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  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the headline on the front page of the USA Today newspaper runs a quote from President George W Bush - The Hour is Coming - a message of imminent reprisals against al Qaeda terrorists and the followers in Afghanistan of the Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA.
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  • A lone man smokes a cigarette opposite contemporary poster of young people, in London's Carnaby Street. As youths of today are seen in the window of a fashion store on this stylish street in the capital's Soho district. The man draws on his cigarette and inhales while siting on a corner step. He is in deep thought while enjoying a brief respite from a working day.
    street_man02-20-11-2014_1.jpg
  • The face of Russian President Vladimirovich Putin appears on the front page of American global newspaper USA Today. The detail shows us Putin's face looking out from under the rack on sale outside a central London newsagent that sells titles from around the world. The date shows that page 1 is on the the sixth of March 2014 - 03.06.14 - when uncertainty of the Russian's annexation of the Crimea made headlines around the globe. Propaganda came from both sides as each nation tried to persuade other countries to back their own actions. Vladimir Putin has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. He previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
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  • Clothing hanging on a washing line in a Pimlico housing estate in London. Reflecting a bygone era when the residents of inner-city tenements and housing estates hung out their washing on wash days (usually Mondays in the UK), relying on honesty and the community spirit to ensure their safety. Today we see this rarely apart from courtyards like this in west London. The walls are made fromclassic London stock bricks but the colours of a vibrant 21st century Britain are seen strung along the line.
    washing_line01-13-06-2013_1_1_1.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show42-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show41-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show38-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show37-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Newly-elected Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show35-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The white helmets of the Royal Marines who march through the City of London during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show34-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The white helmets of the Royal Marines who march through the City of London during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show31-10-11-2012.jpg
  • VIPs in the City of London and from the armed services, watch the Lord Mayor's Show at Mansion House. Decorated officers and their families stand alongside the newly-elected Lord Mayor as the procession passes-by. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show30-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A fuel tanker with the union jack and helping top make Britain greater passes the Mansion House during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show20-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A soldier sits with his weapon on a truck on a float passing  the newly-elected Lord Mayor of London during the Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show19-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford with wife and Mayoress Claire and daughter Thea, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show18-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Newly-elected Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show17-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The Lord Mayor's carriage arrives at Mansion House during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show15-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The Lord Mayor's carriage parades through Cornhill during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show13-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Lifeguards parade past Cornhill during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show12-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Members of Doggett's Coat and Badge walk towards the Guldhall before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show11-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Pikemen in the Guildhall courtyard await the arrival of the new Lord Mayor of London before the start of the annual procession for the new Mayor. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, an ex-financier with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district.
    lord_mayors_show01-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The rear of the statue of George Peabody and today's businessman and modern offices in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past. Peabody was a philanthropist, banker and entrepreneur George Peabody (1795 to 1869). The pavement is a pedestrian area near the Bank of England and adjacent to the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite.
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  • Now a peaceful and idyllic farmland landscape but once the battlefield of the Battle of Flooden, on 28th June 2019, in Branxton, Northumberland, England. The Battle of Flodden Field was undoubtedly the most famous confrontation between the English and Scots ever fought on English soil. It took place eight miles to the north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on September 9th, 1513 in the reign of Henry VIII. Approximately 10,000 Scots and 5,000 English were slaughtered.
    flooden_battlefield-01-28-06-2019.jpg
  • The location of a burning cross, felled during the Blitz in WW2, on 21st September 2016, in Waterloo, SE1, south London borough of Southwark, England UK. This is the spot where the burning cross fell from the roof of the church is marked out with stones in the churchyard on the night of 17 April 1941. No-one was killed at Christ Church but 17 people involved in civil defence lost their lives in Southwark that night.
    WW2_cross-01-21-09-2016.jpg
  • Tourists admire the statue of Diana of Versailles, a slightly over lifesize marble statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (Latin: Diana), with a deer, located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BC. The statue is also known as Diana à la Biche, Diane Chasseresse ("Diana Huntress"), Artemis of the Chase, and Artemis with the Hind. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it has  100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
    louvre_paris27-17-08-2012.jpg
  • Where young Germans once risked their lives, graffiti and tags now adorn the concrete surfaces of original sections of the Berlin wall at the East Side Gallery on Muhlenstrasse, Berlin. The site is the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_gallery13-08-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of Bernauer Strasse, showing a section of preserved Berlin wall where East Germans were killed while trying to cross the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
    berlin_wall_bernauer03-07-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Now a peaceful and idyllic farmland landscape but once the battlefield of the Battle of Flooden, on 28th June 2019, in Branxton, Northumberland, England. The Battle of Flodden Field was undoubtedly the most famous confrontation between the English and Scots ever fought on English soil. It took place eight miles to the north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on September 9th, 1513 in the reign of Henry VIII. Approximately 10,000 Scots and 5,000 English were slaughtered.
    flooden_battlefield-04-28-06-2019.jpg
  • A detail of the Edinburgh Evening News board on the Gorgie Road, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    edinburgh-21-26-06-2019.jpg
  • High-rise towers on the Southbank and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • A Jewish gentleman, bus stop graffiti and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
    waterloo-04-30-01-2018.jpg
  • A detail of three screens showing the current rates for foreign currencies on the Strand, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    currency_rates-01-12-12-2017.jpg
  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to new housing and the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building whose earliest reference is in 1122 though its strong associations are with Charles Dickens, whose father was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea prison. The Shard 2012 is at 310 m 1,017 ft tall, the tallest building in the European Union.
    shard_church-02-28-11-2016.jpg
  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to new housing and the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building whose earliest reference is in 1122 though its strong associations are with Charles Dickens, whose father was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea prison. The Shard 2012 is at 310 m 1,017 ft tall, the tallest building in the European Union.
    shard_church-01-28-11-2016.jpg
  • Modern architecture from nearby offices and the carving showing the disaster of the Great Fire of London at the base of the Monument, on 1st September 2016, in the City of London, England UK. This old landmark commemorates the Great Fire of 1666, a date sealed in the capitals history because it burned the central parts of the city of London, gutting the medieval area inside the old Roman city wall. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Pauls Cathedral and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the Citys 80,000 inhabitants.
    city_people-20-01-09-2016_1.jpg
  • Royal faces from an old empire with a three year-old Maria Theresia and a portrait of some of her 16 children incl Marie Antoinette with a modern day Austria outside Schloss Schonbrunn palace on 27th June 2016, in Vienna, Austria. The cruise line image is for the Viking Line whose tourists are inside the nearby royal apartments. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina 1717–1780 was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma.
    vienna_schonbrunn-04-27-06-2016.jpg
  • Lunchtime sun for City of London office workers in the grounds of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate church, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. Christian worship has probably been offered at this location at the church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate since Roman times. 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_people-21-09-06-2016.jpg
  • The scale replica of Palmyras 2,000 year-old Arch of Triumph in Londons Trafalgar Square on 20th April 2016. The 1,800-year-old arch was destroyed by Islamic State militants in October 2015 and the 6-metre 20ft model, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, is intended as an act of defiance: to show that restoration of the ancient site is possible if the will is there. Reconstructed by the Institute of Digital Archaeology IDA using 3D technology, it will travel to cities around the world after leaving London. .
    palmyra_arch01-20-04-2016.jpg
  • Flowering Bougainvillea and the matching colours of modern hieroglyphic artwork painted on a house's wall on local wasteground in the village of Gezirat, West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt361-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Modern hieroglyphic artwork painted on a wall of local wasteground in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Shown on the wall is an unknown queen (possibly Queen Hatshepsut, the 5th Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty) being courted by the people.
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  • Modern hieroglyphic artwork painted on a wall of local wasteground in the village of Gezirat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The pictures show the Battle of Kadesh which took place around 1274 BC between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River. The battle is the earliest battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. It was probably the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving perhaps 5,000–6,000 chariots.
    egypt341-06-03-2016_1.jpg
  • An elderly man with a stick (with his well-defined shadow) walks past the portrait by Francesco Goya of Don Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo, the Architect, sponsored by Credit Suisse and advertised on a construction hoarding outside the National Portrait Gallery. Paintings by the Spanish romantic court artist are being exhibited inside the National Gallery next door and while a large grey hoarding is in place during works in Trafalgar Square, some of Goya's work is reproduced to viewers outside.
    trafalgar_people04-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • A busker dressed as Santa with visitors to Trafalgar Square, central London. Seemingly sitting in the frame of a portrait by the Spanish artist Goya, we see visitors looking around for directions in this landmark in the middle of the capital. It is weeks before Christmas and on tghe left we see the Countess-Duchess of Benavente by Francesco Goya (1885), work sponsored by Credit Suisse and advertised on a construction hoarding outside the National Portrait Gallery. Doña María Josefa Alonso-Pimentel y Téllez-Girón, Duchess of Osuna, Grandee of Spain, suo jure 15th Countess-12th Duchess of Benavente, Grandee of Spain (1752 - 1834) was a Spanish aristocrat, famous for her patronage of artists, writers and scientists and who died at the age of 81.
    trafalgar_people01-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • Landscape showing the ski jump for the 1956 Olympics in the city of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy. Although Cortina was unable to go ahead with the scheduled 1944 Winter Olympics because of the Second World War, it hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 and subsequently a number of world winter-sports events. Cortina d'Ampezzo commonly referred to as Cortina, is a town and comune in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.
    cortina_dampezzo08-20-07-2015_1.jpg
  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
    modern_civilisation12-10-03-2015_1.jpg
  • The modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster opposite 21st Century architecture. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. The City of London is a city and ceremonial county within London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the conurbation has since grown far beyond the City's borders.
    modern_civilisation11-10-03-2015_1.jpg
  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
    modern_civilisation07-10-03-2015_1.jpg
  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
    modern_civilisation04-10-03-2015_1.jpg
  • 18th century English aristocrat Henry Bennet on a construction hoarding alongside a construction barrier in central London. He adorns the hoarding at 55 St James's in London, a street in Westminster known more for 18th century opulence and style. Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington KG, PC (1618 – 28 July 1685) was an English statesman and Royalist supporter of Charles I in the English civil war.
    history_hoarding06-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Queen Mary II on a construction hoarding alongside a construction barrier in central London. She adorns the hoarding at 55 St James's in London, a street in Westminster known more for 18th century opulence and style although Mary was born at St. James's Palace, the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York (the future James II & VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. Mary II (1662 –1694) was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband (who was also her first cousin), William III and II, from 1689 until her death.
    history_hoarding04-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • King Henry VIII (8th) on a construction hoarding alongside a red standing pedestrian light in central London. Henry is seen in his most famous guise, as an obese middle-aged Tudor monarch, striking his famous pose symbolising power and wealth. He adorns the outer face of the hoarding at 55 St James's in London, a street in Westminster known more for 18th century opulence and style, rather than Tudor culture. His appearance is juxtaposed to a red pedestrian light that mimics the royal pose.
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  • Ancient Bronze Age path and former drovers' route from Scotland to London, at Scotch Corner on the North Yorkshire moors. We look southwards downhill, a muddy lane on the edge of the North Yorks Moors National Park. For thousands of years, since the Bronze Age but more so in the last few centuries, the hooves of horses and sheep were transported along this path. Those treading the ground, helping to bring trade, spread news, introduce ideas and technology. Also known as Hambleton Street - or Via Regalis, after the Roman era - the footpath is now used by leisurely walkers on the Cleveland Way.
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  • Ancient Bronze Age path and former drovers' route from Scotland to London, at Scotch Corner on the North Yorkshire moors. We look southwards downhill, a muddy lane on the edge of the North Yorks Moors National Park. For thousands of years, since the Bronze Age but more so in the last few centuries, the hooves of horses and sheep were transported along this path. Those treading the ground, helping to bring trade, spread news, introduce ideas and technology. Also known as Hambleton Street - or Via Regalis, after the Roman era - the footpath is now used by leisurely walkers on the Cleveland Way.
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  • Businessmen beneath Cornhill pillars in the City of London. As a gentleman sits on the steps talking intoi a smartphone, another suit walks up beneath the tall columns of this architecture in the Square Mile, the oldest and financial heart of the capital. The classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building has Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, designed by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria). It’s the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It’s successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.
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  • WW1 memorial soldier statue, commemorating the Royal Fusiliers in the City of London. In the 100th year after WW1 started, a detail of a war memorial soldier's head and shoulders, a hero in the City of London remembering those killed in the First World War, lost in the trenches and the fields of Flanders from 1914-19. Dedicated by the City of London, the UK capital's financial and historic heart, the statue represents a lost generation when the nation's youth sacrificed their lives in the 20th century's first great conflict. The inscription says that their names will live for evermore.
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  • Lunchtime sun for City of London office workers in the grounds of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate church. <br />
Christian worship has probably been offered at this location at the church of St. Botolph’s without Bishopsgate since Roman times. 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.
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  • 1990s children play near a display of wartime Brits during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. Two girls wearing identical pink costumes with hearts stand near the poster of the happy wartime couple. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
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  • Addington Square, a Georgian and Regency garden square in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwar, named after prime minister, Henry Addington. We see a wide landscape of this well-known square that has survived world wars intact. Addington Square is unusually well preserved, and a conservation area with the houses that make up the east, south and west sides of the square listed Grade II. Because three sides of the square back onto Burgess Park and there is no through traffic, it is a peaceful space popular with lunchtime office workers. This controlled access, period buildings and proximity to central London also make it popular with film crews. In the 1960s the square was notorious as the base of the Richardson Gang, a south London rival to the Kray twins gangsters.
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  • Addington Square, a Georgian and Regency garden square in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwar, named after prime minister, Henry Addington. We see a wide landscape of this well-known square that has survived world wars intact. Addington Square is unusually well preserved, and a conservation area with the houses that make up the east, south and west sides of the square listed Grade II. Because three sides of the square back onto Burgess Park and there is no through traffic, it is a peaceful space popular with lunchtime office workers. This controlled access, period buildings and proximity to central London also make it popular with film crews. In the 1960s the square was notorious as the base of the Richardson Gang, a south London rival to the Kray twins gangsters.
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  • The entrance/exit pillar and gate to Dulwich Park in the south London borough of Southwark. Old College Gate is on College Rd, one of four main gates into the park. Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England, opened in 1890 by Lord Rosebery, initially designed by Charles Barry (junior), later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby (who also designed Battersea, Ruskin and parts of Southwark Parks). In 2004–6, the park was restored to its original Victorian layout, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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  • The entrance/exit pillar and gate to Dulwich Park in the south London borough of Southwark. Old College Gate is on College Rd, one of four main gates into the park. Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England, opened in 1890 by Lord Rosebery, initially designed by Charles Barry (junior), later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby (who also designed Battersea, Ruskin and parts of Southwark Parks). In 2004–6, the park was restored to its original Victorian layout, following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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  • A wall mural painting of a sexy woman at the former WW2 Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the USAAF's 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • WW2 wall map painting showing American states at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was the home of the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadron of the USAAF's 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • WW2 vulture emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the USAAF's 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • WW2 unicorn emblem painting at the former Flixton air force base in Suffolk, England. Flixton was a former airfield located around 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Bungay and home  to the 706th Bombardment Squadron, an operational squadrons of the USAAF's 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy). The 446th operated chiefly against strategic objectives on the Continent from December 1943 until April 1945. Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once formed part of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the USAAF's 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once formed part of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the USAAF's 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
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  • The semi-derelict bunkhouse at the former WW2 Wendling air base, Norfolk, England. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). During the war it was used primarily as a bomber airfield, being the home of the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force 392nd Bombardment Group. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The 392d BG entered combat on 9 September 1943 and engaged primarily in bombardment of strategic objectives on the Continent until April 1945. The group attacked such targets as an oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, a marshalling yard at Osnabrück, a railroad viaduct at Bielefeld, steel plants at Brunswick, a tank factory at Kassel, and gas works at Berlin. With the end of military control the airfield has become a turkey farm.
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  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
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  • Thorns coming through broken window at the former WW2 Old Buckenham airfield, built during 1942-43 for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. It was given designation USAAF Air Station 144. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. Throughout combat, the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization. Targets included a fuel depot at Dulmen, marshalling yards at Paderborn, aircraft assembly plants at Gotha, railway centres at Hamm, an ordnance depot at Glinde, oil refineries at Gelsenkirchen, chemical works at Leverkusen, an airfield at Neumünster, a canal at Minden, and a railway viaduct at Altenbeken. James "Jimmy" Stewart, the Hollywood movie star, was Group Operations Officer at Old Buckenham during the spring of 1944.
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  • Two women gaze at the names of war dead at the Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world – there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme.  The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • A visitor bends to pay respects and read inscriptions to wreaths on the ground at the WW1 Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world.
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  • Locals from Cirencester in the county of Gloucestershire sit below the first world war memorial on St John Baptist <br />
church wall in the city centre. A mother and child sit on a bench below the names of those local men lost in the first war (AD1914-18) - the 200 names tell a story of the lost generation of youth, now replaced by the modern Brit, unused to self-sacrifice and loss on an unimaginable scale. The church is medieval, renowned for its perpendicular porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs. The chancel is the oldest part of the church. Construction started around 1115.
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  • Tourists admire the Coronation of Napoleon in Coronation room of the King's apartments in the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. The painting (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a work of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • Tourists admire the Coronation of Napoleon in Coronation room of the King's apartments in the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. The painting (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a work of almost 10 x 6 metres completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • The 73 metre long Hall of the Mirrors in the King’s Grand Apartment, Versaille, Paris. The Hall of Mirrors (Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces) is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles and is renowned as being one of the most famous rooms in the world. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • Tourists crowd in the Salon de Mars in the King’s Grand Apartment, Versaille, Paris. The choice of this military theme which inspired all the decoration of the salon can be explained by the fact that this large room was originally meant to serve as the guard room for the parade apartment. It was later reserved, at evening soirees, for music and dancing, so that it was commonly known as the "ballroom". The court ballets were strictly regulated and required many rehearsals; the princes took part in them, sometimes mixed in with professional dancers. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688–1737) in the the King’s Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d’Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688–1737) in the the King’s Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d’Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen – sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers – were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen – sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers – were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen – sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers – were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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  • An aerial view of a west London street and its surrounding neighbourhood. Homes and houses, flats, tower blocks and estates are seen stretching into the distance from this high vantage-point across the capital city. Cars of residents are parked on both sides of the tree-lined roads.
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  • CCTV cameras watch Londoners with the background of Canaletto's 18th century painting of the Lord Mayor's Show regatta at London Bridge railway station. The  30-metre-long work of art is positioned on a temporary wall at the recently-refurbished station entrance. The picture is a reproduction of Canaletto’s The Thames on Lord Mayor’s Day, Reproduced at this scale commuters and tourists are be able to admire the detail of the famous painting depicting the bustling activity of the Lord Mayor’s Show river procession as seen from Bankside before 1752.
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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.
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  • Traffic streaks past a floodlit Roman Colosseum on Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome Italy. With traffic streaking past this ancient building in a modern-day Italian capital. The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and stone, it was the largest amphitheatre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest amphitheatre in the world.
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  • An aerial landscape view of a railway network whose tracks and rails converge on a station in central London. Three trains filled with commuters all make their way into this unseen railway hub. The route curls away into the distance, slicing its way through the capital. London Rail is a directorate of Transport for London (TFL), involved in the relationship with the National Rail network within London, UK. It manages non-tube rail systems in London. Railways started to change the landscape of London itself, followed by its suburbs in the mid to late 19th century when streets and neighbourhoods were cut in half by the new infrastructure.
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  • Two heads wearing aviation caps seen just over the striped wings of a WW2-era P-51 Mustang fighter plane during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
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  • Three enthusiasts ponder the prospect of owning a WW2 warbird during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
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  • A detail close-up of a City of London sign, locating the site of the former Grey Friars Monastery. In London, the Greyfriars was a Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles. It was the second Franciscan religious house to be founded in the country. It flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, but was dissolved in 1538 at the instigation of Henry VIII as part of the dissolution of the monasteries.
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  • A loyalist wall 300th anniversary mural in a protestant area of Belfast showing King William of Orange (the Dutch-born King Billy), the hero of protestant Northern Ireland whose victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 ensured a protestant northern Ireland. The Battle was fought between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones – the Catholic King James and the Protestant King William – across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland. The battle, won by William, was a turning point in James' unsuccessful attempt to regain the crown and ultimately helped ensure the continuation of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.
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  • Tourists admire the marble statue of Hermaphrodite at the Louvre, Paris. Hermaphroditus is  life size, reclining on a couch with a form that is partly derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes and partly from contemporaneous feminised Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus/Bacchus. It represents a subject that was much repeated in Hellenistic times and in ancient Rome, to judge from the number of versions that have chanced to survive. It derives its name from its best known examples, in marble, which were part of the Borghese collection. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it has  100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
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  • Tourists admire Aphrodite, otherwise known as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre art museum. The ancient Greek statue is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, created sometime between 130 and 100 BC. The Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love and beauty  and Venus to the Romans) is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm high. The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums and the most visited art museum in the world.
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  • Tourists admire Aphrodite, otherwise known as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre art museum. The ancient Greek statue is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, created sometime between 130 and 100 BC. The Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love and beauty  and Venus to the Romans) is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm high. The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums and the most visited art museum in the world.
    louvre_paris20-17-08-2012.jpg
  • Tourists admire Aphrodite, otherwise known as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre art museum. The ancient Greek statue is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, created sometime between 130 and 100 BC. The Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love and beauty  and Venus to the Romans) is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm high. The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums and the most visited art museum in the world.
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  • Tourist ties his shoelace under the gaze of the statue of Ares (Mars), the 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman marble 2.11 metres statue. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
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  • Tourists walk towards The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 100,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
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