balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - December 7th, 1941. ( A Real Picture ) [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/292599_294203037331347_117224928362493_689693_641045326_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 One small step for Motola the elephant, a giant leap for the world's injured animals. Motola lost her foot and most of her left leg when she walked over a landmine ten years ago. But yesterday, she stepped out happily - if a little tentatively - after being fitted with a state-of-the-art artificial limb. In her first stroll with the prosthesis, 48-year-old Motola walked out of her enclosure for a few minutes, grabbed some dust with her trunk and jubilantly sprayed it in the air. 'It has gone very well - she has walked around twice,' said Soraida Salwala, founder of the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation in Thailand. 'She has not put her whole weight on it yet, but she's OK.' Motola was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp on the Thai-Burmese border, a region peppered with landmines after a halfcentury of civil war. Her job was to move large trees, but one lunchtime, her owner let her roam free into a nearby forest and search for food. She stepped on a landmine and her badly mangled leg had to be amputated. After various treatments, Motola wore a temporary device for the past three years to strengthen her leg muscles and tendons and to prepare her for the prosthesis, which is permanent. The operation to fit it used enough anaesthetic to make 70 people unconscious - and is now in the Guinness Book of World Records The artificial leg was made by the Prostheses Foundation, which also manufactures artificial limbs for human amputees. Motola was treated at the Elephant Hospital - the first in the world - in northern Thailand. Since it was set up by Soraida in 1993, it has treated thousands of elephants for medical problems ranging from eye infections to gunshot wounds. The number in the wild has dropped dramatically, while domesticated elephants - the truck, taxi and logging workers of Thailand - have fallen from 13,400 in 1950 to 2,500 today, due to modernisation. The only growth industry is tourism, which uses elephants for trekking. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/577932_293702244048093_117224928362493_688191_693540391_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 A structural worker on a steel girder during the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930 [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544423_279470302137954_117224928362493_657552_292864307_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Very rare unseen Picture of Dharmendra's family..Dharam Paji with their four kids two son boby and sunny two daughter with Parkash kaur his first wife.. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/306560_278900778861573_117224928362493_656466_156693596_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 A playful moment. Dilp saab, Raj Kapoor, Devanand. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/319721_278729638878687_117224928362493_655990_1229335107_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure.Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb. During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile. The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope." The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life." Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person" Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/296749_167134860038166_117224928362493_349594_1329264156_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 'THE HELL DEATH" The garrote very common once, is no longer sanctioned by law in any country though training in its use is still carried out in the French Foreign Legion. The garrote is a device that strangles a person to death. It can also be used to break a person’s neck. The device was used in Spain until it was outlawed in 1978 with the abolition of the death penalty. It normally consisted of a seat in which the prisoner was restrained while the executioner tightened a metal band around his neck until he died. Some versions of the garrote incorporated a metal bolt which pressed in to the spinal chord, breaking the neck. The victim may pass into a state of severe and painful convulsions and then pass into death. This spiked version is known as the Catalan garrote. The last execution by garrote was José Luis Cerveto in October 1977. Andorra was the last country in the world to outlaw its use, doing so in 1990. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/528625_270822506336067_117224928362493_634574_1651244631_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Burnt Dead Bodies and vehicles on Guwahati High Court... Assam serial bomb blast on 30.10.2008 Media of India didn't covered the news very well... almost 300 people died and more than 1000 injured. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/537949_278761538875497_117224928362493_656086_1050062978_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 An Italian soldier surrenders to a Sikh, during Operation Crusader, of an unnamed Division and Regiment, on 8th December 1941 [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/529185_275180139233637_117224928362493_646316_503546122_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balu_gani Posted May 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942 during world war. It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers. I think the covering is still incomplete in this photo. It seems the whole of Taj Mahal was covered but this picture shows only the main dome covered. Maybe the govt didnt allow any photographers later to shoot the final scaffold cover. During the India-Pakistan war in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e camouflaged within the greenery around it. Even in 2001, after the Sep 11 attack, Archaeological Survey of India took up the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth and it took them more than 20 days to do that!! [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/296616_170274436390875_117224928362493_360206_1080259993_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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