Images that define history

[quirk]

These threads have always proved to be very sucessful on other forums so I just thought I would start one here. Post any image that you feel defines a moment in history. Also if it is not an image or event well known to others could you say a few words about what the image is. Here is one to start us off:

http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image1.jpg

[quirk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Red_army_soldiers_raising_the_soviet_flag_on_the_r oof_of_the_reichstag_berlin_germany.jpg/800px-Red_army_soldiers_raising_the_soviet_flag_on_the_r oof_of_the_reichstag_berlin_germany.jpg

[Enver]

For those that don't already know this is Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Guernica is a town in the Basque region that was bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War. Though it isn't a photo it is still a very important image or rather statement about War, the 20th century and where humanity is headed. It hangs in the UN HQ in New York. The US demanded that it be covered by a curtain while they were outlining their plan to invade Iraq. Bizarrely the painting was concealed as requested. :eek: :(

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1500769_Depression20Pablo20Picasso.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com)

[quirk]

http://orugallu.net/vinDu/images/misc/sudanchild1.jpg

The photo above is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine-stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer, Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later, he committed suicide due to depression.

[Finny]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/tiananmen-square-tanks.jpg

[elle]

http://andrightlyso.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/The%20Falling%20Man.jpg

[Friend or Foe]

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/174/bwlivingjf3.jpg

[elle]

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/42/422/422921/conlon1989AP_bredsak.jpg

Gerry Conlon

[LARKIN32]

The Picture Of Mussolini Hanging!

[quirk]

The Picture Of Mussolini Hanging!


This one?

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3226585.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=27D044C0A019FA6C3CDC3E711A6FA324A55A1E4F32AD3138

[quirk]

Vietnam
http://www.uiowa.edu/~policult/assets/VietNam/napalm_kim_phuc.jpg

Iraq
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/imagefolder/abughraib.jpg

[medoosa29]

http://www.thestormtrack.com/images/ruumiita4ft_small.jpg

[LARKIN32]

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/42/422/422921/conlon1989AP_bredsak.jpg

Gerry Conlon

that guy is owed big time....BIG TIME!

[elle]

The Picture Of Mussolini Hanging!
or this one
http://iodivergo.ilcannocchiale.it/blogs/bloggerarchimg/IoDivergo/Piazzale%20Loreto.jpg


http://scheggedivetro.blogosfere.it/images/Mussolini_loreto.jpg

[elle]

Aldo Moro killed by the Brigate Rosse in 1978

http://www.gionni.it/public/mortealdo_moro.jpg

[LARKIN32]

or this one
http://iodivergo.ilcannocchiale.it/blogs/bloggerarchimg/IoDivergo/Piazzale%20Loreto.jpg


http://scheggedivetro.blogosfere.it/images/Mussolini_loreto.jpg

just rewards...

[Harris Brio]

http://i5.tinypic.com/8eiwtgk.jpg
Israeli kids write messages on bombs

[Nijinsky]

Hiroshima

[Finny]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/the-burns/tiananmen-square-tanks.jpg


I guess mine doesn't get any props because it was about overthrowing Communism and replacing it with Democracy and Capitalism.

Blood is on the Square (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzQSS6uZS0)

[Demagogue]

http://www.thesunblog.com/sports/archives/dukakis.jpg


http://people.bu.edu/sobieraj/images/KentState.jpg


http://www.withfriendship.com/user/images/750/budist_monk_on_fire.jpg

[Finny]

http://www.thesunblog.com/sports/archives/dukakis.jpg

once a douche,always a douche!

http://people.bu.edu/sobieraj/images/KentState.jpg

Don't shoot me bro!


http://www.withfriendship.com/user/images/750/budist_monk_on_fire.jpg

need a light?


Take these comments in a joking, non serious tone.

[Saoirse]

Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing NLF prisoner on a Saigon street in the Tet offensive of 1968.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5482/vietnamshootingwf6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

U.S. soldier shaking hands with Sunni insurgent.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7144/1197483460756eo5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[quirk]

Great photos everyone. Saoirse what is the context in which that insurgent is shaking hands with the soldier?

[Demagogue]

Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing NLF prisoner on a Saigon street in the Tet offensive of 1968.

Talk about a photo that changed America sentiment.

[Saoirse]

Great photos everyone. Saoirse what is the context in which that insurgent is shaking hands with the soldier?

I'm not 100% sure but the photo appeared around the same time as a BBC Newsnight report on U.S. soldiers in Anbar working with "former" Sunni insurgents. One of the soldiers says something to the effect of 'We know these guys were trying to kill us not to long ago and now we're supposed to trust them'.
US troops surge
Urban in Iraq, May 07
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/iraq/default.stm

[Enver]

I guess mine doesn't get any props because it was about overthrowing Communism and replacing it with Democracy and Capitalism.

That is complete and utter crap. China was not and is not Communist. I commend those young people who so bravely stood up to the tyranny of the undemocratic and capitalist Beijing regime.

[Enver]

Joe McCann....

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1510943_JoeMcCann.jpg

[quirk]

That is complete and utter crap. China was not and is not Communist. I commend those young people who so bravely stood up to the tyranny of the undemocratic and capitalist Beijing regime.

Under socialism China was a much better place for the masses of people. There is many statistics including the fact that lif expectancy doubled between the 1949 revolution and death of chairman Mao in 1976.

[socrates]

http://www.famousquotes.com.au/userimages/user1204_1144663445.jpg

[Frankryan89]

http://i5.tinypic.com/8eiwtgk.jpg
Israeli kids write messages on bombs

some great images but this one here scares the shit out of me!!

[quirk]

http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4711/images/18-berlin_wall.jpg

[Enver]

Under socialism China was a much better place for the masses of people. There is many statistics including the fact that lif expectancy doubled between the 1949 revolution and death of chairman Mao in 1976.

Following the death of Mao undemocratic and capitalist forces began the task of undoing the good work achieved under Socialism, which has resulted in the capitalist behemoth that is present day China.

[Vox Populi]

http://www.qsl.at/img/pratas/mao1949.jpg

Declaring the Peoples Republic of China, 1949.

[quirk]

Excellent photo. I have never actually saw that one before.

[Enver]

http://www.qsl.at/img/pratas/mao1949.jpg

Declaring the Peoples Republic of China, 1949.

Great first post :).

Welcome aboard comrade.

[Nationalrevolutionär]

http://www.osterkamps.de/hongkong/archives/bilder/tsquare-thumb.jpg

Hello everyone :cool:

[ciaranxavier]

thats a good one. very symbolic.

[quirk]

http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/U/P/hitler14.jpg

[Phædrus]

The good and the bad...

http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/images/HiroshimaCloud.gif

[ali]

http://www.spaceandculture.org/uploaded_images/hajj-735922.jpg

[Phædrus]

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/images/tour_ggs_hdf_l.jpg?Log=0

This is the most awe-inspiring image I know of. All but six of those points of light and color are galaxies, the six being stars that happened to be in the field. And this is a tiny patch of less than one two-millionth of our sky. There are almost 3000 galaxies in view in this image. Each one has billions of stars.

Really shows how small we really are.

[quirk]

Really shows how small we really are.

...and also suggests that we probably are not the only life in the universe.

[Phædrus]

...and also suggests that we probably are not the only life in the universe.

Yup.

[Phædrus]

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Apollo-Soyuz.gif

[AmusedToDeath]

NATO bombing a train full of civilians in Serbia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou57RuvWtFg

Belgrade, a 2 million city and the capital of Serbia in flames during the bombing campaign:

http://www.beogradskivodic.co.yu/images/aistorija_007.jpg

[Phædrus]

Belgrade, a 2 million city and the capital of Serbia in flames during the bombing campaign:

I don't want to start a big debate thing, but I'd like to point out that the Serbs were brutally massacring thousands of Albanians who lived in Serbia by an accident of geography. I consider a bombing run or two to be acceptable in that instance.

[AmusedToDeath]

I don't want to start a big debate thing, but I'd like to point out that the Serbs were brutally massacring thousands of Albanians who lived in Serbia by an accident of geography. I consider a bombing run or two to be acceptable in that instance. Well, that's what you've been told. But Serbia was fighting the terrorist KLA, not Albanian civilians. The total number of Albanian victims is around 3000 and more than 95% of them were terrorists. The number of Serb civilians who were killed in the bombing is about 2000. You want to say that 3000 dead terrorists approves killing of 2000 unarmed civilians? Interesting stance.

[Phædrus]

Well, that's what you've been told. But Serbia was fighting the terrorist KLA, not Albanian civilians. The total number of Albanian victims is around 3000 and more than 95% of them were terrorists. The number of Serb civilians who were killed in the bombing is about 2000. You want to say that 3000 dead terrorists approves killing of 2000 unarmed civilians? Interesting stance.

And how does one differentiate between a terrorist and a civilian? If a Serbian tank rolls through an Albanian village and an angry civilian throws a brick or a molotov cocktail at the tank, does that make him a terrorist? Interesting stance.

[Mono Tejano]

said to be one of the two most recognizable images in the world...

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii12/monotejano/600px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg

[Mono Tejano]

here's the other...

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii12/monotejano/nuclear-explosion.jpg

not just this one of course, but the mushroom cloud in general.

[AmusedToDeath]

And how does one differentiate between a terrorist and a civilian? If a Serbian tank rolls through an Albanian village and an angry civilian throws a brick or a molotov cocktail at the tank, does that make him a terrorist? Interesting stance.

No, it does not. Terrorists were the ones wearing KLA uniforms and symbols, and heavily armed. Their main goal was to provoke Serbian forces to react, which was one hell of a legitimacy for Americans to conduct the bombing campaign without the approval of UN.

[ali]

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/saddam_2nd_all_file_10.jpg

[quirk]

http://www.irishhungerstrike.com/images/2bmshit.jpg

[quirk]

:D:D:D:D

http://www.districtsports.com/pictures/Hand_of_God_goal.jpg

[Viv]

:D:D:D:D

http://www.districtsports.com/pictures/Hand_of_God_goal.jpg

Could watch that again...:D;)

[bay]

The day that changed America forever.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/motorcade.jpg

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/swearin.jpg

[bay]

the day Mt. St. Helens blew her top

http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/blast.jpg

http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/SHcar.gif

[donquixote99]

This is pretty much the ultimate unconscious 'thinking' thread. That is, it's not about conscious thought at all. For people who possess language, thinking in pictures is relagated to the unconscious. All we aprehend is the emotional reactions that result.

[quirk]

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynch_3.jpg

[Oliver Lang]

http://slorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/windowslivewriterphotosthatchangedtheworld-9d70par41045.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Woman_with_cntfai_flag.jpg

[ciaranxavier]

i think if you guys are going to post pictures you should give a little thing saying where its from as i dont know the last ones posted by Oliver and i would like to know who they are.

[Oliver Lang]

Well the first one was from paris during the may 1968 uprising and the second was an anarchist during the spanish civil war. :cool:

[An Céachta Dearg]

http://www.spaceandculture.org/uploaded_images/hajj-735922.jpg


:O:O:OEEK!


How many people can the Mosque of Mecca hold?

It looks collosus..

[quirk]

Over 1 million I believe.

[An Céachta Dearg]

Over 1 million I believe.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:



1 Million. Thats ridiculous like... Amazing....


Hope theres adequate fire exits haha

When do you plan to make you're Hajj Quirk?

[quirk]

I would love to go but sadly it costs a large amount of money.

[ciaranxavier]

Well the first one was from paris during the may 1968 uprising and the second was an anarchist during the spanish civil war. :cool:

cool thanks.

[ciaranxavier]

Over 1 million I believe.

:eek::eek::eek: is there any christian temples that hold close to that?

[quirk]

Not sure. Its actually 1.2 million that fits into the Grand Mosque.

[Oliver Lang]

Zapatista Solider Replaces his gun with a Guitar.

http://static.flickr.com/39/107707774_e21740c66a.jpg

Mao and Nixon

http://img.timeinc.net/time/asia/magazine/2006/1211/nixon_mao.jpg

[An Céachta Dearg]

Im gonna have strips torn off me here but

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/bono/story.bono.nireland.jpg

And of course im suprised its not up yet
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Itr05IkMessk-M:http://www.state.gov/cms_images/7khruschev_kennedy1_600.jpg

[bay]

keep em coming!

[Askatasun_haizea]

Cuban revolutionaries entering La Habana in January 1959 after Batistas departure


http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuban-rebels/revolutionaries-8.gif

Next week is the 55th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953 which lead to the Cuban Revolution.

[quirk]

One of the most famous and well known photos ever:

http://maldiveshealth.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/famousphotoche.jpg

[Cúchulainn]

Under socialism China was a much better place for the masses of people. There is many statistics including the fact that lif expectancy doubled between the 1949 revolution and death of chairman Mao in 1976.

And the 40,000,000 who died under Mao?

Communism is worse than fascism.

[Cúchulainn]

I would love to go but sadly it costs a large amount of money.

Why would you want to go to Mecca?

[Cúchulainn]

Not sure. Its actually 1.2 million that fits into the Grand Mosque.

A fitting place to plant a huge bomb, then?

[bay]

cuchulainn, that's enough. this is your warning to have respect for other people's beliefs.

[Draoch-Phingin]

And the 40,000,000 who died under Mao?

Communism is worse than fascism.

40mill???!!! ROFL

So killing people must've been like the full time work of the baby killin commies!!

:bounce: