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  • A woman patient has her mole removed during a local procedure at a clinic in the City of London. Looking very worried and perhaps feeling mild pain despite a local anaesthetic to the affected area, the lady has stopped in during her working day at a nearby office job. Bending over the small wound on the lady’s back, the doctor uses a scalpel to cut away at the mole that was giving discomfort, or suspected of becoming malignant.
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  • NHS Paramedic Janet Greenhead attends to a lady passenger in Heathrow airport's terminal 3 who has tripped on escalators and badly gashed her leg. Janet applies a dressing and cleans the deep wound before advising the lady to visit a local hospital. Paramedics 'Responders' are with the cycle response unit (CRU), part of the London Ambulance Service whose job is to attend injuries within Heathrow, cycling through the terminals on mountain bikes. She answers radio calls from those with a cut finger, a baggage handler who’s injured an arm, a child who’s fallen over with cuts and bruises or a much more serious incident like a cardiac arrest which are common in an airport where passengers feel under stress or who forget to take their medicines while jet lagged. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Members of an Amputee Football Team practice their game in Makeni at a resettlement camp for war wounded and amputees. 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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  • James and his wife Nbalu, sit and chat with their neighbours. Amputee and war Wounded resettlement camp, Hastings, 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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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia.  DHS dynamic hip screw for a comminuted chrochanteric hip fracture from a bullet. Operation performed on Libyan fighter.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Operation to insert a  DHS dynamic hip screw for a comminuted chrochanteric hip fracture from a bullet - sewing up after operation.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Operation to insert a DHS dynamic hip screw for a comminuted chrochanteric hip fracture from a bullet. Doctor  looking at the image intensifier.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Operation to insert a  DHS dynamic hip screw for a comminuted chrochanteric hip fracture from a bullet. The instrumentalist measures screws to find the right size one.
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  • Tatouine hospital, surgeon paints betatadine, antiseptic, onto leg before operation to remove foot.
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  • A man works at using his new artificial arm, Handicap International rehab centre, Murraytown Amputee Camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • An amputtee exercise his stump ready for a new artificial limb to be fitted. Murraytown Camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Two tailors work together in the Murraytown Amputee Camp in Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A father and son, both amputees, walk to their tent in the rain. Murraytown amputee camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • These Sierra Leonian amputees get used to walking on their ?Äúnew?Äù legs. It?Äôs hard work - the stumps are still soft and movement is painful. Their instructor, a Sierra Leonian used to working with the naturally handicapped gently scolds his charges, urging them to stand for longer periods and to imagine that they ?Äú...are just like babies.?Äù Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fofona begs for money outside the central post office in Freetown. Hassan, 16, crippled by polio since he was 10 was caught by the rebels who hacked of his good arm on a tree stump. From a very poor family, he cannot work and so must beg.  freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • An artificial arm hangs to dry in the sun, camp for Amputees on the edge of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Handicap International, the French NGO has been instrumental in making of prosthetics and passing on those skills to local craftsmen. Freetown, Sierra Leone1999
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  • Members of an Amputee Football Team, practice on Lumley Beach, Freetown,  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's now uselesss hand.?ÄúThey couldn?Äôt cut it off...?Äù Makeni, Sierra Leone, 2004
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  • Safia, 14 was forced to watch her father murdered. Because she cried, the rebels dripped molten plastic into her eyes. Miilton Margai School for the Blind, Freetown, 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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  • Saih, a streetchild who was amputated by the rebels has his stump massaged before his is fitted with a new artificial arm. Hanidicap International Centre, Freetown<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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  • Ibrahim eats his meagre meal without  hands. His mother and child sleep next to him. Waterloo, 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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  • Abubakr smoking. Waterloo camp, Freetown, 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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  • Members of the Amputee Football Team practice heading the ball before an exhibition match to mark the opening of the Special Court in Sierra Leone. At the last minute they were told that they?Äôd have to play their match on the practice ground of the National Sadium instead of the main pitch. The anticipated crowd never came. Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004..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 boy whose father is an amputee. Makeni resettlement camp for amputees, 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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  • Amputees gather to pray on a Sunday in a makeshift chapel in a house. Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004.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 boy ponders his father's articicial legs, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004.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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  • Hassan Fufona and another victim of the amputations are fed by boys af a cafe after begging. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A young girl constantly counts her remaining fingers. Murraytown Amputee Camp, Freetown Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Sheik, 38 a former security manager at a diamond mine in Kono. His arm was amputated by rebels and then, because he was screaming so much, they cut off his ears..Sheik and his family have taken in an orphan amputee girl. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999.
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  • In a bed in Connaught hospital, a man who was recently amputated and then fitted with an artificial leg, ponders his future. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fofona, 16, crippled by polio since he was 10 was caught by the rebels who hacked of his good arm on a tree stump. From a very poor family, he cannot work and so must beg. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Siah and Mohammed (left) scavenge a city dump for plastic they can sell for recycling. Siah was amputated by the rebels and now lives on the streets. Freetown, 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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  • 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 boy holds his mothers' false leg. She was amputated by rebels. Hastings resettlement camp for amputees, Freetown, 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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  • Ibrahim, a double amputee and his cosmetic prothesis. Hastings camp, Freetown.<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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  • Ibrahim and his daughter pull weeds from their plot of land in front of their House in Makeni resettlement village for amputees, 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
    SFE_040403_0006.jpg
  • A boy ponders his father's articicial legs, 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
    14_SFE_040403_0002_1.jpg
  • Ibrahim was amputated in Freetown in 1999 when the rebels occupied the Waterloo area. They tried to hack off his other hand but were unable to. Hastings resettlement camp, Freetown, 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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  • An Ahmadiyya elder, blinded for his faith. Rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Guarani man showing the scars and marks from pesticides from a crop spraying plane. The Guarani are one of the most populous indigenous populations in Brazil, but with the least amount of land. They mostly live in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. Their tradtional way of life and ancestral land is increasingly at risk from large scale agribusiness and agriculture. There have been recorded cases and allegations of violence between owners of large farms and the Guarani communities in this region.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Surgeon cleaning wound of injured fighter.
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  • Merlin working in Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Dr Amori and Dr Samuel clean up gunshot wound -debridement - removal of dead material and dirt.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Surgeons operating on injured fighter.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Surgeon applying external fixator to injured Libyan fighter.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Surgeon using power drill - too powerful for the job but there was no other available.
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Surgeon applying external fixator to injured Libyan fighter.
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  • Ahmad Sidiqqi, photographed in the laboratory that he runs,  has worked at Afghan Film for many years. “During the Mujahideen years the building was attacked. I was here when it was shelled, The archives were saved from the Taliban who wanted to burn them. They were hidden in a secret room”<br />
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His boss is Engineer Latif Ahmadi, who explains how, even with the allied occupation of Kabul, filming is still difficult:<br />
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“We were filming a hundred yards from a suicide bombing, one hundred metres from the Ministry of Culture, five people were killed. We actually felt the force of the explosion and heard the shots. It took two minutes for the dust to clear but I told the director, ‘please continue’, because what can we do but carry on?”
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  • Tatouine hospital, Tunisia. Fracture of left radius and possible scaphoid fracture – possibly old – because oozing from wound not operated on. Doctors discuss what to do.
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  • Liana or jungle vine wound round a bamboo stick from the Khmu village of Ban Pia Huanam, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Liana vine makes a strong fibre for ‘crocheting’ into a traditional bag used by men and women for carrying items to and from the fields. Liana vine or ‘piat’ in Lao, is harvested from the forest, although these days it is becoming more difficult to find and many woman now use colourful synthetic thread.
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  • Liana or jungle vine wound round a bamboo stick from the Akha Pouli village of Ban Lao Khao, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR. Liana vine makes a strong fibre for ‘crocheting’ into a traditional bag used by men and women for carrying items to and from the fields. Liana vine or ‘piat’ in Lao, is harvested from the forest, although these days it is becoming more difficult to find and many woman now use colourful synthetic thread.
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  • Liana 'jungle' vine (piat/piad in Lao) wound round a bamboo stick. Akha women twist Liana vine to make into a strong fibre for ‘crocheting’ into a traditional bag used by men and women for carrying items to and from the fields. Liana vine or ‘piat’ in Lao, is harvested from the forest, although these days it is becoming more difficult to find and many woman now use colourful synthetic thread.
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  • "7lbs 13oz." On a labour ward at Kings College Hospital, London, a new-born baby girl has been temporarily separated from her mother and placed uncomfortably in a small weighing dish, minutes after taking her first breaths, to record her birth-weight, recording in old imperial pounds and ounces rather than modern metric grams and kilo units. The midwife has clamped a plastic seal on the child's umbilical cord wound which eventually dries and falls off. The crying girl has a mass of black hair but whose ethnicity is caucasian. 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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  • Car and passengers boarding the chain ferry crossing the River Yare in Reedham on the Norfolk Broads. The Reedham Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the River Yare in Norfolk. It crosses the river near the village of Reedham, forming the only crossing point between the city of Norwich and Great Yarmouth and saving users a journey of more than 30 miles. The current ferry was built in 1984, was designed and built at Oulton Broad by the late Fred Newson & the present owner. The ferry can carry up to 3 cars at a time and can carry a maximum weight of 12 tonnes. There has been a crossing at Reedham since the early 17th Century. The ferry boat in 1949 was still being hand-wound across the river yare until early 1950 when the ferry became motorised.
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  • The ferry crossing the River Yare on the Norfolk Broads. The Reedham Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the River Yare in Norfolk. It crosses the river near the village of Reedham, forming the only crossing point between the city of Norwich and Great Yarmouth and saving users a journey of more than 30 miles. The current ferry was built in 1984, was designed and built at Oulton Broad by the late Fred Newson & the present owner. The ferry can carry up to 3 cars at a time and can carry a maximum weight of 12 tonnes. There has been a crossing at Reedham since the early 17th Century. The ferry boat in 1949 was still being hand-wound across the river yare until early 1950 when the ferry became motorised. The hours of operation are from 7.30AM to 10.00PM Monday to Fridays and 8.00AM to 10.00 Saturdays and Sundays, summer and winter alike.
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  • Cyclists disembarking and boarding the small chain ferry crossing the River Yare in Reedham on the Norfolk Broads. The Reedham Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the River Yare in Norfolk. It crosses the river near the village of Reedham, forming the only crossing point between the city of Norwich and Great Yarmouth and saving users a journey of more than 30 miles. The current ferry was built in 1984, was designed and built at Oulton Broad by the late Fred Newson & the present owner. The ferry can carry up to 3 cars at a time and can carry a maximum weight of 12 tonnes. There has been a crossing at Reedham since the early 17th Century. The ferry boat in 1949 was still being hand-wound across the river yare until early 1950 when the ferry became motorised.
    reedham_ferry07-31-07-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the LGBTI gather outside the Admiral Duncan pub in London, England, United Kingdom on 30th April 2019.Twenty years since a Neo-Nazi set of a nail bomb at the Admiral Duncan pub a iconic gay venue in Soho killing three people and wounded 79. Four of the survivors had to have limbs amputated.
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  • The familly of Murat Balia who was killed ina blood feud with the familly of Amathj Mehmed. His nephew, Myftar Balia, is lying in the bed with the wounds from 8 bullets. He is surrounded by his familly and his son Edward (holding the lamp) aged 17 is bound by the Kanune (code of behavior going back hundreds of years) to defend his family's honour.<br />
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The Kanun included an elaborate legal code trying to regulate blood feud (gjakmarrya) – a system of reciprocal ”honour killings”. According to the Code, if a man is deeply affronted, his family has the right to kill the person who has insulted him. However, by doing this, the family will become a target for revenge on the part of the victim’s family. The victim’s closest male relative is obliged to kill the murderer of his family member. The pattern of reprisal killings thus formed has been passed on for generations of families and has been manifested up to the present day in Albania “Blood is never lost”, states the Kanun.
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  • Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick c attends a memorial service in St Annes Gardens in Soho in London, England, United Kingdom on 30th April 2019. Twenty years since a Neo-Nazi set of a nail bomb at the Admiral Duncan pub a iconic gay venue in Soho killing three people and wounded 79. Four of the survivors had to have limbs amputated.
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  • A customers bag is searched outside the Admiral Duncan pub in London, England, United Kingdom on 30th April 2019. Twenty years since a Neo-Nazi set of a nail bomb at the Admiral Duncan pub a iconic gay venue in Soho killing three people and wounded 79. Four of the survivors had to have limbs amputated.
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  • Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick c attends a memorial service in St Annes Gardens in Soho in London, England, United Kingdom on 30th April 2019. Twenty years since a Neo-Nazi set of a nail bomb at the Admiral Duncan pub a iconic gay venue in Soho killing three people and wounded 79. Four of the survivors had to have limbs amputated.
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  • Members of the London Fire Brigade stand to attention as the LGBTI communinty lead by Fr Simon Buckley march from the Admiral Duncan pub to a memorial service in St Annes Gardens in Soho in London, England, United Kingdom on 30th April 2019.Twenty years since a Neo-Nazi set of a nail bomb at the Admiral Duncan pub a iconic gay venue in Soho killing three people and wounded 79. Four of the survivors had to have limbs amputated.
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  • Railings made from World War 2 stretchers on the 24th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The WW2 stretchers were once used to carry thousands of wounded civilians in the Blitz. The so-called stretcher fences can be found on estates in Peckham, Brixton, Deptford, Oval and East London.
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  • Flowers laid at the memorial in remembrance to PC Keith Palmer in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. Keith Palmer, was a British police officer who was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the second highest award for gallantry. Though unarmed, he stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack. He died from wounds he received in this attack.
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  • Flowers laid at the memorial in remembrance to PC Keith Palmer in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. Keith Palmer, was a British police officer who was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the second highest award for gallantry. Though unarmed, he stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack. He died from wounds he received in this attack.
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  • Flowers laid at the memorial in remembrance to PC Keith Palmer in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. Keith Palmer, was a British police officer who was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the second highest award for gallantry. Though unarmed, he stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack. He died from wounds he received in this attack.
    20190326_keith palmer memorial_003.jpg
  • Interior of the Cabin for the Wounded at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • The floral memorial shrine in memory of two young victims killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England, on 27th February 1993, in Warrington, England. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonalds restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army IRA. Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
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  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • WW1 Ovillers cemetery, the resting place of allied and commonwealth war dead from the Somme, France. Surrounded by summer corn fields, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago.<br />
There are now 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • Unearthed and rusting WW1 shells from the Somme battlefield, piled up at Le Tommy Bar, Pozieres, France. On a sign in front, we see the statistics showing the amount of ordnance launched by an Australian artillery division during the notorious 1916 offensive. The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the River Somme in France. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • Locals gather to pay their respects to a growing mound of a floral memorial in memory of two people killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England. On 20 March 1993 the explosion by Irish republican terrorists in Bridge Street in the town centre precinct. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonald's restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
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  • Artist Nic Fiddian-Green's giant 30ft bronze 'Marwari Horse at Water' sculpture which stands at London's Marble Arch. Seated beneath this huge piece of scaled equine head are young people, leaning and sitting on the horse's plinth. This is a popular stopping off place for those enjoying late summer temperatures. The head stands on the end of its nose, a balancing act effective as a standalone piece of art that represents the carrying of wounded masters to safety that had an extraordinary resonance for the artist. Commissioned to create the piece by JCB founder Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford in January 2006 – just after Fiddian-Green had been diagnosed as suffering from a rare form of leukaemia. The Marwari breed was famous in India for centuries as the mount of the Rajput cavalry.
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  • Wounded nurse. UK Uncut shut down Westminster Bridge in a protest over NHS bill. Thousands of protesters occupied one of London’s most iconic landmarks on 9 October, in a last-ditch attempt to defeat legislation that is condemned by doctors as ‘undermining all that is precious about the NHS’. The anti-austerity direct action group demonstration blocked Westminster Bridge at 1pm on Sunday 9 October, days before the final vote in the House of Lords. The bill, which will see private patients treated at the expense of NHS patients, healthcare workers made redundant and reduce the priority of treating chronic and complex conditions, will be voted on by the Lords on the 12th October. The British Medical Association, the professional association of doctors in the UK, says the Bill “presents unacceptable risks to the NHS” and is calling for the Bill to be withdrawn.
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  • Statue of Florence Nightingale on Waterloo Place, London. Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
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  • Railings made from World War 2 stretchers on the 24th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The WW2 stretchers were once used to carry thousands of wounded civilians in the Blitz. The so-called stretcher fences can be found on estates in Peckham, Brixton, Deptford, Oval and East London.
    D_WW2_Stretchers-1044538.jpg
  • Flowers laid at the memorial in remembrance to PC Keith Palmer in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. Keith Palmer, was a British police officer who was posthumously awarded the George Medal, the second highest award for gallantry. Though unarmed, he stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack. He died from wounds he received in this attack.
    20190326_keith palmer memorial_002.jpg
  • Interior of the Cabin for the Wounded at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • The floral memorial shrine in memory of two young victims killed by an IRA bomb in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England, on 27th February 1993, in Warrington, England. Two small bombs exploded in litter bins outside a Boots store and a McDonalds restaurant, killing two children and injuring many other people. Although a warning or warnings had been sent, the area was not evacuated in time. Both attacks were perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army IRA. Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, who received the full force of the blast, was gravely wounded but died weeks later.
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  • Roadside sign marking the place where Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron was killed by enemy fire at Vaux-sur-Somme in 1918. Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892 – 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. He is considered the top ace of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.<br />
Richthofen was fatally wounded just after 11:00 am on 21 April 1918, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River. At the time, the Baron had been pursuing (at very low altitude) a Sopwith Camel piloted by a novice Canadian pilot, Lieutenant Wilfrid "Wop" May of No. 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force
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  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery03-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A portrait of English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster Patrick J. Kavanagh. We see his face as a close-up while at home in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England. P J Kavanagh (born 6 January 1931) is the author of eight books of poems, an essayist and travel-writer, a novelist, and editor of the poems of Ivor Gurney; he has received the Cholmondely Award for Poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Richard Hillary Prize for his memoir The Perfect Stranger. In addition to this literary career, he has been an actor, lecturer, journalist and broadcaster, all after serving in the Army during the Korean War, where he was wounded in action.
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  • A portrait of English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster Patrick J. Kavanagh. We see him in miffle-distance seated in his favourite armchair while at home in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England. P J Kavanagh (born 6 January 1931) is the author of eight books of poems, an essayist and travel-writer, a novelist, and editor of the poems of Ivor Gurney; he has received the Cholmondely Award for Poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Richard Hillary Prize for his memoir The Perfect Stranger. In addition to this literary career, he has been an actor, lecturer, journalist and broadcaster, all after serving in the Army during the Korean War, where he was wounded in action.
    PJ_kavanagh02-20-02-1990.jpg
  • A portrait of English poet, lecturer, actor and broadcaster Patrick J. Kavanagh. We see him reaching to hold a beam outside his home in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England. P J Kavanagh (born 6 January 1931) is the author of eight books of poems, an essayist and travel-writer, a novelist, and editor of the poems of Ivor Gurney; he has received the Cholmondely Award for Poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Richard Hillary Prize for his memoir The Perfect Stranger. In addition to this literary career, he has been an actor, lecturer, journalist and broadcaster, all after serving in the Army during the Korean War, where he was wounded in action.
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  • Mosaic representations of Roman animals in the abandoned city of Italica, near Seville. The central mosaic in the House of the Bird Mosaic which is the most Italian of all houses excavated in Italica, consists of thirty-five small square mosaics that surround a larger, central square scene. The city of Italica (Spanish: Itálica; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War. The name Italica bound the colonia to their Italian origins. Italica was the birthplace of Roman emperor Trajan.
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  • Mosaic representations of Roman celestial bodies in the House of the Planetarium at Italica, Near Seville. With the sun in the centre, we see Jupiter in the foreground and the Moon, Mars (with a helmet), Mercury and Saturn. The city of Italica (Spanish: Itálica; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War. The name Italica bound the colonia to their Italian origins. Italica was the birthplace of Roman emperor Trajan.
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  • Artist Nic Fiddian-Green's giant 30ft bronze 'Marwari Horse at Water' sculpture which stands at London's Marble Arch. Seated beneath this huge piece of scaled equine head are young people, leaning and sitting on the horse's plinth. This is a popular stopping off place for those enjoying late summer temperatures. The head stands on the end of its nose, a balancing act effective as a standalone piece of art that represents the carrying of wounded masters to safety that had an extraordinary resonance for the artist. Commissioned to create the piece by JCB founder Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford in January 2006 – just after Fiddian-Green had been diagnosed as suffering from a rare form of leukaemia. The Marwari breed was famous in India for centuries as the mount of the Rajput cavalry.
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  • Wounded nurse lies in front of a banner saying Save our NHS. . UK Uncut shut down Westminster Bridge in a protest over NHS bill. Thousands of protesters occupied one of London’s most iconic landmarks on 9 October, in a last-ditch attempt to defeat legislation that is condemned by doctors as ‘undermining all that is precious about the NHS’. The anti-austerity direct action group demonstration blocked Westminster Bridge at 1pm on Sunday 9 October, days before the final vote in the House of Lords. The bill, which will see private patients treated at the expense of NHS patients, healthcare workers made redundant and reduce the priority of treating chronic and complex conditions, will be voted on by the Lords on the 12th October. The British Medical Association, the professional association of doctors in the UK, says the Bill “presents unacceptable risks to the NHS” and is calling for the Bill to be withdrawn.
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  • Statue of Florence Nightingale on Waterloo Place, London. Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
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