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Top 10 Viral Photos of 2011: Photos that Rocked in INTERNET
« on: December 29, 2011, 03:29:57 AM »
With millions of images being shared on the Internet every day, it takes a certain measure of magic to become a viral hit. We always keep one finger on the Web pulse (more than a quarter of Facebook's Most Shared Articles in 2011 came from Yahoo!), so now we bring you 10 photos that online users could not help but circulate this year, from a shuttle launch to a giant crocodile and a presidential gaffe. A couple of these photos even spawned their own memes, the highest honor in 2011 viral visuals.
 
 Top Viral Photos of 2011
 
 Philippines’ giant crocodile
 Cyclops shark
 Vancouver riot kiss
 Atlantis shuttle launch
 Earthquake bride
 Bubble lake
 Pepper spray at UC Davis
 Lightning strikes Eiffel Tower
 President Obama waves
 Whale nearly swallows diver
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Re: Top 10 Viral Photos of 2011: Photos that Rocked in INTERNET
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2011, 03:30:08 AM »

 
 
 
The Mayor of Agusan del Sur Province in Philippines poses with a huge crocodile that was captured by residents and crocodile farm staff on Sunday, September 4, 2011. It took a three-week hunt by dozens of villagers and experts to ensnare the 21-foot male creature, one of the largest crocs to be captured alive in the Philippines in recent years
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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2011, 03:30:24 AM »

 
 
This unbelievable (yet real)  photo shows a one-eyed albino shark that was found off the coast of Isla Cerralvo near La Paz, Mexico, in June 2011. The image went viral after being posted on the blog of a
local sportfishing company
, which was forced to defend the photo after skeptics questioned its integrity. The company later published more pictures of the unique albino baby and discovered that a commercial fisherman had extracted it after catching a dead female bull shark with ten pups inside her.
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Re: Top 10 Viral Photos of 2011: Photos that Rocked in INTERNET
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2011, 03:30:48 AM »

 
 
 
A young couple chose to make love, not war, as riot police struggled to control the violence that erupted after the Vancouver Canucks lost game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals on June 15, 2011. When the image went viral on the Web, the kissing couple was identified as Scott Jones of Perth, Australia, and Alexandra Thomas, a recent graduate of the University of Guelph in Ontario. Jones later revealed that the couple had been knocked down by riot police and he was merely trying to calm down his girlfriend amid the chaos.
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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2011, 03:31:03 AM »

 
 
The coolest photo of the space shuttle Atlantis launch wasn't taken by NASA but by high school graduate Ryan Graff, who snapped this pic from his window seat on a flight from Baltimore to Miami on July 8, 2011. The image quickly went viral once Ryan's brother, Chad, uploaded it to his
 
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2011, 03:32:31 AM »

 
 
 
 Now better known as the Earthquake Bride, Valeriya Shevchenko was snapped running from a courthouse in lower Manhattan, New York, on August 23, 2011. Clutching her cell phone and a bouquet, the bride-to-be was frantically searching for her fiance after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled Virginia and surrounding regions. Thankfully, the happy couple were reunited and married the same day.   
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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2011, 03:32:56 AM »

 
 
 Landscape photographer Emmanuel Coupe received Editor's Choice honors at the National Geographic Traveler photo contest for this picture of a frozen lake in Canada
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2011, 03:33:25 AM »

 
 Public outrage emerged when police officers at University of California, Davis, used pepper spray to control Occupy UC Davis protesters who were seated in the school's quad on November 18, 2011. Video and photos of the controversial incident were quickly beamed around the Internet. In a comedic twist on a disturbing event, the man behind the pepper spray trigger, Lieutenant John Pike, became the face of an Internet meme that saw his image pasted into various famous scenes.
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 This amazing photo, taken from an apartment window in 2010, surfaced this year and won the Office du Tourisme de Paris competition. "I quickly grabbed my camera and put it on a tripod by the window," said the 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning.
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2011, 03:34:05 AM »

 
 
 
 President Obama waved himself into ridicule at the Open Government Partnership Event at the United Nations on September 20, 2011, in New York. During a group photograph of several world leaders, President Obama offered a solitary wave that accidentally covered the face of the president of Mongolia. Next time, just say "cheese."
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