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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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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.
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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
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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 -
^^ 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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It was a truly horrible thing that happened with the Cairns boy, but I don't think Paedophiles in the Church needed to kidnap kids, they had plenty access to children and the church/politicians/gardai there to cover it all up, why bother kidnapping some kid and making it all high profile?0 -
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1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.
The pope after being shot.
Seal clubbing.(yes thats a screwdriver)
Josef Fritzel
Famine in Africa.
Iraqi kid.
Pregnant at 5 years old.Peru 1933
Operating on a baby inside the whom at 21 weeks.(abortion is still legal up to 24weeks,in uk)
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Sorry but that was found to be fake.
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/06/fake_uncontacted_amazon_tribe.php
If it were a hoax, then at least we're aware of logging dangers
alabamawhurley wrote: »Whats the story of the 5 year old pregnant girl above ^?
Is that even possible? :eek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
I was shocked reading her story, it's very rare but some children can hit puberty very early :eek:0 -
Don't think this one has been posted up yet either...
"Take a good look at this picture. It's one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The tiny hand of a foetus reaches out from a mother's womb to clasp a surgeon's healing finger. It is, by the way, 21 weeks old, an age at which it could still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the picture above belongs to a baby which is due to be born on December 28."
Picture is real but the write up is wrong, the baby was sedated so no reaching out and grabbing.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/thehand.asp
One that I saw recently (although it's old) is this of a human embryo's face at 5 weeks, you probably wouldn't even know you were pregnant at this stage. The big slit is forming the mouth and the rest is forming the nostrils and eyes:
I also like this one of a Foetus' leg at 16 weeks:
And this hairy fecker at 20 weeks, he'll eat all that hair before he's born.
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Corporal Derek wood as he tries to escape the crowd baying for his blood
Both he and his collegue were beaten then executed by the IRA aftering attending the cortege of an IRA funeral.
The vicar preforms the last rites
History behind it
At Gibralter Daniel McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell were shot dead by the SAS on the 6th March 1988. They were members of an active service unit of the IRA, but had been unarmed at the time of the killing.
At their funeral on 16th March 1988 in Milltown cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast, Michael Stone, armed with two handguns and hand grenades attacked the crowd as the coffins were being lowered into the ground.Michael Stone killed three people that day, and injured over 60.
IRA Volunteer Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh was one of the three killed at Milltown as he tried to disarm Stone.
At his funeral, two british army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, drove into the cortege. David Howes and Derek Wood were driving in a silver Volkswagen Passat car wearing civilian clothes. The O'Bradaigh funeral was making its way along the Andersonstown Road towards Milltown Cemetery when the car containing the two corporals appeared. The car headed straight towards the front of the funeral, which was headed by a number of black taxis. It drove past a Sinn Féin steward who signalled it to turn. Mourners at the funeral said they believed they were under attack from loyalists. The car then mounted a pavement, scattering mourners and turning into a small side road. On finding that this road was blocked, it then reversed at speed, ending up within the funeral cortège. When the driver attempted to extricate the car from the cortège his exit route was blocked by a black taxi.When the car was surrounded and the windows smashed, those surrounding attempted to drag the soldiers out. One of the corporals produced a weapon, which off-duty members of the security forces were permitted to carry at the time. Corporal Wood climbed part of the way out of a window, firing a shot in the air which briefly scattered the crowd. Television pictures showed the crowd surging back, with some of them attacking the vehicle with a wheel-brace and a stepladder snatched from a photographer. The corporals were eventually pulled from the car and punched and kicked to the ground.
Journalist Mary Holland recalled seeing one of the men being dragged past a group of journalists: "He didn't cry out, just looked at us with terrified eyes, as though we were all enemies in a foreign country who wouldn't have understood what language he was speaking if he called out for help."They were dragged to the nearby Casement Park sports ground. Here they were again beaten and stripped to their underpants and socks by a small group of men. According to two British news sources, the men were tortured. A search revealed that the men were British Army soldiers. The corporals were further beaten and thrown over a high wall to be put into a waiting black taxi. It was driven off at speed, while camera crews captured one of its passengers waving a fist in the air
Shortly after, the IRA released a statement at the time which concluded: "Despite media reports, we are satisfied that at no time did our Volunteers physically attack the soldiers. Once we confirmed who they were, they were immediately executed. But we understand why a section of the mourners attacked them and given what happened in Milltown Cemetery on Wednesday, these people acted with exactly the same motive as those who were commended for pursuing loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone".
The two men were driven less than 200 yards to waste ground near Penny Lane, just off the main Andersonstown Road. There they were shot several times. Corporal Wood was shot six times, twice in the head and four times in the chest. He was also stabbed four times in the back of the neck and had multiple injuries to other parts of his body.
Redemptoristpriest Father Alec Reid, who later played a significant part in the peace process leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, arrived on the scene. One of the most enduring pictures of The Troubles shows him kneeling beside the almost naked body of Derek Wood, his face distraught as he administered the last rites.
The incidence was photographed and caught on camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyyHtudZBVU
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1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.
Famine in Africa.
*removed due to second thoughts and not wanting to lower the tone of a great thread*
Still angry though
These pictures make me sick, those poor, poor people. I can't even imagine what that's like. 0 -
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Don't think this one has been posted up yet either...
"Take a good look at this picture. It's one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The tiny hand of a foetus reaches out from a mother's womb to clasp a surgeon's healing finger. It is, by the way, 21 weeks old, an age at which it could still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the picture above belongs to a baby which is due to be born on December 28."
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My god, 17 year old male and that really got me
17 year old males are allowed have emotions too tis some picture alright.
The V2 rocket being launced.
The worlds first fully operational jet fighter, Germany's ME262.
The Shroud of Turin.......yes, it was a photo which really revealed the image on the cloth and one which I'd imagine did a fair bit of world shaking and still does
The image on the shroud is much clearer in black-and-white negative than in its natural sepia color. The striking negative image was first observed on the evening of May 28, 1898, on the reverse photographic plate of amateur photographer Secondo Pia, who was allowed to photograph it while it was being exhibited in the Turin Cathedral.0 -
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Not sure if this one shook the world (a LOT of pictures on here did not SHAKE the world) but this one certainly turned a few heads. Hitler without a moustache - I think the point of this was to de-caricaturise Hitler
Careful Morlar, people might think there is a bit of a theme going on here between your images and mine......:p and jesus stuck in the middle of it all!
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Spiderman80884 wrote: »Not sure if I missed this or that it's been posted already, but I absolutely LOVE the irony in this picture!
Could be wrong but I thought that picture was from a protest against an Orange order parade through dublin ???
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The revisionism surrounding this picture is sickening. The image does tell the whole story. It's a murdering fascist bastard doing what murdering fascist bastards do. The fact that the photographer subsequently turned out to be a right-wing imperialist nutjob with a hard-on for war crimes changes nothing.
Vietcong "Revenge Squad Captain" being executed by officer. Photo doesnt tell you that the man being shot had executed dozens of unarmed civilians that morning.
Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this in the late 60's0 -
One of the most remarkable Christmas-es happened not far from here. In the First Worldwar trenches near Ypres (Ieper) in West-Flanders, where warring troops had dug themselves in. With water often coming up to their waist, dug in mud and cold, the first Christmas of the War of the Trenches, was to be nothing but misery. Until a small miracle happened.
Both British and German warring parties, shooting to kill a few hours before, but softened by memories of loved ones, later met in no-men's land. It was one of the rare truces in a vicious war as can seen from a letter by Rifleman Graham Williams:."I was standing on the firestep, gazing out towards the German line and thinking what a very different sort of Christmas Eve this was from any I had experienced in the past...
There had been no shooting from either side since the sniper's shot that morning, which had killed a very popular young soldier in our company named Bassingham. But this was not at all unusual.
Then suddenly, lights began to appear along the German parapet, which were evidently Christmas trees, adorned with lighted candles, which burnt steadily in the still frosty air! Other sentries had, of course, seen the same thing, and quickly awoke those on duty, asleep in the shelters, to "come and see this thing, which had come to pass". Then our opponents began to sing "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht".
This was actually the first time I heard this carol, which was not then so popular in this country as it has since become. They finished their carol and we thought that we ought to retaliate in some way, so we sang "The First Nowell".
And when we finished, they all began clapping; and then they struck up another favourite of theirs "O Tannenbaum". And so it went on. First the Germans would sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until we started up "O Come All Ye Faithful" the Germans immediately joined in singing the same hymn to the Latin words "Adeste Fidelis".
And I thought, well, this is really a most extraordinary thing - two nations both singing the same carol in the middle of a war."
GERMANS ASK FOR TIPPERARY
And as I stood in wonder a rousing song came over to us – The Watch on the Rhine. Our boys answered with a cheer, while a neighbouring regiment sang lustily the National Anthem. Some were for shooting the lights away, but almost at the first shot there came a shout in really good English: “Stop shooting!”. Then began a series of answering shouts from trench to trench. It was incredible. “Halloo! Halloo! you English; we wish to speak.” And everyone began to speak at once. Some were rational, others the reverse to complimentary. Eventually some sort of order obtained, and lo! A party of our men got out from the trenches and invited the Germans to meet them half-way and talk. And there in the searchlight they stood, Englishman and German, chatting and smoking cigarettes together midway between the lines. A rousing cheer went up from a friend and foe alike. The group was too far away for me to hear what was said, but presently we heard a cheery “Good-night.” A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all,” with which the parties returned to their respective trenches. After this we remained the whole night through singing with the enemy song for song. “Give us Tipperary”, they cried. Whereupon an adjacent Irish regiment let loose a tremendous “whoop,” and complied with the request in a way as only Irishmen can.
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Picture above (from wikipedia) of a cross, left near Ypres in Belgium in 1999, to commemorate the site of the Christmas Truce in 1914. The text reads "1914, The Khaki Chum's Christmas Truce, 1999, 85 Years, Lest We Forget".
This is one instance from an event that shook the world. One of the few bits on sanity and humanity in an otherwise insane war.
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Isreal, 2000
The existence of the Israeli nuclear program is officially denied by the Israeli government for fear of mandatory U.S. trade and diplomatic sanctions that would be imposed if proof of the program were to become public. Israel has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the U.S. officially turns a blind eye to Israels weapons-of-mass-destruction -WMD- program. The release of this IKONOS image of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona caused some embarrassment for both Israel and the U.S. The reactor is in the lower left of this image.
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