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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Perhaps not shaking the world but a very poignant picture of a homeless man and his loyal dog.
edit: on a different computer I can't see the image so just to be sure to be sure here's the link
http://i.imgur.com/E4Wme.jpg
and the same image reposted
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Protester ran 50m before collapsing in flames outside Indian Parliament
Over 30 have performed self-immolation this year in protest at China's rule over Tibet ..
A Tibetan protester has been treated for severe burns after setting himself on fire in a demonstration before the Chinese president's visit to India.
The male protester sprinted for 50m through New Delhi today engulfed in flames as hundreds demonstrated against China's rule over Tibet.
Jamphel Yeshi carried out the self-immolation as he ran near the speakers at a rally near the Indian Parliament in the country's capital.
The Tibetan sustained burns on 98 per cent of his body and his condition in hospital was described as critical today.
He was on fire perhaps less than two minutes, but some of his clothing had disintegrated and his skin was mottled with black, burned patches by the time he was driven to a hospital.
Yeshi, 27, escaped from Tibet in 2006 and had been living in New Delhi for the past two years, activists said.
He collapsed after around 50m as fellow protesters beat out the flames with Tibetan flags they were carrying.
Yeshi was later treated for severe burns at a New Delhi hopital, one Tibetan organiser said.
He made the dramatic protest as Chinese President Hu Jintao prepared to arrive in India later this week for a summit meeting.
More than 600 protesters, carrying banners and posters, marched across New Delhi to a central plaza near the Indian Parliament to hold a protest meeting.
The Tibetan protest came as Chinese president Hu Jintao prepared to visit New Delhi for a summit meeting.
Some carried posters saying 'Tibet is burning' and 'Tibet is not part of China'.
At the protest venue a big poster featuring Mr Hu's face with a bloody palm print on it said: 'Hu Jin Tao is unwelcome' at the summit.
As speakers addressed the crowd, the protester set himself ablaze and ran across the venue.
After witnessing the man set himself on fire, one onlooker, Tenzin Dorjee, said: 'This is what China faces unless they give freedom to Tibet.'
At least 30 people in Tibet have set themselves on fire over the past year in protest at Chinese rule over their homeland.
The Dalai Lama has blamed China's 'ruthless policy' for the self-immolations. China accuses the Dalai Lama of stirring up trouble.
China says Tibet has always been part of its territory. Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries.
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Orville Wright makes the first ever manned flight. December 17 1903
Despite the success of this flight it took 5 years before anyone acknowledged the achievement. So on second thought, maybe it didn't shake the world. Good photo though.0 -
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Blisterman wrote: »Orville Wright makes the first ever manned flight. December 17 1903
Despite the success of this flight it took 5 years before anyone acknowledged the achievement. So on second thought, maybe it didn't shake the world. Good photo though.
This was actually the FIRST MANNED FLIGHT..
Some 70 years before the Wrights powered flight.
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The Trinity Test. The first atomic explosion.
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The remains of this Laysan Albatross chick show the plastic ingested before death, including a bottle cap and lighter.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Laysan_albatross_chick_remains.jpgMitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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The amount of ****e spouted about football at times is crazy, and I probably stir with the best of them.
But 23 years ago, 96 football supporters died at a football match. Was reading a quote from John Aldridge this morning about his visit to a 14 year old boy who was in a coma, and eventually died, and it would upset anyone reading it...Whenever I think of Hillsborough I am drawn to the story of young Lee Nicol from Bootle. Lee was fourteen but looked about ten. He reminded me of my son, Paul. Lee was in the middle of the crush at Leppings Lane but was still alive when he was pulled out. I went to see him in hospital. He looked a lovely kid. As he lay there in a coma, I whispered words into his ears. I asked the doctor about his chances of recovery. ‘˜He’s clinically dead, John,’ he said. I hadn’t realised how badly he was injured. That news ripped into me. My heart went out to Lee’s family, decent people who didn’t deserve to be victims of such a tragedy.
Doesn't matter who you support, or even if you don't support anyone, tbh football doesn't even come into it. The memory of all those who died at Hillsborough should be remembered today.
And at Anfield in the aftermath.
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The deaths of two horses at the Grand National in Aintree saw a lot of people take a different stance on horse racing:
Earlier: McCoy fell from Synchronised before the start of this year's race
Fatal fall: Horses are diverted around the fence where Synchronised fell0 -
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2012 Pulitzer Prize winners for breaking news. This is from Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing. The explosion of which the young girl, Tarana Akbari, is a survivor killed more than 70 people. Among the dead were seven of Akbari’s own family members, who had traveled to Kabul in honor of the holiday of Ashura; nine of her other relatives were wounded.
Wonder if the little boy in the yellow survived
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A picture of Barack Obama sitting on the Rosa Parks bus.
The historical significance of this picture is incredible.
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Found this thread via Bolt.org and went through almost every page. Thought I would register and share some that I did not find in this thread...
This image Sam The Koala certainly grabbed headlines world wide. David Tree sharing his water with Sam. She was later taken to the rescue centre.
Video at the bottom of this article... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141662/Australians-comfort-badly-burned-koalas-best-friends-surviving-bushfires.html
Azaria Chamberlain with her mother Lindy who claimed not long after this photo was taken that "A Dingo ate my baby".
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British soldier arguing with resident
found this on the net a while ago. I'm not sure of the original caption but its
a great photo. (note the graffitti "victory to the Hunger Strikers")
http://i.imgur.com/8mQlD.jpg
Where did you find this pic? I think that's my Dad! :eek:
And my contribution... sorry for the small pic.
Burial of Frank Stagg. Not world shaking but certainly Nation shaking.On February 12th 1976, Frank Stagg died after fasting for 62 days.
His ordeal was not over. Against his own expressed wishes and those of his family, his body was hijacked by the Fine Gael/Labour Government who had it flown to Shannon Airport and locked in the mortuary from which famly members were excluded.
Frank's body was then taken to Ballina where it was buried by the Garda Special Branch who had six feet of concrete poured on the coffin to prevent reburial. This was all to stop him being honoured with a republican funeral as his comrade Michael Gaughan had been, with thousands of people paying their respects in London, Dublin and across Ireland to Ballina.
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I found it randomly on the internet a around when I posted it, as I said, I don't know the offical caption (it must be a press photo) but it is an amazing photo.Where did you find this pic? I think that's my Dad! :eek:
Did a bit of seraching for you, I think the photographer was James Nachtwey, he's fairly famous and has alot of worldd famous photographs to his name.
James Nachtwey - Northern Ireland
Portfolio of his work- Truley amazing shots, each and everyone
apparently this is him beside a gunman
Northern Ireland, 1981.
Northern Ireland
also another photo of the troubles I found
Northern Ireland (William Street, Derry, Northern Ireland)
1972
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I knew Micky a great guy RIPHope Eager Windfall wrote: »Going to add one of my own to this excellent thread.
The memorial stone is pasted into this photo.
Its a Pte. Michael McNeela who was killed when on duty with UNIFIL in a village most of you here won't have heard of - 'Haddatha' in South Lebanon.
Pte.McNeela was an Irish soldier serving with the 64th Inf Battalion.
Of note in the photo is he was killed one month to the day this photo was taken.
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150 gigapixel image of a section of the Milky Way, comprised of a billion suns like our own. It represents less than 1% of the galaxy.
Zoom in to see each star.
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Not saying its a shake the world photo. But felt this might been the best place to put it as it be these type threads that this be of interest. Its been on few papers and stuff today.
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Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951, but before her death, samples of her cervix were extracted without her permission, although none was required at that time, and the cell line derived from those cancerous cells turned out to be the world's first immortal cell line. To this day her cells are "living" in laboratories across the world, and in the last half century they have been pivotal in medical research, including the development of the polio vaccine, gene mapping, AIDS & Cancer Research, her cells have even been sent into space.
Not only was this done without her permission, but her family didn't know about it either until 24 years after her death. Her cells were put into mass production, and companies made billions from them, and her family, living in poverty, haven't received a cent.
I really recommend the book that tells her story, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_LacksThe cells from Henrietta's tumor were given to researcher George Gey, who "discovered that [Henrietta's] cells did something they'd never seen before: They could be kept alive and grow."[13] Before this, cells cultured from other cells would only survive for a few days. Scientists spent more time trying to keep the cells alive than performing actual research on the cells but some cells from Lacks's tumor sample behaved differently than others. George Gey was able to isolate one specific cell, multiply it, and start a cell line. Gey named the sample HeLa, after the initial letters of Henrietta Lacks' name. As the first human cells grown in a lab that were "immortal" (they do not die after a few cell divisions), they could be used for conducting many experiments. This represented an enormous boon to medical and biological research.[1]
As reporter Michael Rogers stated, the growth of HeLa by a researcher at the hospital helped answer the demands of the 10,000 who marched for a cure to polio shortly before Lacks' death. By 1954, the HeLa strain of cells was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio.[1][11] To test Salk's new vaccine, the cells were quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.[14]
Demand for the HeLa cells quickly grew. Since they were put into mass production, Henrietta's cells have been mailed to scientists around the globe for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits".[11] HeLa cells have been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products.[1] Scientists have grown some 20 tons of her cells.[1][15] and there are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLaHeLa cells have been used for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and many other scientific pursuits".[8] According to author Rebecca Skloot, by 2009, "more than 60,000 scientific articles had been published about research done on HeLa, and that number was increasing steadily at a rate of more than 300 papers each month."[6]
HeLa cells have been used in testing how parvo virus infects cells of humans, HeLa, dog, and cats.[9] These cells have also been used to study viruses such as the Oropouche virus (OROV). OROV causes the disruption of cells in cultured cells where cells begin to degenerate shortly after they are infected causing viral induction of apoptosis.[10] HeLa cells have been used in the study of the expression of the papillomavirus E2 and apoptosis.[11] Hela cells have also been used to study canine distemper virus' ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cell lines.[12] This virus' ability to induce apoptosis could play an important role in developing treatments for tumor cells resistant to radiation and chemotherapy.[12]
HeLa cells have also been used in a number of cancer studies including those involving sex steroid hormones such as Estradiol, estrogen, and estrogen receptors along with estrogen like compound such as Quercetin and its cancer reducing properties.[13] There have also been studies on Hela cells, the effects of flavonoids and antioxidants with estradiol on cancer cell proliferation.
HeLa cells were used to investigate the phytochemical compounds and the fundamental mechanism of the anticancer activity of the ethanolic extract of mango peel (EEMP).[14] EEMP was found to contain various phenolic compounds and to activate death through apoptosis of human cervical malignant HeLa cells which suggests EEMP may help to prevent cervical cancer as well as other types of cancers.[15]
In 2011, HeLa cells were used in tests of novel heptamethine dyes IR-808 and other analogs which are currently being explored for their unique uses in medical diagnostics, the development of theranostics, the individualized treatment of cancerous patients with the aid of PDT, co-administration with other drugs, and irradiation.[16][17]
HeLa cells have been used in research involving Fullerenes to induce apoptosis as a part of Photodynamic therapy.
HeLa cells have also been used in in vitro cancer research using cell lines.[18]
HeLa cells have been used to define cancer markers in RNA, and have been used to establish an RNAi Based Identification System and Interference of Specific Cancer Cells.[19]0 -
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Maybe not a photo that shook the World, but i didn't know where else to put it..
Koalas killed in a single week by cars or dogs.
In its May edition (NG), staff photographer Joel Sartore has captured images of the dead animals, killed by cars, dog bites and barbed wire, just as the cuddly creatures were identified by the federal government as vulnerable.
Mr Sartore took the photographs at a Queensland clinic after staff asked him to get the images of dead koalas out to the world.
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I'm not sure if this has been posted but it is a brilliant illustration of life with AIDS and drug addictions. It is truly breathtaking, and depressing. It may not shake the entire world but it certainly shook me.
http://www.darcypadilla.com/thejulieproject/intro.html
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Paralyzed Cathy Hutchinson controls robot with her mind:
Two patients in the United States who are paralysed from the neck down have been able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts.
It allowed one to drink unaided for the first time in nearly 15 years.
The technique, described in the journal Nature, links a sensor implanted in the brain to a computer, which translates electrical signals into commands.
In years to come, scientists want to reconnect the brain to paralysed limbs to enable them to function again.
The project was a partnership by Brown University and the Department of Veteran Affairs, Rhode Island, and the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
In 2006 in a previous Nature paper, the team showed that the same neural interface system could be used by a paralysed patient to control a cursor on a computer screen. The key is a tiny sensor implanted on to the surface of the motor cortex.
Thinking about moving an arm or hand activates neurons in this part of the brain and the electrical activity is sent via a cable to a computer, which translates them into commands.
Both patients in this latest research project were paralysed many years ago by strokes and have no viable movement below the neck.
Video footage shows 58-year-old Cathy Hutchinson using the neural interface to control a robotic arm and bring a flask of coffee to her mouth. It was the first time in nearly 15 years that she had taken a drink unaided.
She communicates by picking out letters on a board using eye movement and wrote: "I couldn't believe my eyes when I was able to drink coffee without help. I was ecstatic. I had feelings of hope and a great sense of independence."
That was echoed by Prof John Donoghue, a neurologist at Brown University.
He said: "There was a moment of true joy, true happiness. It was beyond the fact that it was an accomplishment. I think it was an important advance in the field of brain-computer interfaces that we had helped someone do something they had wished to do for many years."
This research shows that the part of the brain that deals with movement continues to function more than a decade after paralysis.
The sensor is implanted in the patient's brain and linked to a computer
Furthermore, the chip continues to function long-term - Cathy Hutchinson had the sensor fitted six years earlier.
The technology is years away from practical use and the trial participants used the system under controlled conditions in their homes with a technician on hand.
Nonetheless, another of the report authors, Prof Leigh Hochberg, said the team had four goals:- To develop effective communications systems for people with locked-in syndrome, giving them control over a cursor on a computer screen
- To create improved neural control of robotic-assistive devices for patients with paralysis
- To use the system to allow amputees to control a prosthetic limb by the neural interface
- To enable paralysed patients to reconnect their brain to their limbs using this system so that they could use their own hand to pick up a coffee cup.
Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which part-funded the work, said: "This technology was made possible by decades of investment and research into how the brain controls movement.
"It's been thrilling to see the technology evolve from studies of basic neurophysiology and move into clinical trials, where it is showing significant promise for people with brain injuries and disorders."
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^^^ From one extreme ... VVVVGerman police officers escort an anti-capitalism protest march with some 20,000 people in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, May 19, 2012. Protesters peacefully filled the city center of continental Europe's biggest financial hub in their protest against the dominance of banks and what they perceive to be untamed capitalism, Frankfurt police spokesman Ruediger Regis said. The protest group calling itself Blockupy has called for blocking the access to the European Central Bank, which is located in Frankfurt's business district. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Only came across this thread and have spent the last two days trawling through it. Legendary thread. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.
A real eye opener and several history lessons for me!
My own contribution is baby Jessica McClure being rescued from a well shaft. I was only 4 when this happened, it must one of my earliest memories and it's stuck with me through the years!
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Britain led the outrage — with Foreign Secretary William Hague demanding a “strong international response”
Mr Hague will meet Russia’s foreign secretary in Moscow today. Syria’s ambassador to Britain faces a diplomatic dressing down.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Assad’s “rule by murder and fear must come to an end”.
:rolleyes:Syria’s ally Russia said the “tragic” events deserved condemnation and called for a UN assessment of the violence.
On going for over a Year now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18221461
These guys met up a few weeks ago (Nato)
and did nothing....but had time to watch the Champions league final.
32 Kids!!
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Just thought I'd post this picture (haven't seen it before here), as the current weather reminded me of that nice sunny day, up in Omagh in August 1998.
It's one of my earliest memories of something that genuinely shocked my parents, I still remember Anne Cassin delivering the bad news on RTÉ.
As a picture, I find it truly startling. A couple of minutes later, that familiar urban setting, with people milling about would be devastated by that unassuming car on the right. 21 would be killed instantly - a further 8 would die. Both pictured, the man and girl, survived.
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