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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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This one always makes me shudder http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/7/9/1341845053748/Tom-Simpson-008.jpg
I assume that is moments before this.jpg)
For those who don't know, that is Tom Simpson, he died of a heart attack while cycling the Tour de France on Mont Ventoux. It is one hell of a challenge in that tour. He was under severe financial stress and needed to win, he pushed himself to his limit and clearly beyond
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On cycling, the Irish RAS Tailteann has a very interesting history. Of note is the 1956 stage from Newry to Armagh when the RUC stopped the race and removed the Irish Tricolour which was flying from the leading official race car. A fracas then ensued between the RUC wielding batons and the Irish cyclists. The cyclists managed to win back the flag and proudly rode to the border.
http://www.rastailteann.com/event/printer_476.shtml
http://velbib.wordpress.com/tag/the-ras/0 -
George Lincoln Rockwell
In the above photo taken on February 25th 1962, Eve Arnold captured a surreal scene: that of Rockwell, flanked by members of his American Nazi Party, listening to Malcolm X’s speech to black Muslims at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. It was an obscure episode in American history, when Rockwell’s white supremacists and Malcolm X’s National of Islam took segregation to its extreme ends and called for independent nations, separated by skincolour.
Rockwell was comfortable being a caricature. He believed all blacks should be deported to Africa; every Jew dispossessed and sterilised — hatreds dwarfed only by his disdain for ‘queers’. He also wanted to hang “traitors” such as former Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. When Playboy sent a black journalist to interview him, Rockwell sat for the interview with pistol on the side table.0 -
Ok, another set of photos. I said I'd rather post them than share the link to them, I feel it has a greater impact on the users here. These photos can be described as more powerful than shocking, either way I feel it is appropriate.
LINK: http://www.viralnova.com/these-20-photographs-will-leave-you-speechless-especially-the-6th-one-there-are-no-words/
World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show.
100s of galaxies seen through the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), as they were 10 billion years ago.
Sunset on Mars, taken in 2005 by the Spirit rover.
A soldier making the long walk to defuse a car bomb in Northern Ireland.
Neil Armstrong after his Moonwalk.
Regina Walters, moments before being murdered – Robert Ben Rhoades was a truck driver/serial killer that liked to pick up hitchhikers and torture them for a while in his truck before killing them. One of his victims was a 14 year old runaway from Texas named Regina Walters. Walters’ remains were found in an abandoned barn in Illinois. However, her disappearance wasn’t connected to Rhoades until after Rhoades was arrested for abducting another woman. When police searched Rhoades’ home they found this photo.
Ignorance is bliss – Homeless man sleeps outside a diner in Milwaukee.
Nazi rally at Nuremberg in 1937.
This photo was taken by astronaut Michael Collins, when he took this photo he was the only human, alive or dead, that wasn’t in the frame of this picture. He travelled with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and orbited the moon whilst they were landing to study the surface of the moon from farther out.
Lithuanian man in shock after accidentally hitting and killing an eight year old.
Turkish official teases starving Armenian children by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
A Filipino politician took this photo of his family moments before being assassinated.
Two engineers died when the windmill they were working on caught fire. This might be the last picture taken of them alive. Picture was taken on October 29th, 2013 in the Netherlands.
A monk prays for a dead man in the station hall of the Shanxi Taiyuan Train Station, China. The man died suddenly of natural causes while waiting for a train.
Girl devastated after the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.
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The orange Sossusvlei sand dunes in Namibia.
Boy tries to wake up his alcoholic father.
“The last Jew in Vinnitsa” – Member of Einsatzgruppe D (a Nazi SS death squad) is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred.
Man uses the suicide hotline on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Undulating clouds.
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For those who can't remember/weren't born [info]Pan Am Flight 103 (also known as the Lockerbie bombing) was a Pan Am transatlantic flight from London to New York City that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board.[2] Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.......
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Jane Fonda - 1972 giving an interview while sitting on a North Vietnam AA gun
When asked asked about the reports that the POWs were being mistreated and tortured, she said they were "hypocrites and liars...These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed....but military careerists and professional killers...trying to make themselves look self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to the law"
John Kerry - 1971 Testifying against the Vietnam War to Congress
John Kerry - 2013 Gets ready to push hard for Congress to back military intervention in Syria (turns his back on Anti War Protester)
Bowe Bergdahl - The only US POW today (held by the Taliban since 2009)
Bowe became disillusioned with the Afghan war and walked off his base unarmed. He was captured by the Taliban shortly afterwards.0 -
LINK: http://www.viralnova.com/these-20-photographs-will-leave-you-speechless-especially-the-6th-one-there-are-no-words/
World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show.
I showed this to the brother in law yesterday and he said he'd read on the russia today website that this was fake. There was a few Soldiers at the reunion and the photo was taken after the event as the man waited to be collected. Unfortunately a search of the Russia today site yields nothing.0 -
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Not sure if these have been posted before, but...
A grief stricken American infantryman whose friend has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. August 28, 1950
Just say no...
With over a hundred walls of death traveling the US by the 1930s, perhaps the coolest version was the 'Liondrome' in which a rider is accompanied by a tamed lion.0 -
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Not sure if these have been posted before, but...
A grief stricken American infantryman whose friend has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. August 28, 1950
Just say no...
With over a hundred walls of death traveling the US by the 1930s, perhaps the coolest version was the 'Liondrome' in which a rider is accompanied by a tamed lion.
no info on the second picture no ??0 -
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Syria, before the war and today.
Umayyad mosque, Aleppo, pictured in 2012 (above) and 2013 (below)
Souq Bab Antakya, Aleppo. Above in 2009 and below after an attack in 2012.
The Old Souk, Aleppo. Above in 2007 and below in 2013
A street in Homs, in 2011 (above) and 2014 (below)
al-Kindi hospital, Aleppo. Above in 2012 and below in 2013
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