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

Standard Toaster · 10-09-2010 5:11am

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.

Standard Toaster · 10-09-2010 10:43am

http://weburbanist.com/pics/9-11-tribute-128-photos/

Some more amazing photos (124) from 9 years ago.....9 years...wow.

dr.bollocko · 10-09-2010 1:47pm

Folks take the CT stuff to the conspiracy theory forum. This is a thread about photos that shook the world.

lilminx · 11-09-2010 1:12am

Started looking at this thread a long time ago, but only now have actually gone through all 77 pages. I have sobbed looking at some of these photos (photoseries on young boy with cancer, young girl taken from Oklahoma bomb blast were two that stick in my memory) and am grateful to all posters who put them on here. The interspersed lighthearted photos made me smile, that one of the boy being held aloft by rescuers after Haiti earthquake made my heart soar and that is the image I chose to keep with me as I log out tonight.

The best thread I have ever taken the time to go through but probably the most harrowing number of hours I have been through in a long time. Humanity baffles me at the best of times, but this just makes me question what is meant by humanity at all.

The Highwayman · 11-09-2010 5:33pm

first transatlantic flight

I have a dream

Nazi's march into Paris

Liberation of paris

Jackie and RFK

Rwanda

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Drumcree

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Holy Cross Girls' Primary School

Drought

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Live Aid

For the day thats in it

chin_grin · 13-09-2010 1:46pm

This pic has p*ssed me off for years. It's a perfect example of when "art" overtakes basic human nature.

Didn't know yer man killed himself. Very sad.

phill106 · 13-09-2010 3:51pm

chin_grin wrote: »

This pic has p*ssed me off for years. It's a perfect example of when "art" overtakes basic human nature.

Didn't know yer man killed himself. Very sad.

Yes, why didnt get just help the child?
I suppose his thinking was he cant help everyone, but by god he could have helped her.

gungun · 13-09-2010 4:17pm

I presume he took the picture to show the rest of the world how bad it is over there. He most likely helped out after he took this picture. This discussion has been held quite a bit in this tread methinks.

TangyZizzle · 13-09-2010 4:34pm

Yup, over and over. He took around an hour just to take that shot apparently.

greendragon3 · 13-09-2010 8:41pm

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]

The_Kew_Tour · 15-09-2010 12:05am

Photo of raids in Gaza strip. Imagine the terror these people had at that moment

Access · 15-09-2010 9:42pm

Ollchailin wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ6-bYixpYE

This didn't shake the world, but it certainly changed a lot in this country- I will never ever forget this day. I think it showed Ireland in a different light to the world- not just because of the political tones, but also that such a small country could create such an amazing sprts grounds.

It remains a touchy subject for many people- but my family has been involved with the GAA for all my life & I just cried with pride this day. I was so nervous that something would go wrong, but it didn't. It was such a fantastic day. I actually have tears in my eyes even thinking about it now. I know it's nowhere near as jaw-dropping or as historically significant as most of the other posts here, but it was still an unbelievable event.

By the way, as has been said before- AMAZING thread. Been going through what I thought was a lot of crap lately, and have now decided that I actually have no idea what it is to suffer

I gotta admit, i think that this was one of Irelands proudest days and i do admit i cried watching this on the day. It was just fantastic to forget about troubles and watch something amazing happen in our lives. I would put it on par with Obama's inaugural speech.

Clanket · 16-09-2010 12:25pm

Access wrote: »

I gotta admit, i think that this was one of Irelands proudest days and i do admit i cried watching this on the day. It was just fantastic to forget about troubles and watch something amazing happen in our lives. I would put it on par with Obama's inaugural speech.

I still get goosebumps when I watch that match. And teary eyed. Every single player that day was immense. No way they were getting beaten by the English in their first visit to Croker since bloody Sunday.

And for me, it's way way way above Obama's inaugural speech.

karma_ · 16-09-2010 7:24pm

Photo of the remnants of two billion years old nuclear reactors which were found in Africa.

more info:

A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where analysis of isotope ratios has shown that self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. The existence of this phenomenon was discovered in 1972 at Oklo in Gabon, Africa by French physicist Francis Perrin. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor could exist had been predicted in 1956 by Paul Kuroda.[1] The conditions found were very similar to what was predicted.
Oklo is the only known location for this in the world and consists of sixteen sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions took place approximately 2 billion years ago, and ran for a few hundred thousand years, averaging 100 kW of energy output during that time

The Highwayman · 16-09-2010 7:34pm

Huh?

Armin_Tamzarian · 16-09-2010 7:39pm

The Highwayman wrote: »

Huh?

It relates to a naturally occurring "nuclear reactor".

Earthhorse · 16-09-2010 7:45pm

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

It relates to a naturally occurring "nuclear reactor".

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Huh?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 16-09-2010 7:48pm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancient-nuclear-reactor

had to google this myself.. mad stuff

artanevilla · 17-09-2010 4:58am

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancient-nuclear-reactor

had to google this myself.. mad stuff

Now I may have jumped to a conclusion here, but the French lads discovery came from Gabon, the one above came from South Africa. Isn't modern man supposed to come from Africa? Is the missing link a nuclear reaction created mutation of an ape?

cyrusdvirus · 17-09-2010 10:39am

Nope..... Didn't the survivors of the colonies predominately settle around Africa when they finally got to earth?

Then Anders took Galactica and the rest of the Fleet into the sun...maybe some sneaky crafty colonials took a reactor or 2 with them....

karma_ · 17-09-2010 12:42pm

artanevilla wrote: »

Now I may have jumped to a conclusion here, but the French lads discovery came from Gabon, the one above came from South Africa. Isn't modern man supposed to come from Africa? Is the missing link a nuclear reaction created mutation of an ape?

In the science fiction novel Bridge of Ashes, by Roger Zelazny, the Gabon mine was stated to have been created by an alien race for the purpose of causing mutations which ultimately led to the existence of humans

Sounds like an interesting book.

netnerd · 17-09-2010 4:16pm

Tollund Man

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17-09-2010 4:20pm

netnerd wrote: »

Tollund Man

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GElvTL9F_1Q/S-WR-m9iVZI/AAAAAAAAAS4/JOhvP4QFqhE/s1600/tollund+man+head.jpg

The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.[1] He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is known as a bog body.[2] The head and face were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the time of discovery for a recent murder victim

From Wikipedia. Jeez, that's sorta creepy.

netnerd · 17-09-2010 4:40pm

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team and their friends and family and associates that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. The last of the 16 survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash, and several more quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the twenty-nine who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage.

The group survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. This decision was not taken lightly, as most were classmates or close friends

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 17-09-2010 11:10pm

Deleted User wrote: »

From Wikipedia. Jeez, that's sorta creepy.

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/the_tollund_man.php

questioner · 18-09-2010 12:02pm

http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/

bigben121 · 18-09-2010 2:18pm

questioner wrote: »

http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/

18-09-2010 2:39pm

questioner wrote: »

http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/

That was beautiful. Have tears in my eyes.

questioner · 18-09-2010 3:24pm

yeah it was very moving, took a lot of courage to allow a photographer to document it.

we read and hear so much about cancer that it becomes hard to visualise the impact on ordinary lives it has.

Faith+1 · 20-09-2010 12:50am

questioner wrote: »

http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/

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