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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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OutlawPete wrote: »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.
ESPN doing what looks to be a very interesting documentary on both Andreas Escobars death and Pablo Escobars, and how they were linked:
http://30for30.espn.com/film/the-two-escobars.html0 -
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top picture is a painting of the two early on and bottom photo taken later,Chang & Eng Bunker these conjoined twins lived from May 1811-Jan 1874. Born in (Siam) now Thailand, so called siamese twins these were joined at the sternum by a small piece of cartilage, there livers were fused. Modern surgical techniqes would have easily seperated them.They married 2 sisters and Eng and his wife had 11 children,Chang and his wife 10 children0 -
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An isolated picture taken by Edwin Hubble from the hooker telescope.
Most astronomers of Hubble's day thought that all of the universe — the planets, the stars seen with the naked eye and with powerful telescopes, and fuzzy objects called nebulae — was contained within the Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy, it was thought, was synonymous with the universe.
In 1923 Hubble trained the Hooker telescope on a hazy patch of sky called the Andromeda Nebula. He found that it contained stars just like the ones in our galaxy, only dimmer. One star he saw was a Cepheid variable, a type of star with a known, varying brightness that can be used to measure distances. From this Hubble deduced that the Andromeda Nebula was not a nearby star cluster but rather an entire other galaxy, now called the Andromeda galaxy.
Essentially he discovered that the size of the universe was on scale much larger than ever imagined. From this, what Hubble found was that the farther apart galaxies are from each other, the faster they move away from each other. Based on this observation, Hubble concluded that the universe expands uniformly.
Was on on BBC 2 last night. Kinda blows your mind reading about it.0 -
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You'd probably need to go alot higher then the tallest building to see that. I'm guessing the fish eyed lens used to take in the whole shot might exaggerate the curve.
Is that the pic?
That's the Burj Khalifa in Dubai
You'd have to go right up to say Everest or in a plane/hot air balloon to get that.
See here for example
You'd need something like a Lockheed SR-71....these thing flew 21kms up
We are soooo small to see it, the earth is just so massive 0 -
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What's the story? ^^^^^^^^
EDIT: pic is no longer showing up for me, link to a similar one here
The whole 'matter-of-fact' look on this serial killer's face is what does it for me in this picture. Chilling.
Mostly paraphrased/quoted from Wikipedia:
Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted of 15 murders in 1992. One of his victims was a 14-year old who escaped and was found by passers-by drugged and bleeding in the street. The police were called but Dahmer convinced them that the boy was his lover and they'd just had a fight. The police, the boy & Dahmer went back to Dahmer's apartment where the police noticed a strange smell. Without checking it out they released the kid and went on their way. Dahmer murdered and dismembered the boy that night, and the smell was another victim decomposing in the apartment. It was nearly 2 months and 4 murders later, when another man escaped, that Dahmer was eventually caught:
"As one officer subdued Dahmer, the other opened the refrigerator and found a human head. Further searching of the apartment revealed three more severed heads, multiple photographs of murdered victims and human remains, severed hands and penises, and photographs of dismembered victims and human remains in his refrigerator.[40]
The story of Dahmer's arrest and the inventory in his apartment quickly gained notoriety: several corpses were stored in acid-filled vats, and implements for the construction of an altar of candles and human skulls were found in his closet. Accusations soon surfaced that Dahmer had practiced necrophilia and cannibalism. Seven skulls were found in the apartment.[41] A human heart was found in the freezer.[42]"
Two of the police officers that released the boy back to Dahmer were fired, with recordings made public of them making homophobic comments on the night in question. They appealed their dismissals, were reinstated, and later named officers of the year by the police union. One was subsequently elected president of the Milwaukee Police Association. The apartment block was demolished after the trial and Dahmer was murdered in prison by another inmate in 1994.
Almost unbelievably, a series of youtube videos interviewing Dahmer and his Father can be viewed here. Pure, concentrated evil.
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Scarlette Sticky Skit wrote: »^^^^wow!
That doesn't even look real
Here's another one (real)..
I'd a niece who underwent a similar op in the USA eight years ago, she died recently.
Here's the story from this pic..A picture began circulating in November. It should be ‘The Picture of the Year,’ or perhaps, ‘Picture of the Decade.’ It won’t be. In fact,unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.
The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samue l Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta . She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville , he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr.Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger. DrBruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.
The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, ‘Hand of Hope.’ The text explaining the picture begins, ‘The tiny hand of 21-week- old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life..’
Little Samuel’s mother said they ‘wept for days’ when they saw the picture. She said, ‘The photo reminds us pregnancy isn’t about disability or an illness, it’s about a little person.’Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. Now see the actual picture.0
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