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  • Floating yoda outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London, England, United Kingdom. These street performers of which there are many yodas have caused controversy after the director of the National Gallery, complained about the vulgar and demeaning chaos on the institution’s doorstep.
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  • Floating Yoda street performer in Piccadilly Circus in London, England, United Kingdom. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Clearing weed on Inle Lake for use as compost in floating gardens.<br />
Burma 1999
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  • Penis swan sculture floating on the river 20th September 2019 in the the trendy neighbourhood of Grunerlokka, Oslo, Norway in. Situated opposite Oslos art college the anonymous work is probably by one of the sculpture students.
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  • A helium-filled Welcome Home balloon floats in the air in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 arrivals hall. Three families have gathered to meet their respective sons who have been travelling around the world during their university gap year sabbatical trip of a lifetime. Floating upwards, the balloon is brightly coloured amid the hectic concourse where other relatives greet their loved-ones after months away from home on their adventures. This is a tradition practised across the world's airports where families are separated by the need to travel or work in other countries and the emotion of meeting again after long absences is always hard. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • People floating on the Dead Sea, which lies 400 meters below sea level. People visit it to cure a wide variety of ailments thanks to its high mineral content and for its mud properties. Israel.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Butlins beach ball floating in the swimming pool in Butlins holiday camp, Skegness. The slogan Our true intent is all for your delight was borrowed from Midsummers Nights Dream. Butlins Skegness is a holiday camp located in Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire. Sir William Butlin conceived of its creation based on his experiences at a Canadian summer camp in his youth and by observation of the actions of other holiday accommodation providers, both in seaside resort lodging houses and in earlier smaller holiday campsThe camp began opened in 1936, when it quickly proved to be a success with a need for expansion. The camp included dining and recreation facilities, such as dance halls and sports fields. Over the past 75 years the camp has seen continuous use and development, in the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s being subject to substantial investment and redevelopment. In the late 1990s the site was re-branded as a holiday resort, and remains open today as one of three remaining Butlins resorts.
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  • A view of the Hong Kong skyline overlooking boats in Aberdeen Bay during the day in Hong Kong. The large boat on the right holds the Jumbo Floating restaurants.
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  • Statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air in Covent Garden, in London, UK. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air in Covent Garden, in London, UK. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Three Parisians gain an advantage by climbing higher than pavement level to watch the patriotic Bastille Day Procession from a doorway on the Avenue Champs-Élysées, Paris. The young men have lodged themselves awkwardly a metre above the ground, resting their feet on various door catches and ledges, as if floating in mid-air. On a street traffic sign the French words 'Defense de Stationner' are written which in English translates as 'No Stopping', referring to vehicles not pedestrians. There is graffiti tagging sprayed on the walls and a brown stain at the bottom of a drainpipe
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  • Deep below-decks, we peer through a striped window of the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • Using a specially-designed trolley, we look down from above on two US Navy crew members transporting smart weapon armaments across the deck of the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.  The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • A moment of street theatre is seen as a man seemingly gropes a young woman on the pavement (sidewalk) as three other Parisians gain an advantage by climbing higher than ground level to watch the patriotic Bastille Day Procession from a doorway on the Avenue Champs-Élysées, Paris. The young men have lodged themselves awkwardly a metre above the ground, resting their feet on various door catches and ledges, as if floating in mid-air. On a street traffic sign the French words 'Defense de Stationner' are written which in English translates as 'No Stopping', referring to vehicles not pedestrians. There is graffiti tagging sprayed on the walls and a brown stain at the bottom of a drainpipe.
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  • An entertainer dressed up as a witch pretend to be floating in the air.  A large number of performers earn their money outside the national Gallery and the trade is good on a sunny day.
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  • A floating pink bungalow in Folkestone harbour built by the artist Richard Woods as part of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial. Folkestone, Kent. The artist wanted to create a piece about the housing crisis in the UK.
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  • A floating pink bungalow in Folkestone harbour built by the artist Richard Woods as part of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial. Folkestone, Kent. The artist wanted to create a piece about the housing crisis in the UK.
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  • The Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI Dover Life boat 17-09 parked up next to a floating pink bungalow in Folkestone harbour built by the artist Richard Woods as part of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial  Folkestone, Kent. UK..
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  • An inflatable boat carrying tourists calmly floating down the Trishuli river on the 3rd of March 2020 near Malekhu Benighat region, Nepal. White water rafting is common with tourists on the Trishuli river due to stunning views,  impressive gorges and exciting rapids, the river is one of the major tributaries of the Narayani River basin in central Nepal.
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  • A view of the Hong Kong skyline overlooking boats in Aberdeen Bay during the day in Hong Kong. The large boat on the right holds the Jumbo Floating restaurants.
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  • A view of the Hong Kong skyline overlooking boats in Aberdeen Bay during the day in Hong Kong. The large boat on the right holds the Jumbo Floating restaurants.
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  • A view of the Hong Kong skyline overlooking boats in Aberdeen Bay during the day in Hong Kong. The large boat on the right holds the Jumbo Floating restaurants.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
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  • Silver painted living statue street performer sits totally still as if floating in mid air, and delighting passers by and tourists in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. There are many such performers making money in this way and having to increasingly be inventive in their guises.
    20171125_living statue_001.jpg
  • A London bus drives past a runaway yellow balloon floating along King William Street opposite Bank Underground station in the City of London, the capitals financial district, 7th March 2018, in London England.
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  • A floating pink bungalow in Folkestone harbour built by the artist Richard Woods as part of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial. Folkestone, Kent. The artist wanted to create a piece about the housing crisis in the UK.
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  • During the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival, a float representing a giant ant heap exploads into life with a rite of passage known as the dance of the "tucandeira", Parintins Stadium, Brazil.
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  • During the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival, a giant Caterpiller float roars into life during the event in Parintins Stadium, Brazil.
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  • Building a huge allegorical float inside a large warehouse for the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival, Parintins, Brazil.
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  • 2 young women float in Chapel Rock Pool, Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • AN aviator sits on a float of his aircraft in a parking lake for seaplanes during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
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  • It is mid-day on the narrow stretch of river, green lilly pads float on its surface and in unbder a fierce sun overhead, three young men are lazily making their way to the viewer in a rowing boat on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. The young male in the middle is the one rowing and he pulls on one oar to steer around an unseen obstacle in the absolutely calm, clear blue waters of this majestic river whose source rises in deepest Gloucestershire to its industrial estuary in the English Channel 215 miles (346 km) away. But here in Oxfordshire, we see an idyllic scene of adventure and peace on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English midsummer day. 'Three men in  a Boat' published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
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  • Late at night, in a gloomy arrivals gate at Chicago O'Hare airport, a young man sits patiently on his own awaiting the arrival of his girlfriend after a holiday in Asia. It is the last flight to land and a helium balloon floats on a string bearing the words 'Welcome Home', a popular gesture for relatives in airports around the world, each having their own cultural way of showing affection for arriving family members after long absences. The balloon stands still, the only colour amid the drab interior of this sprawling airport hub. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Lying on her back with eyes closed, a young girl stretches her arms out allowing her father to support her weight in an empty swimming pool in Miami Florida. With complete trust, she lets herself go and yields to her own natural  buoyancy as she floats amid this seemingly wide ocean of chlorinated water belonging to a hotel on Ocean Drive. We see her bright red costume clearly against the  complimentary prime colour green in a vibrant display from the spectrum. It is a scene of love and confidence, of youth and health.
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  • A large oversized Caterpiller leaves the warehouse to enter the "Bumbodromo", the stadium where the "Boi Bumba" Carnival takes place, Parintins, Brazil
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  • Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic directors Will Whitehorn and Stephen Attenborough, talk to the media during the unveiling of their SpaceShipTwo concept model's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.  Now under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009.  <br />
Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.<br />
Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world’s first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships.  It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts; in the last 4 decades the world has seen fewer than 500 astronauts. Flights start around 2009.<br />
28/09/2006
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  • A lone bather wallows lazily in the calm pool waters at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat (formerly the Bel Air Hotel), Alpes Maritimes, France. Basking on his back, the man lies with arms outstretched, the warm buoyant water making him weightless. he has found inner-peace and there is restful tranquility here, where surface-tension allows the bather to unwind completely in this idyllic place on the French Cote d'Azur riviera. Behind his head unoccupied sun loungers are facing the Mediterranean Sea, its clear horizon empty except for a lone yacht that sails along the ocean coast. The colour of both sea and pool are the same on this overcast day that allows us to experience a more muted tone to the scene, also allowing us to see the contiunation of natural waters, as if they run from one to the other.
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  • The "Cunha Poranga' Carnival Queen, dances inside the stadium during the three day event which celebrates the native Amazon indian myths and legends of the " Boi Bumba" carnival, Parintins, Brazil
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  • Street performer as a metallic painted balancing 'Living Statue' in Covent Garden delighting the gathered crowds. London, UK.
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of women taken from a very low angle , posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of photographers on La Croisette, Cannes' sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. One blonde girl is looking down into the camera while we see only the hips, arms, and legs of the others as they parade their bodies in front of the media who are grouped tightly together with cameras and a sound microphone. Young women publicising movies or just themselves regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • In the kitchen on a Sunday morning, space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts reads the Sunday newspaper while his wife empties the dishwasher in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters facility near Las Cruces.
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  • The back of  famous greying-blonde head belonging to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic is seen during SpaceShipTwo's replica model unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Galactic. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and former Apollo (11) astronaut Buzz Aldrin chat after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • A computer-generated astronaut lies down on board a space flight on Virgin Galactic's  SpaceShipTwo's,  unveiled as a replica model during Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson sits in the replica model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling of at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river. Here one of the families watces the Brazil vs Mexico World Cup game, even on a modest income, consumer electronics such as plasma TVs are affordable in Brazil.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • Strung between buildings at Oxford Circus, this enormous net sculpture is named after one of the astonishing impacts of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Such was the strength of the vibrations, the earthquake momentarily sped up the earth’s rotation and shortened that day by 1.8 microseconds. Using data from NASA, Studio Echelman turned this phenomenon into a 3D image, the basis of which was used to create the shape of this piece. Glowing with changing colours controlled by the viewers smart phones, on a freezing January night, this piece by Art AV was part of the a free London Lumiere light festival. Held over 4 days in January 2016 the event brought huge crowds into Londons centre. The whole festival was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London, in 30 locations across some of the capital's most iconic areas.
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  • The work Forms in Space… by Light in Time, a major new light installation by Cerith Wyn Evans was created for the annual Tate Britain 2017 Commission, where a contemporary British artist was invited to create a new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries, at the heart of Tate Britain ON 3rd May 2017 in London, United Kingdom. These drawings in space takes inspiration from the codified and precise movements of Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting the artist’s interest in choreology – the practice of translating movement, such as dance, into notational form, like a musical score.
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  • The work Forms in Space… by Light in Time, a major new light installation by Cerith Wyn Evans was created for the annual Tate Britain 2017 Commission, where a contemporary British artist was invited to create a new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries, at the heart of Tate Britain ON 3rd May 2017 in London, United Kingdom. These drawings in space takes inspiration from the codified and precise movements of Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting the artist’s interest in choreology – the practice of translating movement, such as dance, into notational form, like a musical score.
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  • Umbrella stuck on the wall between two windows on the first floor of a Parisian appartment in the Marais district.
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  • Fish Farming, flooded land is sectioned off in areas on the 2nd of October 2018 in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. Satkhira is a district in southwestern Bangladesh and is part of Khulna Division. It’s main contributors to the economy are shrimp, fish and paddy farming. It is on the bank of the Arpangachhia River.
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  • Street performer as a metallic painted balancing 'Living Statue' in Covent Garden delighting the gathered crowds. London, UK.
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  • Man in mid air at Borough Market, London, UK.
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  • There is golden light across this narrow stretch of river, yellow flowers are on the bank and in late golden sunlight, two boys paddle upstream in their Indian canoe on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. Lazily they plunge their paddles into the calm, clear blue waters of this majestic river whose source rises in deepest Gloucestershire to its industrial estuary in the English Channel 215 miles (346 km) away. But here in Oxfordshire, it is an idyllic scene of innocent childhood on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English summer afternoon. The boys don't appear to be wearing life vests nor safety equipment but propel their craft forwards against the current with confidence.
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  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's passengers are on the Sun deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. One of the ship's photographers has passed around a ship's circular life ring buoy through which one busty blonde lady has posed for a photograph and is about to pass it on to her nearest neighbour. She is wearing a garish pink and yellow bikini and is holding the life-saving device so that only her breasts are showing, obscuring her face. We see the name of the ship, Ecstasy, around the ring and the plastic ropes are falling on the lady's cleavage, forming circles around her bosoms. In the background, another cruise traveller (traveler) wears a straw sun hat and is also sitting on a blue sun lounger. We see exposed, tanned skin and it looks baking hot with the tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The line calls its ships The Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • A family punts down the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, Oxfordshire England. Lazily they glide down the calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English summer afternoon. A young man stands on the boat's stern dragging a pole through the rippled water to propel the vessel upstream. There is golden light across the narrow stretch of the river, yellow flowers are on the bank and a faint breeze fills the triangular sail which is reflected in the clear water that flows a length of 215 miles (346 km) from Gloucestershire to London.
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  • A Metropolitan Police diver surfaces beneath the murky waters of the River Thames in front of the tall buildings of the City of London, on 13th June 1993, in London, England. Blowing bubbles, he exhales through his oxygenated mask and looks through the Plexiglass to the viewer. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team UCSST, are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames. After a body is recovered from the River it is taken to the mortuary at Wapping Police Station for identification.
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  • Messing about on a pedal water craft, a member of a local rowing club looks up to see where the cork to his opened champagne bottle will land on the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. During this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the wealthy upper-classes.
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  • Photographed by leering men amid crowds during the Cannes Film Festival, a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company pose in bikinis and reveal swimwear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • On a busy Summer weekend, families enjoy the old Tarr Steps Clapper Bridge over the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, Devon, England. Crossing on the huge stone prehistoric slabs which weigh up to 5 tons apiece, children play with fishing nets, walk dogs and sit enjoying the view below of others who mess about in a small inflatable dinghy on the flowing stream. Located in a National Nature Reserve about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Withypool and 4 miles (6 km) north west of Dulverton, this spot is a favourite tourist place in South-West England. This typical clapper bridge construction may date to around 1000 BC. It is 180 feet (55 m) long and has 17 spans and designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
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  • The ground crew of a hot air balloon operation push the basket towards more even ground after its landing on to wasteground in a West Bank village of the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. These people are dependent of the tourism industry and therefore badly affected by the downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP so communities like this are suffering economically, as a result.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly at the dirty picket fence with their Volvo car parked on the gravel drive outside their home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have paid the $200,000 fee for a seat on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Sam and Eve Branson, son and mother of tycoon Sir Richard, relax together on a roof terrace in Manhattan, New York. Both are queueing to join the hundreds already having paid their $200,000 for Virgin Galactic's space tourism rides in 2009. Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world’s first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships. It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • A replica model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NYC. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will be able to see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • Designer Phillippe Starck standing at the nose of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Starck is design consultant for Virgin's space company and for SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA.  Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.  Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly with their Volvo car outside their large home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have each paid the $200,000 fare for seats on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts is presented to the media and space industry commentators by Sir Richard Branson during the Wired NextFest science fair, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts plays moon-walker at his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • Strung between buildings at Oxford Circus, this enormous net sculpture is named after one of the astonishing impacts of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Such was the strength of the vibrations, the earthquake momentarily sped up the earth’s rotation and shortened that day by 1.8 microseconds. Using data from NASA, Studio Echelman turned this phenomenon into a 3D image, the basis of which was used to create the shape of this piece. Glowing with changing colours controlled by the viewers smart phones, on a freezing January night, this piece by Art AV was part of the a free London Lumiere light festival. Held over 4 days in January 2016 the event brought huge crowds into Londons centre. The whole festival was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London, in 30 locations across some of the capital's most iconic areas.
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  • Strung between buildings at Oxford Circus, this enormous net sculpture is named after one of the astonishing impacts of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Such was the strength of the vibrations, the earthquake momentarily sped up the earth’s rotation and shortened that day by 1.8 microseconds. Using data from NASA, Studio Echelman turned this phenomenon into a 3D image, the basis of which was used to create the shape of this piece. Glowing with changing colours controlled by the viewers smart phones, on a freezing January night, this piece by Art AV was part of the a free London Lumiere light festival. Held over 4 days in January 2016 the event brought huge crowds into Londons centre. The whole festival was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London, in 30 locations across some of the capital's most iconic areas.
    _F3A1110_1.jpg
  • Strung between buildings at Oxford Circus, this enormous net sculpture is named after one of the astonishing impacts of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Such was the strength of the vibrations, the earthquake momentarily sped up the earth’s rotation and shortened that day by 1.8 microseconds. Using data from NASA, Studio Echelman turned this phenomenon into a 3D image, the basis of which was used to create the shape of this piece. Glowing with changing colours controlled by the viewers smart phones, on a freezing January night, this piece by Art AV was part of the a free London Lumiere light festival. Held over 4 days in January 2016 the event brought huge crowds into Londons centre. The whole festival was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London, in 30 locations across some of the capital's most iconic areas.
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  • The work Forms in Space… by Light in Time, a major new light installation by Cerith Wyn Evans was created for the annual Tate Britain 2017 Commission, where a contemporary British artist was invited to create a new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries, at the heart of Tate Britain ON 3rd May 2017 in London, United Kingdom. These drawings in space takes inspiration from the codified and precise movements of Japanese Noh theatre, reflecting the artist’s interest in choreology – the practice of translating movement, such as dance, into notational form, like a musical score.
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  • Algae growing on top of the water of a fish farm on the 2nd of October 2018 in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. Satkhira is a district in southwestern Bangladesh and is part of Khulna Division. It’s main contributors to the economy are shrimp, fish and paddy farming. It is on the bank of the Arpangachhia River.
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  • Algae growing on top of the water of a fish farm on the 2nd of October 2018 in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. Satkhira is a district in southwestern Bangladesh and is part of Khulna Division. It’s main contributors to the economy are shrimp, fish and paddy farming. It is on the bank of the Arpangachhia River.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • Milk float in Earlsfield in London, England, United Kingdom. In Britain, a milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles. They were once common in many European countries, particularly the United Kingdom, and were operated by local dairies. However, in recent years, as the number of supermarkets, small independent grocers and convenience stores stocking fresh milk has increased, many people have switched from regular home delivery to obtaining fresh milk from these other sources.
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  • Milk float in Earlsfield in London, England, United Kingdom. In Britain, a milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles. They were once common in many European countries, particularly the United Kingdom, and were operated by local dairies. However, in recent years, as the number of supermarkets, small independent grocers and convenience stores stocking fresh milk has increased, many people have switched from regular home delivery to obtaining fresh milk from these other sources.
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  • Building a huge allegorical float inside a large warehouse for the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival in Parintins, Brazil. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing bulls, known as Garantido and Caprichoso.
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  • The Holy Paso depicting the Crucifixion passes through Seville's Plaza Espana during its annual Semana Santa Easter passion processions. Some 60 processions are scheduled for the week, from Palm Sunday through to Easter Sunday morning. The climax of the week is the night of Holy Thursday, when the most popular processions set out to arrive at the Cathedral on the dawn of Good Friday, known as the madrugá. At the centre of each procession are the pasos, an image or set of images set atop a movable float of wood. The structure of the paso is richly carved and decorated with fabric, flowers and candles. Many of the structures carrying the image of Christ are gilded, and those carrying the image of the virgin often silver-plated.
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  • Brazil -Parintins - During the Boi Bumba carnival celebrations a large float in the form of a ship re-enacts the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores as they disembark in Brazil and attempt to destroy the indian population. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing bulls, known as Garantido and Caprichoso.
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  • A small float made for ‘Our Lady of Hope’ to take part in the Grand Marian Parade in Intramuros, Metro Manila, Philippines.
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  • Notting Hill Carnival August 28th 2017. West London, England. Paraiso School of Samba float with an elaborate representation of Paradise.
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