• Photos that Shook the World
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[QUOTE=Jamsponge;38043348]Hey wait, I've just realised. It looks like you can see the curvature of the Earth in this picture. Are those few remaining idiotic people maybe going to finally start believing that the Earth is a sphere, or are they going to think that NASA photoshopped this one too or something?[/QUOTE] If they cared about evidence at all, it's possible to work out that the earth is round without leaving the ground. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature_of_the_Earth#Summary_of_evidence_for_a_spherical_earth[/url] They could just send up a balloon with a camera if they really wanted to know.
Uh, are there seriously people who don't think the earth is round out there ?
yea me
[QUOTE=_Axel;38050392]Uh, are there seriously people who don't think the earth is round out there ?[/QUOTE] [url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/[/url]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38054856][url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/[/url][/QUOTE] that's a parody
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;38054876]that's a parody[/QUOTE] I'm not so sure about that
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;38054876]that's a parody[/QUOTE] I've always hoped that it is, but I have my doubts. My guess is that there are some people who really believe it and some who make fun of them.
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;38054876]that's a parody[/QUOTE] Loads of trolls and a few people that really think like that.
Warsaw resistance during WWII. [img]http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/warsaw_uprising.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.warantiques.com/images/472_germanp517.gif[/img] [img]http://scoutmastercg.com/wp-content/uploads/typimg/warsaw_uprising_boyscouts.jpg[/img] [img]http://ww2db.com/images/weapon_blyskawica2.jpg[/img] [img]http://ww2db.com/images/battle_warsawuprising12.jpg[/img] When the soviets were chasing the Germans out of Poland, the soviets made their way to Warsaw. The Warsaw resistance saw the soviets, who they thought were their allies at their doorstep and rose up to help fight the Germans. The soviets were ordered to sit on the outside of the city until the resistance was wiped out by the Germans. The Soviets saw the resistance as the last ties to the Polish government that was in exile in England, so they let them get slaughtered so they could more easily setup a communist government in the country.
Assholes.
[img]http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://cdn2.americancivilwar.com/americancivilwar-cdn/pictures/colored_infantry.jpg&sa=X&ei=iFB_UJ6xHce6iwKpmYHYDA&ved=0CAoQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFDwgGFDQNJPCMKi15FqD-YZgslBg[/img] First few African American soldiers that enlisted once the Army accepted blacks.
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pT72kmgP5c0/T2w4CPEz54I/AAAAAAAAANE/Gah-0wm_6y8/s1600/699450.jpg[/img] [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_h4x4tQ57o8/T2w4GjnF4KI/AAAAAAAAANM/6sJiHQM_zhg/s1600/136406543_1.jpg[/img] [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZG_SM5LkVoU/T2w4P2T4XAI/AAAAAAAAANc/BJVdgzapvjA/s1600/finlands.jpg[/img] Swedish Recruitment poster to participate in the war between Soviet Union and Finland during the second world war. Pretty much highlighting at the top that it's our(Swedish) struggle aswell. The last one translates into "If you have a heart. Help Finland in its struggle. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_Sz_qXDrd_E/T2w3d06Cj9I/AAAAAAAAAMk/SZfzbep3NWk/s1600/finland-19.jpg[/img] Raising the Finish flag after winning a battle. [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XRJmWWsq_YU/T2w2qCOVzdI/AAAAAAAAAL0/XmqTakNNtpQ/s1600/imagescagopxp31.jpg[/img] First page in a very popular Swedish newspaper called Aftonbladet. About bombs being dropped in Finland.
More warsaw resistance photos [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Warsaw_Uprising_Blyskawica.jpg[/t] [img]http://www.euroheritage.net/warsaw3.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/34/34083b.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/APHistory/Warsaw_Uprising/p-warsawuprising.jpg[/img] [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ToYuqbUlu94/Tk9cuURMEII/AAAAAAAACcg/-T-_XPT89i8/s1600/Polish+Insurgents_8.Warsaw+Uprising.gif[/img] Statue dedicated to the children that died fighting in the Warsaw resistance. [img]http://travelsinpoland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/p231183-warsaw-a_boy_insurgent.jpg[/img] You've really got to hand it to the Warsaw resistance, they were persistent and dedicated. Men, Women, and Children all picked up weapons to try and fight off the Germans. They might not have succeeded, but they fought the good fight and did some damage.
That is honestly the most depressing statue in existence.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Warsaw_Uprising_-_Prudential_Hit_-_frame_2a.jpg[/IMG] A Karl-Gerat shell being fired at a building in the Warsaw Uprising. Other various images [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Warsaw_Uprising_by_Lokajski_-_3391.jpg[/t] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Powstanie_warszawskie_patrol.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2005-0034%2C_Warschauer_Aufstand%2C_deutsche_Soldaten.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/German_Brennkommando-firing_Warsaw_1944.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/AK-soldiers_Parasol_Regiment_Warsaw_Uprising_1944.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Warsaw_Uprising_by_Deczkowki_-_Wacek_Platoon_-_15911.jpg[/IMG] [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Warsaw_Uprising_by_Chrzanowski_-_Henio_Roma_-_14828.jpg[/t] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Warsaw_Uprising_stuka_ju-87_bombing_Old_Town.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Warsaw_Uprising_by_Deczkowki_-_Kolegium_A_-15861.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;38091564] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Warsaw_Uprising_stuka_ju-87_bombing_Old_Town.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Just imagine sitting in your home eating dinner one evening, when you hear dozens if not hundreds of Stuka dive bombers coming to bomb your neighborhood. While you hide in your cellar or under a table, this is all you can listen too for hours on end, hoping that a bomb doesn't bust through your roof [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZ504TGDpE&noredirect=1[/media] The Germans were brutal with their psychological warfare.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/teCcu.jpg[/img] Joseph Goebbels and his two daughters at a Christmas celebration in Berlin, 1937 [img]http://imgur.com/4pcIw.jpg[/img] Russian Peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920 [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/e3HN8.jpg[/thumb] The Mercury control room, 1962 [img]http://i.imgur.com/Gj8nO.jpg[/img] A German patrol passes two Jews in Galicia, 1915. Funny to think what would happen in a few decades' time.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38091727]Just imagine sitting in your home eating dinner one evening, when you hear dozens if not hundreds of Stuka dive bombers coming to bomb your neighborhood. While you hide in your cellar or under a table, this is all you can listen too for hours on end, hoping that a bomb doesn't bust through your roof [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZ504TGDpE&noredirect=1[/media] The Germans were brutal with their psychological warfare.[/QUOTE] fun fact: This sound is in Pink Floyd's Song - "In the Flesh?" list to the song at about 3:05 and you will hear the exact same stuka sound.
when the tigers broke free by pink floyd is about the battle of anzio, where roger waters' father died
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38091727]Just imagine sitting in your home eating dinner one evening, when you hear dozens if not hundreds of Stuka dive bombers coming to bomb your neighborhood. While you hide in your cellar or under a table, this is all you can listen too for hours on end, hoping that a bomb doesn't bust through your roof [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZ504TGDpE&noredirect=1[/media] The Germans were brutal with their psychological warfare.[/QUOTE] My favourite is how they managed to do this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1qsBGTkVSk[/media] And if the sound wasn't terrifying enough, it's made even worse by the fact that during the V-1's final descent, the engine was designed to cut out, and since everyone can hear the damn things, the thing that you would be most likely to see and hear before you died, would be [I]empty streets and complete silence.[/I]
I still think one of the most horrifying modern weapons is the MLRS [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fj97-UckI[/media] The Iraqi's nick named it steel rain, and were apparently horrified of it. During Desert Storm, we also would apparently blast Heavy Metal over loud speakers to scare the Iraqi's. So having a dozen MLRS' on a fire mission while blasting heavy metal would make for quite a show. [b]EDIT:[/B] The German Nebelwerfer was also pretty scary sounding [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtSTMYGEyaM[/media]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/KWBQB.jpg[/img] German POWs being forced to watch reports of the concentration camps.
Im browsing through this thread listening to Mat Kearney's Sooner or later. My goosebumps has goosebumps.
[IMG]http://y.delfi.ee/norm/193825/10556825_fJn3Vv.jpeg[/IMG] Estonian secondary school students fighting back the Soviets offensive in the beginning months of The Estonian War for Independence. Some of these young lads were from my school. We have a memorial tablet for those who died in the assembly hall. I can already feel my hands freezing over from just looking at this picture.
Lesson of the thread: The Germans were [b]really fucking good[/b] at psychological warfare. Not that it paid off, but hey!
[h2]the nam[/h2] [img]http://i.imgur.com/8kfzR.jpg[/img] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4reo79sXF1r5yz6bo1_1280.jpg[/img] "I avoided reblogging this image all day, as part of me felt that it was too “rough”. I just now had an epiphany: last week I was interviewed on how I felt about this path of thinking, specifically how the Austin Symphony Orchestra felt that cutting Veteran speakers from their 4th of July performance. I admitted to being upset, and honestly I am. I can’t believe that their reasoning was out of a fear that people might have felt put-off or disgusted, or terrified by hearing the stories. So here is my reblog and this will be the only thing that I leave on my page for the day. This happens every day. Then guys that went through shit like this come home just to fight battles of bureaucracy that make an “L” shaped ambush look like a game of hop-scotch, homelessness, unemployment, loneliness, depression, PTSD, TBI, drug and alcohol dependence, detachment from society, and a general feeling of being unappreciated. So here it is, America. The yellow ribbon you purchased at the local quicky mart, which was made in China, helped this Warrior in no way. Look. Take a good, long look. Think about it. I hope it fucks your weekend up. I hope it makes you cry. Image by Jerome Starkey - *side note - People who reblog these images need to credit the creators of the image. It’s impolite and disrespectful to do so otherwise. This isn’t just a photograph, it’s a validation of a point in time. Some one left the comfort of their home, and risked their life to go capture this image. Pay a little respect."
Jesus fucking Christ, could we have a little context to that bottom photograph?
thought i put the quotation on it, turns out it was on the wrong thread my bad
uh? Whats the context of the image? What specifically happened?
[QUOTE=jaykray;35981953]Hitler was chosen as Time's Person of the Year 1938 [IMG]http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1941.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That was before he was considered the deadliest man on Earth, yes he was still a Nazi, but being a Nazi was like being a side religion, Hitler made it into Time Magazine because he'd done something interesting in his community that caught Time's eye. Don't forget, everyone was a good person before they became a beast.
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