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Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 5:15pm On Sep 30, 2016
Indian villagers gather around the bodies of two teenage cousins hanging from a tree in the rural village of Katra in Uttar Pradesh state, India.

The two girls, aged 12 and 14, were allegedly raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a mango tree, which became the scene of a silent protest by villagers angry about alleged police inaction in the case.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 5:14pm On Sep 30, 2016
Students play on their school yard as Mount Sinabung erupts in Sukandebi, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 5:12pm On Sep 30, 2016
Indians who are considered uncontacted by anthropologists react to a plane flying over their community in the Amazon basin near the Xinaneriver in Brazil’s Acre State, near the border with Peru.

Health › Re: Facial Deformity: Man With 'Alien-Like' Face Hoping For Life-Changing Surgery. by Explorers(op): 12:45pm On Sep 30, 2016
Funjosh:
embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed
what bro?
Health › Re: Facial Deformity: Man With 'Alien-Like' Face Hoping For Life-Changing Surgery. by Explorers(op): 12:11pm On Sep 30, 2016
skywalker495:
Head of Horror
Planets of Apes
Apes head sef no big reach.
Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 12:08pm On Sep 30, 2016
hahn:
Did he survive? shocked
cant tell bro, but rescue seems difficult.
Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:32am On Sep 30, 2016
Members of Libya's coast guard recover the body of a migrant off the coast of Tripoli. A wooden boat carrying up to 200 migrants sank just one kilometre off the Libyan coast, with most passengers feared drowned.


Migrants seeking a better life in Europe have died by the thousands in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while fleeing poverty and bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:21am On Sep 30, 2016
Fishermen try to catch fish during the Argungu fishing festival in Nigeria on March 15, 2008.

Over 30,000 fishermen from different parts of Nigeria and neighbouring West Africa took part in the final of the yearly Argungu fishing festival in Kebbi, northwestern Nigeria.



source: http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html#photo25

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:20am On Sep 30, 2016
Flames from a wreckage of a passenger plane are seen after crash Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 15, 2008. 40 people were killed, most of them were on the ground in the market place where the plane crashed.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:18am On Sep 30, 2016
A man carries the body of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after an air strike in Baghdad's Sadr City in Iraq on April 29, 2008.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:16am On Sep 30, 2016
An Afghan refugee child hides from a dust storm behind a tent at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:15am On Sep 30, 2016
A Kenyan boy screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:14am On Sep 30, 2016
Aftermath of a missile hit.


Wounded Palestinians lay near Reuters news agency reporter Fadel Shaana's car after it was hit by an Israeli missile on April 16, 2008 in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service and two other civilians, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:11am On Sep 30, 2016
The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008. At least 30 people were killed when the three-story La Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the walls and debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near Port-au-Prince.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:08am On Sep 30, 2016
Firefighters battle a blaze at the Namdaemun gate, one of South Korea's most historic sites, in central Seoul.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:06am On Sep 30, 2016
The hand of a dead body lies on the ground amongst the rubble of the earthquake ravaged town May 15, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:04am On Sep 30, 2016
Taking heavy fire.


A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 11:01am On Sep 30, 2016
An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives, Haiti on September 3, 2008.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 10:20am On Sep 30, 2016
These two women are twins; biological sisters parented by a white father and a Jamaican mother.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 9:28am On Sep 30, 2016
Brick roads made by a tiger stone paving machine looks like it is laying carpet.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 8:52am On Sep 30, 2016
freecocoa:
Seriously, will those people in that pool say they were swimming or what exactly? I feel sick just looking at the picture.
Lol....They re swimming and having fun.
Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 7:51am On Sep 30, 2016

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op):
GE's equipment can generate an ice cloud and other atmospheric conditions the engine may encounter in flight.

The engine must pass the test.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ge-tests-747-engines-in-frigid-weather-2013-4

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 7:17am On Sep 30, 2016
The engine is placed in front of the fans for testing.

The ring of lights around the ice generating chamber makes the results of the night testing visible.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 7:13am On Sep 30, 2016
The facility covers 122,000 square feet.


These seven high power fans can blow winds of up to 65 miles per hour.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 7:12am On Sep 30, 2016
The testing center is in Winnipeg, Canada, a good place to replicate the frigid temperatures the engines experience high above the ground.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 7:10am On Sep 30, 2016
Airplane engines operate in tough conditions. Tens of thousands of feet above the ground, temperatures drop far below freezing, and snow and ice can pose deadly threats.

To make sure the GEnx engines for Boeing's 747 jumbo jet never fail, General Electric heads to its Aviation Engine Testing, Research and Development Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.

There is enormous fans, a wind tunnel, and other high tech equipments that simulates what the planes will experience at 40,000 feet, and make sure their engines can handle everything.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 5:43am On Sep 30, 2016
Crocodiles in the frozen meat section of Chinese Walmart.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 4:01am On Sep 30, 2016

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 4:00am On Sep 30, 2016
Border in South America.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 3:57am On Sep 30, 2016
Welcome to Hell.

Brazilian cops and firefighters protest in the airport for incoming tourists.

Education › Re: Have You Seen These Collection Fascinating Images? by Explorers(op): 3:55am On Sep 30, 2016
Car bombings: Then and now in Baghdad.

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