http://content.olympic.org/Assets/Me...t-Luz-Long.jpg

Jesse Owens and Lutz Long
The long jump event of 1936 Berlin Olympics on August 4 was German star athlete Lutz Long's first event against Jesse Owens of USA.

Long qualified easily, setting an Olympic record during the preliminary round. In contrast, Owens fouled on his first two jumps. Knowing that he needed to clear the third jump in order to advance for the finals in the afternoon, Owens sat on the field, dejected.


According to Owens, Long came to him and suggested he jump from a spot several inches behind the line. Since Owens routinely jumped much further than the required 7.15m, he would safely advance to the next round without risking another foul.

On his final jump, Owens was very calm and jumped with about half a foot of clearance. He went on to win the gold medal with 8.06m, besting Long's own record of 7.87m. Long was the first to congratulate Owens, they posed together for photos and walked arm-in-arm to the dressing room.

Jesse Owens was later quoted, "It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the twenty-four carat friendship that I felt for Lutz Long at that moment."

i hope thats a toe :L

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/m...n_1433385c.jpg

Never Got Elected by UK Public and Killed New Labour.

I typed in Iconic Photos, in google.

And a really shocking, sickening photo came up. I won't post it, but I will extract the caption.

'Unknown - Goatse (2002)

The shocking photo at the entrance to shock site Goatse.cx became emblematic of the internet underground and the revolution against corporate control, enabled by the democratization of the internet.'

not really iconic, braden :p

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuille...6/06/bomb1.jpg

The Manchester bombings, in which one postbox survived the full force of the blast undamaged, and still stands there today

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuille...6/06/bomb2.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...ity/img/12.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...ity/img/10.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...city/img/9.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...city/img/5.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...RxKQmfCvFnNrJ-

A 1975 LP Cover Curtis Mayfield , Chicago
Theres No place Like America Today


Showing The White folks living above the AfroAmericans


http://www.flickr.com/photos/30645178@N02/5196917520/

It was fist used in Another Image way with Positive text (they thought)
in 1937

http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/di...ages/mbwsm.jpg

lmfao, well google search seems to think so. :p

:shocked: I never seen the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith before, that is pretty shocking.

And haven't heard of the guy killing himself on tv.

Are the second set of photo's still from The Manchester Bombings, Andy?

Only, The block of flats reminds me of a setting of where the Germans raided to find Jews.

And Claudia, I saw that picture on the website I found the crude photo on...I didn't really get it though :p

Phan Thị Kim Phúc

The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

Spoiler because of nudity.

She was made famous from National Geographic, she was used on a cover years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

The one with the Ferris wheel? That's Pripyat, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

the main one that missing from those Chernobyl pics is the floor covered in gas masks

Ah, thank you Chewy :)