As I was browsing in the Internet for some photos of Normandy, I came across a very interesting website that really caught my interest. It was about photos that changed the world. I selected 10 photos that moved me and decided to share it to everyone 
Photo 1: Omaha Beach
American troops landed in Omaha Beach and fought with other allied countries to liberate France from Germany during the D-day (6 June 1944). Known as Bloody Omaha due to the fact that most of the casualties during the D-day suffered and died here.
Omaha Beach, Normandy
Photo 2: Power of One
This is a photo by Oded Balility that won the Pulitzer Prize. A Jewish settler resisting Israel’s security forces when conflicts between Palestine and Israel erupted as authorities cleared the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, on Feb. 1, 2006.
one woman resisting Israel's security forces
Photo 3: A 5-year old mother
Lina Medina, born in Peru, gave birth to her first child when she was five years old. She is the first known case of precocious pregnancy. Her puberty started early and at 8 months old, she was already menstruating. Lina is now 74, married, and is living in Peru.
Five Year Old Child Pregnant
Photo 4: Ice Storm in Geneva, Switzerland
OK, this photo didn’t really change the world, but it awed me. It is simply amazing to see something like this. The storm happened on the 27th of January, 2005. A temperature that was ranging between -8° and -12° Celsius plus very strong winds caused the waves to pass over the dikes – everything the water touched turned into ice.
Ice storm in Geneva, Switzerland
Photo 5: The Falling Man
A jumper during the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack. The falling man seems to me more like he’s flying with ease and grace. This is really heartbreaking – so much innocent people died during the 9-11 attack.
Flying Man?
Photo 6: The Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Although Buchenwald technically was not an extermination camp, so many Jews, Poles, political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, religious prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war (POWs) died here. Among the prisoners were also writers, doctors, artists, former nobility, and an Italian Princess. The camp was one of the largest that existed in Nazi Germany.
Buchenwald camp
Photo 7: The Kiss at Times Square
Make love, not war. End of World War II in US cities – everybody went to the streets to celebrate the end of the war. Everybody was united with everybody. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square. Actually, the sailor was kissing every girl he saw and encountered. This kiss earned him a slap from the nurse he just smooched.
Kiss at Times Square By Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photo 8: Asian Tsunami Disaster
The tsunami that struck Thailand after Christmas of 2004 left several people dead and without family. The damage was so great and several countries unified to help the victims of the tsunami.
Dead bodies during the Tsunami catastrophe
Photo 9: Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud
This is the picture of the “mushroom cloud” showing the enormous quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb that was released on the 6th of August, 1945 in Hiroshima (Japan) killed approximately 80,000 people. Another bomb was released 3 days after in Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating – around 150,000 people were killed and injured.The powerful wind, the extremely high temperature, and radiation caused enormous long term damage.
Nagasaki, Japan
Photo 10: The Child Vulture
One of the effects of poverty in Africa is this photo – a Sudanese child being stalked by the vulture behind him. Obviously, the child was starving to death, and the vulture was just there – patiently waiting for the child to die so he can have a feastl.
Child Vulture
There are so much more in the site that touched my heart – a special mention of which is the murder of Emmett Till – a young, African American from Chicago who was murdered in Money, Mississipi in 1955. The funeral of Emmett Till became public, with an open casket that showed how brutally he was murdered. He was beaten up so bad that his face became disfigured and unrecognizable – his eye had been gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. All because Emmett Till was spotted flirting with a white girl in Mississipi – where many lynchings happened during the 19th and 20th century to retain and enforce the so-called “white supremacy”.
There were many versions of what actually transpired that night. Some accounts say that Till was dared by one of the other boys to flirt with the 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant; Till wolf whistled at Bryant; others say he grabbed her hand and asked her for a date; still others say that he said “Bye, baby” as he left the store.
Anyway, I’m signing off. Hope the photos I shared enlightened some people. Let history be a lesson to all of us. Never forget.
Note: Photos taken from the site http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com
