TDF Historic / Iconic / Amazing pic thread

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American soldiers watch German prisoners unloading casualties' corpses from a wagon near Colleville-sur-Mer


Weymouth in the build up to D-Day.


Portland in Dorset. Another if the many staging areas along the south coast of England.


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USS Thurston (AP-77) boarding staff 5th BSE Omaha. In the background is Weymouth Pavilion

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your slacking gaz.

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dubai



The Terrible Colorado Fire Scar Seen From Space



This Is What Shooting a Gun Underwater Looks Like

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Some of these pictures are truly thought provoking

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The condition of having two differently-colored eyes is called heterochromia.

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That little one looks like Ruby but with floppy ears, cute

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A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009


Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000


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 in 2011.

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A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011


The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who had to be buried separately Holland, 1888


An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers


During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head


Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

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Amazing Pictures of a Scrapped Russian Nuclear Submarine


http://russia-insider.com/en/military/2 ... _submarine

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The World's Most Amazing Staircases

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51979/wo ... staircases

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Sweden's Anton Lilja pictured a male frog in the moment of fertilising a female’s mass of eggs. Anton was the 15 to 17 Years category winner



Alex Badyaev from the US took the Mammals category for this shot of a deer mouse standing on a mushroom in western Montana



Bruno D'amicis won the World in Our Hands section. The picture depicts a teenager in Tunisia trying to make an illegal sale of a three-month-old fennec fox

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A stark image of lions resting on a rock outcrop in the Serengeti has won the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) Award.



Young talent: Carlos Perez Naval is just eight years old - and displays a technical ability beyond most adults

Another late-afternoon event has won Spain's Carlos Perez Naval the honour of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year. His depiction of a common yellow scorpion also claimed the 10 years of age and younger category.



Chile's Francisco Negroni won the Earth's Environments prize for capturing the lightning show around an eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano complex

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When Roger Dowdeswell won the first WPY award, everyday digital cameras were a distant dream, and only a few hundred people entered the competition



Will Jenkins, from the UK, was a finalist in the 11 to 14 Years category with this picture of a green iguana that was playing near his holiday hotel pool in Costa Rica

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NASA released a satellite image of India from the evening of the festive holiday of Diwali, the celebration of lights

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some amazing pics via satellite

http://www.dose.com/lists/3005/Ever-Sin ... 49_v0RQ9_1