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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    El Siglo wrote: »
    I don't know if this is iconic or not, but it says a lot about the US being the greatest super power... well in Vietnam anyway!
    This is a CH-47A Chinook from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) being dumped overboard during the final days of the Vietnam War, circa 1975. It is the only known photograph of a Chinook getting dumped into the sea and is a rare shot of a Chinook with the rotor blades folded. Found it here.

    I've seen video footage of them dumping aircraft from the carriers but can't find any on youtube. They had to dump them to make room for more and more that were landing with US troops and staff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    FX Meister wrote: »
    I've seen video footage of them dumping aircraft from the carriers but can't find any on youtube. They had to dump them to make room for more and more that were landing with US troops and staff

    I find this picture far more iconic than the chinook one but same situation:

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    For me the below picture signifies America's entry to World War 2:

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    Best picture I could get. The Arizona was a battleship that was hit by Japanese dive bombers at Pearl Harbour, its magazine section exploded and the ship itself was destroyed. America declared War the next day and after WWII their influence on world politics has been enormous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    Fall of Saigon
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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭argosy2006


    first moonwalk ,shook music world49-michael-jackson-moonwalk-lg.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,285 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    CCCP^ wrote: »
    Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear weapon ever used, detonated by Russia near Sibera/Arctic region.
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    That's a French nuclear bomb. Taken in 1970 when the French mil*i*tary tested a num*ber of nuclear bombs on the French Póly*ne*sian islands of Mururoa and Fán*gata*ufa.

    Still a beautiful pic.

    The aul Tsar Bomba was much much larger.

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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭ktulu123


    Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov

    Some of us might not be here if it wasnt for this man.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Two opposing photo's.

    Tenzing Norgay at the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.

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    Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard inside Trieste, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific ocean 1960.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    The damage to the Apollo 13's service module.

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    Neville Chamberlain's diary entry

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    skulls.jpg

    Victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Loveless


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    Heil Hitler on The Mall: The day London played host to a Nazi funeral . . . within yards of Buckingham Palace

    The above extraordinary photo captured in April 1936, showed the funeral of the German Ambassador Leopold Von Hoesch, with the people clearly giving the Nazi salute on the balcony of the Germany Embassy on Carlton House Terrace, overlooking The Mall.The above image and footage were unearthed for the Discovery Channel programme: ‘Wartime London with Harry Harris’, a London cab driver and historian who has driven a taxi for two decades.


    http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/a-nazi-funeral-in-london/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Dentist - Nature Style.
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    Cancer Cell Moving down a pore *shudders*
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Cancer Cell Moving down a pore *shudders*
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    WOW :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Saibh wrote: »
    Whiddy island - 08 January 1979. Oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal, due to the failure of the ship's structure during an operation to discharge its cargo of oil. The explosion and resulting fire claimed the lives of 50 people (42 French nationals, 7 Irish nationals and 1 United Kingdom national).

    Betelgeuse1.JPG

    And one dutch diver whilst raising the wreck


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    I wish I didn't see that :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭kildara


    Irelands first, and only, Olymic gold boxing medal
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭kildara


    Piper Alpha:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    I'm gonna just link this one, because some people will probably throw up, but freaks like me will enjoy it.

    http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite.jpg

    http://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite.jpg

    Cymothoa exigua or the Tongue eating louse is a parisitic crustacean of the family Cymothoiadae. It tends to be 3 to 4 cm long. This parasite enters through the gills of a fish, and then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. It then proceeds to extract blood through the claws on its front three pairs of legs. As the parasite grows, less and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    I'm gonna just link this one, because some people will probably throw up, but freaks like me will enjoy it.

    http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite.jpg

    http://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tongue-eating-parasite.jpg

    Cymothoa exigua or the Tongue eating louse is a parisitic crustacean of the family Cymothoiadae. It tends to be 3 to 4 cm long. This parasite enters through the gills of a fish, and then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. It then proceeds to extract blood through the claws on its front three pairs of legs. As the parasite grows, less and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue.


    dear God, imagine pulling a bird in coppers or some joint of equally low esteem and her having a parasite as a tongue. and then complaining that you wouldn't score with her cos she deals with it just fine.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    ^^

    In the first pic...it reminds me of Mr. Burns :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    ^^

    In the first pic...it reminds me of Mr. Burns :o

    Ha!

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭a-k-47




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    When Saddam was throwing his weight around


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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭md23040


    argosy2006 wrote: »
    first moonwalk ,shook music world49-michael-jackson-moonwalk-lg.jpg

    WRONG....Sorry


    First televised moonwalk 1955 - @ 1 minute 30 seconds. Jackson was fascinated by Bill Bailey



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    md23040 wrote: »

    Btw. Anyone know how to embed a Youtube clip on boards - is it [media]url[/media]

    hit the youtube button in your post and put in everything after the =

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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  • Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    Probably shook something in its day, perhaps not the world.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    1931 Chinese Floods:

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    A woman lies face down in the water, dead, after the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded, with between 3.7 and 4 million people killed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I purpose that Dr.B spends the day going through the thread post by post and removing the ones that he feels didn't 'shake the world' .. might keep him off the Pornstars thread for abit and stop slagging me :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    In the early 20th century, how Leopold II treated the Pygmy's and Bantu's of Belgian Congo shook the world. In the period of about 20 years between 10 and 13 million were killed. Through missionaries being allowed in, the story of Belgian abuses reached European ears. At the time the world was shocked at the absolute devastation and death caused in the Congo.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

    The Force Publique (FP) was called in to enforce the rubber quotas. The officers were white agents of the State. Of the black soldiers, many were from tribes of the upper Congo while others had been kidnapped during the raids on villages in their childhood and brought to Roman Catholic missions, where they received a military training in conditions close to slavery. Armed with modern weapons and the chicotte — a bull whip made of hippopotamus hide — the Force Publique routinely took and tortured hostages (mostly women), flogged, and raped the natives. They also burned recalcitrant villages, and above all, took human hands as trophies on the orders of white officers to show that bullets hadn't been wasted. (As officers were concerned that their subordinates might waste their ammunition on hunting animals for sport, they required soldiers to submit one hand for every bullet spent.)
    Humanitarian Disaster

    Severed hands


    Native labourers who failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off.


    Villages who failed to meet the rubber collection quotas were required to pay the remaining amount in cut hands, where each hand would prove a kill. Sometimes the hands were collected by the soldiers of the Force Publique, sometimes by the villages themselves. There were even small wars where villages attacked neighboring villages to gather hands, since their rubber quotas were too unrealistic to fill.
    One junior white officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested. The white officer in command "ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades ... and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross." After seeing a native killed for the first time, a Danish missionary wrote: "The soldier said 'Don't take this to heart so much. They kill us if we don't bring the rubber. The Commissioner has promised us if we have plenty of hands he will shorten our service.'" In Forbath's words:
    The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the European post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State. ... The collection of hands became an end in itself. Force Publique soldiers brought them to the stations in place of rubber; they even went out to harvest them instead of rubber... They became a sort of currency. They came to be used to make up for shortfalls in rubber quotas, to replace... the people who were demanded for the forced labour gangs; and the Force Publique soldiers were paid their bonuses on the basis of how many hands they collected.
    In theory, each right hand proved a killing. In practice, soldiers sometimes "cheated" by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die. More than a few survivors later said that they had lived through a massacre by acting dead, not moving even when their hands were severed, and waiting till the soldiers left before seeking help. In some instances a soldier could shorten his service term by bringing more hands than the other soldiers, which led to widespread mutilations and dismemberment.

    Our own Roger Casement made a detailed study of the Dutch Congo, his methodologies are still being used my human rights organisations like Amnesty International to this day.



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    The above picture 'Babes on Bayonets' was a war cartoon, and blamed Germans for atrocities in Belgian Congo which they never did. It was the Belgians that commited them all.

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    apologies this seems a bit of a history lesson.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    a-k-47 wrote: »

    Such a poignant picture :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    Not earth-shattering, but interesting none the less:

    Iran before the Islamic Revolution -> http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-revolution.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Photos from that last link, Only 35-45 years between both photos.


    Then
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    Now

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    For me that is scary. To see such a revolution take place. I kinda expect them to be going the other way !!
    How much would it take for something similiar to happen in Europe?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    Ridiculous how much religion is allowed to control so many lives. I mean, in which picture do the people look happier?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Threatening an old man

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    A) Sean Mulvoy, a volunteer
    B) Seamus Quirke in Volunteer uniform
    C) Shows Seamus Quirke's coffined corpse being guarded by two Volunteers. He was shot by black and tan's. Sean Turke is the one on the right
    D) Shows the funeral of the two Volunteers going through Eyre Square.

    BlackandTans.jpg

    Sometimes I feel ashamed to call myself English

    Bastards


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Please cut out the infighting folks. Just post pics or discussion. Their relevancy is no longer up for discussion because it's bringing the thread off topic. If you see a post you think is not relevant PM me and I will review it. It's just better for the thread that way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    None of the Titanic so far, probably because of the lack of pictures from that time. But here's one of it in 2004, still fairly intact.

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    Eerie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


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

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    banquo wrote: »
    These guys actually trained for the olympics purely for the opportunity to give the black power salute. They had their medals confiscated. These are the same guys last year:

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    The two Black Panther guys remained good friends with the other guy for years after that. I suppose a lot of it had to do with the support he gave them during their salute, something that had really bad consequences ( he was banned from representing Australia at the Olympics ever again).

    Anyway, he died a couple of years ago and this is a picture of the two boys at his funeral:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    The two Black Panther guys remained good friends with the other guy for years after that. I suppose a lot of it had to do with the support he gave them during their salute, something that had really bad consequences ( he was banned from representing Australia at the Olympics ever again).

    Anyway, he died a couple of years ago and this is a picture of the two boys at his funeral:


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    Actually I heard that the two Americans became quite distant and didnt' speak for some time, but eventually in the end reconciled.


  • Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭DanGlee


    Might not have shook the world, but certainly changed it... without Mr Gates most we might not be posting these pictures!

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    And while I'm on the futty theme, here is one from my own country that hasn't been posted yet (and not surprised since its an Irish forum :D

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭youngblood


    Night that Shook the World Of Irish Dancing!

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    It started the good times I tells ya.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭Skinfull


    Ah no I cant believe I reached the end of this thread!! Just spent the last few (too many) hours trawling through here and the pics here are amazing!
    Well done everyone! Now I'm off to find some of my own to post!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    Man after being attacked with machete in Rwanda

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    A before and after face transplant patient
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    A victim of sectarian violence in Iraqvictim-of-sectarian-violence-iraq-2007.jpg



    And on a lighter note.shocking_098.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭keefg


    Don't think this has been posted, not sure, anyhoo....

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    Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on a public visit to Sarejevo just before they were assassinated which started World War I.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭youngblood


    Who knew this girl would write the most famous diary in the world!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Not a picture but try check out the following link from the Boston Globe:

    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

    It's a superb collection of images telling recent news stories.

    Their coverage on the Afghanistan conflict is excellent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Suicide-bomber-baby01.jpg



    Baby suicide bomber


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭keefg


    youngblood wrote: »
    Who knew this girl would write the most famous diary in the world!

    s320x240

    Hers wasn't as funny as Bridget Jones' though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭Crow71


    furiousox wrote: »
    To me this is what real and actual evil looks like.

    Roy Whiting, paedo who murdered sarah payne pictured at his arrest and again after a few years in prison.
    The mask has dropped and the monster beneath is revealed.



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    Ive seen every picture in this wonderful thread but the one that shook me the most is this one, im not sure why but this one really stood out for me


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Crow71 wrote: »
    Ive seen every picture in this wonderful thread but the one that shook me the most is this one, im not sure why but this one really stood out for me

    Because it brings home the reality that paedophiles are very good at posing as ordinary people and gaining positions of trust.


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