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  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster24-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Rifles regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster10-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster09-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster05-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster04-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster02-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster01-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police1-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police3-19-July-2011.jpg
  • US Navy personnel guarding a Poseidon jet aircraft, exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The two men in uniform stand below the large US Navy lettering on the patrol and surveillance jet's fuselage. The Boeing P-8 Poseidon (formerly the Multimission Maritime Aircraft or MMA) is a military aircraft developed for the United States Navy (USN). It conducts anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), and shipping interdiction, along with an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) role. This involves carrying torpedoes, depth charges, SLAM-ER missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and other weapons.
    farnborough_air_show12-17-07-2014.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police4-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Standing beneath the main members' entrance of the Gothic tower, the two policemen talk outside the Palace of Westminster where the British Government meets and weilds its poeer. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power.
    met_police2-19-July-2011.jpg
  • A detail of the arms of a Royal Marines Commando guarding the top deck of HMS Illustrious during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier in Greenwich. The weapon is an SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) a British family of 5.56mm small arms. It is a selective fire, gas-operated assault rifle. The Royal Marine Corps (RM) is the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and forms part of the Naval Service (along with the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and associated organisations). The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as marine infantry for the Royal Navy. However, it can trace its origins back to the formation of "the Duke of York and Albanys maritime regiment of foot" at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664
    navy_open_day43-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A Nepalese police man is guarding the holy Boudhanath stupa, part of Nepal's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The stupa is one of the most holy sites of pilgrimage for Buddhists around the world. Near Kahmandu, in the valley.
    IMG_2709_1.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers stand guarding a closed underground tube entrance at London's Victoria station. There is a tube strike and capacity is vastly reduced so numbers are being strictly restricted while the tube unions ask drivers and staff not to report for duty. Passengers queue patiently behind the barriers, their faces seen with resigned expressions, as Londoners are typically want to do.
    rail_strike01-21-06-1989.jpg
  • A Beefeater Sergeant Yeoman stands guard outside the Tower of London. The Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary, popularly known as the Beefeaters, are ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London. In principle they are responsible for looking after any prisoners in the Tower and safeguarding the British crown jewels, but in practice they act as tour guides and are a tourist attraction in their own right, a point the Yeoman Warders acknowledge. In 2011, there were 37 Yeomen Warders and one Chief Warder.
    beefeater-18-08-1993_1.jpg
  • A guardsman of an unknown regiment, stands on ceremonial duty in the Mall during celebrations of the Queen's official Golden Jubilee in June 2002. The soldier in resplendent red tunic and the controversial bearskin is an iconic emblem of Britain's armed forces during official events. But the officer may be a Grenadier or a Welsh Guard who share similar uniforms and perform similar duties in London. We see over his shoulder on which his regimental insignia is and also where the bayonet of his weapon is fixed and dangerously sharp. He is a sergeant major and therefore responsible for other soldiers' rank and files. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
    grenadier_guards03-03-06-2002_1.jpg
  • A guardsman of an unknown regiment, stands on ceremonial duty in the Mall during celebrations of the Queen's official Golden Jubilee in June 2002. The soldier in resplendent red tunic and the controversial bearskin is an iconic emblem of Britain's armed forces during official events. But the officer may be a Grenadier or a Welsh Guard who share similar uniforms and perform similar duties in London. We see his chinstrap in polished gold leaf and his rank insignia on his epaulette as he stands silent, checking other soldier ranks. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
    grenadier_guards02-03-06-2002_1.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Stock Exchange premises at Paternoster Square in the City of London during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest17-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • The Monday morning following the attacks on September 11th we see a member of the National Guard wearing a dust mask while standing with his German Shepherd Alsatian dog beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located in Wall Street. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789 whose statue stands above. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.
    9_11_america013-19-09-2001_1.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Stock Exchange premises at Paternoster Square in the City of London during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest18-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Stock Exchange area of Paternoster Square in the City of London during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest5-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • City of London police officers guard the Stock Exchange premises near Paternoster Square n the City of London during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest8-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • City of London police officers guard the Stock Exchange premises near Paternoster Square n the City of London during world corporate greed and government austerity measures protests.
    corporate_protest9-15-10-2011_1.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army helps tourists while standing guard the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster07-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house08-24-11-2013_1_1.jpg
  • American Secret Service and UK police guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-11-12-07-2018.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house26-24-11-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Men in military uniforms talking and on guard on 8th June 2018, near Fatahillah Square, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
    _DSC4621.jpg
  • UK Met police officers guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-39-12-07-2018.jpg
  • UK Met police officers guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-28-12-07-2018.jpg
  • UK Met police officers guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-25-12-07-2018.jpg
  • American Secret Service and UK police guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-08-12-07-2018.jpg
  • American Secret Service and UK police guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-09-12-07-2018.jpg
  • As the Statten Island ferry nears the business district and skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officer stands guard at the very front (the bow) of the boat. It is approximately ten days after the 9/11 attacks and with pistol safely holstered and arms folded, he can see the settling dust from Ground Zero beyond the safety chain, where the Twin Towers once stood. It is a bright day and behind the policeman, commuters are already returning to work because normality is a priority for those affected by disruption and fear.
    staten_ferry01_1_1.jpg
  • Two police officers guard the outside of the London Libyan embassy that still flies the pro-Gadaffi flag. Seen from a low-angle, we look up top the two men in the uniforms of the Metropolitan police, we focus on the green flag of revolutionary Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi who made the solid green colours the emblem of his regime. On 1 September 1969, a small group of military officers led by then 27-year-old army officer Muammar al-Gaddafi staged a coup d'état against King Idris, launching the Libyan Revolution. In the days after the uprising sweeping across the north African country, the embassy remains loyal to the beleaguered government.
    libyan_protests01-24-02-2011.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house26-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house08-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • Men in military uniforms talking and on guard on 8th June 2018, near Fatahillah Square, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
    _DSC4622.jpg
  • An armed police officer stands guard at Horseguards on Whitehall, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks a week earlier, on 28th March, 2017, in London, England.
    horseguards_police-01-28-03-2017.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house07-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • Guarded by police officers is the address in Peckford Place, on the Angell estate in south London, identified as the location where - including another location(s) - three woman were held captive for a 30 year period by two others, said to be in bad conditions. A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are deeply traumatised and in the protection of the 'Freedom Charity' whom they first contacted about their enslavement. The couple accused of their captivity have been bailed.
    slavery_house04-24-11-2013_1.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. 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.
    egypt58-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Pre Rup, which means "turning the body" in reference to a cremation ritual, is a tall grand towered temple made from laterite and brick. Pre Rup is a state-temple of Rajendravarman II, and was consecrated to Shiva in 962. Stone lions guard each of the four stair cases which lead up the temple, as they stand looking out over the surrounding green paddy fields.
    2006-11-05_Pre Rup_F_1.jpg
  • Pre Rup, which means "turning the body" in reference to a cremation ritual, is a tall grand towered temple made from laterite and brick. Pre Rup is a state-temple of Rajendravarman II, and was consecrated to Shiva in 962. Stone lions guard each of the four stair cases which lead up the temple, as they stand looking out over the surrounding green paddy fields.
    2006-11-05_Pre Rup_A_1.jpg
  • Jewish men, Muslim ladies with UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-37-12-07-2018.jpg
  • Jewish men, Muslim ladies with UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-36-12-07-2018.jpg
  • Muslim ladies with UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-32-12-07-2018.jpg
  • A Muslim lady walks past UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-29-12-07-2018.jpg
  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. A prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
    terrorism_vigil-16-05-06-2017.jpg
  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. A prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
    terrorism_vigil-16-05-06-2017.jpg
  • One week after the terrorist attack in the UK capital, Londoners and visitors to Britain pay their respects to the scene where flower memorials are left on Westminster Bridge where pedestrians were mown down by a car and outside the Palace of Westminster where armed police now guard the location where a police officer was killed, on 28th March 2017, London, England.
    westminster_terrorism-24-28-03-2017.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. 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.
    egypt52-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. 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.
    egypt51-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow, shows visiiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
    mbda_missile06-11-07-2012.jpg
  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. A prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
    terrorism_vigil-43-05-06-2017.jpg
  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. A prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
    terrorism_vigil-43-05-06-2017.jpg
  • Guards and a few tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. 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.
    egypt50-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • US Navy crewman guards a Poseidon jet aircraft, exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The two men in uniform stand below the large US Navy lettering on the patrol and surveillance jet's fuselage. The Boeing P-8 Poseidon (formerly the Multimission Maritime Aircraft or MMA) is a military aircraft developed for the United States Navy (USN). It conducts anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASUW), and shipping interdiction, along with an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) role. This involves carrying torpedoes, depth charges, SLAM-ER missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and other weapons.
    farnborough_air_show13-17-07-2014.jpg
  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow, ready to show visiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
    mbda_fireshadow04-09-07-2012.jpg
  • Pre Rup, which means "turning the body" in reference to a cremation ritual, is a tall grand towered temple made from laterite and brick. Pre Rup is a state-temple of Rajendravarman II, and was consecrated to Shiva in 962. Stone lions guard each of the four stair cases which lead up the temple, as they stand looking out over the surrounding green paddy fields.
    2006-11-05_Pre Rup_C_1.jpg
  • A Muslim lady walks past UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-31-12-07-2018.jpg
  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-06-13-06-2020.jpg
  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-04-13-06-2020.jpg
  • We see one of a pair of lion guards outside the Bank of China's building in Macau (Macao), in China's Special Economic region (SER). Stone lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
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  • A week after a Black Lives Matter protest turned to violence when the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was daubed in graffiti which called him a racist, and despite warning from police not to attend protests at all today - and to be off the streets by 5.00pm - a large group crowd of right-wing groups gathered at the boxed-in statue to protect it from further vandalism by Black Lives Matter and anti-racism opponents. Alongside the statue of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, Met Police officers also guarded the boxed-in statue of Nelson Mandela which the far-right had said they would attack, on 13th June 2020, in London, England.
    racism_protest-05-13-06-2020.jpg
  • Seen from behind and from a low angle, we see the towering, imposing figure of a City of London Police officer while on duty in Trafalgar Square during England v USA World Cup match. At the half-time pause in the game, the officer stands to watch over this location noted for political protest and sporting celebrations. On this occasion though, there is no large TV screen to avoid social disorder and the City of London Police who usually patrol the capital's old financial district are helping the larger Met Police force during this sporting summer. Seemingly below him, is the 5.5 m (18 ft) statue of Admiral Nelson on its 46 m (151 ft) Foggintor granite column, built between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate the heroic Napoleonic war sailor Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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  • Hassina Syed,  business woman, with her two daughters Sana (age 3)and Hirah(2), photographed at her home and business the Gandamack Lodge Hotel.  She also rents armoured cars, runs a farming business, a travel agency and a bedding shop. She is married to Peter Jouvenal an ex soldier, journalist and westerner who has lived in Afghanistan for twenty years.<br />
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She experienced first hand, how terrifying the Taliban could be. She says: <br />
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‘I opened up the Chadri (mesh front of the burkha) to see a tea-cup and suddenly from the back, a Taliban soldier came with a big stick, shouting at me. If you get beaten by a Taliban, you could die. <br />
“I made myself look as old and bad as possible because if  they ( the Taliban) saw you looking even a bit beautiful, they could come to your house and take you as one of their wives”<br />
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“For me having money is dangerous, kidnapping is a big problem. A friend’s uncle was kidnapped; they wanted $150 000, He was so mad he said, ‘I am not paying that he is an old man!’  Eventually they dropped the price and said OK, just cover our fuel and the bribe for the police (30 000 dollars)."
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  • An office worker stands by a stack of office boxes on Fleet Street in the City of London. Waiting for colleagues and other employees to arrive, the man is in deep thought on this otherwise quiet sidestreet off Fleet Street in central London. The boxes may contain corporate or even legal paperwork as the law courts are nearby but important documents need safeguarding and the man is responsible for their security and confidentiality.
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  • A local guide at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. 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. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • Portrait of a local guide near the colossi of Pharaohs at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. 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. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • A British soldier of the Royal Marines sits in a Games Maker's high chair to oversee an entrance to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling . A line of police surround the drilling rig.
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  • Mounted police officers leave the temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
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  • On the day that the British government awaits an explanation from the Kremlin over the poisoning by the nerve gas Novichok in Salisbury of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Metropolitan police officers stand outside the Russian Federation Embassy and Consulate Section, on 13th March 2018, in London England.
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  • On the day that the British government awaits an explanation from the Kremlin over the poisoning by the nerve gas Novichok in Salisbury of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Metropolitan police officers stand outside the Russian Federation Embassy and Consulate Section, on 13th March 2018, in London England.
    russian_embassy-14-13-03-2018.jpg
  • On the day that the British government awaits an explanation from the Kremlin over the poisoning by the nerve gas Novichok in Salisbury of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Metropolitan police officers stand outside the Russian Federation Embassy and Consulate Section, on 13th March 2018, in London England.
    russian_embassy-07-13-03-2018.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolitan police officer helps an Asian lady citizen outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other communities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society. Pointing out direction to help the lady find her way, the officer proudly wears his turban of his religion.
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  • Businessmen inspect the 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow. An employee shows visiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
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  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling. Demonstration against fracking 18.08.2013. A policeman stands behind the security fence with the drilling rig in the background.
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  • On the day that the British government awaits an explanation from the Kremlin over the poisoning by the nerve gas Novichok in Salisbury of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Metropolitan police officers stand outside the Russian Federation Embassy and Consulate Section, on 13th March 2018, in London England.
    russian_embassy-15-13-03-2018.jpg
  • Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling . A protester talks to a policeman wearing a long sleeved white t-shirt with written on the back the words 'This land is your land, this land is my land, keep it clean, say no to fracking'.
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  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
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  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
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  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
    20180216_chile_mapuches_166.jpg
  • A lady protestor outside a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
    trump_london-41-12-07-2018.jpg
  • A close-up detail of a London Metropolitan police officer's face and helmet. Wearing a moustache and the famous tall helmet with the crest of the Met Police on the front.
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  • Soldiers  of the Presidential Bodyguard begin the  Changing of the Guard ceremony as they march past the Central Secretariat towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan Palace. They march in formation for the 40 minute Saturday  ceremony where they will take up their posts in guarding the palace. They march from the grounds of the Palace up the Rajpath to the Central Secretariat, or Ministry of Defence and back to the palace grounds where they will hand the ceremonial keys to their replacement soldiers. The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
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  • Soldiers  of the Presidential Bodyguard begin the  Changing of the Guard ceremony as they march past the Central Secretariat towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan Palace. They march in formation for the 40 minute Saturday  ceremony where they will take up their posts in guarding the palace. They march from the grounds of the Palace up the Rajpath to the Central Secretariat, or Ministry of Defence and back to the palace grounds where they will hand the ceremonial keys to their replacement soldiers. The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071222_india_0242_1.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Presidential Bodyguard regiment (also known as the PBG) prepare the final touches before they head out of their barracks to the Rashtrapati Bhavan,(the Presidential Palace),  the Presidential Bodyguard march in formation for the 40 minute Saturday Changing of the Guard ceremony where they will take up their posts in guarding the palace. They march from the grounds of the Palace up the Rajpath to the Central Secretariat, or Ministry of Defence and back to the palace grounds where they will hand the ceremonial keys to their replacement soldiers. The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071222_india_0121-3_1.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Presidential Bodyguard regiment (also known as the PBG) prepare the final touches before they head out of their barracks to the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace).  The Presidential Bodyguard march in formation for the 40 minute Saturday Changing of the Guard ceremony where they will take up their posts in guarding the palace. They march from the grounds of the Palace up the Rajpath to the Central Secretariat, or Ministry of Defence and back to the palace grounds where they will hand the ceremonial keys to their replacement soldiers. The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071222_india_0111_1.jpg
  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • A man who has been guarding a shop during the night reads a newspaper on the charpoy bed of his colleague in New Delhi, India.
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  • A man who has been guarding a shop during the night reads a newspaper on the charpoy bed of his colleague in New Delhi, India.
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  • Soldier in front of the Albanian flag guarding the statue of "Mother Albania"on the outskirts of Tirana is dedicated to the Partisans of WWII. On it is enscribed: Eternal Glory to the Martyrs of the Fatherland.
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  • Police officers stand guarding the entrance of the official London 2012 merchandise shop - hours before another successful gold medal win, this time by Team GB triathlete Alistair Brownlee in the men's Triathlon during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The mid-week event surprisingly drew huge crowds into the capital's largest public (royal) park for an event, not usually attracting families with children who all enjoyed the fine weather and easy temperatures. A London 2012 merchandise shop was set up on the southern side and parents and kids used the exterior hoarding featuring iconic London landmarks such as Nelson's Column, St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge, to relax against after an early start from homes around the country
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  • Police guarding the Cuadrilla fracking drill site. Anti-fracking activists join hands to surround the Cuadrilla fracking site. Thousands turned out for a march of solidarity against fracking in Balcombe. The village Balcombe in Sussex is the  centre of fracking by the company Cuadrilla. The march saw anti-fracking movements from the Lancashire and the North, Wales and other communities around the UK under threat of gas and oil exploration by fracking.
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  • Changing the Guard (often incorrectly referred to as the Changing of the Guard), refers to a formal ceremony in which sentries providing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries. The ceremonies are often elaborate and precisely choreographed. In the state capital, Athens, members of the elite Evzones light infantry unit, provide a 24-hour honor guard, with an hourly guard change, at the Presidential Mansion and at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, off Syntagma Square at the foot of the Hellenic Parliament. The Changing the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in particular has become a tourist attraction, with many people marvelling at the guards, who stand motionless for two 20-minute intervals, during their 1 hour shifts. Greek soldiers called "Evzons" or 'Tsoliades' in their traditional pleated skirt uniform and shoes with toes tipped by a red or black ball called a 'foonda' are who guard the tomb. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • Changing the Guard (often incorrectly referred to as the Changing of the Guard), refers to a formal ceremony in which sentries providing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries. The ceremonies are often elaborate and precisely choreographed. In the state capital, Athens, members of the elite Evzones light infantry unit, provide a 24-hour honor guard, with an hourly guard change, at the Presidential Mansion and at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, off Syntagma Square at the foot of the Hellenic Parliament. The Changing the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in particular has become a tourist attraction, with many people marvelling at the guards, who stand motionless for two 20-minute intervals, during their 1 hour shifts. Greek soldiers called "Evzons" or 'Tsoliades' in their traditional pleated skirt uniform and shoes with toes tipped by a red or black ball called a 'foonda' are who guard the tomb. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
    20110920changing the guard athensI.jpg
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