Esquire magazine has chosen from the “Photo of the day” 50 photos that best illustrate the passing year …
The first and only home, built on an artificial archipelago The World 4 kilometers from Dubai, UAE. The archipelago consists of 300 private islands and repeats the shape of the world map. At the time of its construction to a halt due to the global financial crisis.
16/01/2012 A couple against cruise ship “Costa Concordia”, which was wrecked on the west coast of Italy on the night of January 14.
19/01/2012 Leaving moon Tsvayershpittse against the mountain (1858 meters above sea level). Upper Rhine valley, Switzerland.
07/02/2012 Embankment of Lake Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland. Victims of cold weather in Europe are already more than 260 people.
10/02/2012 Car Swiss Pascal Prokop equipped wood-burning stove, Metmenshtetten, Switzerland. Thus the young man is saved from the frost that hit Europe.
16/02/2012 An aerial view of the city slums Petare, east of Caracas, Venezuela.
22/02/2012 Controlled explosion of the bridge in Fort Styuben in Styubenville, Ohio, USA. The Ministry of Transport has closed 83-year-old bridge three years ago because of the poor condition and lack of use.
29/02/2012 The “Center unconscious farming” Henry Ford – architecture students of the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Chicks that have grown up in such a center, devoid of all sense organs and limbs in a state of “zombies.” According to the author, it would be more humane than the current practice of keeping animals in poultry farms
03/15/2012 Indian family, which claims a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest family of albinos. The 50-year-old Rosetauri and 45-year-old Mani pool – six children and two close relatives with albinism.
03/19/2012 Picture race car the size of a grain of sand that is printed on the bullet 3D-printer, Vienna, Austria. Previously normal speed 3D-printing been calculated in millimeters per second, the new technology allows you to create objects at up to 5 meters per second, thanks to the two-photon lithography, developed at the Vienna University of Technology. In the constructed its professional printer consumables as used liquid resin, which hardens in the right places by focused laser beam, controlled by moving mirrors. Point of focus, moving leaves in a solid polymer resin line thickness of a few hundred nanometers. Length of the car shown in the photo is only 285 microns.
29/03/2012 Democratic congressman from Illinois Bobby Rush dresses up in hoodie and sunglasses at a meeting of the House of Representatives, Washington, USA. So the politician expressed his attitude to the murder of unarmed teenager Treyvona Martin, who was killed last month in a suburb of Orlando, Florida, because aroused the suspicions of the police in their appearance.
04/02/2012 Installers conducted a routine inspection of high-voltage power lines, Anhui Province, China.
04/04/2012 makeshift nursery, which contained more than 300 dogs fighting breeds, San Pablo, Philippines. As a result of a police raid arrested seven citizens of South Korea, who is accused of organizing betting and online broadcast dog fighting.
04/05/2012 Plankton Vaadhu beach island, Maldives. Glow due bioluminescence – chemical processes in the body of animals in which the liberated energy is released in the form of light.
04/06/2012 Jumper Joe Egan while preparing to speak at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney – the largest agricultural Watching in Australia.
12/04/2012 municipal employee washes 70-meter monument to Yuri Gagarin, Moscow. April 12, Russia celebrates the Day of Cosmonautics.
17.04.2012 Twelve-year Ume paralyzed three years ago and since then its owners have spent thousands of dollars on something to provide the dog the necessary medical care.
05/04/2012 lemon sharks with laser S3 Krypton, attached to the dorsal fin, near Barbados. Biologist Luke Tipple attached laser in the experiment to study the behavior of the fish. Wicked Lasers company gave him a production machine, inspired by the movie “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” in which the main villain Dr. Evil would say, “You know, Ive had one simple demand – sharks with lasers on their heads, damn.” In the film, however, Dr. Evil had to settle mutated sea bass.
05/12/2012 Indian marabou in a landfill near the wildlife reserve diporeia Beale, Guwahati, India. The rapid disappearance of wetlands is becoming a threat to the survival of this species, now has a population of less than 1000 individuals.
05/21/2012 Solar eclipse in Chico, California, USA. Today, the people of the northern hemisphere could watch annular solar eclipse in which the moon covers the sun’s disk is not fully
13/06/2012 miners on strike, directed against the reduction of state support for the industry, which has continued for more than three weeks, Leon, Spain.
18/06/2012 Nick Vallenda rope-walker is a tightrope over Niagara Falls between U.S. and Canada. Over the past 128 years, Nick was the first person who managed to get the permission of the Niagara Falls on a similar trick.
06/25/2012 Naked volunteers, painted in red and gold colors, pose for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, Munich, Germany. Installation based on the “Ring nibelungov” is timed to the opening of the opera festival.
07/09/2012 following indentation water in one of the houses of Crimea. In the flood struck the Krasnodar region, according to official figures has killed more than 170 people, 160 of them – in Krymsk.
07/20/2012 Trees covered with snow, near the Arctic Circle c. Author of the picture – a student from Italy Niccolo Bonfadini – all alone spent nine days in the area.
24/07/2012 Greger Johansson during the qualifying round of the UEFA European drag racing, Stockholm, Sweden. Engine on a motorcycle exploded Johansson when he warmed rubber before arrival.
30/07/2012 Battle robot Kuratas, developed by the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry, Tokyo. The cost of four-ton machine, which is currently being tested and will soon be on sale, will make $ 1.35 million a robot can manage both remote and sitting in the center of the case.
07/08/2012 Unknown dog breed Airedale, captured photographer animalist Wren Nezerlendom on one of the U.S. shows. Dog portraits adorn the frog Kermit, Gonzo the Great, Miss Piggy, and the character of the beast Muppets.
08/13/2012 Swimming pool, located on the 24th floor of the Hotel Holiday Inn, Shanghai, China.
16/08/2012 Private houses on the roof of an eight-mall, Zhuzhou, China.
30/08/2012 Sue Austin and her invention – underwater wheelchair, which she developed with the help of scientists and expert divers, London, UK. This week, Sue will be involved in the play under water in the pool in Weymouth. The performance included events on the cultural program of the Paralympic Games.
09/04/2012 Celebrating the “Day of red”, Breda, the Netherlands.
07/09/2012 Emission from the outer layers of the solar atmosphere, the rate of which is 1500 km / s. When the ejection reaches Earth, it could affect its magnetic field, causing auroras, magnetic storms, disruptions to electrical degradation propagation conditions.
09/14/2012 87-year-old Joanna Kaas, which is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most mature gymnast in the world, London, UK.
20/09/2012 Parliamentary elections, the village Kurkova, Belarus.
25/09/2012 Picture tardigrades, made with an electron microscope. Tardigrades – a type of microscopic invertebrates of no more than 1.5 mm, are known for their stamina and ability to fall into hibernation in adverse living conditions. So, they can survive the cosmic radiation, temperature -271 ° C in liquid helium, the pressure is 6 times higher than the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and 120 years of hibernation.
10/04/2012 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was testing firearms at the site of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TSNIITOCHMASH) Klimovsk, Moscow region
10/12/2012 eyeball unknown creature, which was discovered on the beach in Pompano Beach, Florida. The find will be sent to the Florida Research Institute of Ichthyology and Wildlife for further study.
16/10/2012 Members of the Free Syrian Army launch a homemade bomb during clashes with regular troops, Aleppo, Syria.
18/10/2012 One of the eight data centers of Google, Douglas County, Georgia, USA.
24/10/2012 Dried River delta, DC Kimberly, Australia.
26/10/2012 Somali fishermen are catch to market, Mogadishu.
30/10/2012 View of Manhattan, after the city had some problems with electricity due to Hurricane “Sandy”, New York, USA.
11/08/2012 boy goes to school, Pinto Gabang, Indonesia. Due to heavy rains the suspension bridge, which was the only way out of his village to the school collapsed, and people have to travel the river on the ropes at a height of 10 meters.
19.11.2012 The winners of the first Brazilian Olympic nudists on the podium, Sao Paulo, Brazil. About 60 people in three days competed in 30 disciplines.
22.11.2012 A new road in Zhejiang Province, China. An elderly couple living in the house, refused to sign the agreement for the demolition of the house because of too low, in their view, compensation.
27/11/2012 Farmers pour milk police during a demonstration against the decline in prices for dairy products, Brussels, Belgium.
11/30/2012 House that drove into a swamp during a hurricane, “Sandy”, Staten Island, New York.
10/12/2012 48-year-old Randall Shepherd and 56-year-old Larry Duncan before the marriage ceremony, Seattle, WA. December 6 in Washington state came into force a law allowing same-sex marriages.
12.12.2012 The first soldier in the history of the Royal Scots Guards, professing Sikhism, London, UK. 25-year-old Singh Dzhatinderpalu Bhularu not allowed to shave his beard and wear a turban instead of the traditional black cap made of bear fur.
