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PHOTOS that changed history

14.Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

On October 22, 1962, after accusing the U.S.S.R. of installing nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ordered a blockade of the island. When the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. refused to deny the charge, U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronted him with these photos of missile sites taken by the high-flying spy plane, the U-2, and the Soviets were compelled to back down. The presentation of seemingly incontrovertible evidence would become known as an “Adlai Stevenson moment.” Robert F. Kennedy later admitted that he and his brother found the grainy images quite baffling, and banked on the interpretation proffered by the CIA: “I, for one, had to take their word for it.”

13.Nagasaki 1945

Nothing like the mushroom cloud had ever been seen, not by the general public. It was a suitably awesome image for the power unleashed below. On August 6 the first atomic bomb killed an estimated 80,000 people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There was no quick surrender, and three days later a second bomb exploded 500 meters above the ground in Nagasaki. The blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees and radiation destroyed anything even remotely nearby, killing or injuring as many as 150,000 at the time, and more later. As opposed to the very personal images of war that had brought the pain home, the ones from Japan that were most shocking were those from a longer perspective, showing the enormity of what had occurred. 12.Anne Frank 1941 Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come 11.Birmingham 1963 For years, Birmingham, Ala., was considered “the South’s toughest city,” home to a large black population and a dominant class of whites that met in frequent, open hostility. Birmingham in 1963 had become the cause célèbre of the black civil rights movement as nonviolent demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly faced jail, dogs and high-velocity hoses in their tireless quest to topple segregation. This picture of people being pummeled by a liquid battering ram rallied support for the plight of the blacks. 10.Biafra 1969 When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to protrude. War photographer Don McCullin drew attention to the tragedy. "I was devastated by the sight of 900 children living in one camp in utter squalor at the point of death," he said. "I lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action." The world community intervened to help Biafra, and learned key lessons about dealing with massive hunger exacerbated by war-a problem that still defies simple solutions. 9.Earthrise 1968 The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” Captured on Christmas Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known, the Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of our fragile existence and our place in the cosmos. For years, Frank Borman and Bill Anders of the Apollo 8 mission each thought that he was the one who took the picture. An investigation of two rolls of film seemed to prove Borman had taken an earlier, black-and-white frame, and the iconic color photograph, which later graced a U.S. postage stamp and several book covers, was by Anders. 8.Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla 1968 With North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war. Adams felt that many misinterpreted the scene, and when told in 1998 that the immigrant Loan had died of cancer at his home in Burke, Va., he said, “The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.” 7.Lynching 1930 A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl’s uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man’s innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”) Some lynching photos were made into postcards designed to boost white supremacy, but the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting as many as they scared. Today the images remind us that we have not come as far from barbarity as we’d like to think. 6.Migrant Mother 1936 This California farmworker, age 32, had just sold her tent and the tires off her car to buy food for her seven kids. The family was living on scavenged vegetables and wild birds. Working for the federal government, Dorothea Lange took pictures like this one to document how the Depression colluded with the Dust Bowl to ravage lives. Along with the writing of her economist husband, Paul Taylor, Lange’s work helped convince the public and the government of the need to help field hands. Lange later said that this woman, whose name she did not ask, “seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.” 5.Pigeon House and Barn 1827 As early as 1793, Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude imagined a photographic process, and over the next several years, Nicéphore experimented with various light-sensitive substances and cameras. In 1824 he produced a view from his window on a metal plate covered with asphalt. That and most other pictures fashioned by Niépce in the 1820s no longer exist, but the fuzzy image of a pigeon house and a barn roof taken in the summer of 1827 is a good representation of Niépce’s art. To make what he called a “heliograph,” or sun drawing, Niépce employed an exposure time of more than eight hours. Photography, if not yet practical, had been invented. 4.How Life Begins 1965 In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that can see inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson presented the rewards of his work to LIFE’s editors several years later, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. Finally convinced, they published a cover story in 1965 that went on for 16 pages, and it created a sensation. Then, and over the intervening years, Nilsson’s painstakingly made pictures informed how humanity feels about . . . well, humanity. They also were appropriated for purposes that Nilsson never intended. Nearly as soon as the 1965 portfolio appeared in LIFE, images from it were enlarged by right-to-life activists and pasted to placards. 3.Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist Company always kept its doors locked to ensure that the young immigrant women stayed stooped over their machines and didn’t steal anything. When a fire broke out on Saturday, March 25, 1911, on the eighth floor of the New York City factory, the locks sealed the workers’ fate. In just 30 minutes, 146 were killed. Witnesses thought the owners were tossing their best fabric out the windows to save it, then realized workers were jumping, sometimes after sharing a kiss (the scene can be viewed now as an eerie precursor to the World Trade Center events of September, 11, 2001, only a mile and a half south). The Triangle disaster spurred a national crusade for workplace safety. 2.Flight 1903 On December 17, 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio realized one of humanity’s wildest dreams: For 12 seconds they were possessed of true flight. Before the day ended, Orville and Wilbur Wright would keep their wood-wire-and-cloth Flyer aloft for 59 seconds. Sober citizens knew that only birds used wings to take to the air, so without being at the site, near Kitty Hawk, N.C., or seeing this photo, few would have believed the Wrights’ story. Although it had taken ages for humans to fly, once the brothers made their breakthrough, the learning curve reached the heavens. Within 15 years of this critical moment, nearly all the elements of the modern airplane had been imagined, if not yet developed. 1.First Human X-ray 1896 To know something like the back of your hand is a timeless concept, one taken yet further by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. While working on a series of experiments with a Crookes tube, he noticed that a bit of barium platinocyanide emitted a fluorescent glow. He then laid a photographic plate behind his wife’s hand (note the wedding rings), and made the first X-ray photo. Before that, physicians were unable to look inside a person’s body without making an incision. Roentgen was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.

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CAREER

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY IS WORLD IS TOO MUCH SELFISH. PEOPLE KEEP WANTING THINGS. AND IM BECOMING PART OF IT. VERY SHAMEFUL! I DONT WANT TO BE PART OF IT, I WANT TO LIVE IN WHAT I BELIEVE BUT PEOPLE SAY "LIVE PRACTICLE"! NOW I HAVE TO FIGHT WITH THE WORLD. I ALREADY WON IN FORGIVENESS BUT THERE IS SO MANY THINGS TO DEAL WITH.

IF YOU DID ANY MISTAKE TO SOMEONE, AND YOU WANT TO RECONCILE,THEN WE MUST KEEP ASKING FORGIVENESS TILL THEY FORGIVE US. THIS I LEARNED FROM JESUS.IT REALLY WORKED. WE NEED LOT OF PATIENCE OF COURSE, BUT IT FINALLY PAYS OFF.

NOW COMES CAREER, IM PLANNING TO WORK MORE HARD TO ACHIEVE FEW THINGS IN LIFE. IT TAKES LOTS OF PRESSURE FOR SURE, BUT THIS NEED TO BE DONE. HAVE TO APPLY PASSPORT, GRAB SOME BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND HAVE TO DO SOME COURSE AND GAIN CERTIFICATES......DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE. JUST HOPING GOOD IN TRAILS.......

JESUS THERE FOR ME!LET HIS WILL BE DONE, NOT WHAT I WANT BUT WHAT HE WANTS..................AMEN!

27TH FEB VOICE

DON'T KNOW WHERE LIFE STARTS AND WHERE LIFE ENDS. WE HAVE SO MANY DREAMS TO ACHIEVE, BUT IT IS SO HARD SOMETIMES EVEN TO THINK HOW WE CAN RUN THAT FAR.
TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO MAKE FEW SACRIFICES IN LIFE, EVEN IT MEANS TO DEATH....SOMETHING LIKE TRUE LOVE.

IT IS REALLY VERY EASY WORD "LOVE".....BUT THE HARDEST AND STRONGEST WEAPON I BELIEVE. SERIOUSLY, AS FAR AS I SEEN THINGS AROUND ME, IT TAKES SO MUCH PAIN.
I'M NOT TRYING IN THIS LIFE FOR MONEY OR GOLD, BUT A TRUE HAPPINESS AND SWEET LOVE. LOVE AND HAPPINESS ARE NOT EASY THINGS. BESIDES THAT INDIA TO AUSTRALIA....OOPS! I GUESS I GOT VERY TOUGH GOAL NOW. ITS NOT EASY FOR A GIRL LIKE ME. BUT I GUESS I HAVE TO TRY..........I HAVE TWO OPTIONS...... WIN OR LOOSE............. GOD, WHAT YOU'LL DO WITH ME...........I NEED YOUR HELP.ITS OK EVEN IF I LOSE,BUT I NEED U IN MY DEFEAT TOO.....YOU KNOW I CAN'T MAKE ONE STEP FURTHER IN MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU.

valentines day

It can be difficult for a man to say those three words that mean so much to a woman, especially on Valentine’s Day.

Those words are dangerous. And powerful. Simultaneously intoxicating and sobering. They are full of responsibility, promise, and stars. Forgive men for taking them seriously. Because, for the most part, we do. Telling a woman “I Love You” can warp the space and time continuum. That’s some major cosmic stuff right there.

There are multiple other ways to tell your feelings. And that’s true for a lot of men. Whether we’re falling for you, or have already fallen, we sometimes try to find other ways to tell you “I love you” that aren’t quite so direct.

Here are twenty-five suggestions for alternatives to the “L” word. If your man says any of these, just accept that he’s dropped the L-O-V-E bomb.

1. You are the syrup on my waffles.
2. Um. So. Yeah. 100%.
3. I don’t care if I have to wield a pitchfork with one hand, and a roaring chainsaw with the other, no zombies will ever eat your brains. Not while I live.
4, My pillows smell so much better when you’ve slept on them.
5, I read every single one of your tweets.
6, I wish you were key chain size. I’d put you in my pocket and take you everywhere.
7, Even if you forget who I am when we’re old and fat, I’ll still come to visit you and read you stuff, just like in that stupid movie that always makes you cry.
8, If you want to be with another guy, that’s totally cool. I’ll just spend the rest of my life sitting on a bar stool, nursing a beer and hoping the glow of the jukebox playing our song over and over masks my red, swollen eyes.
9. From the moment I met you, I’ve wanted to see you naked, and that hasn’t changed. Never will.
10. I have brought you meat, the roses of the caveman! Now, I will make FIRE!
11. My penis, heart, and brain are all in unanimous agreement about you.
12. I had this dream the other night. I was stumbling through a forest at night. It was dark and I couldn’t see where I was going, and in the distance I could hear wolves howling. Then the cloud cleared, and the moon illuminated a path to a village. Only it wasn’t a moon. It was your beautiful face, glowing silver against the night sky. What the hell do you think THAT means?
13. I am a grown ass man, but I have to be honest: you’re my personal night light.
14. G’head. Take the last beer.
15. Here’s a baseball bat. Just hide it under your bed while I’m away on business.
16. As a Vulcan, I recognize the significance of a quickened heartbeat, sweaty palms, and heightened activity in my brain’s pleasure centers when you are around. However, I do not fully comprehend why I feel compelled to insert my tongue inside of your mouth. I find it… fascinating.
17. I am perfectly happy co-depending on you.
18. When I was a kid, there was this amusement park that had a ride that would spin you around really fast. It was so much fun. I’d ride that thing all day, and every time I’d get off it, I’d be laughing, but thinking I was going to puke. All day long: laughing while on the verge of vomiting. That’s how I feel right now.
19. Your face tastes like cake and dynamite. Dynacake!
20. I have a lifetime subscription to You Magazine, the magazine about you, for me. By the way, you look stunning on the cover, just like every month.
21.You had me at “Who are you?”
22. I wrote you this poem: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art so hot.”
23. This chubby’s for you.
24. I want to be your personal airbag.
25. I know.

Sadhu Chellappa: Finding Jesus Christ from Vedas

Sadhu Chellappa: Finding Jesus Christ from Vedas