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15 photographs that will open your eyes… The world is beautiful
The Sony World Photography Awards season is well on its way. The competition, famously open to amateur and professional photographers alike, prompts anyone with a camera and an eye for the world's natural and artificial wonders to submit the best and brightest in contemporary image making. The contest began in 2007, and has since collected an impressive 700,000 entries from across the globe. This year alone has seen submissions from Romania to New Zealand, Indonesia to Portugal, the US to the Netherlands.
We've already given you a taste of the early stages of the 2015 awards participants. Now, we're showcasing 15 of the best images across categories (everything from architecture to current affairs to wildlife) that are in the running for accolades this year.
See a sneak peek of the photographers leading the race right now. In the meantime, you still have time to submit your own works, whether you'd like to compete in the professional, open, youth or student contests. Those competing in the professional contest will be judged by the 2015 honorary jury consisting of Oliver Schmitt, Matthew Leifheit, Xingxin Guo, Joanna Milter, Maria Pieri, Enrica Viganò, and Sasha Erwitt. The deadlines for this season ends on January 8, 2015. Check out the website for more information.
Cioplea Vlad, Romania, Split Second Category
(c) Cioplea Vlad, Romania, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Dog Fight Image Description: This is exactly the moment when Romanian YAK Team is breaking the formation just in front of the public at Bucharest International Air Show. At that moment they look just like they are haunting each other.Image location: Bucharest International Air Show 2014
Ioulia Chvetsova, France, Arts and Culture Category
(c) Ioulia Chvetsova, France, Entry, Arts and Culture Category Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards Awards. IMAGE TITLE: Holi. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Hindu devotees throw vivid colour at each other to celebrate the start of spring during Lathmar Holi Festival. Hindu brahmans from the village of Nandgaon are covered in colored powder as they sit and sing on the floor during prayers. IMAGE LOCATION: Krishna temple, Nandgaon, Mathura district, state Uttar Pradesh, India.
Gareth Lowndes, New Zealand, Travel Category
(c) Gareth Lowndes, New Zealand, Entry, Travel Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image Title - Desert Dawn Image description - About 30 minutes after sunrise a hot air balloon is captured in the distance beginning it's decent to land in a camel farm. The image was shot while floating over the dunes in a chase balloon.Image location - Dubai
Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Nature and Wildlife Category
(c) Andrew Suryono, Indonesia, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Orangutan in The Rain Image description: I was taking pictures of some Orangutans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment. Image location: Bali, Indonesia
Cor Boers, Netherlands, Architecture Category
(c) Cor Boers, Netherlands, Entry, Architecture Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: Blaak IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shapedpylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. IMAGE LOCATION: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Arief Siswandhono, Indonesia, People Category
(c) Arief Siswandhono, Indonesia, Entry, People Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: Timeless affection IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Fina (the girl in the picture) is the younger of my two daughters. Fina used to be scared of cat, which was the reason why we decided to adopt two kittens. We wanted Fina to learn how to live with cats, how to hold them, how to care for them and how to treat them as family members to help her overcome her fear. Now we can proudly say she did! Day by day, 7 months passed by and today Fiona and the cats are best friends, and love and care for each other. In this picture I wanted to show how gracefully they're together in a frame with Leon, one of her babies. IMAGE LOCATION: Banyuwangi - East Java - Indonesia
Miquel Ángel Artús Illana, Spain, Travel Category
(c) Miquel Ángel Artús Illana, Spain, Entry, Travel Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: The trace of an ancient glacier. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Denali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travelers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America's tallest peak, 20,320' Mount McKinley. What used to be glaciers are now white and blue rocks that contrasts with red, yellow, orange and green tundra of this vast natural paradise. The image is taken in Autumn when the colours multiply and make the landscape truly remarkable. IMAGE LOCATION: Denali Park, Alaska
Courtney Colantonio-Ray, USA, Split Second Category
(c) Courtney Colantonio-Ray, USA, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards Image Title: Covered Image Description: So much of a portrait relies on the face in a photo. But when it’s covered, we can see a whole different side of a person through their movement, their posture and even what we think the expression on their face will be when it’s finally uncovered.Image location: Los Angeles, CA. USA.
Georg May, Germany, Nature and Wildlife Category
(c) Georg May, Germany, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: Morning Hour IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A white fallow deer standing in the morning mist an early morning in Eifel National Park, Germany. One hardly dares to move - can only look fascinated. IMAGE LOCATION: Germany
Ralf Wendrich, Germany, Architecture Category
(c) Ralf Wendrich, Germany, Entry, Architecture, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: 'Step by step' IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A staircase in Berlin, reduced to the essential. IMAGE LOCATION: Berlin
Kyle Breckenridge, Canada, Nature and Wildlife Category
(c) Kyle Breckenridge, Canada, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards Image title: Dinner Time Image description: The mother and the cub are Spirit Bears or Kermode bear a subspecies of the North American Black Bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Colombia, Canada. These bears are rarer than the Panda Bear in the wild. Image location: Image was taken in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia near a small village called Klemtu. I have been told that this the 2nd time a white mother and cub has been documented. Most mother and cubs are usually a black and white combination
Jubair Bin Iqbal, Bangladesh, People Category
(c) Jubair Bin Iqbal, Bangladesh, Entry, People Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: Vigorous Touch of the Morning IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A Hindu monk is walking in a foggy winter morning of a mango garden of Dinajpur. IMAGE LOCATION: Dinajpur, Bangladesg.
Nick Ng, Malaysia, Split Second Category
(c) Nick Ng, Malaysia, Entry, Split Second Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: The Morning Ritual IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A man washes his feet before bathing in the Hooghly River, part of the Holi Ganges River in the early morning in Kolkata, India. The morning ritual of bathing oneself in the Ganges is a tradition of most Hindus, paying homage to their ancestors and their gods. The river is considered a sacred embodiment of the Hindus. IMAGE LOCATION: Below Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India
Lisa Vaz, Portugal, Nature and Wildlife Category
(c) Lisa Vaz, Portugal, Entry, Nature and Wildlife Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: In a crowd of King Penguins. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: King Penguins live in large colonies in South Georgia, a spec of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean and just below the Antarctic Convergence. They are very beautiful, gracious and yet almost comical birds and a true delight to observe. This image aims to capture and reflect how gracious and colourful Wildlife can be even at the ends of the Earth. IMAGE LOCATION: old Harbour in South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean.
Diego Arroyo Méndez, Spain, Smile Category
(c) Diego Arroyo Méndez, Spain, Entry, Smile Category, Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards IMAGE TITLE: Hamer Man IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Hamer man collecting wood to build a defensive fence for the cattle in the Lower Omo Valley. IMAGE LOCATION: Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
See 32 more submission, previously shown on The Huffington Post, below:
Staying Is Settling: Why You Need To Move At Least 5 Times In Your Life
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere, sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. – Stefan Zweig
Turn around, look at your life and decide right now if this moment, this place makes your pulse race and your heart bend. If there’s not a fluttering feeling in the deepest part of your soul, questioning and absorbing everything around you, get out right now.
If you feel comfortable, content and unchallenged… stand up and walk away. Make plans or don’t make plans, but whatever you do, leave this place and find somewhere new.
There’s a reason the word “leaving” sounds so nice. Like saying “see you later” instead of “goodbye,” it puts you at ease. It signifies a fresh start, a departure from the old and overrun. Because leaving is just the precursor to arriving, and there’s nothing better than a fresh start.
Whether it’s a new apartment or a new city, starting over isn’t about changing your scene, but the way you’re living in it. It’s about opening your eyes again, walking to the ledge and looking up, down and across, once again comprehending the vastness of life that sits openly waiting for you.
Life has a tendency to get stale. Like your favorite food, it loses its edge after a while, that special quality that made you love it so much in the first place. We, like the places we confine ourselves to, become as dull and boring as our surroundings.
New experiences are the reason we live. They are the reason we get up every day, the reason we carry on. While we enjoy comfort, we crave experience. The point of living is not to resign yourself to one part of life, but to continually redefine yourself. It’s to baptize yourself, over and over again, in new waters and new experiences.
You have your entire life to be comfortable, to sit in your house and bask in the familiarity of it. But right now, while you’re young and uncomfortable, keep going, keep challenging yourself. Keep making yourself uncomfortable. Because it’s only when we’re uncomfortable that we are growing and learning.
To truly understand yourself, your purpose and those around you, you must keep moving. You must move at least five times; five times to open your heart and dip your toes into something new, fresh and life changing.
1. To get away from what you know
Your first move is like taking flight for the first time. Like learning to fly, you realize the only thing stopping you from the world is yourself. You don’t have wings, you have legs, airplanes and trains. You have buses, cars and ocean liners. You have the world in front of you, with nothing but open sky and limitless possibilities.
But first you must leave the nest. You must say goodbye to everything you grew up with, the small world you once considered enough. You must unlatch yourself from the comforts of the familiar and place yourself in the middle of chaos.
This first move is the hardest. It’s the moment you willingly decide to be uncomfortable, scared and alone. It’s making the decision to become a foreigner, an outsider, a refugee. It’s abandoning everything you once cherished for the idea that there’s something better out there.
2. To find new experiences
The second move you make should be one of restlessness. You should be tired of the same flavors of your now comfortable surroundings. This move is about feeling again. It’s about accepting that you can’t possibly know everything, but you are going to try.
You are going to have experiences, adventures and an unforeseen future. You don’t know who you’ll meet, what you’ll find or how you’ll get there, but you will do it. You will jump into it blindly and openly.
You will make new friends, find new flavors and reignite that passion for life that came with your first move. You will not rest until your hungry soul is placated. You will leave your old friends for new ones, your first language for another and that idea that you’re home for that invigorating feeling of homesick.
3. To chase love
To chase love is to chase happinesses. It’s to decide that you will throw yourself into the swirling, maddening and restless chase we’re all trying to enter. Because love is the ultimate destination, is it not? It’s the reason we move, every day.
It’s the reason we get up and fight through the bad. It’s the reason we keep going, trudging on, meeting person after person. It’s the last goal, the final frontier and the only thing worth moving for.
If you think you’ve found it… in a person, a city, a job, you must move for it. If your dream job awaits in Spain, you must move there. If your heart yearns for the pink beaches of Bermuda, you must go there.
If you fall in love on the dunes of the Cape with a man you barely know, you must follow him. Chasing love is not irresponsible, it’s honest. It’s admitting that there is no greater chase, nothing more important. Because if you’re not chasing love, what are you running after?
4. To escape that love
Love isn’t infinite. It can be found in a moment, a single dose or a fleeting romance. It can be a year of perfect love with someone who isn’t supposed to stay in your life. It can be in beaches that bring you peace until your heart years for something new. It can be in the first bite of pasta and over with its last.
Love isn’t defined by its length but its capacity to touch you and change you. Just because it doesn’t last doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. You must leave for love but you also must realize when that love no longer remains.
You must be strong enough to walk away from finished love to find new love. You must flee the suffocation that comes from stifled love and keep your heart open for more.
You must never settle, never give in to the idea that you can’t have another one. Because the world is full of things to throw your heart into, things to make you weep and realize (yet again) why you’re alive.
5. To begin all over again
You must resist the confines of comfort. You must defy the idea of settled. You must never resign yourself to the ordinary or the easy. You must challenge tranquility for the promise of something greater.
To live is to be born and to continually live is to be reborn, again and again. As a new person, new lover, new friend, you must willingly evolve and transform into new versions of yourself.
You must never allow the new place you’ve created to become the final place. You must consistently defy the idea of comfort for the idea that you’ll never be fully satisfied unless you’re exploring, changing and moving.
http://elitedaily.com/life/staying-settling-need-move-5-times-life/751829/
What's the word for being happy and sad at the same time ....? That's what I get looking at this capture. #happiness is overrated. #life #lesson #travel #NYC #NeverLoseFaith
Nothing, Nobody is #perfect.
On the way to Roosevelt Island #NYC
Teddy Afro @summerstage14 #NYC @teddyafromusic @elyamuki @genetparadise
@teddyafromusic @summerstage14 #NYC #Ethiopia #Africa - It's not the greatest captured video but since I love this song here here:
Happy Birthday America! Never seen #NYC beautiful like this before. #BrooklynBridge #Fireworks @July4th #USA @elyamuki @da4
22 of The Most Powerful Images EVER!
THE MIND UNLEASHED
on 19 June, 2014 at 19:08
A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. Some pictures can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these pictures are powerful. They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence.
We should warn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, while others may fill them with joy. But that’s precisely because these images reflect some of the best and worst parts of the human experience and world events. Our post of must-see photos from the past described our history while 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 will remind us all that the world can always use a little bit more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding.
P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.
STARVING BOY AND MISSIONARY
Image credits: Mike Wells
2. INSIDE AN AUSCHWITZ GAS CHAMBER
Image credits: kligon5
3. HEART SURGEON AFTER 23-HOUR-LONG (SUCCESSFUL) HEART TRANSPLANT. HIS ASSISTANT IS SLEEPING IN THE CORNER.
Image credits: James Stanfield
4. FATHER AND SON (1949 VS 2009)
Image credits: Vojage-Vojage
5. DIEGO FRAZÃO TORQUATO, 12 YEAR OLD BRAZILIAN PLAYING THE VIOLIN AT HIS TEACHER’S FUNERAL. THE TEACHER HAD HELPED HIM ESCAPE POVERTY AND VIOLENCE THROUGH MUSIC
Image credits: salvemasnoss...
6. A RUSSIAN SOLDIER PLAYING AN ABANDONED PIANO IN CHECHNYA IN 1994
Image credits: drugoi.livejournal.com
7. YOUNG MAN JUST FOUND OUT HIS BROTHER WAS KILLED
Image credits: Nhat V. Meyer
8. CHRISTIANS PROTECT MUSLIMS DURING PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF THE 2011 UPRISINGS IN CAIRO, EGYPT
Image credits: Nevine Zaki
9. A FIREFIGHTER GIVES WATER TO A KOALA DURING THE DEVASTATING BLACK SATURDAY BUSHFIRES IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, IN 2009
Image credits: abc.net.au
10. TERRI GURROLA IS REUNITED WITH HER DAUGHTER AFTER SERVING IN IRAQ FOR 7 MONTHS
Image credits: Louie Favorite
11. ALCOHOLIC FATHER WITH HIS SON
Image credits: imgur.com
12. EMBRACING COUPLE IN THE RUBBLE OF A COLLAPSED FACTORY
Image credits: Taslima Akhter
13. SUNSET ON MARS
Image credits: nasa.gov
14. FIVE-YEAR-OLD GYPSY BOY ON NEW YEAR’S EVE 2006 IN THE GYPSY COMMUNITY OF ST. JACQUES, PERPIGNAN, SOUTHERN FRANCE. IT IS QUITE COMMON IN ST. JACQUES FOR LITTLE BOYS TO SMOKE
Image credits: Jesco Denzel
15. HHAING THE YU, 29, HOLDS HIS FACE IN HIS HAND AS RAIN FALLS ON THE DECIMATED REMAINS OF HIS HOME NEAR MYANMAR’S CAPITAL OF YANGON (RANGOON). IN MAY 2008, CYCLONE NARGIS STRUCK SOUTHERN MYANMAR, LEAVING MILLIONS HOMELESS AND CLAIMING MORE THAN 100,000 LIVES
Image credits: Brian Sokol
16. “WAIT FOR ME DADDY,” BY CLAUDE P. DETTLOFF IN NEW WESTMINSTER, CANADA, OCTOBER 1, 1940
Image credits: Claud Detloff
17. AN OLD WW2 RUSSIAN TANK VETERAN FINALLY FOUND THE OLD TANK IN WHICH HE PASSED THROUGH THE ENTIRE WAR – STANDING IN A SMALL RUSSIAN TOWN AS A MONUMENT
Image credits: englishrussia.com
18. FLOWER POWER
Image credits: Bernie Boston
19. THE GRAVES OF A CATHOLIC WOMAN AND HER PROTESTANT HUSBAND, HOLLAND, 1888
Image credits: retronaut.com
20. DEMONSTRATION OF CONDOM USAGE AT A PUBLIC MARKET IN JAYAPURA, CAPITAL OF PAPUA, 2009
Image credits: Adri Tambunan
21. 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 in 1941-1945.
22. SOME PARENTS, LIKELY NOW IN THEIR 70′S, STILL LOOKING FOR THEIR MISSING CHILD.
Image credits: reddit.com
P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.
This Is How Maya Angelou Wants To Be Remembered
In an interview with Armstrong Williams that was posted to YouTube in 2008, Angelou said the following:
I think every year has been challenging. Every day challenges. Some of the challenges were more public than others. Some so private I couldn’t even mention them in public. Some having to do with health. Some having to do with prosperity. Some having to do with romantic love. Some having to do with my family. The same issues that face and beleaguer every human being in the world and still do, have beleaguered me and still do. So that the challenge for me to meet you this morning, to get up, defy gravity; to stand erect and to remain erect, and to be absolutely present with you so that everything I know I have here in this chair with me now.
I don’t know what you’re going to ask me, so I’m challenged to be as honest as possible, as courageous as possible, and as kind as possible, that’s what I’m challenged [to do].
I was challenged as a young girl; at 7-years-old I was raped, and I told the name of the rapist to my family. The man was put in jail for one day and one night and released. Three or four days later, he was found dead. The police informed my grandmother that the man was found dead and that it seemed he had been kicked to death. They said that in front of me. That traumatized me so that I stopped speaking. I thought my voice had killed the man. And I thought if I spoke, my voice might just go out and kill anybody, randomly, and I stopped speaking for six years. So I learned to read and I read every book I could find. And I memorized. The challenge, now — I was growing up in a little village in Arkansas about the size of this room — and the challenge for a black child not to speak was no small matter. Because black people believed [that you] speak when you’re spoken to, especially when I was growing up.
But my grandmother, who was a traditional Southern black lady, my grandmother said, ‘Sister, mama don’t care about what these people say about you must be a moron, or you must be an idiot ‘cause you can’t talk. Sister, mama don’t care. Mama know when you and the Good Lord get ready, you are going to be a teacher.’
…I’m strong. I have 55 doctorates. My last was from Columbia University. I teach all over the world. So, the pressure on me, the challenge on me, was always mitigated by love. That is to say it was softened by love because my grandmother loved me, my uncle loved me, and my brother loved me. I came through that. I have come through so many challenges because of love.
And it’s with that love that Angelou created some of her most cherished work, including her iconic poem, “Phenomenal Woman.” Here she is reciting it on Oprah “Super Soul Sunday.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFfhH83_RE
14 inspirational quotes from pioneering #women
Throughout history, women activists have been a source of inspiration and have made it possible for others to succeed in the work they do. We’ve collected together 14 quotes from pioneering women. May their words resonate through time and continue to inspire.
1. Kishida Toshiko
Japan, 1863-1901
Kishida Toshiko was a writer, activist, and one of the first women in Japan to speak publicly about women’s rights. She began lecturing when she was just 20 years old! She was well known for her speech “Daughters Confined in Boxes” that criticised a family system that confined women at home.
2. Carrie Chapman Catt
United States, 1859-1947
Photo credit: Bettmann/CORBIS.
As president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt helped revitalise the suffrage movement and ratify the 19th Amendment in 1919, which guarantees all women the right to vote. Not really that long ago, ladies!
3. Mother Teresa
Republic of Macedonia, 1910-1997
Maybe one of the most famous women on this list, Mother Teresa established the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, in 1950. These sisters ran hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis at a time when such people were treated as outcasts by most of society.
4. Rosa Parks
United States, 1913-2005
Rosa Parks is known as the “first lady of civil rights.” Her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger led to the game-changing Montgomery Bus Boycotts, an important moment for the U.S. civil rights movement.
5. Eunice Shriver
United States, 1921-2009
Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 in honour of her sister, Rosemary, who had an intellectual disability. She firmly believed that if people with intellectual disabilities were given the same opportunities as everyone else, they could achieve far more than anyone thought possible.
6. Arundhati Roy
India, 1930 -
This Booker prize-winning author and political activist wrote The God of Small Things, which was eventually translated into 40 languages. But instead of writing more novels, Roy has committed to shining a spotlight on the dark side of her homeland, India, and focusing on its millions of poor, dispossessed and abused citizens, as well as environmental issues.
7. Shami Chakrabarti
United Kingdom, 1969 -
Photo: http://flickr.com/photos/walnutwhippet. Used under Creative Commons license.
As Director of Liberty, a UK advocacy group which campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights, Chakrabarti is recognised as a tireless defender of freedom and equality. Liberty create change by challenging inequities through the courts, helping to set a legal precedent. On 27 July 2012, she was one of eight Olympic Flag carriers at the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and is frequently cited as one of the most influential women in Britain.
8. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia, 1938-
Photo credit: Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank.
Known as Africa’s “Iron Lady”, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first female head of state on the continent of Africa. She has been working tirelessly ever since to strengthen the institutions of national security and good governance in her home country of Liberia.
9. Juliana Rotich
Kenya
Source: http://inspiration.entrepreneur.com/
Juliana Rotich is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder of Ushahidi. Ushahidi was originally designed as a crowdsourced map to track violence after the troubled Kenyan elections in 2007-8. It was later made available as open-source software, and is now used to help distribute aid following natural disasters, among other things. This thought leader has been a champion for spreading internet connectivity in the developing world.
10. Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma, 1945-
Photo credit: Platon/Time.
Aung San Suu Kyi began speaking out in favour of the protests and rallies against the dictator U Ne Win and his policies, focusing her speeches on democracy and human rights. In retaliation U Ne Win’s military junta put Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest with no communication with the outside world for almost 15 years. That certainly didn’t silence her.
11. Leymah Gbowee
Liberia, 1972-
In collaboration with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee helped bring a period of peace to Liberia through her leadership of a women’s peace movement. Her efforts enabled a free election in 2005 that gave the presidency to Sirleaf.
12. Rebecca Lolosoli
Kenya
Rebecca Lolosoli helped establish the Umoja Women’s Village in Kenya after she was beaten for speaking up for victims of rape. She continues to fight for women and their right to make decisions, own land and businesses.
13. Chrissie Wellington
United Kingdom, 1977-
Wellington is a record-holding triathlete. Retired now, she’s working to advance women in cycling by calling for a women’s Tour de France. She is also passionate about development and spent time in the conflict-affected west of Nepal working on water and sanitation.
14. Malala Yousafzai
Pakistan, 1997-
A strong advocate for girls’ right to education, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban in 2012 after refusing to give up on her campaign. She survived and came back strong, starting the Malala Fund to help girls around the world reach their true potential.
You don’t have to be a president or cultural icon for your voice to matter. If you’re based in the US, join the ONE Moms movement and help make the world a better place for girls and women.
By Mary Scharffenberger and Anna Lemberger
Look up!
18 Insane Historical Coincidences You Could Have Never Predicted
MAR. 11, 2014
By MICHAEL KOH
Adolf Hitler / Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst – Zentralbild (Bild 183) & Napoleon Bonaparte / The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
1. Napoleon and Hitler was born 129 years apart and came into power 129 years apart. They also both declared war on Russia 129 years apart from one another.
“I. Am. America.” – George Washington, after eating 4 pounds of bacon and chimichurris.
2. George Washington inadvertently started the Seven-Years War. Washington was tapped to talk to the French and the natives around the Ohio river. He was given an order by Governor Dinwiddie to “act on the [defensive], but in Case any Attempts are made to obstruct the Works or interrupt our [settlements] by any Persons whatsoever, You are to restrain all such Offenders, & in Case of resistance to make Prisoners of or kill and destroy them.” In doing so, scholars reason that this was an invitation to start war. The French sent out a party numbering about 50 to ask Washington to leave. Washington countered, with a group of 40 men, surrounded the French camp and fired musket rounds. 10 Frenchmen were killed.
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She rarely bathed, slept in the nude, and ate a lot in bed -- shoving what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep.
3. Morgan Robertson, best known for his short story, Futility, which featured an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan — published in 1898, 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic — also wrote “Beyond the Spectrum,” which details the Japanese launching a sneak attack on the United States. That was written 27 years before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
4. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy both have seven letters in their last name, were over 6′ feet tall and studied law. They were both shot in the head, on a Friday, were seated beside their wives when shot. Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Ford product, a Lincoln limousine.
5. Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001. Massoud created the United Front to combat the Taliban and was the target of multiple assassination attempts. He is connected to 9/11, as he had warned the European Parliament of a major terrorist attack.
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6. The Civil War started and ended at Wilmer McLean’s backyard.
7. Frane Selak was the unluckiest luckiest man alive for a time. He cheated death seven times and ended up winning the lottery.
8. President James A. Garfield died on Monday, September 19, 1881. Garfield the cat hates Mondays.
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9. Codenames for the beaches of Normandy appeared on a British crossword puzzle in 1944.
10. The Secret Service was created about a month after Lincoln’s assassination. Lincoln died April 15, 1865 and the Secret Service was created in July 5, 1865.
11. The Lone Gunmen was aired in March 2001, which depicted terrorists hijacking an airliner with the intent to crash it into the World Trade Center.
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12. Isaac Newton was born the year Galileo died (1642).
13. Archery in both Asia and Western Europe developed independentlyfrom each other.
14. India and Pakistan were at a standoff, on the brink of a nuclear war, when a high-energy explosion occurred just above the Mediterranean Sea. Had this exploded above India or Pakistan, there would’ve been nuclear missiles launched at each other.
15. Tamerlane’s grave had this inscription: “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” In 1941, Soviet archaeologist Mikhail M. Gerasimov opened Tamerlane’s tomb. Two days later, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Tamerlane was buried with full Islamic ritual in November 1942, days before the Battle Of Stalingrad.
16. Violet Jessop survived three sinkings of the RMS Titanic and the HMHS Britannic and the RMS Olympic.
17. Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived not only one, but two atomic bombs. He was just about to leave Hiroshima when the first hit, wounding him. The second, hit his hometown of Nagasaki, and Yamaguchi was 3km away from the blast site, but this time, was unhurt.
No one but Deschamps and de Fontgibu ate plum pudding. image – Flickr / Matito
18. Emile Deschamps was served plum pudding by a stranger named Monsieur de Fontgibu. When Deschamps ordered plum pudding 10 years later in a Paris restaurant, he was told that the last of the pudding was served to a man named de Fontgibu — the same man that had served him ten years ago. In 1832, while dining with friends, Deschamps ordered plum pudding and commented that only de Fontgibu was missing to make the setting complete and a senile de Fontgibu walked into the restaurant.
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#ShirleyTemple died of natural causes on February 10, 2014, at the age of 85. This is a movie biopic made about the most famous child star of all time, Shirley temple, I DON'T OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THIS FILM, NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED.
Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and one-time U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States, 1976–1977.
Temple began her film career in 1932 at the age of three and, in 1934, found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer to motion pictures during 1934, and film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid-to-late 1930s. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence, and she left the film industry in her teens.[1] She appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She was the top box-office draw four years in a row (1935–38) in a Motion Picture Herald poll.[2][3]
Temple returned to show business in 1958 with a two-season television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest appearances on television shows in the early 1960s and filmed a sitcom pilot that was never released. She sat on the boards of corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation. In 1988, she published her autobiography, Child Star. Temple was the recipient of awards and honors includingKennedy Center Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
Temple ranks 18th on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female American screen legends of all time.
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