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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Ryan White was a 'poster child' for AIDS education in the 1980's after he become infected with HIV through a blood transfusion he received to treat his haemophilia.
He and his family suffered horrendous prejudice due to his illness, including shots being fired at his house and constant harassment/threats.
He gained fame in his fight to be allowed back in school, and was championed by many famous stars including Michael Jackson and Elton John. Michael Jackson's song 'Gone too soon' was inspired by Ryan.
Ryan's plight led to several pieces of key legislation being created which helps low-income AIDs/HIV victims, and the media attention greatly accelerated education regarding HIV/AIDs.
More on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6YOlJHjcXw
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White
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Pike River Mining Disater here in NZ
Tried to find something that could sum it up as a photo that shook the world, so close after the Chile mining incident and triumphant conclusion to that and the jubilation that brought. This on the other hand was the complete opposite.
This was the best I could find, as I feel its a very moving photo in its own way.
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June 26th, Cork, Ireland. JFKs motorcade
JFK is the only catholic president and the first irish american president which was probly the main reson for the visit.
not as earth shaking as the cuban missle crisis and his assasination.
(both of which have already been covered in this thread)
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Killing of AWB in 1994
Key Themes
1. Bophuthatswana coup d'état of 1994
2.AWB
(I hope this hasnt been covered already in this thread)Wikipedia wrote:Killing of Wolfaardt, Uys and Fourie
The single most publicised event of the coup was the killing of three wounded AWB members who were shot dead at point-blank range in front of journalists by a Bophuthatswana police constable, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe.
AWB Colonel Alwyn Wolfaardt, AWB General Nicolaas Fourie and Veldkornet (Field Cornet) Jacobus Stephanus Uys were driving a blue Mercedes at the end of a convoy of AWB vehicles, firing into a crowd of Bophuthatswanan civilians. Members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force returned fire and hit the driver of the car, Nicolaas Fourie, in the neck, another gunman, Alwyn Wolfaardt, in the arm and the remaining gunman, Jacobus Uys, in the leg. Wolfaardt got out of the car and waved a pistol but was advised by nearby journalists not to start shooting. A Bophuthatswana police officer relieved him of the weapon. Another policeman tried to fire on journalists but his rifle jammed and it was taken from him by yet another policeman. Menyatsoe approached and spoke to Wolfaardt, asking if he was a member of the AWB. Wolfaardt confirmed this, saying they came from Naboomspruit, and pleaded for his life and the lives of the other two wounded AWB members. Menyatsoe then shot the three wounded men dead at point blank range with an R4 rifle, saying "what are you doing in my country?". The shooting was captured by the watching journalists and broadcast worldwide.
.................................**Warning**
..........all photos/videos that follow contain Dead bodies
.....................(note to mods, please apply spoiler tags if you deem it appropriate)
video of the incident
this should be viewed to get an insight into the incident
skip to 3:30 for the back story of the incident
skip to 4:40 to get the main incident
(sorry about the watermark only version i could find)
ps. Ive come across a few more graphic photos i didnt post and quite a few racist sites, understandable as the AWB is In My Opinion (and that of most others) racially idelogic group.
also the photos are from various sources and i have tried to arrange them in chronological order, based on the video and location of the bodies. i also tried to avoid heavily wathermarked images, altough i could find no alternative to some
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Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, USAF, survived more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. He steps off the plane, and hesitates. His wife, Loretta Stirm and their children Lori, 15, Robert, 14, Cynthia, 13, and Roger, 12, all rush forward to greet him.
You are a khaki coloured bombardier, it's Hiroshima that you're nearing.
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thats the thing about this thread, you never really know whats been done before, Malboro Man Fallujah and Columbine have definetly been done before, and i assume so has Mumbai.
I enjoy looking these stories up. Its just hard to find stories which havn't been posted 6 or 7 times before.
Mumbai Terror AttacksWhat's the 3rd one about?
Wikipedia on it
Ajmal Kasab and one more attacker at the station
After the attack on the train station where more than 50 were shot
Bodies at the station
(again about bodies, Mods please convert to links etc... if you deem necessary, I find no point however in skipinging over he loss of life)
Bombing of taxis
Oberoi Trident Hotel burning
Infograph on the hotel
Police on the streets
Police,
Notice the bolt action lee enfield rifles compared to the AK 47s brandished by the terrorists. poice and army also had modern
weapons, mp5s, modern rifles etc... but i found that point interesting
Terrorists
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One of the iconic photographs in Sport.
Ben Hogan's 1-iron at Merion. Coming 16 months after a near-fatal car crash.
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014232.html0 -
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1982 has been mentioned before, but this one wasn't posted that I can find.
Photos of HMS Sheffield burning and sinking brought the world into the realisation that there really was a war going on in the South Atlantic, and it wasn't going to be pleasant.
Though the event happened after ARA General Belgrano's sinking, the photos of Sheffield reached the world first. Plus, prior to that, there was a sentiment that the British Empire were beating up on a poor, relatively defenceless, two-bit banana military.
On other matters...
A new dawn of warfare. "Mother", the Tank, Mk1.
Halabja
Srebenica. An embarassment of the West.
Bamiyan
I always found it amazing how 10 people were able to bring a city with a population of 13,830,884 (from Wikipedia) to its knees essentially.
A recent court case in California had the judge musing on the fact that for all the problems inherent with the American right to bear arms, in the event of a Mumbai-style assault, the people would at least have a fighting chance and the damage would be more contained.
[Edit. Found it. Judge Gould in Nordyke vs King.We recently saw in the case of the terrorist attack on Mumbai that terrorists may enter a country covertly by ocean routes, landing in small craft and then assembling to wreak havoc. That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived.
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I can't believe I got through the whole thread! I don't think I can run off now without making my own contribution;
Is it just me or did he seem so much bigger at the time?
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
With all the footie photos here I can't believe this didn't make it. 
Section of the LHC, it shook the world when some ejits got a bit liberal with the term probability in relation to black holes.
All the above came from here, theres way more if you care to take a look, some have already been posted.
"Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010." 0 -
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Battle of the Bulge
it certainly shocked the allies and was the last big offensive of the germans in the west.
Poteau Ambush
on December 18, 1944 the 14th US Cavalry Group, was ambushed by Kampfgruppe Hansen.
the photos and films that follow were captured by the americans from a Waffen-SS war correspondent. the shots were posed for after the ambush, but seem to have been just hours after.
a US newsreel
this is from the time and not a modern documentery.
3:45 to 4.35 is the ambush
Poteau Ambush
Another film from after the ambush
Aerial shot of the ambush
Numbers correspond to the following images
1. the standing soldier is wearing a captured US coat
2.A famous shot, he can be seen in the third video above also
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4. same soldier as image 2, notice also the captured pistol
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6. sodier on the right has a captured m1 carbine, seen again below
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8. burning jeeps
Cameraman filming
Captured Rifle m1 carbine
Smoking
Another famous shot of the ambush
Resting
Jagdpanzer IV
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Didn't shake the world, but changed our understanding of our place in the universe forever.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Every spec of light you see is an entire galaxy!!
All of this in an area not bigger than the size of your palm on your outstretched arm covering the sky.0 -
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