Can you identify these historical photos?

[tigersharkdude]

only 27 rings a bell, and I am fairly knowledgeable with history, not good with pics though

[dusred]

Is 27 the one where the dudes in Russia ran over the dude with a tank?

BTW some of those pics are toooo creepy.

[Captain Slow]

I cheated a little. Look into this-------> http://tiny.cc/rnlnq
Wikipedia entry with all of the WP Photo Of The Year. Just match them with the picture.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Are you all s*** me?

#27 some Russian tank?

Ignorant children, that's Tienanmen Square. Chinese students rallied for democracy. A lone one stood against a tank column. Iconic.

[snwbrdr435]

^ No that is a very very very famous picture the rioting and harsh reaction from the chinese government is infamous. No media in China can even mention it.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Are you all s*** me?

#27 some Russian tank?

Ignorant children, that's Tienanmen Square. Chinese students rallied for democracy. A lone one stood against a tank column. Iconic.

Looks like someone took a peek at the answers.

Nice try. The only thing I had to check was the spelling of Tienanmen.

Damn. I can't believe you guys don't know that instantly. For god sake's it was only 1989!

[Loki]

The best part is most Chinese students are ignorant of the anonymous rebel.

[Jesda]

I remember seeing that on TV when I was a kid and being like "wtfbbq, chanks and tanks!"

[Razi]

I was born in 1989 and I still know about it.
You dudes didn't learn about it in school?

I watched a video of a monk lighting himself on fire too.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

No, that one scene is about has "historical" as you can get. Instantly recognizable by anyone with a clue.

Judging by the sand and the well-patrolled side, I'm saying that's a photo of the US-Mexico border. Or Israel/Palestine. I'm leaning more US-Mexico, though.

Thanks for playing!

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Attack on the Dutch? royal family. Killed like 5 people. I don't recognize the picture, but parade+ beat to hell car should be that.

[Razi]

No! We must not lose!
Another history moment!:

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I can help you out with a bunch of those and no I'm not cheating. Not in any order.

7 - Buddhist monk setting himself on fire to protest the Vietnam conflict - extremely famous picture, almost as famous as 12
12- which is a Saigon police officer executing a suspecting VC.
10 - Also from Vietnam, 1st Cav guys dragging a dead NVA behind an M113
19 - Looks to capture the mass exodus of refugees escaping from the war in Rwanda
9 - Also from Vietnam, refugees swimming across the Mekong Delta to escape a Napalm strike.
27 - Tianaman Square, protester blocking a Chinese army tank convoy, remember watching this on the news when I was in HS.
22,26,32,33 - I believe those are from the atrocities and the fallout of Bosnia-Herzogovina
29 - One of the single most famous pictures of the mass genocide in Somalia by General Aidid causing those not associated with him to starve to death .
25 - S. Korea - Police showing a their unique presence at yet another protest in the mid to late 90's, could be from N. Korea too

A lot of these are harder than they should be because they are in black and white.

[dre1507]

I was born in 1989 and I still know about it.
You dudes didn't learn about it in school?

I watched a video of a monk lighting himself on fire too.

yep. only two that ring any sort of bells here, too.

[Razi]

Wasn't there a video of #5?
Or a sequence of pictures? I remember seeing it somewhere.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

I don't think the desert picture was a winner last year.


To be fair to all of the readers of this thread, some of the photos are extremely obscure. Like one that got disqualified last year was a picture of a kid's hand. You'd have to have been keeping up with the award to know some of them.

[dre1507]

no clue. thinking back, i've seen 5 before on these here internets, but have never bothered looking into what it was. Same case for 12.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

I can help you out with a bunch of those and no I'm not cheating. Not in any order.

7 - Buddhist monk setting himself on fire to protest the Vietnam conflict - extremely famous picture, almost as famous as 12

Nope. Protesting the persecution of Buddhists by Vietnam. Common mistake, it's ok.

[Captain Slow]

I don't think the desert picture was a winner last year.


To be fair to all of the readers of this thread, some of the photos are extremely obscure. Like one that got disqualified last year was a picture of a kid's hand. You'd have to have been keeping up with the award to know some of them.

That's why I looked them up. I knew most of the not so obscure ones, just didn't feel like typing that all out. I'm lazy.

[Jesda]

These are the strangest road trip photos ever.

[tigersharkdude]

Are you all s*** me?

#27 some Russian tank?

Ignorant children, that's Tienanmen Square. Chinese students rallied for democracy. A lone one stood against a tank column. Iconic.

Looks like someone took a peek at the answers.

Seriously, that picture is ICONIC. If you dont know that

[Bubba1]

Last one:



This image and story was all over the news last year. Very easy

Nala's driving test.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

Is it just me or is that guard in the foreground completely oblivious to what is going on right next to them. I mean it's not like vehicle vs. pedestrians are quiet accidents especially when you take into account the amount of damage on the car and the fact that there are a bunch of bodies layed out behind the car. I mean come on, the windshield is absolutely demolished.

[krimsonviper]

^ I thought that was a demonstration? The bodies on the ground and everything was faked. Could be wrong. I saw a demotivational of one of them. Something like, " Excuse me you can't sleep here."

[Razi]

Nala's driving test.

[LocAL_anarchy]

Is it just me or is that guard in the foreground completely oblivious to what is going on right next to them. I mean it's not like vehicle vs. pedestrians are quiet accidents especially when you take into account the amount of damage on the car and the fact that there are a bunch of bodies layed out behind the car. I mean come on, the windshield is absolutely demolished.

I had wondered that exact same thing when I first saw this image. The car slammed through barricades and plowed through people behind him. How can someone not turn their head??? He's not even beginning to turn it. He's just staring straight ahead with a stupid look on his face.

I was checking out this thread last night while on the cab ride home from AC. I was pretty hammered, and it was like I was watching a bad dream. I had seen quite a few of these before, but some are just horrific. I checked out the full list of images. I just can't understand why almost every single World Press Photo of the Year is like that. Are you telling me that with the tens of thousands of press photographers taking hundreds of thousands of photos a year, not one can be positive in any way?

[Papi Chulo]

Yes.