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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 28, 1914). These assassinations were a contributing factor to the start of World War I.
The first photo upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912.
A tornado that hit Carswell AFB on Sept 1, 1952 caused massive damage to most of the B-36 fleet.
Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein at the Bohr-Einstein debates over quantum mechanics.
Boing 707 doing a barrel roll. When the test pilot Tex Johnson was questioned about the stunt, he simply replied by saying – “Just selling airplanes”.
Horten H. VII (Ho 254) flying over Göttingen, Germany. It was one of the first flying wing experiments. ~1945.
Star Wars set at lunchtime.
Howard Hughes inside of the H-4 Hercules, more widely known as the “Spruce Goose”. At the time, it was the largest airplane ever created. Photo: LIFE.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The North view of the missile launch pads. ~1960.
Times Square in New York, 1911.
Steamboats in the Mississippi river, 1907. Photo: shorpy.
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Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in "The Battle Of The Sexes" on this day 40 years ago.
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Believed to be the last known photos of famous people before they died...
http://twentytwowords.com/2013/06/11/last-known-photographs-of-famous-people-43-pictures/
That one of Bobby Kennedy is pretty grim
This was taken as Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office after JFK was shot earlier that day, Jackie Kennedy is standing beside him wearing the same pink coat she had on as her husband was shot beside her less than 3hrs earlier. She still has his blood on it.
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The Rolling Stones hire the Hell Angels biker gang to provide security at the 1969 Altamont Music Festival in California. They are reportedly paid just $500 in beer. 400,000 attend the free concert, well over the expectations of the organisers. The concert goers are off their faces on LSD and the bikers are pissed drunk.
The Hell Angels beat back the crowd with pool cues and motorbike chains:
One concert goer, Meredith Hunter, pulls a gun on the bikers (see in front of the girls dress):
A biker launches in and stabs Hunter to death:
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recent addition from the nairobi shooting
look of fear on the girls face is heartbreaking
but they all made it out alive. here's the backstory:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10343059/Nairobi-mall-attack-American-family-in-emotional-reunion-with-rescue-hero-Abdul-Haji.html0 -
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Otherwise known as the Door to Hell and the Derweze gas crater, the crater is found in Turkmenistan and is 60 metres wide and 20 metres deep. The hole was created when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally tapped into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the drilling rig to fall in.
To prevent poisonous fumes from escaping into the atmosphere, the Soviet geologists decided to set the pit on fire, hoping the fire would use up its fuel in a few days. It has been burning since 1971.
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A woman giving birth on the lawn outside a health centre in Mexico having been refused treatment.
Pregnant Irma Lopez, 29, and her husband - both ethnic Mazatec - walked October 2 to clinic in Oaxaca, but were turned away by nurses
Photo of grimacing Lopez kneeling on patch of grass outside clinic with her newborn son still attached by umbilical cord set off firestorm online
Clinic director Dr Adrian Cruz was suspended pending state and federal investigations
Nurses at health clinic blamed 'misunderstanding' on language barrier and being short-staffed
Mayor of town where clinic is located said in July another woman gave birth on the lawn
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How awful
The byline roughly translates as "She arrived with intense pain at the San Filipe Jalapa de Díaz health centre, but was refused/denied. CNDH and the government are already investigating and the mayor(ess) maintains that there have been two cases there in less than 3 months".0 -
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248155/The-mugging-victim-inch-knife--didnt-notice.htmlSomething's not right here: Surgeons stare in awe at Julia Popova, 22, who has a six-inch kitchen knife protruding from her back that she did not know was there
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It is believed that Julia spent ten days in the hospital after the operation. 'She had a straightforward recovery,' the surgeon said - suffering no long-term effects from the horrific attack.0 -
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