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Not so Happy Anniversay – Sandy Victims 1 Year Later

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Union Beach, N.J., resident Ronald Peperoni sits where his home once stood before Hurricane Sandy destroyed it. He and his wife put up a “for sale” sign one day, and after getting two calls, Ron said he just couldn’t go forward with the sale. “We belong here,” he said of his home of 30 years. “You think about coming back all the time.”

Union Beach residents gather on the slab of the destroyed home belonging to Lori and Joe Argentina to discuss problems they’ve encountered trying to rebuild after Sandy. Lori and Joe, center, talk with next-door neighbor Joann Peperoni where the family’s living room used to be. At far left is Jessica Argentina, 10, Lori and Joe’s daughter. Peperoni said her family would probably not have enough money to rebuild. “The whole year was hard. Every time you turned around it was something else,” she said. “It's extreme hardship,” Jackie Terefenko said of how she is living.

“It’s disgusting that I have to live amongst all this. But as time goes on, you get used to it.” Breezy Point resident Kieran Burke hugs his neighbor Kathy Lutz, who has known him since he was a child. "I want to stay here with these neighbors. We all kind of went through this together," he said.

Born and raised in Breezy Point, Kathy Willis and her family see no road home. She said they don’t like coming back anymore because they have to turn around and leave. “You can’t walk up the block to your house. There is none,” she said through tears. “I'm supposed to be home by now.”

Jackie Terefenko’s home in Manahawkin, N.J. has been elevated high off the ground in accordance with new FEMA rules, but she says she's running out of money to finish the project and may not be eligible for a grant since she already started construction.

The Carlsons visit their new home under construction. “If you asked me 12 months ago, I wasn’t sure. No one knew what was going on, if people were just going to give up and go,” said Michael. “But I think this community is actually stronger now for what they went through.” (John Makely / NBC News)

 

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Awesomely Beautiful New NASA Images

ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured some unique photographs since its launch in 1999, and in honor of American Archive Month, NASA revealed eight new images taken by the telescope to unveil even more of the universe to space lovers. (NASA)

 

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Rare Hybrid Eclipse Wows

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Yesterday, the New Moon passed in front of the sun, producing a solar eclipse visible from the east Coast of North America to the western side of Africa. In Hampton, Virginia, the eclipse was underway when the morning sun rose over the Atlantic Ocean. Later, the New Moon covered the entire sun, producing an annular eclipse and then a total solar eclipse visible across the Atlantic and Africa. The narrow path of totality touched several African nations including Gabon, the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. (Stephen Gagnon snaps the partial eclipse on November 3, 2013 at Buckroe Beach, Hampton, V)

 

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Indonesian volcano stuns spewing ash 4 miles high

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Mount Sinabung spews ash and smoke as it is pictured from Tiga Pancur village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province, November 4, 2013.

Lightning strikes as Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash and hot lava, at Simpang Empat village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

Lightning strikes as Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash and hot lava, at Simpang Empat village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

 

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Rare glimpse of Victorian London's working class captured
by street photographer

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

'Crawlers', one of a series of pictures of 19th century London by pioneering street photographer John Thomson.

Ben Cavanna / Courtesy Dominic Winter

The volume of Street Life in London containing 36 of John Thomson's photographs that will be sold at auction on Thursday.

By Yuka Tachibana, Producer, NBC News
A book of photographs depicting the grueling poverty lived by many residents of Victorian London is due to be auctioned on Thursday.

"In or around 1877, photography was mainly about beautiful landscapes or portraits of the wealthy, but these images [photographer John] Thomson deliberately set out to take were those of the Victorian underclass," John Trevers of auctioneers Dominic Winter told NBC News. "This was the first time those in abject poverty scratching out a living on the streets of London were photographed."

"This was a pioneering work of social documentation," he added.

Scottish photographer John Thomson, a pioneer of street photography, captured images of London's working class in the 1870s. The photos were originally published in a monthly magazine, Street Life in London, between 1876 and 1877.

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

'Wall workers'

The photos would likely have made a real impact when they came out, Trevers said.

"People wouldn't have been aware of the conditions in which London's underbelly suffered, and to see it in flesh and blood through Thomson's photos would have been quite a shock to the system," he said, adding that it isn't known how many copies of the magazine have survived.

The book is expected to fetch a price of between $6,000 and $9,000.

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

'Cheap fish St. Giles'

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

'Street advertising'

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

Left: 'Covent Garden labourers'
Right: 'Covent Garden flower women.'

John Thomson / Courtesy Dominic Winter Auctioneers

Left: 'Street doctor'
Right: 'The London boardmen'

 

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Solar Eclipse from Uganda

ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Sun's disk was totally eclipsed for a brief 20 seconds as the Moon's dark umbral shadow raced across Pokwero in northwestern Uganda on November 3rd. So this sharp telescopic view of totality in clear skies from the central African locale was much sought after by eclipse watchers. In the inspiring celestial scene the Moon just covers the overwhelmingly bright photosphere, the lower, normally visible layer of the Sun's atmosphere. Extending beyond the photosphere, the reddish hydrogen alpha glow of the solar chromosphere outlines the lunar silhouette, fading into the Sun's tenuous, hot, outer atmosphere or corona. Planet-sized prominences reaching beyond the limb of the active Sun adorn the edges of the silhouette, including a cloud of glowing plasma separated from the chromosphere near the 1 o'clock position. (submitted by David Endsley)

 

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What if they had lived to fade away? Rock and roll legends who died young imagined in old age with the help of photo technology
By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 21:24 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:02 EST, 20 November 2013

Some of the greatest talents in modern music were cut down in their prime, leaving fans to guess what sort of heart-stopping guitar riffs Jimi Hendrix may have come up with had he lived past 27, or how John Lennon would have continued to shape rock & roll as we know it had he not been gunned down at age 40.

While there's no way to know the genius rock anthems that could have been, thanks to these 12 age-progressed portraits commissioned by Sachs Media we can at least see what our idols might look like today.

John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Keith Moon, Elvis Presley, Mama Cass Elliot, Kurt Cobain, Dennis Wilson, Bobby Darin, and Karen Carpenter have all gotten the treatment and the results make for a fascinating trip into a future denied by fate.

The project was made possible by Michigan-based group Phojoe using state-of-the-art specialized technology, the same that is used to create the age-progressed photos used in the search for missing persons.

'Through this series of images, we hope to honor them and evoke some of the magic they brought to millions of their fans,' said Sachs Media's CEO Ron Sachs, who commissioned the project, 'even as we ponder what wonderful new contributions they still could have made.'

Break on through FROM the other side: No, Jon Voight hasn't given up shaving. This is the Lizard King himself - The Doors frontman Jim Morrison - if he'd lived to see the new millennium. Jim would surely be sporting that full head of hair and intense gaze had he not died of heart failure in a Paris bathtub in 1971 at the age of 27, after years of hard living and drug and alcohol abuse. If Morrison were alive today, he would be preparing to turn 70 years old on December 8

Aging in Vain: The man who brought the Caribbean musical genre of reggae to the world, Bob Marley, would today be 68 had he not died tragically from cancer in 1981 at the age of 36. Marley sold an astounding 20 million albums over the course of his career, an unheard of feat for a musician who came from a nation as impoverished as Jamaica. Marley was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994

Born Naomi Cohen in Baltimore in 1941, Cass Elliot - AKA Mama Cass - became an overnight success when she formed the Mamas And The Papas in 1965. Cass's soulful crooning was as much a part of the band's recipe for success as their signature harmonies. Cass embarked on a solo career after the group split in 1971 and in 1974 she was found dead at 32 from a heart attack in a London flat owned by singer Harry Nilsson. Cass would have celebrated her 72nd birthday in September

Smells like 40-something spirit: : Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain joined a dubious club when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994. Dead at the age of 27, he'll forever be listed alongside legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix who also died tragically at that same age (Amy Winehouse recently joined the 27 Club). Today, Cobain would be 46 and apparently still sporting plaid flannel shirts

Bobby Darin found international success after his goofy song Splish Splash became a worldwide hit. The New York native was hugely popular in the 1960s and even starred in feature films alongside Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis and Pat Boone. He even helped catapult another singer, Wayne Newton, to stardom. After years of heart problems, Darin died of heart failure at just 37 years old. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Today, Darin would be a ripe old 77


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