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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Context?! There's no point posting random pics with no links

    Sorry! It's Gaza, as Tombstone pointed out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Surprised we've no defining image of the Paris attacks up here yet.
    There were a few doing the rounds, ones of injured concert goers, police surrounding the buildings and CCTV stills, but this image below will stay with me.
    It is the crowd at the Bataclan minutes before the attack by terrorists on Friday night.
    Having been to many concerts, I know the feeling of elation and joy of seeing your music heroes play their tunes after a hard days work... and a Friday at that. The look on their faces... oblivious to the terror they were to endure:


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    (image in here with article on Bataclan
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/bataclan-witnesses-recount-horror-paris-attacks)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    ^ there's a second one of those from a slightly different angle, and you can see a dude with long hair behind the merch stand (extreme right, where the t shirts are pinned up); that guy was killed.


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    There's photos showing inside the theatre after the attack that stand in such stark contrast to the happy smiling faces before. I'm not going to link to it, but I'm sure it would be easily found with a quick Google search.

    Out of everything coming from that whole night, the one that will stick with me the most is everyone scrambling out of the side entrance of the theatre, with a (I think, pregnant) woman dangling from the windowsill, begging the people standing on the 'sill itself to help her up, which one of them does, climbing back in to save her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    There's photos showing inside the theatre after the attack that stand in such stark contrast to the happy smiling faces before. I'm not going to link to it, but I'm sure it would be easily found with a quick Google search.

    Out of everything coming from that whole night, the one that will stick with me the most is everyone scrambling out of the side entrance of the theatre, with a (I think, pregnant) woman dangling from the windowsill, begging the people standing on the 'sill itself to help her up, which one of them does, climbing back in to save her.
    Yes that woman is pregnant, both her and the unborn baby are ok, apparently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    Used to love this thread, what's happened to it - too many world shaking events?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭random_guy


    corblimey wrote: »
    Used to love this thread, what's happened to it - too many world shaking events?

    People are less easily shocked.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Harold Agnew carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb, 1945

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    This was taken on Tinian Island in 1945. Agnew was a physicist with the Manhattan Project and an observer on the Hiroshima mission. He flew in a plane behind the Enola Gay. His smile sort of disconnects the viewer from the reality of the situation. That box is the direct cause of the deaths of approximately 70,000 people. That little box will change the course of history, and he’s holding it like it’s his lunch. The oddest thing here is that a whole group of the scientists had photos of themselves posing with the plutonium. They were proud of their invention, and the fact that they were making history. For a whole host of reasons they had no second thoughts about what they were planning to do.

    The plutonium core in Fat Man weighed 6.2 kg or about 14 lb, The pit is 9 cm (4 inches) across. And only about one fifth of it, a bit over 1 kg (2 pounds) undergoes a fission reaction. And only a gram (1/30th of an ounce) of that gets converted into explosive energy equal to 21,000 tons of TNT.

    http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/harold-agnew-carrying-plutonium-core-nagasaki-fat-man-bomb-1945/#ifrndnloc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭quad_red


    There was a documentary on BBC4 last night called 'Last Days in Vietnam'. An utterly engrossing and tension filled look at the US withdrawal from Vietnam filled with amazing and heart breaking testimony from survivors and it included a load of footage I'd never seen before.

    One man had the story of how his father saved his family. He was a South Vietnamese helicopter pilot and it became apparent the US were leaving. Himself and a colleague chose the best two Chinooks left and he flew his to a field near his home. He'd told his wife that if she heard choppers coming, to bolt to the field with the children. So he landed, they got on and he made a dash for the US fleet offshore. With little fuel left he came upon a small destroyer (USS Kirk) with a chopper pad. Whilst smaller choppers had landed on it the crew desperately waved the massive Chinook away with the Captain of the ship fearing it would kill everyone on board.

    So they dropped, DROPPED, the baby out of the helicopter into the arms of sailors, his wife and kids jumped after that.

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    Then he brought the massive helicopter away from the ship and hovered just over the water with the chopper's wheels literally in the sea.

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    The crew wondered what he was doing - it turns out he was flying a massive helicopter at the same time as getting out of his flight suit (something the US naval guys said that to this day they genuinely didn't understand how he could have done it). Then he tilted the massive helicopter to the right and stepped out the left door. The helicopter blades hit the water and caused a massive amount of debris and shrapnel.

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    And he survived. His young son (at the time) was on the documentary (as an adult obviously) talking about it and it was just really moving. You couldn't have made it up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Qiaonasen


    Has been posted before. But for the day that is in it here it is again.
    27 years ago tomorrow. Photo was taken the day after the crackdown.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Clay/Liston Fight 2, Round 1. Clay becoming the world Heavyweight Champion 25/5/65.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Not a well known few photos I'd say, but still found them breathtaking. Came across them while reading up on the Bismarck. Photos of shell splashes and the battleship burning on the horizon while taking a relentless battering from the HMS Rodney and King George V. Sank soon after with 2200 of the crew killed. [27th May 1941]. Much of it was revenge for three days previously when Bismarck scored a chance hit on HMS Hood's magazines - resulting in the obliteration of the ship with just 3 survivors of the 1431 crew. Found these two photos very depressing considering the helplessness of the lone ship surrounded by a huge opposing fleet, and with the steering system rendered useless the previous night from a torpedo hit, all they could do was wait for this.

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Yamato_battleship_explosion.jpg

    Yamato sank rapidly, 280 of 2,778 crew were rescued.

    And it's not even in the 20 worst losses of life aboard ship during WII
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_World_War_II

    Her sister ship Musashi was also sunk by air attack a year earlier , 1,023 of her 2,399-man crew were lost.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭BeardyFunzo




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Not sure how many people have seen this photo before, it's on a file of WW2 photos doing the rounds, but I saw it years ago and it always struck me, it's taken in Roncey, Normandy August 7th 1944 and shows a French refugee family.

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    Three things always got me about it: Firstly is the determination on the face of the man, we've no idea what he's been through, but the town that I suppose he's from is in ruins and he seems to be carrying every belonging that they've got left. Photographers wouldn't be that common but he's still totally oblivious to the cameraman. I presume the woman behind is his mother, so where is the mother of the girl?

    That's the second thing that gets me, it's the girl; the innocence on her face, sitting in her play pram but even after the catastrophe that they've been through they got time and material to put up a shade for her, note that the rope is made up of pieces of old rope, so things were in short supply.

    The third thing is that he's heading north, but where to. The town was liberated on July 22nd, photo is dated August 7th. There was terrible fighting on the Cotentin Peninsula, most of it was badly ravaged, so where were they off to? Maybe they originally came from that area and are going to the homeplace where there was probably some security and food, maybe the wife is a few steps ahead and out of shot and going with them?

    I suppose we'll never know, but this is what the same place looks like today.

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@48.9906777,-1.3342293,3a,75y,152.33h,92.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soRq49yL4eh3_2iXDhJyLQA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

    And if you zoom back a bit you see this..kids playing on bikes and another family. Times, thankfully change.

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@48.9908764,-1.3345664,3a,75y,150.22h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9v2jfHmUdIGGGHHIRFI5aQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    RAF Squadron Leader Brian Lane 1940 aged 23

    Life expectancy flying was six weeks with a 1 in 3 chance of being killed on daily bombing runs

    you can see the nightmare of these odds on his face

    He died in 1942

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Not sure how many people have seen this photo before, it's on a file of WW2 photos doing the rounds, but I saw it years ago and it always struck me, it's taken in Roncey, Normandy August 7th 1944 and shows a French refugee family.

    Great post and picture.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Dated April 1936, you see the buildings, the German soldier, the Swastika on the coffin, the Nazi salutes...it's Germany, possibly Berlin judging by the buildings.

    Except on the left of the photo there's a soldier with a bearskin, and then you find out it's The Mall, right in front of Buckingham Palace. It's the funeral of Leopold von Hoesch, the then German anbassador to London an opponent and critic of Hitler. he was replaced by Von Ribbentrop

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    the-funeral-of-leopold-von-hoesch-1936-cpkrpb.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Not really pictures but drawings of people's experiences in the Gulag
    Some of it is NSFW
    http://www.cvltnation.com/brutal-drawings-from-the-gulag/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,834 ✭✭✭NufcNavan


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    What a picture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


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    One of the most abiding images of the last 50 years.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,681 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Maybe not world shaking, but striking enough.

    The story first:

    http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/09/health/heroin-effects-police-photo-trnd/index.html

    And the images separately:

    http://imgur.com/gallery/gztAI


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 161 ✭✭OCEANIC FIZZY POP NINE


    TIMES 100 Most Influential Images of All Time

    http://100photos.time.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    President elect Donald Trump.

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    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Dated April 1936, you see the buildings, the German soldier, the Swastika on the coffin, the Nazi salutes...it's Germany, possibly Berlin judging by the buildings.

    Except on the left of the photo there's a soldier with a bearskin, and then you find out it's The Mall, right in front of Buckingham Palace. It's the funeral of Leopold von Hoesch, the then German anbassador to London an opponent and critic of Hitler. he was replaced by Von Ribbentrop

    article-1224976-0709FCF0000005DC-145_634x497.jpg

    the-funeral-of-leopold-von-hoesch-1936-cpkrpb.jpg

    It's easy to forget that the Nazi flag was also the national flag for a few years before the war. Here it is flying in Königinstadt - Queenstown/Cobh, Co Cork that is... You can see a German merchant on the right.
    tumblr_inline_mopdglhmUo1qz4rgp.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


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    Probably posted before in this thread, but thought I'd post it. The other evening I watched the documentary McCullin on Netflix, about the man who took this photo in Vietnam. For fans of this thread, it's a must watch.

    He said that he took 5 photos of the solider, rewinding the camera film between each shot. In that whole time, the soldier didn't speak, didn't move, didn't blink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Years later the soldier had a huge hit with Mysterious Girl and then he married Jordan


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,783 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    Years later the soldier had a huge hit with Mysterious Girl and then he married Jordan

    *snort* :D
    That's exactly what I thought.. But I was afraid to say it out loud :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,723 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Maybe not shaking the world, but shaking the Philippines - a series of photos of the aftermath of the death of Michael Siaron, a drug addict who was extrajudicially killed under Duterte's war on drugs.

    His girlfriend has crossed the police cordon to hold him.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Last photo of Michael Collins before his assassination, taken on the morning of August 22nd 1922.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Watched on by Hitler :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,287 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Last photo of Michael Collins before his assassination, taken on the morning of August 22nd 1922.

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    The place looks very different now!

    http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/51.7452686227072,-8.7338018624223/id/84772/info/sv/zoom/14/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Not sure if this quite fits here but it's an amazing image. Sure to win a load of photography awards. Looks like something out of a Kubrick film

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    Context - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/russian-ambassador-to-turkey-wounded-in-ankara-shooting-attack


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    With the aim of posting comments after the pics, the person who hung those frames squint will be kicking themselves.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,048 ✭✭✭pavb2




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,723 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Not a picture that shook the world, but the event did.

    In advance of March 11th, the Yahoo! building in Tokyo has put up a poster/hanging commemorating the victims of the 2011 tsunami. The red line says 'exactly to this height' and shows the level the tsunami reached at its highest point.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I don't know that it has shaken the world, but this picture has been going viral and I can see why. It's quite striking. Saffiyah Khan, a Birmingham woman of Pakistani and Bosnian descent, stands toe-to-toe with a member of the EDL. Story here.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Tazium


    ^ She only needs a can of Pepsi.

    additional info here
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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


    Vojera wrote: »
    I don't know that it has shaken the world, but this picture has been going viral and I can see why. It's quite striking. Saffiyah Khan, a Birmingham woman of Pakistani and Bosnian descent, stands toe-to-toe with a member of the EDL. Story here.

    u1EFulI.jpg

    It was claimed the Asian girl in the photo had interrupted a minutes silence for victims of the Stockholm attack.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,910 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    It was claimed the Asian girl in the photo had interrupted a minutes silence for victims of the Stockholm attack.

    By who? Every article I've read from reputable news sources say she was defending a woman who was being screaming at for claiming the EDL are racist.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


    By who? Every article I've read from reputable news sources say she was defending a woman who was being screaming at for claiming the EDL are racist.

    The article I read on the BBC gave both versions. It's hard to know who to believe unless you were actually there. The two arrests were both on the protesting side, so I'm inclined to take the photo with a hefty pinch of salt.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    The article I read on the BBC gave both versions. It's hard to know who to believe unless you were actually there. The two arrests were both on the protesting side, so I'm inclined to take the photo with a hefty pinch of salt.

    based on your stated views, I'm guessing the fact the she is female and not aryan would prevent you from believing that legitimacy of the photo under any circumstance....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    It was claimed the Asian girl in the photo had interrupted a minutes silence for victims of the Stockholm attack.
    The former head of the EDL and several eyewitnesses have said she was defending a woman who was being shouted at by EDL members. Supposedly there's video but I can only find video of the aftermath.

    Either way, it's a striking photo.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


    based on your stated views, I'm guessing the fact the she is female and not aryan would prevent you from believing that legitimacy of the photo under any circumstance....

    I'm merely keeping an open mind. At a time when Christians are being targeted by Muslims around the world, this seemed an odd image to set tongues wagging. A photo of her staring down a hate preacher from her own faith would have been more apt, and genuinely brave.


  • Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭kellso81


    A photo of her staring down a hate preacher from her own faith would have been more apt, and genuinely brave.

    How do you know what faith she has? Or if she even has any?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Folks, lets try keep chat minimal here, we do have a discussion thread for same.

    Thank, :)

    LEIN


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