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  • A vertical version that shows the Corinthian columns and covered doorways of exclusive and classically-designed properties in London's famous Eaton Square Belgravia, SW1, owned by Grosvenor Estate. It is a bright spring day with a blue city sky and high, thin clouds. The sun shines on the cream-coloured architectural features and some shadows from trees opposite can be seen on the lower upright pillars and an ornate lamp post. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93..
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  • Roller-coaster fans gasp with excitement as they plunge down an almost vertical drop on the Pepsi-Max Big One, Britain's largest and the second Highest, 4th fastest Roller Coaster in Europe. It is a steel structure located at the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, opened in 1994. Roller-coaster freaks raise their arms above their heads though one's instinct is to hold on for dear life. Although it is no longer the tallest, fastest and steepest roller coaster in the world, it is still one of the scariest roller-coaster experiences on offer. Extended caption ..
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  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending a counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
    ernst+young_counsillors48-18-09-2007.jpg
  • After heavy use during a busy summer, canoes are stacked vertically under still clear skies, on 12th September 2018, in Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.
    aberdovey_canoes-02-12-09-2018.jpg
  • After heavy use during a busy summer, canoes are stacked vertically under still clear skies, on 12th September 2018, in Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.
    aberdovey_canoes-01-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world's population. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event attempts to fly at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ?wearing? their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform ? a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire sponsored by a milk company drops vertically. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis22-27-05-2001.jpg
  • Like a huge caged animal in a zoo, the cockpit section of a Boeing 747 'jumbo' jet is perceived peering over the barbed-wire perimeter fence at London's Heathrow airport between engineering schedules and more transcontinental flights. Two fluffy cumulus clouds are stacked vertically above the hump of the airliner's nose to form three white blotches of the same tone. This major hub is mainly for British Airways operations, one of the three busiest airports in the world. When asked what is his favourite building of the Century, architect Sir Norman Foster offered the 747 the Jumbo has since carried 2.2 billion people: 40% of the world?s population. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis14-17-08-1997.jpg
  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending a counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
    ernst+young_counsillors48-18-09-2007.jpg
  • Portrait of an employee in apron  of fish product importers New England Seafoods, standing in the processing room
    new_england75-27-11-2007.jpg
  • An female acrobat spontaneously stands on the shoulders of a friend at a coffee kiosk, on 2nd March 2017, in The Cut, London borough of Southwark, England.
    southwark_acrobats-03-02-03-2017.jpg
  • Boating and nightlife of the Passeo Maritime and harbour seen at dusk from Palma's Catalina area.
    mallorca01-21-06-2001.jpg
  • A bandaged urban tree trunk with a brick wall of a modern development in the north London of Kings Cross.
    urban_tree01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolitan police officer helps an Asian lady citizen outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other communities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society. Pointing out direction to help the lady find her way, the officer proudly wears his turban of his religion.
    sikh_policeman01-21-04-1989.jpg
  • Kayaks and canoes stand upright against a shop wall in Oban, Scotland.
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  • Kayaks and canoes stand upright against a shop wall in Oban, Scotland.
    oban_canoes01-03-08-2010-2.jpg
  • Separated by four floors, two employees of the auditing company Ernst & Young, make their way along walkways in the main atrium of E & Y's European headquarter offices at More London, London England. Striding confidently between offices, the two people are unaware of each other's presence but make their way from right to left of this tall, upright scene of modernity. The senior person on top may have an advantage from better opportunities, the low-ranking worker below may be needing to rise up the ranks. Morning sunlight floods through the green tinted glass that overlooks Tower Bridge on the River Thames. The term atrium comes from Latin: a large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective. .
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  • An employee of an unidentified recycling company used by BAA (British Airports Authority) rakes through a mountain of glass bottles, piled high in a depsitory near Gatwick Airport, Sussex England. The drinks from these branded bottles have been consumed at airport terminal buildings and other BAA property and the man dressed in a fluorescent safety jacket scrapes the containers in readiness for transportation to another facility. The picture is an upright and with such a wide-angle view, we see the bottles stretching from the closest to the lens to the far end of the compartment in a mound of materials destined for a machine that will crush and transform them into new glass.
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  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy is about to leave his homeland for the UK, where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. Daubed with saffron and paint, the sign of good luck on a journey to come, he stands with absolute pride with garlands of fresh flowers draped around his neck by well-wishing relatives before they wave good bye to their son or brother for his two years absence away from home. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Three silhouetted walkers (two women and one male) near the top of a hill near the village of Churchill, North Somerset, England. The image has only three tones, graduating from dark at the bottom, becoming lighter to the top. It is late in the day and the light is soft and warm in colour and the friends make their way up the gradient in single-file, each striding with legs apart as they climb the hill forming part of the Mendips. It is a scene of tranquillity, the landscape is peaceful and unspoilt for outdoor countryside pursuits like walking, one of the fastest-growing leisure activities in Britain for people who take advantage of rural England.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
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  • Two shipbuilders chat beneath the heavy lifting cranes at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work and the two men in the foreground and those behind, wear bright yellow hard hats, protecting them from steel edges and rusting machinery. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard07-03-09-2007.jpg
  • We see the upper-body of a businessman walking past the lower-body of another man also wearing a suit. We see the passer-by in a shirt and tie but only two hands, legs and trousers up to the waist of the sunbather, the rest of his upper-body is obscured by the angle of the lens. It is a witty perspective, leading us to believe that the two men are the same person. It is high-summer and lunchtime in the City of London, England, where workers exit their offices to lap up the welcome sunshine during a rare city heatwave that many take advantage of by lying on steps and benches, while fully-dressed in their work clothes.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. 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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  • An out of focus post with a light bulb attached, shines in the bright daylight with the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Cocoa beach is on Florida's so-called Space Coast, a resort of beaches, clubs, seafood restaurants and motels that came to life during the 1960s due to America's space program. NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located approximately 15 miles away. The Atlantic Ocean is flat calm in settled weather and the horizon is clear and well-defined with a ship just visible on the right side. Focus is on the sea rather than the post and the light bulb which look like a surreal addition to the landscape. Cocoa Beach served as a playground for many of the astronauts and NASA space industry workers and contractors during the heyday of the space race. After manned space flights, the town held astronaut parades. Before there was a "Silicon Valley," Cocoa Beach and other surrounding towns were full of the best and brightest technical minds around.
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  • A young girl stretches out her arms and her father supports her weight in an empty swimming pool in Miami Florida.
    miami_pool01-18-05-1996.jpg
  • Two Spanish gentlemen exercise on the beach near Port Olympic in Barcelona, Spain.
    barcelona_exercise01-16-06-2003.jpg
  • Aerial view of atrium at hotel chain, Sofitel at Heathrow's terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport581-15-07-2009.jpg
  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in the clear blue sky flight-path over South London
    heathrow_airport1695-25-08-2009.jpg
  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in the clear blue sky flight-path over South London
    heathrow_airport1691-25-08-2009.jpg
  • An exterior dusk view of a British Airways airliner parked at a gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building  ..
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  • An airliner crosses the security perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination.
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  • Before this land is re-devloped for new apartments, a sign urging that parking is strictly for long-gone customers and employees of a certain Anderson Mills below now derelict buildings near Bradford city centre, Yorkshire.
    no_parking17-08-05-2009.jpg
  • A residents car parking sign still stands to deter others from leaving vehicles on an abandoned derelict estate near Bradford city centre. Boarded up windows and doors show there is no longer any residents or their cars.
    no_parking11-08-05-2009.jpg
  • The locked and security grilled doorway of a Pakistani takeaway shop on the Lumb Lane near Bradford City centre, Yorkshire.
    bradford_windows02-09-05-2009.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of a Halal lunch shop on Streatham High Road, a victim of the UK recession
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  • Rusting metal shutters texture seen in Unity Street, Bristol during the UK recession.
    closed_businesses17-27-12_2008.jpg
  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fast food shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
    closed_businesses06-27-12_2008.jpg
  • Walking route sign marks distance in km through dark forest in the German Black Forest region near village of Kälbermühle
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  • Immaculate columns and pillars frontage of the exclusive classically-designed Victorian property at 100 Eaton Square
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  • Immaculate columns and pillars frontage of the exclusive classically-designed Victorian property at 100 Eaton Square
    belgravia002-26-04-2008.jpg
  • Immaculate columns and pillars frontage of the exclusive classically-designed Victorian property at 100 Eaton Square
    belgravia001-26-04-2008.jpg
  • Office lights illuminate the 800 foot tower at 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf in London Docklands, one of the tallest buildings in Europe.  Designed by the Argentine architect César Pelli, construction was completed in 1991. Identifiable from a great distance as an obelisk-shaped tower with its aircraft warning light flashing on top, this building is a monument to 1980s-style capitalism...From the 'Windows' series. ..Since Microsoft brought about the name Windows to brand the PC computing user interface, I have taken it upon myself to collect and henceforth, add to - a group of pictures about the original window, long after the original word was hijacked by a man called Gates.  More will be added during 2007...Windows have been around for a long time - the Romans invaders even had a glass substance that sealed the chilly British air - and stench - from their sensitive Roman noses. ..Nowadays, I'm attracted to the labelling and messaging that becomes attached to the inside or outside of panes of glass, as if they are urban, public post-it notes for anything an individual wishes to share or advertise.  Sometimes the message can be a warning, a cry for help or just an accidental freak of mis-spelling that somehow creates a different meaning altogether to that intended. ..
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  • 2008 Formula 1 world champion driver Lewis Hamilton attends a press conference hosted by aircraft sponsor Bombardier whose Learjet he uses.
    farnborough_air_show07-14-07-2008.jpg
  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial warehousing architecture and poorly-made road at Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill
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  • An English Cross of St. George flag flaps in a strong breeze on a flag pole near electricity pylons in Grays,  Thames Gateway
    river_business182-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Sign on lamp post telling HGV drivers to Park Tidy in an overnight lorry park on the A126 in industrial Grays, Thames Gateway
    river_business175-31-08-2007.jpg
  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
    paris_air_show48-20-06-2007.jpg
  • Personalised insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots are worn during a shift at importers New England Seafoods
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  • A roll of sticky labels for tuna steaks destined for the shelves of supermarket chain Marks & Spencer lie in stationery cupboard
    new_england48-27-11-2007.jpg
  • Girl model rehearses with bottled water at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in design studio
    margaret_howell_show106-17-09-2007.jpg
  • Male model rehearses British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
    margaret_howell_show089-17-09-2007.jpg
  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
    margaret_howell_show046-17-09-2007.jpg
  • A customer tries on a jacket with pet dog at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
    margaret_howell_shop136-14-07-2007.jpg
  • A simple white cotton shirt set on a dressmaker's tailoring dummy in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop
    margaret_howell20723-05-2007 .jpg
  • Two painted arrows stencilled on the apron of Colombo airport point in opposite directions
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  • Imported foodstuffs and and expensive sundries on display in a side street shop window in Male, Maldives
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  • Upper-deck chair and wheel with navigator's carpet board a traditional dhoni fishing boat on the Indian Ocean, Maldives.
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  • A portrait of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives stands under a tropical sun on Meedu Island.
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  • Guided tour of an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • Gnomes and garden figures displayed below an electricity pylon in a back Somerset garden.
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  • A Union Jack flag flies beneath the English Cross of St. George on a flag pole beneath an electricity pylon in a Somerset garden.
    electricity023-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent.
    electricity415-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Silver Royal Navy ship's bell of HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine while docked at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane
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  • Warm evening sunshine casts shadow of painter and decorator on hilltop cottage wall in hamlet of Hallin, Waternish, Skye
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  • Makeshift scarecrow stands pinned against a tree in a garden belonging to crofter Angus McHattie, Waterloo, Isle of Skye.
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  • A bright window light shines across the still Loch Bay from Lochbay Boathouse, a remote house at Stein, Waternish Point on the Isle of Skye. Lochbay Boathouse is a unique seaside house. It sits on the shore of Lochbay, on the Waternish peninsula, a few miles from Dunvegan, in the north-west of Skye. Built in the early 19th Century with thick walls of local stone, it was originally the boathouse for the Waternish Estate. In the early 1970's it was converted into a house by the singer Donovan and now combines modern comfort with the character of an unmistakably old building.
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  • Chromorama, an art installation at the junction of Crown Place and Sun Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2018, in London England. Chromorama, by London-based artist David Batchelor, comprises 35 illuminated light boxes which use the entire colour spectrum and face strategically in all directions. As is a hallmark of Batchelor’s style, the boxes have been created from discarded everyday objects and items.
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  • Chromorama, an art installation at the junction of Crown Place and Sun Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2018, in London England. Chromorama, by London-based artist David Batchelor, comprises 35 illuminated light boxes which use the entire colour spectrum and face strategically in all directions. As is a hallmark of Batchelor’s style, the boxes have been created from discarded everyday objects and items.
    broadgate_column-01-03-09-2018.jpg
  • An female acrobat spontaneously stands on the shoulders of a friend at a coffee kiosk, on 2nd March 2017, in The Cut, London borough of Southwark, England.
    southwark_acrobats-02-02-03-2017.jpg
  • The stencilled letters A-K sprayed on to a brick wall of a modern development in the north London of Kings Cross.
    A-K_wall01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • A woman rock climber hangs on to a small piece of rock and is suspended by ropes. .The Great Orme (Welsh: Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales situated in Llandudno. It is referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd in a poem by the 12th century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. It is echoed by the Little Orme, a smaller but very similar limestone headland, which is on the other side of Llandudno Bay in the parish of Llanrhos. The geology of the Great Orme is limestone and the surface is particularly noted for the limestone pavements covering several headland areas. There are also rich seams of Dolomite-hosted copper ore.
    rock_climber01-18-05-1992.jpg
  • Pet Terrier dog plays harmlessly at biting frayed rope in a home garden.
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  • Pet Terrier dog plays harmlessly at biting frayed rope in a home garden.
    dog_biting02-28-08-2010.jpg
  • Theodore Kyriakou is seen in his Real Greek restaurant in Hoxton, East London. He smiles to the view dressed in chef's apron and with a pen behind his ear. This Greek-born chef once served in the military but realised his ambition to cook by coming to London and eventually being the co-owner of Livebait, the renowned London fish restaurant chain. In 1999, he finally opened a restaurant specialising in the kind of food his mother used to make. The Real Greek was in business, recreating many of the dishes he remembered, he introduced authentic Greek cuisine to a new audience. Kyriakou's parents ran a deli in Athens. His mother, a natural cook, didn't follow recipes, though many of her dishes are influenced by a 2,000-year-old cookbook, the Deipnosophistai by Athenaeus. She still gets calls from her son to check facts.
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  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolital police officer stands outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other commnities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society
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  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
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  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
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  • A bemused passer-by walks past a strange sight in Wardour Street, Central London, England UK. Even for London where bizarre events take place, this strange scene attracts attention from strangers such as this mountain bike that has been attached to the top of a parking notice pole, locked in place by a D-lock - a crime prevention measure to thwart any determined bike thief, of which there are many in the city. Cycling in London is increasing by 80% every year but 52 bikes are stolen with nearly 440,000 reported stolen a year.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. 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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  • A shipbuilder wearing a face mask, leans through the incomplete window belonging to the superstructure of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work. His overalls are torn from jagged steel edges and his skin is dirty. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today the city of Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
    gdansk_shipyard04-03-09-2007.jpg
  • From a low angle we see, waving a cheery hello to a friend, a rather plump resident of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea holds on to her oversized sunglasses, her cushion and a portable transistor radio - all of which she has been using whilst on the sea front that we see in the distance behind her round body. Wearing 'Tory blue' (the colour favoured by the Margaret Thatcher during the eighties) the lady has her straw hat tied under the folds of fat of an ample chin and appears to be calling an English Coo-ee! call to the out-of-sight acquaintance.
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  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
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  • Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic directors Will Whitehorn and Stephen Attenborough, talk to the media during the unveiling of their SpaceShipTwo concept model's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.  Now under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009.  .Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness..Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world's first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships.  It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts; in the last 4 decades the world has seen fewer than 500 astronauts. Flights start around 2009..28/09/2006
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  • Russian Anastasia Dobromyslova (from Tver, Moscow) is the highest-ranking ladies' darts player, having beaten the 7 times champion Trina Gulliver. Here, she competes in an England Open tournament at the Bunn Leisure Holiday Park in Selsey, near Chichester on the south coast of England. Attractive and feminine, she is confident and at ease with her game amid many lesbian women who frequent darts matches like this. She concentrates on each dart thrown and is oblivious to the audience's noise behind her in an upstairs pub at the holiday park. This is one of her many tournaments she travels to during the darts events calendar although she needs to repeatedly renew her visa to gain re-entry into the UK.
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  • The giant nosewheel of a Boeing 747-400 airliner is parked on the apron area during its overnight turnround at Heathrow Airport. The engineering of this magnificent piece of aviation design is highlighted by the headlights of an airfield vehicle and the tyres sit firmly on the tarmac at an exact parking spot according to the aircraft's length in order for it to be met by air bridges and service trucks. The nose wheel is used for steering the jet when on the ground. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • An engineering 'Foot Node' that supports Terminal 5 roof standing on the floor of Arrivals at Heathrow airport.
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  • An exterior dusk view of a British Airways airliner parked at a gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building  ..
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  • An airliner crosses the security perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination.
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  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in an early morning flight-path over South London
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  • Hassan Abdullah Bakhour, Chief of the 4 sq km camp Abu Shouk refugee camp, (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fasher, North Darfur.
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  • As if parting the blinds of a high-street business, a life-size cut-out of a Pakistan Airlines (PIA) air hostess is propped up in the window of Lumb Lane travel agency, Bradford, Yorkshire.
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  • Smeared emulsion painted Butchers window on Clapham Common, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Cracked glass and emulsion painted window of a Leicester Permanent Building Society branch in Bromley High Street, London.
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  • Immaculate frontage with columns and pillars of the classically-designed Victorian properties in Eaton Square Belgravia, SW1
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  • Immaculate frontage with columns and pillars of the classically-designed Victorian properties in Eaton Square Belgravia, SW1
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  • Banking hard right over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a ninety degree angle, two trailing white organic smoke before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.   .
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  • Refracted and broken lines of a dock crane shimmering on the waters of the River Thames at Industrial Northfleet, Kent
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  • A young lady looks uncomfortable sitting all day on a stand at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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