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If you were following international news earlier this summer, you may have heard about the heavy rains that brought about massive flooding throughout China. The floods killed over 500 people and forced over 1.4 million others to evacuate their homes, inflicting billions of dollars worth of damage. It certainly sounds terrible when you read an article about it, but to get a real picture of the scale of this flooding one most certainly has to look at images.

Here are 35 of the most shocking and dramatic news photographs from the 2007 Chinese floods:

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Looking at these amazing winter landscapes makes me wish winter was already upon us! [Click each photo to view it in full size.]

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Just got this huge set of photographs via e-mail, most of which were taken at robot expos in China over the last few years. I cannot identify any of these robots, and I am also unsure if they are all of Chinese origin. Anybody out there an expert on Chinese robotics?
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The Japanese National Diet Library’s website has put up a huge collection of photographs taken in Tokyo around the beginning of the 20th century.

After spending a couple hours on the site, I saved 22 of my favorite photographs and have posted them here for you all to enjoy. Most of these were taken around Meiji Year 44 (1913):
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Somebody sent me this picture in an e-mail, but they weren’t sure where it came from. It looks like a zoo, possibly in Asia, where visitors are allowed to feed bears with little fishing poles. Does anyone know the story behind this picture?

An incredible series of photographs taken in Nigeria as part of Pieter Hugo’s ‘Gadawan Kura’ - The Hyena Men(click each image to view in high resolution):
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These images, reported to be gigantic catfish that was caught in a lake in Southern China, have been swirling around the Chinese internet for the last couple months. Those spreading the image claim that the 3-meter long fish may have eaten several swimmers who had disappeared in recent years. It sounds outlandish, but why not examine the pictures before deciding if it’s a fake? [Looks a hell of a lot like a whale shark to me. What do you think?]

WARNING: If seeing a fish cut open is offensive to you, don’t scroll down to the bottom of this post!

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