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  • As a man cycles downhill with a child on his shoulders, a local lady takes her morning walk with her dogs along Kostelni street in Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • A lady carries a young child on her shoulders during a rain show at Piccadilly Circus in the West End, on 12th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • On 2nd anniversary of Brexit , June 23rd 2018, around 100,000 people marched in Central London demanding a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal. A toddler sits on his grandfathers shoulders in front of a placard saying I want a say on Brexit.
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  • An female acrobat spontaneously stands on the shoulders of a friend at a coffee kiosk, on 2nd March 2017, in The Cut, London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • We are looking from behind a group of red uniformed meat market traders who are manhandling joints of pork from the back of a meat wagon at Macau's main meat market, on the Rua Sul do Mercado de Sao Domingos, just off the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, in Central Macau. The men have on hooded red tunics that hide the bloodstains of dead animal carcasses, a very practical choice of colour (color). One man has half a pig on his shoulders while another holds a leg in his left hand. The animal carcasses look heavy and they are both struggling under their weight. There is much more meat to be offloaded from the truck and the men queue up to take their turn and remove them for sale inside the market building. Besides historical Chinese and Portuguese world-heritage relics, Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas.  Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this temple dedicated to the seafarers' goddess dates from the early 16th century.
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  • Two delivery workmen carry a heavy roll of carpet along a south London street. Having offloaded their load from a nearby lorry (truck) the work colleagues haul the carpet over the left shoulders and continue down this quiet suburban street towards an address on the right. By balancing the weight and making the centre of gravity in the middle to ease their effort, the men still struggle to make their way on the pavement.
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  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Transport worker carrying a heavy load on his shoulders using a yolk, contrasted against a young woman of relative wealth in comparison in Shanghai, China. Migrant workers such as this carry unbelievably heavy loads around the city for very low fees.
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  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis13-17-08-1997_1.jpg
  • Head and shoulder portrait of a male snowboarder outside a traditional woodedn chalet, Refuge De Bostan, in Vallée de la Manche in Morzine / Portes du Soleil ski area on 22nd March 2017 in France
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  • Head and shoulder portrait of a male skier outside a traditional woodedn chalet, Refuge De Bostan, in Vallée de la Manche in Morzine / Portes du Soleil ski area on 22nd March 2017 in France
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  • Head and shoulder portrait of a male skier outside a traditional woodedn chalet, Refuge De Bostan, in Vallée de la Manche in Morzine / Portes du Soleil ski area on 22nd March 2017 in France
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  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • Building a huge allegorical float inside a large warehouse for the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival in Parintins, Brazil. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing bulls, known as Garantido and Caprichoso.
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  • Black youth walk by the derelict and burned out remains of several buildings in a Washington DC impoverished neighbourhood, a city with a very high crime rate, USA.
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  • A native " Pansaleo" man high up in the Andes mountain range in his small farming community, near Simiatug, Ecuador
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  • Building a huge allegorical float inside a large warehouse for the "Boi Bumba" Amazon Carnival, Parintins, Brazil.
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  • Haka festival procession with Buddha weaving its way through village in a thunderous blaze of fireworks. <br />
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The festival, which is called in Chinese "Miao Hui" takes place only once every 8 years for the Que Ken Ba Village. Villagers go to Chao Tian Yan temple to carry the Guan Yin Buddha (God of Mercy) back to their village's temple. (Sept.19-22 is the festival time, chinese calender) keep for a year, to protect the villagers, bring them good luck, happiness and fortune. At the end of the year, Sept.19 following year, the village send back the Buddha to Chao Tian Yan temple, and another village will carry it to their village's temple. there are 8 villages in this festival, so by turn, every village get a chance every 8 years. Chao Tian Yan temple dates back 700 years ago. The special festival has started since then, was only stopped for around 20 years because of Culture revolution. It<br />
began again during late 1980s.
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  • An English caucasian lady smiles at something of interest to the viewer's right. She is a wrinkled female in her sixties, a healthy person with her own original teeth and whose untidy hair is greying and whose skin is slightly tanned under a summer sun. She wears a blue shirt with a wide collar, fashionable in the 1980s (eighties) and has a bemused, attentive expression as if entertained by something of humour out of frame. This is someone's mother and grandmother, at an age when her hard-working life is nearly over and her pension is hopefully covering her everyday needs.
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  • Seven days before the original for the UK to leave the EU, hundreds of thousands of Brexit protestors marched through central London calling for another EU referendum. Organisers of the Put It To The People campaign say more than a million people joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament, on 23rd March 2019, in London, England.
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  • Belsize Park, London, residents join firefighters to protest at proposed closure of the local fire station.
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  • Outside the HQ of Shell , Waterloo, London, England UK. September 15th 2013. Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade . The three-tonne marionette bear is operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers,  and  hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route from Victoria Gardens to Shell's HQ at Waterloo. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, carries in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. This parade  was part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets in over 70 cities worldwide.
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, 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. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • We are looking into the face of a young unidentified male patient before his wisdom tooth extraction procedure at the famous St. Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in London, England. His eyelids have been taped shut, lying unconscious on his back with his head supported, prepped for this brief operation. Surrounding him is various medical equipment including anaesthetic gas that is fed through his nose by plastic tubes. it is spotlessly clean in this operating room, carefully, avoiding infection or bacterial problems like MRSA. Barts is Britain’s oldest hospital – founded in 1123 - and boasts a progressive policy of encouraging day-surgery for out-patients allowing patients to return home soon after their minor operations.
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  • A man carrying freshly harvested vegetables to town in the setting sun outside Dili, capital of Timor Leste.
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  • Portrait bust of Antoninus Pius at The Stoa of Attalos or Attalus located in the east side of archaeological site of the Ancient Agora in Athens just oposite the Adrianou street in Monastiraki. The Stoa of Attalos was built around 150 BC, by Attalos II, King of Pergamos as a donation to Athens. The construction of the building began in 159 BC and ended in 138 BC. The building was the largest in length in Greece during the antiquity. It was rebuilt in the same style and shape from 1953 to 1956 with beautifully crafted marble columns. It is recognised as one of the most impressive stoa in the Athenian Agora. Typical of the Hellenistic age, the stoa was more elaborate and larger than the earlier buildings of ancient Athens. The stoa's dimensions are 115 by 20 metres wide (377 by 65 feet wide) and it is made of Pentelic marble and limestone. The building skillfully makes use of different architectural orders. The Doric order was used for the exterior colonnade on the ground floor with Ionic for the interior colonnade. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica periphery and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy.
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  • 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.
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  • A young woman walks over London's Millennium Bridge while using her smartphone. Seen from over her left shoulder we look at her earrings that hang from her lobes and the traps of her shoulder bag. As she walks over the bridge her attention is the touch screen that shows her messages and she replies to the latest, looking down and thumbing the screen with pink painted nails.
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  • Two ladies stand outside of a bar to sip lunchtime drinks in Broadgate, City of London. Dressed in matching scarlet red jackets, the brunette and the blonde look relaxed in the warm mid-day sunshine during a warm spell in the capital. The nearest woman holds the remains of a gin and tonic whose lemon slice  is at the bottom of her glass while her friend or colleague, with wide shoulder pads and gold chain strap for her bag draped over across a shoulder, smiles to show white teeth. In the background are other women who wear the same red clothes and these primary colours are set amongst the deep green foliage of the bar’s plants.
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  • Man carries a piece of furniture on his shoulder echoing the brick pattern on an Edwardian park wall in south London. With such an awkward item to carry some distance, the man has decided to carry the piece with his head through the middle - the coincidence of the patterned brick makes for a humerous scene, a visual pun.
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  • A man carries electronic equipment on his shoulder in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England.
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  • A rear view of a man eating his lunch with his orange tie laying over his shoulder and down his back, at the Strand West End branch of Sushi restaurant, ITSU, on 28th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • With his personal belongings and beach shingle surrounding him, a man sits on his seaside towel in soft sunlight in Dover eating a snack which is dribbling out of his mouth. The skin from many previous hours of exposure to solar radiation has left him raw and sunburned and therefore dried and dying skin is peeling in shreds on his back and shoulder. He looks like an eccentric local character who seems oblivious to the health risks that his continued sunbathing is inflicting on his bizarrely scorched body.
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  • Wearing shorts, long socks, slippers and a t-shirt on an otherwise cold autumn afternoon, a male cyclist looks over shoulder before re-joining traffic flow on busy Charing Cross Road in central London. His bike is of a foldaway Brompton-style design, such that can collapse into a small carry-on bundle that can be accommodated on public transport like trains. A London taxi drives past at speed near Leicester Square underground station in the heart of Theatreland.
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  • Environmental campaigners protest outside the venue for a public meeting to discuss plans to convert a section of the M4 motorway into a ‘smart motorway’ on 16th November 2015 in Reading, United Kingdom. The campaigners, from groups including Friends of the Earth, are opposed to the plans for a smart motorway with no hard shoulder between London and Reading on the grounds of safety, noise, air pollution, climate change impact and cost.
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  • A man who is wearing a denim material jacket with studs sewn into the fabric and an expensive-looking wrist watch, drapes his arm over the shoulder of an unseen female at a glitzy couture party in London, for the fashion label Voyage. A large bouquet of flowers on the right are lit by a spotlight making their colours very bright and garish. The gathering was to celebrate the opening of the company's new store on the Fulham Road in a trendy area of Chelsea. It is an image of colourful (colorful) chic opulence and although  we see only the arm and back of two people and the slightly blurred flowers to the right, we imagine these people are wealthy and from privileged backgrounds.
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  • A deliveryman carries the rear of a long roll of carpet into a nearby building off Leicester Square, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • Deliverymen struggle carry a long roll of carpet into a nearby building off Leicester Square, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • A US Air Force fighter pilot with the 492nd Fighter Squadron stands in front an aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow, on 18th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • In spring sunshine, a City worker incongruously carries a pair of wrapped skis through the Square Mile, the capitals financial district, on 3rd March 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Sheik, alone in his house with no money and nothing to do. A former security guard, he was retrained after his mutilation and became a baker. He has an oven but few people can afford to buy his bread. Several years ago his wife fled to the USA and took his children with her. Sometimes she sends money.  Village near Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A woman brutally injured by rebels in an unsuccessful attempt to cut off her arm. The arm is now completely lifeless. The amputees carry the visible scars of the Sierra Leonian conflict on their bodies - a constant and painful reminder of the cruelty and damaged psyches of the years of war. Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A labourer reads a copy of Britain's tabloid Sun Newspaper. The worker holds a coffee and wears a working mans' cap with a pencil in his right ear as he sits in sunshine during a lunch break. In the context of the News International media scandals of 2011, the (daily) Sun is a sister paper to the now defunct (Sunday) News of The World, closed down by proprietor Rupert Murdoch in the light of public outrage over phone hacking. The Sun's own headline refers to the previous day when Murdoch sat before a Parliamentary Select Committee to answer questions about the nature of phone hacking into private voicemails of victims and their grieving families. Murdoch's overall message was the committee grilling was his most humble day.
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  • A labourer reads a copy of Britain's tabloid Sun Newspaper. The worker holds a coffee and wears a working mans' cap with a pencil in his right ear as he sits in sunshine during a lunch break. Page Three (or Page 3) is a tabloid newspaper photograph consisting of a topless female glamour model, usually printed on the paper's third page. Women who model regularly for the feature are known as Page Three girls. "Page Three" and "Page 3" are registered trademarks of the Sun tabloid, where the feature originated in 1970. In the context of the News International media scandals of 2011, the (daily) Sun is a sister paper to the now defunct (Sunday) News of The World, closed down by proprietor Rupert Murdoch in the light of public outrage over phone hacking.
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  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicopter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
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  • A pilot of the US Air Force holds the throttle levers in the cockpit of a C-17 transport jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK. The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. It was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas; the company later merged with Boeing. The C-17 is used for rapid strategic airlift of troops and cargo to main operating bases or forward operating bases throughout the world. It can also perform tactical airlift, medical evacuation and airdrop missions. The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948.
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  • A pilot of the US Air Force holds the throttle levers in the cockpit of a C-17 transport jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK. The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. It was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas; the company later merged with Boeing. The C-17 is used for rapid strategic airlift of troops and cargo to main operating bases or forward operating bases throughout the world. It can also perform tactical airlift, medical evacuation and airdrop missions. The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948.
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  • Seventeen officer cadets march in line wearing full dress uniform with their rifles on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The recently-graduated soldiers march in a near-perfect line looking over their right shoulders towards their commanding officers and VIP guests which sometimes includes Her Majesty the Queen. We see every face clearly and notice their different heights and sizes.  Sharp focus is centred on the smallest man in the parade. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
    20150717_sinister poster_E.jpg
  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • Sinister poster advertising for a club night, looks over the shoulders of passing people near to Liverpool Street station on Bishopsgate. London, UK. The character on the poster is that of a 1940s secret agent, private investigator or spy looking at his target.
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  • The final barrel of the night is prepared for the mens running. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • Men watch a barrel burn on the floor. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • A young girl 10 runs with a barrel as sparks fly out and her friends support. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • Portait of a Bhutanese woman wearing a kira, the traditional dress outside her home in Yangthang village, Haa valley, Western Bhutan. The kira is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric, wrapped and folded around the body and pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. Women's hair is usually cut short.
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  • Tourists consult a map opposite L'Opera - known as the Palais Garnier - in Paris, France. We look over the shoulders of the two tourists who are pointing and looking at the street plan of the French capital, on a summer's day. The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The Palais Garnier is "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris.
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  • 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.
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  • A middle-aged man walks beneath the sign of the London Stock Exchange at their old premises known as the Tower.  The gent looks hunched as if with all the troubles of the world on his shoulders, a pessimistic view on the world. He makes a sorrowful figure with such a strong presence against the wall shadow. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986, this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • "The week of Dunblane."  Mindful of the Dunblane massacre that week, a baby massage class takes place at a health clinic in south London. Spread across a matt are six babies of varying ages and sizes whose mums are tenderly stroking their infants' bodies and senses with soft, gentle touches over the head, face, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach and legs which is a recommended way of tactile communication between mother and child. Some children are looking up into their mothers' faces, others are looking elsewhere and one is upset but comforted. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • We see the head and shoulders of a man in military uniform who stands motionless beside the American flag.  he is at a graduation ceremony for United States Air Force pilots who have just passed a week-long survival courseheld at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. Its highy-trained personel conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Conducted, in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • Seen from a high viewpoint, a young girl rides on her father's shoulders in the middle of the Longleat Hedge Maze. She can barely see over the walls of foliage, so tall is the labyrinth of twisty pathways, and she holds out her hands to brush against the green foliage. Made up of more than 16,000 English Yews, Longleat’s spectacular hedge maze - the world's largest - was first laid out in 1975 by the designer Greg Bright. The Maze covers an area of around 1.48 acres (0.6 hectares) with a total pathway length of 1.69 miles (2.72 kilometres). Unlike most other conventional mazes it’s actually three-dimensional.
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  • Female officer cadets march in line with their weapons on shoulders past guests and VIPs at their passing out parade in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. An honoured cadet strides in front holding a ceremonial sword vertically in her white glove while one cadet in the main line-up is of an ethnic minority. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. Sandhurst is prestigious and has had many famous alumni including Sir Winston Churchill, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and, more recently, Prince Harry and Prince William. All British Army officers, and many from elsewhere in the world, are trained at Sandhurst. RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947, from a merger of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
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  • Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher is seen giving a party speech at the 1991 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, Lancashire, a full year after being removed by her own colleagues the previous November. Her softer and perhaps pensive expression contrasts with her reputation of the Iron Lady with a gaze that made her opponents uncomfortable. She seems distant here, perhaps recalling her great days in office when she was a powerful figure in world politics. She is wearing the same favourite two-tone blue suit with wide shoulders and a pearl ear-rings as she wore the year before when still in office. The ambient stage lights emphasize the blonde highlights in her hair.
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  • A twelve year-old girl visiting the London branch of the Apple Store in London's Regent Street, is listening intently to digital music on a green iPod Nano. She is concentrating on the music playing through her headphones and resting her elbows on the desk top furniture. In front of her is a price list for this audio gadget. telling us that is costs £129.  The girl's hair is parted in the middle of her head and she wears a clip to keep her hair from her face. Over her shoulders is a display of headsets on a rack and in the background an older lady is also listening to music through another device.
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  • On the tarmac of RAF Northolt, a military and VIP airfield in north London, the recently-deceased body of Diana Princess of Wales is borne on the six shoulders of an RAF pallbearer guard, her coffin carried away from the Royal Air Force (BAe) 146 jet belonging to the Queen's flight used by members of the Royal family to travel to location around the country. Draped in the Royal Standard which is the flag used by Queen Elizabeth II in her capacity as Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The servicemen are in full ceremonial uniforms and wear immaculate white gloves to handle this very solemn occasion in British history. Their duty as servants to the crown being respectful and professional.
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  • A lone businessman walks along the River Thames beneath the prestigious address of number 1 London Bridge, an office block situated on the far southern side of London's ancient Bridge. Late afternoon light shines on the corner pillar that bears the name of the building and that of the architect John S Bonnington Partnership, the building's designers. The sun also illuminates the head and shoulders of the middle-aged man who wears a dark suit and walks with hands in pockets. The rest of his body remains in shadow as do the steps he is about to climb up to bridge and pavement (sidewalk) level. Behind him the waves of the River Thames ripple and a vista of the northern bank and the ancient City of London London's oldest and richest autonomous region) can be seen in the distance. The original Roman and medieval bridges would have been near this point.
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  • A woman up on shoulders puts her hands in the air during DJ Pete Tong set in the dance tent at the Rockness festival in Scotland in 2008.
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  • The 49th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europe's largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. Brightly coloured and feather costumes that symbolise the carnival parade. A girl sits on the shoulders of her friend.
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  • An elderley lady in traditional Kinnauri clothing with a baby on her shoulders, 20th October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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  • Two demonstrators with St Georges flags draped over their shoulders complain to police after walking through the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square outside the House of Commons ready to invite their local MP’s to a People’s Assembly on the climate and ecological emergency.  Westminster London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a political movement with the main aim to avert climate breakdown, minimise human extinction and stop ecological collapse using non violent resistance.
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  • A young man wearing a Playboy bunny t-shirt and white rabbit mask holds an American flag over his shoulders during the Brighton Pride Parade on 6th August 2016 in Brighton in the United Kingdom.
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  • The Mikoshi is carried through the village of Kiso Mura as part of the Summer festival parade. Here been ovesrlloked by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 the senior Shinto priest of the village of Kiso Mura. For all the participants it’s an all day sake drinking affair, stopping en route to soak up the alcohol with food as they sing along as part of the celebrations. The Mikoshi is also a portable Shinto shrine which on continuation of the ceremony is then carried by a large number of strong young men on their shoulders across the village for approximately 12 – 14 hours.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • A male barrel runner shields his eyes from the heat of the flames as a barrel is lit. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The girls barrel runners. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • A crowd watches as the barrel is lit in preparation for running. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The final barrel of the night is prepared for the mens running. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • The metal rims of a burnt barrel smoulder on the floor with the crowd around it. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • A shirt marked with tar and soon after tar barrel running. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • A female tar barrel runner looks on in the glow of the flames. The annual running of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary, Devon is a tradition thought to go back as far as 500 years. Every November the 5th, crowds of thousands flock to this small town in the south west of England to see men, women and children run with burning barrels on their shoulders. Only people who were born in Ottery are allowed to participate, and they are proud of the tradition and work hard to keep it alive, even in the face of health and safety regulations. It is not competitive but rather a supportive act where they pass the barrels between themselves, encouraging everyone in the team to have a go.
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  • Protestor with a child on his shoulders wearing Guy Fawkes anonymous maks in front of Big Ben houses of Parliament. Thousands of protesters, some masked meet in Trafalgar square and march around central London marking 5th November guy fawkes night, some inceidents were reported and scuffles with the Police in Parliament square, Buckingham palace, Regent Street, Picadilly and Oxford street, London, UK.
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