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I'm too young to have seen him race, for me he's the bloke off "Just Amazing", which I remember mostly for a man eating a push bike.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2026 9:34 pm Everyone's hero. We all loved that huge smile.
Not many world champions raced at Cadwell between Grand Prixs

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Taipan wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2026 9:47 pm
Yorick wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2026 9:34 pm Everyone's hero. We all loved that huge smile.
Not many world champions raced at Cadwell between Grand Prixs

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Wrong thread! :roll:

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Photographer Kevin Carter died on this day, July the 27th in 1994.

Carter is shown here alongside his best known image, an image which won him a Pulitzer prize in 1994.

His 1993 image is of a boy named Kong Nyong and depicted an ongoing famine in Sudan.

Kevin, one of the photographers immortalised in the book 'The Bang-Bang club', committed suicide a few months after winning the Pulitzer, in his suicide note he wrote:

'I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners'

Kong died thirteen years after the image was taken.

Kevin died one year after the image was taken, he was 33.


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Big Tits Potato Chips’ - 1930 - made in Dunn, North Carolina. ‘Big Tits was the nickname of Titus Tart, one of the owners in the Tart-Chestnut Co. The image is that of Mr. Tart.’

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Taipan wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2026 9:36 am Photographer Kevin Carter died on this day, July the 27th in 1994.

Carter is shown here alongside his best known image, an image which won him a Pulitzer prize in 1994.

His 1993 image is of a boy named Kong Nyong and depicted an ongoing famine in Sudan.

Kevin, one of the photographers immortalised in the book 'The Bang-Bang club', committed suicide a few months after winning the Pulitzer, in his suicide note he wrote:

'I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners'

Kong died thirteen years after the image was taken.

Kevin died one year after the image was taken, he was 33.


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The Manic Street Preachers wrote a song about him. Kevin Carter, not Kong Nyong.
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Bronze Head of Medusa, from Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy.

Villa Hadriana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built around 120 AD, by Roman Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli outside Rome. It is the most imposing and complex Roman villa known.

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