23 Places The World Changed Shockingly Fast [Before & After]
Time is a jerk and we have the pictures to prove it.
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There's a poignant riddle about how time destroys everything. We can't remember how it goes, and it's a lot more eloquent than that, but whatever: time is no good.
It's hard to observe this as it happens, but when you see the pictures of the passage of time, it's pretty undeniable. For example ...
![CRACKED This is the Danube River near Immendingen before the 2011 drought. And below is what happened to it after the drought. That man is walking on](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/4/8/565748.jpg?v=1)
![View over Doha, capital of Qatar, in 1977. And this is Doha in 2014.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/8/3/565783.jpg?v=1)
![2014 The Independence Square in Kiev is restored to its former glory since the riots. 2016](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/8/2/565782.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKEDCO In Aug. 2015, a team of EPA regulators, at the abandoned Gold King Mine, accidently released toxic wastewater. This led to the contamination](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/8/1/565781.jpg?v=1)
![Reference photo of northwestern & southern Pakistan in August 9, 2009: tinds River Kashmor Extreme monsoon floods hit in August 12, 2010: Indus River](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/8/0/565780.jpg?v=1)
![UNESCO world heritage site, The Maju Deval temple, before and after an earthquake that hit Nepal on 25th of April, 2015.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/0/565770.jpg?v=1)
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![CRACKEDCON ATACAMA DESERT Located in Chile it is one of the driest places on Earth Usual state Oct. 2015 Some heavy rainfall and 6 months later..](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/6/1/565761.jpg?v=1)
![Emae Island in the Sheppard Islands group of Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pam, in March of 2015, completely destroying the jungle, in some places](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/6/565756.jpg?v=1)
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![June 16, 1917 Aftermath of the Battle of Passchendaele in World War 1. December 5, 1917 CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/4/565774.jpg?v=1)
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![CRACKEDCO March, 2014 GE In September of 2015, lslamic State militants blew up the ancient temple of Bel, one of Syria's most important cultural herit](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/5/565775.jpg?v=1)
![2011 CRACKEDcO Australia's Great Barrier Reef is SO majestically large that it can be seen from space. Thanbs to pollution and climate change, the Gre](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/2/565772.jpg?v=1)
![This is the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin in Saudi Arabia 1987 2012 In just 25 years, what used to be a barren desert is now a sea of circular green fields whe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/4/7/565747.jpg?v=1)
![1904 1913 Panama Canal The Culebra Cut between Gold Hill and Contractor's Hill Aug. 1914 CRACKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/4/3/565743.jpg?v=1)
![Florida's Soldier Key (15 miles south of Miami Beach) August, 1992 Two weeks before Hurricane Andrew One week after Hurricane Andrew](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/1/565771.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED cO COM In 1973, a volcanic eruption created the small island of Nishinoshima, in Japan. In 2013, a second eruption created a new islet next to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/6/7/565767.jpg?v=1)
![palwlias iree! Ar Poem CRAUN Defore after 2015](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/8/565778.jpg?v=1)
![Black Canyon before and after the construction of Hoover Dam. 1928 1936 CRACKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/0/565750.jpg?v=1)
![Months other than July The Yellow Sea near Qingdao beaches in China is overrun by algae every summer. Climate change has made the waters warmer during](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/5/565755.jpg?v=1)
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