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A Marine keeps an eye out for smugglers and insurgents during a night patrol in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. These Marines are the southernmost troops in Afghanistan. See more in At War: Photographers' Best Shots.

Railway workers look at original brickwork in the Thames Tunnel on March 12, 2010 in London. The tunnel was built by the French-born engineer Marc Isambard Brunel and his even-more-famous son, the great English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The tunnel opened in 1843 as an alternative crossing of the famed River Thames.

The 20th century saw many astounding technological innovations. The automobile revolutionized the way people live and work, the internet changed the way people think about information, and the U.S. of A put a man on the moon. But some technological advances that came in the earlier part of the 20th centry weren't exactly meant for the history books. Because they were stupid. Take, for example, this M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel for shooting around corners. It's the perfect gun for the "shoot first, look where you're shooting later" kind of guy.

A nanny supervising a baby suspended in a wire cage attached to the outside of a high tenement block window. The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street.

Inventor John H T Rinfret demonstrates his anti-bandit bag. To foil thieves the chain is pulled and the bottom of the case falls out so the contents are scattered over the floor. That'll stop those thieves from getting at the contents of your bag! No, wait. It won't.

Nicole Richie and Miley Cyrus shimmer at Elton John's AIDS Foundation Oscar party in Los Angeles. See more in Oscars 2010: The After-Parties.

The Best Actress winner and her husband find a quiet corner at the Governor's Ball, the most convenient of all the Oscar parties (it's at the Kodak Theatre, the same venue as the ceremony).

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a former supermodel and currently the First Lady of France, has long been a sensation in much of Europe, with paparazzi chronicling her every move and gossip columnists reporting on her peripatetic romantic life and her dalliances with rock stars and other celebrities. Now, amid reports that she and her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, might be nearing a messy divorce -- reports that Bruni-Sarkozy, at least, refutes -- it seems "La Bruni" is again destined to have her life examined in a very public way. Pictured: Sarkozy waits for his wife before leaving Qatar for Paris in 2009.

A man at a shipping exhibition in Olympia, London, demonstrating the ''Laryngaphone,'' a noise-excluding telephone which only transmits vibrations from the vocal chords when the microphone is placed against the throat or cheek. For the man who wants to annoy both his wife and his mistress

American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes "scream when sliced."

A woman adjusts her stocking by the light of the Goodyear's illuminated tires. The tire is made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and is brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim.

President of Zeus Corp., Robert L. Stern, smoking a cigarette from his self-designed rainy day cigarette holder.

Flying platforms being tested at an Air Force base.

Inventor of a honey and vinegar mixture, called Honegar, Dr. DeForest C. Jarvis. Honegar was said to be a folk remedy for aches and pains, though it mainly sounds like a cure for lack of nausea.

Charles L. Langs poses with his strapless, backless, wireless, support-less bras. His wife is justifiably dubious.

Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin riding his motorized surfboard.

Engineer Harold Graham salutes President Kennedy after demonstrating Rocket Belt for him.

Two girls try out the new yodel meter, which measures the pitch of the human yodel.