tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14940625723052100212024-02-20T10:57:37.842+02:00!conic ImagesA blog dedicated to those images which has both affected and effected people the world over!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-9650896976339736962010-10-23T16:46:00.007+02:002010-10-23T17:04:01.799+02:00Famine in Karamoja, Uganda (Uganda)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjpb8NRl9LIXxo5YWlmPkXINS1nzKyUXGB8ubyCqsq63oQtQiIevhYI12hin7g0u1L1-HtrNz0cpo-1DV9E3SwjSHun74FeajhMSpNrZympZeE81JH_wHme_OMCcoWClv81gWj7pZjQo/s1600/uganda_hand.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjpb8NRl9LIXxo5YWlmPkXINS1nzKyUXGB8ubyCqsq63oQtQiIevhYI12hin7g0u1L1-HtrNz0cpo-1DV9E3SwjSHun74FeajhMSpNrZympZeE81JH_wHme_OMCcoWClv81gWj7pZjQo/s320/uganda_hand.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531253263028964146" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">This example of emotive imagery is of child in drought stricken Karamoja district, Uganda (1980) 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.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Karamoja district has the driest climate in Uganda and is often prone to droughts. The drought in 1980 led to one of the worst famines in that area. 21% of the population (60% being infants) died.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The photographer, Briton Mike Wells, took this picture to show the extent of starvation in Africa. His photograph spoke louder than world leader or news story about the famine in Uganda.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">He took the photo for a magazine, they went 5 months without printing it, and they decided to enter it into a competition. However, Wells has stated that he was against winning any compeition with a picture of a starving boy.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">He has admitted to being ashamed of taking the photo.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Mike Wells has won the World Press Photo Award for this photo.</span></span></span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-86370332470262143962010-04-11T12:58:00.006+02:002010-04-11T13:14:17.988+02:00Untitled (South Africa)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6K4MmzOEqpRIk11j75imyBITfVJTbq-22UpGX8k0YKXVa3fEuOGQYbmhgO4wDBuVHA0Hpbm66vjFFtVzJK-E3DzKIK2jyPjPQhkAkJa8z5poa8gJO61IqopGIepyQNIwODEdo3r2Y8w/s1600/633344_591681_582988b.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6K4MmzOEqpRIk11j75imyBITfVJTbq-22UpGX8k0YKXVa3fEuOGQYbmhgO4wDBuVHA0Hpbm66vjFFtVzJK-E3DzKIK2jyPjPQhkAkJa8z5poa8gJO61IqopGIepyQNIwODEdo3r2Y8w/s320/633344_591681_582988b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458832805754843490" /></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">The single most publicised event of the Bophuthatswana coup was the killing of three wounded AWB members who were shot dead at point-blank range in front of journalists by a Bophuthatswana police constable, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe.<br />AWB Colonel Alwyn Wolfaardt, AWB General Johannes Fourie and Veldkornet (Field Cornet) Jacobus Stephanus Uys were driving a blue Mercedes at the end of a convoy of AWB vehicles, firing into a crowd of Bophuthatswanan civilians. Members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force returned fire and hit the driver of the car, Nicolaas Fourie, in the neck, another gunman, Alwyn Wolfaardt, in the arm and the remaining gunman, Jacobus Uys, in the leg. When Wolfaardt got out of the car and waved a pistol, a Bophuthatswana police officer quickly took his pistol. Another policeman tried to fire on journalists but his rifle jammed and it was taken from him by another policeman. The wounded survivor Alwyn Wolfaardt waved a pistol but was advised not to start shooting by nearby journalists.<br />Menyatsoe approached and spoke to Wolfaardt, asking if he was a member of the AWB. Wolfaardt confirmed this, saying they came from Naboomspruit</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">, and pleaded for his life and the lives of the other two wounded AWB members. Menyatsoe then shot the three wounded men dead at point blank range with an R4 rifle, saying "what are you doing in my country". The shooting was captured by the watching journalists and broadcast worldwide.</span></span></span></span>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-38606695724907007912010-02-23T17:21:00.003+02:002010-02-23T17:33:16.050+02:00Helicopter Downed (Brazil)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjha69WpDTbMhyphenhyphen9Rw4QUfZUUhdXGIcNmB-vY_I_Tdm1rjzSUdlElSJxyx8jlcHG2Ai6XwUJ4MU7bvVLrONSas_oSidKSp6QvvTQaMWqLGQ7awyEN187HnvIhPYMlYrzXeuvgMKkFhoJZ1k/s1600-h/rio_09_630326a.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjha69WpDTbMhyphenhyphen9Rw4QUfZUUhdXGIcNmB-vY_I_Tdm1rjzSUdlElSJxyx8jlcHG2Ai6XwUJ4MU7bvVLrONSas_oSidKSp6QvvTQaMWqLGQ7awyEN187HnvIhPYMlYrzXeuvgMKkFhoJZ1k/s320/rio_09_630326a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441460324683706930" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Firefighters in Rio de Janeiro are shown battling to put out the flames of a police helicopter shot down during a gun battle between two rival drug gangs in this photograph taken by Alexandre Brum.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Drug traffickers shot down the police helicopter during a gun battle between two rival gangs on 17 October 2009, killing two officers. Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro was engulfed in a renewed outburst of violence a mere two weeks after winning its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Bullets ripped into the helicopter as it hovered over a shoot-out between the police and drug traffickers in the </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Morro dos Macacos</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"> slum in northern Rio de Janeiro. The pilot was hit in the leg, causing him to lose control and crash.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Two officers died, while the pilot and three other policemen escaped after the aircraft hit the ground on a football field and burst into flames.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Despite the mayhem, officials defended Rio’s ability to control violence ahead of the Olympics, as well as before 2014, when Brazil will host the World Cup, with key games in Rio.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">The downing of the helicopter happened amid intense firefights involving rival gangs in the slum as one tried to seize a rival’s territory, authorities said.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">The city has previously hosted the 2007 Pan American Games without incident.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-2381543414281009702009-09-11T15:42:00.003+02:002009-09-11T15:49:45.439+02:00The Survivor Tree (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGF0b2fxkW6p4pE8ABoyvI6BICXlI7hBs0J_C0TWlbM3AJ3cSG50-GBI-qkBCR_SlH4el2focxnJemq5Rco10sitHajgY_FTZJ80arHFHaXiAB-kOpT9HZJ84pxvpYbHPgzOHuwf0IEds/s1600-h/draft_lens2154299module11384465photo_1245125530OK_TO_USE_WIKIPEDIA-_Survivor_Tree_at_the_Oklahoma_City_National_Memorial.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGF0b2fxkW6p4pE8ABoyvI6BICXlI7hBs0J_C0TWlbM3AJ3cSG50-GBI-qkBCR_SlH4el2focxnJemq5Rco10sitHajgY_FTZJ80arHFHaXiAB-kOpT9HZJ84pxvpYbHPgzOHuwf0IEds/s320/draft_lens2154299module11384465photo_1245125530OK_TO_USE_WIKIPEDIA-_Survivor_Tree_at_the_Oklahoma_City_National_Memorial.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380205079574112002" /></a><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">A photograph of the Survivor Tree elm at the Oklahoma City National Memorial as taken on 18 September 2004 by Dustin M. Ramsey.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The Survivor Tree is an American elm on the north side of the Memorial. This tree was the only shade tree in the parking lot across the street from the Murrah Building, and commuters came in to work early to get one of the shady parking spots provided by its branches. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Photos of Oklahoma City taken around the time of statehood (1907) show this tree, meaning it is currently at least 102 years old. Despite its age, the tree was neglected and taken for granted prior to the blast. Heavily damaged by the bomb, the Tree ultimately survived after nearly being chopped down during the initial investigation, in order to recover evidence hanging in its branches and embedded in its bark. <br />The force of the blast ripped most of the branches from the Survivor Tree, glass and debris were imbedded in its trunk and fire from the cars parked beneath it blackened what was left of the tree. Most thought the tree could not survive. However, almost a year after the bombing, family members, survivors and rescue workers gathered for a memorial ceremony under the tree noticed it was beginning to bloom again. In that instant the tree became a symbol of what the city had come through.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Like the tree, the city had been bent and bowed but it had not been broken. The tree and the city survived.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The Survivor Tree now thrives, in no small part because the specifications for the Outdoor Memorial design included a mandate to feature and protect the Tree. One example of the dramatic measures taken to save the Tree: one of the roots that would have been cut by the wall surrounding the Tree was placed inside a large pipe, so it could reach the soil beyond the wall without being damaged. A second example is the decking around the Tree, which is raised several feet to make an underground crawlspace; workers enter through a secure hatchway and monitor the health of the Tree and maintain its very deep roots.<br /><br />The inscription around the inside of the deck wall around the Survivor Tree reads: <br />The spirit of this city and this nation will not be defeated; our deeply rooted faith sustains us.<br /><br />Hundreds of seeds from the Survivor Tree are planted annually and the resulting saplings are distributed each year on the anniversary of the bombing. Thousands of Survivor Trees are growing today in public and private places all over the United States; saplings were sent to Columbine High School after the massacre there, to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and various times. </span></span></span></span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/palmsrick/2831164742/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Flickr</span></a></span></div></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-7888736273055925572009-07-09T11:43:00.004+02:002009-07-09T12:04:08.897+02:00Neda (Iran)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9d60AbVm8VdEWRuepBL7pG8K2fEylVka48K3aUccefR0vuKFrPIcYEdt9L4_QT0Ie4Iji9a-ioF8rOVBhiXRajEJiTmEZHzxfG35WyOylvAq9P_6vY5tNtURNXyCEO_JsZXB_kd8RfU/s1600-h/250px-Neda_non_graphic.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9d60AbVm8VdEWRuepBL7pG8K2fEylVka48K3aUccefR0vuKFrPIcYEdt9L4_QT0Ie4Iji9a-ioF8rOVBhiXRajEJiTmEZHzxfG35WyOylvAq9P_6vY5tNtURNXyCEO_JsZXB_kd8RfU/s320/250px-Neda_non_graphic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356396684604392834" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The death of Neda Agha-Soltan drew international attention </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">when her death </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">was captured on video by bystanders and broadcast over the internet.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan#cite_note-CNNRally-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The video quickly became a rallying point for the reformist opposition.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; "></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">On 20 June 2009, Neda was sitting in traffic on Kargar Avenue in the city of Tehran</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan#cite_note-CNNRally-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">. </span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">She was accompanied by her music teacher and close friend, Hamid Panahi, and two others, who remain unidentified. The four were on their way to participate in the protests against the outcome of the 2009 Iranian presidential elections.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">She stopped her car some distance from where the main protests were being held that day and got out on foot in order to escape the heat because the car's air conditioner was not working well. She was standing and observing the sporadic protests in the area when she was shot in the chest.</span></span></span><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">As captured on amateur video, she collapsed to the ground and was tended to for several seconds. Someone in the crowd around her shouted, "She has been shot! Someone, come and take her!" The videos were accompanied by a message from a doctor, later identified as Dr. Arash Hejazi, who said he had been present during the incident (but has since fled Iran out of fear of government reprisals):</span></span></span></p><blockquote style="font-size: 93.75%; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1.6em; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">"At 19:05 June 20th Place: Kargar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father [sic, later identified as her music teacher] watching the protests was shot by a Basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about one kilometer away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Her last words were, "I'm burning, I'm burning!"</span></span><sup id="cite_ref-latimes2009june23_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan#cite_note-latimes2009june23-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">]</span></span></span></a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> She was pronounced dead en route to Tehran's Shariati hospital, aged 27.</span></span></p></span></span></span></div></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-79355294627841212532009-04-20T19:46:00.004+02:002009-04-20T20:08:16.036+02:00Columbine Massacre (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhK-lK5_FSRUqQgak5GR8StGWjztmcu2vrWD6xmIF4Q8hRUZIYThcSp4nRHKLkQexVWgw9zNw3mMFokzVb09y0Wm6tE4fEXPGXkZxzp7gXG1tiYeS8xy4cDVJ-hvMhJlecpxKzDfjVoo/s1600-h/columbine.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvhK-lK5_FSRUqQgak5GR8StGWjztmcu2vrWD6xmIF4Q8hRUZIYThcSp4nRHKLkQexVWgw9zNw3mMFokzVb09y0Wm6tE4fEXPGXkZxzp7gXG1tiYeS8xy4cDVJ-hvMhJlecpxKzDfjVoo/s320/columbine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326833095401409186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" >The Columbine High School massacre occurred on 20 April 1999, at Colimbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide.<br /><br />It is the fourth-deadliest school massacre in United States history, after the 1927 Bath School Disaster, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and the deadliest for an American High School.<br />The above still, Eric (left) and Dylan (right), is taken from the infamous Columbine High School cafeteria surveillance video.<br /><br />School shootings were already a problem before 20 April 1999. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris knew that theirs had to stand out. So they planned to make every previous incident look insignificant, and they videotaped their boast so the world would know what they had set out to do.<br />And so they turned Columbine High School into an abattoir: murdering 13, wounding 24 other people and then, finally, killing themselves in a drama seen live on television.<br />It was not quite the 250 they had hoped to kill, but it was enough to make the incident the worst school shooting in American history.<br /><br />This sudden eruption of violence in the middle of one of the most solidly upper middle class communities in America set off months of soul searching. Parents and school officials discussed the prevalence of violent music and video games. Parents asked: what are the warning signs that our children are turning out to be their own enemies? On their tapes, Klebold and Harris talk about anger management but not the expected kind. Rather, they were learning to ratchet up their anger and yet keep it secret from everyone else -- until the day they had to turn it on full blast.</span>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-82774399352254122262009-03-04T14:30:00.008+02:002009-03-17T19:13:01.573+02:00Real Life, Amidst Chaos (Lebanon)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhifBt1tXjz6cgnBFjs4jVXBKTjX-uPKz52P4jkCmlCki3ElCyQThkAc-f3Jpkz1SwGO001oRq1FfcKFuU5J5N2UOxYCspXZnrwMjGnoyVShcZRlYfgPAvJQgjq_Y-LcWQISorNLQbccCE/s1600-h/49.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhifBt1tXjz6cgnBFjs4jVXBKTjX-uPKz52P4jkCmlCki3ElCyQThkAc-f3Jpkz1SwGO001oRq1FfcKFuU5J5N2UOxYCspXZnrwMjGnoyVShcZRlYfgPAvJQgjq_Y-LcWQISorNLQbccCE/s320/49.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309309819097695858" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;font-size:12px;"><p style="line-height: 12pt; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; "><em style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This photo (shot by Spencer Platt) shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings. Taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes."</span></span></span></span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: "It's a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 12pt; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Those in the picture are: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">The driver- Jad Maroun; his sister Tamara, the blond girl sitting in the front; his other sister, Bissan sitting in the back of the car; Liliane Nacouzi - held a tissue to her face in the winning picture because of the fumes from the fires still burning in the rubble. Nour Nasser is hidden behind Liliane.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Four of the young people in the group are actually residents of the area and had to flee during the shelling. This was the first time they returned to the suburbs and they were eager to check on their apartment and their belongings. All the people in the picture, were displaced by the war and were put up by their employers in the same hotel in the centre of Beirut, where they became friends.</span></span></span></p></span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-26210366175647208002009-02-19T15:48:00.004+02:002009-02-19T16:11:21.321+02:00Famine in Niger (Niger)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmPJvzXqu5MsgfEbhikKxj6GJDTz8cuJ8LWr996_uH0BYLN8f8cBFWntGJDbzKv4awlrgjzY-v4nKvMuvtwQb8biqJTfxLdr3kbMLukCf0A3PdiAHJFyzoYAKTb2xlyponaibKwsEY84/s1600-h/48.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmPJvzXqu5MsgfEbhikKxj6GJDTz8cuJ8LWr996_uH0BYLN8f8cBFWntGJDbzKv4awlrgjzY-v4nKvMuvtwQb8biqJTfxLdr3kbMLukCf0A3PdiAHJFyzoYAKTb2xlyponaibKwsEY84/s320/48.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304506246312376402" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The fingers of malnourished one-year old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in Northwest Niger, 1 August 2005.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Taken while covering a devastating drought, the worst there in decades, that left millions of people without food in August 2005, Canadian photographer, Finbarr O'Reilly was himself feverish and resting <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px; ">when he saw little Alassa's hand reach out from his mother's lap and rest on her nose.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; font-size:14px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Finbarr O’Reilly is the Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa and is based in Dakar, Senegal. He has been working full-time as a photojournalist for Reuters for less than two years when he won the World Press Photo of the Year award in February 2006.</span></span></span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-34737531681266433752009-01-22T12:50:00.004+02:002009-01-22T12:55:44.056+02:00Misery in Darfur (Sudan)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfR3DOy2XdUjNRYXfkcOJqGx5btl_BHp8Seok1XSC3OVmTWmFHHD_I5ZxkLaZgQ8X3bC4C96vGo4Qt00v7qe3-A_flahRKaGj2oIZdbL0No9sSp2XRhFEgMPv3MYO4Amf2j3ao0O3wxt8/s1600-h/49961807qz6.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfR3DOy2XdUjNRYXfkcOJqGx5btl_BHp8Seok1XSC3OVmTWmFHHD_I5ZxkLaZgQ8X3bC4C96vGo4Qt00v7qe3-A_flahRKaGj2oIZdbL0No9sSp2XRhFEgMPv3MYO4Amf2j3ao0O3wxt8/s320/49961807qz6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294069507897292322" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's an image which depicts a depressed, shoulders-down figure of a child in a cluster of what remains of her family.<br />The very weather-beaten arm of her mother goes over her left shoulder and there are the very small weather-beaten hands of the child, who is about five or six, clinging on to this one piece of security that she has, which is the weather-beaten hand of her mother.<br />The mother is not in the image, she's in the background. But then slightly further in the background you see the other hands of her brothers and sisters as they wait in this villa</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ge. </span></span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Taken by Marcus Bleasdale.</span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-78101256974988079262009-01-17T13:13:00.003+02:002009-01-22T12:56:57.678+02:00Flames of Hate (South Africa)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkq2QJB1WSBz5rLoML2PybeQ7B_kmJHskjruT5lrvMPUQejAlnTocumJGIn0UxeR7YGFLBxcMM2-MoU0yqzoi8HQqSBQI-LhyphenhyphenKQCxiWTI2pMIoq6kG2rqjDhNSZjI6EBzHjYbLbJ1jlo/s1600-h/Picture-Power-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkq2QJB1WSBz5rLoML2PybeQ7B_kmJHskjruT5lrvMPUQejAlnTocumJGIn0UxeR7YGFLBxcMM2-MoU0yqzoi8HQqSBQI-LhyphenhyphenKQCxiWTI2pMIoq6kG2rqjDhNSZjI6EBzHjYbLbJ1jlo/s320/Picture-Power-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292219376859370594" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">On 18 May 2008 Halden Krog was covering the xenophobic violence that had been sweeping South Africa.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Photographers had been working day and night as bands of thugs terrorized settlements - beating, stabbing and torching the homes of residents whose only crime was being a "foreigner" while the politicians and leaders were silent - none of them standing up to condemn what was happening. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />It was late afternoon when Krog heard that someone had been set alight in Ramaphosa (east of Johannesburg). At the scene, he saw Mozambican national Ernesto Nhamwuave struggling beneath a burning mattress as emergency service workers and police tried to extinguish the flames. <br /><br />Upon publication, outrage swept across a nation that we were once again seeing intolerance and brutality that many believed should have remained in the country’s Apartheid past. <br /><br />During the late eighties and early nineties, South Africans had become desensitized to endless images of violence and by the time of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration in 1994 people were only too ready to believe him when he said: "Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another." But 14 years later the nation was seeing it repeated. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />Nhamwuave died in hospital later that afternoon. His body was transported to his home in Mozambique.</span></span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-86073709772388511672009-01-13T11:05:00.004+02:002009-01-13T11:20:52.012+02:00Palestinian Woman Pleads with Soldier (Lebanon)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPv_1-vqxGWFWEi_hMKg6ypHEVCRRHaQoQcYW4yCFsbg1kQM7SyKC0VJmWwf8yy5tuSFwu-rFNzrFnadudRuHQpK7U4Rp-WDPCI-ZKrG6oUeg2I-JztGoAARoAamIKi8c9gc9Zxtidc0/s1600-h/palestinian-refugees.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPv_1-vqxGWFWEi_hMKg6ypHEVCRRHaQoQcYW4yCFsbg1kQM7SyKC0VJmWwf8yy5tuSFwu-rFNzrFnadudRuHQpK7U4Rp-WDPCI-ZKrG6oUeg2I-JztGoAARoAamIKi8c9gc9Zxtidc0/s320/palestinian-refugees.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290702164742943570" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">World Press Photo of the Year: 1976</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Françoise Demulder took this photograph of Palestinian refugees in the</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Beirut district of La Quarantaine, Lebanon in January 1976.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She was the first woman to win the World Press Photo, and did so on the 20th anniversary of the award. Demulder stated at the time that she hated war, but felt compelled to document how it’s always the innocent who suffer, while the powerful get richer and richer.</span></span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-7060534507088369722009-01-08T11:43:00.002+02:002009-01-08T11:51:00.469+02:00Betty Grable (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaYnrbvaF-0FQLBuMDZkn0raIhOcO6L558c4_uXv7vB07l7rmgr73t7YxBNkR3yZhyKTliJml1muy6EFrqOkvnq4hi9lztrRph06-lVvTdy2BdEBJF_t-Z519bXZy5-SvPohShDu55-a4/s1600-h/3912038_dd76b2a7d2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaYnrbvaF-0FQLBuMDZkn0raIhOcO6L558c4_uXv7vB07l7rmgr73t7YxBNkR3yZhyKTliJml1muy6EFrqOkvnq4hi9lztrRph06-lVvTdy2BdEBJF_t-Z519bXZy5-SvPohShDu55-a4/s320/3912038_dd76b2a7d2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288856641380229202" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Grable’s million-dollar legs were the subject of the most-seen pinup sent to ease the suffering of American troups during World War II.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Betty's ingratiating freshness and beauty appealed strongly to the American G.I.s stationed overseas and her films were eagerly requested by the lonely servicemen. . . . Although she never toured outside the United States for the U.S.O., Betty actively participated in War efforts, appearing at Camps across the country and at Bond Rallys where she auctioned off her nylons for thousands of dollars.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Volunteering at the Hollywood Canten, a club for servicement staffed entirely by film stars and studio workers, she 'Jitterbugged' the night away with hundreds of soldiers, sailors and marines".</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">She married bandleader Harry James July 5, 1943. A popular GI slogan during the war became " I want a girl just like the girl that married Harry James."</span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-42350555499179500182008-12-11T09:01:00.003+02:002008-12-11T09:06:46.664+02:00The Toppling of the Saddam Statue (Iraq)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqifP-0-7DDfmqX_lppvPvfyXoWZXAFfMXQBBf3yHwkJY_L2Jx-gX3o3HRqzzTixC6rJh30laHNhW_ZJGVw-CdSuMmWmvYlO-sw6x4jxsjHp8PE1BFEtCFHW160GB6KTSJoXpKaq8X5ZU/s1600-h/gall-8.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqifP-0-7DDfmqX_lppvPvfyXoWZXAFfMXQBBf3yHwkJY_L2Jx-gX3o3HRqzzTixC6rJh30laHNhW_ZJGVw-CdSuMmWmvYlO-sw6x4jxsjHp8PE1BFEtCFHW160GB6KTSJoXpKaq8X5ZU/s320/gall-8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278424805923834690" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The Statue of Saddam Hussein was a symbol of his presidency and rule over Iraq. It was built in April of 2002 for his 65th birthday.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">On 9 April 2003, representing probably the greatest symbol of the fall of Saddam's regime, a group of Iraqi’s and US Marines gathered and brought the statue down. They hung a pre-1991 Gulf War Iraqi flag and danced in central Badghad’s Firdos Square.</span></span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-72534238856171550982008-12-05T09:02:00.003+02:002008-12-05T09:19:20.638+02:00Mumbai Attacker (India)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4lFwM7d1IAERI83LrCvaQ_bcaarSof4VSJIAfTa6dY8_yReWDTFtCbatpw-eG4QjOws9CR3OEvh-pDHMn0C8yhbzJIMpBXTtL6_tknPdbXZsMegBPqP7hW_ItJdYldolEY0hr4vGXeVQ/s1600-h/gunman460.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4lFwM7d1IAERI83LrCvaQ_bcaarSof4VSJIAfTa6dY8_yReWDTFtCbatpw-eG4QjOws9CR3OEvh-pDHMn0C8yhbzJIMpBXTtL6_tknPdbXZsMegBPqP7hW_ItJdYldolEY0hr4vGXeVQ/s320/gunman460.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276199437258046578" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The November 2008 Mumbai attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India's financial capital and the largest city. The attacks began on 26 November 2008 and ended on 29 November 2008 when Indian security forces regained control of all attack sites. At least 188 people were killed and at least 293 were injured in the attacks.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Eight of the attacks took place at sites in South Mumbai proper: the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, The Oberoi Trident, The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Leopold Cafe, Carna Hospital, the Orthodox Jewish-owned Nariman House, the Metro Cinema and a lane behind the Times of India building behind St. Xavier's College.There was also an explosion at the Mazagon docks in Mumbai's port area. A possible tenth incident involved a taxi blast at Vile Parle near the airport, but it is uncertain whether this was connected to the other nine attacks</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-19" title="" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">.</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; line-height: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Initially, a previously unknown organization called the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility. Later Azam Amir Kasav, the single terrorist who was captured alive, disclosed that the attackers were members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamic terrorist group.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The attacks drew widespread condemnation across the world.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The Mumbai attacks highlighted the increasing importance of social media and citizen journalism in the way events are reported. Many people covered the unfolding event on websites like Twitter and Flickr, which are largely clustered under search tags such as "mumbai" and "attack".</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The day after the attacks, the Indian government asked Mumbai citizens to cease updating Twitter with live coverage of police activity. The New York Times and BBC offered live textual coverage online, as did many Indian bloggers; A map of the attacks was set up using Google Maps</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-wired-235" title="" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">.</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> The attacks have been dubbed by some journalists as "India's 9/11", a reference to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States of America.</span></span><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Source </span></span><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">wikipedia</span></span></a></p></span></span></div></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-21884716714766524592008-11-11T09:39:00.004+02:002008-11-11T09:53:41.177+02:00V-J Day in Times Square (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUWyprKbc84i1nY94fn3d83DmmfmdRvl_5bb-THmt5YxDqGCiT4NfUtUlULA28nvui0Zask5-w_EVgflviks3BozTNLlsZwSJXCS-Ttl5TwlG7urGas4qastTgetgSRkRae12xouc9To/s1600-h/Vj_day_kiss.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUWyprKbc84i1nY94fn3d83DmmfmdRvl_5bb-THmt5YxDqGCiT4NfUtUlULA28nvui0Zask5-w_EVgflviks3BozTNLlsZwSJXCS-Ttl5TwlG7urGas4qastTgetgSRkRae12xouc9To/s320/Vj_day_kiss.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267301589542527378" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">V–J day in Times Square</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">, perhaps the most famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square on 14 August 1945, that was originally published in Life magazine.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J celebrations he didn't get a chance to get names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either kisser and several people have laid claim to being the subjects. The photo was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan)" title="Broadway (Manhattan)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Broadway</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> and </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Avenue_(Manhattan)" title="Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Seventh Avenue</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> converge. (Today, the spot where the kiss took place is on the small island separating Broadway and Seventh Avenue between the Toys R Us and MTV studios in Times Square.)<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The nurse in the photo is Edith Shain and the sailor has been identified as Glenn McDuffie.</span></span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-11896651925910553862008-10-27T18:01:00.003+02:002008-10-27T18:06:39.047+02:00Freedom for Nelson Mandela (South Africa)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGm7FpqwsEWeWVNJY4xQ7FV06bt6Gd_m9PIY9YDGA0fAXlUwbiYZZGboOZ5YP6xN3oDnfjVMkJLy3cjfHGsPewzek8et4u_pVferT9OTirfR5QkPbhWPgJ7lW4nl3HwaJsjMwGFpwqPKA/s1600-h/mandela2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGm7FpqwsEWeWVNJY4xQ7FV06bt6Gd_m9PIY9YDGA0fAXlUwbiYZZGboOZ5YP6xN3oDnfjVMkJLy3cjfHGsPewzek8et4u_pVferT9OTirfR5QkPbhWPgJ7lW4nl3HwaJsjMwGFpwqPKA/s320/mandela2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261864844733234402" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 14px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 14px; font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Leading anti-apartheid campaigner, Nelson Mandela, was freed from a South African prison, on 11 February 1990, after 27 years. His release follows the relaxation of apartheid laws... including lifting the ban on leading black rights party the African National Congress (ANC) by South African President FW de Klerk.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 14px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 14px; font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Mandela appeared at the gates of Victor-Verster Prison in Paarl at 16:14 local time - an hour late - with his then wife, Winnie. Holding her hand and dressed in a light brown suit and tie he smiled at the ecstatic crowds and punched the air in a victory salute before taking a silver BMW sedan to Cape Town, 40 miles away.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 14px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 14px; font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">People danced in the streets and thousands clamored to see him at a rally in Cape Town.</span></span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-33326052186487458012008-10-23T21:06:00.005+02:002008-10-23T21:16:17.868+02:00Patty Hearst and SLA Bank Robbery (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ4c70TtnpT-RlHXdLl0UDgAPrLk3dJ3-j57cblVwTfYb638H4XZPxJI1ifERKcfqN5HNSiAePBvsAGDYwAjy-biwZzf8bAOlu8Xtb_YN3iH_KKyzYJBbwlvjGS2fh2ijAg0vLk3rR0g/s1600-h/pattyhearstrobsbank.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ4c70TtnpT-RlHXdLl0UDgAPrLk3dJ3-j57cblVwTfYb638H4XZPxJI1ifERKcfqN5HNSiAePBvsAGDYwAjy-biwZzf8bAOlu8Xtb_YN3iH_KKyzYJBbwlvjGS2fh2ijAg0vLk3rR0g/s320/pattyhearstrobsbank.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260428031448451234" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The granddaughter of publishing magnate WIlliam Randolph Hearst, Patricia Hearst was a college student in Berkeley, California when she was kidnapped in February of 1974 by a neo-revolutionary group calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). For the next two months, by her account, Hearst was kept in a closet and "brainwashed" by the small group of radicals who targeted wealthy capitalists as the ultimate enemy. The Hearst family agreed to the initial demands but negotiations reached a stalemate.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Then the SLA publicized a photo of Patty, machine gun in hand, apparently a willing convert to revolution. She took the name "Tania" (tribute to the wife of Che Guevara) and participated in the robbery of a San Francisco bank. Instead of a victim, Hearst became a member of the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted List.<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">She is pictured here holding an M1 Carbine while robbing a Hibernia bank in San Francisco on 15 April 1974.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Hearst was arrested in 1975 and was convicted of bank robbery, but in 1979 her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Out of the limelight, she became a wife, mother, author and sometime actress. In 2001, President Bill Clinton granted her a pardon.</span></span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-66884016880877568602008-10-13T17:06:00.002+02:002008-10-17T12:58:15.887+02:005 Year Old Mother (Peru)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopa8-v9x57EFG0gwl990F3DkMCmMJFRMLKRlIqtIMt2CsikZ1nmglVb1i4NPDGVWannfRG0uCg9QVSZudr0zYkPHD02gXOlZyrLpuVTEfAbXcUbSyQk9twL6fONDr68EG104dUokZ8pY/s1600-h/lina-medina.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopa8-v9x57EFG0gwl990F3DkMCmMJFRMLKRlIqtIMt2CsikZ1nmglVb1i4NPDGVWannfRG0uCg9QVSZudr0zYkPHD02gXOlZyrLpuVTEfAbXcUbSyQk9twL6fONDr68EG104dUokZ8pY/s320/lina-medina.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256655319707935410" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Lina Medina is the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Born in Peru on 27 September 1933, Lina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of 5 because of an increasing abdominal size. Originally thought to have tumor, her doctors determined that she was in fact seven months pregnant.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Lina was in fact pregnant. A month and a half later, on 14 May 1939, she gave birth to a boy by caesarean section</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section" title="Caesarean section" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Her son weighed 2.7 kg at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">There was never evidence that Lina Medina's pregnancy occurred in any but the usual way, but she never revealed the father of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Dr. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Lina "couldn't give precise responses". Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of rape and incest, but was later released due to lack of evidence.</span><br /></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-24587402930434457352008-10-06T17:12:00.004+02:002008-10-23T16:35:34.770+02:00Untitled (South Africa)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6hZswAR7-IK7wsTnHIK_Jh29tB5JO0xyD-zY81ay42pH101xX_urnjOq3kbyEX7HiiPlhl9nSat8aqHM22vG-X0vKxw1_Iei82wV5mTBL04v0r2tQ02fI3x8Y_bmjbt58KctPGW1gqQ/s1600-h/1977.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6hZswAR7-IK7wsTnHIK_Jh29tB5JO0xyD-zY81ay42pH101xX_urnjOq3kbyEX7HiiPlhl9nSat8aqHM22vG-X0vKxw1_Iei82wV5mTBL04v0r2tQ02fI3x8Y_bmjbt58KctPGW1gqQ/s320/1977.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254059711718049458" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Police is seen here shooting tear-gas at inhabitants of a squatter camp in Modderdam, outside of Cape Town (South Africa) during a protest against the demolition of their homes in August 1977.</div><div>Leslie Hammond had only moments to take a few pictures during the sudden charge by police.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hammond received the World Press Photo in 1977 .<br /><div><br /></div></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-52100921144939553372008-09-14T12:19:00.004+02:002008-09-16T19:06:38.712+02:00Beauty out of Damage (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMMR9ZX6rWpMYEMvv67VhbdB21wdf_XILCXov8S1L2lLV_nZFlDH_rzx9nuxD9Yyn3JjYWpFj52VahfK9TvUDA0YmUPkbY9TCthT9vOoLv7qVYWYA-gFAK82zxZ54D_CfKRIH7lXKBFo/s1600-h/3912079_b1551ed91c.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMMR9ZX6rWpMYEMvv67VhbdB21wdf_XILCXov8S1L2lLV_nZFlDH_rzx9nuxD9Yyn3JjYWpFj52VahfK9TvUDA0YmUPkbY9TCthT9vOoLv7qVYWYA-gFAK82zxZ54D_CfKRIH7lXKBFo/s320/3912079_b1551ed91c.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245822207597433122" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1991 the artist and model Matuschka was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. Following her surgery, which she discovered had not been necessary, Matuschka became an activist on breast cancer issues. Hoping to increase awareness of the prevalence of breast cancer,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> she continued producing artistic portraits of herself, many of them revealing the results of her mastectomy.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Her career took a very public turn with the appearance of her photographic self-portrait on the cover of the New York Times Magazine on 15 August 1993. Subsequently The New York Times received an unusually high amount of letters to the editor, ranking it as one of the most controversial covers in its history. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"So I lost a breast and the world gained an activist", Matuschka pluckily sums up her new life. And her activism has been unusually effective. According to the president of the Canadian group Breast Cancer Action, Matuschka’s NY Times cover "did more for breast cancer than anyone else in the last twenty-five years."</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The photograph has received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The artist herself has received numerous humanitarian awards, including Humanitarian of the Year.</span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-39949407177615688792008-08-17T15:17:00.005+02:002008-09-16T19:07:55.126+02:00Born Twice (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtdyABBtjMtCANdp_YP4Z80KM-BZ_GUOezIlbggWYU4c7bZCEgw00eSQpEDw-n98BoE-VeLse1V7cPHa6cD-Jmvx0ZdviYY4_n2hx9qxaWIh3c6-qq2PinsqfHO93vzWjW76xcoK4f-Y/s1600-h/Born+Twice.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtdyABBtjMtCANdp_YP4Z80KM-BZ_GUOezIlbggWYU4c7bZCEgw00eSQpEDw-n98BoE-VeLse1V7cPHa6cD-Jmvx0ZdviYY4_n2hx9qxaWIh3c6-qq2PinsqfHO93vzWjW76xcoK4f-Y/s320/Born+Twice.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235476862753249330" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An experimental – and controversial – procedure for treating a crippling birth defect in the womb offered Trish and Mike Switzer the only chance that their daughter would walk like other children. But the fetal surgery posed a fatal dilemma: Their baby could die before she was born.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg said about this photo: “During a spina bifida corrective procedure at twenty-one weeks in utero, 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.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://forerunner.com/fyi/news/lm1299.htm</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; white-space: pre;font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><br /></span></p></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-55384161070296738572008-08-14T17:39:00.003+02:002008-08-15T12:49:35.911+02:00Omaha Beach-Normandy (France)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_oBULtHQ0-qcPARsoA1_frz7H7wGdlBaRCJCE0NCSypnIYRwMZEd60mnWkJYSoiq3uePyDjkuQ2ImyA0-uV5Pt9F8Ycmtak5K37DPSAnSbIlW6XpB3ljTPhu0dndF2aP5DtrFoWhU88/s1600-h/omaha-beach-robert-capa.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_oBULtHQ0-qcPARsoA1_frz7H7wGdlBaRCJCE0NCSypnIYRwMZEd60mnWkJYSoiq3uePyDjkuQ2ImyA0-uV5Pt9F8Ycmtak5K37DPSAnSbIlW6XpB3ljTPhu0dndF2aP5DtrFoWhU88/s320/omaha-beach-robert-capa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234398894918264946" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">"If your pictures aren’t good enough," war photographer Robert Capa used to say, "you aren’t close enough." Words to die by, yes, but the man knew of what he spoke. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">On the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when he landed alongside the first waves of infantry at Omaha Beach and caught under heavy fire, Capa dove for what little cover he could find, then shot all the film in his camera, and got out - barely. He escaped with his life, but not much else.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><br /></p></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-50899927376543511892008-08-09T08:35:00.003+02:002008-08-09T08:44:36.418+02:00Tourist Guy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieVQoM_MEio2CYVImOTQ_-ZmH89iIf6u6kYfc680z3bxn_6GoAvpVfUZbFykiU7xzia1Y-4mn0yGs1aHtgzXBdIYIURhzgOWAdcj-EjlM1oSon_HzCVwCsNl8EYvePa6AtYkg2BlhfzA/s1600-h/tourist_guy_e-mail_hoax_september_11th_2001_new_york_city.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieVQoM_MEio2CYVImOTQ_-ZmH89iIf6u6kYfc680z3bxn_6GoAvpVfUZbFykiU7xzia1Y-4mn0yGs1aHtgzXBdIYIURhzgOWAdcj-EjlM1oSon_HzCVwCsNl8EYvePa6AtYkg2BlhfzA/s320/tourist_guy_e-mail_hoax_september_11th_2001_new_york_city.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232402978962439474" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The tourist guy, also known as the tourist of death, is an internet phenomenon consisting of a photograph of a tourist that has appeared in many photoshopped pictures after the 11 September 2001 attacks.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Soon after 9/11, an image showing a tourist while an airliner was about to hit the building beneath him circulated on the internet. It was claimed that the picture came from a camera that was found in the debris at Ground Zero.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:'-webkit-sans-serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A 25 year old Hungarian man named Péter Guzli came forward as the real tourist. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:'-webkit-sans-serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Guzli took the photo on 28 November 1997, and was also responsible for the initial edit. He edited the image for a few friends, not realizing it would spread so quickly across the Internet. He first provided the original photo and several other photos from the same series as proof to a Hungarian newspaper.</span></span><br /></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-6201190590475015252008-07-19T16:45:00.006+02:002008-08-15T12:50:12.060+02:00The Power of One (West Bank)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bDBYdObnrN3WGIIuKNwsTT0r8Oh7n6augFBWuVh6wdTagUsRPh8Gihr4Q_7pau8bjaNANgtJRZGSehNZL1dvlM8lEkivrRbuwQ4KAEbxJON1GiFxB-DxVqJ17taHy2XYoywAXojARxM/s1600-h/spot_news_-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bDBYdObnrN3WGIIuKNwsTT0r8Oh7n6augFBWuVh6wdTagUsRPh8Gihr4Q_7pau8bjaNANgtJRZGSehNZL1dvlM8lEkivrRbuwQ4KAEbxJON1GiFxB-DxVqJ17taHy2XYoywAXojARxM/s320/spot_news_-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224736737927168642" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">A lone Jewish settler challenges Israeli security officers during clashes that erupted as Israeli authorities cleared the West Bank settlement of Amona, east of Ramallah.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up in this illegal West Bank outpost after Israel's Supreme Court cleared the way of demolition of nine homes at the site.</span></span></div>!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494062572305210021.post-86424168399227274752008-07-09T08:15:00.003+02:002008-07-09T08:21:30.882+02:00Martin Luther King Jr. Death's Shot (USA)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqACxU4rtnqaAc1VNVFQuQxSHWGNE51LLpb83gKtNxWHM93Ir4SXY0APuEnwGTjIbagI6C4pl_1XuTIpDXH9Kx_pggUERJk6JOyj1ZRyKIjcwXUqHZIXhwv_22idwfQ5oygUhKbdqciq4/s1600-h/KingAssasination.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 185px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqACxU4rtnqaAc1VNVFQuQxSHWGNE51LLpb83gKtNxWHM93Ir4SXY0APuEnwGTjIbagI6C4pl_1XuTIpDXH9Kx_pggUERJk6JOyj1ZRyKIjcwXUqHZIXhwv_22idwfQ5oygUhKbdqciq4/s320/KingAssasination.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220895232636782674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />While standing on the balcony, on 4 April 1968, he joked with friends and collegues while he waited for his jacket. At 6:01 a shot rang out, hitting King in the side of the face. Friends rushed to side and desperatly tried to stop the bleeding. Police soon appeared on the scene guns drawn asking where the shot came from. Those on the balcony pointed in the direction of an old run down hotel across the street. That moment was captured by photographer, James Louw, and now lives infamy as King's death shot.!conichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547919130054886743noreply@blogger.com0