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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.

A before and after shot of Joplin, Missouri after the tornado hit on May 22. Source: zeitlosimagery

A demonstrator shows his bottom to riot police during a protest by European workers and trade union representatives to demand better job protection in the European Union countries in Brussels on March 24.

A makeshift Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple Store in SOHO New York.

A Libyan rebel is pictured with Gadhafi’s golden gun.

An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow’s decomposing carcass in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border on July 23. (Reuters / STRINGER)

Protesters in Uganda are sprayed with paint.

President Obama signs a bill to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

In this television frame grab from KIMT in Mason City, Iowa, slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson’s dog Hawkeye lays next to his casket during funeral services in Rockford, Iowa. Tumilson was one of 30 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan on August 6 when their helicopter was shot down during a mission to help fellow troops who had come under fire.

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in Cairo, Egypt.

People celebrate Osama Bin Laden’s death at Ground Zero on May 2.

Hurricane Irene approaches the east coast.

Office workers gather on the sidewalk in downtown Washington, D.C., moments after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook the nation’s capital. The earthquake was centered northwest of Richmond, Va., but could be felt from North Carolina to Massachusetts.

A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an “Occupy UCD” demonstration in Davis, California.

Hot Buzz 39,513 TOTAL VIEWS 3.5X VIRAL LIFT TOP REFERRERS View Stats › The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 CULTURE BUZZ What a year it has been! Here’s to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive year. Matt Stopera posted about 7 hours ago 205 ResponsesAdd Yours ? 1K EmailBoost 1. Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial. 2. A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11. 3. This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April.

A woman rebel fighter supporter fires an AK-47 rifle as she reacts to the news of the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from Benghazi on March 19. (Reuters / GORAN TOMASEVIC)

Cars are abandoned on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive after the great Blizzaster in February.

84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her. (Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com)

A protester gets sprayed in the face with pepper spray at an Occupy Portland protest.

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1. (Reuters / HANDOUT)

A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan.

An aerial shot of the damage immediately following the Japanese tsunami. (Reuters / KYODO)

A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.

Gay service members march in a gay pride parade for the first time.

Riot police stand firm during the London Riots in August.

Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 24. (Getty Images / Paula Bronstein)

Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. (Reuters / GARY HERSHORN)

Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk’s office.

Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer’s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.

A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July.

A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami. (Reuters / ASAHI SHIMBUN)

A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok, on October 24.

A photograph is seen in the rubble of a destroyed house in Otsuchi, Japan after the tsunami.

Harold Camping speaks about the end of the world. The world was supposed to end on May 22 of this year. (AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez)

A student is punched in the face by a police officer in Chile. Students in Chile have demanding a new framework for education. (Reuters / VICTOR RUIZ CABALLERO)

Grace Van Cutsem (better known as “Frowning Flower Girl”) reacts to the crowds at William and Kate’s wedding. (Reuters / DYLAN MARTINEZ)

A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11.

Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood on August 28 in Nags Head, N.C. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head.

Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.

Flowers and tributes are seen outside the home of Amy Winehouse in London July 24, 2011. (Reuters / STEFAN WERMUTH)

A phone hangs off the hook on Wall Street. (Reuters / LUCAS JACKSON)