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20 Powerful Photos That Will Leave You Speechless. Take a look at these 20 powerful photos that will leave you speechless.

20 Powerful Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

Some of these photos are of truly historic moments, while others, are quite heartbreaking. World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show. 100s of galaxies seen through the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), as they were 10 billion years ago. Sunset on Mars, taken in 2005 by the Spirit rover. A soldier making the long walk to defuse a car bomb in Northern Ireland. Neil Armstrong after his Moonwalk. This was taken moments after Jewish refugees realized they weren't being sent to their deaths at the horrible concentration camps and were in fact being saved. Ignorance is bliss - Homeless man sleeps outside a diner in Milwaukee. 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old. Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories.

In this Vulture original essay, the outspoken author of Dead Pig Collector and the graphic novels Transmetropolitan and Red explains that, now more than ever, violent fiction is essential for helping us understand real-world horrors and de-fang society's monsters.

Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories

"I don’t understand. " How many times have you read that in conjunction with a violent act? “I don’t understand why he did it.” Or “I don’t understand why this happened.” Sammy Yatim, shot dead and then tasered by police on a Toronto streetcar, and even the chair of the Police Services Board asks, "How could this happen? " Stephen Colbert Is Ruining America. Do you remember the trays we all used to eat off of in our elementary school cafeterias?

Stephen Colbert Is Ruining America

I usually had to bring my lunch from home, ‘cause $1.80 was apparently too pricey, but when I did get to buy my lunch at school I loved the trays we got to use. Why? Because those nice, neat little sections they were divided up into kept my food from touching. And as any elementary school kid will tell you, there’s nothing worse in life than having your food touch.

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Playing Video Games Makes You Smarter, Experts Say. Parenting. 75 Ways to Show Love - For Healthy Relationships. Jason Lauritsen: The Accountability Contagion. I’m worried about us as a collective group of human beings.

Jason Lauritsen: The Accountability Contagion

We seem to be very on edge and out of sorts. We don’t want to offend and yet we are easily offended. We desire real conversation, and yet, we avoid conflict because it’s uncomfortable. We desire to have all that we want (big TV’s, fancy houses, snazzy cars) and yet we resent the risks and trade-offs it takes to create that kind of wealth. We want to feel good, but we won’t do the hard work to achieve real health. We seem to have lost touch with reality. I’m speaking in generalizations here, of course, but look around. Being accountable means that you own the outcomes of your actions (your results), good or bad, without excuse and without exception. Jason Lauritsen: Protect your High Expectations. Yesterday, as I shared coffee with a friend, we shared stories about how hard it is to find organizations and partners who at least live up to our expectations and how rare it seems to have become to find one that exceeds them.

Jason Lauritsen: Protect your High Expectations

We’ve both had challenges recently where we’ve hired someone who claims expertise to help us with something that is far outside our areas of expertise only to be let down in significant ways. After about 20 minutes of story sharing, she asked me this question: “Are our expectations just too high?” 10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children. While most things we experienced as tots in that headiest of eras seems pretty self-explanatory (plaid was everywhere, Leonardo DiCaprio was the molten ball of light around which the solar system turned, and there was no color too bright for your sweatpants) there are some things that will be a bit harder to explain.

10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children

Here, a primer for when your future children want to know what the hell you were doing with your boxy, multicolored electronics. 1. Topanga was at some point in human history considered not only a legitimate first name for a human being, but the kind of name that would inspire in malleable teenage boys a life-long infatuation. Topanga, in our day, was leading lady name-material. Topanga (pronounced Tah-payne-ga, for those who will have only ever seen in it written down) is the name of the quintessential girl-next-door who will live, along with Feeney, in our hearts forever. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. David Borgenicht: 7 Life Lessons You Can Learn From 'Star Trek' Let me start out by coming clean: I am a closet Trekkie.

David Borgenicht: 7 Life Lessons You Can Learn From 'Star Trek'

I went to my first "Star Trek" convention when I was nine. I have owned dozens of "Star Trek" toys, models, props and books over the years (and yes, I used to make my Kirk and Uhura action figures kiss). I even have a communicator app on my iPhone (and I'm eagerly waiting for the tricorder app now that Siri has arrived).