The following list includes some of the most powerful photos ever taken throughout human history. Each one tells the real story of human life, the struggle, triumph, defeat and love that keeps us going even when during the darkest of days.

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During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, one brave villager risked his own life to save stray cats from drowning.

WWII Russian Veteran found this old tank standing as a monument in a small Russian town. It was the same tank he passed the entire war through.

Greg Cook reunites with his dog Coco after his home in Alabama was destroyed by a Tornado in March 2012.

Zanier the dog was buried with full honors in 2000. He is credited with saving thousands of lives during the Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 when he detected over 3,329 kgs of RDX explosives, 249 hand grenades, 600 detonators and 6406 rounds of live ammunition.

Lending a helping hand to hunger.

Terri Gurrola embraces her daughter after spending 7 months away in Iraq.

Afghan man offers tea to hardworking soldiers.

A view of the sunset on Mars.

“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada on October 1, 1940.

A woman sits among the wreckage of her town after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Natori, northern Japan, March 2011.

The real faces of addiction, a son tries to help his alcoholic father.

“The Falling Man,” World Trade Center, 9/11.

Leao, a loyal dog, sits by his owner’s grave for the second day after a disastrous landslide near Rio de Janeiro in 2011.

A public market in Jayapura, the capital of Papua, holds condom usage demonstrations in 2009.

Homeless men wait outside a mosque in New Delhi, India awaiting free food distribution.

Firefighter helps out a koala in Victoria, Australia during the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.

29-year-old Hhaing The Yu stands in front of what remains of his home after cyclone Nargis hit southern Myanmar in 2008, leaving millions of people without a home and over 100,000 dead.

Russian soldier plays on an abandoned piano found in Chechnya, 1994.

Christians and Muslims come together to protect one another during the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt.

Photo of young man just moments after finding out his brother had been killed.