little person gets shot in testicles with t-shirt cannon



in retrospect, not really sure what the 1000 words are for this one.

good research imo.

being in the military, this one gets me.

taken from: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...mber_2009.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MebT0KbxV3U

I remember hearing about this, and am also fascinated by such things. That's why I felt compelled to search for an image of the earliest-born person. There are a couple older images...maybe I'll dig for them at lunch.

thats a nice little piece to try and make people think that video was real

Real, I think it was shot from a commercial, possibly for Kodak or Canon...


Sony -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5J4W5GQ3w

From what i understand about that picture the guy being assassinated just finished blowing up a building or something like that. Basically he was not a good guy in the least sense of the word.

At first I was thinking "WTF? No way is that true." However, googling yields:

Which make the "Civil War Widow" title a little misleading, as she was born 40 years after it ended.

Is this for real? If so where was the photo taken from?

...obviously this is not real. And if it was, wouldn't it be pretty clear where it was taken from?

it's weird too in the interview she says she was married in '27 and he died in '32.
and then she says they were married 8 yrs???

one of my friends has an uncle that has one of the largest(maybe the largest) private
collections of daguerreotypes. apparently he's got a bunch in the Smithsonian. never
got to go check them out or anything though.

but I so want it to be real

Well during the Depression one year felt like two or three.

That would make this the south face??????? Looks more to the north to me.

famous confirmed photoshop

if that photo had been real it would have been on the cover of every magazine in the nation and would be one of the most famous photographs of all time

Didn't say he was. It wasn't billed that way either.

But what appeared to be, and may have been, a summary execution of a bound prisoner in the street, in the middle of a war whose purpose no one could clearly pin down an more, was too much for the average American to stomach. that's why it was the turning point — it really had nothing to do with who he actually was.

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.


Possibly the most talked-about, debated and controversial picture in history, the picture of the moon landing has been seen as a feat of human engineering at its best, and has been speculated as a hoax by contractors of the event. Those in doubt of the authenticity of the picture have come up with many suggestions as to why and how it might have been faked. However, none of the accusations have been proved correct and the debate continues in some circles. For many, though, it provides a sense of accomplishment and acheivement by the human race to send a man to the moon, which for years was considered an impossibility. The American flag also installs national pride in the US as the winners of the so-called "Space Race", and their establishment as the world's one remaining super power.


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.


On December 26th 2004 a 9.3 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami which killed more than 225,000 people in 11 countries. The waves which hit the coastlines were as high as 30m in some areas. The worldwide response was fantastic, more than $7 billion dollars was donated in humanitarian aid.

A documentary about Eddie Adams, the guy who photographed the Vietnam execution, was just released this year. An Unlikely Weapon.

http://www.anunlikelyweapon.com/

Also, without searching too hard I think I had read somewhere that the VE (J?) day kiss photograph was semi-staged. The photographer saw the couple kiss, missed the shot, then asked them to give another smooch for his photo. Anyhow, some cool pics, tks.

1957. 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.



Public execution of suspected collaborator, Jenin, West Bank, 13 August



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.

A+, ty for the pics and info

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.

awesome thread