Pictures that define history [Viewer discretion & broadband advised]

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

MaxFlower

To add some balance....

http://www.lifesite.net/fetaldevelopment/images/samuel3.jpg
NSFW

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

oh jesus ****ing christ

how about a warning
that is ****ing disgusting

Karoma

Folks, anything even remotely disturbing should not be in-line(i.e. Do not use IMG tags) and should be marked NSFW with a brief description. Thank you.

HAPPYGIRL

keithers911 wrote: »

To add some balance....

http://www.lifesite.net/fetaldevelopment/images/samuel3.jpg
NSFW

Mordeth wrote: »

oh jesus ****ing christ

how about a warning
that is ****ing disgusting

How is that disgusting?
It's an amazing photograph.

arybvtcw0eolkf

keithers911 wrote: »

To add some balance....

http://www.lifesite.net/fetaldevelopment/images/samuel3.jpg
NSFW

A fantastic photograph.

Beautiful.

hairyfairy00

Tsunami, December 26th 2004

MaxFlower

Apologies on img tags.
I work in an area where this would be considered research.

Some history on the picture -

Samuel Armas is the child who featured in a famous photograph by Michael Clancy as he seemed to grasp his surgeon's hand from a hole in his mother's uterus during open fetal surgery for spina bifida. The photograph was taken during a pioneering surgical procedure undertaken on August 19, 1999 to fix the spina bifida lesion of a 21-week-old fetus in the womb. The operation was performed by a surgical team at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The team, Dr. Joseph Bruner and Dr. Noel Tulipan, had been developing a technique for correcting certain fetal problems in mid-pregnancy.


Sad how this was flagged NSFW but the death, suffering and human degradation depicted in previous pictures is fine.

Le Rack

I don't know if the pictures do much but to stand in the middle of that garden is very over whelming

edit/ garden of rememberence, normandy france

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

a good guideline to go by is anything that depicts the inside of the body should be tagged NSFW.. car accidents, abortion protest pics, and that monstrousity.

Outer Bongolia

Canadian battalion going over the top, WW1


The world became a better place once this odious bastard breathed his last


Warning Sign


World's First Photograph, 1826

Borneo Fnctn

Surprised this one hasn't been posted yet.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet/monk.jpg

This monk set himself on fire in protest during the Vietnam war.

MaxFlower

Mordeth wrote: »

a good guideline to go by is anything that depicts the inside of the body should be tagged NSFW.. car accidents, abortion protest pics, and that monstrousity.

Pioneering surgery is now a monstrousity? I hope you never need the intervention of mondern science.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the surgery itself no, but that picture yes.

is_that_so

1968. And 1938

Karoma

Mordeth. keithers911 and anyone else: Take it to Humanities or PM, please.

jackpalance: Possibly, as dramatic and memorable as the photographic is, it doesn't really define history to us. (This isn't a judgement, just that we tend to limit out historical awareness and interests)

Dave!

Great thread


Israeli soldiers after capturing East Jerusalem in the 6 day war, 1967

Le Rack

a child from chernobyl with MS


boys orphanage in chernobyl, they can't move other than roll slightly on the floor

Karl Hungus

arybvtcw0eolkf

DaveMcG wrote: »

Great thread


Israeli soldiers after capturing East Jerusalem in the 6 day war, 1967

I was going to post that one!.

And here's Moshe Dayan entering the old city..



A fantastic man and brilliant soldier.

Fast_Mover

Thrill

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

Outer Bongolia

Le Rack wrote: »

a child from chernobyl with MS


boys orphanage in chernobyl, they can't move other than roll slightly on the floor

Excellent. proves my theory. Life=s.hit

hairyfairy00

The Birmingham 6 walk free


Jumpers from the World Trade Centre, Jesus i can't even imagine what was going through their heads at this moment.

TerrorFirmer

Mairt wrote: »

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/Wannsee/einsatz1.jpg

http://www.hanefesh.com/edu/Holidays/images/a6b.jpg

Sry, had to post two from the Nazi holocaust.

That first picture is now largely believed to be fake, actually...

Second one is one of the more haunting ones. Crops up alot.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Outer Bongolia wrote: »

Excellent. proves my theory. Life=s.hit

Apply once to the temple, sweet dreams



Irish history...

Outer Bongolia

HavoK wrote: »

That first picture is now largely believed to be fake, actually...

Second one is one of the more haunting ones. Crops up alot.

further details on that first photo would be appreciated

Dave!

Can't find many photos of this, but....


Omagh.

Outer Bongolia

Mairt wrote: »

Apply once to the temple, sweet dreams

Don't be encouraging me Probably a good thing that guns aren't readily available in ireland. I've seen some extremely depressing things today connected to the way migrants and disabled people are treated in ireland. But that's a story for another day:eek:

arybvtcw0eolkf

HavoK wrote: »

That first picture is now largely believed to be fake, actually...

.

I've read that before actually, but there's no firm evidence of it either way.

Alot of the WWI photos depicting troops 'going over the top' are faked too.

Its said that the first casualty of war is the truth.

Fast_Mover

Berlin wall comes down..

TerrorFirmer

What makes this one particularly interesting is that the boy in question survived the holocaust. The German in the right of the picture was executed after the war.

As for the picture of the alleged einzatgruppen killing I can't find a link now but there was detailed studies and analysis of it which suggested that it was actually edited, and that the original picture did not even feature the mother and child.

arybvtcw0eolkf

HavoK wrote: »

What makes this one particularly interesting is that the boy in question survived the holocaust. The German in the right of the picture was executed after the war.

As for the picture of the alleged einzatgruppen killing I can't find a link now but there was detailed studies and analysis of it which suggested that it was actually edited, and that the original picture did not even feature the mother and child.

Photos & stories of the Nazi holocaust tear my heart out.

gerky

The first one may not seem to important but its the first picture of earth from another planet.
Just shows how small and fragile it is,good thread.

Blowfish

The_Minister wrote: »

http://www.geocities.com/xiquis86/holocaust/shoes.gif

The shoes of the holocaust victims

Along the same lines, but this one always brings it home to me more, as I've been to Auschwitz and seen it. 2 Tonnes of human hair:


On a lighter note (ok, bad pun):

Moriarty

Graph of data from the COBE mission which reinforced the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe by producing data identical to that which would be expected if the big-bang occurred.

Mike...

The true story of the middle east



A joint approach by Jews and Muslims to stop Israel

arybvtcw0eolkf

But *mono* those pix don't define history. They make a political statement.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

and photos of israeli soldiers beginning their occupation of east jerusalem doesn't make a political statement?

Dave!

And here comes the b*tching......

Moriarty

Mordeth wrote: »

and photos of israeli soldiers beginning their occupation of east jerusalem doesn't make a political statement?

The pictures of the IDF entering east jerusalem would fit under the category of defining history in anyones books as well as making a political statement. Protest posters/pictures only do the latter. No one will remember those pictures in ten years time, never mind fifty or two hundred years from now. On the other hand many pictures of palestinian suffering will be remembered.

It's a great thread, let's keep it on topic.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

peace has gotta come to palestine someday, there can't be that many nutbag israeli settlers. Maybe those pictures could take on the same relevance as photos from the vietnam protests, or the iraq protests. History is happening right now too.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dave!

oooh, here's a recent one...


The return of the Stormont Assembly

justsomebloke

justsomebloke

the save in italia 90

BaZmO*

The suffragettes did obtain a martyr at the Derby in June 1913. Emily Davison ran from the crowd and attempted to grab the reins of the king's horse, Anmer. She was trampled and died a few days later from her injuries.

The caption on the newspaper report at the time says: 'A remarkable picture, showing Anmer rolling over [jockey Herbert] Jones and Emily Davison in the act of falling.'



You can actually see the footage of the incident on youtube too.

Saddam's statue being torn down

kevmy

One of Roy Keane Saipan not quite the one I wanted but still..

The other one of the first x-rays ever taken of Wilhelm Rontgen's wife's hand

cornbb

Great thread.

Hope this one hasn't been posted already...