Famous and great pictures.

[MmmBeer]

Not quite so deep, but powerful all the same.

 

[strange-steve]

one of my favs, the surgeon's photograph.

And a fascinating story behind it too.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[DavidHatton]

Two events remember from my upbringing

Hillsborough disaster.

Miners strike.

 

[obscure]

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The last Home Brew Forum Members Conference before lockdown

Brighton 1863 we will remember it well (also love image search that now lets you identify a photo)

 

[chopps]

Pale Blue Dot
Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world.

Carl Sagan.

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.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It’s never easy to identify the moment a hinge turns in history. When it comes to humanity’s first true grasp of the beauty, fragility and loneliness of our world, however, we know the precise instant. It was on December 24, 1968, exactly 75 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds after the Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral en route to becoming the first manned mission to orbit the moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve of what had been a bloody, war-torn year for America. At the beginning of the fourth of 10 orbits, their spacecraft was emerging from the far side of the moon when a view of the blue-white planet filled one of the hatch windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed. He snapped a picture—in black and white. Lovell scrambled to find a color canister. “Well, I think we missed it,” Anders said. Lovell looked through windows three and four. “Hey, I got it right here!” he exclaimed. A weightless Anders shot to where Lovell was floating and fired his Hasselblad. “You got it?” Lovell asked. “Yep,” Anders answered. The image—our first full-color view of our planet from off of it—helped to launch the environmental movement. And, just as important, it helped human beings recognize that in a cold and punishing cosmos, we’ve got it pretty good.

 

[obscure]

Seattle, Washington, 1918
Seems sadly relevant to the current situation

Fall of the Berlin Wall

 

[Chippy_Tea]

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Seattle, Washington, 1918
Seems sadly relevant to the current situation

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Another moment in time many of us will never forget.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Not famous but i saw it earlier and it reminded me how long its been since I've been in a pub.

 

[obscure]

How things change Checkpoint Charlie today (and yes their really is a McDonalds next to it.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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It’s never easy to identify the moment a hinge turns in history. When it comes to humanity’s first true grasp of the beauty, fragility and loneliness of our world, however, we know the precise instant. It was on December 24, 1968, exactly 75 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds after the Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral en route to becoming the first manned mission to orbit the moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve of what had been a bloody, war-torn year for America. At the beginning of the fourth of 10 orbits, their spacecraft was emerging from the far side of the moon when a view of the blue-white planet filled one of the hatch windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed. He snapped a picture—in black and white. Lovell scrambled to find a color canister. “Well, I think we missed it,” Anders said. Lovell looked through windows three and four. “Hey, I got it right here!” he exclaimed. A weightless Anders shot to where Lovell was floating and fired his Hasselblad. “You got it?” Lovell asked. “Yep,” Anders answered. The image—our first full-color view of our planet from off of it—helped to launch the environmental movement. And, just as important, it helped human beings recognize that in a cold and punishing cosmos, we’ve got it pretty good.

I had this picture as my screen saver for many years and I love the guys sat on the girder, as my dad was a steel erector.

 

[Ajhutch]

57 years ago today

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

World War II, 1945. U.S. Troops raise a flag in Iwo Jima.

Jesse Owens, a black USA Olympic athlete, defies Hitler’s will and notions of Aryan supremacy by winning gold in the 100m sprint and performing a salute, captured by Heinrich Hoffman during the 1936 Olympic Games.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Flowers of Manchester

 

[obscure]

5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, New Mexico

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

This looks like a good offer to me

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I will let this fellow work that one out OB

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

I will let this fellow work that one out OB


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And here is the answer