MICHAEL APPLETON

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Quintella Willams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside of the Superdome sports complex in New Orleans, LA while waiting to be evacuted from the city. Thousands of people continued to be left stranded days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
   
People collect food dropped by an Army helicopter outside the convention center in New Orleans.
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
A cleanup crew wearing protective suits walks past a small child playing in the sand as they comb the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama, looking for washed up tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill released millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period. Its long-term impact on the region remains unclear.
  
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
Fans of the French National soccer team react as they watch from outside a French bistro in Soho after a missed goal opportunity during the World Cup final against Italy. Their team would go on to lose the game.
     
  
   
  
Stranded commuters sleep on the steps of a post office during the blackout of 2003.