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23 Places The World Changed Shockingly Fast [Before & After]

There's a poignant riddle about how time destroys everything. We can't remember how it goes, and it's a lot more eloquent than that, but whatever: time is a dick.

It's hard to observe this dickishness as it happens, but when you see the pictures of the passage of time, it's pretty undeniable. For example ...

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CRACKED This is the Danube River near Immendingen before the 2011 drought. And below is what happened to it after the drought. That man is walking on

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View over Doha, capital of Qatar, in 1977. And this is Doha in 2014.

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2014 The Independence Square in Kiev is restored to its former glory since the riots. 2016

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CRACKEDCO In Aug. 2015, a team of EPA regulators, at the abandoned Gold King Mine, accidently released toxic wastewater. This led to the contamination

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Reference photo of northwestern & southern Pakistan in August 9, 2009: tinds River Kashmor Extreme monsoon floods hit in August 12, 2010: Indus River

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UNESCO world heritage site, The Maju Deval temple, before and after an earthquake that hit Nepal on 25th of April, 2015.

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23 Places The World Changed Shockingly Fast [Before & After]

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CRACKEDCON ATACAMA DESERT Located in Chile it is one of the driest places on Earth Usual state Oct. 2015 Some heavy rainfall and 6 months later..

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Emae Island in the Sheppard Islands group of Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pam, in March of 2015, completely destroying the jungle, in some places

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23 Places The World Changed Shockingly Fast [Before & After]

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June 16, 1917 Aftermath of the Battle of Passchendaele in World War 1. December 5, 1917 CRACKED COM

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CRACKEDCO March, 2014 GE In September of 2015, lslamic State militants blew up the ancient temple of Bel, one of Syria's most important cultural herit

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2011 CRACKEDcO Australia's Great Barrier Reef is SO majestically large that it can be seen from space. Thanbs to pollution and climate change, the Gre

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This is the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin in Saudi Arabia 1987 2012 In just 25 years, what used to be a barren desert is now a sea of circular green fields whe

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1904 1913 Panama Canal The Culebra Cut between Gold Hill and Contractor's Hill Aug. 1914 CRACKEDCON

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Florida's Soldier Key (15 miles south of Miami Beach) August, 1992 Two weeks before Hurricane Andrew One week after Hurricane Andrew

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CRACKED cO COM In 1973, a volcanic eruption created the small island of Nishinoshima, in Japan. In 2013, a second eruption created a new islet next to

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palwlias iree! Ar Poem CRAUN Defore after 2015

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Black Canyon before and after the construction of Hoover Dam. 1928 1936 CRACKEDCON

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Months other than July The Yellow Sea near Qingdao beaches in China is overrun by algae every summer. Climate change has made the waters warmer during

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23 Places The World Changed Shockingly Fast [Before & After]

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