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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Here's a couple that I'd argue are historically significant though I'm not sure whether could be defined as photos that "shook the world":
1. The Zodiac Killer wrote this on the car of one of his victims. Cecelia Shepard, age 22, was stabbed 10 times, five in the front and five in the back. Bryan Hartnell, age 20, was stabbed six times in the back but survived.The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. The Zodiac killer's identity remains unknown. The Zodiac killer coined the name "Zodiac" in a series of taunting letters sent to the local Bay Area press. These letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers), three of which have yet to be solved. The Zodiac murdered victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women, between the ages of 16 and 29, were targeted.
2.The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the "Battle of Stepney", was a notorious gunfight in London's East End in 1911. It ended with the deaths of two members of a politically-motivated gang of burglars supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a.k.a. "Peter the Painter", and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
3.Robert "Budd" Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician from the state of Pennsylvania. On the morning of January 22, 1987, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver during a televised press conference at his office in Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania.
4.Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region, after reportedly whistling at a white woman ... Till's mother insisted on a public funeral service, with an open casket so as to show the world the brutality of the killing:[2] Till had been beaten and an eye gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.
5.The "Million Dollar Quartet" is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.
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Tens of thousands of dolphins are killed each year in a sea side town called Taiji in Japan. Some of the captured dolphins are being sold off to water world type parks to do dolphin displays around the world, the rest (including the baby dolphins) are slaughtered infront of each other for their meat, which is being put into school childrens compulsory canteen food.0 -
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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.
I guess because animals can't reach out and ask for help, they don't know what is dangerous and sometimes they can't avoid it either way.
i thought this thread was about photo's that shook the world...???
That photo is of the victims of the worst car crash in Irelands history. The 8th person is not included for some reason.
That photo was reported around various parts of the world.0 -
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The 44th president of the US.
The Hollywood Blockbuster Explosion the never was..... Nissan Patrol laden with explosives that failed to detonate in Times square earlier this year.
CERN`s Large Hadron Collider discovers the elusive Higgs Boson....
Civil war in Liberia........
A state sanctioned fatwa against a British fiction novellist shook the world after Salman Rushdie wrote the Satanic verses.......
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checkyabadself wrote: »CERN`s Large Hadron Collider discovers the elusive Higgs Boson....
The Higgs bosun hasn't been found, by CERN or anyone else.0 -
checkyabadself wrote: »...CERN`s Large Hadron Collider discovers the elusive Higgs Boson.......
The photo is a simulation of what the decay of a Higgs Boson particle would look like. The Higgs Boson hasn't been found yet.0 -
Just thought I would Share these personal pictures of my great grandfather and the circumstances of his death! A Real Irish Hero!
My Great Grandfather Frederick Kenny he is the 4th from the left with the second x over his head. This Picture was Taken in Killonan Easter 1916. If you look at the guns I think that they were just for training purposes and just basically carved from wood.
This next one is the circumstances of his death
What I was told is that he was shot while raiding a barracks they had set fire to it and some of the volunteers were trapped inside the barracks after he had been shot. He carried another volunteer from the barracks to a safe house. The guy he saved not sure of the name actually lived to his 80's and his face was scared from the burns fire.
Now this next one is the and armband that he wore in his coffin and the flag that was placed on top of it.
Sorry if i posted this in the wrong spot! Just thought some of you would find this an interesting story!0 -
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BlandKitten wrote: »
A video of a similar event
This story really gets to me everytime. It's no wonder they call dogs 'mans best friend'...
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9/11 themed photo reel
First plane to hit WTC - Flight 11
Flight 175 crashes into WTC Tower 2 @590mph approx
GW Bush, during a school visit, is advised by Chief of Staff Andrew Card, on live TV, that "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
Flight 77 crashing into Pentagon from nearby cctv
Photograph of bodies found inside the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building.
Photograph taken on September 11, 2001, of a human body part located at the intersection of Albany and West Streets in Manhattan.
Photo of Fireman Danny Suhr
He was struck and killed by a falling body outside the south tower of the World Trade Center
After the first crash, the debris, plane parts and body parts were all over the area. Around the corner from this location, I saw an arm... It didn't occur to me how stupid it might be to walk toward the Towers at this moment. I got hit by some falling metal debris on the leg - luckily, only a slight burn (which I didn't realize I had until about midnight that night - goes to show I was running on adrenaline all day).
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Fr. Mychal Judge - first recorded victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
When the south tower collapsed at 9:59 AM, debris went flying through the north tower lobby, killing many inside, including Judge. At the moment he was struck in the head and killed, Judge was repeatedly praying aloud, "Jesus, please end this right now! God please end this!", according to Judge biographer and New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly. Shortly after his death, firefighters found Judge's body and carried it out of the north lobby. This event was captured in the documentary film 9/11, shot by Jules and Gedeon Naudet. Shannon Stapleton, photographer from Reuters, photographed Judge's body being carried out of the rubble by five men. It became one of the most famous images related to 9/11. The Philadelphia Weekly reports the photograph being called an American Pietà.
Flight 93 crater in a field in Pennsylvania.
Headlines
'The Falling Man'
Five years after the horror of September 9, 2001, the falling man has finally been identified as Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old who worked in a restaurant at the top of the north tower. Over the years, his family has always assumed he perished in the building. Now, learning he had jumped is almost too much to bear.0 -
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phew what a thread ! ive spent most of today going through all of the posts on here , unreal . anyway here is my tiny contrabution , a picture of my dad taken from the evening independant august 1979 after the bombing of lord mountbatten in mullaghmore co.sligo
[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Sligo Hospital driver Terry Baker (Right) carries an injured Timothy Knatchbull to the ambulance on August 27, 1979. Seeing his father John Brabourne being carried towards him on a stretcher, Timothy fainted instantly. Ironically, the bomb-damaged eye of Timothy was treated by a doctor from Northern Ireland in 2006. (Courtesy: Pacemaker Press International)[/FONT][/FONT]0 -
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