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

sunflower27

ZiMZuM wrote: »

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

I don't think upon seeing this photo that you can ever forget it.

Was just doing a bit of reading up on it to see if there was any information on the fate of the little girl and read this.

Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later.


I did not know he had taken his own life.

wonderfulname

He didn't kill himself over the subject of that photo, debt worries plagued him along with the huge amounts of violence he had witnessed in his life.

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MoyVilla9

Alfred Jodl signing the German Instrument of Surrender at Reims, France 7 May 1945



Wilhelm Keitel signing Surrender Terms for the German Army in Berlin the very next day, after Stalin had insisted on a second ceremony in Berlin.




Keitel and Jodl were later hanged after the Nuremberg Trials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender

bungler

Maximilian wrote: »

Probably shook something in its day, perhaps not the world.

Sorry if this has been done before but didnt this turn out to be actually a man?

joshrogan

bungler wrote: »

Sorry if this has been done before but didnt this turn out to be actually a man?

No I'm 99% sure it's the girlfriend of an amateur photographer if I recall correctly, I read about it in the paper within the last year about the girl in the photo.

bungler

joshrogan wrote: »

No I'm 99% sure it's the girlfriend of an amateur photographer if I recall correctly, I read about it in the paper within the last year about the girl in the photo.

Sorry bout that thought i heard on radio last year that it was supposedly a man but i do remember hearing somewhere else about an amateur photographer. cheers pal

Parsley

bungler wrote: »

Sorry if this has been done before but didnt this turn out to be actually a man?

no..? i saw an interview online with the woman that was in the photo, twenty years later or something like that.

etymon

not posting here as they are awfully gruesome but the ones of Nikki Catsouras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Catsouras_photographs_controversy are pretty rank and would put you off speeding any time soon

great thread by the way

gungun

etymon wrote: »

not posting here as they are awfully gruesome but the ones of Nikki Catsouras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Catsouras_photographs_controversy are pretty rank and would put you off speeding any time soon

great thread by the way

Looked them up there, jesus that's horrific, would put me off getting a convertible anyways

harr

gungun wrote: »

Looked them up there, jesus that's horrific, would put me off getting a convertible anyways

Just had a look as well,not good looking at something like that this time of night:eek: Just goes to show what our emergency workers see most days.

Axe Rake

US War Crimes in Fallujah - Crimes against Humanity


Usage of depleted uranium and white phosphorus.

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/pdf wrote:

The study, entitled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009", is by Dr Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi, and concludes that anecdotal evidence of a sharp rise in cancer and congenital birth defects is correct. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1,000 births compared to 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait. The report says that the types of cancer are "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout".

Researchers found a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. At Hiroshima survivors showed a 17-fold increase in leukaemia, but in Fallujah Dr Busby says what is striking is not only the greater prevalence of cancer but the speed with which it was affecting people.

Of particular significance was the finding that the sex ratio between newborn boys and girls had changed. In a normal population this is 1,050 boys born to 1,000 girls, but for those born from 2005 there was an 18 per cent drop in male births, so the ratio was 850 males to 1,000 females. The sex-ratio is an indicator of genetic damage that affects boys more than girls.

Warning: Images of deformed babies. Very graphic.
http://merryabla64.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/victim-of-du2.jpg?w=300&h=299
http://www.easylivesearch.com/floga270.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O60Jg7biNLw/SI5UipY7WlI/AAAAAAAAAQc/JT1vwt1QWS0/s400/DUBabies.jpg
http://coto2.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/iraq_birth_defects.jpg?w=409&h=373

Large pic here, not for the faint of heart.

Rubik.

joshrogan wrote: »

No I'm 99% sure it's the girlfriend of an amateur photographer if I recall correctly, I read about it in the paper within the last year about the girl in the photo.

It's Fiona Bulter girlfriend of the photographer, Martin Elliott. He died last year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/tennis-girl-photographer-martin-elliott-dies-after-cancer-battle-1934359.html

Toots

etymon wrote: »

not posting here as they are awfully gruesome but the ones of Nikki Catsouras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Catsouras_photographs_controversy are pretty rank and would put you off speeding any time soon

great thread by the way

Oh Jesus! That's really horrific! I can't believe some sickos emailed those pictures to her family

allanb49

Toots* wrote: »

Oh Jesus! That's really horrific! I can't believe some sickos emailed those pictures to her family

iirc, kids in the school she went to put the pictures in her sisters locker.

evil people really

Toots

allanb49 wrote: »

iirc, kids in the school she went to put the pictures in her sisters locker.

evil people really

Oh god that's so horrible, that really is evil.

Saw these pictures yesterday, not quite world shaking but pretty crazy nonetheless. It's the annual Bee Bearding Contest in Shaoyang, Hunan Province of China. This is the 42 year old farmer who won the event!

Chuck Stone

B+ for effort ^^.

tricky D

joshrogan wrote: »

No I'm 99% sure it's the girlfriend of an amateur photographer if I recall correctly, I read about it in the paper within the last year about the girl in the photo.

Tennis Girl

The Tennis Girl is a popular poster.[1] It shows a young woman from behind walking towards the net of a tennis court with a tennis racquet in her right hand and her left hand reaching behind lifting her short tennis dress, showing she is not wearing any underwear.

The photograph was taken by Martin Elliott in September 1976 and features 18-year-old Fiona Butler[2] (now Walker)[3][4], his girlfriend at the time.[5] The photo was taken at Birmingham University, Edgbaston, Birmingham, using a borrowed dress, racquet and balls.[5][6][7][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Girl

She did an interview on Montcrieff's NewsTalk show recently.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Of all the photos here, this one makes me think 'this must be what hell looks like'

Lab_Mouse

i think thats white phosporus(sp??)as well.Nasty stuff maikkomi

Plug

tricky D wrote: »

Tennis Girl

The Tennis Girl is a popular poster.[1]

Whats her username?

arybvtcw0eolkf

Lab_Mouse wrote: »

i think thats white phosporus(sp??)as well.Nasty stuff maikkomi

I know, I've seen it for real in Lebanon.

Here's the rest of the still's from that photo.

This is a youtube clip of stills photographs of that particular bombing.

Hope Eager Windfall

Hope Eager Windfall wrote: »

I know, I've seen it for real in Lebanon.

Here's the rest of the still's from that photo.

This is a youtube clip of stills photographs of that particular bombing.

What was it like to see it for real?

arybvtcw0eolkf

Deleted User wrote: »

What was it like to see it for real?

Thankfully I've never seen it that close.

And I never seen an aerial burst like that either, although I've seen other anti-personnel artillary used against targets in a similar fashion.

Anyway that photo, looks like a vision from hell.

Capt'n Midnight

flickr/tweets of Dublin

Large image on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5935470794/sizes/o/in/set-72157627140310742/

orange dots represent Flickr pictures while blue dots are tweets; white areas represent where people are using both

Turtwig

Also if a mod could go back and re-edit my original post to put this image into it I'd be eternally grateful. The old one has expired or something. (Mod Note: Done)

Lemsiper

Turtwig

Malty_T wrote: »

(Mod Note: Done)

Can't thank my own post, so thanks very much.:)

Edeuinu

Hello,

I'm from US and don't really remember how I stumbled across this site/thread yesterday, but I felt compelled to register after looking at every single page. It's occupied almost a full work day now just clicking all the links provided and reading up on some things I would otherwise overlook.

Really an awesome thread, glad to see it's still going seeing as how long ago it was started!

Leiva

Edeuinu wrote: »

Hello,

I'm from US and don't really remember how I stumbled across this site/thread yesterday, but I felt compelled to register after looking at every single page. It's occupied almost a full work day now just clicking all the links provided and reading up on some things I would otherwise overlook.

Really an awesome thread, glad to see it's still going seeing as how long ago it was started!

Spread the word ..

Tweet & Facebook the link to friends .

brendansmith

mixednuts wrote: »

Spread the word ..

Tweet & Facebook the link to friends .

Tell the world about our revolution. Shout it from the rooftops.

Turtwig

And then wonder why the powers that be haven't been lynched yet for not making this thread a sticky.:pac:

Rubik.

Jack the Ripper's victims - 1888.



Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes and Mary Kelly(that's not her).



Coroner's photographs.





This ones a bit graphic...

http://wiki.casebook.org/images/thumb/f/f4/EddowesStitching.jpg/260px-EddowesStitching.jpg



http://www.casebook.org/intro.html

sensibleken

The British Mark 1 tank 25 September 1916, The Somme. fitted with mesh to deflect grenades, a wheeled steering column at the rear, 6 punder guns and armour to resist small arms fire.

Temeratures inside would reach 50 degrees C, with poor ventilation. A direct hit from artilery would imediately incinerate the crew by bursting the fuel tanks



The fenian ram. the first workable combat submarine developed by Co. Clare born John Philip Holland and funded by the skirmishing fund of the IRB.

Holland had already submitted deigns to the US Navy for a combat sub but they were rejected. The IRB however continued to fund their development as a means of attacking the British Navy. Of course, them being a republican movement, they had a dispute and split. The IRB resolved to steal the Fenian RAM but had nobody who could pilot it.

In 1916 it was displayed in madison square garden to raise funds for the easter rising victims and can now be seen in the Paterson Museum in new Jersey.

Holland went on to develop the USS Holland for the US Navy which was copied as the Holland class submarine, somewhat ironically by the British Navy.

laros

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/welcome-home-atlantis/100111/


Yet another fantastic set of pictures from The atlantic.com website...this set is to do with the final shuttle mission

Standard Toaster

maudgonner

Malty_T wrote: »

NO PICSY QUOTSY!

Number 5 (Alive) with MASSIVE wings?

Clareman

Malty_T wrote: »

And then wonder why the powers that be haven't been lynched yet for not making this thread a sticky.:pac:

In fairness to the mods, the more stickies in a forum the more difficult it is to view the forum using the new mobile site (touch.boards.ie), it's actually very good modding to limit stickies, especially not stickying threads that are normally full of activity anyway.

Turtwig

Today, obviously.


Oslo Bombing and Utoya shooting.
(Maybe it's just me, but I think we should leave out the kid photos until this has died down a bit and they've all been laid to rest?)

wonderfulname

Today in Oslo, from The Guardian (more in link)

Newaglish

Another photo relating to today's events in Oslo - one I saw on twitter with this comment from a Norwegian man:

I wish all the racists in Oslo could see this picture

Duggy747

Disturbing pictures of victims from Utoya shooting today. Click at your own risk.

http://olehgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/utoya980_0.jpg

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e8a0db7ea970d-600wi

This one I find the most harrowing, I can barely imagine what that kid in the water felt.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQoEbxJG_Es/Tin2UakozjI/AAAAAAAAFeA/jeMQZQMEu48/s1600/utoya+shooting+victims.jpg

Leiva

Duggy747 wrote: »

Disturbing pictures of victims from Utoya shooting today. Click at your own risk.

http://olehgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/utoya980_0.jpg

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e8a0db7ea970d-600wi

This one I find the most harrowing, I can barely imagine what that kid in the water felt.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQoEbxJG_Es/Tin2UakozjI/AAAAAAAAFeA/jeMQZQMEu48/s1600/utoya+shooting+victims.jpg

Jesus Christ .

What is it with mankind sometimes :mad:

suicide_circus

Duggy I'm not sure that last photo is kosher to put on boards

barone

Mod note: while we do allow fairly graphic images, this sort of thing is not acceptable.

Thanks.

maiden

Im not going to watch it, after watching the Dnep maniacs video the images stayed with me for a long time and its the only time a video has affected me in that way!

So im not going to do that to myself again!

Zaph

Can I just remind people that while we are fairly tolerant here, we do have limits. The video posted by barone is completely unacceptable and he's been temporarily sitebanned as a result. This is the second such siteban issued in the last couple of days and we'd rather not have to issue any more, so please think before you post.

fulhamfanincork

What was the video of may I ask?

Zaph

It was a video of the body of a murdered woman being mutilated. Why anyone feels the need to watch something like that is beyond me, and it's not something that we will ever deem acceptable on this site.

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

It was a video of the body of a murdered woman being mutilated. Why anyone feels the need to watch something like that is beyond me, and it's not something that we will ever deem acceptable on this site.

....

Christ.

Seriously?

Duggy747

Deleted User wrote: »

....

Christ.

Seriously?

If it's the video I think it is then it's from 2 young Russian medical students who went about killing homeless people. They killed this girl and one mutilated her body while the other captured it on video.

The video camera itself belonged to an uncle whom they borrowed it off. They forgot to take the tape out so when the uncle saw it he handed it over to the police immediately.

2 of them are awaiting sentencing last I heard.