The Top 10 Everything of 2010

In 50 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months

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1. Nameless Victim

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Charlie Riedel / AP

June 3, 2010
Associated Press photographer Charlie Riedel encountered this hapless laughing gull mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, LA.

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