Rare and very interesting photos

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

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. 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.
 
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This world famous photo of some workers at lunch. Taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.
 
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HHMS Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic. Was finished 2 years after Titanic sunk, and implemented a lot of new safety features that came about from the Titanic's sinking. It was suppose to be larger and more luxurious than the Titanic was. World War I began, and the government commissioned it as a hospital ship. It hit a mine and sunk faster than the Titanic did. Only 30 people died (out of 1,036) and that was due to 2 lifeboats being lowered too early and were sucked into the still-rotating propellers.

To this day, the Britannic is the world's biggest sunken Ocean Liner
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dam news to me.....

thanks....


& this thread is informative as hell....



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Oliver Law (far left) was the first African American to command white American troops.
 
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Charles E. Grace, a wealthy and famous African American religious leader and evangelist, is shown performing a baptism at the Oakland, California waterfront in front of World War I barracks with his racially integrated congregation. ca. 1915. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Al Bass.
 
Buddhist Monk Committing Ritual
Suicide
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Bomb drill in 1946 (I guess this was because of W.W. II)
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Lee Harvey Oswald in Custody
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Cancer Victim Terry Fox on His Cross Canada Run
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Woman Hides in Fear of Sniper
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Kennedy Family with John Jr. Saluting His Father's Casket
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Segregated Bus in Texas
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Army Medic With Wounded Comrade
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A very young Cassius Marcellus Clay
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A baby pic of Emmett Till and his mom.
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Emmett Till
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The 21 year old white woman that claimed Till harrassed her, when he came into her and her husband's grocery store, Bryant Grocery Store. Her name is Carolyn Bryant.
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The cracka bitch, Carolyn Bryant , her husband and children at the trial.
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Great Thread!!!!!!!!1

Dave Thomas (Wendy's Founder) and KFC Colonel Sanders, Dave actually worked for Sanders back in the days

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A baby pic of Emmett Till and his mom.
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Emmett Till
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The 21 year old white woman that claimed Till harrassed her, when he came into her and her husband's grocery store, Bryant Grocery Store. Her name is Carolyn Bryant.
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The cracka bitch, Carolyn Bryant , her husband and children at the trial.
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What she looked like back in '04. She's probably dead by now.

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Floating Mosque of Kota Kinabalu

A place for up to 12.000 worshippers
The second main mosque in the city is the Kota Kinabalu City Mosque at Likas Bay at the north coastal highway. It is another impressive example of a marvelous architecture, it resembles in some ways the design of the Masjid al-Nabawi mosque (The Prophet´s Mosque) in Medina, in Saudi Arabia. The City Mosque is built on a man-made lagoon, which creates a feeling that the mosque is floating above the water.

The prayer room can accommodate up to 12.000 worshippers at one time and houses also three madrasah (religious schools). The City Mosque was officially opened on 2nd of February 2000, following a proclamation of Kota Kinabalu as city status.


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Excellent thread. It's inspiring me to do something with some prints that I have. Don't know if they are worth money but I know they are original B&W prints from a famous event.
 
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The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag. It was taken in Boston on April 5, 1976, during a protest against court-ordered desegregation busing. It ran on the front page of the Herald American the next day, and also appeared in several newspapers across the country.
 
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And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in 1992.

Baby girl didn't hold up too well...
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