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Reportage photography from the 1990s.

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  • The day after its catastrophic blaze, firefighters continue to assess fire damage from their ladders, to the Queen's official residence at Windsor Castle, on 20th November 1992, in London, England. The most northerly corner of this old building that caught fire in a private chapel on the first floor of the north-east wing. Spreading quickly, damaging St George's Hall, which is often used for banquets. In all, one hundred rooms were damaged in the fire and intense public debate was sparked about whether the taxpayer should foot the repair bill, as the castle is owned by the British Government and not the Royal Family. But the Queen agreed to meet 70% of the costs, and opened Buckingham Palace to the public to generate extra funds. The £40m restoration took five years. Windsor is the largest inhabited castle in the world and partly dates to the time of the Norman King William the Conquerer.
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  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • A female worker carries plastic goods on a traditional pole through the centre of Shenzhen, on 10th August 1994, in Shenzhen, China.
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  • Months before the new Millennium of 2000, women shoppers walk along a sunlit Oxford Street, outside the Selfridge's department store, on 19th September 1999, in London, England.
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  • Riot police officers stand firm nearTrafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. 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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  • Riot police officers stand firm in Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. 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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  • Local 1990s kids on bikes watch an event on Venice Beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s Chinese man stands in prayer near family vaults in the Muslim and Catholic cemetery, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China.
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  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
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  • 1990s rush-hour commuters cross London Bridge from Southwark on the south bank to the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England.
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  • In Europe's largest currency trading floor at National Westminster Bank, a 1990s female banker works at her computer at  in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England.
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  • Women watch other ladies arriving from London to attend Royal Ascot Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England.
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  • A 1990s banker speaks on the phone and in front of his computer, on the trading floor of credit Lyonnais in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • 1990s passengers sit and stand in an overcrowded train carriage in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 18th February 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A group of 1990s work colleagues drink outside in summer sunshine, beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two 1990s office workers sunbathe on grass during their lunchtime, on the grass in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s tired office worker has forty winks at lunchtime in Broadgate in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s poster for the AIDS virus, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a couple cary the American flag down a lower-Manhattan street, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Detail of a British Army infantry soldier's boot during a lull in an infantry exercise on Salisbury Plain, on 5th August 1996, in Warminster, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Royal Ascot racegoers picnic on the grass of an event car park, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England. Trays of food and two bottles of Champagne have been consumed during a break from betting and socialising. They are dressed in formal morning dress of top hat, waistcoat, tails with two of the men wearing red roses in their lapel button holes, all traditional and obligatory dress code in the Royal Enclosures which can be seen by visitors in the public car parks near the famous Berkshire race course. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Five elderly women on-lookers are lined against a wall outside the famous Ascot race course on Ladies' Day, the annual event on the English sporting and social calendar in June, on 18th June 1992, in Ascot, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two 1990s British Asians talk discreetly at a club in West London, on 16th August 1998, innLondon, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Cheeky young 1990s Afro-American cheerleader girls practice their routine at the Bedford-King Recreation Center, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A confident 1990s child raises her hand while classmates sit on a classroom rug at the Ashford Park Elementary School, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1998 landscape showing a derelict wasteland of ground around Battersea Power Station, on 25th March 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1998 view along Queesntown Road in Battersea and including the four tall chimneys of Battersea Power Station, on 25th March 1998, in London, England.
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  • A 1998 view along Queesntown Road in Battersea and including the four tall chimneys of Battersea Power Station, on 25th March 1998, in London, England.
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  • A 1998 landscape showing a derelict interior of Battersea Power Station, on 25th March 1998, in London, England.
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  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a newspaper vendor sells copies of the New York Daily News with the face of Osama bin Laden and a cowboy-era outlaw's headline of 'Dead or Alive', on 18th September 2001, New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, front pages of Newsday and the New York Daily News with the faces of Osama bin Laden and a cowboy-era outlaw's headline of 'Dead or Alive', on 18th September 2001, New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The newly-elected British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair stands on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street with his wife Cherie and three children Euan; Kathryn and Nicky, the morning after his landslide election victory over the Conservative John Major, on 2nd May 1997, in Westminster, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Multibuy CDs for Indian popular music and Bollywood soundtracks are on sale in Southall, a West London neighbourhood for the British Asian community, on 16th August 1998, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A detail of sourdough bread loaves at an artisanal bakery, on 20th April 2000, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Captive Brown bears seen in their enclosure at Budapest zoo,<br />
on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A visitor to Budapest zoo reaches out with food scraps to a captive elephant, whose enclosure has sharp spikes around its moat, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • 1990s shop staff prepares a recently-killed fish in a Budapest store, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While her pet spaniel plays outside, a 1990s resident of a Budapest housing estate makes a call in a phone kiosk,<br />
on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • 1990s teenage students receive flowers from their parents on the last day of the school term, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • As a staff member counts coins, 1990s women shoppers gather around the till to pay cash in a Budapest shop, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s exterior of Bush House, 21st June 2018, in London, England. The BBC World Service occupied four wings of the building. Bush House is a Grade II listed building at the southern end of Kingsway between Aldwych and the Strand in London, previously served as the headquarters of the BBC World Service. Broadcasting from Bush House lasted for 70 years, from winter 1941 to summer 2012. Sections of Bush House were completed and opened over a period of 10 years: Centre Block was opened in 1925, North-West Wing in 1928, North-East Wing in 1929, South-East Wing in 1930, and South-West Wing in 1935. The full building complex was completed in 1935. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the headline on the front page of the USA Today newspaper runs a quote from President George W Bush - 'The Hour is Coming' - a message of imminent reprisals against al Qaeda terrorists and the followers in Afghanistan of the Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s exterior of Bush House, 21st June 2018, in London, England. The BBC World Service occupied four wings of the building. Bush House is a Grade II listed building at the southern end of Kingsway between Aldwych and the Strand in London, previously served as the headquarters of the BBC World Service. Broadcasting from Bush House lasted for 70 years, from winter 1941 to summer 2012. Sections of Bush House were completed and opened over a period of 10 years: Centre Block was opened in 1925, North-West Wing in 1928, North-East Wing in 1929, South-East Wing in 1930, and South-West Wing in 1935. The full building complex was completed in 1935. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • 1990s staff of the BBC work at the broadcaster's World Service station, 21st June 2018, in London, England. The BBC World Service occupied four wings of the building. Broadcasting from Bush House lasted for 70 years, from winter 1941 to summer 2012. Sections of Bush House were completed and opened over a period of 10 years: Centre Block was opened in 1925, North-West Wing in 1928, North-East Wing in 1929, South-East Wing in 1930, and South-West Wing in 1935. The full building complex was completed in 1935. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Seen through a 1990s-era caravan, a lady reads to herself on a summer's evening while holidaying on a camping site in Cornwall, on 13th August 2000, in Looe, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A mother feeds her small child alongside his older sister in a  1990s-era caravan while holidaying on a camping site in Cornwall, on 13th August 2000, in Looe, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A camper sits in morning sunshine outside his 1990s-era caravan while holidaying on a camping site in Cornwall, on 13th August 2000, in Looe, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Schoolchildren of various ages learn circus skills from a circus performer with the small Snapdragon Circus, on 28th September 1990, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two young 1990s city workers drink pints of beer outside a pub in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th May 1993, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The EU flag flies over 1990s financial institutions of the City of London (aka The Square Mile) in the capital's financial centre, on 16th June 1994, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Two businessmen use the cash dispenser outside a branch of National Westminster Bank (Natwest) in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 16th June 1994, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A typical elderly 1990s French couple from the Cote d'Azur sit on a bench of their seafront with their pet poodle, on 10th May 1996, in Juan-les-Pins, France. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Exterior of the Cote d'Azur's Hotel Negresco on the Promenade de Anglais, on 10th May 1996, in Nice, France. The Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie des Anges in Nice, France was named for Henri Negresco (1868-1920) who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. Noted for its doormen dressed in the manner of the staff in 18th-century elite bourgeois households, complete with red-plumed postilion hats, the hotel also offers renowned gourmet dining at Le Chantecler. In 2003 the Hotel Negresco was listed by the government of France as a National Historic Building. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s Cote d'Azur skater performs a high stunt leap in front of a crowd of admirers on the Promenade de Anglais, on 10th May 1996, in Nice, France. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A portrait of an exiled Cuban couple sitting on the hood, or bonnet of their car in Miami Beach, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), bent street signposts still remain, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An arid desert landscape of road distance and a mountain geology in Death Valley, on 18th May 1996, in Death Valley, California USA. Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in the Middle East. Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.( Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a 1990s tin of Deutschmark and Pfennig coins are on a cauliflower market stall, on 15th June 1990, in Leipzig, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Tired daytrip passengers laden with Duty Free purchases await transport after returning from their booze-cruise to Calais in France, on 21st June 1995, in Dover, Kent, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • With the New York skyline shrouded in smog, a young Asian couple embrace on the open-air deck of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, on 31st July 1998, in New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The maiden flight of a Eurofighter jet (now called Typhoon) the fighter jet built by a consortium of European nation aerospace companies, on 27th March 1994, in Warton, England. With VIPs and special military guests present to celebrate this success of the aviation defence project, the flags of contributing countries hang above at a hangar at the BAE Systems factory at Warton. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole combat aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of three companies. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The grand unveiling of Eurofighter (now called Typhoon) the fighter jet built by a consortium of European nation aerospace companies, on 27th March 1994, in Warton, England. With VIPs and special military guests present to celebrate this success of the aviation defence project, the flags of contributing countries hang above at a hangar at the BAE Systems factory at Warton. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole combat aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of three companies. Its maiden flight took place on 27 March 1994. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Cows and livestock winter inside a barn on a family-run farm in the Alsace village of Boofzheim, on 13th October 1997, in Boofzheim, France. The cattle are owned by the Kessler family who have a herd of cows as well as ducks from which they make Foie-Gras. The farm is in the french village of Boofzheim, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. Its name is probably derived from the French "boeuf" (bull or ox). (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), a Trabant is worked on at the company factory, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. The East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke was at Zwickau in Saxony. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Detail of a Georgia car license plate, in the run-up to the 1996 XXVI Olympic Games in Atlanta, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An African-American Georgia flag protestor holds his placard to a white passer-by before the Atlanta Braves World Series baseball victory parade, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.. James Coleman brought this action to enjoin the flying of the Georgia state flag over Georgia's state office buildings. Coleman, an African-American, alleges that the flying of the Georgia flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag emblem, violates his constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of expression.
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  • A British Army Gurkha recruit stands to attention during a barracks inspection at the Gurkha Regiment's training centre at Church Crookham, on 16th January 1996, in England UK. 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 Nepal's Himalayan foothills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. Only 160 are recruited with training continuing at this barracks until joining various units within the army. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 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 journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test of pull-ups for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. 60,000 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 journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young Nepali boy is measured for lung capacity during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment - part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. 60,000 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 journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • For their daily river washing ritual, young Nepali boys bathe in the river Seti Gandaki in a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara during their recruitment selection held ever year, 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. <br />
After a gruelling series of physical tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 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 journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.  (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy stares through the window of a Nepal Airlines airliner during his flight from his Himalayan homeland to the UK where his 2-year training for the British Army will begin, on 16th January 1997, in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is leaving behind his family for England where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. 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. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Firefighters line-up before a training morning at Heathrow airport's jet fire simulator facility, on 18th March 2000, at Heathrow Airport, London, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Firefighters line-up before a training morning at Heathrow airport's jet gas fire computerised simulator facility, on 18th March 2000, at Heathrow Airport, London, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Firefighters line-up before a training morning at Heathrow airport's jet gas fire computerised simulator facility, on 18th March 2000, at Heathrow Airport, London, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Officers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, a Scots regiment of the British Army rehearse the official portrait with Queen Elizabeth the next day, on 27th June 1996, at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A dawn landscape of a mountain hostel at Ghorepani in the Annapurna Sanctuary, a preservation area of Nepal, high in the Himalayan foothills, on 16th January 1997, in Ghorepani, Nepal. Villages like this partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, a red 1990s theme of carpet, rope barrier, umbrella and clothing outside the Bank of China, on 21st April 1995, in Central, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • In the days before the historical Handover of sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China, a banner calls for a Democracy rally in two locations, on 27th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • On the eve of the historical Handover of sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China, pro-UK Chinese gather in the rain outside the official residence of outgoing Governor, Chris Patten, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s market shallholder drags a load of vegetable items in baskets in the New Territories, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, 1990s tram passenger commuters stop at a tram and bus stop on the des Voeux road in the direction of Wanchai and Causeway Bay, on 21st April 1995, in Central, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, heavy 1990s traffic of cars, trams and buses, on 21st April 1995, in Central, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, 1990s street advertising including one for the cigarette Marlboro Man, on 21st April 1995, in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, a 1990s Chinese man ducks under decorative banners, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, a Western couple stand with a backdrop of Hong Kong Harbour waters, on 21st April 1995, in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • While still a British colony, 1990s bus passengers await their next service, on 21st April 1995, in Central, Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • British Prime Minister, John Major launches his Conservative party election manifesto on 18th March 1992 in Brighton, England. Major went on to win the election in April that year and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labour's 1997 win for Tony Blair. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • British Prime Minister, John Major launches his Conservative party election manifesto on 18th March 1992 in Brighton, England. Major went on to win the election in April that year and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labour's 1997 win for Tony Blair. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • British Prime Minister, John Major launches his Conservative party election manifesto on 18th March 1992 in Brighton, England. Major went on to win the election in April that year and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labour's 1997 win for Tony Blair. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • British Prime Minister, John Major launches his Conservative party election manifesto on 18th March 1992 in Brighton, England. Major went on to win the election in April that year and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party although it was its last outright win until 2015 after Labour's 1997 win for Tony Blair. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • From behind, a 1990s Hispanic couple hold hands on Venice beach, on 18th May 1996, in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An elderly gentleman of the indigenous Lepcha people looks through a window of his house, on 18th June 1995, in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India. The Lepcha are also called the Rongkup meaning the children of God and the Rong, Mútuncí Róngkup Rumkup "beloved children of the Róng and of God"), and Rongpa are among the indigenous peoples of Sikkim, India and number between 30,000 and 50,000. Many Lepcha are also found in western and southwestern Bhutan, Tibet, Darjeeling, the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal, and in the hills of West Bengal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A 1990s Afro-Caribbean mother and her child enjoy the August heatwave in the unheated waters of the Grade II listed  Brockwell (Brixton) Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, 25th August 1995, in London, England. The Lido is an oasis for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 but after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • An early morning swimmer bathes in the unheated pool of the Grade II listed  Brockwell (Brixton) Lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, 25th August 1995, in London, England. The Lido is an oasis for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Brockwell Lido is a large, open air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 but after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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