User:Bromskloss/Famous images
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I present to you, for your viewing pleasure, a collection of famous photographies. It originates from a discussion on the reference desk. The criterion for being included is fame, rather than quality, and they are listed in no particular order. Boos and aahs, along with suggestions of addition or removal, are welcome on the talk page.
Marilyn Monroe's dress rising up |
Thích Quảng Đức, self immolation |
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Abu Ghraib prisoner |
First step on the moon (Did you mean this one, or perhaps this? I can think of several other.) |
Execution of Nguyen Van Lem |
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Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running naked after napalm attack |
Wright brothers and their flying machine |
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Soviet flag on German Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin |
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Richard Nixon V sign (alternative) |
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John F. Kennedy motorcade (high resolution) (Perhaps a photograph from after the shooting is more recognisable.) |
Saddam Hussein, captured (not too sure about this one) |
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Yuri Gagarin (Or is it just me that's too much of a space flight junkie?) |
Earth rise as seen from from Apollo 8 |
Malcolm X behind curtains |
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Nuremberg trials (Vote me down if I'm getting off limits here.) |
Train wreck at Gare Montparnasse |
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Omaha Beach landing – landing craft (closed) |
Omaha Beach landing – running soldiers |
Omaha Beach landing – crawling soldier |
Build-up of Omaha Beach |
- Raising of flag on Iwo Jima
- Marilyn Monroe's dress rising up
- Thích Quảng Đức's self immolation
- Einstein sticking his tongue out (flipped version, or is it the other way around?)
- Che Guevara
- Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (suggestion)
- Attack on World Trade Center in New York City (there aren't many pictures of the other sites, are there?)
- First step on the moon (Did you mean this one, or perhaps this? I can think of several other.)
- Sharbat Gula
- Execution of Nguyen Van Lem
- Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running naked after napalm attack
- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
- Tiananmen Square protests (alternative)
- Wright brothers and their flying machine
- Soviet flag on German Reichstag
- Sailor and nurse celebrate the end of World War II
- View from the Window at Le Gras – early photograph
- Cottingley fairies
- Richard Nixon V sign (alternative)
- Migrant Mother
- John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's casket (more versions)
- Loch ness monster
- The Stairs
- John F. Kennedy motorcade (high resolution) (Perhaps a photograph from after the shooting is more recognisable.)
- The Blue Marble
- Toppling of Saddam Hussein statue
- Saddam Hussein, captured (not too sure about this one)
- Mahatma Gandhi (Is this one well-known?)
- Juri Gagarin (Or is it just me that's too much of a space flight junkie?)
- Earth rise (Apollo 10) (Probably better version (Apollo 11))
- Actually, the famous one is the one from Apollo 8. howcheng {chat} 20:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Kiss by the Hotel de Ville (Or is it Kiss by the sidewalk?)
- Kent State massacre
- Malcolm X behind curtains
- Conrad Schumann flees East Germany (alternative)
- Abbey Road
- Construction workers on a girder (More info, please.)
- Valley of the Shadow of Death
- Hindenburg
- Nuremberg trials (Vote me down if I'm getting off limits here.)
- Train wreck at Montparnasse
- Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter (Is President Lincoln on the Battle-field of Antietam also famous?)
- Death of a Loyalist Soldier (alternative)
- Omaha Beach landing – landing craft (open)
- Also possibly well-known:
- Lee Harvey Oswald being shot (funny alternative)