WTF? link?

Im assuming that she married a super old dude when she was young...if not than wtf

Nah the US marines were doing a training excerise offf the coast of south africa supposably...

mthafka

Nope, that's definitely not chopped at all. It's a place called Teahupoo, the heaviest wave in the world, where it big swells go uninterrupted across the pacifc ocean, up a very steep rise over a very shallow reef. The water can suck right off the reef and expose it. One of the craziest breaks in the world.

Real/fake? I'm leaning on the fake...

here's another from teahupoo, and a video:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYC4...eature=channel

I first saw the pic via Powell as well, for me its damnation of American xenophobia (as powerful as it is) is secondary to the profound sense of a mother's love and grief that the photographer captured perfectly.

Clancy describes the famous picture this way: “Samuel thrusts his tiny hand out of the surgical opening of his mother’s uterus. As the doctor lifts his hand, Samuel reacts to the touch and squeezes the doctor’s finger. As if testing for strength, the doctor shakes the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. At that moment, I took this ‘Fetal Hand Grasp’ photo.”

In a story he wrote about the incident, Clancy added,

“As a doctor asked me what speed of film I was using, out of the corner of my eye I saw the uterus shake, but no one’s hands were near it. It was shaking from within. Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor’s finger. As if testing for strength, the doctor shook the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. I took the picture! Wow! It happened so fast that the nurse standing next to me asked, ‘What happened?’ ‘The child reached out,’ I said. ‘Oh. They do that all the time,’ she responded.”

Clancy said the experience changed him from pro-choice to pro-life.

Here's a link to a 1998 interview with the last surviving Civil War widow on each side:

http://www.radiodiaries.org/transcri.../civilwar.html

I wasn't alive when it happened, but it seemed to be such an huge event. I mean, it almost shocks me if not more than 9/11.

(btw avatar was a propbet lost.)

Buddhist monk who lit himself on fire in protest.

Holy crap. In protest? That takes some SERIOUS mental commitment. To be able to save yourself but not to..

eagle nebula:

great thread!

holy ****, that guy is serious. his face burned off and he's still sticking with that pose.

what a waste

talk about **** thats not real

great thread. the dog/dead owner one hit me pretty hard as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bEO...eature=related

The Bosnian Prosecution published the latest, shocking number of civilian casualties in the 1990s war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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


AP / Toronto Star
The body of a U.S. serviceman is dragged with ropes through the dusty
streets of war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 4, 1993.
The dead soldier was one of five Americans killed
during the first day of a major U.N. assault on warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid's military command.


The first atomic bomb, released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) killed about 80,000 people, but it didn't seem enough because the Japanese didn't surrender right away.
Therefore, on August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki.
The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating - 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind,
the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage.


"The Kiss",
at the end of World War II, in US cities everybody went to the streets to salute the end of combat.
Friendship and unity were everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square.
The fact is he was kissing every girl he encountered and for that kiss, this particular nurse slapped him.


These pint sized frogs aren't for kissing. Their backs ooze a slimy neurotoxin that is meant to keep predators away. Each frog produces enough of the toxin to kill 10 humans.


Most skeeter bites just make you itch. But some mosquitoes carry and transfer malaria causing parasites.
As a result, these little pests are responsible for the deaths of more than two million people a year.

do you mean south vietnamese? this is from the vietnam war, if i'm not mistaken.

It is, and it's a South Vietnamese soldier executing an alleged VC, unless I was taught wrong. Somewhere in there there is a lesson about good guys and bad guys.

Nguyen Ngoc Loan

north and south korea night-time illumination map. the dot in the north is pyongyang.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/200...eas-dark-half/