Flag Raising On Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945

It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Japan. The Americans needed Iwo Jima as an air base, but the Japanese had dug in. U.S. troops landed on February 19, 1945, beginning a month of fighting that claimed the lives of 6,800 Americans and 21,000 Japanese. On the fifth day of battle, the Marines captured Mount ­Suribachi. An American flag was quickly raised, but a commander called for a bigger one, in part to inspire his men and demoralize his opponents. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal lugged his bulky Speed Graphic camera to the top, and as five Marines and a Navy corpsman prepared to hoist the Stars and Stripes, Rosenthal stepped back to get a better frame—and almost missed the shot. “The sky was overcast,” he later wrote of what has become one of the most recognizable images of war. “The wind just whipped the flag out over the heads of the group, and at their feet the disrupted terrain and the broken stalks of the shrubbery exemplified the turbulence of war.” Two days later Rosenthal’s photo was splashed on front pages across the U.S., where it was quickly embraced as a symbol of unity in the long-fought war. The picture, which earned Rosenthal a Pulitzer Prize, so resonated that it was made into a postage stamp and cast as a 100-ton bronze memorial.

The Face Of Aids, Therese Frare, 1990

David Kirby died surrounded by his family. But Therese Frare’s photograph of the 32-year-old man on his deathbed did more than just capture the heartbreaking moment. It humanized AIDS, the disease that killed Kirby, at a time when it was ravaging victims largely out of public view. Frare’s photograph, published in LIFE in 1990, showed how the widely misunderstood disease devastated more than just its victims. It would be another year before the red ribbon became a symbol of compassion and resilience, and three years before President Bill Clinton created a White House Office of National AIDS Policy. In 1992 the clothing company Benetton used a colorized version of Frare’s photograph in a series of provocative ads. Many magazines refused to run it, and a range of groups called for a boycott. But Kirby’s family consented to its use, believing that the ad helped raise critical awareness about AIDS at a moment when the disease was still uncontrolled and sufferers were lobbying the federal government to speed the development of new drugs. “We just felt it was time that people saw the truth about AIDS,” Kirby’s mother Kay said. Thanks to Frare’s image, they did.

Graff Diamonds Hallucination | $55 Million

The title of the most expensive watch in the world goes to Graff Diamonds for the incredible, Hallucination. Worth a whopping $55 million, the Hallucination is a masterpiece with over 110 carats of coloured diamonds set into a bracelet of platinum

Le Chocolat Box Price :1.5$ million

Le chocolat box is considered to be the most expensive chocolates in the world to ever exist. Costing 1.5$ millions, this box of chocolate does not only includes chocolates, but also necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets adorned with diamonds, sapphires and emeralds.

The gourmet chocolates are from Lake Forest Confections and the jewelry is from Simon jeweler’s personal collection.

Falling Man, Richard Drew, 2001

The most widely seen images from 9/11 are of planes and towers, not people. Falling Man is different. The photo, taken by Richard Drew in the moments after the September 11, 2001, attacks, is one man’s distinct escape from the collapsing buildings, a symbol of individuality against the backdrop of faceless skyscrapers. On a day of mass tragedy, Falling Man is one of the only widely seen pictures that shows someone dying. The photo was published in newspapers around the U.S. in the days after the attacks, but backlash from readers forced it into temporary obscurity. It can be a difficult image to process, the man perfectly bisecting the iconic towers as he darts toward the earth like an arrow. Falling Man’s identity is still unknown, but he is believed to have been an employee at the Windows on the World restaurant, which sat atop the north tower. The true power of Falling Man, however, is less about who its subject was and more about what he became: a makeshift Unknown Soldier in an often unknown and uncertain war, suspended forever in history.

World Most Expensive Pen : Aurora Diamante Fountain Pen - $1.47 Million

Aurora Diamante fountain pen is the world's most expensive pen. This is clearly one of those billionaire possessions, and no common man can come close to touching it! Aurora Pens is an Italian pen manufacturing company that was established in 1919. The company is known for making highly-premium pens using precious metals and gems like gold, platinum and diamonds.

Aurora Diamante, the king of all pens, is made with 24 karat gold and DeBeers diamonds. The total weight of diamonds used in the pen is more than 30 karats. With embedded De Beers's diamonds, the barrel of the pen is made of solid platinum.  The pen also has rhodium treated 18 KT solid gold nib. 

With a price tag of $1.47 million, the pen sits on top of the world as the most elite and expensive pen. The company sells only one pen per year.

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, 1932

This image shows the tranquility of eleven of the several workers that worked during the construction of the 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan. They are not just relaxed over the crossbeam, but they are also having lunch, which gives the image a curious character.

The image is very iconic, and was taken by Charles C. Ebbets in 1932 and there has been a lot said whether the scene really happened or if it was just a publicity maneuver for some sort of reason, but it doesn't diminish the fact that the men were real ironworkers at the 69th floor of the building on the last stages of its construction, and there have been numerous claims regarding the identities of the men in the image.The image has been a great icon of the hard working culture of the human being, and also a great example of how much have evolved in terms of Occupational health and Safety as well. This is something that just won't be seen again, I hope.

World Most Expensive House Mukesh Ambani's Antilia Price Tag: $1 billion

Antilia is one of the most expensive residential properties in the world. The 4,00,000 sq. ft. building is located on Altamount Road in South Mumbai.Antilia is named after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean.

It is a 27-storey building but since some ceilings are double-height, it's closer to the size of a 40-storey building as it is 570 feet high.

It houses 600 staff members that help maintain the mansion. There's an entourage room where security/body guards and other assistants can relax.

The Ambani home is equipped with a health spa, a salon, a ballroom, 3 swimming pools, yoga and dance studios.

There is a private theater than can seat 50 people and on the roof of the theater is a terrace garden.Six floors in the building are strictly dedicated to parking with a space for 168 cars.

The tower alone has 9 elevators. There are separate elevators for guests and the Ambani family members.

Two design motifs - the sun and the lotus - are repeated throughout the mansion in rare materials like crystal, marble, and pearls.

The mansion has 3 helipads on the roof.

Fire Escape Collapse, Stanley Forman, 1975

Stanley Forman was working for the Boston Herald American on July 22, 1975, when he got a call about a fire on Marlborough Street. He raced over in time to see a woman and child on a fifth-floor fire escape. A fireman had set out to help them, and Forman figured he was shooting another routine rescue. “Suddenly the fire escape gave way,” he recalled, and Diana Bryant, 19, and her goddaughter Tiare Jones, 2, were swimming through the air. “I was shooting pictures as they were falling—then I turned away. It dawned on me what was happening, and I didn’t want to see them hit the ground. I can still remember turning around and shaking.” Bryant died from the fall, her body cushioning the blow for her goddaughter, who survived. While the event was no different from the routine tragedies that fill the local news, Forman’s picture of it was. Using a motor-drive camera, Forman was able to freeze the horrible tumbling moment down to the expression on young Tiare’s face. The photo earned Forman the Pulitzer Prize and led municipalities around the country to enact tougher fire-escape-safety codes. But its lasting legacy is as much ethical as temporal. Many readers objected to the publication of Forman’s picture, and it remains a case study in the debate over when disturbing images are worth sharing.

Albino Boy, Biafra, Don Mccullin, 1969

Few remember Biafra, the tiny western African nation that split off from southern Nigeria in 1967 and was retaken less than three years later. Much of the world learned of the enormity of that brief struggle through images of the mass starvation and disease that took the lives of possibly millions. None proved as powerful as British war photographer Don McCullin’s picture of a 9-year-old albino child. “To be a starving Biafran orphan was to be in a most pitiable situation, but to be a starving albino Biafran was to be in a position beyond description,” McCullin wrote. “Dying of starvation, he was still among his peers an object of ostracism, ridicule and insult.” This photo profoundly influenced public opinion, pressured governments to take action, and led to massive airlifts of food, medicine and weapons. McCullin hoped that such stark images would be able to “break the hearts and spirits of secure people.” While public attention eventually shifted, McCullin’s work left a lasting legacy: he and other witnesses of the conflict inspired the launch of Doctors Without Borders, which delivers emergency medical support to those suffering from war, epidemics and disasters.

Most expensive feather ever fetches £4,000 at auction

A single plume from the extinct huia bird has sold for a record sum at auction in New Zealand making it the most expensive feather ever.The brown and white feather fetched NZ$8,000 (£3,800), far exceeding the NZ$500 that it had been estimated to reach. The feathers were traditionally used to adorn Maori chiefs.The huia bird is thought to be extinct and has not been seen since 1907.The feather went under the hammer at Webb's Auction House in Auckland.Neil Campbell, the managing director of Webb's, said that the auction room had been "spellbound" as the bidding mounted.

"Starting in $100 increments, that quickly leapt into the thousands and came to rest at a world record price (for a single feather) of $8400 ($6,787)".The huia feather was bought by a family from the city of Wellington who declined to be identified. A spokesman from Webb's said that the family own a large collection of Maori artefacts.It was sold by an unidentified vendor who had had the feather in his family for generations.While feathers purporting to be from the huia bird have sold online in New Zealand for NS$1,000, it is difficult to ascertain their authenticity.The feather that sold in Auckland had been verified as authentic by experts from New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa.The previous record price for a single feather was reached when one from a bald eagle sold at a US auction for $US2,800 (£1,900).Numbers of huia birds declined rapidly after predatory mammals were introduced into New Zealand in the 1890s. Populations also suffered from hunting and deforestation.

Bloody Saturday, H.s. Wong, 1937

The same imperialistic desires festering in Europe in the 1930s had already swept into Asia. Yet many Americans remained wary of wading into a conflict in what seemed a far-off, alien land. But that opinion began to change as Japan’s army of the Rising Sun rolled toward Shanghai in the summer of 1937. Fighting started there in August, and the unrelenting shelling and bombing caused mass panic and death in the streets. But the rest of the world didn’t put a face to the victims until they saw the aftermath of an August 28 attack by Japanese bombers. When H.S. Wong, a photographer for Hearst Metrotone News nicknamed Newsreel, arrived at the destroyed South Station, he recalled carnage so fresh “that my shoes were soaked with blood.” In the midst of the devastation, Wong saw a wailing Chinese baby whose mother lay dead on nearby tracks. He said he quickly shot his remaining film and then ran to carry the baby to safety, but not before the boy’s father raced over and ferried him away. Wong’s image of the wounded, helpless infant was sent to New York and featured in Hearst newsreels, newspapers and life magazine—the widest audience a picture could then have. Viewed by more than 136 million people, it struck a personal chord that transcended ethnicity and geography. To many, the infant’s pain represented the plight of China and the bloodlust of Japan, and the photo dubbed Bloody Saturday was transformed into one of the most powerful news pictures of all time. Its dissemination reveals the potent force of an image to sway official and public opinion. Wong’s picture led the U.S., Britain and France to formally protest the attack and helped shift Western sentiment in favor of wading into what would become the world’s second great war.

Most Expensive Ring Price Tag : $16.26 million

The exquisite and flawless blue diamond ring features a huge oval shaped blue diamond, which rests on a triangular-shaped shoulder of diamonds, set in a diamond paved 18k white gold band.The centrally placed blue diamond is a 9 carat piece of beautiful blue colored rock that can make any girl go crazy. Blue diamonds are the rarest type of diamonds found in the world, acquiring their blue color from the boron deposits from where they are found. This feature makes the diamonds so rare and precious.

The company who made this magnificent ring is Chopard, a Swiss luxury watch and jewelry company. It was founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard, at the young age of 24 years. Chopard is known for its collection of some of the most beautiful pieces of jewelry and watches. The company is also associated with the Cannes Film Festival and each year dresses celebrities in their jewelry pieces, for the red carpet events. The Chopard Blue Diamond Ring is fittingly created by this legendary company.