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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.
This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.
The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.0 -
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Don't think this one has been posted up yet either...
"Take a good look at this picture. It's one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The tiny hand of a foetus reaches out from a mother's womb to clasp a surgeon's healing finger. It is, by the way, 21 weeks old, an age at which it could still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the picture above belongs to a baby which is due to be born on December 28."0 -
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Queen-Mise wrote: »This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.
This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.
The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.
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Queen-Mise wrote: »This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.
This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.
The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.
Massive lack of context there, along with the obviously slanted caption, nice of someone to point out they're black.0 -
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hmm can't seem to paste the picture
Go to Google Images, and type in 'first flight'. Click on the picture yoiu want and then click on 'see full size image'. Copy the address bar. When you go to write your comment on boards, click the yellow icon with the mountains, and paste the address bar in, and hey presto!
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima after the dropping of 'Little Boy'
'The Fat Man' mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter
Seizo Yamada's ground level photo taken from approximately 7 km northeast of Hiroshima
Not 100% sure when these pics were widely known, may have been years after WW2?
Anyway, the following pics really bring home the power of these 'little' bombs. When I say 'little' I mean 'Little Boy' was 13 - 18 kilotons of TNT.....'Castle Bravo', the US's most powerful thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, was 15,000/22,000 kilotons of TNT.
The photograph shows the stone steps of the main entrance of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima which was only 250 meters from the hypocenter of the atomic explosure on 08/06/1945. It is believed that a person sat down on the steps facing the direction of the hypocenter, possibly waiting for the bank to open. By a flash of the heat rays with temperatures well over a 1,000 degrees or possibly 2,000 degrees centigrade, that person was incineratied on the stone steps. Up to about 10 years after the explosion, the shadow remained clearly on the stones, but exposure to rain and wind has been gradually blurring it. So, when the bank was newly built, the stone steps were removed and are now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. You can also see the beautiful computer reconstruction of this atomic explosure made by BBC
Simulation:
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hmm can't seem to paste the picture
Highlight the url of the image you want to post and then press the 'Ctrl' key and the letter 'C' key at the same time. (Right clicking on the highlighted URL and selecting copy will do the same thing).
Your image will be copied in your system's memory.
Then when you have the 'Post New Message' options like below, click the icon with the circle around it .. a new box should open like below for you to paste the URL of the image into.
Click inside the bar like above where it has the .. 'Please enter the URL of your image' .. and then hold down the 'CTRL' key and the letter 'V' (that pastes from your system's memory - Right clicking in the box & selecting Paste is will also do the same thing).
Click OK and the image should then appear in the message.
You can cleck the 'Preview Post' button beside the 'Submit Replay' one if you want to see how the image will appear.
If you have an image on your PC that you want to post instead. Go to HostAnyImage.com and from their hompage you can upload your image and it will give you a URL very quickly and then just follow the same steps as above.0 -
OK my last one or two for the night. I am getting to the symbolic stage now - must be tiredness
;);)
September 2001. Which one is giving the comfort more?
Maybe not changed or shook the world, but definitely shows how much the world has been shook up and shaken in the last 40 years.0 -
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Mychal F. Judge, a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York, and the first recorded victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
From WikipediaShannon Stapleton, photographer from Reuters, photographed Judge's body being carried out of the rubble by five men: four uniformed and one non-uniformed. It became one of the most famous images related to 9/11. The Philadelphia Weekly reports the photograph being called an American Pietà.0 -
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Queen-Mise wrote: »Is what I think is happening here, happening here??? Please say no someone
Don't worry Queen, it is merely a kind soul teaching his pet seal how to play baseball. I believe 3 months after the picture was taken they won the bronze medal at the Man/Pet Olympics.Bluemoon
Could have done without the wink for such a sensitive subject. But I will say your fans behaved impeccably that day, fair dues.Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truely too terrifying to even think about
Indeed.
Tokyo B-29 Raid: March 10th 1945:
Killed at least 100,000 outright, more than either atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.0
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