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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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BohemianDub wrote: »Long-time listener, first time caller...
Undoubtedly the best thread I have ever read, not just on boards but anywhere on the web. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have spent in the region of 12 hours over the last few days looking at pictures and then looking at the links and learning from them. It has been educational, funny, harrowing, scary, sad, but above all, very very interesting.
I'd just like to make a couple recommendations, if you don't mind..
In the later pages, there has been quite a bit of repetition. Yes, it's a long thread, but it does deserve to be viewed in it's entireity before anyone adds a new picture/post. Just saying "I'm not sure if this has been posted before.." is just laziness and it threatens to spoil a fantastic thread. Yes, I do realise there has been lots of photos and it's difficult to remember them all.
Secondly, what I really appreciated about this thread is the stories and explanations that go along with the photos. If possible, could posters add a link or explanation with their photos.
Finally, to keep the thread going, here's my offering (jaysus, I'll be scarlah if it's already been posted
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Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here
Is that real? Reminds me of the hand with the knife in The Last Supper.0 -
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Roy Keane leaving Saipan to return back to Manchester and not play any part in the WC in Japan/Korea:(
Dublin Riots
Indians claim Alcatraz Island
November 9, 1969
On this day, Indian people once again came to Alcatraz Island when Richard Oakes, a Mohawk Indian, and a group of Indian supporters set out in a chartered boat, the Monte Cristo, to symbolically claim the island for the Indian people. On November 20, 1969, this symbolic occupation turned into a full scale occupation which lasted until June 1
1, 1971.
Lockerbie Plane crash (bomb)
1988: Jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie
A Pan Am jumbo jet with 258 passengers on board has crashed on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish borders.
Initial reports indicate it crashed into a petrol station in the centre of the town, between Carlisle and Dumfries, and burst into a 300-foot fireball.
Hundreds are feared dead as airline officials said flight 103 was about two-thirds full with 255 adults and three children on board. Rescue teams have confirmed there are many casualties at the scene including townspeople who were on the ground.
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NS_Southsider wrote: »Dublin Riots
Jesus getting a taxi on O' Connell Street is madness these days.0 -
This event drew my attention when seeing it on reeling in the years. A mass suicide of hundreds of men women and children in Guyana under the orders of cult leader Jim Jones. A shocking example of the power a single person can have over a group of people.
There is an audio of the final speech of Jones encouraging people to drink from the poison. Warning, its not for the faint hearted. Screams of children in particular are audible and quite disturbing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFaqrU3HfQ0 -
Amazing thread, one of the best to come out of here in quite a while. On a side note can people please stop quoting the pictures. Quote the post, but delete the picture link. It'll make reading this a lot easier!
anyway, my 2 cents:
Boy was he wrong, unless his mission was to get a lot of young American killed....
Senna
Can't find the famous one of him and mick on the "car park" in Saipan but this will have to do
We all hate this one...
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jackthekipper wrote: »Don't thin this has been posted, the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion.
I seen it in there..........somewhere, sorry
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The Hindenburg Disaster.jpg)
HMS Dreadnought, sparked an arms race.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day he was shot.
A picture from the Christmas Truce of 1914.
After bombardment during the rising.
Collapse of German mark in June 19230 -
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Jamie Bulger being lead to his death.
^^ This picture breaks my heart. Pure innocence in the hands of evil. Probably thinking these boys are leading him back to his mother. Not knowing the most disgusting death lies ahead. Heartbreaking.
Do you remember this wee boy? One of the most high profile child kidnappings Ireland (well in my lifetime anyway). Never found. Some suggest his kidnapping was part of a paedophile ring involving members of the church and those in authority. We may never know the truth.
The photo of Philip Cairns that appeared on missing persons posters after his disappearance in 1986.
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Terrible act of vandalism.A shame and a great historical loss to Ireland.Bigdeadlydave wrote: »Heres one of Nelson after he was blown up....
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Might not have shook the world exactly, but it was certainly interesting when an untouched tribe was found in the Amazon in 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7426794.stm0 -
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Might not have shook the world exactly, but it was certainly interesting when an untouched tribe was found in the Amazon in 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7426794.stm
Sorry but that was found to be fake.
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/06/fake_uncontacted_amazon_tribe.php0
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