20 Of The Most Iconic Photographs And The Cameras That Captured Them

No, the Universe is completely empty. There is just the Earth, the sun and the moon.

The moon is the closest thing to the Earth in the entire universe. Next is Venus, which is the brightest star we see at night. It is more than 25 million miles/41 million kilometers away.

I listened to an interview on the radio about it. The journalist tried to ask the people questions , many had never heard of it. One that had said she believes things are better the way they are (rather than more democratic) :( Few actually wanted to talk and the authorities made the journalist and his helpers go back to their hotel and watched them for a while to ensure they didn't go out and ask more questions.

I was there the year before this happened.

You’re laughing at this? Have you no soul?

This one is hard to look at, even all these years later.

Except by the jackasses of Congress, who will not provide the funding necessary to continue the medical care for 9/11 First Responders.

Depends of the country. Many people do not remember the date of that attack anymore and other details about it so the memory is starting to fade, especially outside USA.

Never forget what?

I know right, what a beautiful day that was

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I worked in the South Tower and had transferred to CT before the Towers were struck; I remember getting ready for work and watching the morning news. Suddenly the two newsmen looked at each other, stunned. They were broadcasting from NYC.; one of them kept saying how impossible it was to strike a Tower on a clear day; the other kept referring to regulations which did not allow planes to fly near the Towers. By the time I got to work in Stamford, everyone was glued to a T.V. set watching flames coming out of the gaping holes in the Towers. A friend who worked in NYC and lived near the Towers remembered standing on her balcony which overlooked Broadway when a large jet plane came down Broadway, headed towards the Towers; it briefly disappeared and then appeared again as it flew into one Tower. She remembered thinking it was not real, couldn't be real, but it was. Then residents were told to evacuate the area and head to mid-town, or to the upper East or West sides.

Jon Stuart said all that needed to be said. He was with a First Responder, gravely ill; he addressed Congress and said "Do your jobs!" He has been campaigning for continued medical care for a while now. The men who are now ill and dying rushed to the scene, not away from it; they were hoping to rescue any survivors. 300 Firefighters died in one Tower because they did not have radio bandwidth to hear the warnings to get out asap from a NYPD helicopter hovering outside. Giuliani had refused to fund the radios. When he went to FL to campaign for the GOP nomination, the Firefighters followed him and knocked on doors to tell the story of their dead friends. He did not get the nomination. He fled to Brooklyn, then returned to NYC in a big motorcade, "America's Mayor" who could have saved 300 lives with the purchase of radios for the NYFD. My corp. in CT had employees who were neighbors of widows. We donate money and clothes for women, toddlers and infants. We went to funerals.

And that man is Rand Paul of Kentucky

especially when you consider it was part of a protest.... and after lighting himself on fire, he sat down and meditated through his own death. So many levels of emotions surrounding this whole event. "sad" is both a perfect, and insufficient summary. :(

More like awesome. I admire his commitment!

Thank you, Marnee, for this reminder. I remember that it happened, but my brain no longer retains as it did when I was younger.

She ended up living the typical hard life of a girl in that society.

What the heck why?

really! could you elaborate on why? what happened

Steve McCurry went back to Afganistan,found her and photographed her again.I saw an interview with him on National Geographic Channel.It was heartbreaking to see how aged she had become.Obviously had a very hard life.

The post is just representative, they did get the wrong model here, but it's more about the kind of camera than the specific individual camera that took the shot.

Good eye

I agree with you that the camera shown is a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 camera.

How long ago was that?

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If I may .... fun fact .... not so much. There was not much fun about trying to feed yourself, let alone children during the depression. A state caused by greed. Not a fun fact ..

It's a result of the dust bowl. Farmers whose crops failed packed up and left to be agricultural workers elsewhere - mostly California.

They took photos of it all, Dorthea Lange and other photographers were paid by the government to document the challenges of rural poverty. This one just happened to strike a chord for many and became an icon of the times.