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Grandma's Superhero Therapy (18 photos) A few years ago, French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed.

Grandma's Superhero Therapy (18 photos)

To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn't stop smiling. Frederika was born in Budapest 20 years before World War II. During the war, at the peril of her own life, she courageously saved the lives of ten people. When asked how, Goldberger told us "she hid the Jewish people she knew, moving them around to different places every day. " Aside from great strength, Frederika has an incredible sense of humor, one that defies time and misfortune. With the unexpected success of this series, titled "Mamika" (or grandma in Hungarian), Goldberger created a MySpace page for her. Initially, she did not understand why all these people wrote to congratulate her.

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11 Images of Nature You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

That's why, for instance, some of the most staggering naturally occurring landscapes on Earth don't look like they belong on Earth at all. They look like they were created in a lab, or beamed down to our world from a distant fold in the universe. Tell us you wouldn't think you'd been kidnapped by aliens if one day you woke up to see ... #11. The 3N Cave That soon-to-be-eaten-by-a-monster explorer up there has obviously stumbled upon the undead carcass of an alien supercreature, one that crash landed in a cave on our planet millions of years ago. Atlas ObscuraThis must be the teenage alien boy's room.

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10 Photos Capturing Moments of Spontaneous Badassery

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11 Deep Space Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

Scientists had worked the public into a frenzy with this thing since the 1970s, promising that without the stupid atmosphere to hold it back, its vision would be so clear, you could peer right into the butthole of God. So we didn't have a problem when it blew past its $400 million budget and landed at $1.5 billion, because that first picture would be worth every penny. What we got was this piece of shit: Via Wikipedia It was a problem with a mirror, and it was fixed with a simple three-year replacement project. . #11.

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13 Most Awkward Stock Photos

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