Has this photo been posted yet?
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GjbTRvhb0xM/T2euxvU5lHI/AAAAAAAADLY/5gMZCLxmLVU/s640/the+falling+soldier.jpg[/img]
It was taken during the Spanish Civil war, in 1936. All authenticity questions aside, this has always been a striking image to me.
[img]http://astro.u-szeged.hu/szakdolg/vegiandras/felhasznalas/erdekessegek/manhattan_after_rotated_s.jpg[/img]
I hate to bring up 9/11 again, but it was jarring the first time I saw that column of smoke from the towers.
And while on the subject of hockey...
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Paul_Henderson_1972.jpg[/img]
Paul Henderson after his game-winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series.
[img]http://www.bobbyorrhalloffame.com/files/robert-gordon-orr_2010-05-07_66958/image/large/orr.jpg[/img]
And Bobby Orr's Stanley Cup winning goal from 1970.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36134275]On the topic of sports...
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Clint Malarchuk after his Cartoid Artery was slashed open by another player.
[video=youtube;plvKlnguJVE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvKlnguJVE&feature=related[/video][/QUOTE]
I seriously thought he would die.
[QUOTE=fenwick;36138504]I seriously thought he would die.[/QUOTE]
Yea because his trainer is a badass.
[QUOTE]Malarchuk's life was saved by the team's trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, a former Army medic who had served in Vietnam. He reached into Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the bleeding, not letting go until doctors arrived to begin suturing the wound. Still, Malarchuk came within minutes of becoming only the third fatality to result from an on-ice injury in NHL history after Howie Morenz (1937) and Bill Masterton (1968). It was estimated that if the skate had hit 1/8 inch (3 mm) higher on Malarchuk's carotid, he would have been dead within two minutes. In the dressing room and on the way to the hospital, doctors spent 90 minutes and used over 300 stitches to close the wound.[/QUOTE]
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Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.
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A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument
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A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.
[QUOTE=fenwick;36138504]I seriously thought he would die.[/QUOTE]
I've heard that the only reason he lived was his coach ran out and pinched the artery closed. Otherwise, he would have died of blood loss.
Also, that video is the reason I always, ALWAYS wear a neck guard. I remember once I felt a skate blade across my back in a game, easily the scariest hockey experience I've ever had.
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Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011
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A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China
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A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.
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The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of their protest. Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result
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Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp "death train" near the Elbe in 1945
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[url]http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken[/url]
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Another, recently unearthed photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a new angle of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right
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Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong in 72
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Nixon_Mao_1972-02-29.png[/img]
[QUOTE=InstantKill;36138711]
[IMG]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/5/29/16/enhanced-buzz-wide-6951-1338324627-11.jpg[/IMG]
Another, recently unearthed photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a new angle of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right[/QUOTE]oh my. when you say recent how recent are you talking?
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this page is filled with amazing stuff. great going guys, keep this up. fav thread
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I'm pretty surprised I haven't seen any pictures of the situation in Syria yet. Or that's my memory playing up, it's not that great.
[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;36139897]I'm confused, who's the man? I'm assuming it's her husband or something, but some back story to this one, who they are, what they did and such would be lovely.[/QUOTE]
what man?
[QUOTE=Araknid;36139969]what man?[/QUOTE]
Oh shit. I'm a fucking idiot. I guess the hair and the skin tone change threw me off. That was my bad. :(
[QUOTE=Recurracy;36139907]I'm pretty surprised I haven't seen any pictures of the situation in Syria yet. Or that's my memory playing up, it's not that great.[/QUOTE]
I don't think we can really say an image has "shook the world" until much later after the fact.
I dunno but I think the situation is pretty shocking as is already.
Jesus.
I was going to post some interesting photos from WWII, but I don't think I have the stomach to actively go through everything that I just found.
Google "victims of fascism" with Safe Search turned off and you'll see what I mean.
I've seen a few paintings/illustrations here, so I'll assume these two are acceptable.
[img]http://www.sonofthesouth.net/uncle-sam/images/uncle-sam.jpg[/img]
[img]http://thinkcontra.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/rosie_the_riveter1.jpg[/img]
and this one might not necessarily be 'world shaking', but it's at the very least iconic.
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UVkn22TaUP4/TLY-gYmWh9I/AAAAAAAABaA/UwRjxZjfnCY/s1600/moonro2.jpg[/img]
Seeing Mengele at the top of this thread reminded me of this. It didn't 'rock the world', but it certainly impacted greatly on more than one person:
[img]http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/images/auschwitz_birkenau2b.jpg[/img]
This photo is on the walls at Auschwitz I and I saw it when I visited the camp this year. The picture is of the platform at Auschwitz on which the incoming prisoners were separated into two lines: the work line and the death line. Our tour guide told us that a few years back he had a tour group with a man in it that thought he recognised someone (his dad) in this photo. The guide told us that this man didn't know a lot about his father and that he came from a family that didn't like to discuss the Holocaust for obvious reasons. So the guide took this man to the Auschwitz archives and they checked to see whether or not the man in the photo was the father of the man in the tour group. Sure enough it was, and on that day this man finally found out that his father was a guard in the SS at Auschwitz who helped Mengele. (I apologize for not doing this story justice.)
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Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp "death train" near the Elbe in 1945
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This one is just fantastic. I can't even imagine how those people felt.
This make not of shook the world and not many people have seen.
[IMG]http://www.filmmovement.com/downloads/photos/9.Sub.01.jpg[/IMG]
The photo shows Rainer Hoess (on the left) ,who is the grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, standing in front of a group of Jewish Students and shaking the hand of a survivor of Auschwitz (on the right). This is quite a strong image in my opinion.
Reminds me of the movie "The boy in his striped pyjamas". Sure, it's just a movie, but there's something about seeing individuals from both parties together.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;36142901]Reminds me of the movie "The boy in his striped pyjamas". Sure, it's just a movie, but there's something about seeing individuals from both parties together.[/QUOTE]
Based on a book, and the book was based on a real story iirc.
[QUOTE=leet;35681581]Jeez. These 9/11 images almost completely change my opinion about the brutality of that day.
legitimately feel kinda sick seeing/reading all of that.
It's just amazing how, instantaneously, a living, breathing, thinking, complex individual with friends, family; a consciousness...turns into a congealed mess of fats and proteins upon impact. The moment of impact where it is registered but the brain is not destroyed must be so inconceivably painful.
Condolences to them :([/QUOTE]
Just wanted to say this, without reading the whole thread, so maybe someone already pointed it out.
But the human brain has some slight latency. It takes a while for your brain to interpret the signals coming from your eyes, ears and so on. I think the correct number is around 600-700 ms. So basically, one will never be able to experience their death if it's a fast one. That's why people who go unconscious usually don't remember how it happened.
[QUOTE=SataniX;36143373]Based on a book, and the book was based on a real story iirc.[/QUOTE]
Read that book earlier this year, I can't recommend it more.
When Miklós Fehér got a heart attack on the football field and died.
[IMG]http://zaymuttaqin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/image0181.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://socqer.com/static_media/uploaded_images/GIV67_braga_death.png[/IMG]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlxL6D63Mk[/media]
[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;36143650]When Miklós Fehér got a heart attack on the football field and died.
[IMG]http://zaymuttaqin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/image0181.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://socqer.com/static_media/uploaded_images/GIV67_braga_death.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
heart attacks must be one worst ways to die feel bad for him
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