Pedro Pimenta lost all four of his limbs to meningitis but was determined not to let that hold him back. Here is his story of triumph over adversity as captured in pictures.
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19 year old Rajacenna has only been drawing professionally for two years but has never received any formal training. She is best known for her realistic drawings of people using only pencils as her medium of choice.
This island off the coast of Japan was once a coal mining facility but has been abandoned since 1974. Hashima or Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) is used as one of the main locations in the new Bond film, “Skyfall” in which it is the lair of the evil, Raoul Silva.
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