DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 It may not be a trajedy but this is such a beautiful picture. Doesn't really need words. Just love it.
Uncle Phil Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 Love the way her dress billows out and nearly covers the car. Women knew how to dress in those days. Is that not the roof of the car folded down?
Raw Dykes Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 Is that not the roof of the car folded down? I was just about to make that comment. I wasn't sure if flowwolf was being serious or not, but that is the car's roof and not the dress covering the car.
Zingari Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 Is that not the roof of the car folded down? i thought they were taking an old mattress to the tip
davieG Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 i thought they were taking an old mattress to the tip I think the Prince put it there for some fun on the trip but it turned out to be his deathbed.
Raw Dykes Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 i thought they were taking an old mattress to the tip
Uncle Phil Posted 12 March 2012 Posted 12 March 2012 i thought they were taking an old mattress to the tip Pretty sure people of that stature only sleep in nests constructed from the very softest Eider feathers. Well cosy.
Zingari Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Pretty sure people of that stature only sleep in nests constructed from the very softest Eider feathers. Well cosy. Yes I can see that now , they even walk around with eider feather pillows stuck to their heads just in case they fancy a quick nap .
OzFox Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Not as sensitive as ones already posted, but this is still pretty poignant in my eyes... Nagasaki was miles away from the earthquake and tsunami, so the second pic is from somewhere else They sure build those arches though
Webbo Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 What's left of the Titanic. Marvellous,after all these years and there's still water in the swimming pool.
MikeyT Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 You mean this one? Horrific. Not a lot of sights usually bother me, but this is just so sad and horrific.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28 1914. They were assassinated five minutes later. Leading to WW1 and the death of many millions. The numbers that died duing ww1 are beyond comprehension, an estimated 15 million dead....15 million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable isnt it, 15 Million!!!!!!
Jackirius Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Unbelievable isnt it, 15 Million!!!!!! I find the An Lushan Rebellion even more unbelievable, about 35million people dead which at the time was 15% of the worlds population
itwasthebobble Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 *Edited as did a classic 'can't remember how to upload pictures'*
Daggers Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28 1914. They were assassinated five minutes later. Leading to WW1 and the death of many millions. The numbers that died duing ww1 are beyond comprehension, an estimated 15 million dead....15 million!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is more incredible is the roll-of-dice chance that came into play in all of this. The driver had to divert from the planned route. At the moment he did so two anarchists emerged from a bar having had a skinfull. There, in front of the drunk anarchists was the bastard they hated, totally by chance. It was this level of randomness that killed 15,000,000ish people. I've plugged this on this forum before but I strongly recommend anyone interested in how the outbreak of WW1 related to earthquakes and stock market crashes to read Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan - there's second hand ones for 1p if you're hard up on Amazon. Scientists have recently discovered a new law of nature. Its footprints are virtually everywhere - in the spread of forest fires, mass extinctions, traffic jams, earthquakes, stock-market fluctuations, the rise and fall of nations, and even trends in fashion, music and art. Wherever we look, the world is modelled on a simple template: like a steep pile of sand, it is poised on the brink of instability, with avalanches - in events, ideas or whatever - following a universal pattern of change. This remarkable discovery heralds what Mark Buchanan calls the new science of 'ubiquity', a science whose secret lies in the stuff of the everyday world. Combining literary flair with scientific rigour, this enthralling book documents the coming revolution by telling the story of the researchers' exploration of the law, their ingenious work and unexpected insights. Mark Buchanan reveals how the principle of ubiquity will help us to manage, control and predict the future. More controversially, he claims that it may well contain the beginnings of a mathematics of cultural and historical change. Every decade sees a major scientific breakthrough that has implications that go way beyond science. 'Ubiquity' is one of them. This book, the world's first on the topic, will change how we think about the world and our place in it. Chaos Disorder from order. Complexity Complexity from simplicity. UBIQUITY World has a natural 'rhythm': there is a mysterious archetypal organisation that works in the world at all levels and which gives rise to a universal pattern of change - in groups of people, things or ideas.
FoxyPV Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 World War II fatality statistics vary, estimates of total dead ranging from 50 million to over 70 million - all because of the Wall Street Crash. Mental.
Guest Bilo Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 You could make that even more of a chain FoxyPV. WWII happened because of the Wall Street Crash, which was exacerbated by the treatment of Germany after the Treaty of Versailles, which happened because of their defeat in WWI which was caused by a chauffeur diverting his route. So you could say that 85 million deaths were caused by a wrong turn really. Scary thought.
FoxyPV Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 Although had the Wall Street Crash not happened, the League of Nations would have had the money to enforce the sanctions that they threatened therefore stopping the remilitarisation of the Rhineland and slapping Hitler down. WWII averted. The Germany economy would have collapsed and Hitler would have been driven from power.
Daggers Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 You could make that even more of a chain FoxyPV. WWII happened because of the Wall Street Crash, which was exacerbated by the treatment of Germany after the Treaty of Versailles, which happened because of their defeat in WWI which was caused by a chauffeur diverting his route. So you could say that 85 million deaths were caused by a wrong turn really. Scary thought. You'd appreciate the book. It's real-world physics.
I am Rod Hull Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 What is more incredible is the roll-of-dice chance that came into play in all of this. The driver had to divert from the planned route. At the moment he did so two anarchists emerged from a bar having had a skinfull. There, in front of the drunk anarchists was the bastard they hated, totally by chance. It was this level of randomness that killed 15,000,000ish people. Randomness? The Germans had geared themselves up for war a long time before Prince Ferdinand`s assassination, his death was just an excuse.
Ozwin Posted 13 March 2012 Posted 13 March 2012 All I've taken from this topic is that poignant is a well good word to say.
Zingari Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 Randomness? The Germans had geared themselves up for war a long time before Prince Ferdinand`s assassination, his death was just an excuse. Yes I don’t believe all this randomness in changing world events either, Too many very convenient random coincidences seem to act as a lynchpin for future events. The JFK assassination is full of these so called events such as last minute change of route into Dealy plaza causing the car to slow to 10 mph, no bodyguards on the fender, Oswald (supposedly a lone nut assassin) just happened to manage to sneak a rifle into a building on the route. (Although the tsbd was not on the changed route he would have had an easier “face on” shot at the president before it made the turn into Elm .St.). A description fitting Oswald issued to the police even though no one saw him shoot, (where did that come from?) The Carcano rifle, notoriously unreliable and inaccurate, being used by an average shooter managed to hit the target through trees with perfect accuracy in 7 seconds.( I knew that there have been reconstructions that supposedly prove the possibility , but they really do not fit in with the Zapruder film or the testimonies that clearly prove JFK and Connolly were hit by two separate bullets at separate times and Connolly clearly stated he turned and saw the president slump and was hit afterwards ) Oswald being killed as he is being transported …………..this is just the beginning actually and I’m not even scratching the surface of these linear “just happened to be” events. These events are orchestrated precisely for a purpose and to effect change. In Garrison’s words in the film JFK “theoretical physics can prove that an elephant can hang from a cliff by its tail clutching a blade of grass”
Zingari Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 All I've taken from this topic is that poignant is a well good word to say. Don't use it in a chat up line in a noisy bar or to a girl with poor hearing though
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