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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Fantastic thread.
...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior
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Fantastic thread.
...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior
And a video here.
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Fantastic thread.
...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior
And a video here.
That was done in 1962!! 7 years before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon!! Amazing. That guy had some balls0 -
Meet Roy C. Sullivan.
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]US Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan from Virginia holds the record for the person most times struck by lightning - and living to tell the tale. Between 1942 and 1983, Roy has the dubious distinction of being struck by lightning seven times. He was known as the Human Lightning Rod. The above photo shows the lightening damage to his ranger hat after strike number 5. Staggering probabilities, even more staggering survival odds, truly shocking.
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Polish Pole vault jumper Władysław Kozakiewicz.
Kozakiewicz made the gesture to Russian spectators in the stadium during the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The crowd supporting Soviet jumper Konstantin Volkov booed, hissed, jeered, and whistled during Kozakiewicz's spectacular performance. Having just secured his gold medal position, Kozakiewicz made the gesture in defiance to the Soviet crowd..jpg)
The official response of the Polish government was that the gesture had been an involuntary muscle spasm caused by his exertion.Nice one!
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Cannibalism in the Andes MountainsOn a Friday the 13th in 1972 a plane carring a famous Rugby Team from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the Andes Mountains.
There were 45 people on board in total.19 Died instantly leaving 26 stuck in the Andes with only the food on board.16 surrvived but in the next two months and two weeks they reluctantly resorted to eating the dead passangers.
If you want to know more, read the book or watch the movie ..
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The execution of Ruth Snyder - Sing Sing prison New York, 1928.
It is the only photograph ever taken of a state sanctioned execution in the US. A tabloid newspaper photographer took it with a concealed camera. The image was published on the front page of the New York Daily News under the headline "DEAD!"
Snyder was convicted of murdering her husband.0 -
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CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »Polish Pole vault jumper Władysław Kozakiewicz.
That guy rules !!
I couldn't see this one posted previously. I remember watching this on TV in Germany and they showed the whole gruesome thing from what I recall it took them about 10 minutes to get a final bead on the guy and his kid - knowing full well they were completely innocent palestinians. I will never forget hearing Alan Dershowitz defending the Israeli army for this.
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Is there a link to the story? So tragic
Google is your friend (so is the bbc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/952600.stm
Boy becomes Palestinian martyr
Jamal al Durrah tries to protect his son Muhammad
"Don't shoot" screams the boy's father
Just moments after this picture was taken, Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead. Now the 12-year-old boy has been turned into a new martyr for the Palestinian cause.
For 45 minutes, Muhammad's father tried in vain to shield him from gunfire as they crouched against a concrete wall near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
This was his sacrifice for our homeland, for Palestine
Boy's mother
The whole scene was caught on camera by a France 2 cameraman, and has been played repeatedly on Palestinian television.
The footage shows the boy's father, Jamal al-Durrah, waving desperately to Israeli troops, shouting: "Don't shoot". But the terrified boy is hit by four bullets, and collapses in his father's arms.
An ambulance driver who tried to rescue the boy and his father was also killed, and a second ambulance driver was wounded.
Mr Durrah, who was also badly wounded, said his son died for "the sake of Al-Aqsa Mosque", the holy site in Jerusalem seen by the Palestinians as both sacred and sovereign territory.
"My son didn't die in vain," said his mother, Amal.
"This was his sacrifice for our homeland, for Palestine."
If Palestinian policemen had wanted to save the boy, they could have walked into the square ....and rescued the kid
Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yitzhak Herzog
But the Israeli Cabinet Secretary, Yitzhak Herzog, said that Palestinian security forces could have saved the boy.
In an interview with the BBC World Service, he said that "if Palestinian policemen had wanted to save the boy, they could have walked into the square, said 'Stop the fire'... and rescued the kid".
He added that Palestinian police should have called their Israeli counterparts who he said had been trying to speak to Palestinian commanders for hours.
Mr Herzog said people had seen "only the angle of the French television".
The Israeli army later admitted that the shots which killed Muhammad had "apparently" been fired by its troops, and apologised for his death.
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Muhammad cowers against his father
But before they did so, other Israeli officials questioned whether the boy was killed by Israeli bullets and said he could have been hit by stray Palestinian gunfire.
But witnesses say the Palestinian youths were armed only with stones, not guns, and the shooting was all from the Israeli side.
The video footage clearly shows that not only were the boy and his father completely unarmed, but they were not even part of the rioting.
Relatives say the pair were returning from Gaza's popular used-car market, and were trying to get home to the Buriej refugee camp where they live along with many thousands of Palestinians.
Image shocks world
A wounded child is carried away
Many children have been killed and wounded in the rioting
The disturbing footage has been played throughout the Middle East, and on all major US television networks over the weekend.
A photo still from the video ran on the front page of the New York Times.
The newspaper quoted an Israeli journalist as saying he saw the footage for the first time as he was delivering the news on Saturday night.
"I lost my voice. I've been doing this for many years... But my brain went dead, and my tongue went limp. To see a little boy killed before your eyes," he said.
The British newspaper, The Independent, described it as "an image that will haunt the world as painfully and powerfully" as any of those from the Palestinian uprising or Intifada.0 -
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End Of His Life As He Knew It - Orphaned Chinese baby crying in the South Station in Shanghai, China, 28 Aug 1937
Australian Sergeant Leonard G. Siffleet of M Special Unit about to be beheaded by Japanese soldier Yasuno Chikao, Aitape, New Guinea, 24 Oct 1943
We Lost Everything Else, But We've Got What Really Matters
Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of St. Lo, circa Jul-Aug 19440 -
RMS Titanic's location is discovered in September 1985, the world sees the ship for the first time since her fatal rendevous with an iceberg in April 1912.
^ First image captured by Robert Ballard, a boiler in the debris field.
The ships bow.
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Long-time listener, first time caller...
Undoubtedly the best thread I have ever read, not just on boards but anywhere on the web. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have spent in the region of 12 hours over the last few days looking at pictures and then looking at the links and learning from them. It has been educational, funny, harrowing, scary, sad, but above all, very very interesting.
I'd just like to make a couple recommendations, if you don't mind..
In the later pages, there has been quite a bit of repetition. Yes, it's a long thread, but it does deserve to be viewed in it's entireity before anyone adds a new picture/post. Just saying "I'm not sure if this has been posted before.." is just laziness and it threatens to spoil a fantastic thread. Yes, I do realise there has been lots of photos and it's difficult to remember them all.
Secondly, what I really appreciated about this thread is the stories and explanations that go along with the photos. If possible, could posters add a link or explanation with their photos.
Finally, to keep the thread going, here's my offering (jaysus, I'll be scarlah if it's already been posted )
Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here0 -
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BohemianDub wrote: »Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here
I can't believe, I forgot this (John Paul's assassination photo reminded me of it, so thanks:)).
The following photo in a Philippine newspaper about an appartment fire in no way shook our world, but if the fire never started our world could most definitely have been shaken.
Sometimes, the butterfly effect can be a good thing.:)Brief wiki on Bojinka Plot wrote:The Bojinka plot ...was a planned large-scale terrorist attack by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to blow up twelve airliners and ... 4,000 passengers....including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II and crash a plane into the CIA headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia....the Bojinka plot was disrupted after a chemical fire drew Filipino police attention on January 6 and January 7, 1995. One person was killed in the course of the plot...0 -
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BohemianDub wrote: »Long-time listener, first time caller...
Undoubtedly the best thread I have ever read, not just on boards but anywhere on the web. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have spent in the region of 12 hours over the last few days looking at pictures and then looking at the links and learning from them. It has been educational, funny, harrowing, scary, sad, but above all, very very interesting.
I'd just like to make a couple recommendations, if you don't mind..
In the later pages, there has been quite a bit of repetition. Yes, it's a long thread, but it does deserve to be viewed in it's entireity before anyone adds a new picture/post. Just saying "I'm not sure if this has been posted before.." is just laziness and it threatens to spoil a fantastic thread. Yes, I do realise there has been lots of photos and it's difficult to remember them all.
Secondly, what I really appreciated about this thread is the stories and explanations that go along with the photos. If possible, could posters add a link or explanation with their photos.
Finally, to keep the thread going, here's my offering (jaysus, I'll be scarlah if it's already been posted )
Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here
Is that real? Reminds me of the hand with the knife in The Last Supper.0 -
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Roy Keane leaving Saipan to return back to Manchester and not play any part in the WC in Japan/Korea:(
Dublin Riots
Indians claim Alcatraz Island
November 9, 1969
On this day, Indian people once again came to Alcatraz Island when Richard Oakes, a Mohawk Indian, and a group of Indian supporters set out in a chartered boat, the Monte Cristo, to symbolically claim the island for the Indian people. On November 20, 1969, this symbolic occupation turned into a full scale occupation which lasted until June 1
1, 1971.
Lockerbie Plane crash (bomb)
1988: Jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie
A Pan Am jumbo jet with 258 passengers on board has crashed on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish borders.
Initial reports indicate it crashed into a petrol station in the centre of the town, between Carlisle and Dumfries, and burst into a 300-foot fireball.
Hundreds are feared dead as airline officials said flight 103 was about two-thirds full with 255 adults and three children on board. Rescue teams have confirmed there are many casualties at the scene including townspeople who were on the ground.
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NS_Southsider wrote: »Dublin Riots
Jesus getting a taxi on O' Connell Street is madness these days.0 -
This event drew my attention when seeing it on reeling in the years. A mass suicide of hundreds of men women and children in Guyana under the orders of cult leader Jim Jones. A shocking example of the power a single person can have over a group of people.
There is an audio of the final speech of Jones encouraging people to drink from the poison. Warning, its not for the faint hearted. Screams of children in particular are audible and quite disturbing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFaqrU3HfQ0 -
Amazing thread, one of the best to come out of here in quite a while. On a side note can people please stop quoting the pictures. Quote the post, but delete the picture link. It'll make reading this a lot easier!
anyway, my 2 cents:
Boy was he wrong, unless his mission was to get a lot of young American killed....
Senna
Can't find the famous one of him and mick on the "car park" in Saipan but this will have to do
We all hate this one...
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