This is not a picture, but it is very fitting to this thread.
A very emotional and moving speech written and acted by Charlie Chaplin for his 1940 film "The Great Dictator", a film he made to satirize Hitler.
It was very meaningful at the time it was released, and the words in it still hold very heavy value.
[video=youtube;WibmcsEGLKo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&feature=related[/video]
Again, sorry it's not a picture, but it fits the context of the thread very well. Listen to the speech, I've seen people shed tears while hearing this.
Fun fact: Hitler saw this film twice.
Perhaps there could be a video thread too, that could be quite successful.
[QUOTE=jaykray;36023675]Perhaps there could be a video thread too, that could be quite successful.[/QUOTE]
there was one a while ago, it died out. I guess if we merge it with this thread we could keep it running for a while.
This is also one of my favorite speeches; it just makes you feel alive, doesn't it?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q[/media]
[editline]20th May 2012[/editline]
also this summer i'll see if I can get you guys some photos from when Israel invaded Palestine, my grandfather lived there at the time and maybe he has some photos
Not a photo but still creeps me out
the Jonestown Death Tape (the speech Jim Jones gave before killing him and his Followers during the Mass suicide.)
[url]http://archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16[/url]
Its 44 minutes but is sure as hell worth listening too.
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Oklahoma City Bombing victim, the firefighter Chris Fields was taken holding the near lifeless body of infant Baylee Robinson, she did not survive.
Surprised that this wasn't posted here yet:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Hindenburg_burning.jpg[/img]
[quote]The [i]Hindenburg[/i] disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ-129 [i]Hindenburg[/i] caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with a mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crew), there were 35 fatalities, including one ground crewman.[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA[/media]
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Il Duce, Mussolini, hanging upside down after being beaten severely by a mad mob.[/QUOTE]
In color (with his mistress laying beside him after she was murdered):
[img]http://jonjost.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/mussolinicrp.jpg[/img]
He looked like a sad lasagna.
[QUOTE=Chaplin;36023557]This is not a picture, but it is very fitting to this thread.
A very emotional and moving speech written and acted by Charlie Chaplin for his 1940 film "The Great Dictator", a film he made to satirize Hitler.
It was very meaningful at the time it was released, and the words in it still hold very heavy value.
[video=youtube;WibmcsEGLKo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&feature=related[/video]
Again, sorry it's not a picture, but it fits the context of the thread very well. Listen to the speech, I've seen people shed tears while hearing this.
Fun fact: Hitler saw this film twice.[/QUOTE]I cried, That was amazing.
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A V-1 flying bomb a split second before impact.
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A German soldier locked in The Thousand Yard Stare.
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[img]http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/262777d1302456378-lockerbie-air-disaster-scotland-21-december-1988-lockerbie-aerial_451371a1.jpg[/img]
The aftermath of the Lockerbie Bombing
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A German soldier locked in The Thousand Yard Stare.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/James_Blake_Miller_as_Marlboro_Marine.jpg[/img]
Probably only been posted but whatever. Felt like posting this for the sake of the parallels or whatever.
Not a photo but hey, also all the other parts are just as shocking, but I found this one to be one of the worst especially at 3:20 or so.[video=youtube;4IMgtxG4kF8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMgtxG4kF8&feature=relmfu[/video]
Fucking A' man.
Though even when it was legal in more US states, it wasn't like...[I]that.[/I]
Every spec, smudge, smear or dot of light in the picture, is an entire galaxy with perhaps billions upon billions of stars within them. Stars that can have planets orbiting around them, planets that can have a variety of life forms, or just a rocky barren world. Either way, it's still amazing.
[sp]click the picture[/sp]
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[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/heic0707a1.tif[/url]
On its 17th anniversary, Hubble gives the world a big present - a 29,566 x 14,321 pixel image (500 MB TIFF image) of the Carina Nebula.
This panoramic image of the nebula gives us a peek into star formation as it commonly occurs along the dense spiral arms of a galaxy.
The Carina Nebula is located a mere 7,500 light years away in the southern constellation Carina, the keel of the old southern constellation Argo Navis. The Carina Nebula is a stunning view of a birthplace of new stars; there are more than a dozen stars present in the nebula that are estimated to have a mass of greater than 50 to 100 times the mass of the Sun. The unreal landscape began its formation around 3 million years ago when the first stars in the nebula ignited amid a cloud of molecular hydrogen.
The radiation that these stars gave off etched away the matter that started out in the nebula. The remaining globs of matter are those that have resisted being destroyed by the intense photoionization. New stars are being formed thanks to the violent stellar wind and intense radiation compressing the surrounding wall of cold molecular hydrogen.
It is believed that our own solar system began in a similar cosmic blast furnace. This image shows that Hubble can still offer an unparalleled view into the outer workings of the universe around us. As our astute NI readers know, the colors are added later, for the interested, the image was taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Color was later added by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile; red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.
Hopefully this image shows just how much can still be learned from an "old" piece of equipment, which is sadly destined to end up as space junk in the not so distant future.
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British heavy battlecruiser HMS [i]Invincible[/i] has her magazines detonated by a 12-inch shell from the German battlecruiser SMS [i]Derfflinger[/i] and is subsequently blasted completely in half. Out of the 1,032 sailors aboard, all with the exception of six were killed- including Rear-Admiral Horace Hood.
I did this thread a long time ago, before loads of threads where deleted from FP.
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[IMG]http://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/files/2009/11/1956-10-31_Stalin_Statue_Pulled_Down_Hungary.jpg[/IMG]
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The Stalin Statue in Budapest.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36045907][IMG]http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/1956/images/1956_hungarians_stalin_head2.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/1956_hungarians_stalin_head.jpg[/IMG]
The Stalin Statue in Budapest.[/QUOTE]
Didn't the USSR send in their military and brutally suppress this revolt?
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;36046154]Didn't the USSR send in their military and brutally suppress this revolt?[/QUOTE]
yes
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;35934627]Interesting note about that fire factory: It was the direct cause of why many buildings have mandatory fire escapes.
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I thought fire escapes were already commonplace by that time.
The factory had one, but it was old and rusty and it collapsed under the weight of the people trying to use it, causing them to fall to their death.
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[QUOTE=jeimizu;36046401]I thought fire escapes were already commonplace by that time.
The factory had one, but it was old and rusty and it collapsed under the weight of the people trying to use it, causing them to fall to their death.
[IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mlPoGU4VqSk/S6uIUS5hCoI/AAAAAAAAHJ4/FeDIr7E5erM/s400/triangle.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
A few did, but they were not mandated by regulation and so majority of buildings did not have them. If a building before then had a fire escape, it was because the architect or contractor that built the building was very generous (or just had some plain old common sense).
Just read the thread start to finish. I don't think I have felt such powerful conflicting emotions in a long time. I was disheartened and motivated, horrified and inspired, infuriated and gratified, and more than everything else I was awed. 11/10 thread, would [I]live[/I] through again.
[editline]22nd May 2012[/editline]
P.S: sorry if that was corny, after reading a thread like this it's hard not to be
I feel the same when looking through the deviantArt Appreciation Station.
so I just asked my mum and apparently my grandfather has a bunch of pictures from the Palestinian war. How do you think I should present them to you guys? A video or just pictures with all their backstories?
also just some info, my grandparents on both sides of my family lived in palestine when they were young, the ones on my mother's side were incredibly rich. One day they were driven out of their house by an Israeli with a gun, the moved to Jordan without a single dollar to their name, now my grandfather is 85 and my grandmother is 70 something and they are once again filthy rich. I've always wanted to know about the war and I guess you guys might enjoy some photos too.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;36045146]I noticed it compared this to lethal injections.
The thing with lethal injections, however, is that it sends the person into an unconscious state before the lethal chemical is introduced. They don't feel anything.[/QUOTE]
Isn't shooting someone in the head instantaneous?(you can always make them go into an unconscious state)
It would be cheaper but at the same time though going through the cons of this is how messy it is and how much it can damaged someone's mind
Not old, not world shaking yet. But absolutely history, happening right now.
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[QUOTE=Matrix374;36053160]Isn't shooting someone in the head instantaneous?(you can always make them go into an unconscious state)
It would be cheaper but at the same time though going through the cons of this is how messy it is and how much it can damaged someone's mind[/QUOTE]
It depends entirely on where the bullet hits.
[editline]22nd May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Goodthief;36052521]so I just asked my mum and apparently my grandfather has a bunch of pictures from the Palestinian war. How do you think I should present them to you guys? A video or just pictures with all their backstories?
also just some info, my grandparents on both sides of my family lived in palestine when they were young, the ones on my mother's side were incredibly rich. One day they were driven out of their house by an Israeli with a gun, the moved to Jordan without a single dollar to their name, now my grandfather is 85 and my grandmother is 70 something and they are once again filthy rich. I've always wanted to know about the war and I guess you guys might enjoy some photos too.[/QUOTE]
Post the pictures here with the back-stories, I'd love to see them.