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  • Old Communist graffiti adorns the walls of a crumbling building as an elderly lady walks past. Heroic but peeling portraits and slogans adorn the plater wall reminder passers-by of previous era when Portuguese politics were more turbulent. The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party  based upon democratic centralism. The party was founded in 1921 but made illegal after a coup in the late 1920s. The PCP played a major role in the opposition to the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. After the bloodless Carnation Revolution in 1974 which overthrew the 48-year regime, the 36 members of party's Central Committee had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.
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  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
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  • Passers-by walk beneath the inspiring images of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis and long jumper Phillips Idowu adorn the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage/Crown' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
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  • Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's Visa ad on a red London bus and a inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis on the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Ennis ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city19-08-08-2012.jpg
  • Two young women sit and rest from shopping beneath the inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist Ben Ainsley who adorns the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage/Water' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics.
    olympic_city21-08-08-2012.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
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  • Tribute to a lost generation and pillars of the Lord Mayor's Mansion House. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial07-05-08-2014_1.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes16-06-12-2013.jpg
  • The statue of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,  outside St Clement Danes RAF church, on 17th April 2018, in London, England. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG 24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970 was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britains defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitlers plan to invade Britain.
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  • As the UK governments lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS National Health Service care workers, outside a Homes For Heroes for WW1 veterans at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
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  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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  • Two football fans pay their respects to the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
    wembley_development-17-06-11-2019.jpg
  • Czech war veterans gather at Brookwood cemetery when their president of the day, the once political dissident Vaclav Havel paid his respects to those nationals who paid the ultimate price during the second world war. The elderly heroes wearing medals and awards from their service during the 20th century war line up before their new president appears during his state visit to the UK.
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  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial07-08-01-2014_1.jpg
  • A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill is propped up in a shop window display during celebrations for wartime during 50th anniversary celebrations of wartime VE day. The whole country celebrated the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, two officers walk past playing boys, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes06-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes03-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Spectators watch live TV coverage of the Diving event with young Team GB athlete Tom Daley at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Greenwich Park is hosting the Olympic Equestrian competitions, plus the combined running and shooting event of the Modern Pentathlon. The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, now generally known as Greenwich Hospital, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712.
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  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit – Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
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  • Poster of Fidel Castro with the message 25th Anniversery of the Triumph of the Revolution, July 1984, Santiago, Cuba. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. He was loved by most of the people as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary regime advanced economic and social justice while securing Cubas independence from American imperialism.
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  • Tribute to a lost generation and the clock at Cornhill. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial10-05-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Two football fans pay their respects to the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
    wembley_development-15-06-11-2019.jpg
  • WW1 memorial soldier statue, commemorating the Royal Fusiliers in the City of London. In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in the City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart, the statue represents a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial01-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Tourists admire the Coronation of Napoleon in Coronation room of the King's apartments in the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. The painting (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a work of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • Man passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The bald-headed man gestures to others next to the sports hero's name in the bottom corner. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance18-07-11-2009.jpg
  • Taking a break from the London Marathon, a young runner dressed as Superman emerges from a Portaloo after a quick toilet stop. Located at the London Fire Brigade's station on Lower Thames Street in City of London in the capital's historic financial district, their empty fire hose snakes across the ground. The young man wears trainers, a red skirt, a Super-hero top with the Superman emblem on his chest and he walks out of the portable convenience adjusting a green frizzy wig. Disgarded mineral water bottles have been thrown on the ground by other passing athletes but this is a theatrical pun, that Superman changes personality, name and powers when leaving a telephone box. Apart from the colour (color) of the toilet, the runner and the hose, the background is drab and overcast.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes21-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes07-06-12-2013.jpg
  • As the UK governments lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a runner passes behind a home-made piece of art celebrating NHS National Health Service care worker heroes <br />
attached to the gates of Brockwell Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UK governments lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS National Health Service care workers, outside a Homes For Heroes for WW1 veterans at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-29-23-04-2020_1.jpg
  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot 2.7 m bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • Detail of visitor's hand and names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval01-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Modern man and a lost generation of youth. In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    ww1_memorial02-05-08-2014.jpg
  • A visitor bends to pay respects and read inscriptions to wreaths on the ground at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_cemetery06-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A landscape of regeneration around the Wembley Stadium arena where new properties are under construction tower over the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
    wembley_development-23-06-11-2019.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial03-08-01-2014_1.jpg
  • Locals from Cirencester in the county of Gloucestershire sit below the first world war memorial on St John Baptist <br />
church wall in the city centre. A mother and child sit on a bench below the names of those local men lost in the first war (AD1914-18) - the 200 names tell a story of the lost generation of youth, now replaced by the modern Brit, unused to self-sacrifice and loss on an unimaginable scale. The church is medieval, renowned for its perpendicular porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs. The chancel is the oldest part of the church. Construction started around 1115.
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  • Wreaths with Five soldiers standing at ease on the memorial to both first and second world wars in Westminster. The war memorial is in Horseguards Parade commemorating those who fell during the Second and First World Wars and features 5 regimental reminders of those lost from the Household Division in conflict, their sacrifices honoured 100 years after the start of the 1914-18 war. The Guards Memorial was designed by the sculptor Gilbert Ledward in 1923–26 and erected to commemorate the First Battle of Ypres and other battles of World War I.
    war_memorial01-19-03-2014.jpg
  • Tourists admire the Coronation of Napoleon in Coronation room of the King's apartments in the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. The painting (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a work of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
    versaille_palace18-18-08-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Woman with fan shielding her face from sunchine passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
    teeth_people05-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
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  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
    sherlock_graffiti-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • Two serving soldiers in civilian suits but wearing the insignia and badges of the Royal Military Police (RMP), talk quietly together while poignantly paying their respects to the hundreds of markers that symbolise war dead. Crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance21-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during the Iraqi conflicts from 2001 to present day. Dedications from loved-ones or well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses whose surfaces bear the names and pictures of smiling young men and women, proud to serve their country. On the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers are laid out on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance07-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during the Iraqi conflicts from 2001 to present day. Dedications from loved-ones or well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses whose surfaces bear the names and pictures of smiling young men and women, proud to serve their country. On the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers are laid out on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance05-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance03-07-11-2009.jpg
  • From a height looking down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance01-07-11-2009.jpg
  • Portugals national hero, the footballer Christiano Ronaldo, has his face distorted on beach towel merchandising in a parody detail, on 18th July 2016, at Costa Novo, near Aveira, Portugal. Ronaldo is one of the worlds sporting superstars, especially after his teams recent historic victory over France in the final of the Euro 2016 tournament.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • Christian Taylor, the American world triple jump champion meets fans after his TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Taylor added Olympic gold to his tally, holding off his compatriot Will Claye in a contest whose earlier stages almost saw Taylor eliminated after two fouls.
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  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
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  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes31-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes32-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes25-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes18-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes19-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes10-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes02-06-12-2013.jpg
  • Three young women tourists admire The Coronation of Napoleon (Le Sacre de Napoléon), a painting of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
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  • Two young British Asian men stand in front of a Bollywood action hero poster, while waiting for a bus in Southhall, West London, England. The lads are in their early twenties and are dressed against the cold European winter. The muscular Indian man in the movie poster is in his prime, posing as a tough guy and making a serious face towards the viewer, his rippling biceps wet with sweat. We see two ordinary young men living the harsh reality of life in a big English city, with all the pressures, paradoxes and cultural differences of India or Bangladesh, and that of multicultural Britain. It may be sunny but the biting winter day is raw with cold.
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  • Towering over a Stagecoach bus passenger is the statue (by sculptor Hamo Thornycroft) of Saxon King Alfred that overlooks a modern Winchester, Hampshire, England. Alfred the Great (849 – 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". The Thornycroft statue was unveiled during the millenary celebrations of Alfred's death.
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  • A roll-call of Irish Republican volunteers who died during the 1970s and 1980s during what is known as the Troubles. Their names and dates of their deaths is recorded in Milltown cemetery in Belfast, northern Ireland.
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  • Admirers of suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcetts statue, the first woman to appear among an all-male Parliament Square, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for womens suffrage.
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  • Admirers of suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcetts statue, the first woman to appear among an all-male Parliament Square, on 9th May 2018, in London, England. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was a British feminist, intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for womens suffrage.
    fawcett_statue-04-09-05-2018.jpg
  • As the UK governments lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and number of UK reported cases rose to 138,078 with a total now of 18,738 deaths, a locally constructed representation of an NHS house, a model of acknowledgement and support for NHS National Health Service care workers, outside a Homes For Heroes for WW1 veterans at the top of the Casino Avenue estate in Herne Hill, on 23rd April 2020, in London, England.
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  • The face of the Irish Republican Bobby Sands is painted on the office wall of Sinn Feinn, the left-wing politcal arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 – 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate.
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  • Distorted by fish-eye lens, names of victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial04-25-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
    WW1_thiepval04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A landscape of regeneration around the Wembley Stadium arena where new properties are under construction tower over the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
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  • A landscape of regeneration around the Wembley Stadium arena where new properties are under construction tower over the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
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  • Two football fans pay their respects to the statue of English footballs most loved player, Bobby Moore, on 6th November 2019, in Wembley, London, England. Sir Bobby Moore captained England to its World Cup victory against Germany at the old Wembley stadium in 1966.
    wembley_development-16-06-11-2019.jpg
  • Czech war veterans gather at Brookwood cemetery when their president of the day, the once political dissident Vaclav Havel paid his respects to those nationals who paid the ultimate price during the second world war. The elderly heroes wearing medals and awards from their service during the 20th century war line up before their new president appears during his state visit to the UK.
    war_veterans-12-04-1990_2_1.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of the war memorial hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Three lanterns stand to the left and in the background are the pillars of the Bank of England, from where many served in the British forces and now dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial12-08-01-2014_1.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, the war memorial heroes in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial06-08-01-2014_1.jpg
  • In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in Cornhill, City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart. Two soldiers face away from each other with rifles between their boots, they represent a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
    war_memorial02-08-01-2014_1.jpg
  • First World War memorial soldier beneath the Bank of England (L) and the columns of Royal Exchange. The tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite. Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. The Bank of England (formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. It is wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.
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  • Crowds wave Union Jack flags below the lions of Buckingham Palace's Victoria Memorial during 50th anniversary celebrations of wartime VE day. With medals glinting in the sunshine, the married man and woman stand together representing the generations of survivors of those who lived during the terrible years of warfare. Here they celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Young smiling couple pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The young woman seems delighted with her selfie and smiles next to the sports hero's own rugged jaw and white teeth. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Men pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.  The two males walk past in good humour, one inhaling from his cigarette - the symbol of an unhealthy lifestyle versus the machismo character of athlete and sports hero. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
    teeth_people04-21-05-2015_1.jpg
  • The England footballer Wayne Rooney's faces are seen wrapped up in polythene, sold outside a shop near St. Paul's Cathedral where merchandise accessories are being sold off cheap outside sports shop in City of London. It is a few days after the England team's defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals of the South African World Cup and while English flags are stored away in time for the next St. George's Day when nationalism and patriotic emotions are showed on homes, in streets and on working mans’ vans, these Rooney face masks are now seen as passé, unsellable at current prices so their value has been reduced from just 10 pence. Golden boy Rooney is still a commodity that Manchester United earn millions from – their merchandising opportunities reach a fever levels at times of premiership and international matches.
    rooney_sale02-02-07-2010.jpg
  • The England footballer Wayne Rooney's faces are seen wrapped up in polythene, sold outside a shop near St. Paul's Cathedral where merchandise accessories are being sold off cheap outside sports shop in City of London. It is a few days after the England team's defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals of the South African World Cup and while English flags are stored away in time for the next St. George's Day when nationalism and patriotic emotions are showed on homes, in streets and on working mans’ vans, these Rooney face masks are now seen as passé, unsellable at current prices so their value has been reduced from just 10 pence. Golden boy Rooney is still a commodity that Manchester United earn millions from – their merchandising opportunities reach a fever levels at times of premiership and international matches.
    rooney_sale01-02-07-2010.jpg
  • A serving soldier in civilian suit but wearing a red beret of the Royal Military Police (RMP), looks poignantly down on markers that symbolise war dead, hundreds of crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918.
    remembrance19-07-11-2009.jpg
  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team watch other aviators' display flying during airshow. Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean against the nose of their Hawk jet before themselves flying their own air display. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection.
    Red_Arrows670_RBA.jpg
  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ads are for Visa and for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • With giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes behind them, spectator crowds descend steps at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
    olympic_stratford18-06-08-2012.jpg
  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
    olympic_stratford04-06-08-2012.jpg
  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
    medals_gurkha01-16-1997.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes29-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes28-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes09-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes12-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes13-06-12-2013.jpg
  • London 6th December 2013: Tributes pour in to the former South African leader and anti-apartheid ANC campaigner Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mandela made many friends in Britain, visiting many times - in the 60s to raise funds for his political struggle against the racist regime, then as President after 27 years imprisonment.
    mandela_tributes08-06-12-2013.jpg
  • A loyalist wall mural in a protestant area of Belfast showing a Viking as conquering hero by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) of south Belfast.
    loyalist_mural02-26-09-1996.jpg
  • A loyalist wall mural in a protestant area of Belfast showing the Red Hand Defender emblem and Latin slogan using the Latin motto 'Quis Separabit' meaning 'Who shall separate us?' - a detail of a political painting in a street off the Shankill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
    loyalist_mural03-26-09-1996.jpg
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