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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Back on topic, to photos which changed the world.
This photo showing missile transporters and missile-ready tents in Cuba, among other brought the world the closest it's ever been to full nuclear war.
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I'm surprised this didn't have more of an impact.
After Rob Summers was paralyzed below the chest in a car accident in 2006, his doctors told him he would never stand again. They were wrong.
Despite intensive physical therapy for three years, Summers' condition hadn't improved. So in 2009, doctors implanted an electrical stimulator onto the lining of his spinal cord to try waking up his damaged nervous system. Within days, Summers, 25, stood without help. Months later, he wiggled his toes, moved his knees, ankles and hips, and was able to take a few steps on a treadmill.
"It was the most incredible feeling," said Summers, of Portland, Oregon. "After not being able to move for four years, I thought things could finally change."
Still, despite his renewed optimism, Summers can't stand when he's not in a therapy session with the stimulator turned on, and he normally gets around in a wheelchair. Doctors are currently limiting his use of the device to several hours at a time.
His case is described in a paper published Friday in the journal, Lancet. The research was paid for by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
For years, certain people with incomplete spinal cord injuries, who have some control of their limbs, have experienced some improvement after experiments to electrically stimulate their muscles. But such progress had not been seen before in someone with a complete spinal cord injury.
"This is not a cure, but it could lead to improved functionality in some patients," said Gregoire Courtine, head of experimental neurorehabilitation at the University of Zurich. He was not connected to Summers' case. Courtine cautioned Summers' recovery didn't make any difference to the patient's daily life and that more research was needed to help paralyzed people regain enough mobility to make a difference in their normal routines.
The electrical stimulator surgeons implanted onto Summers' spinal cord is usually used to relieve pain and can cost up to $20,000. Summers' doctors implanted it lower than normal, onto the very bottom of his vertebrae.
"The stimulator sends a general signal to the spinal cord to walk or stand," said Dr. Susan Harkema, rehabilitation research director at the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center in Louisville and the Lancet study's lead author.
Harkema and her colleagues were surprised Summers was able to voluntarily move his legs. "That tells us we can access the circuitry of the nervous system, which opens up a whole new avenue for us to address paralysis," Harkema said. She said prescribing drugs might also speed recovery.
Dr. John McDonald, director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, said the strategy could be rapidly adopted for the 10 to 15 percent of paralyzed patients who might benefit. He was not connected to the Summers case.
"There is no question we will do this for our patients," he said. McDonald added that since the electrical stimulators are already approved for pain relief, it shouldn't be difficult to also study them to help some patients regain movement.
For now, Summers does about two hours a day of physical therapy.
"My ultimate goal is to walk and run again," he said. "I believe anything is possible and that I will get out of my wheelchair one day."0 -
The Execution, and Re-Execution of Willie Francis
The picture may not seem shocking, but the story is (at least it is to me), and thus makes the picture shocking.
Willie Francis was a black juvenile offender sentenced to death by electrocution by the state of Louisiana in 1945 (at age 16) for murdering Andrew Thomas, a Cajun pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.
On May 3, 1946, the electric chair failed to kill Willie Francis. Witnesses reported hearing the teenager scream from behind the leather hood, "Take it off! Take it off! Let me breathe!" as the supposedly lethal surge of electricity was being applied. Another report states that he called out, "I'm n-not dying!"
Gruesome Gertie, it was in this same very chair that Elmo Patrick Sonnier (the inmate on whom the film Dead Man Walking was based) died in.
After an unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court on behalf of Francis, which was led by the victims best friend (much to the dismay of the town), Francis was once again electrocuted six days later. It has inspired a film called "Willie Francis Must Die Again".
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On the topic of botched executions check out Allen Lee Davis formerly of Florida. It might not have shook the world but it certainly shook the United States. As a result of this bothced execution, the electric chair was banned in the state and the judge in the aftermath case made the pictures public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Lee_Davis
Horrific pictures from the botched execution. NSFW.
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/USmugshots/558cdavis.jpg
http://www.oranous.com/florida/AllenLeeDavis/95973b.jpg
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More Pics: http://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/
I started researching this since Ratko Mladic has been arrested after 16 years on the run. He was the Bosnian Serb army chief during the Bosnian War and is facing a war crimes tribunal for 15 counts including genocide charges over the killing of approx 7500 Bosnian Muslin men and boys in 1995. Also the order of raping up to 20,000 women
Serbian paramilitaries kick and kill Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians on the streets of Bijeljina on 31 March 1992, the first day of the Bosnian war.
Findings of some of the massacres taken in Srebrenica
Srebrenica Potocari Memorial (where Mladic committed genocide)
Summary of deaths
More info in pictures: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-13558521
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andyterryjay wrote: »Loads of people that were against the queen coming to ireland said that she should have apologised for bloody sunday.
But that argument is stupid in my opinion. It doesn't matter.
I am shocked that you live in a world where things like this "doesn't matter" to you. Says a lot about the human race and where we are heading!
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She was apologising for a completly diffrent event than your photographs are depicting.wolfpawnat wrote: »I am shocked that you live in a world where things like this "doesn't matter" to you. Says a lot about the human race and where we are heading!
She was apologising for Bloody Sunday 1920 which hapened in Dublin and at Croke Park. it was in reltaliation for killing of the Cairo Gang (picture below) by Micheal Collins "Squad" or "Twelve apostles"
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1913 Dublin Lockout
It certainly shook Ireland and influenced Leaders of the 1916 rising, James Connolly etc...
Info- wikipedia
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A great Link to Photos showing conditions in Dublin in 1913 and before the Strike and lockout.
Link to Photos
Slum Dwellers
Fade Street :rolleyes:
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I've just been looking through Lucian Perkins' website and there are some amazing photographs on there which have won a substantial amount of awards. Well worth a look.
http://www.lucianperkins.com/#/nav/home
This one def stood out for me, a "Holy Sh!t!" picture. It's an X-Ray of an American Soldiers wrist after he was injured in a IED attack in Iraq.
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Yesterday would have been the anniversary of the death of the last Irish soldier to be Killed In Action in Lebanon.
May he rest in peace.
As the advance party of the 104th Irish Infantry Battalion arrive back in Lebanon I'd like to wish them a safe, peaceful & successful mission.0 -
Ian Malone, a childhood friend of mine, was the first Irish soldier to be killed in the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Malone0 -
CrazyRabbit wrote: »Ian Malone, a childhood friend of mine, was the first Irish soldier to be killed in the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Malone
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I dont think the vietnam shooting was taken out of context.Liam Byrne wrote: »Sorry to spoil the party, but at least two of those are apparently the biggest cons in history, one completely out of context, one 100% faked.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2QxNWY0N2ZkY2IxMWJhZGQ4MTU3ZjhlZjg3NTk0NzE=
http://www.creationtips.com/bigfoot.html
And that's not even including the "possible" moon landing as having a question mark.
Here's another one that caused heartache and confusion (documentary on TV a few months back).
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The NWS stated: “A dramatic eruption from an otherwise unimpressive NOAA Region 1226 earlier today is expected to cause G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) levels of Geomagnetic Storm activity tomorrow, June 8, beginning around 1800 UTC with the passage of a fast CME.0 -
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The NWS stated: “A dramatic eruption from an otherwise unimpressive NOAA Region 1226 earlier today is expected to cause G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) levels of Geomagnetic Storm activity tomorrow, June 8, beginning around 1800 UTC with the passage of a fast CME.
will there be fire in the sky or summat?0 -
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will there be fire in the sky or summat?
Nope...satellites may have to be redirected so they don't go over the polar region though.0 -
ibarelycare wrote: »What's the story behind this one??
This is in reference to this photo early on in the thread of the Iraqi POW:
I remember seeing that photo somewhere else and reading that the child was in fact his own and he was freaking out and the photo was taken as the father was trying to comfort him. It's one of my favourite photographs of all time. I don't know why I love it so much, I think it's something to do with how it shows such tenderness in the midst of such inhumanity. We're constantly told how these people are so terrible and they're enemies of the West, etc., but here's a man just cradling his frightened child and having a very intimate and emotional moment with him, like any of the rest of us would do, yet he's in this very degrading outfit and behind barbed wire. It really shows up the falsehood that seems to be constantly put out there about how these people are so 'uncivilised' compared to the rest of us. Who's the uncivilised one here? It's a wonderfully perfect photograph, says so much.
By the way, this is one of my favourite threads on Boards.
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Da Shins Kelly wrote: »By the way, this is one of my favourite threads on Boards.
My favourite Thread ever !..on the Interweb
The one thread i always throw an eye on.
It should make those Dark Lords (admins and mods) of boards.ie very proud .
Its a cracking cracking read and is well maintained and weeded .
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The Trinity Test
Three weeks before Hiroshima, this test was the first ever detonation of an Atomic Bomb. This photo marks the beginning of the Atomic Age.
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Gavrillo Princip (second from right) being arrested moments after assasinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo. The trigger that lauched the first world war and by extension the russian revolution, the second world war and the cold war.
He died in prison aged 23 in 1918. Its not recorded what his thoughts were as he saw the war unfold before him0 -
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