#1 China's Public Executions c. 1927
The execution below was taken in Peking, China, where a man was behead, his head was then placed between his legs and left there. In other cases the heads of people who had been decapitated were stuck on sticks or pikes as a warnings to others.
#2 China's Crime Executions: Ling Chi
The image below from 1910 shows the country's public method of torturing and executing of criminals called Ling Chi, which is death by "a thousand cuts and slow slicing." Although China abolished the practice in 1905, it apparently continued afterwards.
#3 Keith Sapsford (1970)
The young Australian was only 14 years-old when he hid in the wheel of a Japan Air Lines bound to Tokyo after being in Sydney. While the plane took off, an amateur photographer "unwittingly" snapped the teen as he plunged 200-feet to his death.
#4 Libya: March 19, 2011
After the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from Benghazi, a female rebel fighter fires an AK-47 rifle into the air in support.
#5 Don't Worry, Relax..
Thankfully this is just the result of wax figures after a 1925 fire at the Madame Tussaud's in London.
#6 Photo-journalism & Famine
The horrible perils of Sudan's 1993 famine was captured at a feeding center by American Photojournalist, James Nachtwey.
#7 Julia Popova In Russia
The 22 year-old was walking home from work when she was stabbed in the back of her neck by a mugger. Traumatized she didn't realize she'd been stabbed nor that the knife was embedded a "fraction of an inch from her spinal cord."
#8 Photojournalist, Olivier Laban-Mattei
This disturbing journalistic photo was 1st prize of General News Stories and World Press Photo in 2011. It shows a man throwing the body of a dead child into a makeshift morgue at the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 15, 2010.
#9 The Vietnam War (1972): 'Napalm Girl'
This Pulitzer Prize journalistic war image was taken by Huỳnh Công Út, near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack by U.S. troops. It captures the terror of Vietnamese children as they escaped down a road.
#10 Victims Of Hiroshima: WWII
When Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, victims instantly vaporized where they stood, and the intensity of the nuclear blast left their permanent shadows behind.
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