Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

Queen-Mise

AIDS patient in Africa



TB sufferers



Grandmother and grandchild both with AIDS.

citizen_p

Beslan School Seige
on 1st of september 2004 it was taken over by terrorists, the seige lasted 3 days. they had nearly 1,100 hostages about 800 were children. it was a plea to stop the second chechan war. similar to the moscow opera seige.
a terrorist with a "dead mans" trigger

the bomb above the hostages

close up

a terrorist setiing up a bomb. floor is streaked with blood

rescue

aftermath






about 330 hostages were killed and about 750 wounded

a-k-47

the aftermath, unreal power.

namloc1980

Icebergs frozen in place in an icy sea. Not on Earth but on Jupiter's moon Europa:

Reginald P. DuM

The Russian Nuclear Submarine, The Kursk, lost in the Barents Sea, August 12, 2000.








118 lives were lost.

paddyland

Tomebagel

paddyland wrote: »

proved fake.:rolleyes:

Darksaga87

Tomebagel wrote: »

proved fake.:rolleyes:

Still shook the world and freaked everyone out.

Flecktarn

Glad to see the thread is back on form

British Miners Strike


Young boy taunting British soldier in N.I.


Police attack marcher (Bloody Sunday?)

foxyboxer

Werner Von Braun dwarfed by the F-1 engines of the Saturn V's first stage.

Loveless

Worst Aviation disaster
March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s collide on a fog-shrouded runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst accident in aviation history. Sixty-one people survive.



CGI version of the crash:

Stargate

foxyboxer wrote: »

Werner Von Braun dwarfed by the F-1 engines of the Saturn V's first stage.

Awesome Machine :cool:

a-k-47

The one bush didnt give a fk about.

Hurricane katrina

Jeege

Vietcong "Revenge Squad Captain" being executed by officer. Photo doesnt tell you that the man being shot had executed dozens of unarmed civilians that morning.
Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this in the late 60's

El Siglo

These might have been posted before, I'm not sure but they definitely shook the world.

The Day the Music Died, 1959


Apollo 1 Fire, 1967


Challenger disaster, 1986


Columbia disaster, 2003

Sin scéal eile

El Siglo

Jeege wrote: »

Vietcong "Revenge Squad Captain" being executed by officer. Photo doesnt tell you that the man being shot had executed dozens of unarmed civilians that morning.
Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this in the late 60's

FYP: General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.

Jeege

World Press Photo of the Year: 1980 Mike Wells, United Kingdom. Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary. About the image Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death

Standard Toaster

ZiMZuM wrote: »

This was the 1st picture that came to my mind..

Poor old Kevin Carter, the guy who took this pic, commited suicide back in 1994

flatrock.org.nz wrote:

His picture of an emaciated girl collapsing on the way to a feeding centre, as a plump vulture lurked in the background, was published first in The New York Times and The Mail & Guardian, a Johannesburg weekly. The reaction to the picture was so strong that The New York Times published an unusual editor's note on the fate of the girl. Mr Carter said she resumed her trek to the feeding centre. He chased away the vulture.

Afterwards, he told an interviewer, he sat under a tree for a long time, "smoking cigarettes and crying". His father, Mr Jimmy Carter laid last night: "Kevin always carried around the horror of the work he did." - The New York Times

Can only imagine all the other suffering he seen to drive him to suicide.

WindSock

Tyson Biting Holyfield's Ear

jackthekipper

There's something about this photo.

Walsh

Spent the last 2 hours going through nearly every post in this thread! Amazing.

wmpdd3

Sin scéal eile wrote: »

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jackthekipper

wmpdd3 wrote: »

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It isn't Goebells children that were poisoned byu the parents? Basing it on the film Downfall.

My name is URL

jackthekipper wrote: »

There's something about this photo.

She's sticking her fingers in her own bum.. that is something

Morlar

Fort Douamout Verdun before and after shelling

Morlar

Passchendaele before and after

Sin scéal eile

jackthekipper wrote: »

It isn't Goebells children that were poisoned byu the parents? Basing it on the film Downfall.

Yes, rather than face up to the aftermath of the downfall, Magda Goebbels and the SS doctor gave the children cyanide and then had her husband shoot her before killing himself

LisaRed

Although this thread has completely taken me away from my college work..it has been so interesting & educational so cheers

Quite literally shook the world (well parts of)...the largest Earthquake ever recorded (I think)..'The Great Chilean Quake' 1960



Always hard to see Child Labour pics, what made this 1 worse for me is they're mining for Coltan..that stuff they use to make our mobiles,digi-cams etc..



Certainly shook the world at the time (might have already been posted..sorry!)



'Pompeii Prayer'



The Louise Woodward case...remember being glued to the TV for this&seeing the pics of her being told she was being sentenced were awful (when she was innocent all along).



Well for some...



HIV...



This might of been posted already (sorry again!)...



Caused quite a stir at the time..

foxyboxer

The Genesis Rock
The rock was formed in the early stages of the solar system, at least 4 billion years ago. It was retrieved from the Moon by Apollo 15 astronauts James Irwin and David Scott.