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Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide [1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family [2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the grandmother, was strangled. The bodies were found on 1 July 2018, in the early morning after the death. The police have ruled the deaths were ...
New York City, New York, U.S. The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The unidentified man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower, and it is unclear whether he fell while searching ...
Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936. Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese geisha killed her lover through strangulation while he was sleeping, after having experimented with erotic asphyxiation, in 1936, proceeding to cut off his penis and testicles and carry them around with her in her kimono for three days.
Spirit photograph by Édouard Isidore Buguet. Spirit photography (also called ghost photography) is a type of photography whose primary goal is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting. It dates back to the late 19th century.
The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at age 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a toll booth. Photographs of Catsouras' badly ...
1. Transport. A 24-year-old groom was killed and his bride seriously injured when the newly-wed couple tried to take a selfie on the railway track at Kahawa, in the Southern Province. According to eyewitnesses, the couple had ignored warning signals given by the people in the area saying that the train was coming.
Billie McCandless. Christopher Johnson McCandless ( / məˈkændlɪs /; February 12, 1968 [1] – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym " Alexander Supertramp ", [2] was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was ...