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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Which is what, from a photo which shook the world perspective???????????
Point is that for demonstrating in public for gay rights you still get hit in the face with a whip which is pretty shocking to a lot of people in 2014.
....Anyway here's something from a few years back. This baby was dropped by it's parents 40 ft to the street below. A policeman caught the baby and she survived. The parents were being overcome by smoke and were not sure at the time if they would survive (they did) and took the chance of dropping the child, the fire brigade had not yet arrived and no safety net was available. Sadly nine people, including 5 children died in the blaze.
and in hospital a few days later, 6 month old Onur.
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Thai police commandos perform a drill during a training session at the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok0 -
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Polish Air Force Tu-154 crashes as it tries to land in heavy fog near the Russian city of Smolensk
The military airport was not equipped for instrument (non-visual, ILS landings) but the pilots make an attempt despite the poor visibility.
A valley on the approach path to the airport meant the pilots believed they were at a higher altitude relative to the runway. In fact, during the last few moments, they were flying lower than the runway. As they tried to abort, they could not escape the rising terrain of the valley slope.
From the damaged trees, the position of the aircraft can be determined in its last moments
There are no survivors. A number of high ranking Polish government and military officials are killed, including the president, Lech Kaczyński.
On visiting the crash site, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is warmly consoled by Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin.
The delegation were flying to Smolensk to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. A mass murder of Polish intellectuals, politicians, and military officers by the Soviets during WWII. Crimes that were only admitted by Russia in 1990.
Soon after the crash, Russian state TV broadcast 'Katyn', a film portraying the events of the massacre, and the events of WWII from the perspective of the war widows.
Kaczyński is laid to rest. Although he was a divisive figure, Poland is a country united in mourning.
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I visited Prison S21 in Cambodia in January. I also got a chance to meet 2 of the remaining survivors of the known 7 that escaped from it. Truely humbling to meet them. Chum Mey was deaf due to prolonged electrocution of his ears. The other survivor - Bou Meng, his wife was killed by the khmer rouge. The only photo he has of her is the photo taken of her by Pol Pots evil death cult. I feel some of us have nothing to complain about when you hear their stories.
Below is one of the many photographs that hung in the the old classrooms (the prison was originally a school) where the interrogations and torture took place. You could walk into this room and see this bed in the photo that was used in this very photograph.
You find yourself in the room staring at this picture on the wall and then looking down at where this person lay, roughly 35 years ago, stopped in your tracks by the reverence thats needed.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum
During a tour of the killing fields a few miles from S21, I was walking along a path only to notice a human tooth, a broken up part of a jaw bone and what looked like an arm or leg bone among the compacted soil below me. The rains tend to bring more bodies to the surface and its a common enough issue. Tragic is an understatement.0 -
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On May 10th 1933 Nazis started to burn books in Germany, burning all "un-German" books. Amongst the authors burned were Joyce, Lenin, Huxley, Jack London, Hemingway, Helen Keller, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Victor Hugo, Gorki, Dostoyevsky and several German writers including Heinrich Heine, whose words from 1821 are written in the memorial plaque from Frankfurt in the last photo.
“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people."
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I've always held a deep admiration and respect for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Four Presidents were assassinated during their Presidency, and Kennedy is the most recent victim of assassination.
When he was elected in 1960, at the age of 43, he was one of the youngest, most dynamic and most beloved Presidents in history. He carried himself with a dignity and a grace that was often found lacking in other leaders. He had his dark side (rumours of marital infidelity and prescription drug addiction dogged him), but despite his flaws, he was a great man. Had he lived to see out his Presidency, who knows how different (and potentially better) the world would be.
For many people, JFK symbolised a hope and an optimism in a time when the world was shrouded in darkness. The world was teetering on the brink of nuclear war between the USA and the USSR. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khruschev, both deserve huge credit for peering into the abyss but recoiling at what they saw, and tried to preserve world peace.
For many people, the innocence and optimism of the 1960's was destroyed when an assassin claimed the life of the young President in Dealy Plaza, Dallas, on November 22nd, 1963. The outpouring of grief and sorrow at his death has not been seen since at the passing of a President. Particularly strong feelings of sadness were felt here in Ireland at his passing, as he had a strong Irish connection.
The remains of John Fitzgerald Kennedy lie in repose in the East Room of the White House.
The caparisoned, riderless horse named "Black Jack" during a departure ceremony held at the United States Capitol Building in conjunction with the state funeral of John F. Kennedy, 1963.
Grief and pain etched into their faces, Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy follow Jacqueline Kennedy as she leaves the United States Capitol with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy, after viewing the lying in state of John F. Kennedy, 1963.
In probably one of the most famous and heartbreaking photos in American history, on the day of his 3rd birthday, John F. Kennedy Junior salutes his father's coffin as it leaves the United States Capitol.
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I think it's posted before but it's appropriate after that last post.
Lyndon Johnson being sworn in with Jackie Kennedy beside him, still wearing the coat that is covered her in husbands blood. "I want them to see what they have done to Jack." was her explanation for wearing the suit.
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On this day 70 years ago, nearly 160,000 men crossed the English channel in the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the invasion of Nazi-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
Let us never forget.
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D-Day was a mere sideshow. The war was won in the East.
Nonsense. Stalin was demanding the Allies open a second front at every opportunity he could. There's countless stories of how partisans in France, Greece, the Balkans and other occupied countries tied down X amount of German divisions. The Allies did the same by just threatening to landing in France, not to mention the fighting in Italy.
Even IF it were true, it brushes off the sacrifice, pain and suffering people went through for that "sideshow".
Oh, here's a picture of probably Germany's most famous general, Erwin Rommel, inspecting the Atlantic Wall. He was put in command of the defences to stop the Allies landing.
Don't forget some of the best panzer divisions in the Wehrmacht were waiting in the areas behind the beaches.
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Forgot to post these yesterday. American troops roll in to liberate Rome on June 5th 1944. The Canadians had done alot of hard fighting up the Po valley towards the city and were then told to hold back so American troops could take the city. The Canadians had their thunder stolen but then so did the victorious troops in Italy as D-Day was one day later and the liberation of Rome was glossed over.
Was pretty shocking since it was the first of the Axis capital cities to be occupied and considering how important Rome was to the Germans and how they fought so tenaciously to defend it. The landscape of Italy meant the Allies were constantly fighting up hills and mountains, across rivers and open valleys, exposing themselves almost constantly to the defensive German positions.0 -
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