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

neil_18_

Some controversial ones!

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furiousox wrote: »

Dreamy.


Normally condone violence but I'm happy he got slashed in the face a while back. Don't kill him just yet, a little more torture please....just a smidge more ultraviolence

Size=everything

Pearl shortly before being beheaded





Soldier cries



More from Israel










More from Chechnya




Mussoloni hung




Richard Kulklinski living a supposed normal family life

Queen-Mise

The murder of Alexander Litvinenko

His dying words - 'the bast*rds got me'

Saibh

Azaria Chamberlain

Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (born 11 June 1980 in Mount Isa, Queensland) was a nine-week-old Australian baby who disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip to Ayers Rock (Uluru) with her family.
Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, supported this assertion. The findings of the inquest were broadcast live on television — a first in Australia. Subsequently, after a further investigation and second inquest, Azaria's mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was tried for murder. Lindy was convicted of murder on 29 October 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Azaria's father, Michael Chamberlain, was convicted as an accessory after the fact and given a suspended sentence.
The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals, including the final High Court appeal. After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery of a piece of Azaria's clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain's release from prison, on "compassionate grounds." She was later exonerated of all charges. While the case is officially unsolved, the report of a dingo attack is generally accepted. Recent deadly dingo attacks in other areas of Australia have strengthened the case for the dingo theory.

[Jackass]

I'm not a history buff or an IRA head, but I'd like to contribute an Irish feel to this thread and some of the most significant events of our nation.

Irish Famine Victims:







1916 Easter Rising:









Michael Collins, Life & Death:









Bloody Sunday:

[Jackass]

Bobby Sands - Life, Death & Riots:









IRA Omagh Bombing:







The good Friday agreement:





Dublin Riots:

[Jackass]

Modern Dublin: (where I call home, on a personal note, before emigrating in 3 weeks )

[Jackass]

deadhead13

Uganda 1980.

Queen-Mise

That picture above is heartbreaking.

silverharp

[Jackass] wrote: »

[img]Modern Dublin: (where I call home, on a personal note, before emigrating in 3 weeks ).................................[/img]

After looking at those photos I had to look out the window, I thought Dublin must have been hit by a meteor or something

Blisterman

Blisterman wrote: »

I was in China last year, and I actually tried it on google.ie, and even that's censored there, with the same results.

Spent last xmas there. Boards doesn't work either. Gutted, I was!

krudler

Premiere of Star Wars at Mann's Chinese theatre in LA, definitely shook the film world:




A terrorist at the 1972 Olympic Village in Munich:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_05/munichAP2504_468x335.jpg


Robert Capa's photograps of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, 1944, the grainy, washed out look of these pictures happened after the reels were soaked in salt water and restored, and are what inspired Steven Spielberg to shoot Saving Private Ryan with a handheld, washed out look:

dr.bollocko

kaki wrote: »

I don't think this has been posted yet - Elizabeth Eckford on her way to school, 1957

You know she was taunted and abused so much her parents pulled her out of school not one week later.

kaki

dr.bollocko wrote: »

You know she was taunted and abused so much her parents pulled her out of school not one week later.

Yep. And that, to this day she can't stand giving hugs or take pictures.
And that despite all that happened

In 1958 Elizabeth Eckford moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she achieved the necessary qualifications to study for a B.A. in history. After university she became the first African American in St. Louis to work in a bank in a non-janitorial position.

twanda

Malcolm X


Clinton and Lewinsky


This one didn't shock the world, but it was certainly a wake up call for Ireland... Annie Murphy, former lover of Bishop Eamon Casey and mother of his child, appears on the Late Late Show with Gay Byrne

deadhead13

John Lennon signing an autograph for Mark Chapman.

Spore

wudangclan wrote: »

Another Olypmic one (if it hasn't been posted already) with the Black Panthers at the Mexico Olympics.

Fools couldn't even agree on which hand to salute with

deadhead13

Spore wrote: »

Fools couldn't even agree on which hand to salute with

One of them left his gloves in the olympic village.

o1s1n

Catari Jaguar

Holy Cross Girls school - hate gauntlet






Holly and Jessica



Woodstock







April 5th 1994 - Death of Kurt Cobain

partyatmygaff

Some people here are posting photos that didn't have any effect or are of cities e.t.c.

They didn't shake the world

kaki

Okay, okay, a photo that changed the world...the scientific world at least



(Dolly the sheep)

paddyland

13th March 1996, teacher Gwen Mayor along with 16 schoolchildren aged 5 and 6 years old were killed by a mass murderer at Dunblane Primary School.

paddyland

"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit..."

paddyland

The Moors Murderers

Agent Smith

majiktripp

Last Jew of Vinnitsa

Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time

majiktripp

Draw Home
The effects of the World Wart II have not only resulted to the death of millions, but also a long-standing disturbance on the lives of those who survived, particularly children. They were the ones who greatly suffered from the pain and trauma brought by the war. They not only witnessed killings of their families and friends; they also lost their future. They may have survived the war, but the pain will forever be there.

Among those who suffered this effect is Teresa, a young Polish girl who lost her family during the war. While in staying in a concentration camp, she drew an unrecognizable image on the blackboard, which was somewhat chaotic. When ask what her drawing was, she pertained to it as her “home”.