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1. This is a picture of Sir Ernest Shackleton, an explorer who was one of the principal explorers during the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration" circa 1900. His wiki page can be found here. Wiki: "After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying—the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole. To this end he made preparations for what became the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, was trapped in pack ice and slowly crushed, before the shore parties could be landed. There followed a sequence of exploits, and an ultimate escape with no lives lost, that would eventually assure Shackleton's heroic status, although this was not immediately evident." http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8814/44007608.jpg

6. Solvay Conference 1927, with an impressive list of attendees who went on to collect 17 Nobel prizes. BACK: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, Ed. Herzen, Th. De Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin; MIDDLE: P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr; FRONT: I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch. E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson 7. This is a photo of paratroopers reaching the "western Wall" in Jerusalem at the culmination of the "6 Day War" probably the most amazing war story of modern times. Jewish or not its a great read. Wiki page. 10. On the night of January 24, 1950, one of the most amazing photographs of all time was taken in the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, Texas. As William Branham (an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches) stood at the podium, a halo of fire appeared above his head. This picture was the only one that turned out on the entire film! George J. Lacy, Investigator of Questioned Documents, and often hired by the FBI in that capacity, subjected the negative to every scientific test available. At a news conference, he stated, “To my knowledge, this is the first time in all the world’s history that a supernatural being has been photographed and scientifically vindicated.” The original of this photograph is kept in the archives of the Religious Department of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 11. On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. 12. On August the 29th Katrina hit Louisiana, most notably New Orleans where 80% of the city flooded because the flood protection system was breached in more than fifty places. The hurricane caused over $80 billion in damages and over 1800 people were confirmed to have died with over 700 missing. 13. At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit. 50. A gigantic cloud of dust, called a haboob, advances toward Khartoum, Sudan, in April. Seasonal haboobs can reach as high as 3,000 feet.

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29. Blows my mind. This image is the furthest into space we've ever seen before, almost every little smear is a galaxy which contains up to 1 trillion stars.

1. Not Hemingway. I'll post an explanation and an additional picture to go with it. 2. Manson. 3. Chernobyl is right. 16. Hazel Bryant - Another Landmark Image - It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the Supreme Court. Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the national press of distorting matters. This picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gauntlet of white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on her way to Little Rock's Central High.

Uploading about 20 more pics, then I'll provide some captions assuming I can still find them. I'm sorry I don't know the story behind the girl in front of the burning house. I speculate that she has simply been conditioned to smile when she's in a photograph. But she realizes that she shouldn't really be smiling. Just my thought.

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So I have an imageshack account with a bunch of pictures posted on a different forum on the topic in the title. Mostly they're famous pictures from history, some are just remarkable photography, and some are just random but certainly provoke some thought. I'll start by posting some of the historical ones for people to identify/discuss, and if the thread gets good discussion and participation, I'll post more, some of which depict some graphic content. I hope this thread isnt a big failure, and I hope others will contribute pictures that are meaningful to them or that generate conversation. If mods find the content in this thread inappropriate, I apologize. My intent wasn't to offend anyone, but merely to take a journey through the human world via photography. If you're interested, I can find captions for some of the pictures. Have fun trying to recognize the people/places. 1. http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/8269/35522743.jpg 2. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5775/45729683.jpg 3. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9284/18577640.jpg 4. http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/7490/55865602.jpg 5. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5436/74071730.jpg 6. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1083/22619609.jpg 7. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/408/46053180.jpg 8. http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5563/83058466.jpg

FREE WILKOSZ! :) Please move this post to the "recent movies" thread. i LOL'd in real life. http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3074/freewilly1.jpg

avacados :lol: no love at all on bbf. can we at least agree that bacon is undeniably amazing?

Totally agree. Just say no.

there is no good answer to your question. im skeptical that "almost all" randoms prefer 0314.

open flannery

You're getting close to 10K posts, Mike. I hope you're planning a 10K post extravaganza thread.

Dude go to chile. Avocado on everything. A standard salad is like avocado and tomato. I got a hot dog while watching a movie, and the guy asked if I wanted avocado on it. I said no, ketchup, and he just looked at me... You know whats better than ketchup on a hot dog? Spoiler:

kfay=hero

You worry too much about inviting and not enough about how to GF. The others have explained the standard treatment. The last possibility is to play transfers to the minors. Doing so then 3NT=choice of games, which I think is what you're trying to get at.

I didn't ask how many you make. Reading comprehension?

So how many entries per page do you use, han?

If you're a chess player, you can think of transfers in these auctions as gaining a tempo. Often times you want to show a suit and then either bid again or not bid again, but bidding that suit would be not forcing or forcing respectively. Take an auction like 1♣ (3♠) ? and you have a really strong hand with hearts. You want to bid 4♥ naturally, but you don't want partner to pass. When there is uncertainty of the strain involved, you can see that the ability to show ♥, then bid another suit to get more information from partner can be very valuable. One could argue that in a theoretical world, you would agree to play lots and lots of situations as transfers because you get a little extra room to maneuver. In practice, you can survive fine without them.

Avacados are way, way underrated. Every plate of food should come with a side of avacado. And bacon. In related news, Americans eat too much and don't exercise enough. Avacados may exacerbate the situation.

This was your comment on page 6? Refreshing Pro tip: 100 entries/page.