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  • 100 year-old ash trees seen overlooking south London towards Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. Stretching into the distance, as we look northwards are the tall towers of the Palace of Westminster and Queen Elizabeth Towert (Big Ben) - the seats of power and government of the United Kingdom. It is autumn and leaves are falling from the ash trees in the foreground that a century old but now in jeopardy from ash dieback disease (Chalara fraxinea) which is currently claiming the lives of Britain's young and old ash trees.
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  • Public ash tray on a wall outside a building. London, UK.
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  • Ash tray which looks like a face on a wall outside. London, UK. Since the smoking ban in public places, these ashtrays have become a common sight as smokers go out to smoke.
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  • A notice indicates the presence of ash dieback at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. Ash dieback is a fungal disease spread by the wind which is expected to kill the majority of ash trees in the UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
    Heathrow01_1.jpg
  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Finally some arrivals following delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Finally some arrivals following delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Finally some arrivals following delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Grounded planes during delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
    Heathrow03_1.jpg
  • Finally some arrivals following delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • Delays at Heathrow Airport in West London after many planes were grounded for a long period of time due to the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland. Scenes of chaos, frustration and disruption followed. London, UK.
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  • A 100 year-old ash tree bordering Ruskin Park and in the distance, Edwardian period homes and a London cityscape beyond, on 2nd February 2018, in south London, England.
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  • Travellers affected by the air travel ban arrive at Victoria coach station in London, UK after travelling from France to Dover. Many citizens were stranded abroad by the closure of much of European airspace because of the plume of ash from an Icelandic volcano.
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  • Ash tray which looks like a face on a wall outside. London, UK. Since the smoking ban in public places, these ashtrays have become a common sight as smokers go out to smoke.
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  • Saddhus smeared with ash at the Kumbh Mela, near Allahbad, India
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  • Saddhus smeared with ash bathe at the Kumbh Mela
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  • Walkers brave freezing temperatures in their local London park. During a prolonged cold spell of bad weather, snow fell continuously on the capital days before, allowing families the chance to enjoy the bleak conditions in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth. Freezing fog also hampered any sun from thawing the fresh snow, keeping temperatures below zero. The branches of 100 year-old ash trees are seen bare above and in the distance over Edwardian period homes.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
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  • Ms Vanthone, a metalworker prepares a wooden mould with ash to make bracelets from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. 12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A wooden mould and ash for casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Looking eastwards through 100 year old ash trees, a local game of cricket is played on the green grass of Ruskin Park, Lambeth overlooking the city. As the bowler comes in to deliver a fast ball to the waiting batsman, we see acrossto period Edwardian homes on the 1908 Ruskin Park. Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. First played in southern England in the 16th century, one team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed.
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  • In the Villa of the Vettii in Pompeii we see a fresco in the lararium where a shrine to Roman guardian spirits of the household was situated. Family members performed daily rituals here to guarantee their protection by these domestic spirits. The first two characters are the deeply venerated 'lares' (presumed sons of Mercury and Lara) depicted as two young men in dancing postures, holding drinking horns that guaranteed prosperity. In the centre is the 'genius'. She is another guardian and fertility spirit ensuring the family line (gens) would continue and she wears the 'toga praetexta', bordered in purple, the garment of high-ranking Roman magistrates. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, these frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of volcanic ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
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  • A collection of smoked cigarette ends on a public ash tray outside the British Library, London, United Kingdom.   A smoking ban in England, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed public places in England, came into force on 1 July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006.
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  • After tree surgeons severed the branches from a 100 year-old but diseased ash tree, the remaining logs lie on the ground in Ruskin Park, Lambeth, on 30th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • After tree surgeons severed the branches from a 100 year-old but diseased ash tree, the remaining logs lie on the ground in Ruskin Park, Lambeth, on 30th June 2020, in London, England.
    ruskin_park-01-30-06-2020.jpg
  • Designated smoking area sign and ash tray. Outside an office building.  London. UK.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
    7218_21_1_1.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
    7216_29_1_1.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
    7215_36_1_1.jpg
  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congregation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok, UK. Anglican congregation present in the village that operates outside of the parish system but is still a member of the Church of England.
    7214_32_1_1.jpg
  • A tree surgeon working as a contractor for London's Lambeth council trims high ash branches and boughs in Ruskin Park. Distant Edwardian period homes can be seen with blocks of flats in the Loughborough Estate are beyond. The man is tethered to safety harnesses and he swings himself across the large tree trimming and cutting the heavier and less stable arms of the plant's surfaces. Councils like Lambeth take the health of their public park's trees very seriously after incidents of falling parts onto innocent passers-by, with resulting injuries and legal action.
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  • In the foreground a local dog lies down in the afternoon heat on rutted ancient Roman flag stones while in the background tourists walk down the old highway in Pompeii, Italy. Next to his exhausted body, the grooved ruts carved by wooden wheels can still be seen next to a large stepping stone which let chariots ride over the stone yet allowed pedestrians to step over the road. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. It was completely buried during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. The volcano covered Pompeii under many metres of ash, and it was lost for over 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is a main tourist attraction of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pompeii has become a popular tourist destination; with approximately 2.5 million visitors a year, it is the most popular tourist attraction in Italy.
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  • Having just unearthed more bodies from layers of volcanic ash and pumice, an archaeologist's assistant pauses for a cigarette, kneeling beside a victim of the AD79 eruption of Mount Versuvius over the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Buried beneath huge amounts of toxic material this person was suffocated and crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be removed from this site on top of a villa roof where, it is calculated, this citizen was one of the last to die, having climbed 4 metres above ground level to await its fate. The Italian man ears a red t-shirt and holds a pick that has scraped and brushed away the soil to reveal the human form which also shows another body beneath. Others litter the rooftop too proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • In an archaeologists' shed at the site of further excavations in Pompeii, Italy, the bones of an ancient Roman citizen is spread out on a metal sheet after being uncovered from Volcanic ash and pumice. Pompeii was buried beneath metres of toxic material from Mount Versuvius in May AD79 and this person was suffocated then crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be examined for desease yielding clues as to its lifestyle and eating habits. The skeletal remains are clearly identifiable with spinal column vertibrae, one jaw still containing teeth and various pieces of bone have been recovered. Many bodies littered a rooftop here proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • Looking up towards majestically tall Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Pedro Cárcamo, a “gaucho”, farm worker on Jose Menedez farm near Rio  Grande. In his room, Patagonia, Argentina
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  • A builder laying out blue rubber mulch in a children’s playground wearing pink rubber gloves, during the construction of the East London Childcare Institute, Stratford, London.
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  • A car drives along a residential street with its headlights on to see through early morning mist, on 27th November 2020, in London, England.
    ruskin_mist04-27-11-2020.jpg
  • A sign to a metalworkers house who makes spoons from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, a metalworker opens a wooden mould used to make bracelets from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A sign to a metalworkers house who makes spoons from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A wooden mould for casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Abubakr smoking. Waterloo camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Devotees and their saddhu at the Kumbh Mela
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Detail of a burned-out cigarette and steak medallions and chips in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Ms Vanthone, metalworker opens up the wooden mould used for casting bracelets made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
    A0012649cc_1.jpg
  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A metalworker casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • A spoon made from recycled aluminium sourced from Vietnam War debris and melted in an earthen kiln in Ban Naphia, a remote Tai Phouan village in mountainous Xieng Khouang Province in Northern Laos. Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than two million tons of ordnance dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.12 artisan families began transforming war scrap into spoons (150,000 per year) in the 1970s to supplement subsistence farming activities. Supported by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, the project works to make the scrap metal supply chain safer for artisans and scrap collectors by collaborating with organisations such as Mines Advisory Group (MAG) that specialise in unexploded ordnance removal and education. More recently the villagers have started making bracelets and other items.
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • Artist Maggie Hambling at her London Studio. Posing with her 'Special Brew' series.
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  • Lunchtime City workers watch the Ashes cricket match between England and Australia being streamed in the Pavillion End pub on Watling Street the former Roman thoroughfare in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
The festival opens with fire rituals and fireworks launched from near the stone circle: a huge 30ft phoenix rises from the ashes during a spectacular bonfire.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
The festival opens with fire rituals and fireworks launched from near the stone circle: a huge 30ft phoenix rises from the ashes during a spectacular bonfire.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
The festival opens with fire rituals and fireworks launched from near the stone circle: a huge 30ft phoenix rises from the ashes during a spectacular bonfire.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
The festival opens with fire rituals and fireworks launched from near the stone circle: a huge 30ft phoenix rises from the ashes during a spectacular bonfire.
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  • The sons of the man who died wash his remaining ashes into the river after the body has been cremated.  They are at the Pasupatinatha Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Designed rubber mulch covers parts of the playground underneath the outdoor equipment in the East London Childcare Institute, Stratford, London.
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  • The burning on a bonfire of confidential personal data, accounts records and general paperwork, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • One of the employees at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu lights the fire ready to burn the bodies for Cremation.
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  • A truck driving along  the Nakkhu river bed past the cremation of a local man taking place at Tikabhairab Temple on the 13th of March 2020 in Tikabhairab, Lalitpur, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal.
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  • A truck driving along  the Nakkhu river bed past the cremation of a local man taking place at Tikabhairab Temple on the 13th of March 2020 in Tikabhairab, Lalitpur, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal.
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  • A postcard of patron Saint Nicholas, all that is left after the burning on a bonfire of religious mementoes, personal data, accounts records and general paperwork, on 30th July 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Saint Nicholas 270 – 343AD, was an historic 4th-century Christian saint.
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  • Victorian homes beneath tall 100 year-old ash trees on a misty evening. The freezing fog thickens over the residential homes, a south London suburb bordering a local park edged with 100 year-old ash trees. Someone's first floor bedroom light has come on in the gathering mist and Victorian chimneys are silhouetted against the evening sky.
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  • In the peristyle of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii is a fresco  where an ancient painted mural to the Greek Goddess Urania was unearthed from volcanic ash after 2,000 years. In Greek mythology, Urania which stems from the Greek word for 'heavenly' or 'of heaven', was the muse of astronomy. Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus, usually depicted as having a globe in her left hand, she can foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars and is often associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit. Those who are most concerned with philosophy and the heavens are dearest to her. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, the frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
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  • Saddhus smeared with ash at the Kumbh Mela. Ardh Kumbh Mela 1995, Allahbad, India
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  • an ash smeared saddhu performs a mortification with his penis at the Ardh Kumbh Mela 1995, Allahbad, India
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  • Saddhus smear themselves with ash before they bathe at the Kumbh Mela. Ardh Kumbh Mela 1995, Allahbad, India
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  • Through a gap of 100 year-old ash trees, Edwardian period homes bordering Ruskin Park in south London with residential high-rises at the distant Nine Elms development in Battersea, on 25th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • A birthday party takes place between ash trees during the Coronavirus pandemic in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 29th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • Partying on Bourbon Street during the evening of Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent.
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  • Partying on Bourbon Street during the evening of Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent.
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  • Begging for beads on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Wearing less clothing than considered decent in other contexts during Mardi Gras has been documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets. Risqué costumes, including body painting, is fairly common. Social scientists studying ritual disrobement found, at Mardi Gras 1991, 1,200 instances of body-baring in exchange for beads or other favours.
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  • Partying on Bourbon Street during the evening of Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent.
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  • Partying on Bourbon Street during the evening of Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent.
    _E6A5826.jpg
  • Partying on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Wearing less clothing than considered decent in other contexts during Mardi Gras has been documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets. Risqué costumes, including body painting, is fairly common. Social scientists studying ritual disrobement found, at Mardi Gras 1991, 1,200 instances of body-baring in exchange for beads or other favours.
    _E6A5810.jpg
  • Begging for beads on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration the city of New Orleans hosts every year. The magnificent, costumed, beaded and feathered party is laced with tradition and  having a good time. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and culminate on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday and Lent. Wearing less clothing than considered decent in other contexts during Mardi Gras has been documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets. Risqué costumes, including body painting, is fairly common. Social scientists studying ritual disrobement found, at Mardi Gras 1991, 1,200 instances of body-baring in exchange for beads or other favours.
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