10 terrible pictures and the stories behind them

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Photographs allow us to better understand the lives and often imprint points that can be forgotten.

Some pictures can tell a sad and shocking story.

History in pictures

1. Monk performs the ritual on a man who died

 

Nov. 25, 2011 visitors in the hall of the railway station in Taiyuan, Shanxi China noticed that the elderly man asleep for too long. When people decide to check it out, they found that his body was cold, and emergency room doctors confirmed that he had died.

The monk, who was waiting for his train, held a religious ceremony for the men that help his soul find peace.

2. A person Kamikaze

 

Corporal Yukio Araki was a 17-year-old kamikaze pilot. The photo was taken May 26, 1945, and on it you can see how it keeps a puppy with four other pilots of the 72nd Division in Bunce, Kagoshima. Araki was killed the next day, in an act of suicide on the ship near Okinawa.

3. Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole

 

Robert Falcon Scott (center) led the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, since 1910, hoping to become the first to win the geographic South Pole.

They managed to reach the Pole January 17, 1912, but for 34 days before they came to the Norwegian team. Their return journey home was heavy and hard, and the state of the team became inexorably worse: many had frostbite and other injuries.

Some of their bodies, diaries and photographs were found after a search group of 8 months.

Last Blog Entry Scott was dated March 29, 1912, the expected date of his death.

4. Grief and girl

 

In 1993, Sudan near the town of Ayod parents of the girl left her briefly, ran for a meal out of the plane. An emaciated child and tried to get to the food, but tired. Griffin landed nearby and watched her until she was resting.

Kevin Carter (Kevin Carter) South African photojournalist who did the photo, committed suicide a year after that. He was subjected to severe criticism for having made the picture. Carter was trying to drive away the birds, but often regretted not having done more to help the child.

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5. Remains cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov

 

On the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, the government decided to mark the space flight. Vladimir Komarov was chosen as commander of spacecraft "Soyuz-1", and Yuri Gagarin was chosen by his understudy. Both cosmonaut knew that the capsule was unsafe for flight, but no one dared to postpone or cancel the mission, saying it Brezhnev.

Komarov has decided not to cancel the mission, do not want to instead sent Gagarin, and he would have died in his place.

Gagarin appeared during startup, and it is also demanded to put the suit, but he refused.

In the photograph the funeral Komarova open coffin where his charred remains were on display. It is said that Komarov himself asked about this before the flight to show the authorities that were to blame for his death.

6. Self deathbed of mother and son

 

Slok Gary (Gary Slok) - 15-year-old was going on vacation with her mother Petra Langeveld (Petra Langeveld) to Kuala Lumpur. When they took their seats in the ill-fated plane MH17, they decided to make self together.

Three hours after the photo was taken, their plane was shot down and fell on the Ukrainian-Russian border.

7. Monk, bringing a sacrifice

 

In 1963, the Buddhist majority in South Vietnam had reached a critical point in the growing difficulties with the repressive regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. In May of that year, Buddhists gathered in the city of Hue, to defend their rights.

The government aggressively dispersed the crowd and killed nine Buddhists. In protest of the regime, two elderly monk committed ritual suicide on a busy intersection in Saigon, Vietnam, June 11, 1963.

8. Eternal Love

 

Skeletons in this picture about 2800 years. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania found that both died about 800 BC They were found in the archaeological site known as Hasanlu in Iran in 1972.

Both men belong to the skeleton, and they can be related. City, where they were, was burned during a military operation.Maybe they were hiding from the soldiers, but quickly suffocated because of the fire. At the last moment, they clung to each other before he died.

9. The shock of concussion

 

This photo was taken during the battle Kurselet in France in September 1916. 

A man sits huddled in a trench, showing the shock of the concussion, which was characterized as a blank, unfocused look harried soldiers in the fighting. The look is from the trauma and dissociation occurs in posttraumatic stress. In addition it should be noted that at that time people did not smile in photos.

10. A girl from the camp draws house

 

The girl, who grew up in a concentration camp, was asked to draw a picture of "home" when she was in an institution for mentally disturbed children. It is difficult to say what is meant by the line for her, perhaps, chaos or barbed wire.

There is little information regarding the girl know that her name is Terezka. Her eyes - this is not the naive eyes of a child, but those who have experienced the horrors of such a young age.