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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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The tip of the sharpest manmade item, a tungsten needle.
Each orb is an individual atom.
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Might not have shook the World but it certainly shook me ...
R.I.P GARY SPEED (1969-2011)
Photo from his interview on Football Focus less than a day before he took his own life...
Last photo with a fan...
Tributes come flying in for the Legend that was Gary Speed ..
If you think life is just a little too tough at the moment and things are getting in on you please TALK and let someone know , or if you are worried about a family member , friend or colleague then let them know your there for them .
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On 10 June 1963, a spokesperson for the Buddhists privately informed the U.S. correspondents that "something important" would happen the following morning on the road outside the Cambodian embassy in Saigon. Most of the reporters disregarded the message, since the Buddhist crisis had at that point been going on for over a month, and the next day only a few journalists turned up, including David Halberstam of The New York Times and Malcolm Browne, who was the Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press.
Thích Quảng Đức arrived as part of a procession that had begun at a nearby pagoda. Around 350 monks and nuns marched in two phalanxes, preceded by an Austin Westminster sedan, carrying banners printed in both English and Vietnamese. They denounced the Diệm government and its policy towards Buddhists, demanding that it fulfill its promises of religious equality.Another monk offered to burn himself, but Thích Quảng Đức's seniority prevailed.
The act itself occurred at the intersection of Phan Dinh Phung Boulevard and Le Van Duyet Street. Thích Quảng Đức emerged from the car along with two other monks. One placed a cushion on the road while the second opened the trunk and took out a five-gallon gasoline can. As the marchers formed a circle around him, Thích Quảng Đức calmly seated himself in the traditional Buddhist meditative lotus position on the cushion. His colleague emptied the contents of the gasoline container over Thích Quảng Đức's head. Thích Quảng Đức rotated a string of wooden prayer beads and recited the words Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật ("homage to Amitabha Buddha") before striking a match and dropping it on himself. Flames consumed his robes and flesh, and black oily smoke emanated from his burning body.
The last words of Thích Quảng Đức before his self-immolation were documented in a letter he had left:
Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organise in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism.0 -
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An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spider's webs.0 -
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watched a korean movie about their war the other night(4 hours with subtitles!!) and i realised I knew f all about the war.Wiki gave me the background and 'facts' about it but this photo sums up what a war can do to a man,An american soldiers comforts another soldier
the GI to the left seems completely oblivious to whats going on around him.
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Dickey Chapelle (March 14, 1919–November 4, 1965) recieving the last rights -She became the first female war correspondent to be killed in Vietnam, as well as the first American female reporter to be killed in action.
Whilst walking with US Marines a Lieutenant in front of her kicked a tripwire boobytrap, consisting of a mortar shell with a hand grenade attached to the top of it. Chapelle was hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel which severed her carotid artery and died soon after.
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Chicago Daily Tribune makes one little mistake in headline about the 1948 U.S presidential election result.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace.
Famous Tory poster in 1979 U.K general election, often credited as being decisive in their victory.
Paul Simonon of The Clash smashes his bass, creating the cover for their classic album London Calling and one of music's most iconic images.
Australian Sergeant Leonard Siffleet executed by Japanese soldier.0 -
Almost 8 earth years after it's touchdown on Mars (25 January 2004) Mars Rover 'Opportunity', originally designed for a 3 month mission, is still making discoveries.
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/111104-coslog-vein4.grid-8x2.jpg
A close-up from NASA's Opportunity rover shows the light-colored feature known as "Homestake" or "The Vein." Scientists report that the mineral vein consists of gypsum, a hydrated calcium sulfate that is formed on Earth in the presence of water and is used to make drywall and plaster of Paris. One of the joints in Opportunity's robotic arm can be seen in the picture's foreground.0 -
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That photo is a famous shot from WW2 commonly called Kombat. It was taken by Soviet war correspondent Макса Альперта is 1941, and he claimed that the political officer portrayed died immediately after it was taken. Much later, the officer was identified and there was a bit of controversy over whether it was staged propaganda.0 -
The Ulster Covenant was signed by just under half a million of men and women from Ulster, on and before September 28, 1912, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill, introduced by the Government in that same year. Sir Edward Carson was the first person to sign the Covenant at the Belfast City Hall with a silver pen[1] destined for immortality followed by Lord Londonderry, representatives of the Protestant Churches, and then by Sir James Craig. The signatories, 471,414 in all,[2] were all against the establishment of a Home Rule parliament in Dublin. The Ulster Covenant is immortalised in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Ulster 1912".0 -
"Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel," the defining portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential figures, almost didn’t happen, thanks to the Mahatma’s strict demands. Granted a rare opportunity to photograph India’s leader; Life staffer Margaret Bourke-White was all set to shoot when Gandhi’s secretaries stopped her cold: If she was going to photograph Gandhi at the spinning wheel (a symbol for India’s struggle for independence), she first had to learn to use one herself.
But that wasn’t all. The ascetic Mahatma wasn’t to be spoken to (it being his day of silence.) And because he detested bright light, Bourke-White was only allowed to use three flashbulbs. Having cleared all these hurdles, however, there was still one more – the humid Indian weather, which wreaked havoc on her camera equipment. When time finally came to shoot, Bourke-White’s first flashbulb failed. And while the second one worked, she forgot to pull the slide, rendering it blank.
She thought it was all over, but luckily, the third attempt was successful. In the end, she came away with an image that became Gandhi’s most enduring representation. it was also among the last portraits of his life; he was assassinated less than two years later.0 -
The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.0 -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Photographer: International Ladies Garment workers Union
Picture of bodies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Company rules were to keep doors closed to the factory so workers (mostly immigrant women) couldn’t leave or steal. When a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146 people died that day.0 -
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Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell captured the harrowing images of the victims of Haiti in 2008. Farrell documented the Haitian tragedy with impressive black-and-white stills. The subject of “After the Storm” is a boy who is trying to save a stroller after the tropical storm Hanna struck Haiti.0 -
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I've been looking for a picture, well its actually a film clip from the war in bosnia during the 90's.0
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Thats the one.
Recently read the book war junkie by Jon Steele a former ITN cameraman. I think its him that filmed this. Its a very good read if you find this type of stuff interesting. He describes how this particular incident affected him. Heart breaking stuff.0 -
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