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The Most Surprising Photos of 2014
1. An impersonator of Star Wars character
'Darth Vader' stands on the roof of a van
during an election campaign event for
the Ukrainian Internet Party. Kiev, Oct.
21, 2014. Sergey Dolzhenko—epa
3. Marta Llorente, 28, a contestant, poses backstage before taking part in a body paint pageant in the Andalusian capital of Seville in Spain, March 24, 2014. MARCELO
DEL POZO—REUTERS
4. A painting is seen on the island of Yeonpyeong, which lies on the South Korean side of the Northern Limit Line, in the Yellow Sea, April 9, 2014. DAMIR SAGOLJ—
REUTERS
5. A giant statue of actress Marilyn Monroe is seen at the landfill site of a garbage collecting company in Guigang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, June
18, 2014. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS
6. The body of boxer Christopher Rivera, who was shot to death, is propped up in a fake boxing ring during his wake at the community recreation center within the
public housing project where he lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan. 31, 2014. RICARDO ARDUENGO—AP
7. A giant fork designed by Jean-Pierre Zaugg is set up on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 17, 2014. FABRICE COFFRINI—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
8. Ukrainian fighters partly wearing non-official uniforms stands next to a tank in a military camp on the front line near Pervomaysk city of Lugansk region, Ukraine,
Sept. 12, 2014. ROMAN PILIPEY—EPA
9. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl wearing a costume sits in a cage during the Purim festival in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, March 16, 2014. ARIEL SCHALIT—AP
10. A golfer plays as African migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross into the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla, Oct. 22, 2014. REUTERS
11. Divaldo Aguiar, who is playing the part of character Pachencho, lies inside a mock coffin as villagers splash rum into his mouth during the annual "Burial of
Pachencho" celebration at a cemetery in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, Feb. 5, 2014. FRANKLIN REYES—AP
12. Models, who are being suspended from the roof of the Sony Building, walk on a wall during a fashion show in Tokyo, May 7, 2014. THE ASAHI SHIMBUN— GETTY
IMAG
13. People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets during the Jarramplas Festival in Piornal, Spain, Jan. 20, 2014. ANDRES KUDACKI
—AP
14. A cutout of a policewoman is seen on the highway that connects the Peruvian towns of Aucayacu and Tocache. The cutout is meant to remind potential criminals
that police are in the area, Peru, Sept. 26, 2014. RODRIGO ABD—AP
15. Revelers of the Nene de Vila Matilde samba school perform during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome, Sao Paulo, March 1, 2014. MIGUEL
SCHINCARIOL—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
16. Djalma Antonio Jardim who has a rare inherited skin disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum looks in a mirror at his home in the Araras community of Brazil's
Goias state, March 3, 2014. ERALDO PERES—AP
17. Flyers are dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes, July 30, 2014. MOHAMMED ABED—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
18. Pope Francis with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres during a joint peace prayer at the Vatican Gardens, Vatican City, June 8,
2014. ANTONELLO NUSCA—POLARIS
19. The U.S. side of Niagara Falls, partially frozen from exposure to frigid air from a polar vortex, is pictured from Ont., Canada, Jan. 8, 2014. AARON HARRIS—
REUTERS
20. Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Serbian counterpart, Tomislav Nikolic, attend a military parade in Belgrade, Oct. 16, 2014. MARKO DJURICA—REUTERS
21. A sculpture of a giant hippopotamus built by artist Florentjin Hofman is towed up the Thames past the Houses of Parliament in central London, Sept. 2, 2014.
ANDREW WINNING—REUTERS
22. A harpist plays at a public maternity hospital in Caracas, Oct. 1, 2014. CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS—REUTERS
23. South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is seen leaning back after applying eye drops as he prepares himself for another day in the dock during his murder
trial in Pretoria, South Africa, March 14, 2014. KIM LUDBROOK—POOL/AP
24. A paper frog is surrounded by paper pandas at an exhibition called "Pandas on Tour" at the National Theater, Taipei, Feb. 24, 2014. MANDY CHENGAFP/GETTY
IMAGES
25. A huge tire blocks the door where Michel Dheilly and Bernard Glesser are being held. French workers held company bosses hostage at a Goodyear Factory in
Amiens, France, Jan. 6, 2014. MICHAEL BUNEL—NURPHOTO
26. The body of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that fell through the roof of a home near the crash site in Rasipnoye, Ukraine, July 18, 2014. JEROME
SESSINI—MAGNUM
27. An employee of the Russian Space Training Center hangs space suits out to dry, July 2, 2014. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO—AP
28. Two bolts of lightning hit the antenna on top of One World Trade Center, New York, May 23, 2014. GARY HERSHORN—CORBIS
29. A man dressed in protective hazmat clothing treats the sidewalk in front of an apartment where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus lives, Dallas, Oct.
12, 2014. MIKE STONE—GETTY IMAGES
30. A devotee is seen with swords inserted into his cheeks as he takes part in a street procession during an annual vegetarian festival, Phuket, Thailand, Sept. 29, 2014.
CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
31. A man wearing a horse mask reaches out to shake hands with U.S. President Barack Obama during a walkabout in Denver, July 8, 2014. KEVIN LAMARQUE—
REUTERS
32. Members of the Morphix Group inspect the eyelashes of a Baby Jesus statue to be displayed during the annual Candlemas celebrations at the Sanctuary of the Lord
of the Holy Sepulchre, Mexico City, Feb. 1, 2014. TOMAS BRAVO—REUTERS
33. Tokyo Metropolitan Government employees are seen lighting a large underground regulating reservoir in Tokyo, July, 28, 2014. FRANCK ROBICHON—EPA
34. A masked person smokes marijuana during the World Day for the Legalization of Marijuana in Medellin, Colombia, May 3, 2014. RAUL ARBOLEDA—AFP/GETTY
IMAGES
35. A couple sunbathe near a rhinoceros sculpture by Australian artist Mikaela Castledine on Sydney's Tamarama Beach, Oct. 23, 2014. WILLIAM WEST—AFP/GETTY
IMAGES
36. An Israeli woman wears a unicorn mask during the first Midburn festival, modeled after the popular Burning Man festival, near the Israeli kibbutz of Sde Boker, June
6, 2014. ODED BALILTY—AP
37. Coaches from the U.S. and Canada wear chimpanzee masks and perch in a tree to watch the downhill portion of the men's supercombined at the Sochi 2014 Winter
Olympics in Krasnaya, Polyana, Russia, Feb. 14, 2014. LUCA BRUNO—AP
38. Locals take part in a performance which involves being buried up to their waists as part of the commemoration of the National Week of Remembrance, Medellin,
Colombia, Oct. 16, 2014. RAUL ARBOLEDA—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
39. In this handout photo taken on Jan. 23, 2014, a huge boulder is seen after it missed a farm house by less than a meter, destroying the barn, and stopped in the
vineyard, while a second giant boulder, which detached during the same landslide on Jan. 21, 2014, stopped next to the house, in Ronchi di Termeno, in Northern
Italy. TAREOM.COM
40. A close-up of a Nepalese man's shaved head is seen after receiving rice and a leaf as a blessing from a priest during Father's Day at Gokarneswor Shrine, near
Kathmandu, Nepal, Aug. 25, 2014. NARENDRA SHRESTHA—EPA
41. Uprooted trees are pictured after a deadly tornado hit Vilonia, Ark., April 28, 2014. CARLO ALLEGRI—REUTERS
42. Ultra-Orthodox Jews inspect etrogs, or citrons, outside a shop in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem as they look to purchase an unblemished fruit ahead
of the holiday of Sukkot, Oct. 7, 2014. JIM HOLLANDER—EPA
43. An entertainer performing as the character Mumtaz Begum, a fox-human hybrid creature, sits inside a wooden canopy in a small room called Mumtaz Palace to
amuse visitors at Karachi Zoo in Karachi, June 20, 2014. AKHTAR SOOMRO—REUTERS
44. A cut-out prison guard silhouette with flashlight, part of a current exhibition at former prison Eastern State Penitentiary, stands in the grounds in Philadelphia, Pa.,
April 30, 2014. MARK MAKELA—REUTERS
45. The man that works as the mascot "Margarito" for the 2014 Caribbean baseball series rests at the backstage during a game between Dominican Republic's Tigres
de Licey and Venezuela's Navegantes del Magallanes in Porlamar city, Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta state, Venezuela, Feb. 4, 2014. LEO RAMIREZ—AFP/GETTY
46. Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, looks out from the submarine of a Korean People’s Army naval unit during an inspection in this undated photo released by North
Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, June 16, 2014. KCNA/REUTERS
47. A fallstreak hole forms in the sky over Wonthaggi, Australia, Nov. 3, 2014. LEESA WILLMOTT—AP
48. U.S. President Barack Obama acts out the line "gnashed their terrible teeth" from the children's book Where the Wild Things Areduring the 136th annual Easter Egg
Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 21, 2014. KEVIN LAMARQUE—REUTERS
49. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ducks after a woman threw an object toward her while she was delivering remarks at the Institute of Scrap Recycling
Industries conference in in Las Vegas, Nev., April 10, 2014. ISAAC BREKKEN—GETTY IMAGES
50. Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) soldiers and firefighters conduct rescue operations at mountain lodges covered with volcanic ash, as volcanic smoke rises near
the peak of Mount Ontake in Nagano and Gifu prefectures, Sept. 28, 2014. KYODO/REUTERS
51. Protective suits are left to dry after an Ebola training session held by Spain's Red Cross in Madrid training doctors, nurses and engineers before their deployment to
Africa, Oct. 29, 2014. SUSANA VERA—REUTERS
52. Members of the anti-balaka, a Christian militia group, patrol outside the village of Zawa in Central African Republic, April 8, 2014. GORAN TOMASEVIC—REUTERS
53. Rwandan African Union peacekeepers remove the lucky charms from a suspected Anti-balaka Christian man who was found with a rifle and a grenade following
looting in the Muslim market of the PK13 district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Jan. 22, 2014. JEROME DELAY—AP
54. Singer Conchita Wurst is seen during a rehearsal for the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, May 7, 2014 FRANK AUGSTEIN—AP
55. A scaffold carrying two workers hangs 69 floors up at One World Trade Center in New York City on Nov. 12, 2014. SPENCER PLATT—GETTY IMAGES
56. A human skeletal anatomy model hangs on a stand in a forensic laboratory surrounded by coffins containing the exhumed remains of people slain three decades
ago during the country's dirty war, in Huamanga, Peru, Oct. 26, 2014. RODRIGO ABD—AP
57. Wingsuit jumper Joby Ogwyn glides during a practice jump wearing a prototype wingsuit as he prepares to attempt the first wingsuit jump off the summit of Mount
Everest in May, near Perris, California, Feb. 26, 2014. DAVID MCNEW—REUTERS
58. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man sits in a hole and prays during a demonstration in Beit Shemesh, Israel, protesting against the construction of new housing units
that he believes would be built at the site of ancient Jewish graves, Feb. 12, 2014. ABIR SULTAN—EPA
59. Nuns from the enclosed monastery of Imaculada Conceicao celebrate Brazil's victory as they watch on television at the end of the 2014 World Cup quarter-final
soccer match between Brazil and Colombia, in Piratininga, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, July 4, 2014. NACHO DOCE—REUTERS
60. Inmates play football in the courtyard of the prison facility in Rumbek, Lakes state in South Sudan, Feb. 19, 2014. TONY KARUMBA—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
61. A Brazilian supporter poses for a picture before the start of the 2014 World Cup Brazil vs Mexico match at the FIFA Fan Fest public viewing event in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, June 17, 2014. MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
62. A Balinese man in a state of trance stabs his chest in front of a palanquin, the symbol of god, during Ngusaba Gumang Ritual in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Oct.
6, 2014. AGUNG PARAMESWARA—GETTY IMAGES
63. Former President George H.W. Bush, left, strapped to Sgt. Mike Elliott, a retired member of the Army's Golden Knights parachute team, lands on the lawn at St.
Anne's Episcopal Church after making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, in celebration of his 90th birthday, June 12, 2014.
ROBERT F. BUKATY—AP
64. Visiting the area for the first time, 64-year-old Fran Glod of Oswego, N.Y, walks down the steps to the beach which is covered by a king tide, an especially high tide
on Tybee Island, Ga., Oct. 9, 2014. STEPHEN B. MORTON—AP
65. An athlete warms up with his coach prior to the Men's individual Gundersen large hill/10 km Nordic combined training at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at the
RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center in Sochi, Russia. Feb. 15, 2014. LARS BARON—GETTY IMAGES
66. Militants of Islamic State are seen before explosion of air strike on Tilsehir hill near the Turkish border village Yumurtalik in Sanliurfa province, Oct. 23, 2014.
BULENT KILIC—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
67. A sinkhole swallows eight classic and historic Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 12, 2014. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.—AP
68. A hot air balloon in the likeness of Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue wearing the colors of Australia's soccer team, floats through clouds over the Melbourne
skyline, June 10, 2014. DAVID CALLOW—SPORTSBET.COM.AU/AP
69. Gao Bingguo is covered with 326,000 bees during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for being covered by the largest number of bees, in Taian,
Shandong province, May 27, 2014. CHINA STRINGER NETWORK—REUTERS
70. A statue of a man sleepwalking in his underpants is surrounded by snow on the campus of Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., Feb. 5, 2014. STEVEN SENNE—
AP
71. Prisaida, 2, sits in the shallow waters of a polluted lagoon as her parents mine for gold nearby in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region, May 3, 2014. RODRIGO
ABD—AP
72. A Chinese girl wears a face-kini to protect her from jellyfish stings, algae and the sun's ultraviolet rays as she floats in the water on the Yellow Sea in Qingdao,
China, Aug. 21, 2014. KEVIN FRAYER—GETTY IMAGES
73. A street performer dressed as the Statue of Liberty stands among light snow in Times Square in New York, Dec. 10, 2014. ANDREW KELLY—REUTERS
74. A man dressed as a woman carries a pig's head on a platter balanced on his head during the celebration of Torovenado, a satirical dance festival, in honor of
Masaya's patron saint, San Jeronimo, in Masaya, Nicaragua, Oct 26, 2014. ESTEBAN FELIX—AP
75. A model prepares to walk a runway before a fashion show in Neve Tirza prison, Israel's only women prison in Ramle, central Israel, Oct. 27, 2014. ODED BALILTY—
AP
76. Rebecca Redwine from Grandma's in the Park has one eye visible from between nearly 100 towels, as she competes in the towel carrying contest during the 10th
annual Iron Range Housekeeping Olympics held in AmericInn Lodge in Virginia, Minn., Sept. 8, 2014. MARK SAUER—AP
77. Josh Newton, newlyweds Michael Wolber and April Hartley pose for a picture near Bend, Ore. as a wildfire burns in the background, June 7, 2014. JOSH NEWTON—
AP
78. Josh Newton, newlyweds Michael Wolber and April Hartley pose for a picture near Bend, Ore. as a wildfire burns in the background, June 7, 2014. JOSH NEWTON—
AP
79. A dwarf walks in between mushroom-shaped houses after his performances in Kingdom of The Dwarves at Kunming World Butterflies Garden, Yunnan province,
China, May 21, 2014. WONG CAMPION—REUTERS
80. A local youth takes a selfie in front of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to St George's indoor market in Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 24, 2014. PETER
MACDIARMID—GETTY IMAGES
81. An Israeli model, who serves in the military, wears her uniform in the makeup chair before her turn on the catwalk of a show by Israeli designer Dorin Frankfurt at
the Tel Aviv fashion week in Israel, March 11, 2014. ARIEL SCHALIT—AP
82. A female honor guard has lipstick applied as they prepare for an official welcoming ceremony for Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi outside the Great Hall of the
People in Beijing, June 11, 2014. JASON LEE—REUTERS
83. Robots perform a pole dance at a technology show booth occupied by the Tobit Software company, Germany March 9, 2014. JOHN MACDOUGALL—AFP/GETTY
IMAGES
84. From left to right, Massimo Sinato, Rebecca Mir, Lexy Hill, Maite Kelly, Florent Raimond, guest, Johanna Klum attend the Rebekka Ruetz show during Mercedes-
Benz Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2014/15 at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Jan. 14, 2014. ANDREAS RENTZ—GETTY IMAGES FOR IMG
85. A Furry enthusiast uses a mobile phone as he attends the Eurofurence 2014 conference in Berlin, Aug. 22, 2014. ADAM BERRY—GETTY IMAGES
86. Molly Pederson, right, and her daughter Laura Patkotak take a picture as a bowhead whale caught by Alaska Native subsistence hunters from their family is brought
ashore in Barrow, Ala., Oct. 7, 2014. GREGORY BULL—AP