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Some meaningful pictures throughout history copied from another forum. Some may be graphic- feel free to add your own.
BAGHDAD A photo obtained by the Washington Post and released Thursday, May 6, 2004,
shows a soldier identifed as U.S. Army Spc. Lynndie England, 21, of the 372nd Military
Police Company with a naked detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison
At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II
was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit
(MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and
fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space
walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen
and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140
kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit.
The MMU was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.
On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman took this infamous photograph while working for the Boston Herald. He climbed on the back of a fire truck as it raced towards a reported fire at Marlborough Street. Just as the crew had arrived at the scene, a young woman and small girl fell from an apartment above. The woman died instantly, but the young girl lived. This photo earned Forman a Pulitzer prize, and in addition, convinced Boston and several other cities to introduce more comprehensive fire safety laws.
This example of emotive imagery is of child in Uganda holding hands with a missionary.
The stark contrast between the two people serves as a reminder of the gulf in wealth
between developed and developing countries. Mike Wells, the photographer, took this
picture to show the extent of starvation in Africa. He took it for a magazine, and when
they went 5 months without printing it, he decided to enter it into a competition.
However, Wells has stated that he is against winning a compeition with a picture of a starving boy.
On August the 29th Katrina hit Louisiana, most notably New Orleans where 80% of the city flooded
because the flood protection system was breached in more than fifty places. The hurricane
caused over $80 billion in damages and over 1800 people were confirmed to have died with over 700 missing.
John Bachar the climbing legend who passed away last year.
This picture was the inspiration for "The Falling Man", one of the seven greatest Esquire stories of alltime: The Falling Man - Tom Junod - 9/11 Suicide Photograph - Esquire.
Every story is incredible and worth the read.
Doors to Hell in Uzbekistan
This is the Duke family. The father, Charles Moss Duke, Jr. born October 3, 1935. The mom, Dorothy Meade Claiborne. The two sons, Charles and Thomas. They are probably in their garden, sitting on a bench. They look so happy.
And they should be, because Charles Moss Duke was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972. He landed with mission commander John W. Young at the Descartes Highlands, which is what makes this photo so special: It's still there, untouched, unperturbed, exactly in the same position as he left it before taking this snapshot with his Hasselblad 70mm film camera.
More info at: http://gizmodo.com/5377509/this-is-n...y-family-photo
957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
Akintunde Akinleye, Nigeria, Reuters.
Man rinses his face after oil pipeline explosion, Nigeria, 26 December
Marine Sergeant Ty Ziegel already had his life planned out, he would marry his girlfriend Renee Kline upon returning from his second tour of duty in Iraq.
But one fateful day a suicide bomber hit his truck, tearing apart his body and making him among the 20,000 soldiers that have been wounded in Iraq. He was blind in one eye, had a shattered skull, and most of his skin was burned off. Renee lived with Ty at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas for a year and a half, sharing Ty's every hope and fear. Their relationship became stronger than ever, and Ty and Renee moved back to their hometown in Illinois in July 2006, and got married in shortly thereafter.
On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere.
An amateur astronomer named Thierry Legault took this crazy photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis silhouetted by the sun.
The shuttle (which is only 37m long and has a 24m wingspan) was traveling 17,500 mph at 350 miles above the Earth's surface -- and Legault says he only had .8 seconds to get the shot. The sun looms in the background a mere 91 million miles away.
Unknown english soldier, buried out of respect by germans in arnhem
More to come..
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A forensic investigator in Tijuana examines a vertebra and other bone fragments that were all that remained of a human body recovered from a barrel of acid.
The gruesome discovery in the Otay Mesa part of the city is consistent with a signature killing style of "El Teo", Tijuana's most wanted cartel kingpin.
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Picture of bullet casings carpet a street in Monrovia (the capital of Liberia), at the heart of the battlefield between government and rebel soldiers
Omayra Sanchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died.
The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)
WHale shark
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Scientists in Hungary have invented see-through concrete. Filled with optical fibres that run from one end of a poured piece of concrete to the other, these prefabricated blocks and panels effectively transmit light from one side to the other.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/0...20070207113000
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A gigantic cloud of dust, called a haboob, advances toward Khartoum, Sudan, in April. Seasonal haboobs can reach as high as 3,000 feet.
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a bomb dropped by an Israeli air force F-16 jet exploding in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, on January 3, 2009
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