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  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs a rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy is left-handed and sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
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  • A schoolboy of Afro-Caribbean descent stands looking confused on a platform at Victoria mainline station in central London. The young lad looks smart in a new school uniform of cap, blazer, long trousers and polished black shoes. We might guess that it is the start of a new academic year and that he is about to attend a new school for which he needs to take a train on his own. His mother and younger and older sister are also to the far right of the picture so he may go with his elder sibling carrying a multi-coloured umbrella and a bright blue briefcase containing his lunch and a few items needed for lessons. Surrounded by adult commuters, some of who look on with mild amusement, also make await their train from the city out of town. Mostly, people mind their own business and what is a special day for the boy will become a much-travelled route.
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  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub during a music showcase. Playing his Fender Telecaster, the young lad's fingers play along the neck of the guitar. its strings amplifying the sound of this rock and roll number. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase12-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Ignoring a red pedestrian light, a schoolboy dashes out into commuter traffic at dawn on a foggy morning in south London. Despite the dangers of negotiating a busy road, the lad runs off the pavement and into the path of the oncoming cars. It is dawn at around 8.45 on this winter morning, a dark and miserable time of day in this south London suburb from where Londoners start their journeys north into the City. Cars and trucks wait for the lights to change, their headlights shining in the dispersing fog on Denmark Hill.
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  • A portrait of Nalito, 18, a schoolboy, Sao Tome and Principe<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • A schoolboy recites Arabic verses from the Koran in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
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  • A schoolboy recites Arabic verses from the Koran in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt378-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A schoolboy recites Arabic verses from the Koran in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt379-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A schoolboy reads verses from the Koran in front of his religious teacher in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt373-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt376-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys listen to their teacher in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt366-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • An aerial view of schoolboys reading Arabic verses from the Koran in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt382-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt377-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran during a religious class in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt372-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys learn verses from the Koran in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt371-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys listen to their teacher in a classroom at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt367-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • School children play in their school playground in Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
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  • School children play on the street in Ukui, in Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
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  • School children play on the street in Ukui, in Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
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  • Looking down from a high vantage point, we se boy pupils seated as they gather in front of the Headmaster during morning assembly at the City of London School for boys in central London. Individual faces in neat rows stretch into the distance as we look past the Headmaster who is addressing, facing his students. Some seem serious, a few are looking bored while one boy can be seen coughing into his hand and another looking away with a smirk.  We can see a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds, skin colours and hairstyles. The City of London School (CLS) is a boys' public school on the banks of the River Thames. It traces its origins to a bequest of land by John Carpenter, town clerk of London in 1442. 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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  • A portrait of the school headmaster beneath a picture of a Muslim cleric at the Islamic Koom al-Bourit Institute for Boys in the village of Qum (Koom), on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Islam in Egypt is the dominant religion in a country with around 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010. Almost the entirety of Egypt's Muslims are Sunnis, with a small minority of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims. The latter, however, are not recognised by Egypt.
    egypt388-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the north Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sepecat Jaguar aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was XZ118 and its first  was in 1976 and its last in 2006. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
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  • While seated to have dinner at home, a young boy of about 10 years of age hides his face and wipes his lips with a serviette. Demonstrating perfect manners that his parents must have instilled in him, the lad's face is hidden from the viewer as he presses the cloth to his face to obscure his identity. He is eating some sort of pudding with a spoon and a fork rests on the highly-polished table on which an ornamental posy of flowers is reflected. It is a scene of immaculate etiquette that a boy from a middle-class background might be expected to show to elders and visitors. It is an example of grooming and pedigree to take with him out into the outside world where he will be expected to be the best behaved.
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  • Taria, a Nepalese teacher, looks at her book while her students carry out a writing exercise a class room in the Voice of Children rehabilitation center in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
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  • On the day that Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre closes before its demolition and redevelopment, south Londoners pass the iconic Elephant symbol is outside the mall before doors are locked for the final time after 55 years, on 24th September 2020, in south London, England. The much-criticised architecture of the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre was opened in 1965, built on the bomb damaged site of the former Elephant & Castle Estate, originally constructed in 1898. The centre was home to restaurants, clothing retailers, fast food businesses and clubs where south Londoners socialised and met lifelong partners.
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  • A young Chinese boy on a school trip places his hand on an exhibit belonging to the British communications company, Cable & Wireless at the Hong Kong Telecom Tower in Central Hong Kong. The smartly-dressed lad dressed in his school uniform is seen against a graduated blue background and is placing his hand on a sensor to activate an interactive demonstration. His face glows with the red light from the programme and his hands is being read by the orange light of the sensor. Since 1938 Cable & Wireless became responsible for the fixed wireless services of Hong Kong and connected their external telephone services for the national network. The services operate on one of the most highly advanced fibre optic networks in the world. Cable & Wireless provides  domestic and international telecommunications services in Hong Kong through the operating companies of its subsidiary, Hong Kong Telecom.
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  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub during a music showcase. Playing his Fender Telecaster, the young lad's fingers play along the neck of the guitar, its strings amplifying the sound of this rock and roll number and to the right is a young boy who is lead singer. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase19-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys visiting the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum sit on a bench in front of Rondanini Faun, a 2nd century Roman statue, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Schoolboys visiting the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum sit on a bench in front of Rondanini Faun, a 2nd century Roman statue, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
    british_museum-16-28-02-2017.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase20-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase17-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys in grey suits walk past resting disabled woman. As the young men file past in a queue to enter St Paul's Cathedral for an event in central London. The lady in red sits in a wheelie seat, seemingly dozing or asleep and unaware of the busy activity all around her. The youths are wearing sober grey suits as part of theirt school or college uniform - all smart boys with fine futures ahead of them.
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  • Schoolboys get dressed after an afternoon off from classes, spent next to the western Palace Pier at the seaside town of Brighton. Pulling on socks is a young lad from a nearby school whose uniform is a red blazer and striped tie. With their clothing of their friends still lie on the shngle, their afternoon of play day is coming to an end. In the background is the western Palace Pier, a major landmark on this south coast resort. Ofsted's guidelines are that for children of 9-12, a ratio of one adult to 8 young people is a requirement.
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  • Schoolboys from the City of London School play string instruments during a public performance of classical music. The young orchestra is performing at St. James Garlickhythe, a city of London church redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren after its destruction in 1666. Showing great concentration and passion for their music, the violinists and cellists play with great skill for such young players. We see their copyrighted sheet music attached to the stands, guiding them through the classical pieces listened to by an unseen audience. There is a slight blurring to arms and hands as their bows pass over the bridges of their instruments. <br />
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  • A group of schoolboys from the City of London school in central London, visit a financial institution as part of their education course work. Wearing the jackets and trousers with the dark colours of their college, the boys look to be in high-spirits as they walk along a street in the capital. Looking upwards to where the tall banks and insurance institutions may tempt them to seek careers in the Square Mile - London's oldest quarter and financial district. The City of London School (CLS) or City is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England  founded by a private Act of Parliament in 1834, following events starting from a bequest of land by John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London in 1442, for four poor children in the City of London.
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub. With the lead singer standing confidently at the microphone and the others concentrating hard on their chords, they perform during a rehearsal for a local music showcase. The young lad is about thirteen (13) years of age and unusually, he plays his electric Fender Squier Stratocaster left-handed guitar with ease. Over his left shoulder we can see part of a drum kit and the amplifiers in the background too. The venue is a pub in south London where the children play will be playing for proud parents and friends and they practice over two weeks, the songs allocated to them by their guitar teacher.
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase16-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • A class of schoolboys accompanied by their teachers play on the shingle at the water's edge in the south coast seaside town of Brighton. The East Pier is resplendent with amusement rides and attractions that populate its long structure, jutting out into the calm English Channel beyond which is the French coast further south. The children are still in their school shirts, shorts and ties but have taken off their shoes and socks to frolic and enjoy some precious fresh-air and the freedom that childhood brings. According to British legal requirements, schoolchildren on away day visits must have accompanying adults with a ratio of 1:xx though it appears this group's quota is less with two teachers per 28 boys.
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  • While campaigning during John Majors election campaign, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits a chemistry class at a north London school on 1st March 1992 in London, England. Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Her political career was over in 1990 after a leadership challenge and she died in 2013.
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  • School boys make their way home along Bethnal Green Road. London, England, UK. This area has a large Asian community, predominantly made up of Bangladeshi people, which makes for a vibrant, cultural diversity in the area.
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  • School boys make their way home along Bethnal Green Road. London, England, UK. This area has a large Asian community, predominantly made up of Bangladeshi people, which makes for a vibrant, cultural diversity in the area.
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  • School boys make their way home along Bethnal Green Road. London, England, UK. This area has a large Asian community, predominantly made up of Bangladeshi people, which makes for a vibrant, cultural diversity in the area.
    20160120_bethnal green schoolboys_B.jpg
  • Young adolescent couples kiss and cuddle in a dark corner of a Gatecrashers' Ball in London, England. Three boys and girls dressed in formal evening-wear have been consuming alcohol during the evening and are groping and snogging. The Gatecrasher Ball was an eighties phenomenon conceived by Edward Ormus Sharington Davenport whose parties catered for Public School students. Labled as excessive and out of control events, Davenport charged <br />
£14 a ticket, for often 3,000 kids although he was later fined for tax evasion.
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  • An adult keyboard player accompanies a young teenage band who perform in a south London pub during a music showcase. The man is a dad whose hands play the keys on the electric piano on a rock and roll number that the young people have learned over the last few weeks. A young girl is lead singer and older boys play a Telecaster lead guitar and bass. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase03-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • City workers relax during lunchtime outside St Botolph's Church Hall. Originally an infants' school, St Botolph's Church Hall stands in the churchyard of the Church of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate. The entrance to the hall is flanked by two Coade stone statues of a schoolboy and schoolgirl wearing 19th century costume. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate’ in 1212. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
    st_botolphs_chapel02-08-10-2013_1_1.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young Spanish schoolboy boy called 'Diego' died at Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "“Diego our friend, we are sorry you had to die like this.” “School will never be the same without you.” From a project about makeshift shrines: “Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • City workers relax during lunchtime outside St Botolph's Church Hall. Originally an infants' school, St Botolph's Church Hall stands in the churchyard of the Church of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate. The entrance to the hall is flanked by two Coade stone statues of a schoolboy and schoolgirl wearing 19th century costume. The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as ‘Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate’ in 1212. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate may have survived the Great Fire of London unscathed, and only lost one window in the Second World War, but on 24 April 1993 was one of the many buildings to be damaged by an IRA bomb.
    city_people06-08-10-2013_1.jpg
  • A young school-boy doing a writing exercise with a volunteer teacher in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer teacher has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
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  • A female teacher guides a young school-boy though a reading exercise in the reading corner in a class room in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The volunteer teacher has been provided to the school by Shine Centre which is a charity that aims to address the high illiteracy rate in South Africa by improving literacy levels among children in schools and disadvantaged communities.
    South-Africa-Reading-Education-8054.jpg
  • A commuter enjoys a peaceful few minutes on the top deck of the state-run ferry across the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Resting his head on a hand, the man waits for the opposite river bank to get closer before continuing his journey. Plying the great African river, this cheap fare state-run ferry is used by commuters of all ages with schoolboys using the service to and from school.
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  • A young middle-class boy sits on the top deck of the state-run ferry across the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Plying the great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and schoolboys use this ferry to and from school.
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  • A young African school-boy wears an eye test frame with test lenses and looks straight forward at an optician’s ophthalmascope in a classroom in Zonnebloem School, Cape Town, South Africa.  The optician works for Mullers, who volunteer their staff to visit schools and perform eye tests on all children in school grade 2.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School enjoy an ice cream while watching their Lag B’Omer bonfire being put out by local fire fighters after it became out of control. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School watch their Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress celebrate the festival with a feast. The schoolboys drink large amounts of alcohol throughout the day and night, towards the end of the night a fight breaks out between two of the boys.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov school celebrate Lag B’Omer with a bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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