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Photos - June 2010

World Cup Golden Boot Winners

June 30th 2010 03:24

The Golden Boot Award goes to the top goal scorer of the FIFA World Cup.

The award was introduced at the first World Cup in 1930. Since 1994, if there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists. If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.

Sports Illustrated takes a look at all the Golden Boot winners throughout history. A few pictures are below. See the entire list here.

1930 - Guillermo Stabile, Argentina, 8 goals

Stabile missed the first game, but still scored eight goals in four matches.

1950 - Marques Ademir, Brazil, 7 goals

There's some dispute as to Ademir's real total during the 1950 World Cup, but he's officially credited with seven goals. Brazil lost to Uruguay in the final.

1958 - Just Fontaine, France, 13 goals

Holds the record for most goals in a single World Cup with 13 in just six games, four in a single game against the West Germans.

1986 - Gary Lineker, England, 6 goals

England's World Cup dreams ended at the hands of Diego Maradona and Argentina, but with six goals Lineker did his part.

2002 - Ronaldo, Brazil, 8 goals

Ronaldo had scored four goals in the previous tournament and added to that by notching eight as he led the Selecao to triumph in the South Korea/Japan World Cup.

Full List of Golden Boot Winners:-

2006; Klose - Germany - 5
2002; Ronaldo - Brazil - 8
1998; Davor Suker - Croatia - 6
1994; Oleg Salenko - Russia - 6
1994; Hristo Stoichkov - Bulgaria - 6
1990; Salvatore Schillaci - Italy - 6
1986; Gary Lineker - England - 6
1982; Paolo Rossi - Italy - 6
1978; Mario Kempes - Argentina - 6
1974; Grzegorz Lato - Poland - 7
1970;Gerd Müller - Germany - 10
1966; Eusebio - Portugal - 9
1962; Florian Albert - Hungary - 4
1962; Garrincha - Brazil - 4
1962; Valentin Ivanov - USSR - 4
1962; Drazan Jerkovic - Yugoslavia - 4
1962; Leonel Sanchez - Chile - 4
1962; Vava - Brazil - 4
1958; Just Fontaine - France - 13
1954; Sandor Kocsis - Hungary - 11
1950; Marques Ademir - Brazil - 7
1938; Leonidas da Silva - Brazil - 8
1934; Oldrich Nejedly - Czechoslovakia - 5
1930; Guillermo Stabile - Argentina - 8

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D-Day

June 28th 2010 02:52

June 6th, 2010, marked the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France.

The operation was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with over 160,000 troops landing. Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved. The invasion required the transport of soldiers and material from the United Kingdom by troop-laden aircraft and ships, the assault landings, air support, naval interdiction of the English Channel and naval fire-support. The landings took place along a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.

To celebrate the anniversary, The Big Picture at Boston.com put together this collection of rare photographs of the landing. View the full photoset here.

Coast Guard Flotilla 10 tied up along with British landing craft, preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France. These landing craft landed U.S. troops on Omaha Beach.

n A-20 from the 416th Bomb Group making a bomb run on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

American soldiers wade from Coast Guard landing barge toward the beach at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Allied soldiers, vehicles and equipment swarm onto the French shore during the Normandy landings, June 1944.

Two U.S. soldiers escort a group of ten German prisoners on Omaha Beach, June 1944.

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Farms of The Future

June 25th 2010 02:58

As reported by Discover Magazine, by 2050, the world population is expected to reach 9 billion people, nearly doubling global demands on food and livestock feed. But there's one major problem: Farms can't keep up.

Until now, humanity's rapid population growth has been countered by the "green revolution"—advances in pesticides, fertilizers, and the genetic modification of crops. But no matter how much we maximize crop yield per acre, the limiting factor for food production is land. And farms use a lot of it.

But if we can't build out, why not build up? Vertical farms are a proposed innovation that might allow us to do just that.

Vertical farms use hydroponics and aeroponics, soil-free growing techniques once researched by NASA to grow plants in space. One major problem with conventional "horizontal" farms is loss of water to runoff. But plant cultivation in either a water-based nutrient solution, shown here, or a nutrient-rich mist enables water to be almost completely conserved.

Not everyone agrees that vertical farms will be economically viable. The biggest concern is energy. As with all indoor grow operations, artificial lighting like fluorescents or the LED's shown here must be supplied for any plant life that isn't exposed to sunlight.
Proponents insist that the reduction of farm equipment needed for harvest and transport would make up the difference by cutting back on fossil fuels. Some even argue that vertical farms could save energy by recycling wastewater and composting non-edible plant material to generate methane energy.

At least on a small scale, vertical farms are no longer just a theory.

In 2009, England's Paignton Zoo launched a program called 'Verticrop' that implemented vertical growing techniques to raise organic plants for animal feed. Using hydroponics, indoor lighting and rotating planters, the zoo has successfully reduced water and nutrient consumption by 95 percent relative to conventional systems.

Large-scale vertical farms, like the "Type O2" design seen above, are still only theoretical, but certain cities have expressed a serious interest in making them a reality. Incheon, South Korea; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Dongtan, China seem the most likely candidates, but it will be at least another five to ten years before we see them get off the ground.

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Nature Laughs Last

June 23rd 2010 02:43

Humans are the only creature to have such a dramatic impact of the environment around them. What happens then, when the humans leave?
Nature takes back what was once theirs of course!

This photoset from Environmental Graffiti is entitled "Nature Conquers All In the End".

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Pencil Drawings

June 21st 2010 02:25

Incredible Pencil Drawings of Animals That Look Like Photographs

Paul Lung is a graphic artist from Hong Kong who in is spare time draws in black and white. Incredibly, all of the images below were made using one 0.5mm pencil.
Each piece of art takes about 60 hours to complete. So skilled is the artist that you would swear they were photographs!
A sample of Paul work is below. See more at Environmental Graffiti here.

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Images From Saturn

June 18th 2010 03:09

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

Saturn is well known for its prominent system of rings, consisting mostly of ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. Sixty-one known moons also orbit the planet

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Unbreakable Baseball Records

June 16th 2010 02:48

The Baseball Records That Will Never Be Broken

Baseball is a game of statistics and records. The old saying goes that records are made to be broken, but as Sports Illustrated discovered, there are some records that cannot be touched. Read the full article here
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Obsolete Occupations

June 14th 2010 02:20

The Jobs Of Yesteryear

As reported on NPR, as computers, robotics and automated systems come into our lives and society changes, many occupations become obsolete

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The Excellence of Ballet

June 11th 2010 00:57

Ballet originated in 15th century Italy and was further developed in France, England, and Russia as a concert dance form. It has since become a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.

The images below showcase the strength, skill, agility and beauty of ballet performers

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All Time Greatest NBA Playoff Shots

June 9th 2010 00:28

An entire season can rest on one shot in a fraction of a second. The pressure is enormous and the outcome can change careers.
Sports Illustrated takes a look at the most clutch playoff shots in NBA history.
Below is a selection, see the full set here
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How To Use Body Language to Read Minds

June 7th 2010 00:15

As you may know reading minds is not possible in the literal sense. However, if you learn to read body language you will be able to tell what people are thinking.

As reported in this excellent article on ChaCha, mentalists have used body language for centuries to make it appear as though they have the power to read minds. With a little practice is it relatively easy for an everyday person to learn the same techniques as used by psychics, fortune tellers, magicians and other famous mentalists throughout history

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The Eruption of Mt St. Helens

June 4th 2010 03:41

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon.

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft (2,950 m) to 8,365 ft (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied

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Women Inventors Throughout History

June 2nd 2010 02:51

The first invention patent to be allocated to a woman in the USA was in 1809. Patents to females were still very rare until 1840. Today that figure has grown substantially, and women account for around 20% of all new invention patents.
As that figure continues to grow, let's take a look as some of the most well known female inventors of the last 200 years.

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