edsa revolution or the bloodless revolution, millions of people gathered to overthrow a dictator. (I was a baby when this happened) pretty much the start of democracy here and everywhere I suppose.

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but was bullshitized by edsa 2 and edsa 3? fucking excuse of a revolution to overthrow ex-presidents (Philippine politics sucks so bad right now)

jester-

Canada547 Posts

February 13 2011 05:14 GMT

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Bobby Fischer in his early years. World famous chess player from the 1960's.

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Rematch between Spassky and Fischer in 1992 in Yugoslavia, where Fischer was warned he would be arrested if he played by the US DPT of Treasury (The prize pool was 3.65m for the winner). Fischer was the first to 10 and won the match (10-5 with 15 draws). There are few pictures and even less video of the event because Fischer became agitated by even the hum of video cameras in operation, let alone pictures.

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Fischer after being released from detention in Japan to seek asylum in Iceland to prevent being extradited back to the USA to be arrested (2005). At this point in his life he had extreme hatred toward Jews and was in poor health. He died on Jan 17, 2008.

Mawi

Sweden4365 Posts

February 13 2011 05:17 GMT

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Chris Hondros of Getty Images was with an army unit in Tal Afar on January 18, 2005, when its soldiers killed the parents of this blood-spattered girl at a checkpoint, and his photo was published around the world. Mr. Hondros was kicked out of the unit, though he soon became embedded with a unit in another city.

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Kurds executed by Iran Soldiars

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Afghanistan a US soldiar patrols and asks the Weed farmer some questions ( I bet it was can we smoke some :D?

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On March 16, 1988, After two days of conventional artillery attacks, Iraqi planes dropped gas canisters on the town. The town and surrounding district were attacked with bombs, artillery fire, and chemical weapons, the latter of which proved most devastating. At least 5,000 people died as an immediate result of the chemical attack and it is estimated that a further 7,000 people were injured or suffered long term illness.

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Operation Desert Storm, Oilholes burning

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

February 13 2011 05:17 GMT

#144

Clare

United States372 Posts

February 13 2011 05:25 GMT

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Marines raising US flag on Japanese island (Iwo Jima I think???)

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Young troops in Vietnam

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Berlin Wall coming down

Trombpwn

United States20 Posts

February 13 2011 05:26 GMT

#146

Otto Dix was a German soldier in WWI. This is his most famous work, War Triptych

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thoradycus

Malaysia3262 Posts

February 13 2011 05:28 GMT

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US and Soviet soldiers linking up in WW2

g.Sagan

36 Posts

February 13 2011 05:30 GMT

#148

Carl Sagans "Pale Blue Dot" :

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Along with an excerpt read by the man himself from his book of the same name :

jester-

Canada547 Posts

February 13 2011 05:31 GMT

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Canadian WWI ace Billy Bishop. He recorded 72 enemy planes shot down and was a huge inspiration for not only the Canadian military, but the entire allied forces.

sleeepy

Canada777 Posts

February 13 2011 05:32 GMT

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Last Jewish man of Vinnitsa, Ukraine. The area had 28,000 Jews prior to the war. All were killed.

darklordjac

Canada2231 Posts

February 13 2011 05:34 GMT

#151

Mikilatov

United States3897 Posts

February 13 2011 05:45 GMT

#152

D=.. I should have heeded the warning a bit closer...

I made it halfway through the first page I absolutely couldn't stand to continue looking.

skeldark

Germany2223 Posts

February 13 2011 05:49 GMT

#153

EDIT:
When you wirte a description for your image that must explain the hole image than the image itself
is NOT saying more than 1000 words. You should post pic that speak for his own.

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Marines raising US flag on Japanese island
is know as a fake photo. the flag was allready there 4 hours before the camera man and
they replaced it by a bigger flag and take many pics until he had this one.

@jester- : i agree put the text to strikt. changed it. rest ->pm

jester-

Canada547 Posts

February 13 2011 05:53 GMT

#154

On February 13 2011 14:49 skeldark wrote:
When you wirte a description for your image or think you have to than the picture
IS NOT SAYING MORE THAN 1000 WORDS.
you should post pic that speak for his own!

Meh, I'm sure if the OP wanted us to take the title literally he wouldn't have added descriptions in his post. Besides, some pictures cannot be appreciated until the context/story behind them is known to you. How about you post some pictures instead of trying to criticize the content?

@ skeldark

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@ jester-
1) its ok to add content for the the history background but when you must explain the hole pic i think its wrong here.
2) check the thread again...

I must apologize as I cannot find anything in this thread relating to what you are saying. Please, give me a link or quote that says we can only post pictures without explanation. While you are doing that, why don't you let me and the others here know why you are attempting to dictate the content of the thread? Maybe go make another thread if you don't like the stuff here...?

yoplate

United States332 Posts

February 13 2011 05:57 GMT

#155

Egyptian Protester. Kind of reminds me of the tiananmen square picture.

fearus

China2164 Posts

February 13 2011 05:57 GMT

#156

On February 13 2011 12:56 Hidden_MotiveS wrote:

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I don't believe that lining up for a library in China thing for a second. Call me racist, but I was born in China and raised in the west. Why would a library ever have a line? Does it not have enough space? Then the students would know that and not waste precious study time waiting unless they had to: eg something was left out like that their tests would take place in that library.

If they were really that devoted to studying, they'd be studying with a ski mask and gloves outside while waiting for the library instead of standing around.

Library isn't open 24/7.

ghrur

United States3786 Posts

February 13 2011 05:58 GMT

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Also by Otto Dix

skeldark

Germany2223 Posts

February 13 2011 06:03 GMT

#158

I put this one in a spoiler because its really hard.
TAKE THIS WARNING SERIOUS!
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Haiti / Hospital

Dubes

United States327 Posts

February 13 2011 06:10 GMT

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A shot of the ISS in September of 2000

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A shot of the ISS today.

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A view from the ISS during a space-walk.

jester-

Canada547 Posts

February 13 2011 06:20 GMT

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A picture from Venera 13 of the surface of Venus.

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From what I understand, some 30 years after the lander took the pictures on Venus, Don P. Mitchell took all of the recorded data and produced this image in B/W and the color one here.