve done features on lots of different types of road vehicles here at Dark Roasted Blend, from vintage and antique examples to the very unusual, odd, weird and at times utterly bizarre. This time we take a look at the many different types of armoured cars that have appeared over the last one hundred years.
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February 20, 2013 11:14 AM
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Each of the ten men on this list was wrongly convicted, sentenced to death, and exonerated years later. We can’t even begin to imagine the kind of psychological damage spending time in prison must cause when you know that you’re innocent but practically no one believes you. And all the while, you’re waiting to die.
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February 19, 2013 9:08 AM
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A meteorite unexpectedly pierced through the atmosphere over the Urals Region in Russia on Friday morning and exploded about 12 to 15 miles above ground, creating a shockwave that damaged houses, shattered windows and injured more than 1,200 people.
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February 19, 2013 9:03 AM
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It's often said cockroaches could withstand a nuclear explosion but the water bear, dubbed 'nature's greatest survivor,' is even more invincible.
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February 18, 2013 8:01 AM
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Almost all of us have whistled at one time or another, whether out of sheer boredom or to cover up our latest prank! You may also have used whistling to communicate with your dog or to express admiration for a pretty girl. However, some people around the world have taken this puckered-up method of messaging to a whole different level of awesomeness. They’ve use piercing whistles for everything from transmitting village gossip, to warning of pirate attacks – with the sounds able to travel for miles!
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February 17, 2013 8:01 AM
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Keep your closet looking super classy with hangers in our favorite shape - the mustache! These sturdy hangers can handle anything you hang on them, all while looking super fly.
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February 17, 2013 7:57 AM
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With its bright glossy colors and retro-futuristic design, this miniature city car looks like it belongs in Toyland. It’s adorable – all the way from its tiny back wheel to its front windscreen wiper. Yes, that’s right: wiper. Because of its size, the P50 only has enough room for one windscreen wiper, one headlight and a single door.
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February 17, 2013 7:55 AM
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First and foremost, however, the nose licking is used as a method of communication between dogs. A lick of the nose – which can begin and end in an instant – is usually a sign that a dog is calming itself down for one reason or another. It could also be that it is gearing itself up for something new and perhaps unexpected. It isn’t that the dog is completely stressed out and bewildered – it is when it is weighing up a situation and deciding what to make of it and what to do.
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February 16, 2013 2:00 PM
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February 16, 2013 1:57 PM
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Flying from place to place can be stressful and tiresome, but private and chartered jets are able to change the experience to one of pure delight. High-speed Internet, lavish furnishings and aesthetically pleasing designs are opening up the field of customized interiors. And this may be just the thing for those whose lifestyle requires plenty of time in the air. Inside these amazing luxury jets, comfort is never sacrificed and every detail is painstakingly considered.
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February 21, 2013 2:58 PM
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Photo: Brandon Getty//////////////////~ submit your photos to: potd(at)fecalface.com ~ make sure they're at least 700 pixels in width.See more Photo of the Days
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February 21, 2013 9:50 AM
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The Island Of The Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas), located in the vast network of canals that lies to the south of Mexico City, near Xochimilco is one of the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Here, among the branches and dead trees hang hundreds of old, mutilated dolls.
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February 21, 2013 9:47 AM
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Bridges and cliffs might seem like obvious choices to people who want to end it all, but in reality, leaping to your doom is often a horribly painful way to go. Jumping from a great height into water often leads to ruptured internal organs, broken limbs, a broken neck and, if the jumper survives long enough, death from drowning.
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February 20, 2013 11:16 AM
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The Russian valley of Oymyakon is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, with the average temperature for January standing at -50C.
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February 19, 2013 9:09 AM
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During 1967-68, Dr. William Podlich and his family traveled from Tempe, Arizona to Kabul, Afghanistan to work with UNESCO. He brought along his camera.
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February 19, 2013 9:04 AM
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The word “mascot” can be dated back to Provence and Gascony in France and was first popularized by Edmond Audran’s operetta La Mascotte, in 1880. The
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February 18, 2013 8:02 AM
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Why a strand of hair bends or falls the way it does may sound like a simple question, but the answer is rather convoluted. On one level, the texture of a
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February 18, 2013 7:59 AM
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Drugs and drug addictions ruin lives. Everyone knows that. But the individual using drugs isn’t the only one affected. Novus, a medical detox center in Florida, compares one person’s addiction to a tidal wave that consumes whole families. “Family members undergo fundamental personality changes as a reaction to the addiction – and to each other.
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February 17, 2013 7:59 AM
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For most of us, kidnappings only ever happen on screen, in edge-of-your seat thrillers on television or in the movies. However, for some people, being taken hostage is an all-too-painful and traumatizing reality. Such prisoners live under constant threat, enduring cruelty, solitude and uncertainty for protracted periods of time.
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February 17, 2013 7:56 AM
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Guppies And The Value Of Ugly Friends
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February 16, 2013 2:01 PM
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They've got bad hair and big cigars, and they want their 10 percent. Meet the world's most notorious music managers. 1. The Kingmaker: Colonel Tom ParkerStrange but true: Elvis Presley never performed overseas.
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February 16, 2013 1:58 PM
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Jean-Pierre Houdin spent a couple of decades working as an independent architect around Paris. Then, his career took a big turn. Working with his father, Houdin tried to crack an ancient mystery -- how were the great pyramids of Egypt built?
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