30 of the Most Powerful Images Ever _ Bored Panda

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30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

A picture is w orth a thousand w ords, but not all pictures are c reated equal. The pictures w e usually feature on

Bored Panda can be cute, beautiful, f unny, or enchanting, but these pictures are pow erful. They are gripping and

unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition about some of the best and w orst

moments of contemporary human existence.

We should w arn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, w hile others may f ill them w ith joy. But

thats precisely because these images ref lect some of the best and w orst parts of the human experience and w orld

events. Our post of must-see photos from the past described our history w hile these photos, for the most part,

describe our present our suffering and our triumphs, our perseverance and our failures, our compassion and our

hatred, our intelligence and our stupidity.

Some of these photographs may mean more to some of our readers than to others. But hopefully, they w ill remind us

all that the world can alw ays use a little bit more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding.

P.S: w e alw ays try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes its impossible to track some of

them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.

1. Starving boy and missionary

Image credits: Mike Wells

2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

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Image credits: kligon5

3. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistantis sleeping in the corner.
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5. Diego Frazo Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at histeachers funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violencethrough music

Image credits: salvemasnossascriancas.blogspot.com

6. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994
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Image credits: drugoi.livejournal.com

7. Young man just found out his brother was killed
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Image credits: Nhat V. Meyer

8. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisingsin Cairo, Egypt
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Image credits: Nevine Zaki

9. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturdaybushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009
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Image credits: abc.net.au

10. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7

months
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Image credits: Louie Favorite

11. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosqueahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India
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Image credits: Tsering Topgyal / AP

12. 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, 600detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was

buried with full honors in 2000
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Image credits: STR News / Reuters

13. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Falling Man.
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Image credits: Richard Drew /AP

14. Alcoholic father with his son
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Image credits: imgur.com

15. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory
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Image credits: Taslima Akhter

16. Sunset on Mars
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Image credits: nasa.gov

17. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Years Eve 2006 in the gypsy community ofSt. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques forlittle boys to smoke
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Image credits: Jesco Denzel

18. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated

remains of his home near Myanmars capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless andclaiming more than 100,000 lives
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Image credits: Brian Sokol

19. 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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Image credits: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images

20. Wait For Me Daddy, by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada,


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October 1, 1940

Image credits: Claud Detloff

21. An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he
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passed through the entire war standing in a small Russian town as amonument

Image credits: englishrussia.com

22. Flower power
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Image credits: Bernie Boston

23. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and

ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011
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Image credits:Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP

24. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland,

1888
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25. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home inAlabama following the Tornado in March, 2012
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Image credits: Gary Cosby Jr. / AP

26. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital ofPapua, 2009

Image credits:Adri Tambunan
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27. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein

Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in1941-1945.

28. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villagersaved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on hishead
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Image credits: Bisw aranjan Rout / AP

29. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers
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Image credits: Rafiq Maqbool / AP

30. Some parents, likely now in their 70s, still looking for their missing child.


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Image credits: reddit.com

P.S: w e alw ays try our best to c redit each and every photographer, but sometimes its impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.
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