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TOP 10Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-3922634002569101572011-08-16T06:55:00.000-07:002011-08-16T06:55:05.913-07:00Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos (52 pics)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="zag_block">Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos (52 pics)</h1><div id="news-id-39524">While family vacations are supposed to be relaxing and fun, sometimes very strange and painful moments can be forever caught on film.<br />
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<div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic1">1</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_01.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic2">2</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_02.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic3">3</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_03.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic4">4</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_04.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic5">5</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_05.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic6">6</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_06.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic7">7</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_07.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic8">8</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_08.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic9">9</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_09.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic10">10</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_10.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic11">11</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_11.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic12">12</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_12.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic13">13</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_13.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic14">14</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_14.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic15">15</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_15.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic16">16</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_16.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic17">17</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_17.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic18">18</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_18.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic19">19</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_19.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic20">20</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_20.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic21">21</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_21.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic22">22</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_22.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic23">23</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_23.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic24">24</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" 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Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_31.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic32">32</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_32.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic33">33</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/640/painfully_awkward_family_vacation_photos_640_33.jpg" title="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic34">34</a></span><img alt="Painfully Awkward Family Vacation Photos" 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class="zag_block"> </h1></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-55233902387628263502011-08-16T06:49:00.000-07:002011-08-16T06:49:48.469-07:00Rapunzels in Real Life (91 pics)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="zag_block">Rapunzels in Real Life (91 pics)</h1>It’s a collection of long-haired girls. Maybe their hair isn’t as long as the hair of Rapunzel, but it still looks impressive.<br />
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<div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic1">1</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_01.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic2">2</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_02.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic3">3</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_03.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic4">4</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_04.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic5">5</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_05.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic6">6</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_06.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic7">7</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_07.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic8">8</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_08.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic9">9</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_09.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic10">10</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_10.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic11">11</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_11.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic12">12</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_12.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic13">13</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20101210/640/rapunzels_in_real_640_13.jpg" title="Rapunzels in Real Life" /></div><div 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Part 2" /></div><div class="imgbox"><div class="tools" style="display: block;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1411116511626983455&postID=8021662528414842475&from=pencil" id="like-id-423539">0 <span class="addpic" title="Hip the picture if you like it"></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1411116511626983455&postID=8021662528414842475&from=pencil"><span class="ico_post social" title="Share image"></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1411116511626983455&postID=8021662528414842475&from=pencil"><span class="ico_post embed" title="Embed image"></span></a><a href="http://izismile.com/download/423539"><span class="ico_post download" title="Download image"></span></a><a href="http://izismile.com/2011/08/15/rapunzels_in_real_life_part_2_58_pics-58.html#comment"><span class="ico_post comment" title="Add | View comments (0)"></span></a><a href="http://izismile.com/op.php?url=http://izismile.com/img/img4/20110815/1000/rapunzels_in_real_life_part_2_6v99D_58.jpg&img_id=423539&postid=39522"><span class="ico_post zoom" title="View full size image"></span></a></div><span class="sordering act"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1411116511626983455&postID=8021662528414842475&from=pencil" name="pic58">#58</a></span><img alt="Rapunzels in Real Life. 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src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/great_minimalist_posters_by_marvel_640_high_13.jpg" title="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic14">14</a></span><img alt="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/great_minimalist_posters_by_marvel_640_high_14.jpg" title="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic15">15</a></span><img alt="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/great_minimalist_posters_by_marvel_640_high_15.jpg" title="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic16">16</a></span><img alt="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/great_minimalist_posters_by_marvel_640_high_16.jpg" title="Great Minimalist Posters by Marvel" 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href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1411116511626983455" name="pic11">11</a></span><img alt="Inside Out Toys" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/inside_out_toys_640_high_11.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1411116511626983455" name="pic12">12</a></span><img alt="Inside Out Toys" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/inside_out_toys_640_high_12.jpg" title="Inside Out Toys" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1411116511626983455" name="pic13">13</a></span><img alt="Inside Out Toys" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110816/640/inside_out_toys_640_high_13.jpg" title="Inside Out Toys" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1411116511626983455" name="pic14">14</a></span><img alt="Inside Out Toys" 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<div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic1">1</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_01.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic2">2</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_02.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic3">3</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_03.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic4">4</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_04.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic5">5</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_05.jpg" title="Daily Picdump" /></div><div 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title="Daily Picdump" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic10">10</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_10.jpg" title="Daily Picdump" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic11">11</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_11.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic12">12</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_12.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic13">13</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/daily_picdump_767_640_13.jpg" /></div><div class="imgbox"><span class="sordering"><a href="" name="pic14">14</a></span><img alt="Daily Picdump" 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src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110812/640/expert_makeup_application_by_young_girl_640_60.jpg" /></div></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-6758240898699613562011-08-14T23:08:00.000-07:002011-08-14T23:08:51.926-07:0010 Most Disturbing Ad Campaigns Featuring Kids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="tit" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">10 Most Disturbing Ad Campaigns Featuring Kids</h1><h1 class="tit" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> </h1><h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top1.gif" />Disturbing Sex Kitten French Vogue photo shoot featuring children </h2><center><img alt=" Disturbing Sex Kitten French Vogue photo shoot featuring children " border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n1.jpg" /></center> This issue of French Vogue features a truly disturbing photo shoot featuring young girls (around 6 years old) in heavy make-up, high heels and <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">designer clothes</span>. Some pictures actually “sexualize” these girls by placing them in strange <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">settings</span>. <br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top2.gif" /> Kill Jill organ donation ad cleared </h2><center><img alt=" Kill Jill organ donation ad cleared " border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n2.jpg" /></center> The Scottish government has avoided a ban for a hard-hitting TV campaign <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">to drive</span> organ donation, called Kill Jill, despite a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">number</span> of complaints to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">the advertising</span> watchdog that it was distressing and disturbing.<br />
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In the TV ad, created by agency The Union, people were urged to sign up for the UK organ donor <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">register</span>.<br />
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The ad featured a picture of a young girl's head with a voiceover and text asking: "Would you allow your organs to save a life? You have 20 seconds to decide."<br />
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Then the girl's face slowly becomes faded and distorted, with the voiceover and text stating: "Kill Jill?, yes or no. No ... register and you could save a life."<br />
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The campaign had worked, said the Scottish government, with a significant response and more than 108,000 people signing up to the register, outperforming the rest of the UK by a factor of three.<br />
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It added that the ad was not misleading because there was a direct correlation between the number of people on the donor register and the number of organs available for transplants. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/21/asa.advertising" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top3.gif" /> Rain changes everything </h2><center><img alt=" Rain changes everything " border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n3.jpg" /></center> A bleeding billboard in New Zealand is being used to remind motorists to drive carefully during the rainy season.<br />
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The disturbing ad features portraits of children that bleed from the eyebrows, nose, ears and mouth when it rains.<br />
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The effect is startling and transforms fresh-faces into car crash victims above the strap line: ‘Rain changes everything. Please <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">drive to</span> the conditions'. When the sun shines they return to normal.<br />
<nobr><small>(<a href="http://love-remains-the-same.tumblr.com/post/868779631/zadenwolf-a-bleeding-billboard-in-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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</center><h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top4.gif" /> Child Protection Foundation of Thailand - "branded for life" </h2><center><img alt="Child Protection Foundation of Thailand - " border="0" class="imgl" for="" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n4.jpg" /></center> Disturbing graphics in these ads from Creative Juice\G1 in Bangkok for the Child Protection Foundation of Thailand. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://adland.tv/ooh/child-protection-foundation-thailand-branded-life-print-ads%20http://www.creativejuicebangkok.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top5.gif" /> Climate change ad features young girl in a noose</h2><center><img alt="Climate change ad features young girl in a noose" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n5.jpg" /></center> It seems gruesome images of children in trouble are popular marketing tools in the environmental movement. The group ACT-Responsible featured disturbing photo of a young girl in a noose. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-one-climate-change-ad-features-young-girl-in-a-noose/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a> | <a href="http://www.act-responsible.org/public/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Via</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top6.gif" /> Verbal Abuse PSA by Juvenile Protective Association</h2><center><img alt="Verbal Abuse PSA by Juvenile Protective Association" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n6.jpg" /></center> These disturbing PSA ads by Juvenile Protective Association visually illustrate that “Verbal abuse is still abuse.” And unlike physical abuse which leaves visible marks on the outside, you are leaving wounds with your words that may take a young kid a lifetime to heal. These ads were created by EuroRSCG Chicago, USA. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://arabaquarius.blogspot.com/2009/03/verbal-abuse-psa-by-juvenile-protective.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top7.gif" /> Deep S**th</h2><center><img alt="Deep S**th" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n7.jpg" /></center> The disturbing thing about this ad is <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">the fact</span> that the Karo Kid apparently has nothing on underneath that hat. Thanks to that other naked cherub in our lives. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://www.galleryofabsurd.com/2011/04/deep-sth.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top8.gif" /> RSPCA and Domestic Violence</h2><center><img alt="RSPCA and Domestic Violence" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n8.jpg" /></center> Animal welfare organisation RSPCA is linking the abuse of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">animal rights</span> with domestic violence in this disturbing print campaign.<br />
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The abuse and killing of animals is far more prevalent in households where domestic violence also occurs. Perpetrators abuse family pets to intimidate and have more control over their parents. <br />
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According to statistics, the Australian animal rights association RSPCA figured out, nearly 57% of domestic violence abuse victims delay leaving to seek help, fearing if they do their pets will be harmed or killed. <br />
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The RSPCA abuse campaign was developed at The Campaign Palace Sydney, by executive creative director Paul Fishlock. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://osocio.org/message/the_relation_between_domestic_violence_and_cruelty_against_animals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top9.gif" /> Casa Do Menor's Anti-Child Abuse Campaign</h2><center><img alt="Casa Do Menor's Anti-Child Abuse Campaign" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_cambio.jpg" /></center> One of the horrible and tormenting realities of human world is the abuse and pain human beings inflict on little innocent children and other human beings. Casa Do Menor's latest campaign titled ‘Hands' against sexual and other kinds of abuse of small children is very disturbing. The tag line: Certain Things hang on forever. <br />
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The print campaign designed by famed <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">ad agency</span> McCann Erickson Spain for Casa do Menor shows a child being tormented by ‘hands' and the pain in the eyes of the little one is very haunting; public awareness campaigns should be such to make a long lasting impact on the minds of masses. The displaced and broken toys in the picture depict how childhood gets robbed and little ones get burdened with pain which they don't even understand. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://trendsupdates.com/casa-do-menors-anti-child-abuse-campaign/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr><br />
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<h2 class="subtit"><img align="absmiddle" hspace="3" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top10.gif" /> Benetton Ads</h2><center><img alt="Benetton Ads" border="0" class="imgl" src="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97856_n102.jpg" /></center> The Benetton Ads are, for the most part, very disturbing and at times revolting. The concept behind the ads is interesting; using such stunning and horrifying images certainly does seem to get people's attention. <nobr><small>(<a href="http://brentatent12.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/benetton-group-unconventional-advertising/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link</a>)</small></nobr></div></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-42929697268264120802011-08-14T02:57:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:57:16.028-07:0010 Important Pictures That Shaped America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>10 Important Pictures That Shaped America</h1><h1> </h1><h1> </h1>The first permanent photograph was produced in 1826 by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. The picture is named<em> View from the Window at Le Gras</em> and it took over 8 hours to expose. The first photograph of a person was taken in 1838 by French chemist Louis Daguerre. The picture is named<em> Boulevard du Temple</em> and it shows a busy street in Paris. The exposure time on the image took over ten minutes, but a man that was sitting down and getting his boots polished is visible.<br />
In the year 1776, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">United States</span> formally declared independence as one new nation, claiming their sovereignty and rejecting any allegiance to the British monarchy. The declaration resulted in an explosion of fighting in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">the American Revolutionary War</span>, which had started the previous year, in 1775. The war pitted Great Britain against the U.S. colonies and their allies, including France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic.<br />
Since the time of the Declaration of Independence and the invention of photography, hundreds of legendary pictures have been published, pictures that define an era in United States history and represent the struggles of a nation. This article will document important moments in U.S. history and describe ten lasting images. All of the photographs represent what America underwent in order to achieve the world status held today:<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. Little Round Top to Devil’s Den</h2><img alt="little-round-top-to-devils-den-civil-war-photograph" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13270" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/little-round-top-to-devils-den-civil-war-photograph-550x400.jpg" title="little-round-top-to-devils-den-civil-war-photograph" width="550" /><br />
In 1846, the Mexican-American war began in the wake of the annexation of Texas. The conflict was the first war in history to be captured on camera. During the U.S. presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Abraham Lincoln</span>, campaigned against the expansion of slavery. In response to Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 election, seven U.S. states declared their secession from the Union. On April 12, 1861, hostilities erupted when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">Fort Sumter</span> in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by forming the Union Army. Fighting quickly spread and the U.S. Civil War was in full swing, with a total of 15 states seceding from the United States. By the end of the conflict, over 620,000 American soldiers were killed. The Union victory meant the end of the Confederate Army and it abolished slavery in the U.S. The war strengthened the role of the federal government and shaped the reconstruction era in the United States that lasted until 1877.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the fourth war in history to be captured on camera. It was the most extensively covered conflict of the 19th century and hundreds of photojournalists emerged during the war. Countless famous images have survived from this era in U.S. history. After the 1863 Confederate success at Chancellorsville in Virginia, Robert E. Lee led his soldiers through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North, labeled the Gettysburg Campaign. By July 1, 1863, Lee had concentrated his forces near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with the objective of engaging the entire Union army and destroying it. The <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Battle of Gettysburg</span> was fought from July 1–3, 1863. The decisive battle produced the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. On the second day of the conflict, both armies had completely assembled. Robert E. Lee understood that he could greatly damage the Union forces if his troops could capture Little Round Top, which was a hill located on the far left side of the Union line.<br />
Little Round Top was an extremely important hill in the military defense of the Union Army. For this reason, Robert E. Lee arranged and launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank. Union General K. Warren realized the importance of the area and dispatched Vincent’s brigade and the 140th New York to occupy and defend Little Round Top. The defense of Little Round Top with a bayonet charge by the 20th Maine is one of the most fabled episodes in the Civil War. The ground surrounding Little Round Top has witnessed unimaginable events and more bloodshed than any other place in the United States. One of the most famous areas is a patch of land known as Devil’s Den, which is a rocky expanse of shrubs and trees located directly west of Little Round Top, across the Plum Run Valley. Devil’s Den is peppered with an outcropping of massive boulders and rocks. These geological formations gave the Confederate Army problems when trying to conquer the hill. The image that I have selected shows a famous statue of Union General Gouverneur K. Warren looking down from Little Round Top to Devil’s Den. The picture documents the most deadly battlefield in United States history. The image was taken circa 1910 and is a bit blurry, but the steep angles and large rock formations can easily be made out.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. The First Transcontinental Railroad</h2><img alt="golden-spike-transcontinental-railroad-photograph" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13271" height="381" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/golden-spike-transcontinental-railroad-photograph-560x381.jpg" title="golden-spike-transcontinental-railroad-photograph" width="560" /><br />
After the end of the American Civil War, the United States went through a series of political changes. Government officials established laws on land ownership and focused on national expansion. In the 1840s, the U.S. media coined the phrase manifest destiny, which is the belief that the United States was pre-ordained by God to expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. The government enacted this concept by establishing treaties with foreign nations and native peoples. Many forms of political compromise were enacted, as well as military conquest. In some cases, this expansion was accomplished regardless of social and legal consequences for Native Americans. On January 24, 1848, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">James Marshall</span> discovered gold in the tailrace of a mill near present day Sacramento, California.<br />
After preliminary digging, it was revealed that this area of California held enormous gold deposits. Word of the discovery quickly spread across the United States, even reaching experienced miners in South America and Europe, who quickly traveled to the area. Between the years 1848-1852, thousands of Forty-Niners embarked on California, increasing the state’s population from 14,000 people to 200,000. During this time in American history, in securing and managing the west, the U.S. federal government greatly expanded its powers, and by the end of the 19th century, the nation evolved from an agrarian society into an industrialized power. One of the largest steps in this expansion was the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
By 1862, a number of rail lines had been constructed in the United States, extending as far westward as Omaha, Nebraska. In the west, railroad lines were pushing eastwards, starting in Sacramento, California. The U.S. government understood the need for a Transcontinental Railroad, so they developed a project to link the two tracks, forming one large <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">railway line</span>. The construction of the railroad required six main activities. The job was highly labor intensive and the workers averaged about two miles (3 km) of new track per day. The two separate work crews finally met at Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. To commemorate the event, Leland Stanford, one of the prime backers of the Central Pacific, hammered the final golden spike in triumph, linking the two lines. It was a major stepping point in the history of the United States and many photojournalists documented the event. The picture I have selected shows workers from the railroad crews meeting and celebrating the First Transcontinental Railroad. After the completion of the line, a cross-country trip in the U.S. was reduced from about four months to one week.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. Dodge City Peace Commission</h2><img alt="dodge-city-police-commission" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13272" height="256" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dodge-city-police-commission.jpg" title="dodge-city-police-commission" width="300" /><br />
By the 1870s, a new code of behavior was becoming acceptable in the United States. People no longer had a duty to retreat when threatened. This was a departure from British common law that said you must have your back to the wall before you could protect yourself with deadly force. The code of the West dictated that a man did not have to back away from a fight. He could also pursue an adversary even if it resulted in death. At the same time, most justices of the peace were poorly schooled in law, politically corrupt, and depended on assessing fees and fines to make a living. It was an era characterized by disorganization in law and order. Some of the criminal activity was carried out by Mexican and Indian populations living along the U.S. border; however, infamous American outlaws also emerged, including Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Dalton Gang, Black Bart, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Some of the outlaws, such as Jesse James, were products of the violence of the Civil War.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
Wyatt Earp was an American peace officer who worked in various Western frontier towns during the late 1800s. He is most well known for his participation in the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The immediate cause of the gunfight was the arrest of a group of cowboys by deputy federal marshal Virgil Earp. The following day, family and friends of the cowboys entered Tombstone. However, the men would not turn over their weapons, which was the town’s law. Tensions quickly elevated and three of the men were shot dead by Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday. The three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday were eventually exonerated of the killings, but the men faced assassination attempts in the months following the event. The attacks led to a series of retributions killings and battles, known as the Earp Vendetta Ride. Wyatt Earp quickly gained the reputation for being a deadly and talented gunfighter.<br />
In 1883, Wyatt Earp was contacted by his friend Luke Short who told him of corruption in the town of Dodge City, Kansas. At this time, Dodge City had a reputation for criminal gangs and was often called “the Wickedest City in America.” In response to Short’s claims, Earp assembled a skilled army, including legendary figures Bat Masterson and Charlie Bassett. Dodge City Mayor Alonzo B. Webster negotiated peace with Wyatt Earp. He let Luke Short return to his place of business in return for a promise that there would be no violence. Earp and his friends moved to Dodge City and formed the Dodge City Peace Commission. In June of 1883, one of the most famous images from the Old West was taken. It shows Wyatt Earp and the Dodge City Peace Commission, including members, from left to right, standing: W.H. Harris, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, W.F. Petillon; and seated: Charlie Bassett, Wyatt Earp, Frank McLain and Neal Brown. This photograph has been scrutinized by many people, as three separate versions exist. In some copies, famed lawman Bill Tilghman appears, while in others W.F. Petillon is missing entirely.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Looking Down Sacramento Street</h2><img alt="looking-down-sacramento-street-san-francisco-fire-1906-goethe" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13273" height="306" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/looking-down-sacramento-street-san-francisco-fire-1906-goethe-560x306.jpg" title="looking-down-sacramento-street-san-francisco-fire-1906-goethe" width="560" /><br />
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major disaster that struck the city of San Francisco, California and the coast of Northern California. The quake ruptured along the San Andreas Fault northward and southwards for a total of 296 miles (477 km) and caused major damage in the western United States. The earthquake and resulting fire in San Francisco is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country, alongside the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The Galveston Hurricane made landfall in the U.S. state of Texas, on September 8, 1900. The hurricane produced winds of 135 miles per hour (217 km/h) and devastated the city of Galveston, causing between 8,000-12,000 deaths. In comparison, the resulting death toll from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was estimated to be around 3,000 people.<br />
At the time of the quake, only 375 deaths were reported. The figure was fabricated by government officials who felt that publishing the true death toll would hurt real estate prices and efforts to rebuild the city. The disaster left between 227,000 and 300,000 people homeless, out of a population of about 410,000. The San Francisco earthquake and fire left a long-standing and significant impression on the development of California. The city of San Francisco was rebuilt quickly, but the disaster would divert trade, industry and population growth to Los Angeles. This mass migration is still evident today, with Los Angeles growing into the most important and populated urban area in the western United States. The overall cost of the damage from the earthquake was estimated to be around US$400 million, which is $9.5 billion in 2010 dollars.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the first natural disaster of its magnitude to be documented by photography. On the morning of the earthquake, dozens of professional photographers covered the burning city. Among the crowd was famed photographer Arnold Genthe, who captured over 180 surviving pictures of San Francisco as it burned. Genthe used only a hand held camera. His most famous image is titled <em>Looking Down Sacramento Street</em> and shows a view from Nob Hill. In the distance, enormous clouds of smoke ominously approach, buildings’ facades have collapsed from the quake, and residents stand and sit in the street, calmly watching the approaching fire. The photograph shows “the results of the earthquake, the beginning of the fire, and the attitude of the people.” Many famous images were captured on the morning of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but Genthe’s picture has been praised for showing the attitude of the people at a time when they were faced with a true natural disaster. After the fire destroyed San Francisco, many famous photographers captured chilling panoramic views of the damage.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. Young Miner</h2><img alt="lewis-hine-child-miner" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13274" height="491" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/lewis-hine-child-miner.jpg" title="lewis-hine-child-miner" width="334" /><br />
The Gilded Age was a term that Mark Twain used to describe the U.S. period of the late 19th century when there was a dramatic expansion of American wealth and prosperity. By the early 1900s, the United States rose as an industrialized power. These changes in lifestyle ultimately led to the Progressive movement, which pushed for reform in industry and politics. During this time, an unprecedented wave of immigration served both to provide the labor for American industry and create diverse communities in previously undeveloped areas. From 1880 to 1914, the peak years of immigration, more than 22 million people migrated to the United States.<br />
In 1908, the Ford Motor Company helped change the world when they established an assembly line system to manufacture car parts. Unfortunately, during the early American industrial revolution, many employees were exposed to abusive work practices. This treatment directly led to the violent rise of the labor movement in the United States. Life for women and children during the industrial revolution was much different from modern times. The U.S. did not have any legislation regulating working conditions in mills, factories, and other industrial plants. As business operations quickly expanded, owners needed a large amount of cheap labor and they turned to women and children. Small kids were often given demanding jobs, working in dire conditions and with dangerous machinery.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
Lewis Hine was an American photographer that used his camera as a tool for social reform. Many of Hine’s pictures were instrumental in changing the early child labor laws in the United States. At a young age, Lewis Hine became a teacher in New York City at the Ethical Culture School, where he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium. Many of Lewis Hine’s most famous images portray little girls in large factories or boys working as miners. In 1908, Hine captured a picture of a small child who had been working a long day mining underground. In the famous image, the young boy attempts to smile for the camera, but his physical pain is all that can be seen. The image does a great job visually describing what it was like for many children during the American Industrial Revolution. Many powerful photographs of child labor were captured during this time in United States history.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. Migrant Mother</h2><img alt="migrant-mother-famous-photographs-dorothea-lange" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13275" height="413" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/migrant-mother-famous-photographs-dorothea-lange.jpg" title="migrant-mother-famous-photographs-dorothea-lange" width="343" /><br />
After the outbreak of World War I, the United States pursued a policy of non-intervention, avoiding conflict while trying to broker peace. When a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania in 1915, with 128 Americans aboard, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson vowed, “America is too proud to fight” and demanded that Germany end the attacks on passenger ships. In January of 1917, Britain’s secret Royal Navy cryptanalytic group, Room 40, intercepted a German coded message to Mexico, which suggested that Mexico should declare war on the United States with the help of Germany. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson released the information to the public to gain support for the war. He realized that a U.S. conflict was imminent, after German submarines sank numerous U.S. merchant ships.<br />
The United States officially entered World War I on April 6, 1917. After the end of the war, the U.S. moved into the Golden Age of media, with the establishment of public radio and the first major broadcast networks. However, by the end of the 1920s, the U.S entered the Great Depression, which was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. The Great Depression originated in the United States, starting with the plummet of the stock market. The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged and unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%. Tensions quickly elevated in major settlements around the United States and this era in U.S. history is full of dark and depressing pictures.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer, best known for her Depression-era work. Lange’s photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography. Her best known images were taken in 1936, when she captured a set of pictures that would become known as the Migrant Mother collection. In March 1936, after picking beets in the Imperial Valley, Florence Owens Thompson and her family suffered car trouble near the city of Nipomo, California. Florence Thompson’s husband and sons took the car’s radiator to be fixed and she set up a temporary camp with her small children.<br />
While the family waited for the men to return, Dorothea Lange approached Florence and took a collection of famous images. One of the pictures shows a close-up portrait of Florence Owens Thompson and her children. The image was published in newspapers all over the United States and has since reached near mythical status, symbolizing, if not defining, this entire era in U.S. history. It was not until the late 1970s that Thompson’s identity was discovered. She was quoted as saying “I wish she hadn’t taken my picture. I can’t get a penny out of it. She didn’t ask my name. She said she wouldn’t sell the pictures. She said she’d send me a copy. She never did.” As one of the most powerful photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother reflects the victims who suffered the most in the United States during the 1930s.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. American Soldiers Storm Normandy</h2><img alt="Normandy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13298" height="298" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Normandy-560x298.jpg" title="Normandy" width="560" /><br />
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland marking the beginning of the Second World War. In 1940, the Selective Service Act was passed in the United States. The law required that all men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with the U.S. draft board. On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day, the U.S. declared war on Japan resulting in the entry into World War II. Over the next four years of war, 418,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in battle. On January 16, 1945, the Red Army breached the German front and entered the city of Berlin. May 8, 1945, is officially Victory in Europe Day, when the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. August 14, 1945, is Victory over Japan Day in the United States.<br />
After the end of the Second World War, the Korean Peninsula, which was ruled by Japan since 1910, was divided along the 38th Parallel, with U.S. troops occupying the southern portion and Soviet troops occupying the north. In 1948, government officials failed to hold free elections on the Korean Peninsula and this deepened the division between the two sides. The North established a Communist government and the 38th Parallel became a political border between the two Koreas. On June 25, 1950, the conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea. This event marked the beginning of the Korean War (1950-1953). The U.S. came to the aid of South Korea, while China and Russia joined the communist north. The conflict ended after the threat of nuclear war was made and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was formed, which is a 2.5 mile (4.0 km) wide buffer zone between the two Koreas. Today, the DMZ is the most heavily militarized border in the world.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
A number of famous American photographs were taken during the Second World War. The three most referenced images include the <em>Conference of the Big Three at Yalta</em>, which shows Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin in February of 1945. The <em>Flag Raising on Iwo Jima</em> is probably the most well known American photo in existence, while the picture taken of a happy couple celebrating the end of the war with a kiss in New York City is iconic. For this article, I have selected a war photo that was captured on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), as American soldiers swarmed the beaches of Normandy.<br />
The Normandy landing was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with over 160,000 Allied troops entering France on June 6, 1944. This famous image shows American soldiers as they leave the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat and enter the frigid waters off Normandy. At the time that the picture was taken, these men were under heavy Nazi machine gun fire. They were forced to travel through the heavy tides and deep water holes, searching for solid land. Looking at this image, you can feel the wetness in the air and smell the gunpowder that looms over the battlefield. This photograph was taken under the intense pressures of war and gives a historic glimpse into the conflict.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination</h2><img alt="martin-luther-king-shot" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13277" height="320" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/martin-luther-king-shot.jpg" title="martin-luther-king-shot" width="443" /><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren made a historic ruling. He granted the children of Oliver Brown the right to attend an all white school, striking down the “separate but equal” concept that was prevalent in the United States. Warren ruled that segregation violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The decision led to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. During this time, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and police. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 granted equal access to public accommodations for everyone regardless of race, religion or national origin. The enactment of the law resulted from numerous demonstrations designed to show the hardships of segregation in America.</div>The United States also experienced a youth movement during the early 1960s, known as the hippy subculture. These people practiced the principle of free love, harmony with nature, communal living, world peace, artistic expression, and in many cases widespread experimentation with mind-altering substances. During this time, music grew in America like never before and Beatle Mania expanded. Bob Dylan emerged as a lyricist. Many of the pubic demonstrations included speeches in strong opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a conflict that lasted from 1955-1975. The war was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. The conflict ended with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
<em>Serious Steps</em> is an award-winning image that was captured in 1962. It shows President John F. Kennedy and former Commander-in-chief Dwight D. Eisenhower walking together. Two notable pictures that document the Vietnam War are titled <em>Tank Commander</em> and <em>Dreams of Better Times</em>, each of these images was awarded the Pulitzer or World Press honor. On May 4, 1970, four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shooting. A photograph showing the lifeless body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement.<br />
In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, which is located in Memphis, Tennessee. While standing on the balcony of the hotel, King was fatally shot and wounded from a single gunshot to the head. After the shooting, Martin’s friends quickly rushed to his side and desperately tried to stop the bleeding. They were also pointing in the direction of an old run down hotel across the street. The moment was captured by photographer James Louw. The image has since become one of the most famous in U.S. history. It shows the fatally wounded Martin Luther King Jr. laying at the feet of his friends, while they yell for help. It is a descriptive photograph that shows what the scene was like when King was assassinated. You can see his leg propelled up against the balcony bars, with large pools of blood forming. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday, only the fourth Federal holiday to honor an individual, with the other three being in honor of Jesus of Nazareth, George Washington, and Christopher Columbus.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. <strong>America Walks on the Moon</strong></h2><img alt="apollo-11-moon-landing-4" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13278" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/apollo-11-moon-landing-4-517x400.jpg" title="apollo-11-moon-landing-4" width="517" /><br />
On July 20, 1969, the United States Apollo 11 space flight landed on the moon. It was the third lunar mission of NASA’s Apollo program and the vessel was crewed by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin Jr. The event was a historic moment in United States history and represented a victory for the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race. By the early 1970s, the cost of the Vietnam War and the NASA space program increased domestic spending and accelerated inflation in America. During this time, the U.S. began to amass a federal deficit for the first time in the 20th century. In 1971, the U.S. government, under Richard Nixon, printed an excess of American currency in order to pay for the nation’s military spending and private investments. These policies shifted the United States economic status and ultimately led to an event known as the Nixon Shock. On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as the President of the United States, becoming the first and only U.S. President to step down.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
A number of famous photographs were taken during the Apollo 11 space mission. The pictures of the American flag on the moon and of the first human footprint are lasting. I was going to include the photograph of the first step on the moon, but Armstrong’s leap was not documented. There is a famous picture of Buzz Aldrin jumping from the Command Module to the moon. The photograph that I have selected was taken from the Apollo 15 mission, which was the fourth flight to land on the moon. The picture gives a panorama view of the crew’s space vehicles and the American flag. In the picture, Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin can be seen giving a salute to the people of the world. It is a revealing photograph and shows the technical equipment used to travel to the moon and back. If you look closely, the moon’s surface can be viewed with human footprints scattered around. This image represents an incredible achievement in the history of the United States.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. September 11, 2001</h2><img alt="bill biggart 911 photos" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13279" height="385" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bill-biggart-911-photos-560x385.jpg" title="bill biggart 911 photos" width="560" /><br />
In 1975, Bill Gates founded Microsoft and the U.S. was launched into the age of technological advancement. In 1977, the first home personal computer, Commodore PET, was released for retail sale. By the 1990s, the Internet was beginning to take hold. The basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible have existed since the 1960s, but the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. The estimated population of Internet users is 1.97 billion as of July 2010.<br />
On August 2, 1990, the Gulf War began in the Middle East. The conflict was waged by a U.N. authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. On September 11, 2001, the United States faced the biggest terrorist attack in history when 19 individuals hijacked four U.S. planes and crashed them into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000.<br />
On September 11, all civilian air traffic was suspended for three days. It was the first time that an unplanned air flight suspension had occurred in the United States. In response to the terrorist attacks, the U.S. and U.K. declared war on Afghanistan and invaded the country on October 7, 2001. The United States government reported that the reason for invading Afghanistan was to find Osama bin Laden and to destroy the organization of Al-Qaeda. As of 2011, the United States is still at war in Afghanistan with no current leads regarding the location of Osama bin Laden. On March 20, 2003, the United States and United Kingdom invaded and occupied the country of Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Recently, top U.S. military commanders in Iraq have said they believe all U.S. troops will be out of the country by the end of 2011. The two separate wars have become a controversial subject in the United States, especially since the economic status of the nation has greatly declined since 2008.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
The most famous image to emerge from the September 11 attacks is titled <em>Ground Zero Spirit</em> and shows firefighters raising the American flag against a tangle of iron and debris at Ground Zero in New York City. For this article I have selected a picture that was taken by Bill Biggart. Bill Biggart was the only working photojournalist to die on 9/11. After the World Trade Centers were attacked, Bill Biggart traveled to the buildings to document the event. He had three separate cameras, one being digital. As the South Tower collapsed, Biggart snapped a famous collection of four photographs. He was killed when the North Tower came down. However, his camera bag was miraculously discovered in the wreckage. Most of his pictures were unsalvageable, but the flash card in the digital camera was saved and some photographs were retrieved. This image shows one of Biggart’s pictures as the South Tower collapsed to the ground. You can see the burning North Tower still standing, a building that would later fall, killing Biggart. In the picture, look at the destruction and large pieces of debris traveling with the slide. Bill Biggart will always be remembered for his bravery.<br />
<strong>One More</strong><br />
<h2><strong>The Dust Bowl</strong></h2><strong><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-13311 alignnone" height="360" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/wind_erosion.jpg" title="wind_erosion" width="504" /><br />
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A contributing factor to the Great Depression in America was the Dust Bowl or Dirty Thirties. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that caused major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. The phenomenon was caused by a severe drought coupled with decades of farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion. Without the natural anchors in the dirt, the soil dried, turned to dust, and blew away in large dark clouds. At times the clouds blackened the sky all the way to the East Coast of America and damaged cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. The immense dust storms, given the name Black Blizzards, often reduced visibility to a few feet (around a meter).<br />
Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. The people who stayed had their land taken over by dust and sand, often times leading to unsanitary conditions, respiratory illness, and even sudden death in children. On April 14, 1935, known as Black Sunday, the most destructive Black Blizzard struck the Great Plains, causing extensive damage and turning day to night. Sadly, during this era, many American families lost their land and were forced to travel west taking various jobs at starvation wages. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states.<br />
<strong>The Photograph</strong><br />
The United States government responded to the Dust Bowl crisis and President Roosevelt ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a huge belt of more than 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas to break the wind, hold water in the soil, and to keep the dirt in place. The administration also began to educate farmers on soil conservation and anti-erosion techniques, including crop rotation, strip farming, contour plowing, terracing, and other improved farming practices. Many famous images of the Black Blizzards have survived from this time in American history. This photo shows a dust storm looming on the horizon of a small farming community, with a collection of people awaiting the blizzards arrival.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-87593263985463840772011-08-14T02:53:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:53:15.465-07:00Top 10 Photojournalists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Photojournalists</h1><h1> </h1>In today’s world, photojournalism isn’t something that is heard or spoken of much anymore. With the Internet providing us with places such as YouTube, DeviantArt, and other online sources created just for sharing amateur <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">photography</span>, it’s really no surprise that photojournalism is slowly becoming a dying form of art as well as media. However, those who haven’t had much <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">interaction</span> and experience with photojournalism really don’t understand the true beauty behind it. It’s amazing to be able to look at a set of pictures, if not just one single picture, and be able to draw a story from it- and not only is the story usually touching, but its message is usually important.<br />
Below are 10 photojournalists who are very well known for their stories. Many of them risked their lives and some even had to witness things no one could ever imagine seeing in their lifetime. All of these people have been able to pick up a camera and take some of the most famous pictures; ones that tell stories of wars, riots, and anything and everything in between.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>10. Philip Jones Griffiths</strong></h2><strong><img alt="philip-jones-griffiths" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13097" height="329" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/philip-jones-griffiths.jpg" title="philip-jones-griffiths" width="500" /></strong><br />
Philip Jones Griffiths is best known for his portrayal of the Vietnam War through his pictures, though his first picture was of a friend and his family using a Brownie (a very popular and relatively in expensive camera produced by Kodak). As the Vietnam War was slowly coming to an end, Griffiths took photographs during the Yom Kipper War and then traveled to Cambodia where he worked until 1975. Because of his great success and popularity, Griffiths became Magnum’s president until 1985. Though he died in 2008, Griffith’s legend still lives on today. He is best known for <em>Vietnam Inc</em>, <em>Dark Odyssey, </em>and <em>Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam.</em><br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>9. Henri Cartier-Bresson</strong></h2><strong><img alt="henri-cartier-bresson" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13098" height="375" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/henri-cartier-bresson-560x375.jpg" title="henri-cartier-bresson" width="560" /></strong><br />
Henri Cartier-Bresson is known as the father of modern photojournalism. Born in France in 1908, Cartier-Bresson was one of the first to use the 35mm format. He was influenced by the randomness and grace of a photograph taken by Martin Munkacsi of 3 young boys running into a lake. He often spent hours on various streets, capturing life as he saw it, which became known as <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">street photography</span>. He took pictures all over Europe: from Madraid to Prague and from Budapest to Brussels. In 1948 he became well known for covering Mahatma Gandhi’s funeral as well as the ending of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He also spent time photographing the Imperial eunuchs.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>8</strong>. Robert Doisneau</h2><img alt="robert-doisneau" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13164" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/robert-doisneau-497x400.jpg" title="robert-doisneau" width="497" /><br />
Robert Doisneau is a well-known French photographer, who along with Cartier-Bresson, was able to lead the way towards a new path in photojournalism. He is well known for snapping ironic images as well as ones that depicted juxtapositions. At 13 he went to a craft school where he was first introduced to the arts, participating in still life and figure drawing, and earning diplomas in lithography and engraving, At 16 he discovered photography and, according to many, he was so shy that he’d only photograph cobblestones. Eventually he moved to photographing children and then adults. In the 1920s he became a lettering artist for Atelier Ullmann, an advertising company tied to the pharmaceutical industry. He was also able to work as a camera assistant in the studio and over time earned the job of a staff photographer. In 1932 he sold his first photo-story to <em>Excelsior</em> newspaper. In 1939 he took up a job working with postcard photography and freelance advertising services. Later that year he was drafted as a photographer and a Resistance soldier. He used his skills to forge identification papers and passports. During this time he photographed the Battle of Paris. After the war he worked for <em>Life </em>magazine and he also worked with Paris <em>Vogue </em>doing fashion and high-class photography. He won the Prix Kodak in 1947.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>7. David Burnett</strong></h2><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-photojournalists.php/david-burnett-marley" rel="attachment wp-att-13100"><img alt="david-burnett-marley" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13100" height="201" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/david-burnett-marley.jpeg" title="david-burnett-marley" width="251" /></a></strong><br />
Burnett graduated in 1968 from Colorado College and immediately went into amateur and eventually professional photography. He was a freelancer for <em>Life </em>and <em>Time </em>magazines in both the U.S. and later on Vietnam. Once he was in Vietnam for two years, Burnett decided to join Gamma, a French photo agency that allowed him travel all throughout Europe, where he worked as a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">news photographer</span>. In 1975 Burnett decided to fly solo and co-founded his own photo agency in New York City, known as Contact Press Images. Even though he opened his own photo agency, Burnett was still heavily devoted to his job and passion as a photographer. For the next 30 years he travelled all over to cover various worldwide events, including the Olympics, political campaigns, and various others. He even photographed some of the most famous people of the time, including popular reggae singer Bob Marley. His photos have been published in various magazines, including <em>The New York Times</em>. While he may be best known for his photos taken during the Iranian revolution, all of his work has been praised and he has received various awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, World Press Photo, and others.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>6. Robert Capa (Endre Friedmann)</strong></h2><strong><img alt="robert-capa-spanish-soldier-loyalist" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13101" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/robert-capa-spanish-soldier-loyalist-556x400.jpg" title="robert-capa-spanish-soldier-loyalist" width="556" /></strong><br />
Robert Capa, born as Endre Friedmann, is well-known for his wartime photos during WWII as well as his boldness and bravery and his involvement in Magnum Photos. His life as a photographer started at the age of 18 when he moved out of his native home in Hungary and left for Berlin where he worked as a darkroom apprentice. He was also able to dabble in photography and was able to take pictures of Leon Trotsky. Once Hitler came to power, he went to Paris, but here he struggled to live as a freelance journalist. He and <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/10-short-lived-celebrity-marriages.php" target="_self">his fiancée</a> decided to take another approach, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">setting up a business</span> under the falsified persona of a rich and famous man called Robert Capa, who the two claimed was an American photographer visiting France. Friedmann took the pictures, his fiancée sold them for no less than 150 francs a piece, and all credit was given to the made up Capa. Editor of <em>Vue</em>, Lucien Vogel found out the secret but sent the pair to Spain, where Capa took one of his most famous photographs of a Spanish soldier dying. His fiancée died during their quest to take notable pictures, and after her death Capa went to China were he photographed the battle of Taierchwang. After traveling to various countries to capture more of the war, Capa died on May 25, 1954 after stepping on a landmine.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>5. </strong><strong>David Seymour (Chim)</strong></h2><strong><img alt="david-seymour-orphans" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13102" height="500" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/david-seymour-orphans.jpg" title="david-seymour-orphans" width="405" /></strong><br />
Sometimes known as Chim, David Seymour was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris where he became enthralled with photography during his studies. He is well known for his perceptive eye and caustic personality. In 1933 he landed his first job as a freelance journalist and from there his career took off. He was able to capture moments during the Spanish Civil War as well as during unrest in Czechoslovakia. In 1939 he took photographs of Loyalist Spanish refugees who journeyed to Mexico. When WWII began, Seymour was in New York but enlisted in the army in 1940 where he worked as a photo <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">interpreter</span> in Europe. In 1942 his parents were killed by Nazis, which lead him to help UNICEF document the plight of refugees, especially children.<br />
Even though he was well known for his war photographs of orphans, he later got into photographing celebrities. While covering the 1956 Suez War, Seymour and fellow photographer Jean Roy were killed by machine-gun fire.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>4. Dorothea Lange</strong></h2><strong><img alt="dorothea-lange-depression" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13103" height="344" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dorothea-lange-depression.jpg" title="dorothea-lange-depression" width="450" /></strong><br />
Dorothea Lange was an American photojournalist who heavily covered life during the Great Depression. She first learned about photography in New York City and got <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">the chance</span> to apprentice at various New York photography studios. In 1918 she moved to San Francisco where she opened a portrait studio. Once the Great Depression began, Langue left her studio and decided to use her camera outside where she captured images of homeless and unemployed people. She later married an <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">agricultural</span> economist in 1935 and the two worked together documenting migrant laborers, sharecropping, and rural poverty. Her photographs caught the eye of many and she was given a job with the Farm Security Administration. In 1941 she earned the Guggenheim Fellowship and went on to cover life for Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor. Today, her photographs are well known all across the world as they show the true side of the Depression and put faces to the dire circumstances and made their plight public. Lange’s photographs and coverage of the era influenced the creation of documentary photography.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>3. Margaret Bourke-White</strong></h2><strong><img alt="stalin-smiling" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13094" height="594" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/stalin-smiling.jpg" title="stalin-smiling" width="408" /></strong><br />
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer who is well known for her documentary photography of WWII and the India-Pakistan violence. She earned the first of many titles, including being the first female war correspondent, the first female to work in a combat zone, the first foreign photographer to be granted the right to photograph the Soviet Industry, and the first female to have her photograph grace the cover of <em>Life</em> magazine.<br />
She worked for Fortune magazine from 1929 to 1935 as a staff photographer. In the early 1930s she became known for her photographs of those suffering from the Dust Bowl and she also published a book with the help of her novelist husband which portrayed Southern life during the Depression. She also went to various countries in Europe to photograph life under Nazi rule and Russia life under Communism. Here she was able to capture a photo of a smiling Joseph Stalin. In 1936 Henry Luce, the owner of <em>Life</em> magazine, hired her and put her Fort Peck Dam construction photo on the front cover. She was the on and off staff photographer up until 1945. In 1969 she retired due to her failing health and later died in 1971.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>2. Eddie Adams</strong></span></div><strong><img alt="eddie-adams-war-photo" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13093" height="353" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/eddie-adams-war-photo-560x353.jpg" title="eddie-adams-war-photo" width="560" /></strong><br />
Like many on this list, Eddie Adams’ name is well-known and attached to one specific photograph. Often referred to as “Saigon, 1968,” Adams said the image haunted him for the rest of his life. Even though he photographed 13 different wars, he is best known for his work that he produced during the Vietnam War. And even though today these pictures are widely known, praised, and analyzed, they were never published in a book before his death in 2004. Many say this is because Adams was a perfectionist, which often slowed down or halted the publishing process.<br />
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War and worked as a combat photographer. He was sent there to take pictures of the Demilitarized Zone from one end to the other and he was able to complete the task in just over a month. Adams became widely known when he worked for the Associated Press during the Vietnam War where he took various photographs of Vietnamese refugees attempting to escape in a photo essay that was entitled “The Boat of No Smiles.” Adams pictures greatly changed the American view of the war and even persuaded Jimmy Carter to grant asylum to 200,000 refugees.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>1. Robert Frank</strong></h2><strong><img alt="robertfrank-les-americains" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13092" height="450" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/robertfrank-les-americains.jpg" title="robertfrank-les-americains" width="278" /></strong><br />
Robert Frank was born in Switzerland and ever since his work entitled <em>Les Americains</em> was published, he became a very prominent figure in American photography as well as in film. He was born to a wealthy Jewish family but when Hitler came to power, despite his family being safe in Switzerland, Frank experienced the widespread oppression. To escape the oppression as well as the fact that his family was so involved with business, Frank got into photography and in 1946 he was able to create his first book of photographs entitled <em>40 Fotos.</em> A year later he moved to the U.S. and worked as a fashion photographer for <em>Harper’s Bazaar. </em>In 1950 he published a book of photographs he had taken while in Peru and in the same year he participated in the <em>51 American Photographers</em> held at the Museum of Modern Art. While in the U.S., Frank never liked the American way of life. He saw it as being too fast-paced and too dependent on money, something he tried to escape at home. He referred to the U.S. as being lonely and bleak, a theme that runs through <em>Les Americains.</em> Later on in life he worked as a photojournalist for <em>Fortune</em>, <em>Vogue</em>, and <em>McCall’s.</em></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-8232219991212994402011-08-14T02:24:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:24:43.493-07:00Top 10 Most Important Historical Finds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Most Important Historical Finds</h1><h1> </h1><h1> </h1>For as long as there have been civilizations on earth, man has been curious about his ancestors. Our need to connect to our past fuels the study of anthropology and the many important sites and artifacts uncovered through archaeology have opened our eyes to the lives of those that came before us.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>10. Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army</h2><img alt="terracotta-army-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13697" height="347" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/terracotta-army-top-10-historical-finds.jpg" title="terracotta-army-top-10-historical-finds" width="475" /><br />
A farmer in Xi’an named Yang was drilling for water when he found the Terracotta Army in 1947. The Army was carved by 700,000 forced workers and was buried underground in front of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang so they could protect him in the afterlife. Qin Shi Huang was the first Emperor to unify China and is as much reviled for his tyranny as he is admired as a visionary. Tens of thousands of human and animal statues were created in several pieces and then assembled, each of which is unique. Actual weapons and armor were used in the manufacturing of the warriors but they were stolen shortly after the creation of the tomb. Despite the impressive discoveries in Xi’an, the tomb of the emperor has yet to be found.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
The Terracotta Army is our doorway to understanding how the real Qin Dynasty army functioned. By examining these clay warriors we can determine the formations of the army and what kind of weapons they used as well as their quality. Fine bronze swords, daggers, billhooks, spears, halberds, axes, crossbow triggers and arrowheads were all found in the pits at Xi’an.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">9. The Dead Sea Scrolls </span></b></div><img alt="dead-sea-scrolls-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13696" height="334" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dead-sea-scrolls-top-10-historical-finds.jpg" title="dead-sea-scrolls-top-10-historical-finds" width="512" /><br />
The <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Dead Sea</span> Scrolls are a collection of ancient, mostly Hebrew manuscripts that were found at several sites on the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">northwest</span> shore of the Dead Sea. Between 825 and 870 different scrolls have been found in 11 caves from 1947 to 1956. Most of the texts are biblical and include fragments of every book of the Old Testament except the book of Esther as well as the earliest known Book of Isaiah and never before seen psalms attributed to King David and Joshua. Some non biblical texts were found as well, and are commentaries on the Old Testament, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">rule books</span> of the community, war conduct, hymnic compositions and benedictions to name a few. The Scrolls are believed to be the library of a Jewish Sect, written by the Essenes and hidden in the caves around the First Jewish Revolt (66-70 AD).<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is widely considered the greatest manuscript find of all time. The scrolls predate the next oldest Old Testament manuscript by 1000 years and prove that Christianity was rooted in Judaism. They also give us a clear insight into Jewish life at the time.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal</h2><img alt="royal-library-of-Ashurbanipal-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13695" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/royal-library-of-Ashurbanipal-top-10-historical-finds-363x400.jpg" title="royal-library-of-Ashurbanipal-top-10-historical-finds" width="363" /><br />
A collection of around 25,000 clay tablet fragments, the Library of Ashurbanipal was discovered in the mid 19<sup>th</sup> century by Austen Henry Layard at the Mesopatamian city of Nineveh (in what is now Iraq). Ashurbanipal was the king of Assyria during the height of Assyrian military and cultural achievements, but beyond this he was a passionate collector of texts who sent scribes throughout his Empire looking for additions to his library. The library itself was one of the largest in its time and contains approximately 1200 texts. These texts included royal inscriptions, chronicles, mythological and religious texts, contracts, royal grants and decrees, royal letters, omens, incantations, hymns to various gods and texts on medicine, astronomy, and literature. Some of the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">literary</span> finds include the epic of Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elis creation story, the myth of Adapa and the Poor Man of Nippur. In 612 BC, Nineveh was destroyed by an alliance of Babylonians, Scythians and Medes and the palace was burned, thus preserving the clay tablets by partially baking them.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
Buried for centuries by invaders, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal gives scholars a lot of precious information about the ancient inhabitants of the Near East. Besides the epic of Gilgamesh one of the most important texts found at the site was a nearly complete list of ancient Near Eastern rulers.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Tutankhamun’s Tomb (KV62)</h2> <img alt="http://www.crystalinks.com/tutcarterbw.jpg" src="http://www.crystalinks.com/tutcarterbw.jpg" /><br />
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In November of 1922, British Egyptologist Howard Carter found one of the most intact tombs ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Carter and his employer, the fifth Lord of Carnarvon, had been searching for Tut since Theodore M. Davis found several funerary artifacts with his name on them in 1907. The tomb is believed to have been originally intended for someone else and was turned into a royal tomb because Tutankhamun died so young, some even believe that it was to be tomb of either Ankhesenamun, Nefertiti or Smenkhare. Tut’s tomb consists of a burial chamber, a treasury, an annex and an antechamber, which is entered by a stairway and a sloped corridor. It contained a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian objects including statues, model boats, chariots, and even two mummified foetuses which are considered to be his stillborn children.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
Tutankhamun’s tomb was not the grandest tomb (in fact it was the smallest royal tomb to be found in the Valley of the Kings) nor was he one of Egypt’s most powerful rulers, but his tomb is the most intact tomb ever found <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">in the Valley of</span> the Kings. This has given Egyptologists an understanding of the possessions deemed important enough for the King to bring with him to the afterlife. It also provides scholars a checklist of items that were missing at other burial sites throughout Egypt.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. Pompeii</h2><img alt="pompeii-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13694" height="298" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pompeii-top-10-historical-finds.jpg" title="pompeii-top-10-historical-finds" width="448" /><br />
Pompeii was an ancient city that had been founded in the 6<sup>th</sup> century BC by Oscan-speaking descendants of the Neolithic inhabitants of Campania, later coming under Greek, Etruscan, Samnite and finally Roman control. As a Roman colony it prospered as a port and as a resort destination, evidence of which can be found in the many villas, temples, theaters and baths built throughout the city. Pompeii also had an amphitheater, a forum, and a basilica and was home to around 20,000 citizens. In 63 AD an earthquake caused extensive damage to Pompeii and in the years that followed there were attempts to repair some of the damage. Then terror struck on August 24, 79 AD when the nearby volcano of Mount Vesuvius erupted and blanketed the city in cinders and ash. Pompeii was discovered in 1599 by Domenico Fontana while he was working on a hydraulics project, but remained unexcavated until it was rediscovered in 1748 by Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
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The ruins of Pompeii give archeologists a unique perspective into Roman life: the daily workings of a living city. We can get a clear snapshot of a city in crisis because the ash has preserved everything so well- including families huddling together, criminals still in chains, animals left where they stood and perfectly preserved frescoes.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5.The Lascaux Cave</h2><img alt="lascaux-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13693" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/lascaux-top-10-historical-finds-555x400.jpg" title="lascaux-top-10-historical-finds" width="555" /><br />
A vast cave complex in southwestern France, Lascaux is best known for its many Paleolithic <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">cave paintings</span>. The Lascaux Cave was discovered by four teenagers, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coencas on September 12, 1940. There are nearly 2000 figures of animals, humans and abstract signs inside the cave. The animals that were painted include stags, cattle, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">bisons</span>, felines, a bird, a rhinoceros and a bear. Lascaux doesn’t seem to have been occupied but rather visited periodically just for the purposes of painting. In 1948 Lascaux was opened to the public but the amount of daily visitors to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">the cave</span> were changing the atmosphere inside the cave so it was closed in 1963 and 20 years later an exact replica, Lascaux II was opened. Today the cave is under attack by a series of molds, fungi and bacteria threatening to erase this priceless work of Prehistoric art.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
The Lascaux Cave is not only the largest Prehistoric cave in France, but the most well preserved. One of the paintings called “The Crossed Bison” shows the skill of the cave painters to capture realism. The ability to use perspective was not used again until the 15<sup>th</sup> century. From these paintings we can also determine what type of animals were available and important to the painters.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. Peking Man</h2><img alt="peking-man-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13692" height="305" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/peking-man-top-10-historical-finds.jpg" title="peking-man-top-10-historical-finds" width="260" /><br />
Peking Man or Beijing Man was a previously unknown type of Prehistoric man discovered by Canadian anatomist Davidson Black in a cave at Zhoukoudian, China in 1927. Between then and 1937, 14 partial craniums, 11 lower jaws, many teeth, and skeletal bones were found at the site. It is believed that the cave was home to about 45 individuals. From extensive studies of the remains made by Black and his predecessor German anatomist Franz Weidenreich, we know that Peking Man stood erect, made stone tools, understood how to use fire, had a heavy brow ridge and large teeth. In 1941, while being shipped to the United States for safety during World War II, the original fossils disappeared and have yet to be found. However, casts and descriptions remain and since the end of the war, other Peking Man fossils have been found at the site and at other sites throughout China.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
Before Black had uncovered Peking Man, many scholars believed that the remains of Java Man were actually the remains of a deformed ape. The finding of tool usage and fire at Zhoukoudian proved that both Java Man and Peking Man were members of the same broad stage of human evolution and thus filled out the edges of our evolutionary picture.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. The Rosetta Stone</h2><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-important-historical-finds.php/rosetta-stone-top-10-historical-finds" rel="attachment wp-att-13691"><img alt="rosetta-stone-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13691" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/rosetta-stone-top-10-historical-finds-312x400.jpg" title="rosetta-stone-top-10-historical-finds" width="312" /></a><br />
The Rosetta Stone is a black basalt stela (an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings) that dates back to 196 BC. An Egyptian decree honoring King Ptolemy V is carved into the stone in Greek, Demotic Egyptian and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone would have originally been displayed in a temple and was later moved and used as building material in a fort at the village of Rashid (Rosetta). It was discovered there by Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard on July 15, 1799, during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt. Attempts to decipher it were first made by Thomas Young, who translated the Demotic text, and by French Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion who is generally known as the translator of the Rosetta Stone. Champollion used the Coptic language to realize that hieroglyphs served as a spoken language and not just symbols.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the realization that it is the same passage written in three languages allowed scholars to get a glimpse into a civilization that for a long time had been a mystery to scholars. Egyptologists have been able to figure out the entire Ancient Egyptian language from its inscriptions.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. The Behistun Rock</h2><img alt="behustin-rock-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13702" height="396" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/behustin-rock-top-10-historical-finds-560x396.jpg" title="behustin-rock-top-10-historical-finds" width="560" /><br />
Discovered by Englishman Robert Sherley in 1598 while on a diplomatic mission to Persia, the Behistun Rock is a multilingual inscription authored by Darius the Great. The inscription begins with Darius’ autobiography and goes on to describe several events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II. Much like the Rosetta Stone, the Behistun Rock includes the same passage in three cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian. The text was translated in stages by Georg Friedrich Grotefend (Old Persian), Sir Henry Rawlinson, Edward Hincks, Julius Oppert, William Henry Fox Talbot and Edwin Norris.<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
Not only does the inscription give us a look into the mind of Darius the Great, but it was also instrumental in opening up the cuneiform script. Archeologists gained a greater understanding of civilizations like Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Akkadia, Persia and Assyria by being able to decipher cuneiform.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. The Olduvai Gorge</h2><img alt="olduvai-gorge-top-10-historical-finds" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13690" height="366" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/olduvai-gorge-top-10-historical-finds.jpg" title="olduvai-gorge-top-10-historical-finds" width="550" /><br />
An Ancient lake basin in northern Tanzania, the Olduvai Gorge has yielded the remains of more than 60 hominids as well as the two earliest stone tool traditions ever found (Oldowan and Acheulian). The gorge was discovered by German entomologist Wilhelm Kattwinkel in 1911 when he fell into it while chasing a butterfly. This inspired Hans Reck to lead an expedition there in 1913 but his work was ended by World War I. Excavations of Olduvai began in 1931 by Lois Leakey and his wife Mary. Three separate species of hominids have been found at Olduvai over the years, including Australopithecus boisei, Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Animal remains have also been found at the site including large antelopes, elephants, hares, guinea fowl, giraffes and hipparions (extinct three-toed horses).<br />
<strong>Importance</strong><br />
The Olduvai Gorge contains the longest sequences of cultural remains ever found and the discoveries there have strengthened the argument that the origins of humanity are in Africa. These finds also give us an insight into how these hominids lived. For example, Mary Leakey found hominid footprints in 1975, which proved that they walked on two feet- one of the greatest paleoanthropological discoveries of the past century.<br />
<h1> </h1></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-10888761045583348982011-08-14T02:20:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:20:28.192-07:00Top 10 Manliest Quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Manliest Quotes</h1><h1> </h1>Did you ever stop to wonder: “Hey, what was the manliest thing anyone ever said?” Well, you need wonder no more. The quotes in this list are the rare real-life equivalents of the one-liners we’ve all seen Arnie and Bruce Willis spout in action movies. A quote of this type might not always be the safest thing to say, or the most realistic, or even the wisest. But it is indeed the manliest.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>10. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Admiral David Farragut, Union Navy Officer</strong><br />
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It was dawn on August, 1864. David Farragut and his fleet of eighteen ships had begun their attack on the last port held by the Confederacy in the Civil War. A ship in Farragut’s fleet, the <em>USS <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">Tecumseh</span></em>, drifted off course slightly and struck a mine, then known as a ‘torpedo.’ Within minutes, the “unsinkable” ironclad was going down. Other ships, alarmed, began to pull back. Farragut wasn’t impressed, and asked through a trumpet (these were pre-radio days) what the hell was going on. The reply was “Torpedoes!” In response, Farragut literally <em>trumpeted</em> this still-famous reply. “Damn the torpedoes!”<br />
And the sentiment wasn’t mere stubbornness on Farragut’s part: by his calculations, most of the mines had been underwater too long to function anymore. And indeed, all seventeen of the other ships in the fleet made their way through the minefield safely. After a battle with Confederate ships, Farragut’s fleet emerged triumphant. (military.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>9. Because it’s there.</strong></h2><strong>Said by: George Mallory, Mountaineer</strong><br />
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This was the terse response Mallory gave to a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">New York Times</span> reporter, who wanted to know why he intended to climb Mt Everest. After all, even <em>today</em> people still die trying to climb the world’s tallest mountain, and this was back in 1923. Mallory’s words sum up the inner desire to explore and achieve, not for any outward gain, but <em>just for the hell of it</em>.<br />
Along with a companion, Mallory attempted to reach Everest’s summit in 1924, but the two disappeared near their destination. Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999, but to this day, nobody knows for sure if the men reached Everest’s summit before they died. If they did, they would have been the first: the next successful attempt would take another twenty-nine years. (thisdayinquotes.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>8. We shall have our fight in the shade! </strong></h2><strong>Said by: Dienekes the Spartan</strong><br />
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Over 2,500 years later, the Battle of Thermopylae is still famous among admirers of manliness. The historian Herodotus recorded the details of this three-day fight, in which an alliance of Greeks led by 300 Spartan warriors held off the invading armies of the Persian Empire. Herodotus describes Dienekes not only as the bravest and most distinguished of the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">Spartans</span>, but also as a master of badass wit. When informed by a local resident that the Medes, one of the armies sent by the Persians, were so numerous that their arrows were known to blot out the sun, the man replied: “Excellent tidings. If the Medes darken the sun, we shall have our fight in the shade.” (wadsworth.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>7. </strong><strong>We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills: we shall never surrender.</strong></h2><strong> </strong><img alt="http://winstonchurchill-quotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Winston_Churchill_01.jpg" height="613" src="http://winstonchurchill-quotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Winston_Churchill_01.jpg" style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" width="507" /><br />
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<strong>Said by: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister </strong><br />
In 1940, Nazis had reached the French shores closest to Britain, repelling the British troops that had fought there. An invasion of Britain appeared imminent, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a much-needed rousing address to parliament.<br />
The passage above, which concluded the speech, was both badass <em>and</em> cleverly designed. According to linguists, Churchill deliberately filled his sentences with short, simple words derived from English’s Anglo-Saxon roots. This not only made the speech sound more powerful, but gave it an inspiring, ‘patriotic’ feel. (jordanpossblog)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>6. Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Theodore Roosevelt, Former US President</strong><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> When he was campaigning in Milwaukee to try to regain his <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">presidency</span>, a would-be assassin shot Roosevelt in the chest with a .38 caliber pistol. The bullet pierced a bundle of paper – notes for a speech he was going to give – inside Roosevelt’s jacket, and lodged under one of his ribs. Good they didn’t use a teleprompter in those days.</div>So what did Roosevelt do in response to the attempted murder? He figured it was no big deal, and went on and gave the speech. Which sounds insane enough even before you consider that the speech went for <em>ninety minutes</em>. That would have been challenging enough for someone who <em>wasn’t</em> bleeding from a bullet to the chest. Roosevelt’s would-be assassin was caught, but actually got off lucky: the ex-President was known to regularly carry a concealed pistol. (doctorzebra.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>5. I shoot better!</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance Fighter</strong><br />
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Hannie Schaft proves to us all that ‘manliness’ doesn’t always have to be literal. Schaft was a member of a resistance group in Nazi-occupied Holland, and had taken part in sabotage and assassinations. She was captured near the end of the war, and taken out to a remote area to be executed. The group escorting her included Maarten Kuiper, a Dutch SS officer who had also been involved in the arrest of Anne Frank.<br />
This all-around nice guy took a shot at 24-year-old Schaft, but only wounded her. Unafraid, Schaft taunted him for his poor aim, prompting Kuiper to shoot her again. Hopefully he went home and cried afterward. (haarlemshuffle.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>4. This is a good day to die!</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Unknown; Attributed to Crazy Horse, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Lakota</span> War Leader</strong><br />
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In a memoir of the Battle of Little Big Horn, in which an alliance of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho fought against a force led by George Custer, a Lakota warrior mentioned ‘somebody’ yelling this line as a battle cry. Since then, it’s been largely assumed that the speaker was Crazy Horse, the man commanding that part of the battle. What’s most likely is that it was already a common Lakota saying. Still, its manliness has echoed through the generations, and the producers of <em>Star Trek</em> later made it a saying of the fictional alien warrior race, the Klingons. (hubpages.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>3. I am just going outside. I may be some time.</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Captain Lawrence Oates</strong><br />
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Things didn’t go well on the 1912 British expedition to the South Pole led by Robert Scott. Five men including Captain Oates traveled over 1,000 miles in 79 days, only to discover when they got there they’d been beaten to the Pole by a group of Norwegians.<br />
It got worse. Bad weather, scurvy and frostbite started beating them down, killing one man and severely slowing down an injured Oates. Despite the fact that he disliked Scott immensely, Oates repeatedly asked his companions to leave him behind in order to save themselves. They refused. Finally, Oates delivered these famous last words before he stepped outside the tent into -40F weather. The other men tried to dissuade him, but ultimately recognized that Oates was doing his duty as an English gentleman. (infobritain.co.uk)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>2. I have not yet begun to fight! </strong></h2><strong>Said by: John Paul Jones, Captain of the <em>Bonhomme Richard</em></strong><br />
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Sailors, apparently, are good at making manly quotes. John Paul Jones, a naval officer in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">the Revolutionary</span> War, took on the British <em>HMS Serapis</em> in 1779, while off the coast of England. His ship, the outgunned <em>Bonhomme Richard, </em>was hit by both enemy and friendly fire. At a low point, the Serapis’ captain called out “Have you struck your colors?”, meaning surrender.<br />
Jones replied “I have not yet begun to fight!” Maybe his men were energized by his badassery, because the battle quickly turned in their favor. The <em>Serapis </em>surrendered, and the crew of the <em>Bonhomme</em> boarded her, only for their own horribly damaged ship to sink. Which must have left the <em>Serapis’</em> captain feeling pretty silly. (suffolknewsherald.com)<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>1. Do what is right because it is right, and leave it alone.</strong></h2><strong>Said by: Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Consul to Lithuania in World War II</strong><br />
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The year was 1940, and the Nazis were about to invade Lithuania. Chiune Sugihara, employee at the local Japanese consul, found himself swamped by a desperate crowd of Jewish refugees. They needed transit visas so that the Soviets, then in power, would let them leave the country. Although Japan was technically a Nazi ally at the time, Sugihara decided “screw it” and started on a renegade visa-issuing rampage, working <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">up to 20</span> hours a day to create thousands of life-saving permits. It’s estimated that 40,000 people are alive today because of what Sugihara did.<br />
Unsurprisingly, Japan didn’t take kindly to this, and quickly ended Sugihara’s public <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">service career</span>, sending his family into poverty. Sugihara could have spent the rest of his life complaining about this. He didn’t, though, and also continually shrugged off any attention given to his heroics. Why? The answer lies in Sugihara’s quote, given in response to a question about why he’d chosen to help the refugees. He didn’t save lives in order to gain anything, or to impress anyone. He did it because it was right. (artofmanliness.com)</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-57618100473125478282011-08-14T02:15:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:15:46.654-07:00Top 10 Most Expensive Weddings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Most Expensive Weddings</h1><h1> </h1>For these folks, if their wedding day(s) weren’t the happiest days of their lives, then something is seriously wrong. If you thought <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">your wedding</span> was astronomical, try these top ten of the most extravagant weddings to date ranging from $2 million to $78 million dollars where broadcasting your wedding vows to the world is as important as showing the lining of your wallet.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ($2 million)</h2><img alt="Tom Cruise Katie Holmes" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15547" height="594" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Tom-Cruise-Katie-Holmes.jpg" title="Tom Cruise Katie Holmes" width="417" /><br />
They’re still together, almost 6 years later, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and they come in at number 10 on the top ten list of grandest weddings of all time. After Tom proposed to Katie on the top of the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">Eiffel Tower</span>, 19 months before <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">the wedding date</span>, they were married in Italy at the 15<sup>th</sup> century castle, Odescalchi Castle in Rome on November 18<sup>th</sup>, 2006. Giorgio Armani designed all the apparel for the bridal party and Andrea Boccelli gave a musical performance. The wedding was attended by 150 guests. The couple honeymooned in Maldives following the elaborate wedding event.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. Paul McCartney and Heather Mills ($3 million)</h2><img alt="Paul McCartney Heather Mills" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15549" height="272" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Paul-McCartney-Heather-Mills.jpg" title="Paul McCartney Heather Mills" width="320" /><br />
Fireworks, grand feasting and dancers dressed in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">Indian costume</span> performed for Paul McCartney and Heather Mill’s <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">wedding in</span> 2001. The $3 million dollar wedding ceremony took place in County, Monaghan, Ireland. The ceremony was held in St. Salvador’s Church and <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">the reception</span> took place at Castle Leslie with 300 guests. Heather Mills wore a dress she herself fashioned and carried roses named after her husband. Following their affair they honeymooned at a private island in Seychelles. They spent their first evening on a $20 million yacht for $19,000 a night.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. Liza Minnelli and David Gest ($3.5 million)</h2><img alt="Liza Minnelli David Gest" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15550" height="305" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Liza-Minnelli-David-Gest.jpg" title="Liza Minnelli David Gest" width="390" /><br />
Held at the Manhattan’s Collegiate Church in 2002, with a sum total of 850 wedding guests, the wedding was a monumental event with guests including Natalie Cole singing “Unforgettable”, a 60-piece orchestra also kept the guests entertained along with Tony Bennett. The wedding included a $40,000 6-foot, 12-tier cake, a staff of 500 and a bill of over $700,000 in flowers.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Elizabeth Hurley & Arun Nayar ($7 million)</h2><img alt="Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15552" height="710" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Elizabeth-Hurley-and-Arun-Nayar.jpg" title="Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar" width="468" /><br />
Wed on June 29, 2006, Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar, an Indian businessman married in a 15<sup>th</sup> century castle in Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire in Britain. The festivities lasted for 8 days across the 2 continents of Europe and Asia. The proceedings began at Sudeley and then the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">wedding party</span> traveled to Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India. The palace suite cost $10,000 a night.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. Delphine Arnault and Alessandro Vallarino Gancia ($7 million)</h2><img alt="Delphine Arnault and Alessandro Vallarino Gancia" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15553" height="272" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Delphine-Arnault-and-Alessandro-Vallarino-Gancia.jpg" title="Delphine Arnault and Alessandro Vallarino Gancia" width="550" /><br />
Who said a bride isn’t worth it, especially when she’s the daughter of the wealthy French businessman, Bernard Arnault? A father coined the ‘pope of fashion’ in France too means of course, a fancy dress, in fact, one so fancy that it was fashioned by the famous designer, John Galliano. It certainly was a price you’d not find on the racks at David’s Bridal either. Add to a wealthy bride a wealthy groom with a family with a wine dynasty business and you’ve got a splendid party, with of course, plenty of fine wines. They couple wed in 2005 at the Cote d’ Azur in France. The venue was decorated with 5,000 white roses. Harper’s Bazaar called it the “Wedding of the Year”.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLoughlin ($15 million)</h2><img alt="Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLoughlin" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15554" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Wayne-Rooney-Coleen-McLoughlin.jpg" title="Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLoughlin" width="364" /><br />
Okay if that previous wedding bill wasn’t enough to impress you, try doubling that with a few little extras and you’ve got the wedding of Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLaughlin at $15 million. Colleen McLoughlin, a television presenter/product endorser plus a Manchester United/England football star resulted not only in an expensive wedding but an interesting one at that. The 4 day wedding ceremony took place in Villa Durazzo in Portofino Italy on June 12, 2008. With stunning views of the Italian Rivera on a yacht with 64 guests flown in on five different private jets, the ambiance was beautiful. After spending almost $4 million dollars on a dress designed by Georgia Chapman’s Marchesa label, guests had to wonder if the budget had run out after being served pizza for the reception. In the end, they were able to cut costs of $5 million by allowing Britain’s OK! Magazine to publish exclusive information and pictures about the event, that is, after the pizza was served.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Vikram Chatwal and Priva Sachdey ($20 million)</span></b></div><img alt="Vikram Chatwal and Priva Sachdey" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15555" height="329" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vikram-Chatwal-and-Priva-Sachdey.jpg" title="Vikram Chatwal and Priva Sachdey" width="550" /><br />
Let’s make it an even 20 after 15, that is, $20 mil, and then everything will be up to par for the wedding of Vikram Chatwal, son of a New York hotel magnet and a jet-setting hotelier and actor and for his model/actress/investment banker bride, Priya Sachdey (who ever said a man couldn’t have it all). The wedding took place on February 18<sup>th</sup>, 2006 and is known as one of the most luxurious weddings ever in all of India. Bill Clinton was on the guest list along with many other well-known, high-powered people. The wedding took place over 10 days and was spread across 3 cities in India (Mumbai, Udaipur, and Delhi). There were 600 guests from 26 countries who were all retrieved for the event on chartered jets.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. Miss Yugoslavia Aleksandra Kokotovic and Andrey Melnichenko ($30 million)</h2><img alt="Andrey Melnichenko" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15599" height="235" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Andrey-Melnichenko.gif" title="Andrey Melnichenko" width="355" /><br />
Topping a $20 million dollar wedding isn’t easy but for Miss Yugoslavia Aleksandra Kokotovic and Andrey Melnichenko, it wasn’t hard with a $30 million dollar extravaganza that made history in world famous weddings. Andrey Melnichenko, the Russian billionaire and founder of MDM Bank and the Serbian model, Miss Yugoslavia Aleksandra Kokotovic married in Cote D’ Azur, France on September 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2005. There were performances by Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston for a full house of guests of the rich and famous. The singers alone cost $3.6 million each to perform.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Princess Salama ($44.5 million)</h2><img alt="Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Princess Salama" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15558" height="303" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Sheikh-Mohammed-bin-Rashid-Al-Maktoum-and-Princess-Salama.jpg" title="Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Princess Salama" width="430" /><br />
The Arabs really know how to have a wedding party and especially the ruler of Dubai who married Princess Salama in 1981. The wedding earned a place in the Forbes list of “Billionaire Weddings”. A stadium was built just for the occasion to entertain 20,000 guests for 7 days of luxury.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia ($78 million)</h2><img alt="Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15559" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vanisha-Mittal-Amit-Bhatia.gif" title="Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia" width="510" /><br />
The Indians, however, outshined the Arabs on November 18<sup>th</sup>, 2004 when Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia wed in what is recorded as the most expensive wedding in history. 1,000 guests from around the world attended after each had received a 20-page silver card to the event which included all the lavish details the entire venue that lasted for 5 days. The party took place at the finest chateau and garden in France, the 17<sup>th</sup> century, Vaux le Vicomte. The bride, Vanisha Mittal, daughter to the steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia, the investment banker wed in sheer riches. A performance by Kylie Minogue the pop singer was the high-lighted attraction to the event. 100 different dishes were prepared by a top Calcutta Chef and the wine cost $1.5 million. The costs of everything else we’ll leave to your imagination!<br />
Weddings are a happy time for all, especially for the guests who were able to attend the top ten most expensive weddings in history. Of these wedding events, the real two questions are who is still together and who will be next to top the list?</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-32234599289535436842011-08-14T02:12:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:12:44.239-07:00Top 10 Sausages From History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Sausages From History</h1>Whether you’re barmy for Bratwurst or loopy for a Lincolnshire, the humble sausage has been a favourite for pork-lovers for centuries.<br />
However, the tasty pork parcels have not always been as easily accepted as they are today and history records sausages being at the centre of many bizarre and often controversial events. Here are 10 of our favorites:<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. The Sausage Anti-Christ</h2><img alt="constantine" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14611" height="560" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/constantine.jpg" title="constantine" width="420" /><br />
A special spiced sausage made with pork, pine nuts and pepper was a favourite dish at the ancient Roman Lupercalian and Floralian festivals. This being the Romans, these pagan celebrations regularly descended into debauched orgies which were frowned on by Christians. Happily for the moral Right, Christian emperor Constantine the Great came into power in AD324 and, realising the potency of the humble sausage, banned them. Not ones to be easily defeated, the Romans quickly started a black market in sausages which lasted several years, until the ban was lifted.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. The Comedy Sausage</h2><img alt="comedy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14614" height="293" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/comedy.gif" title="comedy" width="380" /><br />
The Ancient Greeks liked a good laugh, and none more so than playwright Epicharmus, who penned a rip-roaring comedy called Orya (‘The Sausage’) in about 500BC. Sadly only a fragment of this play remains today, so we will never know what the big joke was (though some of us can probably guess).<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. The Pricey Sausage</h2><img alt="Pricey Sausage" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14615" height="358" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Pricey-Sausage.jpg" title="Pricey Sausage" width="430" /><br />
Australian comedian and businessman Steve Vizard may not have been preparing for a fried breakfast when he ordered his broker to buy shares in Sausage Software, but he was indulging in a little <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">insider trading</span>. In 2000 Vizard was charged with insider trading for trading in Sausage shares based on highly confidential information he had received in his capacity as a director with Telstra, which was planning to acquire a controlling interest in the company. Ironically Vizard actually lost money on the deal after waiting too long to sell, leaving him $150,000 out of pocket.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. The Purifying Sausage</h2><img alt="The Jungle" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14616" height="500" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/The-Jungle.jpg" title="The Jungle" width="327" /><br />
Great American novelist Upton Sinclair was so appalled by the conditions he witnessed in Chicago’s meat processing facilities that he felt compelled to write about them. The resulting book, The Jungle, which revealed how sausages regularly ended up filled with a mixture of pork, rat and poisoned bread, caused such an outrage in America that Congress was moved to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 to crack down on unhygienic conditions.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. The Mega Sausage</h2><img alt="Mega Sausage" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14617" height="360" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mega-Sausage.jpg" title="Mega Sausage" width="480" /><br />
The World Record-holding longest smoked sausage ever made caused hundreds to turn out when it was distributed among locals in Bucharest, Romania. Created by Caroli Foods, the 392.89 m-long sausage, unveiled two days after Christmas in 2008, became the focal point of a huge party, Including music, performance and dozens of people dressed as Santa Claus.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. The Death Sausage</h2><img alt="botulism" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14618" height="277" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/botulism.jpg" title="botulism" width="321" /><br />
Your life has probably already gotten pretty bad if you’re being forced to share a solitary sausage with 13 other people for dinner, so pity the poor 18th Century peasants in Wildbad, Germany, who were just a meagre mouthful away from discovering deadly disease botulism. Easily killed by proper cooking this toxic bacteria causes muscle paralysis and a slow and painful death by suffocation. Within hours six of the peasants were dead and the rest seriously ill, almost certainly leading them to wish they’d given it just a couple more minutes in the pot.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. Radical Sausage</h2><img alt="Radical Sausage" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14619" height="276" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Radical-Sausage.jpg" title="Radical Sausage" width="460" /><br />
In 1981 Moroccan tanker engineer Joseph Guillou found himself in hot water for choosing a sausage as an unconventional wall decoration. The unfortunate worker was jailed for two years after pinning the pork product to a hook normally reserved for a portrait of Morocco’s King Hassan. Guillou probably didn’t help matters by saying in his defence that a sausage was ‘more useful than a picture of the king<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. The Epic Sausage</b></span></div><img alt="Odysseus" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-14620" height="363" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Odysseus-560x363.gif" title="Odysseus" width="560" /><br />
When discussing the history of the humble sausage it is commonly pointed out that one of the first documented mentions of the food stuff occur in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, dating from around the 8th Century BC. What is often overlooked is the actual point of mention: “As <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">when a man</span> near a great glowing fire turns to and fro a sausage, full of fat and blood, anxious to have it quickly roast; so to and fro Odysseus tossed, and pondered how to lay hands on the shameless suitors.”<br />
Yep, the humble sausage in question is the hero of the whole piece, being slowly roasted by angst the night before brutally massacring the many suitors of his estranged wife and their girlfriends. Nice chap.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. The Racing Sausage</h2><img alt="sausage race" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14621" height="254" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sausage-race.jpg" title="sausage race" width="400" /><br />
Since the mid-1990s home <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">baseball games</span> for the Milwaukee Brewers have featured an unusual event before the bottom of the sixth innings. Characters representing sausages from around the world race round the stadium for the amusement of the crowd. This popular event has in itself sparked some unusual incidents, such as in 2003, when visiting <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Pittsburgh Pirates</span> <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">first baseman</span> Randall Simon took a swing at the Italian sausage with his bat as it passed the visitors’ dugout. The woman in the suit was not seriously injured, but Simon was arrested, fined and suspended from three games, and the incident has gone down in bizarre baseball history. In 2010 the sausage race made headlines again when the Italian sausage collided with a police motorcycle while running to the stadium, again there were no serious injuries.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. The Human Sausage</h2><img alt="Adolph Luetgert" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14622" height="324" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Adolph-Luetgert.jpg" title="Adolph Luetgert" width="475" /><br />
Chicago sausage-maker Adolph Luetgert became famous with his neighbours in 1987 for his blazing rows with his wife Louisa, little did they realise he was soon to become famous <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">with the</span> whole town. At the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">forefront</span> of the couple’s problems was Adolph’s affair with their housekeeper, Louisa’s niece, Mary Siemering. Adolph had set up a little love nest for himself in his sausage factory and when Louisa went to confront him on the night of May 1 <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">she was</span> never seen again. Police later discovered Louisa’s rings in the bottom of one of the sausage factory’s vats and Adolph was imprisoned for life. He went mad in jail, protesting his innocence, and died in an asylum years later.<br />
<h1> </h1></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-31988782257600608232011-08-14T02:09:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:09:18.562-07:00Top 10 Famous Pinups<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Famous Pinups</h1><h1> </h1>America’s entrance into World War II back in 1941 triggered the golden age of pinups, pictures of smiling women in a range of clothing-challenged situations. The racy photos adorned lonely servicemen’s lockers, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">the walls</span> of barracks, and even the sides of planes. For the first time in its history, the US military unofficially sanctioned this kind of art: pinup pictures, magazines and calendars were shipped and distributed among the troops, often at government expense, in order to ‘raise morale’ and remind the young men what they were fighting for.<br />
The heyday of the pinup was the 1940s and 50s, but pinup art is still around. To this day, pinup fans emulate the classic style in fashion, merchandise, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">photography</span>, and even tattoos.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>10. Rita Hayworth</strong></h2><strong><img alt="rita-hayworth-pin-up" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15765" height="447" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rita-hayworth-pin-up.jpg" title="rita-hayworth-pin-up" width="319" /><br />
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Rita Hayworth’s famous pose in a black negligee quickly made its way across the Atlantic in 1941, as troops brought the picture with them on the way to war. It ended up as the second most popular pinup picture in all of World War II. Hayworth, whose two brothers both fought in the conflict, didn’t just pose for pictures: she also was involved in selling war bonds, and appeared in USO shows.<br />
Hayworth’s famous strawberry-blonde hair was actually an act: her real hair was jet black, but she dyed it red and even altered her hairline after she became concerned about being typecast in ‘Hispanic’ roles.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>9. Ava Gardner</strong></h2><strong><img alt="ava-gardner-femme-fatale" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15766" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ava-gardner-femme-fatale-532x400.jpg" title="ava-gardner-femme-fatale" width="532" /><br />
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Back in the 1940s, the studio system still ruled Hollywood, and actors and actresses were usually contracted exclusively to particular studios. Gardner was an ‘MGM girl’, discovered by the studio at age 18 after a photograph was spotted by talent scouts. A surprised Gardner quickly relocated to Hollywood.<br />
Her early pinup work was typical for the time, involving shots of her on the beach or in bathing suits. Later in her career, Gardner became famous as a siren and a femme fatale, and switched to a less ‘innocent’ image, posing in heels and long black dresses. Gardner married Frank Sinatra in 1951 and although the marriage lasted only six years, she later said that he had been the love of her life.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>8. Bomber Girls</strong></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: medium none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><img alt="http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/003/Purple/be/06/b6/mzl.qagljqgq.480x480-75.jpg" src="http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/003/Purple/be/06/b6/mzl.qagljqgq.480x480-75.jpg" /></ins></div>As well as pinup photos, the US Army Air Force also unofficially permitted ‘nose art’, drawings of scantily-clad women on the fuselage of bombers and fighter planes, as a way of boosting pilot morale. Artists, often servicemen themselves, drew their inspiration from men’s magazines, popular actresses, and real-life models. The drawings ranged from wholesomely-clad figures to nudes, the latter often being covered up with water-soluble paint or mud when important officials came to visit.<br />
Unlike many pinups, bomber girls weren’t just about pictures of attractive women: the female figures were often regarded as mascots or lucky talismans that would ensure the plane’s safe return home. Sociologists have linked airplane nose art to the carved figureheads once found on the bows of ships, which superstitious sailors regarded as a type of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">good luck charm</span>. The art form saw a resurgence in the US military during the first Gulf War, but was officially banned in 1992 after complaints from feminist groups.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>7. Elvgren Girls</strong></h2><h2><strong><img alt="elvgren-pinups" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15767" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/elvgren-pinups-299x400.jpg" title="elvgren-pinups" width="299" /><br />
</strong></h2>Pinup drawings were not just limited to planes: many of the most popular pinups of the time were produced by commercial artists. ‘Elvgren girls’ was the nickname given to pinups drawn by artist Gil Elvgren. He began his focus on pinup art in 1937, but his long career also involved advertisements for Coca Cola and General Electric.<br />
Elvgren was well-known for painting his pinup subjects in imaginative situations: <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">water skiing</span>, climbing trees, doing yard work, even skeet shooting. Many pictures featured a young woman in a situation that accidentally revealed her stocking tops and garters. Rather than overtly sexy imagery, Elvgren seemed to go more for personality and even humor.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>6. Veronica Lake</strong></h2><strong><img alt="veronica-lake" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15768" height="450" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/veronica-lake.jpg" title="veronica-lake" width="353" /><br />
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Outside of pinup shoots, Veronica Lake was also a popular film noir actress. <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">She was</span> born <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">with the</span> slightly less glamorous last name of ‘Ockelman’, but a smart producer changed it to ‘Lake’ to evoke her blue eyes. Lake was famous for her blonde, wavy ‘peekaboo’ <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">hairstyle</span>, the bangs of which covered her right eye. In the 1940s, women across America sacrificed half of their peripheral vision in order to imitate this hairstyle. Lake’s acting was praised by critics, but she gained a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career didn’t last past the end of the decade.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>5. Zoe Mozert</strong></h2><strong><img alt="zoe-mozert-pinups" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15771" height="500" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zoe-mozert-pinups.jpeg" title="zoe-mozert-pinups" width="370" /><br />
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One of only a few female pinup artists in a male-dominated field, Mozert had the advantage of being able to use herself as a model, something the male artists presumably never did. In fact, Mozert paid her way through art school in the 1920s by modeling, and would later often pose using a camera or a mirror to compose her paintings. As well as pinups, Mozert produced hundreds of novel covers, calendars, advertisements and movie posters during her career.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>4. Jane Russell</strong></h2><strong><img alt="jane-russel-pinup" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15772" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jane-russel-pinup-527x400.jpg" title="jane-russel-pinup" width="527" /><br />
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Russell was nicknamed the “sweater girl” after the garment that best emphasized her two most famous assets. In fact her debut film, <em>The Outlaw</em>, was almost pulled by censors who were concerned about the amount of cleavage she showed. Comedian Bob Hope once joked about how difficult it was to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands, a reference to her hourglass figure. Russell’s most famous set of pinup shots shows her lying relaxed in a pile of hay, holding a revolver.<br />
Despite her detractors, Russell had a long and successful acting career, and was later best known for her part alongside Marilyn Monroe in <em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</em>.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>3. Vargas Girls</strong></h2><strong><img alt="vargas-girl" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15773" height="318" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/vargas-girl.gif" title="vargas-girl" width="400" /><br />
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Probably the most popular pinup artist of the era, Alberto Vargas was already a successful magazine and poster artist when he signed a contract with <em>Esquire</em> magazine to produce monthly pinup art in 1940. He worked with Esquire for five years, during which time millions of magazines were sent free to World War II troops. Vargas received piles of fan mail from servicemen, often with requests to paint ‘mascot’ girls, which he is said to have never turned down.<br />
Unlike Gil Elvgren’s pinup work, Vargas’ female figures were always shown on a featureless plain white background. While Vargas Girls were clothed for the most part, their very thinly-veiled eroticism made Vargas and <em>Esquire</em> magazine the target of censors later in the war.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>2. Bettie Page</strong></h2><strong><img alt="bettie-page-jpg" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15774" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/bettie-page-jpg-319x400.jpg" title="bettie-page-jpg" width="319" /><br />
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Bettie Page rose to pinup fame only during the 1950s, later than the other models on this list. Although her entire modeling career lasted only seven years, she’s probably the most enduringly popular and recognizable pinup model today. Her distinctive bangs (a photographer thought them up to hide her high forehead) are still copied by young women. According to her fans, Page’s unique appeal lies in her natural smile and joyful appearance. Instead of pouting, she made sexiness seem fun.<br />
After her retirement from modeling, her work lay forgotten for decades but resurged in the 1980s. Since then, public-domain images of Page have found their way onto merchandise, comics, and posters. A Seattle homeowner even painted a two-story version of Page on the side of his house (although she’s almost nude, she is cleverly covered up by the building’s eaves). Shortly after her death in 2008, Reason magazine called her pinup work “one of America’s most enduring brands.”<br />
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The prize for the most popular piece of pinup art during WWII went to Betty Grable, who posed in a white bathing suit <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">and high heels</span>, looking over her shoulder. Betty’s studio, Twentieth Century Fox, provided <em>five million</em> copies of this iconic picture to distribute to troops. And her success outlasted the conflict: after the war, Grable became not only the top female box office draw, but the most highly paid woman in America, earning about $300,000 a year.<br />
Betty’s legs, prominently featured in her famous photograph, were famously insured by her studio at a million dollars each – and that’s in 1940 dollars. Whether this was actually considered a wise investment, or was simply a publicity move by her studio, is still up for debate.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-43123862253084454542011-08-13T04:09:00.000-07:002011-08-13T04:09:21.315-07:00Top 10 Saturday Night Live Hosts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Saturday Night Live Hosts</h1><h1> </h1><h1> </h1>Hosting <em>Saturday Night Live</em> is a pretty thankless job. Hosts, who often having little or no comedy training, are expected to come in on a Monday and be hilarious by Saturday. Add to that that the show often has no idea what to do with the guests hosts besides some lame sketch that capitalizes on whatever show or movie they’re on, and it’s no wonder that the hosting position is often the weakest link in the show. Still, despite the odds being stacked against them, some guest hosts turn in amazing performances and even outshine the regular cast members. These are the Top Ten <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Hosts. In the interest of fairness, we’ve decided to exclude former cast members from consideration. If they can’t be good, nobody can.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. Buck Henry</h2><img alt="buck henry" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15823" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/buck-henry-524x400.jpg" title="buck henry" width="524" /><br />
He hasn’t been on the show in years and there’s a good chance most people under the age of 30 have no idea who he is, but writer and comedian Buck Henry was one of the best SNL hosts of the 70s. Back in the glory days, Henry was <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">the host</span> of each of the show’s first four season finales, and he was an indelible part of the early show’s success. Like Steve Martin, he was involved in some of the greatest sketches of the era, and is often mistaken as a cast member. His work opposite John Belushi in the classic Samurai sketches is a master class in playing it straight and by itself merits his inclusion on this list. He also had a ton of other great characters and set the bar high for what a person could do in the hosting role.<br />
Best Sketches: <em>Various Samurai Customers, Uncle Roy</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. Drew Barrymore</h2><img alt="drew-barrymore" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15825" height="297" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/drew-barrymore1.jpg" title="drew-barrymore" width="472" /><br />
Way back on November 20<sup>th</sup>, 1982, a seven year old Drew Barrymore became the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live, a record she still holds to this day. Take that Macauly Culkin! Barrymore has gone on to host the show more than any other woman (6 times so far) and is one of only two ladies in the super-exclusive Five Timers Club, Candace Bergen being the other. Comedy in general is a man’s world, but every time Barrymore shows up on the SNL set, you know she’s going to be funny. Even if she isn’t (or the writers give her stinkers) she always charming and fun to watch. She’s also, like the people on this list, one of the few hosts who can carry a sketch, rather than just stand in the corner and say a line or two.<br />
Best Sketches: <em>The Welshly Arms Hotel Lovers, Disturbed Job Applicant</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. Paul Simon</h2><img alt="paul-simon" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15827" height="379" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/paul-simon-560x379.jpg" title="paul-simon" width="560" /><br />
If you don’t include his musical appearances, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">Paul Simon</span> hasn’t appeared all that much on SNL. But when he does, he always turns in very funny and surprisingly sweet performances. Unlike other singers who shined on the show like Justin Timberlake, Simon has never really pursued a career as an actor, but from the awesome work he’s done on SNL, he certainly could have. Add to that his long list of knockout performances including a reunion with Art Garfunkel, an amazing duet with George Harrison, and the moving first episode after 911, and you have one entertainer that will always be welcome on the show.<br />
Best Sketches: <em>Desert</em><em> Island Christmas, Still Crazy After All these Years in Turkey Costume</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Christopher Walken</h2><img alt="christopher walken" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15828" height="379" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/christopher-walken.jpg" title="christopher walken" width="509" /><br />
It’s always the ones you least expect. Before he made his first appearance on SNL, you would have been forgiven for thinking that Christopher Walken wasn’t a particularly funny guy. Intense? Yeah. Creepy? Sure. But hilarious in a live comedy setting? Probably not. But he was. Playing against his well established type, Walken is always totally fearless and totally funny when he comes to host SNL. Trading on his image and deadpan voice, he’s the perfect straight man, and if they let him cut loose, he can turn in a performance that’s edgy, weird ,and most importantly of all, very funny. SNL is frequently called out for playing it safe, but whenever Christopher Walken makes an appearance, you’re guaranteed the comedy will be a little on the bizarre side. And that’s why we love him.<br />
Best Sketches:<em> Behind the Music: <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Blue Oyster Cult</span>, The Continental</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. Alec Baldwin</h2><img alt="alec baldwin" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15829" height="297" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/alec-baldwin.jpg" title="alec baldwin" width="528" /><br />
With the second highest number of hosting appearances, Alec Baldwin was another one of those people who surprised everybody by being amazingly funny right from the start. It seems hard to believe now, but Baldwin made his name in Hollywood as a serious actor and romantic lead. It wasn’t until he appeared on SNL that people even knew he could do comedy. These days, he recognized as one of the funniest comedic actors of his generation, and a lot of that has to do with the incredible stuff he did on SNL. Which of course led to him being cast on 30 Rock, where he continues to rack up the comedy accolades and awards. In a way, SNL allowed him to make the transition from dramatic lead to hilarious character actor. Well, that and his expanding waistline.<br />
Best Sketches: <em>Canteen Boy, Schwetty Balls</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. John Goodman</h2><img alt="John Goodman" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15830" height="302" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/john_goodman.jpg" title="John Goodman" width="400" /><br />
John Goodman got his start playing Roseanne Barr’s husband on Roseanne, so it shouldn’t come as surprise that he thrived in the comedic atmosphere of Saturday Night Live. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he practically became a regular cast member, returning week after week to portray whistle-blower Linda Tripp. Goodman has hosted the show a record 11 straight seasons in a row and is third overall in most appearances. SNL even joked about his incredible amount of appearances and included him as a potential cast member in one sketch. Goodman even helped replace John Belushi as one of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">the Blues Brothers</span>, making him one of the few guest hosts to actually start in an SNL movie. Even if it was one as terrible as <em><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">Blues Brothers</span> 2000</em>.<br />
Best Sketches: <em>Da Bears, various appearances as Linda Tripp</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. Justin Timberlake</h2><img alt="justin timberlake" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15831" height="319" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/justin-timberlake.jpg" title="justin timberlake" width="450" /><br />
Justin Timberlake is one of those great SNL hosts who comes on with low expectations and surprises everyone. When he first appeared in 2003, most people watching were expecting him to embarrassingly mug his way through a couple sketches, and hopefully not humiliate himself too badly in between his musical numbers. Instead, Timberlake knocked it out of the park. Not only was he game and gave it his all, he was actually as funny as the rest of the cast. He continues to appear on the show- often uncredited in the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">Lonely Island</span> guys’ digital song parodies, and an episode with him hosting is usually a guarantee of a funny show that week. And these days, those are few amnd far between.<br />
Best sketches: <em>Dick in a Box</em>, <em>MotherLover</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. Jon Hamm</h2><img alt="jon hamm" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15832" height="310" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jon-hamm-560x310.jpg" title="jon hamm" width="560" /><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> A relative newcomer to the SNL hosting game, <em><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Mad Men</span></em>’s Jon Hamm has instantly become a show favourite. And can you blame them for loving this guy? He’s handsome, he’s funny, and he seems to have as much talent for dumb comedy as he does for searing drama. Not bad considering his signature role is a hard-drinking <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">womanizer</span> who’s life is always one step away from total collapse. <em>SNL</em> (never one to let a good thing go to waste) realized how well Hamm fit into the proceedings, and have had him back once a season since he first hosted back in 2008. His episodes have been among the highest rated in recent years and tend to be the funniest ones all year. Here’s to many, many more.</div>Best Sketches: <em>Hamm</em><em> and Buble</em>, <em>Don Draper at the Apollo</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. Tom Hanks</h2><img alt="tom hanks" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15834" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tom-hanks-533x400.jpg" title="tom hanks" width="533" /><br />
There are few Hollywood stars who are able to move from comedy to drama as easily as Tom Hanks. He started his career playing lovable idiots, moved on to playing idiots with sensitive hearts, and then out of nowhere became one of the best actors of his generation. On his many Saturday Night Live appearances over the years, he fits in like he’s always been there. He’s created memorable recurring characters, poked fun at himself like a pro, and generally looks like he was having a great time. How much more could you ask for from a guy who’s basically there to plug a movie?<br />
Best Sketches :<em> Two Lonely Guys, Mr. Short-term Memory</em><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. Steve Martin</h2><img alt="steve martin" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15835" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/steve-martin.jpg" title="steve martin" width="400" /><br />
Steve Martin was such a huge part of the early success of SNL that it’s hard not to think of him as a regular cast member. One of the show’s first break-out sketches was the Martin led “King Tut.” It was a profoundly silly sketch, but Martin’s performance in it as well as one of the Two Wild and Crazy Guys, helped turn SNL into an overnight sensation. Martin would go one to host dozens of episodes over the course of the show’s long history (most recently in 2009) and has become such a huge part of the mythology of SNL that he may as well be a cast member. At the very least, he deserves the same amount of credit for turning in funny performance after funny performance and helping to establish the show as the preeminent American comedy institution.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-80930443104032635142011-08-13T04:05:00.000-07:002011-08-13T04:05:27.393-07:00Top 10 Famous People Who Didn’t Actually Exist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Famous People Who Didn’t Actually Exist</h1><h1> </h1>Thanks to urban legends, pranks, and the use of pseudonyms, there have been a number of people who managed to get famous without having to go through the hassle of actually existing. Some were used for shady marketing purposes, others served as tools for building hoaxes, and one was even responsible for encouraging early medieval expeditions into Asia. In each case, the air of mystery that surrounded them only helped to build up their false celebrity. Here are the top ten famous people who didn’t actually exist:<br />
<h2><strong>10. Masal Bugoluv</strong></h2><strong><img alt="Moldovan national flag" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13805" height="216" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Moldovan-national-flag.gif" title="Moldovan national flag" width="432" /><br />
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It seems that every few years, rumors arise about mysterious athletes in obscure countries whose talents are guaranteed to change the future of sports. One of the most recent examples concerned Masal Bugoluv, a supposed 16-year-old soccer prodigy from the small eastern European country of Moldova. News of the phenom first broke on soccer blogs and forums, where Bugoluv was described as a surgical striker who already played for the Moldovan national team. Soon enough, the mainstream soccer media—known the world over for their tendency to play fast and loose with the facts—had picked up on the story. The popular website Goal.com posted news about the player, and in early January of 2009, even the <em>Times </em>of London was on board, listing Bugoluv as “Moldova’s finest” and linking him with a possible move to the famous English club Arsenal. But the more the rumors about “Massi” began to heat up, they more they became suspect. After some background checking and research, a soccer blogger named Neil McDonnell was able to prove the truth: Masal Bugoluv didn’t exist. In fact, the whole media whirlwind was all a hoax allegedly perpetrated by an Irishman who was fed up with the glut of fake information circulated during soccer’s transfer season. In order to test just how unreliable media outlets were, he’d decided to invent his own player. With the help of fake Wikipedia articles, blog posts, and falsified reports from the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">Associated Press</span>, he created a cult following for what turned out to be the greatest soccer player who never was.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>9. Pierre Bressau</strong></h2><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-people-who-didn%e2%80%99t-actually-exist.php/chimp-painter" rel="attachment wp-att-13806"><img alt="pierre" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13806" height="317" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chimp-painter.jpg" title="pierre" width="550" /></a><br />
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At some point we’ve probably all looked at a piece of modern art and thought: “anybody could have painted that.” In 1964, Swedish journalist Dacke Axelsson actually put this claim to the test. In what has come to be a famous hoax, he took a series of paintings by a chimpanzee named Peter, a ward of the local zoo, and began circulating them around Sweden as the work of an unknown French artist he called Pierre Bressau. In order to put art critics to the test, Axelsson chose a few of Peter’s best paintings and set up an exhibition in Gothenburg. Sure enough, the mysterious Mr. Bressau was hailed by some as a bold new talent. One writer even claimed that the work showed all the signs of “an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer.” Surprisingly, once the paintings were revealed as the work of a primate, none of the art critics retracted their praise. In fact, Rolf Anderberg, the critic who’d been Bressau’s biggest champion, insisted that Peter’s work was still the best thing at the exhibition. Of course, not all the critics fell for Axelsson’s ruse. One writer reportedly remarked that “only an ape” could be responsible for the paintings.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>8. David Manning</strong></h2><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-people-who-didn%e2%80%99t-actually-exist.php/olympus-digital-camera-3" rel="attachment wp-att-13807"><img alt="David Manning" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13807" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/David-Manning-533x400.jpg" title="David Manning" width="533" /></a><br />
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Film fans and critics often rail against so-called “quote whores”—reviewers who are willing to write a positive notice for any movie as long as the studios wine and dine them enough—and <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">David Manning</span> of the Ridgefield Press was seemingly one of the worst. Around 2000, his glowing reviews frequently appeared on the posters for such universally loathed films as <em>The Animal</em> (“another winner!”) and <em>Hollow Man </em>(“stupendous!”). Manning would have been a running contender for America’s worst working film critic, save for one key detail: he didn’t exist. As it turned out, a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">marketing executive</span> at Sony had invented Manning as a tool for building positive press for films released by the corporation’s subsidiary <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">Columbia Pictures</span>. Newsweek discovered the deception when a reporter contacted the Ridgefield Press, a small weekly paper in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">Connecticut</span>, only to discover that no one named David Manning had ever worked there. The incident proved to be a major black eye for Sony’s marketing division, and a spokesperson for the studio would later claim they were “horrified” by the whole episode. Not only that, but it also cost them as much as $1.5 million after two moviegoers in California sued the studio, saying that the phantom film critic had unfairly lured them into seeing bad movies.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>7. Allegra Coleman</strong></h2><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-people-who-didn%e2%80%99t-actually-exist.php/allegracoleman" rel="attachment wp-att-13808"><img alt="AllegraColeman" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13808" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AllegraColeman-298x400.jpg" title="AllegraColeman" width="298" /></a><br />
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These days, there are plenty of people who are famous for not really doing anything, so it only seems fitting that someone could become a celebrity without ever actually existing. Allegra Coleman was a fake starlet invented by journalist Martha Sherrill. As part of a large-scale media hoax, in 1996 Sherrill wrote an article for <em>Esquire</em> declaring Coleman to be “Hollywood’s Next Dream Girl.” She even got model <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Ali Larter</span>, not yet famous, to pose as the “actress” on the magazine’s cover. The article contained all the usual celebrity hi jinks, from battles with the paparazzi over supposed nude photos to a rocky relationship with actor <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">David Schwimmer</span>. Sherrill intended the article to be a satire of the “puff pieces” that fill so many gossip magazines, but it was also telling about the way Hollywood works: even after the whole affair was revealed to be a hoax, publicists and agents were still frantically trying to sign Allegra Coleman to their agencies, and the whole episode ended up jumpstarting Ali Larter’s acting career.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>6. Sidd Finch</strong></h2><strong><img alt="sidd finch" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13809" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sidd-finch-266x400.jpg" title="sidd finch" width="266" /><br />
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Legendary journalist George Plimpton is famous for trying out for the Detroit Lions and sparring with Sugar Ray Robinson, but one of his most memorable stunts was the creation of a phantom baseball player. In April of 1985, Plimpton engineered one of the all-time greatest April Fools’ Day hoaxes when he published an article in <em>Sports Illustrated</em> detailing the arrival of baseball’s next super star, an unknown pitcher called Hayden “Sidd” Finch. The piece stated that Finch was a mysterious 28-year-old who’d spent time studying at Harvard and searching for inner peace in the Far East. He’d never played organized baseball before, but thanks to an unorthodox wind-up that gave him the ability to throw the ball an unbelievable 168 mph, he was considering signing up with the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">New York Mets</span>. Plimpton’s article went on to discuss Finch’s many eccentricities, which included wearing only one hiking boot when on the mound, playing the French Horn at a professional level, sleeping on the floor, and speaking in cryptic Zen koans. The article was accompanied by pictures of Sidd Finch—played by an unknown high school teacher named Joe Berton—hanging out with other Mets players like Lenny Dykstra and talking to coach Mel Stottlemyre. After a brief uproar of fascination and disbelief—<em>Sports Illustrated</em> received almost 2000 letters about the story—the magazine announced that Finch had held a press conference announcing his retirement from baseball. A week later, they finally came clean about the hoax.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>5. Pope Joan</strong></h2><strong><img alt="Pope Joan" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13810" height="363" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Pope-Joan.jpg" title="Pope Joan" width="500" /><br />
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One of the most famous Popes of all time is the one that modern day scholars believe probably didn’t exist. Pope Joan was a figure who was once believed to have served as Pontiff for a few years around 853-855 A.D. Her story first appeared in the 13<sup>th</sup> century writings of a Dominican Friar called Jean De Mailly, and for centuries it was a well-known legend in Europe. The tale came in many forms, but the most popular version described Joan as pious and brilliant woman who, after disguising herself as a man, rose quickly through the ranks of the Catholic Church and was chosen as Pope. Her reign supposedly came to an end when, while riding on horseback one day, she suddenly fell ill and gave birth to a child. Here the story takes many different turns: some versions say she died in childbirth, others say natural causes, and others still say that an angry mob murdered her. While historians have found enough evidence to reject the idea that Pope Joan ever really existed—some have claimed that the tale originated in a satirical story about Pope John XI—there’s no denying her legend played a major part in the religion of the Middle Ages. Religious scholars and popular writers like Boccaccio often made references to her, and there are reports of statues of her being erected. The legend persisted for several hundred years, and it took until 1601 before Pope Clement VIII officially denied the story.<br />
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The internet has long been a breeding ground for hoaxes and alter egos, and lonelygirl15 is perhaps the most famous example. The name refers to the YouTube handle of a 16-year-old girl named Bree who started posting video blogs on the site in 2006. At first, the videos were nothing more than the online diary of an average high-school student, complete with quirky effects and complaints about how boring her hometown was. Lonelygirl15 quickly became a hit, and was eventually the most popular channel on YouTube. But after a few episodes, Bree’s growing fan base began to be suspicious over whether the videos were a hoax. A number of websites and forums soon sprang up, and amateur detectives began poring over the videos looking for clues and inconsistencies. It didn’t take long before it was discovered that “Bree” was in fact Jessica Rose, a 19-year-old L.A.-based actress, and that her YouTube account was actually a carefully scripted media hoax designed to eventually expand into a full-fledged television show. The whole episode briefly made lonelygirl15 a cultural phenomenon, and the show continued for a further two years, eventually taking on a quasi-sci-fi plot that featured a sweeping narrative and multiple characters. The character of “Bree,” once considered by many to be a real teenager, was killed off of the show in 2007.<br />
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Comedian Andy Kaufman was famous for playing with audience expectations by mixing performance art and mysterious alter egos into his stand up. One of his most famous creations was Tony Clifton, a washed-up, vulgar, and often-drunk lounge singer who served as the opening act for Kaufman’s comedy gigs. With his terrible singing voice, confrontational attitude, and tendency to forget his lyrics, Clifton summed up every stereotype of the aging Vegas entertainer, and he soon became a popular character. After it surfaced that Clifton was actually being portrayed by Kaufman in costume and makeup—something both men denied—Kaufman enlisted both his brother and his friend Bob Zmuda to portray the character on stage in order to further the illusion that he and his creation were separate people. Tony Clifton was soon making appearances on everything from David Letterman’s late night show to Dinah Shore’s talk show, where he was famously thrown out of the studio for dumping a plate of eggs on the host’s head. He was even slated to appear as a special guest on the sitcom <em>Taxi, </em>but was kicked off the set for being disruptive. Kaufman died in 1984 without ever revealing the truth about the character, and even today it’s not widely known how many times he actually appeared as Clifton, or how many times an accomplice stepped into the role. The gruff lounge singer has continued to make appearances since Kaufman’s death, which has only furthered the illusion that Tony Clifton is actually a real person.<br />
<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>2. Alan Smithee</strong></h2><strong><img alt="Alan Smithee" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13813" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Alan-Smithee.jpg" title="Alan Smithee" width="300" /><br />
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Director Alan Smithee has enjoyed a long and varied career, which has seen him make everything from feature films to television pilots, cartoons, and music videos. He’d be one of Hollywood’s most prolific filmmakers if not for one key fact: he doesn’t exist. Since 1968, directors who wish to have their name removed from the credits of their films have used the name “Alan Smithee” as a pseudonym. Alan Smithee was first employed by Don Siegel on the film <em>Death of a Gunfighter</em>, and it’s since been used whenever a director feels that their creative control over a film project has been compromised to the extent that the final product is no longer their work. With this in mind, Alan Smithee now has 73 directorial credits on the website Internet Movie Database, including such lamentable productions as <em>Hellraiser: Bloodline</em> and <em>Solar Crisis</em>, along with TV projects including episodes of <em>The Cosby Show </em>and <em>MacGyver</em>. Mainstream directors like Michael Mann and Paul Verhoeven have also used the credit in instances where movies like <em>Heat </em>or <em>Showgirls</em> are significantly edited for exhibition on television. The Director’s Guild of America officially abandoned Alan Smithee in the late nineties, after the release of a film called <em>An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn</em> drew unwanted attention to the name. Since then, unhappy filmmakers have chosen their own pseudonyms, but others continue to use Alan Smithee as a sort of tribute. In fact, since 2000, the phantom director has racked up a further 18 film credits.<br />
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<h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2><strong>1. Prester John</strong></h2><strong><img alt="Prester John" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13814" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Prester-John-382x400.gif" title="Prester John" width="382" /><br />
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There might be more well known entries on this list, but none of them had the same influence on world politics, religion, or exploration as Prester John, a mythical king who was once believed to have presided over a Christian empire in Asia. His legend dates back to the 12<sup>th</sup> century, when it arose as an amalgam of adventure stories, true histories of Christian missionaries, and the exploits of Alexander the Great. Prester John and his kingdom became a true sensation in 1165, when a letter supposedly written by him began circulating around Europe. According to these fantastical sources, Prester John was a direct descendant of one of the Three Wise Men. His kingdom, which was suspected to be in India or the Middle East, was seen by the Europeans of the time as a shining light of civilization in a region that was viewed as exotic and barbarous. Prester John himself was believed to be a kind and wise man who ruled over an empire of great wealth, and his kingdom was often said to include such wonders as the Fountain of Youth and even the Garden of Eden. Despite little evidence of his existence, the legend of Prester John persisted for several hundred years, and for a time he was even linked with the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan. It would take until the 1600s before academics and travelers were able to prove that Prester John was nothing but a myth, but in the interim the legendary king had managed to affect everything from religion to world trade. Not only had missionaries stepped up their efforts in Asia and Africa in the hope of discovering Prester John’s kingdom, but explorers like Magellan were encouraged to seek out new lands in the hope that they might one day stumble upon the mythical ruler.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-69207833296158476672011-08-13T04:02:00.000-07:002011-08-13T04:02:09.932-07:00Top 10 Strangest Philosophies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1><span style="font-size: x-large;">Top 10 Strangest Philosophies</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></h1>Despite many believing philosophy is a “useless major” or a “waste of time,” it’s definitely a great way to boggle your mind by your own doing. It’s one thing to be confused by someone else, and a completely different feeling to confuse your own self. Who doesn’t enjoy perplexing themselves to no end, or thinking so hard your head literally hurts? Count me in.<br />
I’m no philosopher, nor a philosophy major, but I can say in my time of reading works by some of the most famous philosophers to even some of the lesser known ones, and from browsing random books and websites, I’ve run across some extremely odd theories. Some of them make some sort of sense, while others completely go over my head. Of course, they do all make sense when looking at society and views of life during that time. As the great Cicero once said, “There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.” Here is a list of 10 philosophies that are just pure strange.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. Idealism</h2><h3><img alt="aristotle" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3099" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/aristotle-237x300.jpg" title="aristotle" width="237" /></h3>Idealist theory says that there are no foundational beliefs. Instead, our beliefs exist in a system of interconnected perceptions. With this theory, you can ultimately conclude that no one belief is more important than the next. In the end, this theory is extremely circular. If a certain belief is true because it coheres or fits with others, then what do they cohere with? Sadly, there is no answer. In the end you’re stuck in an infinite regression.<br />
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<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. Innatism (Innate ideas)</h2><h3><img alt="smart-baby1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3098" height="257" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/smart-baby1-300x257.jpg" title="smart-baby1" width="300" /></h3>Innatism states that the mind is born and already loaded with ideas as well as knowledge. This view was created in order to disprove John Locke’s idea of the human mind being a “tabula rasa” that is eventually filled throughout life with experience. The theory holds that the we already known simple mathematical truths, such as 2+2=4 and the truths about God. But, if this theory is true, why do humans have a hard time adding up larger numbers? (ie. 1359+3515) And, if we have these innate ideas, why doesn’t everyone believe in the religious truths? And how do we know we learned something? Could it be that we just remembered it?<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. Animism</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_3097" style="width: 310px;"><img alt="800px-calton_wish_tree" class="size-medium wp-image-3097" height="224" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/800px-calton_wish_tree-300x224.jpg" title="800px-calton_wish_tree" width="300" /><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text">The Wish Tree on Calton Hill, Scotland, viewed on Beltane Eve (April 30). A wish tree is a modern practice based on the animism practised by early pagan peoples of Europe such as the Celts and Anglo-Saxons.</div></div>Animism states that when looking at souls and spirits, the two not only exist in humans and animals, but they also exist in things such as rocks, plants, thunder, mountains, and other objects. Many argue that animism is only used in cultures where religion and society aren’t as built-upon science and math. Many critics explain that the philosophy of animism is only used to provide answers to unknown questions. I can’t believe the rock I run over on an unpaved road has a soul.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Logical atomism</h2><h3><img alt="bertrand_russell_image" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3095" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bertrand_russell_image-300x300.jpg" title="bertrand_russell_image" width="300" /></h3>Popularized by Bertrand Russell, the theory states that world consists of logical “facts” (aka “atoms”) that cannot be broken down any further. It also states that all truths are dependent upon a layer of atomic facts. Therefore, the theory asserts that language mirrors reality. This is just one philosophy that I don’t understand. In the end it says that the world is just made up of facts that are extremely simple and easy to comprehend.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. Deconstructionism</h2><h3><img alt="jacquesderrida" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3096" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jacquesderrida-289x300.jpg" title="jacquesderrida" width="289" /></h3>Given the name by Jacques Derrida, the theory states that there is no one meaning when observing a piece of text. Instead, a text has several different meanings. The theory also states that when given a piece of literature, the reader ultimately decides what the meaning is, not the text in the book. I used to find deconstruction pretty valid, but in a sense, it does make literature meaningless. If you reduce and reduce the meaning of something so much, it in the end has no purpose. And if we always determine the meaning of something, how can anyone ever have a misunderstanding? You can just simply say no, that is my interpretation of what you said.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. Phenomenalism</h2><h3><img alt="2855661699_9fcf338712" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3094" height="199" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/2855661699_9fcf338712-300x199.jpg" title="2855661699_9fcf338712" width="300" /></h3>Phenomenalism states that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only as perceptual phenomena. Meaning, we can’t know anything is real beyond what we perceive and verify. Despite how neat it sounds, phenomenalism has its issues. What do we consider “verified?” And what about math? Math surely is real and it doesn’t require sensory perception.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. Ethical egoism</h2><h3><img alt="hitler1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3101" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hitler1-260x300.jpg" title="hitler1" width="260" /></h3>Ethical egoism states that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. Basically, it is necessary and sufficient for an action to be morally right that it is able to maximize one’s self-interest. This means that we only act on certain morals and actions because of our own self-interest and that these actions are right. The theory would basically support that stealing money is right, as it feeds our self-interest and brings a higher reward.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. Moral absolutism</h2><h3><img alt="Pope" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3102" height="300" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-3-264x300.png" title="Pope" width="264" /></h3>In my mind, nothing is absolute, so moral absolutism just doesn’t work for me. The theory holds that there are absolute rights and wrongs, no matter the context of the act. This brings up one of the more popular philosophical questions; is it okay to lie for a greater good? Let’s say you tell a lie to save a life. Is that morally wrong because lying is seen as wrong? Who knows, it never ends. Then you start wondering if morals are even real. <i>photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgphotos/" title="Link to Michael Guerreiro's photostream"><b>Michael Guerreiro</b></a></i><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. Neutral monism</h2><h3><img alt="3569400657_3cd540cbe9" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3100" height="225" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/3569400657_3cd540cbe9-300x225.jpg" title="3569400657_3cd540cbe9" width="300" /></h3>Neutral monism says that the mental and the physical are not two fundamentally different things. Instead, the view holds that the body and the mind are made up of the same material, which isn’t mental or physical. Only problem I see with this theory is that it is entirely mental. Is it not? The theory assumes that the mind is “real” and relies heavily on mental ability. And…do we experience outside of our minds? Perception? Sensation? Where do they fit in? <i>photo by <b>hyg-27</b></i><br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. Solipsism</h2><img alt="solipsist-convention" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3093" height="338" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/solipsist-convention.gif" title="solipsist-convention" width="500" /><br />
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I’d have to say that solipsism is what made me want to write this list. By dictionary definition, solipsism is a philosophical theory that states that a person can know nothing but that he/she exists, and that the self is the only existent thing. In common words, solipsism expresses that you believe you are the only real thing. Talk about extremely egocentrism. I think I’ll start a solipsism club!<br />
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There’s something magical about <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">the competition</span> that a good sports match provides. No matter what sports you like it’s always exciting to see the teams you support take the field, because the thrill of not knowing whether they’ll win or lose is what makes the experience so great. However, there’s a depressing exception: if you were a supporter of one of the following teams, you knew to expect only ineptitude.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. 2003 Detroit Tigers</h2><img alt="2003 Detroit Tigers" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12136" height="234" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image002.jpg" title="2003 Detroit Tigers" width="204" /><br />
Most terrible sports teams are expansion franchises, which is understandable; it’s tough for a brand new team to compete with established squads. But the 2003 Tigers had no such excuse when they went 43-119 in 2003, becoming the second worst modern baseball team in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">the process</span>. At least the Tigers have company, because as you’ll see later they’re not the only franchise to embarrass Detroit.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. 1962 New York Mets</h2><img alt="1969 New York Mets" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12137" height="215" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image004.jpg" title="1969 New York Mets" width="216" /><br />
With the various failures of the modern Mets fresh in our minds, we sometimes forget that they were awful in the past as well. In their first season they set a modern major league record for most losses, giving up nearly 1000 runs in the process. Their manager, Casey Stengel, famously said that the team showed him “new ways to lose I never knew existed before.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. 1993 San Jose Sharks</h2><img alt="1993 San Jose Sharks" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12138" height="213" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image006.jpg" title="1993 San Jose Sharks" width="226" /><br />
One of two utterly incompetent expansion teams to join the NHL in the early 90s (the other being the very slightly less inept Ottawa Senators), the Sharks went 11-71-2 in their second year and still hold the record for the most losses in a single season. Also, they were forced to play in an arena called The Cow Palace, because with a team that bad there was no point in putting them anywhere dignified.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. 1998 Denver Nuggets</h2><img alt="1998 Denver Nuggets" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12139" height="177" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image008.jpg" title="1998 Denver Nuggets" width="255" /><br />
Basketball can be a rough sport; if you don’t have a star player on your team you’re in for a long, long season. That was the case with the 1998 Nuggets, who went 11-71 and tied the record for the NBA’s longest losing streak: a pathetic 23 games. They gave up 101 points a game and only scored 89, which, if our math checks out, is a recipe for disaster. But at least they weren’t as bad as the…<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. 1973 Philadelphia 76ers</h2><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-sports-teams.php/image010-2" rel="attachment wp-att-12140"><img alt="1973 Philadelphia 76ers" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12140" height="274" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image010.jpg" title="1973 Philadelphia 76ers" width="209" /></a><br />
The 76ers’ 1973 season was an unmitigated disaster. Their nine wins and .110 winning percentage are both modern NBA records that are unlikely to be broken anytime soon, and they also set a record for the farthest finish out of 1<sup>st</sup> place, at 59 games back. Their dismal performance earned them the nickname “The Nine and 73ers,” proving that people from Philadelphia are incapable of coming up with a joke that’s even remotely clever.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. 1975 Washington Capitals</h2><img alt="1975 Washington Capitals" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12141" height="163" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image012.jpg" title="1975 Washington Capitals" width="305" /><br />
Another expansion franchise, the Capitals went 8-67-5 to set the record for the worst season in NHL history. Along the way, they also earned the title for most road losses (39 out of 40 games) and the longest losing streak (17 games). Their failings can be traced to the fact that they gave up an average of five and a half goals a game, which, if you’re not a hockey fan, can be best described as “a hell of a lot.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. 1960 Dallas Cowboys</h2><img alt="1960 Dallas Cowboys" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12142" height="223" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image014.jpg" title="1960 Dallas Cowboys" width="241" /><br />
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</div>The Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in North America (they’re worth about 1.65 billion dollars), but it was a long and painful journey to top spot. Their inaugural year was flat-out embarrassing; its only highlight was a tie game near the end of the season. They lost every other match, most by a large margin, to finish 0-11-1. Have we mentioned that expansion teams are hilariously awful? Because they totally are.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers</h2><img alt="1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12143" height="293" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image016.jpg" title="1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers" width="276" /><br />
One of only two modern NFL teams to have an imperfect season, the Buccaneers would nearly go winless for two straight years, losing the first 12 games of their second season for an 0-26 start to the franchise. Yup, they’re another incompetent expansion team. To make matters worse, they had what is by far the most embarrassing logo on this list. We guess it’s supposed to be intimidating, but it just looks like he’s trying to seduce us.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. 2008 Detroit Lions</h2><img alt="2008 Detroit Lions" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12144" height="204" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image018.jpg" title="2008 Detroit Lions" width="277" /><br />
The Detroit Lions have a long and storied history of ineptitude. Most famous is their 0-16 season in 2008, but that wasn’t the first time the Lions have gone winless. They went 0-11 back in 1942, and, based on <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">the current</span> quality of their team, there’s little stopping them from pulling it off again in the near future. At least Detroit has the Red Wings, otherwise the sports teams alone would make people ashamed to admit they’re from Motor City.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. 1899 Cleveland Spiders</h2><img alt="1899 Cleveland Spiders" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12145" height="306" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image019.png" title="1899 Cleveland Spiders" width="424" /><br />
We’re really reaching back into the history books for this one, but the story of the Cleveland Spiders is too ridiculous to not be worthy of top spot. In 1899 the team’s owners purchased a second franchise, the laughably named St. Louis Perfectos. Feeling that St. Louis was a more viable market, the owners sent all of the Spiders’ best players over to the Perfectos, meaning that Cleveland was forced to play with a short roster of weak players. The end result? A 20-134 season. They were so bad that other teams eventually refused to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">travel to</span> Cleveland (they averaged just 145 fans a game), so the Spiders were forced to hit the road for the majority of their matches. That means their record of 101 road losses is impossible to break, and no matter how bad future teams are the Spiders will always be a part of baseball history for all the wrong reasons.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-30071411914808303882011-08-13T00:05:00.000-07:002011-08-13T00:05:50.436-07:00Top 10 Reasons Why Football is Better Than Baseball<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Reasons Why Football is Better Than Baseball</h1><h1> </h1><h1> </h1>Following the Top 10 Reasons Why Baseball is Better than Football, we turn the tables to see how the gridiron is favored above America’s pastime. Everyone will have their preference, yet these are some ways of favoring the former sport.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>10. The Sunday/Monday Night Aura</h2><img alt="sunday-night-football" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13854" height="212" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/sunday-night-football1.jpg" title="sunday-night-football" width="275" /><br />
In direct opposition to the “every day of the week” idea is football’s place on Sunday and Monday (night). After all, besides a worship service – what could be more relevant than watching football on Sunday afternoon? The same certainly bodes for Monday Night Football.<br />
Baseball cannot compare to the event that is present on the typical days of football. Add in Thanksgiving football games and you have quite the argument.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>9. Athleticism</h2><img alt="Football-Agility" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13855" height="290" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Football-Agility-560x290.jpg" title="Football-Agility" width="560" /><br />
As a general rule, football is a more athletic sport. The range and demand of strength, speed, agility, and overall athleticism is more relevant in football than in baseball.<br />
Add in toughness and you have a nod to football for its players. Exceptions are present, but <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">football players</span> are more athletic than baseball players – as the sport demands.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>8. The Clock</h2><img alt="football clock" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13856" height="336" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/football-clock.jpg" title="football clock" width="404" /><br />
The clock in football does a number of things that baseball cannot argue with in these comparisons. Sure it speeds up the game and provides a few outlining advantages, but what about what it <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">adds</span> to strategy in football?<br />
This is the most impactful advantage in football with respect to the clock. The two-minute offense, time of possession, and other aspects that only the clock provides allows for a distinct advantage for football.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>7. Team as a Cohesive Unit</h2><img alt="Football team" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13859" height="327" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Football-team-560x327.jpg" title="Football team" width="560" /><br />
The team can be seen as more important in the sport of football. After all there is no equivalent of the intentional walk – taking away the most dangerous hitter in baseball.<br />
In football second and third-string players are much more important. A third-string wide receiver will for instance see much more game time than a second baseman in the same depth chart spot. Add in special teams and you have the team arguably playing as a more cohesive unit for football.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>6. The Super Bowl</h2><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-reasons-why-football-is-better-than-baseball.php/super-bowl" rel="attachment wp-att-13860"><img alt="Super Bowl" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13860" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Super-Bowl-400x400.jpg" title="Super Bowl" width="400" /></a><br />
<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">The Super Bowl</span> is the quintessential event in sports. It sees the highest number of viewers and advertising. For instance, in the top 45 network primetime telecasts of all time (1964-2010), 20 are given to Super Bowls – the most recent (Super Bowl XLIV – Saints/Colts) being number one at 53.<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">6 million</span> households.<br />
Nothing can compete with the Super Bowl: it remains the biggest playoff/sports event in the United States, blowing away baseball and the World Series.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>5. Importance of Schedule</h2><img alt="win" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13861" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/win-330x400.jpg" title="win" width="330" /><br />
In the other list we saw the length of schedule as being an advantage for baseball. There are two sides to everything, and baseball has the expense of games coming at lesser importance – there are a number of World Series champions who have had seven-game losing streaks, for instance.<br />
Every game matters in the NFL. One loss can make or break a season, which adds to the excitement in football.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>4. Football at the High School/College Level</h2><img alt="hs-football2" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13862" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hs-football2-533x400.jpg" title="hs-football2" width="533" /><br />
From our previous list we observed how baseball is a better sport for children – to bring them to games and in regard to Little League. However, at the high school and college level there is no discussion.<br />
In high school Friday night football games are the place to be. High school football is much more important – a dynamic seen in college as well. College baseball is easily overpowered by college football (and basketball).<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>3. Breadth of Strategy</h2><img alt="strategy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13863" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/strategy-519x400.jpg" title="strategy" width="519" /><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> “More” strategy in football is probably not fair, to be precise. However in football, objectively speaking, there is a much wider range of strategy and strategic elements.</div>In football there are plays and a wide range of offensive and defensive formations/styles (think formations/packages, run/pass dominated offenses and West Coast, etc.). Two-minute and time of possession, as spoken of earlier, adds to the breadth of strategy in football.<br />
Football provides a wide assortment of schemes, plays, and styles that make defensive shifts, small ball, and other strategic elements in baseball seem lesser in variety. Think about it.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>2. Action</h2><img alt="action" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-13864" height="315" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/action-560x315.jpg" title="action" width="560" /><br />
It may not be a complicated reason, but many people prefer football simply for action. Indeed football is a tough, masculine, hard-hitting sport.<br />
The action in football, while likely attracting a slightly different “kind” of sports fan, is <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">superior</span> to baseball in regards to action. Obviously baseball is not a contact sport, which is a big reason for number one spot in this countdown.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2> </h2><h2>1. America’s #1 Sport</h2><img alt="NFL" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13865" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NFL.jpg" title="NFL" width="400" /><br />
Numbers, including attendance and revenue – but clearly seen in terms of television viewers – do not lie. Football is America’s number one sport, overtaking baseball: America’s pastime.<br />
In the United States football has boomed over the last several years/decades, manifesting on television, in high school and college, and seen as the NFL overcomes the MLB/NBA in popularity.<br />
This final reason is an interesting counter to baseball (America’s pastime), creating a tight race for which sport is truly better. Of course, context and subjectivity will label the best sport between football and baseball.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-58634488346090221352011-08-11T20:44:00.000-07:002011-08-11T20:50:14.983-07:00YouTube rich list: Top 10 earners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>YouTube rich list: Top 10 earners</h1><h2><span style="font-size: large;">At least 10 independent acts on YouTube are earning over $100,000 (£65,000) a year in advertising revenue from the video-sharing site, it has been claimed. </span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;"> A young Californian Christian, a Vietnamese-Australian comic who parodies the online obsession with body image and a 16-year old who makes programmes for other children are among the top earners, according to analysis by<b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sanchez3232"><b>Sanchez3232</b></a></b></span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;">Although these acts are unfamiliar to many web users, they represent a growing number of independent contributors to the video-sharing site turning a bedroom hobby into serious money through millions of hits. </span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;">The research, reported in <b><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/revealed-the-youtube-rich-list-2062197.html">The Independent</a>,</b> found at least 10 performers, writers and producers have accrued more than $100,000 (£65,000) each over the last 12 months from their short films which have achieved popularity largely through word of mouth. Although <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a></b> traffic is largely driven by demand for professional music acts, the site receives 60,000 video clips a week of varying quality. The site, owned by Google, allows creators of original content to generate advertising revenues from their work in the same way as mainstream entertain firms. </span></h2><div class="firstPar"></div><span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Nine of those that appeared in TubeMogul's top 10 are comics, and almost all are in the United States. </b></span><br />
<div class="body"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> However, Greg Benson of <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MediocreFilms">Mediocre Films</a></b>, which came in at number seven in the survey, dismissed the figures, telling the newspaper: “I would be thrilled if I actually had any business being on that list or if I actually made that much money or had that many viewers that they say I have.” </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <b>TubeMogul's top 10 independent YouTube acts </b></b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1</b></span>. <b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ShaneDawsonTV">Shane Dawson</a></b> ($315,000/£200,000) 431,787,450 views </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Clean-living, wholesome 22-year-old Californian comic actor producing home-made sketch</b><b>es. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">2</span></b>. <span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/realannoyingorange">The Annoying Orange</a></b> ($288,000/£185,504) 349,753,047 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Animated fruit created by Dane Boedigheimer that could soon appear on television. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">3</span></b>.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/sxephil">Philip DeFranco</a></b> ($181,000/£117,000) 248,735,032 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Video blogger (vlogger) who began uploading clips while at university. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>4</b></span>. <span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga?blend=1&ob=4">Ryan Higa</a></b> ($151,000/£97,200) 206,979,909 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Also known as Nigahiga, the Hawaiian-born Japanese-American evolved from lip-synching to original comedy and has had more than 150 million hits. Videos How to be Gangster and How to be Ninja went viral for him and his Yabo Crew. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span><img alt="http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4d2cdbbcccd1d58a53010000-400-300/6-fred-figglehorn.jpg" src="http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4d2cdbbcccd1d58a53010000-400-300/6-fred-figglehorn.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>5.</b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><a href="http://go.telegraph.co.uk/?id=296X467&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Ffred">Fred Figglehorn</a></b> ($146,000/£94,000) 200,656,150 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Lucas Cruikshank, 16, whose videos aimed at children are soon to appear on Nickelodeon. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>6.</b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/shaycarl">Shay Carl</a></b> ($140,000/£90,000) 192,309,247 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> An Idaho radio DJ and comic </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>7</b></span>.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MediocreFilms">Mediocre Films</a></b> ($116,000/£74,600) 159,030,703 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Comedy clips created by Greg Benson. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>8</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>. <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/smosh">Smosh</a></b> ($113,000/£72,700) 154,936,876 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Comedy duo Anthony Padilla & Ian Hecox </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>9.<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks">The Young Turks</a></b> ($112,000/£72,000) 153,807,362 views </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Current affairs discussions and satire </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>10</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>. <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel">Natalie Tran</a></b> ($101,000/£65,000) 138,871,829 views </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> 24-year-old Vietnamese-Australian comic with popular vlogs. is the No 1 Down Under. </b></span></div><h1> </h1></div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-42596776088458652042011-08-11T03:54:00.000-07:002011-08-11T03:54:19.846-07:00Top 10 Viral Pictures and Internet Memes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>Top 10 Viral Pictures and Internet Memes</h1><h1> </h1>The term <span class="zem_slink">Internet</span> meme is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet. The idea may take the form of a video, picture, website, phrase or just a word. The meme will move from person to person via social networking websites, blogs, news sources and other web-based services. Internet memes can spread rapidly, sometimes reaching world-wide popularity and vanishing in a few days. Other memes are permanently inserted into popular culture. A well received Internet video or picture can give a person Internet celebrity status. This article is going to examine ten photographs that have become popular online and spawned Internet memes.<br />
<h2>10. Parked Domain Girl</h2><img alt="parked domain girl" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16797" height="318" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/parked-domain-girl.jpg" title="parked domain girl" width="360" /><br />
One of the most viewed images on the Internet is the Parked Domain Girl. The picture is used by the online media company Demand Media, who set up a business model to generate <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">money from</span> accidental Internet visits. The idea is simple, buy generic or keyword-rich domain names and sell advertising space despite the lack of any useful content. With no content, it is always a good idea to include pictures of pretty girls. In this case, the photograph of a young blonde college woman was chosen. The picture is a great example of the growing Internet trend in which a stock image goes viral.<br />
The Parked Domain Girl photograph was uploaded to iStockphoto in 2005 by Dustin Steller. After an Internet campaign was waged in order to discover the woman’s identity, it was reported that she is the sister of Dustin Steller. The photograph was taken by Dustin in Unity Village, which is in the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">Kansas City</span> area. The picture has been used by multiple advertising campaigns. People have created hundreds of different variations to the image. A man named Parker Ito sent the photo to orderartwork.com, a Chinese company that produces oil paintings on demand, and has commissioned several paintings which he sells.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Another popular stock photograph is the Everywhere Girl. Her name is Jennifer Chandra. Chandra’s picture was originally sold to Getty Images and made famous by the companies Dell and Gateway. Jennifer is called The Everywhere Girl because <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">her pictures</span> are all over the Internet.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>9. Dog Poop Girl</h2><img alt="dog poop girl" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16799" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dog-poop-girl-266x400.jpg" title="dog poop girl" width="266" /><br />
Dog Poop Girl is the name of a 2005 picture that shows a woman who refused to clean up after her dog defecated on the floor of a Seoul Metropolitan Subway car. During the event, a passenger known as Miss Kim captured a set of photographs showing the scene. After a towel was offered for cleanup, the woman ignored the passengers and left the subway car. In response, Miss Kim posted the pictures on a popular Korean website. In 2005, the Dog Poop Girl image quickly became one of the most popular searches on Korean web portals.<br />
Internet vigilantes began to examine the picture for any clue of the woman’s identity. Within days she had been located. In an attempt to punish the woman, her personal information was published on the Internet. She was linked to a specific university and the school got millions of Internet hits. The story received mainstream attention in South Korea and the United States. According to reports, the humiliation caused the woman to quit school.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
During the event, a collection of subway riders offered the woman tissue and rags to clean up the mess. She ignored most people, but used the tissue to wipe off her dog. This enraged some passengers and caused the situation to escalate.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"></ins> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">8. Saugeen Stripper</span></b></div><img alt="saugeen stripper" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16800" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/saugeen-stripper-300x400.jpg" title="saugeen stripper" width="300" /><br />
Some of the biggest photograph scandals on the Internet have involved nude pictures. One of these cases is the Saugeen stripper. In October 2005, a young 18-year-old woman decided to attend a birthday party in a dorm room at Saugeen-Maitland Hall, which is a co-ed students’ residence at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. After being asked, the student decided to perform a striptease. As you would expect, people got out their cameras. The girl was aware that photographs were being taken.<br />
After the party, the pictures were uploaded to the Internet and instantly spread. The incident became the subject of articles by a number of Canadian media outlets, including the Toronto Star, The London Free Press, National Post and the local London A-Channel News. The story was picked up by media outlets in the United States, UK and other areas of the world. The controversial photographs started a discussion about how much control institutions have over what happens on campus. The pictures sparked interest because some are quite graphic.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
The Saugeen stripper pictures have helped validate the dirty rumors about Saugeen-Maitland Hall. The building has always been the subject of jokes about huge parties. UWO’s party school reputation continues to encourage kids to visit the school.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>7. Ear Mouse</h2><img alt="ear mouse" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16801" height="180" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ear-mouse.jpg" title="ear mouse" width="300" /><br />
In 1997, a bizarre photograph became famous over the Internet. It shows a hairless mouse with what appears to be a human ear growing from its back. The picture was one of the first images to be widely spread via the Internet. It was originally used by Joseph Vacanti and a group of scientists who have developed a procedure which involves growing cartilage over biodegradable molds to shape cartilaginous <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">body parts</span>, like ears. In the late 1990s, the picture prompted a wave of protests against genetic engineering. It should be noted that these claims are fabricated, as no genetic engineering was involved in growing the ear.<br />
The ear structure has no human cells and was created with cow cartilage. There is no way that the ear could have ever been transplanted to a human. The cow cells would have been rejected by the person’s immune system. For this reason, it was necessary for the researchers to use a nude mouse in the experiment. A nude mouse has an extremely weak immune system.<br />
Joseph Vacanti has continued his research and modern technology has allowed the production of human cartilage cells. In one case, a 12-year-old boy named Sean G. McCormack, who was born with Poland’s Syndrome and no cartilage on the left side of his chest, underwent a groundbreaking operation. The doctors scraped away protruding cartilage from McCormack and used the cells to seed a scaffold that was molded into the shape of his torso. After receiving special approval from the Food & <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Drug Administration</span>, the doctors implanted the engineered cartilage into McCormack. Joseph’s brother Charles Vacanti has predicted that within 20 to 30 years the same procedure may allow scientists to grow any organ, for example a kidney or a liver, from a tissue sample.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
On October 11, 1999, the anti-genetics group, Turning Point Project, placed a full-page ad in the New York Times showing the Ear Mouse photograph. The misleading caption read, “This is an actual photo of a genetically engineered mouse with a human ear on its back.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>6. Cigar Guy</h2><img alt="cigar guy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16802" height="315" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cigar-guy-560x350.jpg" title="cigar guy" width="504" /><br />
Cigar guy refers to a man who appeared in a picture taken by Daily Mail photographer Mark Pain during the 2010 Ryder Cup golf tournament at the Celtic Manor <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">Resort in</span> the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">city of</span> Newport, Wales. The picture captures <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">golfer Tiger Woods</span> attempting a chip shot near the 18th green. Woods’ shot went wide and eventually hit Pain’s camera. The photograph was deemed an example of remarkable timing as the image was captured right as the golf ball was going to impact the camera. However, the most significant focus of the picture became cigar guy. He is the golf fan standing to Tiger’s left.<br />
In the picture, the man is seen wearing a ginger wig and a Groucho Marx style moustache while chomping on a cigar. By October 2010, the picture was being covered internationally. The man became known as “cigar guy” and started an internet meme. In the meme, people have photoshopped his face into other famous sporting events. Cigar guy’s facial expression has been described as reflecting positivity, optimism, and wide-eyed wonderment. He clearly stands out in the picture.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
After the photo went viral, one website offered a $1,000 reward to track down cigar guy’s identity. It was revealed on Sunday, October 10 that cigar guy is Rupesh Shingadia, a 30-year-old investment analyst from south London who lives with his parents. He was dressed as Miguel Angel Jimenez, the cigar-smoking golf player, in support of the European team.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>5. Sad Keanu</h2><img alt="Sad-Keanu" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16803" height="310" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sad-Keanu-560x387.jpg" title="Sad-Keanu" width="448" /><br />
What has Keanu Reeves been up to? His last high production film was the 2008 release The Day the Earth Stood Still. I wonder if he is going through some sad times. In 2010, a picture surfaced on the Internet showing Keanu Reeves looking sad while eating a sandwich alone on a bench in New York City. The photograph spawned the Sad Keanu Internet meme. The picture of a sullen-looking Reeves was taken sometime in May of 2010 by the Splash News photographer Ron Asadorian. In June of 2010 sympathy for Keanu Reeves began to spread over the Internet.<br />
Photoshopped images of a sad Keanu began to appear all over the major social networking websites. Some of the most famous pictures show sad Keanu sitting with Forest Gump, alone in the oval office, bummed out with Kim Jong-il and sitting with Homer Simpson. There are thousands of Sad Keanu images on the Internet. On January 18th, 2011, the Hollywood actor briefly addressed his newfound Internet fame in a studio interview with BBC, quoted as saying: Do I wish that I didn’t get my picture taken while I was eating a sandwich on the streets of New York? Yeah.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Following the intense wave of Sad Keanu images, a Facebook event was organized to set up a special Cheer Up Keanu Day, officially given the date of June 15th. On June 15th you are encouraged to send the actor love letters, gifts, messages and contribute to cancer donations.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>4. Qian Zhijun</h2><img alt="Qian Zhijun" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16804" height="309" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Qian-Zhijun.jpg" title="Qian Zhijun" width="400" /><br />
Qian Zhijun is a Chinese actor and entertainer who became famous during the Little Fatty Internet meme. In 2003, Qian’s teacher captured a picture of him during “traffic safety day” in Jinshan District, Shanghai. After the photograph was published on the Internet, it quickly became a popular meme. People began to superimpose Qian’s face into various images. This includes film posters, photographs of celebrities, and classic works of art. Qian’s facial expression has been described as a “slightly suspicious sidelong glance and cherubic cheeks.” A Chinese newspaper said that he was “the face that launched 1,000 clicks.”<br />
Originally, Qian Zhijun felt embarrassed by the Internet phenomenon, but released the quote “I have tried to turn sorrow into strength. At least it makes people smile and I have had quite a positive response from many surfers.” Since the image of Qian became an Internet meme, he has appeared in Chinese films and hosted a festival for people with alternative body types. La Carmina of CNN said that by late 2006 Qian had become “one of the most famous faces in China.” As a result of the photograph, Qian went from obscurity to movie stardom.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact </strong><br />
Clifford Coonan of <em>The Independent</em> said “So what does Qian’s story tell us about modern China? Well, it reflects two of the most remarkable themes. It shows how growing affluence has translated into a serious increase in the number of obese people. It demonstrates how the Internet is providing a platform for creative expression that controlled media can’t begin to match.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>3. Vancouver Couple Kissing</h2><img alt="vancouver couple" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16806" height="295" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/vancouver-couple-560x369.png" title="vancouver couple" width="448" /><br />
On June 15, 2011, the Boston Bruins captured their 6th Stanley Cup Championship. In response, fans of the Vancouver Canucks started a riot in the downtown core section of Vancouver, British Columbia. During the confrontation, at least 140 people were injured, one critically. Four people were stabbed, nine police officers were hurt, and 101 people arrested. The most lasting image from the 2011 Vancouver riots shows a young couple kissing in the empty street between rioters and police. The picture was captured by Canada-based photojournalist Richard Lam. Following the riot, the image went viral and became internationally recognized.<br />
Richard Lam was not able to contact the couple after he captured the photograph, but the media quickly identified them as Scott Jones, 29, and his girlfriend Alexandra Thomas. According to the official story, the couple was in downtown Vancouver watching the riot, but not participating in the event when a large collection of riot police knocked them over with shields. After hitting the ground Alexandra was slightly injured and in distress. To calm her down, Scott gave her a kiss, which was captured by Richard Lam.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
It was initially suspected that the photograph was staged, but the entire event was captured on camera. The video shows a large collection of riot police charging citizens and knocking Alexandra and Scott over. Two officers then start pushing the couple into the ground. She is clearly shaken.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>2. Islamic Rage Boy</h2><img alt="Islamic Rage Boy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16808" height="286" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/islamic-rage-boy.jpg" title="Islamic Rage Boy" width="409" /><br />
Shakeel Ahmad Bhat is a professional Kashmiri Muslim Protester that was born in Kashmir, India. He has been nicknamed the Islamic Rage Boy by Internet bloggers. Bhat was given the label after an image surfaced that showed him yelling during a protest. Due to his angry look, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat has become a target for photographic journalists. He has taken part in protests against the Indian Army, Israel, Pope Benedict, Salman Rushdie, and the Muhammed cartoons. Bhat has appeared on the front page of many newspapers. He has become a cult figure on the Internet and been featured in the Times of India, Middle East Times, France 24 and The Sunday Mail. Shakeel Ahmad Bhat claims that he has been detained almost 300 times since 1997.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
The image of Bhat yelling is one of the most altered in Internet history. It has been published on hundreds of pages and used in hate campaigns. Shakeel Ahmad Bhat’s photograph has been printed on t-shirts, posters, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, mouse-pads and beer mugs.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>1. Crasher Squirrel</h2><img alt="crasher squirrel" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16809" height="295" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/crasher-squirrel-560x369.jpg" title="crasher squirrel" width="448" /><br />
Crasher Squirrel is the name given to a squirrel seen in a photograph that was originally intended to be a self-portrait of a Minnesota couple. In May of 2009, a woman named Melissa Brandts and her husband Jackson were visiting Lake Minnewanka at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. They decided to capture a self-portrait using the camera’s timer. While the Brandts were posing on some rocks next to the lake using the remote shutter release, a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel began to explore the area. The squirrel stood up right in front of the camera’s lens as the picture was taken. The couple was able to capture the squirrel, clearly in focus, in front of the camera.<br />
In August 2009, the Brandts submitted the photo to the National Geographic weekly. After the photograph appeared in National Geographic, it spread virally across the world. The squirrel has since been used by the Banff tourism board to attract visitors to the area. He has become an “ambassador” to the park. In 2009, the Crasher Squirrel photograph created a large Internet meme. People began to cut the squirrel out of the image and insert it into other photos. The Crasher Squirrel has appeared online in pictures of official diplomatic gatherings, family portraits, and famous works of art. He is always placed in the image so that it appears the squirrel is “crashing” the party. A website, The Squirrelizer, was created by Graeme Hawker of Scotland to allow anyone to add the image to a photo.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
The appeal of the picture is caused by a couple factors. The squirrel is standing up and perfectly in-focus. It has a pose reminiscent of the gopher from the movie Caddyshack with its paws held at chest level and eyes staring directly into the camera. In Caddyshack, the gopher is elusive and always popping up in different locations.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-34940905341693774832011-08-11T03:50:00.000-07:002011-08-11T03:50:01.583-07:0010 Famous Pictures From Around The World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1>10 Famous Pictures From Around The World</h1><h1> </h1><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Propaganda</span> is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community. In creating propaganda, people will focus on a specific set of facts that will elicit an emotional reaction in a population. If angered, humans will often overlook rational information. In the history of photography, thousands of famous images have been taken. Governments have popularized many of these pictures as a form of propaganda. Photographs give the human brain an opportunity to interpret a specific environment. This article is going to examine ten famous photographs and their remarkable stories.<br />
<h2>10. Lee Harvey Oswald and His Rifle</h2><img alt="Oswald with Gun and Communist Paper" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16899" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/oswald-with-gun-and-communist-paper-382x400.jpg" title="Oswald with Gun and Communist Paper" width="382" /><br />
According to four U.S. government investigations, Lee Harvey Oswald is the sniper who killed John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. On March 31, 1963, Marina Oswald captured a collection of photographs showing Lee Harvey Oswald in his backyard with a rifle in hand. Along with the gun, the photographs show Oswald holding two Marxist newspapers, The Militant and The Worker. He is wearing a .38 caliber <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">revolver</span> on his waist. In 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) determined that the rifle in the picture was the same used to shoot Kennedy. The revolver was also determined to be the weapon used to kill Officer J. D. Tippit following the assassination. The collection of photos is widely recognized as some of the most significant evidence against Oswald.<br />
The <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-pictures-from-around-the-world.php" title="Top 10 Famous Pictures From Around The World">pictures</a> have been subjected to rigorous analysis and many people have claimed they are altered. Oswald insisted they were forgeries. Some inconsistencies include unnatural lines in Oswald’s face, an identical background in all three photographs, unnatural shadows, and inconsistent body length between pictures. In 1978, a British forensic photography expert named Malcolm Thompson determined that the pictures were fakes. However, after seeing the evidence presented by the HSCA investigation, Thompson recanted his conclusion and agreed that the backyard pictures were genuine. After digitally analyzing the photograph of Oswald holding the rifle and paper, computer scientist Hany Farid concluded that the photo was “almost certainly not altered.”<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
On February 21, 1964 the picture of Lee Harvey Oswald in his backyard was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine. It was also placed on the front page of the Free Press. Certain alterations were visible between the two photographs. The Free Press picture completely removed the rifle’s scope. The occurrence caused distrust and fueled conspiracy theories.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>9. Annie Edson Taylor</h2><img alt="annie-edson-woman-in-barrel-over-waterfall" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16900" height="394" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/annie-edson-woman-in-barrel-over-waterfall.jpg" title="annie-edson-woman-in-barrel-over-waterfall" width="304" /><br />
Niagara Falls is the most powerful collection of waterfalls in North America. They are situated on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario and forms the international border between Ontario and New York. The Horseshoe Falls drop about 173 feet (53 m), while the height of the American Falls varies between 70–100 feet (21–30 m) because of the presence of giant boulders at its base. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are located on the American side, separated from the main falls by Luna Island. On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She accomplished the feat on her 63rd birthday. Taylor used a custom-made barrel for her trip, constructed of oak and iron and padded with a mattress.<br />
Annie Taylor was set adrift near the American shore, south of Goat Island. The Niagara River currents carried the barrel toward the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, which has since become the site for all <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">daredevil</span> stunting activity at Niagara Falls. After the plunge, rescuers reached Annie’s barrel and she was found alive. Taylor was relatively uninjured, except for a small gash on her head. Annie Taylor told the press, “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat. I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall.” In 1911, Bobby Leach became the second person to travel over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In the fall, Leach broke both knee caps and fractured his jaw.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Two days before Annie Taylor’s own attempt, a domestic cat was sent over the Horseshoe Falls in her barrel to test its strength. Contrary to rumors at the time, the cat survived the plunge unharmed and later posed with Taylor in photographs.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>8. Patty Hearst</h2><img alt="patty-hearst-robs-bank" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16901" height="365" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/patty-hearst-robs-bank.jpg" title="patty-hearst-robs-bank" width="288" /><br />
Patty Hearst is the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. On February 4, 1974 the 19-year-old Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California apartment by a left-wing urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American terrorist <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">organization</span> born out of a number of radical prison advocacy groups. After Hearst was kidnapped, she was taken to a house in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Daly City</span>, California and kept in a closet. After 57 days of being <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">blindfolded</span>, gagged and tied up, Hearst was indoctrinated with SLA political literature.<br />
The SLA demanded that the Hearst family distribute $70 worth of food to every needy Californian, an operation that would cost an estimated $400 million. Hearst’s father arranged for the immediate donation of $6 million worth of food. In response, Patty Hearst was never released. On April 3, 1974, Patty announced on an audiotape that she had joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and assumed the name Tania. She became a well-known victim of Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a phenomenon where hostages express positive feelings towards their captors. It is a condition caused by extreme mental and physical abuse.<br />
On April 15, 1974 Patty Hearst was photographed wielding an M1 carbine rifle while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco. Cameras were able to capture Patty as she yelled “I’m Tania, up against the wall.” The images of Hearst quickly spread around the world. A warrant was issued for her arrest and in September 1975, Patty was arrested in a San Francisco apartment with other SLA members. Patty Hearst was convicted of bank robbery on March 20, 1976 and was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment. Her sentence was later commuted to seven years and she served 22 months.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Patty Hearst was granted a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001. After her release from prison, Patty married her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. They have two children, Gillian and Lydia Hearst-Shaw, and reside in Garrison, New York.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>7. Mission Accomplished</h2><img alt="george-bush-mission-accomplished" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16902" height="278" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/george-bush-mission-accomplished.jpg" title="george-bush-mission-accomplished" width="370" /><br />
The Iraq War began on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair. To date, the Iraq War has lasted eight and a half years. Two months after the war started, on May 1, 2003 George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and gave a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Visible in the background was a banner stating “Mission Accomplished.” Following the speech, the image became internationally recognized. George W Bush was criticized for suggesting the war was over, when in fact it was just beginning.<br />
The controversy surrounding the speech and the banner made <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">video clips</span> and pictures of the speech famous. As criticism <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">mounted</span>, the White House released a statement saying that they didn’t mean to imply the Iraq War was over. Pentagon spokesman Conrad Chun said the banner referred specifically to the aircraft carrier’s 10-month deployment and not the war itself. The banner and picture have come to symbolize the irony of the President giving a victory speech only a few weeks after the beginning of a relatively long war. In November 2008, Bush indicated that he regretted the use of the banner, stating in a CNN interview, “To some, it said, well, Bush thinks the war in Iraq is over, when I didn’t think that. It conveyed the wrong message.”<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;"> Coincidentally, on May 1, 2011, exactly eight years after the speech, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. Navy SEALs had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The French newspaper Le Monde favorably compared Obama’s speech to that of Bush.</div><h2> </h2><h2>6. Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea</h2><img alt="korean-war-bridge" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16903" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/korean-war-bridge-331x400.jpg" title="korean-war-bridge" width="331" /><br />
Towards the end of 1950, China entered the Korean War. They sided with North Korea and the reinforcements not only broke the United Nations advance, but sent U.S. forces in retreat. As the UN left the area, so did Korean civilians. A major obstacle in the way of escape was a destroyed bridge over the Taedong River near Pyongyang, North Korea. Despite intense danger, thousands of people attempted to cross the bridge at once. AP photographer Max Desfor was working the war and captured the refugees as they struggled to move across the ruined bridge. The picture was taken on December 4, 1950 and won the Pulitzer Prize in photography for Max Desfor. Desfor had trouble using his camera due to the cold temperatures. During an interview after the war, Max commented on the “deathly silence” of the scene.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
During the Korean War, the Battle of Inchon turned the tide against the Korean People’s Army (NKPA) and the United Nations command. The soldiers were forced to retreat down the Chinese border, but were defeated in the Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River. The 120 mile (190 km) retreat was the longest in U.S. military history.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>5. Wait for Me, Daddy</h2><img alt="canadian-boy-tries-to-join-dad-in-army" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16904" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/canadian-boy-tries-to-join-dad-in-army-311x400.jpg" title="canadian-boy-tries-to-join-dad-in-army" width="311" /><br />
On Saturday August 26, 1939 Hitler threatened Poland and demanded control of the city of Danzig. The same day, the Regimental Adjutant in British Columbia, Canada received a call from the Canadian capital instructing him to call out the BC Regiment. On September 10, 1939 the Parliament of Canada declared war against the German Reich. On October 1, 1940 the British Columbia Regiment was ordered to Nanaimo and then overseas. The soldiers made a famous march down Eighth Street in New Westminster.<br />
At the intersection of Eighth and Columbia Avenue, Claude P. Dettloff captured a photograph of Private Jack Bernard’s 5-year-old son Warren (Whitey) running from his mother to join his father in line. The picture received extensive exposure during the Second World War and was used in war-bond drives. It documents the struggle that many children feel as their parents travel to war. The photo gained exposure in <em>Life</em> magazine and was hung in every school in British Columbia during the war. When Jack Bernard returned home, Claude Dettloff was on hand to photograph the family’s reunion. Jack and Bernice Bernard would eventually divorce.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Whitey Bernard doesn’t remember getting his picture taken, but does remember the next day when the image was published in the Province Newspaper. He soon became the most famous kid in Canada. Whitey was even enlisted to sell war bonds.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>4. Portrait of Subcomandante Marcos</h2><img alt="subcomadante-marcos" class="size-large wp-image-16905 alignnone" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/subcomadante-marcos-261x400.jpg" title="subcomadante-marcos" width="261" /><br />
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is an armed revolutionary group based in one of the poorest states of Mexico, Chiapas. Since 1994, the group has been in a declared war “against the Mexican state.” The war has been primarily nonviolent and defensive against military, paramilitary, and corporate incursions into Chiapas. The group’s main spokesperson is Subcomandante Marcos. In January 1994, Marcos led an army of Mayan farmers into the eastern parts of Chiapas protesting against the Mexican government’s treatment of indigenous peoples. Marcos is an author, political poet, adroit humorist, and outspoken opponent of capitalism. He has advocated for having the Mexican constitution amended to recognize the rights of the country’s indigenous inhabitants.<br />
Subcomandante Marcos is famous for using a pipe and always covering his face with a black balaclava. Many people have called him the leader of a new wave of revolutionaries. In the middle of the 1990s, Subcomandante Marcos shot to prominence around the world. He became viewed as a celebrity in many areas of Mexico. A famous portrait of Marcos was spread around the world. The picture shows the Mexican leader with a black mask and smoking pipe. The image has fueled the revolutionary spirit in many areas of Mexico, much the same way that the portrait of Che Guevara became the symbol for revolution in the 1960s. Between 1992 and 2006, Marcos wrote more than 200 essays and stories. He published 21 books.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
Subcomandante Marcos denies it, but the Mexican government believes he is Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente who was born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>3. Winston Churchill and the Tommy Gun</h2><img alt="winston-churchill-with-gun" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16906" height="400" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/winston-churchill-with-gun-390x400.jpg" title="winston-churchill-with-gun" width="390" /><br />
On June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill made a historic speech. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!” His words were an inspiration to British troops and in the summer of 1940, Churchill scheduled a collection of public tours across the UK. During one of these tours on July 31, 1940, he was photographed trying out an American 1928 Tommy gun or Thompson SMG.<br />
The picture was taken at the defense fortifications near Hartlepool in Northern England used by the British media in 1940. It quickly spread across the world and became an important picture of the Second World War. Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels extensively used the photograph. During the Battle of Britain, the Germans dropped leaflets with the picture and the English text “WANTED, for incitement to MURDER.” The Nazi propaganda was attempting to portray Churchill as a gangster.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
It is not the same gun as in the picture, but the World War II London Underground Headquarters, now a museum, has a similar Tommy gun on display that Churchill planned to use if the Nazis came to London. If they had successfully invaded he is quoted as planning “to light a good cigar, take a sip or two of his favorite brandy, and go out in the streets and take as many German troops with it as he could, perhaps fighting alongside the Queen and the royal family when the end came.”<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>2. Alexey Yeremenko</h2><img alt="alexey-yeremenko" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16907" height="379" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/alexey-yeremenko.jpg" title="alexey-yeremenko" width="500" /><br />
Soviet war reporter and photographer Max Alpert captured one of the most famous pictures of World War II. The photograph shows junior political officer Alexey Yeremenko leading an attack against German troops. It was taken by Alpert on July 12, 1942 during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The image was initially titled Kom-bat, which is a Soviet military acronym for “commander of battalion.” The exact location of the battle is difficult to determine, but all accounts say that Alexey Yeremenko was killed right after the photograph was taken. The picture gives an excellent profile of the Soviet soldier and his weapon. During World War II, the image became a symbol of the Great Patriotic War and the Soviet fight against the Axis Powers of the Eastern Front. It represents courage on the battlefield and is a lasting symbol of the Soviet victory.<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
The identity of Alexey Yeremenko was not uncovered until May of 1965, 23 years after the picture was taken. He was identified after his wife and children saw the famous image on the front page of the Pravda 20-year jubilee issue. The article was dedicated to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.<br />
<h2> </h2><h2>1. American Soldier at D-Day</h2><img alt="american-soldier-d-day" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16908" height="362" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/american-soldier-d-day-560x362.jpg" title="american-soldier-d-day" width="560" /><br />
The Invasion of Normandy began on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). It was the largest amphibious operation in history. Allied soldiers faced intense fire as they attempted to reach the shoreline and gain cover. Robert Capa is a famous Hungarian combat photographer. To escape Nazi control, Capa moved to New York during the Second World War and became a photographer for the Allies. He accompanied American troops during the Invasion of Normandy and was able to capture 106 action photographs. Capa sent his film to <em>Life </em>magazine in order to have it developed. After an error occurred, <em>Life </em>magazine destroyed the film and only 11 pictures were salvageable.<br />
Robert Capa’s most famous photograph shows an American soldier moving through the water and attempting to reach the shoreline of Normandy. At the time of the picture, the men were under intense gunfire. The image has been praised for showing the true nature of the Normandy landings. Robert Capa remembers, “The water was cold, and the beach more than a hundred yards away. The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle. A soldier got there at the same time, and for a few minutes we shared its cover. He took the waterproofing off his rifle and began to shoot without much aiming at the smoke-hidden beach. The sound of his rifle gave him enough courage to move forward. I felt a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face.”<br />
Of all the photographers sent to Normandy with the Allied invasion, only Robert Capa was able to capture pictures showing an active resistance. Other photographers were either foiled by bad weather or landed on beaches that faced little German opposition. This fact makes the loss of Robert Capa’s film tragic. The U.S. soldier in the photograph was identified as Edward Regan. Regan remembers that “there was so much chaos and mass confusion that one was reduced to a state of almost complete immobilization.”<br />
<strong>Interesting Fact</strong><br />
On May 25, 1954 Robert Capa was traveling with a French regiment in Vietnam when he left his jeep to take some photographs. While walking up the road he stepped on a land-mine and lost his leg. Capa was quickly rushed to a field hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival due to massive trauma and loss of blood. He died with his camera in hand.</div>Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13165919179638873903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1411116511626983455.post-30140672161054363302011-08-10T22:12:00.000-07:002011-08-10T22:12:05.072-07:00Lionel Messi Kid (8 yrs Old) Full HD 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This Kid Plays Like Lionel Messi Trained him.<br />
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Juan Pablo Angel was a cult hero for Aston Villa fans not so long ago, and was the last player at the club to score over 20 goals in a season back in 2003/04.<br />
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Now his son Tomy is starting make a name for himself despite only being eight years old.<br />
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The Angel family are now based Los Angeles where Juan Pablo is a team-mate of David Beckham's at the LA Galaxy and his son has been tearing up the youth leagues over in the States with his amazing skills.<br />
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The son of the former Colombian international seems to have it all - close control, silky skills and an eye for goal.<br />
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A compilation of some of Tomy's play emerged this month showing off his talents and was made viral by fans of another of Angel's former clubs, River Plate, with supporters of the recently relegated Argentine giants wanting their side to sign up the young Angel.<br />
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