30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

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    Shanghai ooompa loompa
    • Jul 2004
    • 20894

    30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

    Most of them are new to me.

    We should warn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, while others may fill them with joy. But that's precisely because these images reflect some of the best and worst parts of the human experience and world events – our suffering and our triumphs, our perseverance and our failures, our compassion and our hatred, our intelligence and our stupidity.


    1. Starving boy and missionary


    Image credits: Mike Wells

    2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber


    Image credits: kligon5

    3. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.


    Image credits: James Stanfield

    4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)


    Image credits: Vojage-Vojage

    5. Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music


    Image credits: salvemasnossascriancas.blogspot.com

    6. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994


    Image credits: drugoi.livejournal.com
    7. Young man just found out his brother was killed


    Image credits: Nhat V. Meyer

    8. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt


    Image credits: Nevine Zaki

    9. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009


    Image credits: abc.net.au

    10. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months


    Image credits: Louie Favorite

    11. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India


    Image credits: Tsering Topgyal / AP

    12. Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000


    Image credits: STR News / Reuters

    13. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”


    Image credits: Richard Drew /AP

    14. Alcoholic father with his son


    Image credits: imgur.com

    15. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory


    Image credits: Taslima Akhter

    16. Sunset on Mars


    Image credits: nasa.gov

    17. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke


    Image credits: Jesco Denzel

    18. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives


    Image credits: Brian Sokol

    19. A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.


    Image credits: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images

    20. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940


    Image credits: Claud Detloff

    21. An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument


    Image credits: englishrussia.com

    22. Flower power


    Image credits: Bernie Boston

    23. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011


    Image credits: Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP

    24. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888


    Image credits: retronaut.com

    25. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012


    Image credits: Gary Cosby Jr. / AP

    26. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009


    Image credits: Adri Tambunan

    27. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943


    Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein
    Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945.

    28. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head


    Image credits: Biswaranjan Rout / AP

    29. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers


    Image credits: Rafiq Maqbool / AP


    30. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.


    Image credits: reddit.com

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  • Huggie Smiles
    Anyone have Styx livesets?
    • Jun 2004
    • 11832

    #2
    Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

    have seen most. But very powerful.
    ....Freak in the morning, Freak in the evening, aint no other Freak like me thats breathing....




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    • unkle
      Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
      • Mar 2007
      • 10174

      #3
      Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

      I have seen a couple of them
      some pics are really hard.

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      • Rawrmune
        Platinum Poster
        • Jun 2011
        • 1672

        #4
        Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

        Incredible pictures

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        • Simeon
          Platinum Poster
          • Jan 2010
          • 1469

          #5
          Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

          painful & shocking,hopefull & courageous....LIFE itself.
          From Balearic to Techno...

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          • nick007
            DUDERZ get a life!!!
            • Oct 2007
            • 6095

            #6
            Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

            The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most

            The largest room in the world, is the room for improvement!

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            • leest3
              Addiction started
              • Mar 2013
              • 444

              #7
              Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

              Great read and definitely powerful moving images. Thank you,.

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              • Kamal
                Administrator
                • May 2002
                • 28833

                #8
                Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                Having just become a dad, the starving boy really shook me. The embracing couple was a close second. Truly, death do us apart.
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                • Garrick
                  DUDERZ get a life!!!
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 6764

                  #9
                  Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                  Originally posted by nick007
                  The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most
                  me too... you can almost feel her emotion.
                  Should I fuck you at that not until the ass, inject then tremendously hard bumschen and to the termination in the eyes yes?

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                  • audrey_w
                    Gold Gabber
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 731

                    #10
                    Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                    incredible

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                    • GregWhelan
                      Are you Kidding me??
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 2990

                      #11
                      Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                      Amazing pictures, life in motion. Makes me mad at the state of society today, constantly getting bombarded with info about no-marks such as the Kardashians, Made in Chelsea, TOWIE etc.

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                      • robophobia_1
                        Addiction started
                        • May 2007
                        • 288

                        #12
                        Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                        The Auschwitz gas chamber sends a shiver down my spine.

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                        • dusk
                          DUDERZ get a life!!!
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 7266

                          #13
                          Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                          Originally posted by nick007
                          The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most

                          This....

                          Yet... all of them in their own right... so very profound.. A picture does speak a thousand words.
                          ~ You are what you think you are ~


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                          • Micko
                            DUDERZ get a life!!!
                            • Oct 2004
                            • 8075

                            #14
                            Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                            Haunting images

                            Reminds me not to get so caught up in the trivialities of life

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                            • go0gle
                              Platinum Poster
                              • Jan 2007
                              • 1543

                              #15
                              Re: 30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

                              I think that this one should be on that list as well

                              Kevin Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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