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  • A spread of old Polish Zloty bank notes are spread out in the hands of a private market trader in Central Warsaw. His arms appear from the bottom left of frame and we can see a dozen or so notes of 2000 and 5000 and other denominations in an arc, held together with both thumbs. In the back ground and out of focus is the hustle and bustle of a summer's day at this market at a football stadium where Polish citizens come to sell and buy their possessions in the hope of making a little money to support meagre incomes. Women are inspecting clothing and materials on a stall in the open-air, under a bright sun. On the front-facing note is the medieval ruler Mieszko I though these notes were phased out in 1995 when hyperinflation forced, the currency to undergo redenomination.
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  • A curator inspects art canvasses leaning against gallery walls in the Royal Academy (RA) for its 'The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century' exhibition, a collection of important works of art by Italian artists such as Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi. In the privacy of the closed gallery, a lady official from the RA is bending down, resting her hands on knees and scrutinizing for possible damage after their removal from travel packing crates, whilst on the floor before hanging for public view. We see the largest picture on the right (Luca Carlevaris, The Bucintore Departing from S. Marco. 1710) of the Grand Canal in Venice and on the left is 'Domenico Tiepolo, The Institution of the Eucharist, 1753'. Polished wooden parquet flooring is protected by blocks that support the weight of each work of priceless art.
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  • Two assessors inspect damage to buildings after the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. They stand on a junction looking up at buildings whose windows were blown out by the force of this notorious blast that shook London’s financial district. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
    city_assessors-26-04-1993_1.jpg
  • A lone female stops to inspect blisters while on a farmer's land where winter polytunnels are empty of crops. During a winter jaunt through fields in the Kent countryside, the woman has stopped on a farmer's property where the polytunnels have been erected to grow summer fruits such as strawberries that draw upon the nutritious soils and minerals from the grow-bags on the ground. The arched rooftop shelters the crops from lower temperatures ensuring rapid growth, tended by migrant workforces.
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  • A lone female stops to inspect blisters while on a farmer's land where winter polytunnels are empty of crops. During a winter jaunt through fields in the Kent countryside, the woman has stopped on a farmer's property where the polytunnels have been erected to grow summer fruits such as strawberries that draw upon the nutritious soils and minerals from the grow-bags on the ground. The arched rooftop shelters the crops from lower temperatures ensuring rapid growth, tended by migrant workforces.
    country_walk01-15-01-2012_1.jpg
  • Workmen inspect their construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring riverside properties on the Thames - the future view of their new skyscraper. The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the river Thames bends round from Vauxhall on the south bank to Westminster.
    river_hoarding06-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights. Wearing ear-defenders, military green overalls and fluorescent tabard, a 'line' engineer from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, inspect the avionics of a Hawk aircraft immediately after a winter training flight at the team's headquarters at a damp RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The men are members of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
    Red_Arrows026_RBA.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes repairs to a BAE Systems Hawk nosewheel. Wearing ear-defenders, military green overalls and fluorescent tabard, a 'line' engineer from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, inspect the nosewheel assembly of a Hawk aircraft immediately after a winter training flight at the team's headquarters at a damp RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The man is a member of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
    Red_Arrows025_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from a passing train carriage window, an engineering work gang inspect rail equipment outside Waterloo mainline station, on 12th November 2020, in London, England.
    rail_journey03-12-11-2020.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen-19-06-1994_1_1.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovelling the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_team01-19-06-1994_1_1.jpg
  • A young man has stopped by a rubbish bin to inspect his shoulder on which a nearby pigeon has recently messed on his best work suit. It is an unfortunate incident in the middle of a working day for this man in the heart of the City of London, London's financial centre - otherwise called The Square Mile. Armed with a spare tissue paper, the male cranes his neck over the shoulder to see how much of the crap remains while the flock of birds pace around on nearby grass to scavenge for crumbs left by other lunchtime office workers, otherwise enjoying warm weather in Bishopsgate Churchyard.
    pigeon_droppings07-16-1992.jpg
  • Sona Ram, a Bishnoi Caste member inspects the textil quality of a Sari also known as Orana, Guda Vishnoyan village, India
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  • A young adventurer bends down to inspect a newly-killed forest pig whilst on a Raleigh International expedition in Brunei, Borneo. The hog is dead and the boy wears only flip-flops and shorts but this is one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet and will have been a life-changing experience for him and his friends from all over the world who will have raised several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    raleigh-international03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • Sergeant David Ablard with a fellow rigger of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team,gets to gripds with an air brake issue  make repairs. They are engineers with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team and one cleans the part of the team's Mk 1 Hawk after a repair during the Fairford airshow (RIAT). They are members of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
    Red_Arrows514_RBA.jpg
  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team performs a pre-flight check before training flight. Flt. Lt. Si Stevens of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walks around his  Hawk jet at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. He will fly up to 6 times daily during this winter training, when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres. Wearing winter green flying suits, their day is spent flying and de-briefing. Stevens wears a green flying suit with anti-g pants and helmet on with its pilot number. He is being followed by a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. The engineer wears a fluorescent yellow tabard and stands politely by the waiting aircraft on the 'line'. He has already prepared it for flight and helps with any technical issues that may arise.
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  • Scheduled maintenance on a Hawk Mk 1 jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team. Engineering specialists called the Blues perform routine maintenance in the Red Arrows team hangar. They are ground-based back-up crew (so-called after their distinctive blue overalls worn only during the summer) and perform routine engineering tasks in the hangar at RAF Scampton, then while on tour, keeping the jets serviceable and ready to display. The Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows482_RBA.jpg
  • A Dye Team engineer refills the dye-derv mixture to a Hawk jet of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team. Wearing goggles, military green overalls and fluorescent tabard, a 'line' engineer from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, refills the pressurised under-belly smoke pod with a dye-derv mixture that gives the displays the famous coloured smoke of a team Mk 1 Hawk jet aircraft immediately after a winter training flight at the team's headquarters at a damp RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The man is a member of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
    Red_Arrows440_RBA.jpg
  • Detail of senior officers gloved hands before the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Draped in the union flag and mounted on a gun carriage, the coffin of ex-British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher's coffin travels along Fleet Street towards St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. Afforded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, not seen since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, family and 2,000 VIP guests (incl Queen Elizabeth) await her cortege. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (1925 - 2013) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office to date.
    thatcher_funeral19-17-04-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Scheduled maintenance on a Hawk Mk 1 jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team. Engineering specialists called the Blues perform routine maintenance in the Red Arrows team hangar. They are ground-based back-up crew (so-called after their distinctive blue overalls worn only during the summer) and perform routine engineering tasks in the hangar at RAF Scampton, then while on tour, keeping the jets serviceable and ready to display. The Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows479_RBA.jpg
  • The coincidental relationship between a direct marketing company poster and a man checking messages outside in the rain on a central london street. While the man on the poster seemingly enjoys the thrill of receiving a package we also see an outsider on a rainy pavement also looking down, this time at his smartphone. It is a scene of repetition and similarities of posture and body language.
    london_people10-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A Nepalese factory owner inspects the work of one of his male employees in Surijha Traders garment factory in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is inspecting a silk purple waistcoat. The garments made in this factory are exported all over the world.  The factory works closely with the Friends of Needy Children organization in providing fair employment opportunities for young Nepalese men and women.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Garment-Factory-6368...jpg
  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
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  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0219_1.jpg
  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0623_1.jpg
  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-7480_1.jpg
  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0607_1.jpg
  • Inspecting the honey frames inside a bee hive for disease. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0585_1.jpg
  • Darren Budziszewski is a Junior Technician engineer in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. He is seen carefully standing in the cockpit of a Hawk jet closely inspecting the Plexiglass canopy for smears and scratches. Stooping at the open surface while keeping back flat and his knees bent, its posture that the RAF teaches its employees. Darren polishes the aircraft before its pilot emerges from the building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the team whose air displays are known around the world, cleaning the red airplanes on their day off, so particular are they. The image is backlit and both canopy and man are bottom-weighted to allow us to see space and sky. Specialists like Darren outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
    Red_Arrows099_RBA_1.jpg
  • Looking down from a high viewpoint, prospective auction bidders take notes from their catalogues of old red British Telecom (BT) pay phone boxes which are lined up on display in their hundreds before the actual sale starts. The 'lots' are squeezed together along pathways allowing customers to thoroughly inspect their potential purchases' details. This is a wide-angle picture taken on the slant with the distant boxes curling around to the left. One man in blue who has opened the stiff-opening door, cranes his neck to look up into the ceiling of these solid cast-iron frames. The K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the iconic designer Giles Gilbert Scott.
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  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
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  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0618_1.jpg
  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0225_1.jpg
  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0225_1_1.jpg
  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0211_1.jpg
  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0211_1_1.jpg
  • Children watching the bee keeper inspect the honey frames of the bee hives. Urban bee keeping, community garden project, George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London.
    UK-Urban-Bee-Keeping-0194_1.jpg
  • Southwark Council road engineers inspect a new junction layout at Champion Hill, on 13th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A young national Health general practitioner doctor (GP) uses an otoscope to inspect an even young little girl - a Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka whose father has brought his family to Britain in 1986 to escape racial and political persecution during his country's war between the Sinhalese majority and this ethnic minority group. The surgery is in the north London borough of Camden and the child of approximately 8 years of age is held by her father's firm hand that grips her chin to avoid movement. The health professional peers into the instrument to check for infections so the little girl can carry on dealing with this unfamiliar adopted country and strange ways of life in the UK.
    nhs_hospital11-16-01-1986.jpg
  • An officer bends down to inspect a soldier within a battalion of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment of the British Army, before a parade in front of Queen Elizabeth the Queen at the regiment's Edinburgh base at Redford Barracks, Scotland. The regimented rows and columns form a disciplined line-up of troops. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was an infantry regiment of the British Army until amalgamation into The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. The regiment was created in 1881 as an amalgamation of the 91st and 93rd Regiments of Foot going on to serve in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Aden. It was announced in 2004 as part of the restructuring of the infantry that the Highlanders would be amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into a single seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland.
    highlanders kilts01-30-07-1996_1.jpg
  • Waters subside leaving a mess of silt and stones after a Thames Water main water main burst on 25th October 2016, Camberwell New Road, Southwark, London. Thames Water officials, inspectors and police inspect the damage to the A202 Camberwell New Road now closed to traffic after the overnight event.
    camberwell_flood-06-25-10-2016.jpg
  • Waters subside leaving a mess of silt and stones after a Thames Water main water main burst on 25th October 2016, Camberwell New Road, Southwark, London. Thames Water officials, inspectors and police inspect the damage to the A202 Camberwell New Road now closed to traffic after the overnight event.
    camberwell_flood-02-25-10-2016.jpg
  • Waters subside leaving a mess of silt and stones after a Thames Water main water main burst on 25th October 2016, Camberwell New Road, Southwark, London. Thames Water officials, inspectors and police inspect the damage to the A202 Camberwell New Road now closed to traffic after the overnight event.
    camberwell_flood-03-25-10-2016.jpg
  • An inspection by the Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team looks closely at Victorian-era brick wall linings of the Fleet Rivers Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London, on 19th June 1994, in London, England. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles 720 km of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles 21,000 km of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_inspection-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Junior Technician Brian Robb, an engineer with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, shines his torch inside the flaps of a Hawk jet aircraft checking for obstructions, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Wearing ear defenders clasped to his head, J/Tech Robb peers into the wing assembly during a pre-flight inspection before the pilot emerges from for another winter training flight. Robb is a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.  Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. Crouching by an RAF roundel emblem, he wears an army style green camouflage coat as protection over the biting Lincolnshire wind, and a fluorescent tabard required for any personnel working on the 'line', where the aircraft taxi to and park.
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  • Three soldier recruits wearing shorts and black army boots, one with blood trickling down from the knees to the shins, stand at ease, lined up for inspection after the rigorous steeple-chase endurance race, an individual test with candidates running against the clock over a 1.8 mile cross country course. The course features a number of 'water obstacles' and having completed the cross country element, candidates must negotiate and 'Assault Course' to complete the test. This forms part of  the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret. A plastic bottle of water stands between recruit number three (3) and six (6).
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  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employee at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. He cleans and inspects the tongue and groove seals of the upturned pipes wearing an obligatory hard hat and blue overalls. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years.
    hanson01-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • A British Army Gurkha recruit stands to attention during a barracks inspection at the Gurkha Regiments training centre at Church Crookham, on 16th January 1996, in England UK. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in Nepals Himalayan foothills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. Only 160 are recruited with training continuing at this barracks until joining various units within the army. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_barracks-16-01-1996.jpg
  • GoodWeave documentation form for an on-site inspection report of textile factory working conditions. In Kathmandu, Nepal.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5553_...jpg
  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London engineering officials examine the huge crater left by the terrorist device. We see debris around the hole with drainage and road material. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles.
    city_london10-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • While delivery man take a shipment of boxes to a local address, a workman peers under the pavement during a maintenance job in Carnaby Street, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    west_end-03-05-06-2019.jpg
  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • An physical education instructor tests an army recruit for concussion after a bout of Milling, a test of aggression that  recruits must pass before qualifying as a paratrooper in the Para Regiment of the British Army, on 23rd July 1996, at Aldershot, England. The controversial Milling tradition unique to the Paras is a test for young men to prove they have a killer spirit by a timed gloved one-to-one boxing fight. Within that time, they have to punch as fiercely as possible, often resulting in blooded noses and temporary concussion.
    milling_paras-23-07-1996.jpg
  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport505-14-07-2009_1.jpg
  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport505-14-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • An elderly lady receives a consultation from a professional beautician in the Clinique Bar at World Duty Free in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In a quiet corner of peace and tranquility, the woman's face is examined in detail using a magnifying lens that allows the assistant to see every hair follicle and pore. Amid the busy departures terminal of this international aviation hub, this is a corner of quiet and tranquillity before the woman traveller boards her flight after this few minutes of pampering. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport160-13-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Precast concrete pipes are prepared for distribution by a Mexican-born employees at Hanson Pipe & Products, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. They are inspcting the inner-surfaces and tongue and groove seals of the horizontal pipes wearing obligatory hard hats and corporate blue shirts. Precast concrete is made from a reusable mold or "form" and cured in a controlled environment, then transported to the construction site and lifted into place. Used in the construction of commercial building components, bridges, manholes and retaining walls, these products are the strongest pipe available, designed and plant tested to resist any load required with a design life of 70-100 years.
    hanson02-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment parade before taking official oaths on the Union Jack flag at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_inspection-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Gathered on the Docklands Light Railway track, a group of police investigators and health and safety experts stand beneath the devastation and wreckage caused by the IRA’s docklands bomb on 10th February 1996. Office windows have been blown out and shattered glass lies everywhere making these workplaces unusable for many months afterwards. We see the men under the tall buildings looking tiny in comparison to the chaotic aftermath of this enormous explosion the day before. The bombing marked the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the troubles in Northern Ireland. 2 people were killed in the half-tonne lorry bomb blast which caused an estimated £85 million damage.
    docklands_bomb_team-11-02-1996_1.jpg
  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • A GoodWeave Foundation inspector completes his assessment paperwork at the end of his visit to the R.C. Rug Factory in Narayanthan, Kathmandu, Nepal.  His assessment has confirmed that the factory maintains good working standards.  The factory export carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. GoodWeave aim to protect workers rights as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5552_...jpg
  • GoodWeave Foundation inspector and supervisor, Drona Adhikari, makes an assessment of the working conditions of R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The company exports rugs and carpets to Europe, U.S and Canada; and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. This is because the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5210_...jpg
  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • Two army officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. The two men (the man on the right's name badge says M Pazmino), admire the sleek design of the missile called PARS 3 LR in German but known as TRIGAT-LR (Third Generation AntiTank, Long Range) and AC 3G in the French military, the missile is a high-precision 'fire-and-forget' weapon system for engaging mobile and stationary targets equipped with the latest generation of armour protection, such as tanks, field fortresses, bunkers and other high-value targets. The system can launch up to four salvos in eight seconds. <br />
The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • An elderly lady receives a consultation from a professional beautician in the Clinique Bar at World Duty Free in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In a quiet corner of peace and tranquility, the woman's face is examined in detail using a magnifying lens that allows the assistant to see every hair follicle and pore. Amid the busy departures terminal of this international aviation hub, this is a corner of quiet and tranquillity before the woman traveller boards her flight after this few minutes of pampering. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport160-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • A GoodWeave Foundation inspector completes his assessment paperwork at the end of his visit to the R.C. Rug Factory in Narayanthan, Kathmandu, Nepal.  His assessment has confirmed that the factory maintains good working standards.  The factory export carpets to Europe the U.S and Canada, and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. GoodWeave aim to protect workers rights as the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5560_...jpg
  • GoodWeave Foundation inspector and supervisor, Drona Adhikari, writes his assessment of the working conditions of R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The company exports rugs and carpets to Europe, U.S and Canada; and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. This is because the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5232_...jpg
  • GoodWeave Foundation inspector and supervisor, Drona Adhikari, makes an assessment of the working conditions of R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The company exports rugs and carpets to Europe, U.S and Canada; and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. This is because the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5228_...jpg
  • GoodWeave Foundation inspector and supervisor, Drona Adhikari, makes an assessment of the working conditions of R.C Rug Factory in the Narayanthan area of Kathmandu, Nepal.  The company exports rugs and carpets to Europe, U.S and Canada; and rely on the GoodWeave certificate of approval to boast excellent quality and fair conditions for its workers. This is because the carpet factory industry in Nepal is notorious for providing poor working conditions and forcing young children into labour.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Carpet-Factory-5217_...jpg
  • Woman inspecting hair accessory in a small store on Shijo Kawaramachi. Kyoto, Japan
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  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspects wiring on a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Inspecting new yellow-coded wiring, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
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  • Official NYC shield belonging to Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. A detail of his department badge and notebook, he inspects new yellow-coded wiring. Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
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  • Highway maintenance workers and their vehicle working in London. This water truck inspecting pipelines in the road has a large blue sign with a white arrow to direct other road users aroud the wide vehicle.
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  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out to the NYC skyline, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch38-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Girlfriends look at a pet dog's paws during a day out in wales. While inspecting the large dog's front foot, the women are distracted by another event elsewhere. Sitting on concrete blocks called breeze blocks at the side of a private road during a country walk, the female friends are both wearing jeans and trainers.
    long_boarding05-30-08-2015.jpg
  • Highway maintenance workers and their vehicle working in London. This water truck inspecting pipelines in the road has a large blue sign with a white arrow to direct other road users aroud the wide vehicle.
    20110608highway maintenanceB.jpg
  • A contractor inspecting the teeth of an alpaca at a family farm in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom on 15th June 2017
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  • 19th century derelict building ordered for demolition by Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch, Manhattan, New York City. He stands inspecting the structure while standing on rotten boards. Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Official NYC shield belonging to Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. A detail of his department badge, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch72-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out to the NYC skyline, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch28-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch15-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Six delegates sit down in good humour at the annual Party Conference of 1993 at Blackpool during the premiership of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the centre of frame a lady is sitting on her partner's lap, holding her security pass and wearing a chintzy royal blue ball gown. The male friend is holding her around the waist with both hands and they chat with a third person on the end. Behind the lady in blue are three other people, one of whom is inspecting her cleavage to the surprise of another lady who is staring wide-eyed down at the lady's bosoms. It is a humorous, ridiculous scene at a formal political function
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  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out to the NYC skyline, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. The bald eagle was chosen June 20, 1782 as the emblem of the United States of American, because of its long life, great strength and majestic looks, and also because it was then believed to exist only on this continent. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. With a vertical drop of hundreds of feet, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch137-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A wide view of an atrium within Sofitel, a 605 bedroom, 27 suite and 45 meeting room accommodation and business hub, situated at Heathrow Airport 's Terminal 5 hotel. Large areas of glass make this a landscape of modernity as natural light illuminates an employee who is inspecting polished surfaces surrounded by the hotel's bedrooms that look out on to this indoor garden. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport582-15-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Lan Dong, cricket seller inspecting a grasshopper in his market stall, Guan Yuan Shichang Market, central Beijing. Seen in his stall, cages and all other paraphanelia for the hobby of collecting and fighting crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, etc.
    chicri_004_1.jpg
  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out to the NYC skyline, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch214-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Looking out to the NYC skyline, Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch190-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Investigative Engineering Services, Assistant Commissioner Tim Lynch inspecting a new construction site in Manhattan, New York City. Tim works in the prevention of damage to old and ensuring new buildings are up to standard plus often, assessing the status of a collapsed structure. From the chapter entitled 'The Skyline' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    tim_lynch07-23-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Mirmala, 12 years old. Mirmala's fingers are now deformed because of working too long hours at the loom. Her friends are inspecting her crooked finger. <br />
Mirmala, 12 years old. Nirmala is 12 years old. She has been in the center for 19 days. She is enjoying living in the Home. She has no number to contact her parents. NRF are trying to identify them and contact them.<br />
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Nirmala worked 5 months in a factory. A neighbour took her to the factory one day without telling her parents and telling her she would be going to Kathmandu to earn money. Nirmala was earning NRs 1200 per month but she never got paid in 5 months. Her parents are very poor and live 250 km away from Kathmandu. She wants to stay in the center.<br />
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The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abillities.
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  • Mirmala, 12 years old. Mirmala's fingers are now deformed because of working too long hours at the loom. Her friends are inspecting her crooked finger.<br />
Mirmala, 12 years old. Nirmala is 12 years old. She has been in the center for 19 days. She is enjoying living in the Home. She has no number to contact her parents. NRF are trying to identify them and contact them.<br />
<br />
Nirmala worked 5 months in a factory. A neighbour took her to the factory one day without telling her parents and telling her she would be going to Kathmandu to earn money. Nirmala was earning NRs 1200 per month but she never got paid in 5 months. Her parents are very poor and live 250 km away from Kathmandu. She wants to stay in the center.<br />
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The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abillities.
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  • Commanding as well as non-commanding officers of The  Presidential Bodyguard regiment or PBG salute their Commander -in -Chief as he arrives to inspect their headquarters. 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, New Delhi, India. different soldiers take up their posts.
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  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
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  • In a narrow street in Florence, a parking attendant stops to check the windscreen (windshield) of a Fiat 500 car. Squeezed into a space that only a car of this length can occupy, the lady warden bends to inspect the owner's city permit. Traffic police in Florence issue approximately 90 tickets every minute, 1,253 tickets a day so a motorist in Florence receives a traffic violation every 40 seconds, according to official figures. Ticket fines average about 140 euro per motorist bringing about 52 million to city hall each year, making it one of Italy's most heaviest fined cities. Officials note that the money entering the municipal budget through traffic fines has tripled in the last 10 years. The Fiat 500 (Cinquecento) designed by Dante Giacosa was produced by Fiat between 1957 and 1975.
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  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
    mike - big ben003.jpg
  • Workmen abseil down The Clock Tower of Parliament which houses Big Ben, to inspect the clock face for damage, London. The Clock Tower stands at over 96 metres high, the 7 metre wide clock faces have cast iron frames and house 312 pieces of pot opal glass.
    mike - big ben002.jpg
  • A government official comes to inspect a landslide being cleared in the Mian Mian Shan mountains. There are constant landslides in this area as the mountains crumble in the rain. It is common to see roads blocked and large rocks falling down the mountains. Low paid workers are on call to clear the rocks to earn a few Reminbi (Yuan).
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  • An accompanied group of Austrian schoolchildren mess about below an effigy of Christ in St. Stephens Church on 28th June 2016, in Vienna, Austria. While some chat among themselves, others are on their knees to inspect below the floor through the gaps of a grating. St. Stephens Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first a parish church consecrated in 1147. The most important religious building in Vienna, St. Stephens Cathedral has borne witness to many important events in Habsburg and Austrian history.
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  • Tourists inspect the menus outside a restaurant in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • As a couple inspect the menu on the sidewalk, a waiter attends to customers at an outdoor restaurant and bar on Ocean Drive,  on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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