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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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It is real, here's more info
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/31/this-is-what-an-israeli-airstrike-on-a-building-in-gaza-looks-like/
These are the follow-on photos.
Evacuation papers being dropped on Gaza city yesterday.
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The world's first selfie
Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographs of a person. Because the process was slow he was able to uncover the lens, run into shot for a minute or more, and then replace the lens cap.[citation needed] He recorded on the back "The first light Picture ever taken. 1839."0 -
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In 2012, poachers killed over 300 elephants using grenades and machine guns in Bouba Ndjidah National Park. Over 100,000 elephants have been slaughtered for ivory, in the last three years alone.
I think, personally, given the intelligence of elephants, the word "murdered" is more apt.0 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyke_%28elephant%29
http://ciccib.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/19-years-since-tyke-the-circus-elephant-was-brutally-killed/
https://archive.org/details/ElephantRampageHawaii1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4IH-EqoHws
One of the saddest things I've ever seen. The video is heart breaking. Poor Tyke had a tortured life and a horrific death.
:mad:
I ask people to please never go to circuses with animals.
Tyke (1974 – 20-Aug-1994) * 20 years ago today.Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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Probably not world shocking but I came across this image on the web after a long dig through it. Its a photo of Ayrton Senna the evening before he was killed in the San Marino GP, May 1st, 1994. At the hotel he was staying at, there was a wedding on. The couple spotted him and asked him if they could take a photo. 24 hours later he would be dead.
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Not sure is this world changing, but I found this fascinating when I saw it on tv a couple of years ago.
The Biggest Rat in the world.
Bosavi Woolly Rat
First discovered in 2009 in Papui New Guinea, in the crater of an extinct volcano known as Mount Bosavi, during the filming of the 'Lost Land of the Volcano' BBC wildlife documentary series.
The 82 centimeters (32 inch) long rat weighs around 1.5 Kilograms (3.3lb) and has a silver-brown coat of long, thick fur. A captured specimen showed no fear of humans.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosavi_woolly_rat
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Never mind a Rat, look at these see through green boned frogs, ya can see their Organs. Discovered in Peru this year. Probably be extinct next year.Not sure is this world changing, but I found this fascinating when I saw it on tv a couple of years ago.
The Biggest Rat in the world.
Crazy that we are still only "discovering" these.0 -
Chaos of Khomeini's funeral:
http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/03/khomeini-funeral-body-crowdYet even here, the crowd surged past the makeshift barriers. John Kifner wrote in the New York Times that the “body of the ayatollah, wrapped in a white burial shroud, fell out of the flimsy wooden coffin, and in a mad scene people in the crowd reached to touch the shroud”. A frail white leg was uncovered. The shroud was torn to pieces for relics and Khomeini’s son Ahmad was knocked from his feet. Men jumped into the grave. At one point, the guards lost hold of the body. Firing in the air, the soldiers drove the crowd back, retrieved the body and brought it to the helicopter, but mourners clung on to the landing gear before they could be shaken off. The body was taken back to north Tehran to go through the ritual of preparation a second time.
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Earliest Known Color Photographs of San FranciscoAt 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake hit San Francisco. By today's measurements, it would register at a magnitude of 7.8.
Within four days, 80% of the city was utterly destroyed by the Earth's upheaval and fire. Out of a population of 410,000, between one-half and three-quarters became homeless; up to 3,000 people died.
Fires burned for four days and nights, causing the vast majority of the city's devastation and destroying 25,000 buildings.
Six months later, inventor Frederick Eugene Ives arrived in the ruins, carrying one of his creations: the photochromoscope, a very early color and 3D camera. Commercially available since 1897, Ives used the device to capture these four images, reproduced here as single frames, and in their original stereo pairs.
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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
The face of a hockey goalie (Terry Sawchuk) before masks became standard game equipment, 1966
Just to clear this up:
Goalie Terry Sawchuk sports fake scars and wounds applied by a make-up artist to simulate injuries accumulated in 16 years of professional hockey, 1966.
Link: http://life.time.com/culture/terry-sawchuk-a-face-only-a-hockey-puck-could-love/#10 -
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Might not shake the world, but how and ever...
Satellite images of countries from space at night show the amount of built up areas are in a country. The more lights there are, the more cities/towns, the more economic activity there is, the better-off a country is, etc.
Below is a stark contrast between The Republic Of Korea (South Korea; a capitalist country with a huge economy and the producer of a vast amount of the world's electronics and so on) and The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea; the world's hermit kingdom where oppression and poverty dominates). The difference between the two is staggering. South Korea glitters like a jewel. The darkness swamps over the North like a plague, with only a pitiful amount of light denoting Pyongyang and other minor cities.
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Conversely, Belgium is lit up like a Christmas tree at night in a way that would horrify the average penny pinching dad.
Rumour has it that at one time the minister responsible for street lighting had a brother who happened to install street lighting and somehow the brother miraculously ended up with a contract to light every stretch of motorway in Belgium. I've driven through Belgium at night many times and can confirm that the motorways are fully illuminated. It makes Belgium very easy to pick out from space.
(The north of Italy is also well lit up as are certain areas of England, but those are densely populated areas. All of Belgium is lit up, and it has significantlly less population density.)0 -
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