casper_fms
05-17-2009, 11:36 PM
Tragic History In big Pictures...........
Segregated water fountains
SOME of the most tragic and heartless moments in history!
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR41687.jpg
NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.
http://maryt.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/pearl-harbor-uss-virginia.jpg
Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dragging-vietcong.jpg
This is a truly sad picture but unfortunately I don’t have much information about it. At the time the public saw it, it made quite a buzz, people realized how wrong the war is. The picture shows American trooper dragging the body of a vietcong soldier with their tank (or APC more exactly).
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tsunami-dead-bodies.jpg
Tsunami Floating Bodies
The Boxing Day Tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004 caused approximately 350,000 deaths and many more injuries.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/LON2822.jpg
SHARPEVILLE, South Africa—Police open fire on a crowd, killing more than 70 and injuring hundreds of others during what came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre, 1960.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR167571.jpg
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his “I Have A Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”, 1963.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR37859.jpg
ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/NYC36062.jpg
SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR13189.jpg
TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/1346920331_ad624c23b7_o.jpg
Anne Frank [1941]
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/reichstag_flag1.jpg
Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945.
http://www.sacw.net/partition/Spitting_a_library_in_1947.jpg
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The Partition of India and Pakistan which took place on 14th August, 1947 is still known as the WORLD'S BIGGEST MIGRATION OF HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, where Over 1 million people migrated from India to Pakistan
Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan.
This is a train to Pakistan being given a warm send-off.
Segregated water fountains
SOME of the most tragic and heartless moments in history!
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR41687.jpg
NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.
http://maryt.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/pearl-harbor-uss-virginia.jpg
Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dragging-vietcong.jpg
This is a truly sad picture but unfortunately I don’t have much information about it. At the time the public saw it, it made quite a buzz, people realized how wrong the war is. The picture shows American trooper dragging the body of a vietcong soldier with their tank (or APC more exactly).
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tsunami-dead-bodies.jpg
Tsunami Floating Bodies
The Boxing Day Tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004 caused approximately 350,000 deaths and many more injuries.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/LON2822.jpg
SHARPEVILLE, South Africa—Police open fire on a crowd, killing more than 70 and injuring hundreds of others during what came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre, 1960.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR167571.jpg
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his “I Have A Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”, 1963.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR37859.jpg
ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/NYC36062.jpg
SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20070619/images/PAR13189.jpg
TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/1346920331_ad624c23b7_o.jpg
Anne Frank [1941]
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/reichstag_flag1.jpg
Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945.
http://www.sacw.net/partition/Spitting_a_library_in_1947.jpg
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/6298/image001ls5.jpg
The Partition of India and Pakistan which took place on 14th August, 1947 is still known as the WORLD'S BIGGEST MIGRATION OF HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, where Over 1 million people migrated from India to Pakistan
Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan.
This is a train to Pakistan being given a warm send-off.