12 Years Old Fernando Torres In Action

In this clip Chelsea's number nine shows the immense promise that eventually made him one of Europe's most feared strikers, that is before his move to Stamford Bridge, where he's suffered a catastrophic crisis of confidence.

Playing for Atletico Madrid's youngsters, Torres shows his nasty streak with a robust tackle before firing in two impressive goals. Watch tiny Torres playing for Atletico Madrid's youngsters against AC Milan in the following video.

Nowadays Torres looks exactly the same at 12 years old, but unfortuantely he's not quite as good in front of goal these days. The talent's clearly in him somewhere, so now over to you AVB to get it back out.

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The Man With Einstein's Brain

Dr. Thomas Harvey (1912 - 2007) was the pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Einstein at Princeton Hospital in 1955. The stranger-than-fiction tale of Einstein's brain, which Harvey controversially removed during the autopsy, carefully sliced into sections, and then kept for years for research purposes, and the intrigues long-associated with the famous organ, are far too convoluted to go into here. 

Dr. Thomas Harvey was just a little too naughty because he removed Einstein's brain, which is not completely necessary as Einstein died because of heart failure. Dr. Thomas then sliced it up and kept the pieces for many years after, in order to perform research on to what had made the world famous scientist so genius.

On the day that Einstein died, Ralph Morse (Life Magazine photographer) was able to take a few quick photographs of Dr. Harvey at the hospital. Morse says he's certain that that is not Einstein's brain under Dr. Harvey's knife in this never-before-seen picture. Then, after a pause, Morse qualifies that certainty: "You know, it was fifty-five years ago. Honestly, I don't remember every single detail of the day. So whatever he's cutting there ..." Morse's words hang in the air. Then, mischievously, he laughs.

So, either or not the brain under the knife as shown in the photo above is still a mystery.

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David Beckham's England Career

Ahead of Euro 2012, let's have a look looking at some of England's best players such as David Beckham, who has always given everything for his country. England's most capped outfield player's Three Lions career in fantastic photos.

David Beckham has won 115 caps for England, the record for an outfield player

The fresh-faced Man United midfielder pictured on his England debut in a 3-0 win against Moldova in 1996

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Retro Style Pin Up Poster Of Superheroines

Pin-up art is fun because it's nice to look at, and there are unlimited applications for how you can redesign it in your art. 

Maria Danalakis, a graphic artist and illustrator, is also inspired by pin-up art. She's created her own take on Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, all in retro pin-up style. These are sassy and spunky, and they could be perfect for the female fatale in your life.

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Retro Women Bands Photos

It seems that women in past have been as same active in the world of music and stage arts as they are today. Despite the fact we think that human society was way more conservative about forty or fifty years ago, women were trying to prove themselves as equal to man, probably more than today, and they wanted to be present in every kind of humans activity. Women bands weren't so popular few decades ago but we could say that today's world of music is shaped by women. 

Here you can take a look on how women bands looked like in past, some of photos are more than fifty years old.

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Colour Photography From Before 1950

Who knew the world wasn't actually in black and white before 1945? Check out these beautiful examples of early color photography from as early as the 1930s.

I did read from somewhere else that before colour photography was inverted, photographer need to use multiple lens filter in order to get colour photos.

1915: Austro-Hungarian POWs In Russia - By Prokudin-Gorskii. 

1943: Rosie The Riveter - A worker operates a hand drill in Tennessee to apply rivets to an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber. By Alfred T. Palmer. 

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History Of NASA Space Shuttle Program

From its first launch 30 years ago to its final launch on July 8, 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle program has seen moments of dizzying inspiration and of crushing disappointment. The program had sent up 135 missions, ferrying more than 350 humans and thousands of tons of material and equipment into low Earth orbit. 

Fourteen astronauts have lost their lives along the way. The missions have always been risky, the engineering complex, the hazards extreme.

Individual Space Shuttle orbiters were named in honor of antique sailing ships of the navies of the world, and they are also numbered using the NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation system. Three of the names had also been borne by Apollo spacecraft in 1969-1972: Apollo 11 command module Columbia, Apollo 15 command module Endeavour, and Apollo 17 lunar module Challenger.

Lets look back at the past few decades of shuttle development and missions as we await the next steps toward human space flight. Some of the images are awesome and dramatic and suitable to be made as your desktop wallpaper.

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, on April 12, 1981. Commander John Young and pilot Robert Crippen were onboard STS-1, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program. (Reuters/NASA/KSC) 

Shuttle launch profiles. From left to right: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. (Wikipedia)

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The Life Of Joseph Stalin In Photos

Yes, this is not exactly Stalin's real photo album. This is the work of a writer Nodar Djin who has tried to imagine the way Stalin's photo album looked like if he had one.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.

While formally the office of the General Secretary was elective and was not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin managed to consolidate more and more power in his hands, gradually putting down all opposition groups within the party. This included Leon Trotsky, the Red Army organizer, proponent of world revolution, and principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Instead, Stalin's idea of socialism in one country became the primary line of the Soviet politics.

In power until his death in 1953, Stalin led the USSR during the period of post-war reconstruction, marked by the dominance of Stalinist architecture (most famously represented by the Stalin skyscrapers). The successful development of the Soviet nuclear program enabled the country to become the world's second nuclear weapons power; the Soviet space program was started as spin-off of the nuclear project. In his last years, Stalin also launched the so-called Great Construction Projects of Communism and the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature.

This is my house. It’s small, yes, but I didn’t need a bigger one because I was just as small. I kept a goat in the annex and her name was Jeanne. In honor of Jeanne d’Arc. My father Beso worked in Tbilisi and he didn’t like Jeanna. So, when I was at school, he got drunk and choked her to death.

It’s me at school. I’m in the back raw, but in the middle. The photographer didn’t let me get closer to the pillow, even though I was his best pupil. Probably, he was bribed. By those who are next to the pillow, not by their parents. My parent, seeing the picture, told me to grow faster. But he liked it in general because one cannot see smallpox scars on my face in it.

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Top 20 Best Bond Girls

Bond's Best Women. James Bond is as well known for his taste in women as he is for his gadgets and tendency to find himself in situations that would kill lesser secret agents. In some 22 films, Bond has entertained quite a number of female companions (often tallying several per film).

List of the very best 20  Bond girls from number 20 to number 1....

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Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher) - 'Tomorrow Never Dies' - Hatcher does a stellar job playing one of Bond's ex-girlfriends, who marries the evil media mogul Elliot Carver. Bond still manages to seduce her, which leads her husband to order her murder.

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Sexiest Men Of The '50s, '60s, '70s

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of people began to question and challenge the traditionally accepted cultural norms. The relatively conservative ideals that were formed around international war and population growth were beginning to evolve. World just move on from World War 2 and people around the world feel the need to express themselves freely. 

During this time also the foundation for rock and roll music was formed, racial segregation was an issue, and the strict laws around sexual expression were being challenged. For this reason, the people that emerged as sex symbols during this era were extremely influential and important to popular culture.

Below is men sex symbol from that era. People of new generation might find these bunch of people as old folks but back in the days, these guys are considered as god to most of people. If you not believe me, just ask your mom or grandma. The odd is, your mom and grandma surely know 90% of these guys.

Marlon Brando - "He was such a sensitive instrument. I used to play the violin, and I liken Marlon to one of those strings that when you're playing just vibrates." —Eva Marie Saint, remembering Marlon Brando (pictured in A Streetcar Named Desire)

James Dean - "He sure appeals to me. I guess that's because I'm the type that likes to take in stray cats and dogs and he reminds me of that." —an unnamed starlet who dated Dean, talking to LIFE circa 1955

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Photo Fusion Then And Now

We've all taken trips down memory lane, but rarely does that involve an actual lane and memories of other people like the University of Florida's UF, Then & Now project. The concept involves using photographs of people taken from throughout the last 100 years, by lining them up with the place they were taken and then taking another image to capture the changes between the time periods.

In the end, the images are not only a great way to document all the ways the school has changed in the last century, but also to thank the students, faculty and administrators who allowed it to grow. 

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Modern Celebrities Vintage Pin-Up

A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall. Pin-up girls may be glamour models, fashion models, or actresses.

The term pin-up may also refer to drawings, paintings, and other illustrations done in emulation of these photos (see the list of pinup artists). The term was first attested to in English in 1941, however, the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s.

The pin-up images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of pin-up girls were mass-produced and became an instant hit.

A gallery of modern female celebrities photographed as vintage 50′s pin-up models. Enjoy.

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Christina Ricci

Ziyi Zhang

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James Bond Audition Process

In the early '60s, movie producers adapting Ian Fleming's novels about a suave British spy named James Bond plucked a relative unknown, Sean Connery, out of obscurity and offered him the role of a lifetime. And in the early '60s, movie producers adapting Ian Fleming's novels about a suave British spy named James Bond plucked a relative unknown, Sean Connery, out of obscurity and offered him the role of a lifetime. 

And when Connery left the franchise after five movies, the hunt for Bond was on again. LIFE sent photographer Loomis Dean to the final casting sessions for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (released 40 years ago this week), and the magazine published a handful of those photos. 

But some of the choicest frames, Bond wannabes suiting up, holding guns, drinking martinis, wooing women, have never been seen… until now. 

Meet each of the five top candidates (including ultimate choice George Lazenby, bottom right in this composite image), and check out their best moves.

Of the five Bond hopefuls (narrowed down from nearly 400), 34-year-old Richardson probably boasted the most experience, having acted opposite such beautiful women as Ursula Andress (in 1965's She) and Raquel Welch (in 1966's One Million Years B.C.).

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World Leaders Wedding Photos

Unique wedding pictures of world leaders. Believe it or not they had to pass all that buttock-pain too ergo that makes them pretty much mortal just like the rest of us.

Barack Obama

Bill Clinton

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Japanese Geisha Girls Retro Photos

It is rather interesting to see what passed for or was considered beautiful in Japan in the old days. Oh well, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Collection of retro photos of Japan Geisha Girls.

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Inside Ed Gein Serial Killer's House

Edward Theodore Ed Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. After police found body parts in his house in 1957, Gein confessed to killing two women, tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and a Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Initially found unfit to stand trial, following confinement in a mental health facility he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital. The body of Bernice Worden was found in Gein's shed, her head and the head of Mary Hogan were found inside his house. 

Robert H. Gollmar, the judge in the Gein case, wrote: "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder that of Mrs. Worden." With fewer than three murders attributed to him, Gein does not meet the traditional definition of a serial killer. His case influenced the creation of several fictional serial killers, including Norman Bates from Psycho, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jame Gumb from The Silence of the Lambs.

On July 26, 1984, Gein died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer at the age of 77 in Stovall Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute. His grave site in the Plainfield cemetery was frequently vandalized over the years; souvenir seekers chipped off pieces of his gravestone before the bulk of it was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was recovered in June 2001 near Seattle and is now in a museum in Waushara County.

Of all the best-known American serial killers, none has had a greater cultural impact than Ed Gein, the Wisconsin maniac whose reign of terror began in 1947. Shortly after his arrest in 1957, LIFE sent photographers to Plainfield, Wis., where Gein passed most of his troubled existence, and documented the riveting details about his case as they unfolded.

The Gein story gripped the national consciousness, perhaps because the man was so very average — a small-town farmer and handyman. His case took many years to unravel, and he was eventually convicted of only two murders, but police suspect there were far more than that. When they examined his house they found the remains of around 40 people, most of whom Gein claimed to have collected through graverobbing.

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When They Were Young - World Leaders

The presidents, prime ministers and chancellors of this world were just like you and me. They went to school, college, they worked, they played. Some of them were cool too.

Vladimir Putin -  President of the Russian Federation and Prime Minister of Russia

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -  President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Retro-Modern Superhero Posters

These amazing retro-modern superhero posters, which we spotted over at My Modern Met, manage to give us those warm nostalgia feelings and a vision of the future all at once. Created by French artist and graphic designer Grégoire Guillemin as part of his exercises in style series, they remind us of an imaginary golden age of real-life superheroes that we desperately wish existed, like the ones portrayed in stories like Watchmen and The Incredibles. Click through to check out our gallery of Guillemin’s work and dream of pop culture's modern knights, and let us know what you think in the comments.

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Retro Celebrities Mug Shot

A mug shot, mugshot or booking photograph, is a photographic portrait taken after one is arrested. The purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of the arrested individual to allow for identification by victims and investigators. Most mug shots are two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. They may be compiled into a mug book in order to determine the identity of a criminal. In high-profile cases mug shots may also be published by the media.

Of all mug shot below, the one featuring Bill Gates is the one that catch my attention. What really happen actually is that on April 29th, 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) was arrested by the Albuquerque Police department (arrest record #52090). The charges were speeding and driving without a license. 

Bill Gates was caught speeding in his Porsche 911. That day he was driving along with Paul Allen. The bail was set at a thousand dollars. Bill Gates, was very successful in his early years at Microsoft, and was immediately able to post bail from his wallet full of cash.

Bill Gates - 1977

Johnny Cash - 1965

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High School In 1969

Ever wonder how your parents looks when they were at high school? These are high school fashions in 1969 photographed by Arthur Shatz for life magazine.

Let's travel back in time to 1969...

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