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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Queen-Mise wrote: »This picture is not any worse than the Palestinian Man and boy being killed a few pages back. This picture really makes me sick to the core.
This to me symbolises how war has changed in the last 20 years. Not saying by an means war is good - could you imagine Germany, Britain or the US doing this in the Great War or the Second World War.
Or maybe the change is modern media; digital photography can bring it straight to a screen in front of us almost instantuously.
The picture was taken in Mogadishu in Somalia.
Massive lack of context there, along with the obviously slanted caption, nice of someone to point out they're black.0 -
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hmm can't seem to paste the picture
Go to Google Images, and type in 'first flight'. Click on the picture yoiu want and then click on 'see full size image'. Copy the address bar. When you go to write your comment on boards, click the yellow icon with the mountains, and paste the address bar in, and hey presto!
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima after the dropping of 'Little Boy'
'The Fat Man' mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter
Seizo Yamada's ground level photo taken from approximately 7 km northeast of Hiroshima
Not 100% sure when these pics were widely known, may have been years after WW2?
Anyway, the following pics really bring home the power of these 'little' bombs. When I say 'little' I mean 'Little Boy' was 13 - 18 kilotons of TNT.....'Castle Bravo', the US's most powerful thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, was 15,000/22,000 kilotons of TNT.
The photograph shows the stone steps of the main entrance of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima which was only 250 meters from the hypocenter of the atomic explosure on 08/06/1945. It is believed that a person sat down on the steps facing the direction of the hypocenter, possibly waiting for the bank to open. By a flash of the heat rays with temperatures well over a 1,000 degrees or possibly 2,000 degrees centigrade, that person was incineratied on the stone steps. Up to about 10 years after the explosion, the shadow remained clearly on the stones, but exposure to rain and wind has been gradually blurring it. So, when the bank was newly built, the stone steps were removed and are now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. You can also see the beautiful computer reconstruction of this atomic explosure made by BBC
Simulation:
Truely too terrifying to even think about0 -
hmm can't seem to paste the picture
Highlight the url of the image you want to post and then press the 'Ctrl' key and the letter 'C' key at the same time. (Right clicking on the highlighted URL and selecting copy will do the same thing).
Your image will be copied in your system's memory.
Then when you have the 'Post New Message' options like below, click the icon with the circle around it .. a new box should open like below for you to paste the URL of the image into.
Click inside the bar like above where it has the .. 'Please enter the URL of your image' .. and then hold down the 'CTRL' key and the letter 'V' (that pastes from your system's memory - Right clicking in the box & selecting Paste is will also do the same thing).
Click OK and the image should then appear in the message.
You can cleck the 'Preview Post' button beside the 'Submit Replay' one if you want to see how the image will appear.
If you have an image on your PC that you want to post instead. Go to HostAnyImage.com and from their hompage you can upload your image and it will give you a URL very quickly and then just follow the same steps as above.0 -
OK my last one or two for the night. I am getting to the symbolic stage now - must be tiredness
;);)
September 2001. Which one is giving the comfort more?
Maybe not changed or shook the world, but definitely shows how much the world has been shook up and shaken in the last 40 years.0 -
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Mychal F. Judge, a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York, and the first recorded victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
From WikipediaShannon Stapleton, photographer from Reuters, photographed Judge's body being carried out of the rubble by five men: four uniformed and one non-uniformed. It became one of the most famous images related to 9/11. The Philadelphia Weekly reports the photograph being called an American Pietà.0 -
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Queen-Mise wrote: »Is what I think is happening here, happening here??? Please say no someone
Don't worry Queen, it is merely a kind soul teaching his pet seal how to play baseball. I believe 3 months after the picture was taken they won the bronze medal at the Man/Pet Olympics.Bluemoon
Could have done without the wink for such a sensitive subject. But I will say your fans behaved impeccably that day, fair dues.Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truely too terrifying to even think about
Indeed.
Tokyo B-29 Raid: March 10th 1945:
Killed at least 100,000 outright, more than either atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.0 -
ronnie3585 wrote: »Oklahoma bombing. I will always remember seeing this picture on the front of The Star in my local shop the day after the bombing.
I remember that too
Baylee Almon was the little baby girls name - was 1yo at the time
Apparently she died right after the picture was taken. Mad to think she'd be 14 right now if she lived.
The firefighter is Chris Fields.
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Feeky Magee wrote: »Indeed.
Tokyo B-29 Raid: March 10th 1945:
Killed at least 100,000 outright, more than either atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
Jesus Christ, some of the pics there. 0 -
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First colour photograph from the surface of Mars...
You'll like this one so:
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission. The image is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera showing a broad view of the sky, and an image taken by the rover's panoramic camera of Earth. The contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see. The inset shows a combination of four panoramic camera images zoomed in on Earth. The arrow points to Earth. Earth was too faint to be detected in images taken with the panoramic camera's color filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell / Texas A&M
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Who do you feel the need to quote a post so long?
Boards should give you the bandwidth bill.
Also, if people want to post a large photo they find or have and want to resize to around 400 x 400 or so, then go to PicNik.com and upload the photo (no need to register).
Click 'save and share' as soon as on the screen and you will be presented with another screen like this one below ..
Just use the 'Precent" box to alter the size (ignore the dimensions as this will just distort your image if you get the proportions wrong) .. just enter 50 instead of the 100 for half, 200 to to double the size and so on and so forth.0 -
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Hillsborough Disaster.
The second photo here is one of the very few images I have ever seen that I find unbearable to keep looking at. Most photos you can keep studying and the bad feeling will start to diminsh. With this second photo though I start to feel panic and despair and have to look away.
I can't imagine a photograph either, that I have seen, that would have been as hard to take as this. Photographing people trapped and dying in front of you that you have no way of helping, is something I don't think I would be able to do.
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In the 1994 World Cup Andres Escobar accidentally slid the ball
into his own net. The other team (the USA
) went on to win the game and Colombia went out. They only needed a draw as far as I remember.
Reports and rumours after the match the next day said he was a dead man walking, as there where big time gangsters in Columbia that had fortunes bet on the game.
10 days later, as he left some restaurant with his girlfriend three men grabbed him and shot him in the face and chest a dozen times, shouting 'goal' after every shot.
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One for the ladies
In 1913 Emily Davison (Suffragette) ducked under the railings during The Epsom Derby and threw herself under a horse . The horse belonged to King George V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison
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Isnt that from the Heysel stadium?
I suspected it was too but I got it on a site dedicated to Hillsborough. Maybe they were mistaken. There isn't much Heysel actually.
I was looking for ones of the Liverpool team pleading with the fans but couldn't find any ones of decent resolution.
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In the 1932 Olympics .. Stanislawa (Stella) Walasiewicz (Walsh) .. from Poland set 11 world records. She made loads of cash and changed her name to Stella Walsh and became an american citizen.
Then in 1936 she went to the Olympics in Berlin to defend her Gold but she lost to an American called Helen Stephens.
The Polish chick flipped out and said that the american 6ft Helen Stephens must be a man cause nobody could be that much faster than her. So they made her take a sex-test, which she passed no problem.
Four years later, in 1940, Stella Walsh (the Polish chick) was in Cleveland and there was a robbery were she was shot and died. The autopsy revealed that SHE was really a man
LMAO, How in the name of God did ANYONE ever think ths bloke was a women?? Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot looked like Angelina Jolia compared to this guy
Source for all you nay sayers .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82awa_Walasiewicz
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In 1996 when Graeme Souness was manager of Galatasaray he nearly caused a riot when at the end of the game (his team had got a late winner) he got a large Galatasaray flag and stuck it in their centre circle as missiles rained down around him). He was sacked as there are apparently political undertones to planting a flag in such a way due to some historical event and he was accused of knowing about this.
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