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

Not a picture that shook the world, but the event did.

In advance of March 11th, the Yahoo! building in Tokyo has put up a poster/hanging commemorating the victims of the 2011 tsunami. The red line says 'exactly to this height' and shows the level the tsunami reached at its highest point.

^ She only needs a can of Pepsi.

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frostyjacks wrote: »

The article I read on the BBC gave both versions. It's hard to know who to believe unless you were actually there. The two arrests were both on the protesting side, so I'm inclined to take the photo with a hefty pinch of salt.

based on your stated views, I'm guessing the fact the she is female and not aryan would prevent you from believing that legitimacy of the photo under any circumstance....

Not a famous photo per se, but found it touching. A German solider reunited with his child in Berlin, 1918 right after the end of the First World War. Even with Germany defeated and racked with revolution at the time, the several million German soldiers still apparently returned home in good order and high morale with the war finally over, welcomed home and congratulated with open arms by the population ''as an army with no cause to feel ashamed'' as one documentary I watched today put it.

The marriage of Josef and Magda Goebbels, December 19th, 1931.

In the background, their best man Adolf Hitler.

Young blond haired boy on the right is Harald Quandt, Magda's first child and the man who, after the war, along with his half brother Herbert, built BMW up into what it is today. The family still control well over 30% of the company as well as other major German corporations such as VARTA batteries.

They also owned a significant stake in Mercredes Benz, who attempted to buy BMW out in the 1950's. In a spiteful move Herbert sold his stake in Mercedes to the government of Kuwait in the 1970's.

Winner of the 2018 Press Photo of the year - a Venezuelan protestor on fire.

There are nominees and winners of numerous other categories at this link. I put it into this thread as they are generally more graphic and 'shocking' than 'cool.'

I was watching a documentary on how we got to the smartphone last night as a part of Great Inventions series on BBC4 and this pic was shown...



It's the first digital image ever sent from a mobile phone, oh how times have changed.

21 years ago today
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh. It was carried out by a group calling themselves the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement. The bombing killed 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) and injured some 220 others, making it the deadliest single incident of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Telephoned warnings had been sent almost 40 minutes beforehand, but were inaccurate, and police had inadvertently moved people toward the bomb.



The red Vauxhall Cavalier containing the bomb. This photograph was taken shortly before the explosion; the camera was found afterwards in the rubble. The man and child in the photo both survived; the photographer did not.


Re-reading the Wiki brings back just how sickening this was and it was also a major blow for the 'armed struggle': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing.

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