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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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watched a korean movie about their war the other night(4 hours with subtitles!!) and i realised I knew f all about the war.Wiki gave me the background and 'facts' about it but this photo sums up what a war can do to a man,An american soldiers comforts another soldier
the GI to the left seems completely oblivious to whats going on around him.
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Dickey Chapelle (March 14, 1919–November 4, 1965) recieving the last rights -She became the first female war correspondent to be killed in Vietnam, as well as the first American female reporter to be killed in action.
Whilst walking with US Marines a Lieutenant in front of her kicked a tripwire boobytrap, consisting of a mortar shell with a hand grenade attached to the top of it. Chapelle was hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel which severed her carotid artery and died soon after.
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Chicago Daily Tribune makes one little mistake in headline about the 1948 U.S presidential election result.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace.
Famous Tory poster in 1979 U.K general election, often credited as being decisive in their victory.
Paul Simonon of The Clash smashes his bass, creating the cover for their classic album London Calling and one of music's most iconic images.
Australian Sergeant Leonard Siffleet executed by Japanese soldier.0 -
Almost 8 earth years after it's touchdown on Mars (25 January 2004) Mars Rover 'Opportunity', originally designed for a 3 month mission, is still making discoveries.
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A close-up from NASA's Opportunity rover shows the light-colored feature known as "Homestake" or "The Vein." Scientists report that the mineral vein consists of gypsum, a hydrated calcium sulfate that is formed on Earth in the presence of water and is used to make drywall and plaster of Paris. One of the joints in Opportunity's robotic arm can be seen in the picture's foreground.0 -
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That photo is a famous shot from WW2 commonly called Kombat. It was taken by Soviet war correspondent Макса Альперта is 1941, and he claimed that the political officer portrayed died immediately after it was taken. Much later, the officer was identified and there was a bit of controversy over whether it was staged propaganda.0 -
The Ulster Covenant was signed by just under half a million of men and women from Ulster, on and before September 28, 1912, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill, introduced by the Government in that same year. Sir Edward Carson was the first person to sign the Covenant at the Belfast City Hall with a silver pen[1] destined for immortality followed by Lord Londonderry, representatives of the Protestant Churches, and then by Sir James Craig. The signatories, 471,414 in all,[2] were all against the establishment of a Home Rule parliament in Dublin. The Ulster Covenant is immortalised in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Ulster 1912".0 -
"Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel," the defining portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential figures, almost didn’t happen, thanks to the Mahatma’s strict demands. Granted a rare opportunity to photograph India’s leader; Life staffer Margaret Bourke-White was all set to shoot when Gandhi’s secretaries stopped her cold: If she was going to photograph Gandhi at the spinning wheel (a symbol for India’s struggle for independence), she first had to learn to use one herself.
But that wasn’t all. The ascetic Mahatma wasn’t to be spoken to (it being his day of silence.) And because he detested bright light, Bourke-White was only allowed to use three flashbulbs. Having cleared all these hurdles, however, there was still one more – the humid Indian weather, which wreaked havoc on her camera equipment. When time finally came to shoot, Bourke-White’s first flashbulb failed. And while the second one worked, she forgot to pull the slide, rendering it blank.
She thought it was all over, but luckily, the third attempt was successful. In the end, she came away with an image that became Gandhi’s most enduring representation. it was also among the last portraits of his life; he was assassinated less than two years later.0 -
The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.0 -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Photographer: International Ladies Garment workers Union
Picture of bodies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Company rules were to keep doors closed to the factory so workers (mostly immigrant women) couldn’t leave or steal. When a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146 people died that day.0 -
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