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skysidhe

05-24-2007 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 346589)

All the other ones that I immediately thought of have already been posted.

Kind of a shame that "Iconic" often means "Tragic".

touching in a beautiful way

bigw00dy

05-25-2007 09:19 AM

This is iconic to me...although its a video not a photo....
Yul Brenner

Kitsune

05-25-2007 01:12 PM

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Pale Blue Dot

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Originally Posted by Carl Sagan

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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.

BigV	05-25-2007 01:18 PM

Thanks Kitsune for my newest wallpaper. It may be hard to be humble, but this sure helps.

Sundae

05-25-2007 04:47 PM

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Tragic in this case as well I'm afraid.

Scott and his party at the Pole, having just discovered that Amundsen beat them there. For those who don't know the story, all 5 perished on their way back. From the left Wilson, Scott, Evans, Oates, Bowers.

For me, an equally iconic photo is that of Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Garrard on their return from The Winter Journey (prior to the push for the Pole), but that depends on having read The Worst Journey in the World and I thought it might look deliberately obscure.

glatt

12-28-2007 08:25 AM

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East German border guard Conrad Schumann jumps over the Berlin Wall during its construction and flees to the West. It was only barbed wire at this point in 1961.

classicman

12-28-2007 10:58 AM

WOW! amazing thread.

SparkStalker

12-28-2007 12:12 PM

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On that note...

classicman

12-28-2007 02:25 PM

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FWIW, I have a copy of the R.I. Herald with this historic event on the cover.