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  • Two US Navy sailors walk past the statue of first President George Washington outside the Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street, New York City. A male and female personnel walk past this famous American landmark to see for themselves the site of many a notorious economic boom and crash. Federal Hall, built in 1700 as New York's City Hall, later served as the first capitol building of the United States of America under the Constitution, and was the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States. It was also where the United States Bill of Rights was introduced in the First Congress. The building was demolished in 1812.
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  • A young man strides past the wall and name of the London Stock Exchange in the City of London. Walking fast past this financial institution, we see the young man's shadow on the wall beneath the name on the exterior wall. Three years after the so-called Big Bang in 1986 , this location at the old Stock Exchange Tower  became redundant with the advent of the Big Bang, which deregulated many of the Stock Exchange's activities as it enabled an increased use of computerised systems that allowed dealing rooms to take precedence over face to face trading. Thus, in 2004, the House moved to a brand new headquarters in Paternoster Square, close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • Businessmen walk past the statue of George Peabody 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 three men each concentrate on their own communications, all separated by a suitable personal space to maintain their privacy. 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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  • Two women walk past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat. A leggy girl strides past the shop frontage, seemingly curious of this bygone gentlemanly tradition.
    city_menswear04-12-03-2013_1.jpg
  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial12-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A Muslim man walks past street art on a wall near Brick Lane, London. The local man walks down the street passing bags of purple recycling bags which match the same colour of the urban mural - an artistic aerosol representation of a face. This is a scene of traditional Islamic culture living alongside a different ethnicity in the capital's eastern area, from the 1970s, a largely Bangladeshi community along Brick Lane. Today, it is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown.
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  • A cyclist races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won by Team GB's Bradley Wiggins.
    olympic_time_trial08-01-08-2012.jpg
  • Members of the People's Liberation Army march past on Tiananmen Square. Part of a security detail in the city of Beijing, China.
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  • Men march past on Tiananmen Square. Part of a security detail in the city of Beijing, China.
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  • Members of the People's Liberation Army march past on Tiananmen Square. Part of a security detail in the city of Beijing, China.
    20120531tiananmen area beijing_U_1.jpg
  • Men march past on Tiananmen Square. Part of a security detail in the city of Beijing, China.
    20120531tiananmen area beijing_T_1.jpg
  • A jet aircraft flies past the newly-completed One World Trade Center (WTC) on what was Ground Zero on the September 11th 2001 attacks on New York City, USA. As an ironic coincidence, we see the airliner flying high over Manhattan, passing the tall skyscraper that is being finished. The 104-story supertall structure, which shares a name with the northern Twin Tower in the original World Trade Center that was destroyed in the September 11 attacks, stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. It was architect Daniel Libeskind who won the 2002 competition to develop a master plan for the World Trade Center's redevelopment.
    wtc_jet01-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Team GB cyclist Bradley Wiggins races past fans lining the route through Bushy Park in south west London, during the London 2012 Olympic 44km men's cycling time trial, eventually won Wiggins, 42 seconds ahead of German Tony Martin.
    olympic_time_trial15-01-08-2012.jpg
  • A flower seller pulls his cart to refill fresh water from a nearby tap and past the architecture of the Cloth Hall and the the City Hall Tower right on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A lady rides her bike past the architecture of the Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A passer-by using his phone walks past the blue hoarding outside a closed entertainment venue in Dartford, on 3rd October 2019, in Dartford, Kent, England. Voters in Dartford voted 64% in favour of Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
    dartford_journey-07-03-10-2019.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers walk past the Union Jack-themes telephone kiosk in celebrity chef Gordon Ramseys restaurant Bread Street Kitchen on the former Roman thoroughfare Watling Street, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-20-22-08-2019.jpg
  • Old BT telephone box at night in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Once very much used, the public telephone box is increasingly becomming a thing of the past, as everyone now has mobile phones. Kings Heath is a suburb of Birmingham, three miles south of the city centre. It is the next suburb south from Moseley.
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  • Angry residents from Kent march over the river Thames and past Parliament to protest over the planned high-speed TGV-style rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
    rail_link_protest01-05-08-1989.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, two officers walk past playing boys, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and after a march andflypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, foreign service oficers walk past an RAF recruiting hoarding, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • Typical wooden doorways in a backstreet courtyard of the modern town of Klausen-Chiusa in south Tyrol, north Italy. This tiny courtyard has been swallowed up into the more modern parts of town but the history and architectural style of past centuries can still be seen from the weathered wood and peeling plaster walls. Klausen (Italian: Chiusa) is a commune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano. In the 2011 census, 91.3% of the population speak German, 7.9% Italian and 0.8% spoke the ancient Ladin langauge as their mother tongue.
    klausen_italy19-16-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A young child beneath large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. The child totters and explores, helping this young person to be stimulated with her surroundings, The images of children and families are seen backlit against outside light, an exhibition of Britain's past, celebrating the 70th anniversary weekend of VE Day, when Britons remembered the end of WW2, an age of austerity, rationing and hardship but when childhood was still an era of innocence.
    southbank_child02-07-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Jogger runs past Nike shop window in central London. It is almost dark on this evening in the city and a runner passes the Nike shop in London's Covent Garden. Echoing the shop mannequin that has been placed carefully in a classic athlete's position, they both stride from left to right in the darkening street. Nike is one of the world's largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012). As of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide. In 2014 the brand alone was valued at $19 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses.
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  • An old Amercian car zooms drives past the National Theatre, Teatro Nacional in Havana.
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  • Woman cleaner pulling a vacuum hover behind her, walks past a fashion poster in central London. Roksanda Ilincic—the British designer known for her colourful, feminine wares with a sculptural twist—revealed today that, early next year, she’ll bow her first store at 9 Mount Street. Having studied Architecture and Applied Arts at university in Belgrade, her designs are soon to fill finished windows in Mayfair, central London.
    ilincic_women06-03-04-2014.jpg
  • Surrounded by books and holy relics, a monk follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, prays in a caravan adapted to become a woodland home in the woodland near the Centre. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Looking as if from a past era, two ladies examine shoes at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Both are holding right-foot shoes that might suit them at this charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. We see some of the clothing piled up on trestle tables but the ladies’ attention is just on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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  • The last moments of street lighting illuminates the pavement and road as dawn breaks over the shoreline on the untidy and empty seafront in Nea Makri, a coastal town near Athens on the Marathon road. This town is the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC to deliver news of the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of (Marathonas) Marathon. Nowadays, this is a rather unattractive town with few echoes of Greece's ancient glories although the 29th modern Olympic circus came home in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient  Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad001-20-10_2003_1_1.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right’s day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
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  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
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  • Columns of the Bank of England and young women top-deck bus passengers in the City of London. The girls sit at the very front of this double-decker bus as it makes its way past the pillars and architecture of Britain's main bank. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as the “Old Lady” of Threadneedle Street, the Bank was founded in 1694, nationalised on 1 March 1946, and in 1997 gained operational independence to set monetary policy.
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  • 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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  • In the bustle of a modern metropolis, two red Routemaster buses pass each other in Threadneedle Street. The Pillars of the Bank of England can just be seen left as pedestrians either stride past on the pavement, wait for another service or board the number 8 that is bound for Old Ford & Bow Church in the east end. Meanwhile, in the cab of his bus, the driver's hands and chest of the 11 destined for Fulham Broadway in the west can be seen in the sun, as he continues his journey in the opposite direction. Advertising is present on each mode of transport too: A travel ad for Rome (with a picture of St. Peter's in the Vatican) and for two west end musicals - Cyrano de Bergerac and Lost in Yonkers. Routemasters are largely being phased out, replaced by more modern, cleaner-engined models that hold more passengers.
    city_buses-20-03-1993_1.jpg
  • A cyclist pedals past a Mercedes as it burns at the side of the road at Hyde Park Corner in central London. Traffic has been diverted around this otherwise busy road junction and the car continues to burn as the fire brigade arrives to assess the dangers. A firefighter walks back towards an unseen fire engine before returning to deal with the serious fire to the engine and then extinguishes the flames. But the cyclist pedals around the vehicles and makes his escape on a traffic-free road towards Victoria. The wall in the background surrounds the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
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  • A Muslim mother with her children walks past the mural of iconic musician and singer David Bowie has appeared on the wall of Morleys department store in Brixton, Lambeth, south London. The Bowie face is sourced (by an unknown artist) from the cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane at the height of his 1970s fame. The pop icon lived at 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, from his birth in 1947 until 1953. This cover appeared in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, making #277.
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  • The Lord Mayors show London. Military procession go past The Lord Mayor at Mansion House.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter on Regent Street, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. People out shopping walk past and their reaction is plain to see.
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  • Overflowing bin and litter on Regent Street, central London. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London. People out shopping walk past and their reaction is plain to see.
    23042011litter rubbish trashA.jpg
  • City workers walk past The Citypoint Club a fitness and spa center based in the City of London.
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  • Two young men talk on a wall near the faces of past alumni a wall outside King's College London University on the Strand, during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, and when the capital is designated by the government as a Tier 2 restriction, on 20th October 2020, in London, England.
    university_alumni01-20-10-2020.jpg
  • A bike courier squeezes past a black Mercedes in a narrow lane in the City of London, the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans and whose small lanes still date from medieval times, before the Great Fire of London in 1666, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England.
    narrow_lane-02-04-02-2020.jpg
  • A pedestrian walks past an upturned car, a casualty of the Poll Tax riot, on 1st April 1990, in Charing Cross Road, London, England. when angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane, on 1st April 1990, in London, England. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • As City businessmen walk past during their lunch hour, a homeless man searches through a bin for scraps of discarded food, on 16th June 1994, in the City of London, England.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR.
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  • A man walks past old doorway architecture in central Krakow, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A nun walks past tourists outside the Church of St Mary on Rynek Glowny market square, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Lunchtime City workers walk past the Union Jack-themes telephone kiosk in celebrity chef Gordon Ramseys restaurant Bread Street Kitchen on the former Roman thoroughfare Watling Street, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers walk past the Union Jack-themes telephone kiosk in celebrity chef Gordon Ramseys restaurant Bread Street Kitchen on the former Roman thoroughfare Watling Street, in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Old BT telephone box at night in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Once very much used, the public telephone box is increasingly becomming a thing of the past, as everyone now has mobile phones. Kings Heath is a suburb of Birmingham, three miles south of the city centre. It is the next suburb south from Moseley.
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  • Two women walk past a billboard for car maker Audi in Piazza Navona, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome Italy.
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  • An elderly 1990s Polish lady struggles along a street and past a cafe whose walls are crumbling - the heritage of polluted communist decades, on 15th July 1990, in Krakow, Poland.
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  • Exterior of the Magic Lantern cinema - formerly known as the Assembly Rooms 1893, on 12th September 2018, in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The Magic Lantern Cinema has shown films right at the start of Cinema in the UK, 9 years earlier than any other operating Cinema in the Britain. It was re-christened as The Assembly Cinema after World War 1 and subsequently as The Ritzy, Tywyn Cinema and now, as a nod to its historic past, The Magic Lantern.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and before an historic flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, the public watch a march past of service personnel, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • Streets to the past. Recreated authentic streets representing Korean culture from the 1970s and 1980s form part of an outside display in the grounds of the National Folk Museum of Korea on 26th February 2018 in Seoul, South Korea
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  • Streets to the past. Recreated authentic streets representing Korean culture from the 1970s and 1980s form part of an outside display in the grounds of the National Folk Museum of Korea on 26th February 2018 in Seoul, South Korea
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  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
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  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
    20160530_toy doll_B.jpg
  • Toy doll thrown away and lying face down in a housing estate in Vauxhall in London, England, United Kingdom. The naked doll has an atmosphere of despair and desperation about it, and looks much like an old scene from a past era.
    20160530_toy doll_A.jpg
  • Old West End theatre posters uncovered on Charing Cross Road in central London. The layers of past plays and musicals have been revealed during building work to the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in the heart of the capital's West End and Theatreland. Most prominently is the word 'Last' that may refer to the last night or week's run of a production long-forgotten or perhaps celebrated in the history of London stage. The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on 24 April 1889.
    theatre_posters01-03-09-2015.jpg
  • Typical wooden doorways in a backstreet courtyard of the modern town of Klausen-Chiusa in south Tyrol, north Italy. This tiny courtyard has been swallowed up into the more modern parts of town but the history and architectural style of past centuries can still be seen from the weathered wood and peeling plaster walls. Klausen (Italian: Chiusa) is a commune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano. In the 2011 census, 91.3% of the population speak German, 7.9% Italian and 0.8% spoke the ancient Ladin langauge as their mother tongue.
    klausen_italy20-16-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A young child beneath large screen images showing childhood of a bygone era in Britain's history, on display at London's Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. A young mother shows her child what she can come and explore, helping the young person be stimulated with her surroundings, The images of children and families are seen backlit against outside light, an exhibition of Britain's past, celebrating the 70th anniversary weekend of VE Day, when Britons remembered the end of WW2, an age of austerity, rationing and hardship but when childhood was still an era of innocence.
    southbank_child01-07-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, a Tower of London Beefeater walks past TV presenters among some of the 888,246 ceramic poppies - one for each British military death - created by artist Paul Cummins. Remaining in place until the date of the armistice on November 11th. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations, London saw many such gestures to remember the millions killed in action at the beginning of the 20th century.
    ww1_centenary06-05-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Military parade through the streets of Blantyre, Malawi in the mid-1960s. Seen from the roof of an adjacent building (possibly the roof of the Standard Chartered Bank) we see the marching personnel of military soldiers making their way along mainstreet while under the dictatorship of Dr Hastings Banda, this central African state's ruler from 1961-1994. Parading alongside their flag, the troops file past families and other spectators who have stopped to watch this spectacle.
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  • Two police officers patrol past a group of Chinese state news consumers in a Shenzhen street. Locals stop to scan headlines and the stories of the day from the sheets of newsprint posted up on street corners. The policemen in uniform patrol the area with a presence to deter petty crime in a new and prosperous China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and until the 1980s, almost all media outlets in Mainland China were state-run. Independent media outlets only began to emerge at the onset of economic reforms, although state-run media outlets such as Xinhua, CCTV, and People's Daily continue to hold significant market share.
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  • A middle-aged businessman looks up from paperwork during a working day in his 1970s Brussels office. The executive wearing a white shirt and tie pauses writing with a pencil to look over his glasses, past the In Tray and towards the viewer. There is no computer or electronic devices that describe this decade towards the end of the 20th century. The calendar shows us today's date of July 5th 1971. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old stands on a seaside bridge as an older man walks past in the early 1960s. Seen from a low angle, we look up at the small boy standing on some steps of a bridge on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea in Essex, recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • An original Victorian shopping arcade in the seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth on the English east coast. Daylight floods in through overhead skylight roof glass  as shoppers walk past local ladies fashion displays seen behind beautiful curved windows, in the style of late 19th century. Tiles flooring acts as a pavement to resembled an upper-class covered street to keep visitors dry from frequent coastal showers. The shops are local too - without branded chains occupying the site and forcing hardship on local businesses.
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  • Two elderly ladies push near-identical trolleys past a womens' clothes shop in Chelsea. Helping them walk, they lean on the handles of these shopping accessories as they make their unsteady way along the trendy shopping street in West London. In the window of the fashion store is a large poster of a beautiful model, as if reminding them of their own youth and beauty. We see a scene of ageism and the passing of time, of generations of women starting young lives and passing into old age, needing to be aided with supports.
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  • An artist is incongruously enclosed in roadworks barriers at the busy junction of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Painting with an easel and applying careful brush strokes amid the noise and chaos of this busy traffic junction in the capital. A young man walks past barely noticing the artist as he strides through the heart of London's west end. But on the youth's t-shirt is a modern interpretation (wearing glasses and apparently spitting liquid into a cup) of Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero (Bernardo Bembo)" German-born artist Jan van Mimnelinghe (Hans Memling, c. 1435-94) was well known all over Europe. During his lifetime, he painted commissions not only for the Burgundian Dukes, but also for patrons in Germany, Austria, Venice, Florence and London.
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  • A follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, is adorned with tattoos and has his head shaven. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • A night scene in central London's Strand, a busy road leading to Trafalgar Square is home to many restaurants like the American chain Pizza Express. The company logo is in large letters on a broad red stripe late-night diners who are sitting at their tables, on view to a person who has walked past, blurred as a silhouette in the street. And right outside is a K-Series pay phone box kiosk, prominently situated on the pavement for members of the public to use. With its solid cast-iron frames, the K-series kiosks were designed in 1936 by the iconic designer Giles Gilbert Scott. The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in 1958 by Frank and Dan Carney in Wichita, Kansas.
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  • Wide cobbled avenue in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs. Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.
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  • 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.
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  • A blurred cat walks past the rotting front door of a Victorian terraced house now dilapidated and abandoned on the streets of Toxteth. Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
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  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • A toilet sign sits near the standing Doric columns and tourists at Olympia's Palaestra or wrestling school. Here, training, instruction and bathing took place in the month before the Games. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
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  • A modern Italian woman walks past Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Crowds have gathered overnight before the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales – the Peoples' Princess - after her tragic car crash death in Paris. It is early morning in the Mall and families wait patiently and reverently behind police barriers lining the route where her body followed by the royal family will pass in a few hours. Tens of thousands have claimed their places for good vantage points while dressing the railings with flags and pictures and candles spelling her name along with flowers that will be thrown across the road as her cavalcade drives slowly past. Their monarchist sympathies ensure that the nation is mourning this popular lady while angry with the Queen’s apparent inability to show sympathy herself.
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  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • Columns of the Bank of England and tired top-deck bus passenger in the City of London. The sleepy passenger sits at the very front of this double-decker bus as it makes its way past the pillars and architecture of Britain's main bank. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as the “Old Lady” of Threadneedle Street, the Bank was founded in 1694, nationalised on 1 March 1946, and in 1997 gained operational independence to set monetary policy.
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  • As suited commuters begin their homeward journeys across London Bridge, towards the station that will transport them home to families and security, a homeless man without the warmth of relatives nor a roof over his head, rants and shouts at the respectable people with jobs and incomes. He has been drinking alcohol and sits leaning against the bridge's wall, pointing and threatening but all walk on past, afraid and embarrassed. We see the social divisions of English society, of prospects and wealth versus hopelessness and poverty as those who are marginalised and perhaps suffering from mental health problems are ignored by the successful capitalist.
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  • Chinese citizens walk beneath a billboard for shower and bathroom equipment in the new megacity of Shenzhen, China. A happy-looking woman showers herself with a big smile on her face and Chinese characters give more details below. Two men walk past looking the other way.
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  • Chinese citizens walk beneath a billboard for shower and bathroom equipment in the new megacity of Shenzhen, China. A happy-looking woman showers herself with a big smile on her face and Chinese characters give more details below. A smart-looking lady walks her bicycle past, a matching red suitcase strapped at the back.
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  • A charity worker is handing out leaflets in a London street, his hope is to entice the public to give money or lend support to the work of his organisation. He holds out his paper while wearing a bib saying Homeless Not Hopeless meaning that those without a home isn't necessarily without aspiration nor pride. But passers-by only want to continue their journeys unhindered and not bothered by what in Britain are known as charity muggers - or chuggers - and hated for their common presence on street corners, watching for their target demographics to donate hard-earned money. The man walking past without making eye contact is a gentleman of south-Asian or of Arab appearance and he looks to the ground without acknowledging the volunteer worker.
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  • Young women walk past the mural of iconic musician and singer David Bowie has appeared on the wall of Morleys department store in Brixton, Lambeth, south London. The Bowie face is sourced (by an unknown artist) from the cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane at the height of his 1970s fame. The pop icon lived at 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, from his birth in 1947 until 1953. This cover appeared in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, making #277.
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  • A lady musician is seated at Barbican underground station in central London. The platform is actually above ground and the woman sits patiently awaiting the next train to arrive. her musical instrument stands against her bench and she watches to her right, past the London Underground sign telling us the station's name. The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. It is also home to the London Symphony Orchestra. The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is also here - one of Europe's leading conservatoires, offering musicians, actors, stage managers and theatre technicians an inspiring environment in which to develop as artists and professionals.
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  • Ageing and ramshackle architecture at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • Ageing and ramshackle architecture at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michaels C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
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  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michaels C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
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  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michaels C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
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  • Social distancing hazard tape is on historical  flagstones in the nave of St. Michaels C of E church, during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 13th August 2020, in Beccles, Suffolk, England.
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  • Sunflowers and other potted plants grow outside a Victorian-era cottage on Maidenstone Hill in Greenwich, on 6th July 2020, in London, England.
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  • British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatchers political career of 11 years ends emotionally by being driven through the gates of Downing Street after being deposed in a leadership challenge, alongside husband and lifelong confidante, Dennis, on 28th November 1990 in London, England.
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  • With a further 155 reported UK Covid deaths in the last 24 hrs, a total now of 43,730, a detail of a social distance poster and an added sticky notice partially covering the covid travel information outside North Dulwich station, on 30th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • A London bus passes the architecture of the Air Street arch with Regency-era design by architect John Nash and James Burton on Regent Street during the Covid pandemic, on 25th June 2020, in London, England. Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It is named after George, the Prince Regent later George IV and was laid out under the direction of the architect John Nash and James Burton.
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