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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Filibuster wrote: »Harcourt Street Station - 1900
The 9.55am service from Bray crashes through the station wall
It was actually a cattle train coming from Enniscorthy.0 -
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Not sure if this has been posted already but it's the wreckage of Tom Pryce's car after the crash that killed him and race marshall Jansen Van Vuuren in the 1977 South African Grand Prix. There's footage of the crash on youtube, but it's horrendous - something I wish I hadn't seen.0 -
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Elvis in the Army, 1958
Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca.
1937
Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901
Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885
The original Ronald McDonald, 1963
Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
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Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948
I saw that on reddit a few weeks ago, absolutely heartbreaking. Some more info here:
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1095820INP/parents-selling-children
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/sold-off-siblings-shown-in-old-photo-tell-their-stories/article_1c095598-89f4-584b-891b-7ef48a1e2082.html
That clown photo gives me the shudders!0 -
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Jimmy Garlic wrote: »First ever photo of a human being, Paris, 1838
apparently there are a lot more people in that photo but because of the length of time of the exposure only the man having his shoes shined and the boy were captured because they were stationary0 -
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Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924
Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII
Walter Yeo, one of the first to undergo an advanced plastic surgery and a skin transplant, 1917
Suntan vending machine, 1949
Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960
Artificial legs, UK, ca. 1890
Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941
Christmas dinner during Great Depression: turnips and cabbage
Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930
A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961
Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929
First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right, 1967
Colourized image of Osama Bin Laden (age 14, second from right) and Family in Sweden, 1971
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Not true according to an information board in Dublin Zoo. A Dublin lion "auditioned" but the footage was not used.0 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_%28elephant%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu
"On Christmas Day, 25 December, in a small room the Ceaușescus were tried before a drumhead court-martial convened on orders of the National Salvation Front, Romania's provisional government. They faced charges including illegal gathering of wealth and genocide. Ceaușescu repeatedly denied the court's authority to try him, and asserted he was still legally president of Romania. At the end of the quick show trial the Ceaușescus were found guilty and sentenced to death. A soldier standing guard in the proceedings was ordered to take the Ceaușescus out back one by one and shoot them, but the Ceaușescus demanded to die together. The soldiers agreed to this and began to tie their hands behind their back which the Ceaușescus protested against but were powerless to prevent.
The Ceaușescus were executed by a gathering of soldiers: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan,[19] while reportedly hundreds of others also volunteered. The firing squad began shooting as soon as the two were in position against a wall. A TV crew who were to film the execution only managed to catch the end of it as the Ceaușescus lay on the ground shrouded by dust kicked up by the bullets striking the wall and ground. Before his sentence was carried out, Nicolae Ceaușescu sang "The Internationale" while being led up against the wall. After the shooting, the bodies were covered with canvas."0 -
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A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage.
Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her.0 -
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