• Photos that Shook the World
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September 11, 1973 Coup d'état in Chile Bombardment of "La Moneda" Palace (the government palace located in Santiago de Chile), the "main" mission was to take down the government of Salvador Allende, who was leading the country to a several and unstoppable economic crisis, after the bombs were dropped, he killed himself with an AK-47. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Golpe_de_Estado_1973.jpg/800px-Golpe_de_Estado_1973.jpg[/img] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KW_lRbjOKIU/TIf4OVol3YI/AAAAAAAABcA/ZVQYaYlVUsY/s1600/golpe_de_estado_chile_1973.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.elpatagonico.cl/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/golpe_estado-chile.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.eltriangular.info/IMG/image/CHRISTINE-MARIE/320153959_77c2d5a495.jpg[/img] After that, the dictator Augusto Pinochet names himself as President of Chile from 1973 to 1990, under a dictatorship régime [img]http://www.doctor-risco.com/Cronicas/Images/pinochet_junta_1973.jpg[/img] [img]http://cdn1.beeffco.com/files/poll-images/normal/augusto-pinochet_1179.jpg[/img] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iwMrZJRe32o/TP0AdH8Y9pI/AAAAAAAAADo/9B0JKBYVkAQ/s1600/untitled.bmp67.bmp[/img] in 1988, there was a massive national voting system called the "plebiscito" (plebiscite in English), to vote if Pinochet stays as President or not. Two campaigns were made with the simple words "SI (if u wanted Pinochet to stay) and NO (the opposite)", finally the "NO" won and the Democracy was back in 1990, [img]http://somos9.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/plebiscito-1988.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.hommodolars.org/web/IMG/jpg/abrazodelno.jpg[/img] on December 10 of 2006, Augusto Pinochet died at 91 [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Pinochet_muerto.jpg/200px-Pinochet_muerto.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.critica.cl/jpg/pinochet_6.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38110051]uh? Whats the context of the image? What specifically happened?[/QUOTE] That's what I wanna know too. Was he ambushed? Is that his blood? Is it someone elses blood?
[quote]Specialist Jacob William Moore, 21, clutches the hand of a seriously wounded comrade, on board a medevac air ambulance racing towards Kandahar Air Field (KAF), in southern Afghanistan. The men, from the 2-502 Infantry's Attack Company were caught in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Zhari district in Kandahar Province, as they carried a stretcher holding a soldier injured in an earlier blast. Two Americans and one Afghan soldier were killed in the Nalgham attacks, four others, including Spc Moore, were wounded. The troops are part of the 101st Airborne Division - known as the screaming eagles - sent to Afghanistan in Jun 2010 as part of Barack Obama's surge. Moore and his comrades paid tribute to their fallen as "phenomenal soldiers". They said the general public in America have no idea what is going on in Afghanistan.[/quote] Found it while researching Spc Moore.
thanks, i was looking for the original caption
Adolf Hitler's 50th Birthday [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/01_47-34.jpg?w=735[/img] [quote]The automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche (in suit), Adolf Hitler and, immediately to Hitler's left, the head of the German Labour Front, Robert Ley, admire Hitler's birthday gift on his 50th birthday: a convertible Volkswagen. [/quote] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/02_47-53a.jpg?w=737[/img] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/03_47-50c.jpg?w=333[/img] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/04_47-48.jpg?w=336[/img] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/06_47-84.jpg?w=730[/img] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/08_47-52a.jpg?w=735[/img] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/11_00086807.jpg?w=732[/img] [quote]A rally in celebration of Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday, Berlin, April 20, 1939 [/quote] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/13_47-35.jpg?w=737[/img] [quote]The automobile engineer and designer Ferdinand Porsche (in suit) presents Hitler with a convertible Volkswagen for Hitler's 50th birthday, Berlin, Germany, April 20, 1939. "Hitler loved to have his driver tear along at 80 mph," LIFE magazine once noted, "until 1939 when he turned superstitious about accidents and made 35 mph the limit." [/quote] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/15_47-29.jpg?w=738[/img] [quote]Adolf Hitler receives a model of a Condor airplane as a gift on his 50th birthday, Berlin, April 20, 1939. Beside Hitler (left) stands Capt. Hans Bauer, his personal pilot [/quote] [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/19_00086916.jpg?w=720[/img] [quote]Berlin's Brandenburg gate and colonnades are lit up at night in honor of Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday, April 20, 1939 Read more: [url]http://life.time.com/history/hitler-at-50-rare-color-photos-of-a-despots-birthday/#ixzz29rT7lyHq[/url][/quote]
[QUOTE=PC_Paul;38114326]Adolf Hitler's 50th Birthday [img]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/01_47-34.jpg?w=735[/img] [/QUOTE] "Ferdinand, this isn't the tank destroyer I ordered, Oh you!"
hehe his expression reminded me of [IMG]http://s17.postimage.org/a60xid5vj/oh_you_BH.png[/IMG]
I remember some old WW2 German "never before seen" picture with a enormous crowd waiting for hitler. Anyone know of this pic?
Anyone have more photos of the Warsaw uprising? They're really interesting.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;38118483]Anyone have more photos of the Warsaw uprising? They're really interesting.[/QUOTE] [img]http://cmd23.ipj.gov.pl/images/kon/wasmf.jpg[/img] I'm done for now digging through archives. I'll try and find some more Stalngrad or Kursk later.
Photos of Germany before September 1939 really intrigue me. I think people forget that the Nazis were in power almost a whole decade before the war began, and forget people lived under their regime as if it was how it always would be from now on and that Hitler was, to much of the whole world, generally an okay kind of guy.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38126318]Photos of Germany before September 1939 really intrigue me. I think people forget that the Nazis were in power almost a whole decade before the war began, and forget people lived under their regime as if it was how it always would be from now on and that Hitler was, to much of the whole world, generally an okay kind of guy.[/QUOTE] Practically all the world, excluding the UK, saw hitler as another pot-shot Kaiser-esque ruler who'd get his ass handed to him in a revolution. Everyone was too busy licking their wounds from WWI to give a damn.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38126318]Photos of Germany before September 1939 really intrigue me. I think people forget that the Nazis were in power almost a whole decade before the war began, and forget people lived under their regime as if it was how it always would be from now on and that Hitler was, to much of the whole world, generally an okay kind of guy.[/QUOTE] If you're interested in the subject, read [I]In the Garden of Beasts[/I] by Erik Larson. It's about the US Ambassador and his family moving to Germany in 1933-34. It's fascinating to read and find out about what life was like in Berlin in the early years of the Hitler regime.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;38128726]If you're interested in the subject, read [I]In the Garden of Beasts[/I] by Erik Larson. It's about the US Ambassador and his family moving to Germany in 1933-34. It's fascinating to read and find out about what life was like in Berlin in the early years of the Hitler regime.[/QUOTE] Seconding this, it is a [I]wonderful[/I] book.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;38126361]Practically all the world, excluding the UK, saw hitler as another pot-shot Kaiser-esque ruler who'd get his ass handed to him in a revolution. Everyone was too busy licking their wounds from WWI to give a damn.[/QUOTE] Wounds were done being licked by the mid 1920s. By time Hitler rose to power, they were searching a way out of the Great Depression.
[img]http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/7/prod_759.jpg[/img] in mid 1962, spy satellites snap photos of construction sites inside cuba, a few months later, u-2 and other recon flyovers, confirm construction of launch sites in cuba, along with warheads on ships, bringing the world to the brink of cataclysm [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Upshot-Knothole_GRABLE.jpg/250px-Upshot-Knothole_GRABLE.jpg[/img][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Uk-grable2.jpg/200px-Uk-grable2.jpg[/img] not sure if it's shocked the world, but this image is generally (and missrepresentingly) used to represent the raw power of nuclear bombs, even though its actually a picture of a low yield artillery piece
Our U-2s were some of the best spy planes ever built Pic related, its two soviet soldiers on a latrine not too far away from a missile site. [IMG]http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/121018_toilet.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Disotrtion;38134039]Our U-2s were some of the best spy planes ever built Pic related, its two soviet soldiers on a latrine not too far away from a missile site. [IMG]http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/121018_toilet.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] yeah man, they were pretty great [img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/u2-wreckage.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38134156]yeah man, they were pretty great [img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/u2-wreckage.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Yes, one was shot down, once
actually twice, one was shot down in cuba during the missile crisis and one was shot down over the USSR. Still the best planes, still better than anything the soviets had.
[QUOTE=Sableye;38133434][img]http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/7/prod_759.jpg[/img] in mid 1962, spy satellites snap photos of construction sites inside cuba, a few months later, u-2 and other recon flyovers, confirm construction of launch sites in cuba, along with warheads on ships, bringing the world to the brink of cataclysm [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Upshot-Knothole_GRABLE.jpg/250px-Upshot-Knothole_GRABLE.jpg[/img][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Uk-grable2.jpg/200px-Uk-grable2.jpg[/img] not sure if it's shocked the world, but this image is generally (and missrepresentingly) used to represent the raw power of nuclear bombs, even though its actually a picture of a low yield artillery piece[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AMtUeyDP0[/media]
[QUOTE=lunarwalrus;38145973][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AMtUeyDP0[/media][/QUOTE] apparently even the test was half the size of the actual end product
Those photos remind me strongly of how close we are to self destruction.
I really don't think that humanity is really threatened by nuclear war anymore. The idea of mutually assured destruction pretty much means that nobody is willing to push the button.
[QUOTE=kaine123;38156772]I really don't think that humanity is really threatened by nuclear war anymore. The idea of mutually assured destruction pretty much means that nobody is willing to push the button.[/QUOTE] We have way to much to loose.
[QUOTE=kaine123;38156772]I really don't think that humanity is really threatened by nuclear war anymore. The idea of mutually assured destruction pretty much means that nobody is willing to push the button.[/QUOTE] Actual nuclear war is yesterday. Dirty bombs is where it's at, now.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;38158739]Actual nuclear war is yesterday. Dirty bombs is where it's at, now.[/QUOTE] Dirty bombs are a scare weapon nothing else. All they do is increase the cancer risk. You would need an enormous dirty bomb to kill people via radiation poisoning MAD doesn't work on people who think their Gods gift such as the fuck who runs Iran
A terrorist organization would never be able to get enough radioactive material to make a dirty bomb. However, if it had support from someone like Iran who has access to enough material, it may be do-able.
Lets put it this way. Imagine Chernobyl as a dirty bomb. That's a dirty bomb with 20 TONNES of radioactive material. How may people were killed by the radiation? 100 tops? Any significant dirty bomb threat would require an enormous bomb
Those were just killed in the immediate aftermath, theres still people dying today, including children, because of lymph node cancer. A small dirty bomb could have similar effects, but not on the same scale.
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