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

Feeky Magee

Iconic pictures are more effective then any story. Sometimes you see photographs that just take your breath away. The following photos; some famous, some infamous, did exactly that to me on first viewing. They will live on, as a permanent reminder of the events which caused them.

Tienemen Square Protest:

9/11:

Mai Lai Massacre:

Soviet Flag Over Reichstag:

Vietnam Shooting:

Afghan Girl:

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Saddam Hussein Captured:

Hindenberg:

Ali:

Rosa Parks:

Fake Bigfoot:

Marilyn Monroe:

Earthrise:

Feel free to add your own!

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Standard Toaster

Spore wrote: »

Fucking whore

:pac:

My name is URL

Beauty out of Damage -

Queen-Mise

This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.

This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.

The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.

Darksaga87

You never hear that part of "black hawk down".

Thank you everyone for these images, they speak louder than words.

Loveless

Don't think this one has been posted up yet either...

"Take a good look at this picture. It's one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The tiny hand of a foetus reaches out from a mother's womb to clasp a surgeon's healing finger. It is, by the way, 21 weeks old, an age at which it could still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the picture above belongs to a baby which is due to be born on December 28."

ReacherCreature

I've seen images about that before, he was either a crew chief/pilot of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down.

He was part of a mission that was trying to capture Mohammad Farrah Adid's top commanders. Adid (sp?) was involved in a civil war that turned to genocide.

Features in the film Black Hawk Down as the previous poster said.

That leg is at such a grotesque angle.

Smau5

Midnight_EG wrote: »

It clearly has bullet holes in every picture?

Not in the first, lol.

Midnight_EG

Smau5 wrote: »

Not in the first, lol.

You cant see them in the first cos the bullet holes are just out of the picture, in the next set of bricks if you will.

Turtwig

Queen-Mise wrote: »

This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.

This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.

The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.

Is he still alive there?

Darksaga87

Malty_T wrote: »

Is he still alive there?

nope. I thought it was mike Durant, but he was realesed. That is one of the 2 soldiers who went in to save him.

amacachi

Queen-Mise wrote: »

This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.

This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.

The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.

Massive lack of context there, along with the obviously slanted caption, nice of someone to point out they're black.

Aldebaran

August 7th 1974 - Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers.

Darksaga87

The toll of the Iraq war.

Holocost mass graves

Feeky Magee

Aldebaran wrote: »

August 7th 1974 - Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers.

Did you see the film? Remarkable.

Aldebaran

Feeky Magee wrote: »

Did you see the film? Remarkable.

Yes I did, fantastic movie. I thinks its amazing that theres no video footage of his walk at all, makes the photos even more special.

ReacherCreature

Darksaga87 wrote: »

nope. I thought it was mike Durant, but he was realesed. That is one of the 2 soldiers who went in to save him.

At first I thought it was Duran't crew chief, Bill Cleveland or Tommy Fields but it could have been one of the two snipers, Gary Gordon or Randy Shugart who tried to defend him and ultimately did, Durant was spared.

LizT

hmm can't seem to paste the picture

Mardy Bum

This is one of the most interesting and thought provoking threads I've seen in a long time. Keep those pictures coming.

Feeky Magee

lizt wrote: »

hmm can't seem to paste the picture

Go to Google Images, and type in 'first flight'. Click on the picture yoiu want and then click on 'see full size image'. Copy the address bar. When you go to write your comment on boards, click the yellow icon with the mountains, and paste the address bar in, and hey presto!

Queen-Mise

amacachi wrote: »

Massive lack of context there, along with the obviously slanted caption, nice of someone to point out they're black.

I noticed that myself on the use of black. And I wasn't giving a full history of the Somailia/US issue. Similiar things have have happened elsewhere in Africa and in the Middle East with US soldiers & others.

I was actually looking for a different photo, but obviously couldn't find it. The one where the US soldier is being pulled behind the jeep. I think in the one I was looking for he was alive, but dragged to his death - not sure though.

Have absolutely no idea if the soldier above is dead or not.

paddyland

One small step for man...

newbie2

Feeky Magee

I've never seen that shot before paddy, thanks for posting.

Munich Air Disaster:

And 50 years on...

Standard Toaster

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima after the dropping of 'Little Boy'

'The Fat Man' mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter

Seizo Yamada's ground level photo taken from approximately 7 km northeast of Hiroshima

Not 100% sure when these pics were widely known, may have been years after WW2?

Anyway, the following pics really bring home the power of these 'little' bombs. When I say 'little' I mean 'Little Boy' was 13 - 18 kilotons of TNT.....'Castle Bravo', the US's most powerful thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, was 15,000/22,000 kilotons of TNT.

The photograph shows the stone steps of the main entrance of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima which was only 250 meters from the hypocenter of the atomic explosure on 08/06/1945. It is believed that a person sat down on the steps facing the direction of the hypocenter, possibly waiting for the bank to open. By a flash of the heat rays with temperatures well over a 1,000 degrees or possibly 2,000 degrees centigrade, that person was incineratied on the stone steps. Up to about 10 years after the explosion, the shadow remained clearly on the stones, but exposure to rain and wind has been gradually blurring it. So, when the bank was newly built, the stone steps were removed and are now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. You can also see the beautiful computer reconstruction of this atomic explosure made by BBC

Simulation:

Truely too terrifying to even think about

OutlawPete

lizt wrote: »

hmm can't seem to paste the picture

Highlight the url of the image you want to post and then press the 'Ctrl' key and the letter 'C' key at the same time. (Right clicking on the highlighted URL and selecting copy will do the same thing).

Your image will be copied in your system's memory.

Then when you have the 'Post New Message' options like below, click the icon with the circle around it .. a new box should open like below for you to paste the URL of the image into.

Click inside the bar like above where it has the .. 'Please enter the URL of your image' .. and then hold down the 'CTRL' key and the letter 'V' (that pastes from your system's memory - Right clicking in the box & selecting Paste is will also do the same thing).

Click OK and the image should then appear in the message.

You can cleck the 'Preview Post' button beside the 'Submit Replay' one if you want to see how the image will appear.

If you have an image on your PC that you want to post instead. Go to HostAnyImage.com and from their hompage you can upload your image and it will give you a URL very quickly and then just follow the same steps as above.

Queen-Mise

OK my last one or two for the night. I am getting to the symbolic stage now - must be tiredness

;);)

September 2001. Which one is giving the comfort more?

Maybe not changed or shook the world, but definitely shows how much the world has been shook up and shaken in the last 40 years.

newbie2

ok one more then i'm going to bed

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Standard Toaster

Mychal F. Judge, a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York, and the first recorded victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

From Wikipedia

Shannon Stapleton, photographer from Reuters, photographed Judge's body being carried out of the rubble by five men: four uniformed and one non-uniformed. It became one of the most famous images related to 9/11. The Philadelphia Weekly reports the photograph being called an American Pietà.

ronnie3585

Oklahoma bombing. I will always remember seeing this picture on the front of The Star in my local shop the day after the bombing.

Feeky Magee

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Is what I think is happening here, happening here??? Please say no someone

Don't worry Queen, it is merely a kind soul teaching his pet seal how to play baseball. I believe 3 months after the picture was taken they won the bronze medal at the Man/Pet Olympics.

Smau5 wrote: »

Bluemoon

Could have done without the wink for such a sensitive subject. But I will say your fans behaved impeccably that day, fair dues.

The_Edge wrote: »

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Truely too terrifying to even think about

Indeed.

Tokyo B-29 Raid: March 10th 1945:

Killed at least 100,000 outright, more than either atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.