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

Saibh

More iconic - at 11:30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest - 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest spot on earth.

The Saint

Egypts president Anwar Sadat addressing the Israeli Knesset in 1977, the first Arab leader to officially visit the country.


Sadat, Carter and Begin in 1979 after signing the Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.


Sadat's assassination in 1981

The Saint

Pol Pot after dying of natural causes a free man (albeit on the run), a fate that wasn't affored to his countless victims.

The Saint

Rasputin alive


Rasputin not so alive (although it took a while and a fair bit of effort to get him from one state to the other).

dr.bollocko

OK Football stuff removed as it does not shake the world. Folks do me a favour and drop me a PM or something if you see something which does not belong here. The infighting is getting very tiresome to delete. The list of deleted posts grows ever longer .
Please continue.

Standard Toaster

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html

50 amazing photos here from the last decade


Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, in this July 25, 2000 file photo. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato, File) JAPAN OUT

Some of course posted earlier in thread

hshortt

^^ Great link there !

BluesBerry

TV presenter Richard Hammond broke the British land-speed record shortly before his near fatal 288 mph crash.
As it was revealed that a single nail was responsible for the horrific accident, a BBC report has claimed that, on the penultimate run before the smash, Hammond touched speeds of 314mph.
This is well in excess of the previous high of 300.3mph - set by Colin Farrows at the same airfield in Elvington, North Yorkshire, with the same jet powered drag racing car in July 2000.
Hammond, who made a miraculous recovery and has returned to presenting, cheated death when his car span off the track and flip over several times.

paddyland

A former FIANNA FAIL Minister for Justice going to JAIL.

A picture that represents the nadir of politics in this country.

dsmythy

French riots 2005

fikay

It has taken me a while to get through but this is a remarkable thread.
If I missed any of these ones my apologies.

This was a pretty shocking image from a shameful story. (Sorry there isn't a bigger pic)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_McCabe

Also, this sequence from t'internet was the first image many of us saw of meth abuse:

deadhead13

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

Every Thursday for over 30 years The Mothers of the disappeared have protested in the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires. The "disappeared" refers to the 30,000 men and women abucted and murdered by agents of the Argentine government during the "Dirty War", 1976-1983.

This week, following an overturning of an amnesty, 19 former soldiers appeared in court charged with carrying out the killings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8409311.stm

Morlar

Here are a few from Stalingrad
Some Helmets



Some of the men



The Saddles



The horses hooves

dubtom

I've just spent my sunday reading this thread, excellent, top marks to all who contributed.
Oh, I have to ask,why where the hooves cut off the horses in the last pic.

BluesBerry

Puerto Cabello naval base, Venezuela, 4 June 1962. A soldier who has been mortally wounded by a sniper clings onto navy chaplain Luis Padillo. About the image Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture.


Saddam Hussein Excutation

ashyle

Morlar wrote: »

Could be wrong but I thought that picture was from a protest against an Orange order parade through dublin ???

The caption was photoshopped from 'No to Sectarian Parades' to say that instead ?

no wasn't photoshopped, I cut the pic out of the herald I believe, it's stuck on my wall to this day!!

raindog.promo

dubtom wrote: »

Oh, I have to ask,why where the hooves cut off the horses in the last pic.

There was massive food shortages in Stalingrad, so I would imagine the rest of the horses ended up in the cooking pot.

I watched a documentary on Stalingrad last night estimating that at least 1,000,000 russian soldiers died defending the city.
It was illegal under communism to even try to gauge how many died at Stalingrad.

Morlar

dubtom wrote: »

Oh, I have to ask,why where the hooves cut off the horses in the last pic.

Yes in Stalingrad the Germans and locals had to eat horses - the hooves were the leftovers. I have seen documentaries about the russian front showing German soldiers discusing how, especially when on the move, they would keep an eye out for cats and dogs to supplement their diet. From Stalingrad there was also reports of cannibalism and also children going missing presumed to have been killed to be eaten. I have also seen photos taken there 2 years later where they were using camel drawn carts.

Big Nasty

Excellent thread! Some fantastic photos there guys!

Bigdeadlydave

Jeege wrote: »

Visit this site to see the real victims of war.
http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html

Warning: Images are very graphic, not for the faint hearted

Bloody hell he wasnt kidding....

wolfric

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Bloody hell he wasnt kidding....

Kind of wish i hadn't wondered what you were talking about....

Papa_Lazarou

The only house that remained in the area after Hurricane Katrina.


Sorry if this was posted already.


A pic from the Vietnam war

We

Just thought this may be of interest to you lot;

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html

It is an american newspaper so keep in mind that some of the pictures will be more relevant to the states, but there are some amazing pictures

brendansmith

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

The only house that remained in the area after Hurricane Katrina.

Thats amazing or complete BS, not sure which.

We wrote: »

Just thought this may be of interest to you lot;

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html

It is an american newspaper so keep in mind that some of the pictures will be more relevant to the states, but there are some amazing pictures

Thanks We, those photos are amazing, thanks for the link

kev9100

My name is URL wrote: »

The Lynching of Young Blacks -





Iraq POW with Child -

Nothing can sum up this decade better than this photo.

Morlar

kev9100 wrote: »

Nothing can sum up this decade better than this photo.

Obi_Wan

My name is URL

Well, it did

Obi_Wan

Obi_Wan

Chilling video to watch