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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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Off The Ball just put up this picture on Facebook. It's an old boxing photo that was recently restored with colour.
Looks so gruesome.
Original here
Just did some digging and apparently it's a boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland, 3rd May 19130 -
Nixon resigns, still the only US President ever to do so. He announced his resignation on this day in 1974, and resigned the following morning. Still a shocking moment in world politics.
Video here...
Not earth shaking but iconic all the same this photo was taken on August 8th 1969.
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This came from a Rig Manager
for Global Marine Drilling
in St. Johns , Newfoundland ..
They actually have to divert the path
of these things away from the rig
by towing them with ships!
Anyway, in this particular case
the water was calm and
the sun was almost directly overhead
so that the diver was able to get into the water
and take this picture.
They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons.
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This week in Syria...Syrian activists have claimed that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad used chemical agents during attacks on rebel-held areas around Damascus.
If confirmed, it would be by far the worst reported use of chemical weapons in the two-year civil war.
An opposition monitoring group, citing figures compiled from medical clinics in the Damascus suburbs, put the death toll at 494.
It said 90% of the people had been killed by gas, the rest by bombing and conventional arms.
The rebel Syrian National Coalition said 650 people had been killed.
Syrian opposition figure George Sabra said the death toll stands at 1,300.
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August 23rd 1989, the Baltic Chain. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form one of the longest human chains in history spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states – Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Lithuanian SSR, republics of the Soviet Union. It catalysed a movement that resulted in Lithuania declaring independence on March 11th 1990 and the subsequent break up of the Soviet Union.
It might not seem much but it was just over 10 weeks after thousands were slaughtered in Tianamen Square and took place in a country that regularly incarcerated dissidents for decades. More info on the wiki page here.
A good example of what peaceful protest can achieve.
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Ted Kennedy leaves a party with a young woman Mary Jo in 1962. Kennedy crashes the car he was driving off a bridge and into the water. He subsequently flees the scene and leaves Mary Jo to drown as the tide came in. He did not seek any help or raise an alarm. They say she was alive for up to 2hrs in the car. Ted Kennedy was a US Senator from 1962 to 2009 (when he died).
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Photo that SHOULD shake the world.
6 year old boy from China who was kidnapped & drugged before having his eyes gouged out so his cornea's could be extracted and sold on the human organ black market.
Full Story
http://news.sky.com/story/1133783/china-trafficker-gouges-out-boys-eyes
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Omayra Sánchez Garzón was born on this day in 1972.
Story here.
It's beyond belief that help was not provided to save her in time.
Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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50 years ago today.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I have a dream."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream
Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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Omayra Sánchez Garzón was born on this day in 1972.
Story here.
It's beyond belief that help was not provided to save her in time.
I remember watching her on TV, she was just a year younger than me, very harrowing stuff to essentially watch her die slowly, but the rescuers didn't have the necessary machinery to move her. She was a very strong determined child in spite of what she was facing, reminded me a bit of that lad in Kerry who made the appeal to his fellow teenagers not to commit suicide just before he himself died of cancer. She is just a couple of hours from death in that photo.0 -
This image is the main one that has stuck with me throughout this whole thread, and its quite haunting to me. Brave in the extreme.Omayra Sánchez Garzón was born on this day in 1972.
Story here.
It's beyond belief that help was not provided to save her in time.0 -
Reminds me of the story in the UK last year of firemen refusing to enter 3ft of water to save a man from drowning. Simon Burgess waded in a shallow pond to retrive a plastic bag when he sufferred an epiletic fit, 25 firemen who arrived on the scene refused to enter the water until appropriate equipment and trained personnel arrived, some 28min's later. Burgess would later die in hospital.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106423/Simon-Burgess-body-floats-Walpole-Park-pond-emergency-workers-stand-watch.html0 -
Didn't shake the world but it did the footballing world as any death on the field does. 6 years ago today, 22 year old Antonio Puerta died 3 days after suffering successive cardiac arrests while playing for Sevilla against Getafe.
Look on the crowds face in the first picture tells you all you need to know.0 -
Sir David Frost passed away yesterday from a heart attack. He was 74. He is probably most famous for his interview with the infamous President Nixon in 1977.Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
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On this day, in 1983, the Soviet Air Force shot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 as it was en route from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea. All 269 passengers and crew were killed.
The Soviets claimed that it was a US spy plane and initially denied shooting the plane down, but later admitted their responsibility.
As a direct result of this aggression, the US was able to garner enough anti-Soviet sentiment at home and abroad to deploy Pershing Nuclear Missiles in West Germany, with a flight time of 6-10 minutes before impact on Moscow.
No bodies were ever recovered, though some body parts did wash up on the beaches of the Japanese island of Hokkaido in the weeks following the shooting down of the aircraft.
Passengers of Flight 007:
Time Magazine headlines:
Flight plan:
Shoes of victims of the shooting down recovered by Soviet divers and handed over to Japanese and American authorities following their search:
The incident, described by Ronald Reagan as "The Korean Airline Massacre", led to increasing the tensions between the USA and the USSR at a time when tensions were already at near-boiling point. Aeroflot, the Russian national airline, was banned from flying direct to the USA for nearly 3 years. One of the more important but seemingly "forgotten" incidents of the Cold War in which innocent people bore the brunt of the conflict between the two Superpowers.0 -
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3 July 1988
290 died when USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner on a scheduled flight.
http://rt.com/usa/no-us-apology-ir655/
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Not a world shaker just yet but possibly will be to come. US President Barack Obama on the phone making decisions about going to war with Syria as Vice President Joe Biden listens in from across the room. Note Obama's 'shooting' gesture as he speaks.0 -
Note Obama's 'shooting' gesture as he speaks.
We've no idea what he was saying when he made that gesture, looks just as possible that he's emphasising a point.
Anyway, one guy who will have a big part in the decision is the head of the CIA, the guy whose face is highlighted in this pic, he's John Brennan, his parents are from Co. Roscommon.
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They didn't have enough fuel to loiter either. After a Soviet pilot had absconded with a Mig 25 Foxbat to Japan a few years earlier, Soviet pilots rarely got full tanks to attempt to stop this. I find the lack of tracers odd though. Fighters have em to help with aiming(every 5th or 6th round IIRC). It's near a given. Nasty business either way. I remember the headlines well. I was on holliers in Spain with my folks and we were due to fly home the next day. My mum near had a shítfit about it.
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If anyone wants an indication of how small our universities in Ireland are compared to those in Amercia, look no further than college football. Last night Michigan played against Notre Dame and set a new attendance record of 115,109.
Not only is it the highest attended college match but no NFL match has come within 10,000 of it. For a college match to get nearly 50,000 more spectators at their match than the average attendance at a professional American Football match is crazy.
Of the 20 largest stadiums by capacity in the world, 12 of them are college football stadia.
Old Trafford is by far the biggest stadium in the Premier League, and United arguably the richest team in the world, but 19 college teams have a bigger stadium than them.
It's pretty insane.
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Jimmy Iovine wrote: »If anyone wants an indication of how small our universities in Ireland are compared to those in Amercia, look no further than college football. Last night Michigan played against Notre Dame and set a new attendance record of 115,109.
Not only is it the highest attended college match but no NFL match has come within 10,000 of it. For a college match to get nearly 50,000 more spectators at their match than the average attendance at a professional American Football match is crazy.
Of the 20 largest stadiums by capacity in the world, 12 of them are college football stadia.
Old Trafford is by far the biggest stadium in the Premier League, and United arguably the richest team in the world, but 19 college teams have a bigger stadium than them.
It's pretty insane.
As a matter of interest Croke Park, with a capacity of 82,300 is the largest stadium on the planet, outside of the USA that is owned by an amateur organisation.
And with all due respect to them, rarely does college football throw up two matches running like Dublin v Kerry last Sunday and Clare v Cork today in the same staium!
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