Picture that gives you goosebumps

[(s)AINT]

(for those who aren't similar with this picture, it is a picture of the Palestinian terrorist during the Munich Massacre. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre)

If you got any (historical pictures) that scares you (lol) or gives you goosebumps post em'.

[Psychonaut]

I'm going to visit Munich next week. Quite the coincidence.

anywho:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1...oner_execution

[irontaino]

[xcorps]

Mary Surratt.

[Sphere]

[Mr. Shaboobies]

^

[mw2xboxplayer]

[Soviet]

If anybody can give me the backstory as to what this is, I could probably sleep a little easier...

[Caelius]

Crew of the Japanese carrier Zuikaku saluting the imperial naval ensign as it's lowered at the Battle of Leyte Gulf (the largest naval engagement of WWII).

Fifteen minutes after this picture the carrier capsized and sank, killing her captain and half her crew of 1,600.

[Lord Rahl]

Earth rise over the moon as seen from Apollo 8. Can you imagine seeing this? It's literally awesome.

And another astronomy photo known as "Pale Blue Dot":



Taken 3.7 billion miles from Earth by Voyager 1 in 1990 at the request of Carl Sagan. If you look closely enough at the bright yellow-orange sun ray/glare/whatever you will see...a pale blue dot. That's Earth. It's an incredible sight.

Sagan wrote about the photograph:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[Imperator Aemilianus Finnicus]

[Ancient Aliens]

...

That does give me the goosebumps

[gaunty14]

go onto google and type in Don Mcullin and go to the images of the Vietnam War and Sub Saharan Africa

[or buy his book which is definetley worth seeing, I based my entire art project for my A-levels on it]

[Tiberios]

[Manuel I Komnenos]

If anybody can give me the backstory as to what this is, I could probably sleep a little easier...

Just some people that visit your house when you post that picture.

[Pharoah]

This one from the alien atopsy still gives me the creeps

[Lord Rahl]

This picture was taken by Kevin Carter in Sudan in 1993. It became a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph. The photo caused many people to ask Carter what he did about the child in the photo. He did scare the vulture away. But the horrors he saw in Sudan were too much for him to handle and he committed suicide in 1994.

[John Doe]

napalm in vietnam

[Pharoah]

napalm in vietnam

Why is he doing a facepalm

[Trax]

If anybody can give me the backstory as to what this is, I could probably sleep a little easier...

Some sort of Christmas or New Year custom?

These are probably the local equivalent of Santa Claus and the boy has been naughty so there will be no presents for him, just a good beating.