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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Strange how there's dozens of photos of humans dying in unfortunate and tragic circumstances here, but pictures of a few birds dying gets a much more emotive response.

    Ye I noticed that too. Not sure what it means TBH.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This pic certainly changed the world ;)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    ^^^ Explanation?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Hogzy wrote: »
    ^^^ Explanation?

    That's a screenshot of the first HTML browser showing the first website, Tim Berners-Lee's CERN website.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Trivia time

    ^^^ Ran on a NeXT Computer, a mighty fine machine for it's time. (Doom was written on them too)
    I'd love to own one.

    Apple's Steve Jobs founded NeXT too btw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    bradford_fire1.jpg

    VP3a.jpg

    bradford_fire_dude_on_fire.jpg

    An absolute tragedy. It's scary just how quick it took hold. God bless everyone that lost their lives.

    Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire


    The emotion in John Motson's voice sums it up.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Everytime I want to go on an emotional rollercoaster I come back to this thread. It is without doubt the best thread that I have ever seen on any forum. I have learned so much from it .

    Thank you all that have contributed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 CorkBoyLike


    fab thread :0) ta all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    The tragic death of Princess Diana

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    An end of an era

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    Babe Ruth's final public apperance waving goodbye to the Yankee fans, on the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium (the House that Ruth built) and having his no3 jersey retired. Ruth died 2 months later.
    I'm moved each time I see it because it has great feeling--a man returning to the scene of his greatest successes, saying goodbye for the final time. The way triumph and sadness, pride and humility are one in this photograph give it a meaning that goes far beyond the story it tells as a newspaper illustration.

    http://www.mikepalmer.info/Nat-Fein-Babe-Ruth's-Farewell.html


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  • Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭LimerickCity


    For anyone interested in this sort of thing there is an excellent book (which i have since the turn of the century). It contains thousands of pictures.

    Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999

    http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_424575959_294834_klaus-lehnartz.jpg
    East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping over the Berlin Wall. Leibing’s photograph of the 19-year-old East German border guard throwing away his rifle as he hurled over barbed wire on his way into West Berlin was taken on August 15, 1961, two days after East Germany sealed off its border with the wall.

    Khmer Rouge

    http://losvanguardistas.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/khmer-rouge1.jpg

    Allen Lee Davis before and after execution,the judge allowed these pictures to be published after banning the use of the electric chair in Florida.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Allen_Lee_Davis.jpg/180px-Allen_Lee_Davis.jpg
    http://www.counterpunch.org/davis3.jpg
    http://www.oranous.com/florida/AllenLeeDavis/95973c.jpg
    http://www.oranous.com/florida/AllenLeeDavis/95973b.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    'kin hell


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
    They're pretty fcuked up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
    They're pretty fcuked up.

    Fook him - he desreved it!

    As for the Khmer Rouge pic - Asian people look so nice and innocent as a race until you see pics like that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    Those electric chair photos shocked me more than anything else on here!

    I know these people have done horrible things,but these pictures just made me think about how brutal and bizzare the electric chair is..:/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
    They're pretty fcuked up.

    There's a warning in the thread title to be fair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Asian people look so nice and innocent as a race until you see pics like that!

    As opposed to every other race that never done nothing to nobody.

    gerawayouddadat.


  • Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭LimerickCity


    eoin wrote: »
    There's a warning in the thread title to be fair.

    Exactly


  • Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭LimerickCity


    Who could forget this.

    oj_simpson_glove.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Cookie33


    Who could forget this.

    oj_simpson_glove.jpg

    It's been posted I think but I don't really know the signifiance (maybe too young)
    Do you have a website for further information please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

    OJ Simpson,sure you've heard of him,or at least heard family guy/simpsons etc. taking the piss!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    Cookie33 wrote: »
    It's been posted I think but I don't really know the signifiance (maybe too young)
    Do you have a website for further information please?
    Oh god i'm so old!


  • Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Cookie33


    storm2811 wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

    OJ Simpson,sure you've heard of him,or at least heard family guy/simpsons etc. taking the piss!


    thank you!! yep heard of OJ Simpson but never knew what he looked like


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭casio4


    storm2811 wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case

    OJ Simpson,sure you've heard of him,or at least heard family guy/simpsons etc. taking the piss!
    that makes me feel old


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  • Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭LimerickCity


    Not sure why this has not appeared thus far. Caused a big stir at the time and finished the industry as it was know.

    Hindenburg.JPG


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


    "Explosion blamed on this guy"

    WUT?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Not sure why this has not appeared thus far. Caused a big stir at the time and finished the industry as it was know.

    Hindenburg.JPG

    Oh the luminosity!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭casio4


    150px-Madeleine_close2.jpg
    Madeline McCann disappeared on the 3rd of May 2007, while with her parents & twin siblings in Portugal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Fozzie Bear


    Cookie33 wrote: »
    thank you!! yep heard of OJ Simpson but never knew what he looked like

    Ah jaysus Cookie!

    I'm so old. I'm off to inject my face full of botox.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭DailyBlaa


    Queen at Live Aid, this image always stuck with me after watching it on TV
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    A lone polar bear
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    Gerry Conlon
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    Where did it all go wrong?
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  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭barryfitz


    Dont think this has come up before here. but it certainly shook the crap out of me....

    Americans blow away Reuters Journalists.

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    http://wilfinley.com/2010/04/06/wikileaks-video-journalists-killed-in-us-attack-dubious-military-rationale/

    NOTE: Very Graphic video in the link above.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    casio4 wrote: »
    150px-Madeleine_close2.jpg
    Madeline McCann disappeared on the 3rd of May 2007, while with her parents & twin siblings in Portugal

    FYP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭paddycam


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    Whats in the bag lads? haha


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭casio4


    FYP
    well spotted, I should have read it back before posting. How right you are for, the few words I posted how did I not cop the most important part of her disappearance was the lack of her parents around


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭inmyday


    how did that photo^^^^^ shock the world???... i think you meant to post in the "you laugh you lose" thread....

    alot of the latest posts in this thread are usless, and they are ruining an amazing thread.... i hope one of the mods cleans it up, and deletes rubbish posts(incl mine) and rubbish pics....

    the best thread on boards.ie
    dont ruin it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Tessmccon


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    Haiti Earthquake


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Tessmccon wrote: »

    Haiti Earthquake

    Now that really did shake the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    that polar bear a few posts earlier is clearly photoshopped.there is a famous similar image though of a polar bear on a single slab of ice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 iChatz


    Now that really did shake the world.

    Clever :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Genrikh Yagoda


    I always that this photo was kinda surreal

    fascist_headquarters_-_1934.jpg

    Fascist headquarters in Italy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    ^^It's like how I picture big brother from 1984


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    ^^It's like how I picture big brother from 1984


    Was thinking the same thing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Todd Brownings 1932 movie entitled Freaks caused huge controversy when it was released as he used real life side show performers and "freaks" in the movie.It was banned for many years.

    browning_and_freaks_6.jpg
    freaks-pic.jpg
    freaks.jpg

    The use of Thalidomide in the late 50s/early 60s caused severe birth defects in children whose mothers had taken it whilst pregnant.

    Some of these images are quite upsetting so havnt linked them.
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    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    nedtheshed wrote: »
    Todd Brownings 1932 movie entitled Freaks caused huge controversy when it was released as he used real life side show performers and "freaks" in the movie.It was banned for many years.

    For a moment I thought I was viewing the ' Know your nerds - posts with pictures only. NO CHAT EVEN WITH A PICTURE' thread :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Delphi91


    I always that this photo was kinda surreal

    fascist_headquarters_-_1934.jpg

    Fascist headquarters in Italy.


    Good god, it's Kryten from Red Dwarf!! 1125679-kryten_super.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


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    Rahela Akhter, a garment worker, tries to resist beating from the police during a protest in Dhaka. More than 80 Bangladeshis were wounded on Wednesday in clashes with police sparked by the arrest of three politicians, charged with offences ranging from murder to insulting Islam, and demands by textile workers for a pay rise.

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    A photo taken from the Rio Largos floods in Brazil this week where a young girl watches her house burning from damage done as a result of the floods.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Cookie33 wrote: »
    thank you!! yep heard of OJ Simpson but never knew what he looked like



    you've never seen The Naked Gun?! :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Cookie33


    krudler wrote: »
    you've never seen The Naked Gun?! :eek:

    Heard of it but never seen it.. I must check it out then lol


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  • Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭Wudyaquit


    Photos of white phosphorous bombs. Look quite nice from a distance - a bit like a jellyfish. They're regulated by international humanitarian law but in this case used by the Israeli army over a UN school where civilians were seeking refuge and in the same week over a crowded Palestinian refugee camp.

    Worth a google for the effects if someone's hit, but I didn't post in case people had just eaten.

    wp-gaza-2009-image01.jpg

    phos.jpg


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