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  • A couple cuddle at the Neon Bar on the cruise ship Ecstasy, en-route from Miami to Cancun in Mexico, on 15th May 1996, in Miami, Florida, USA. The Neon Bar features an enormous circular piano which doubles as a bar for those who like to sing along and neon artwork is lit behind the females, one the shape of another cocktail glass. Carnival’s ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • The Fun Ship Ecstasy anchored in Cancun, Mexico mid-way during a week-long cruise around the Gulf of Mexico...The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carries 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Carribean Sea. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, two of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's female passengers are at a small circular pool on the Sun Deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. The two girl friends frolic around the poolside exposing, tanned skin under a baking hot tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. One young lady  wears a bikini featuring a patriotic Stars and Stripes. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • A lady wearing a bikini sunbathes on her vacation ship's upper deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Passengers enjoy the sea view from their vacation ship's deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Passengers enjoy the night entertainment of disco dancing, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Young women at the poolside are watched by older men, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Passengers order cocktails from a black waiter on a vacation ship's upper deck, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Seen from Miradouro de de Santa Luzia, the 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval/Moorish district rooftops of Alfama, on 13th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Pollution from such huge ships is a toxic problem that is growing as the cruise industry and its ships get ever bigger, docking close to communities with narrow streets such as Lisbon. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • With the City of London in the distance, a Viking cruise ship is moored on the river Thames in Greenwich Park, on 16th June 2022, in London, England. Greenwich Park is a former hunting park and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London.
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  • With the City of London in the distance, a Viking cruise ship is moored on the river Thames in Greenwich Park, on 16th June 2022, in London, England. Greenwich Park is a former hunting park and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London.
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  • Largely American passengers re-join their cruise holiday voyage around the Gulf of Mexico during a day's stop-over in Cancun, Mexico. Reflected in the puddles of recent seasonal rain, they queue up on the port's quayside to have their identity passes checked before being allowed back on board the Fun Ship Ecstasy. Seen above them and in reflected in the water at their feet are some of the many windows and portholes of this enormous vessel belonging to the Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines company. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Carribean Sea.
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  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • The 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval district of Alfama, in Lisbon, Portugal. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew.
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  • The 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval district of Alfama, in Lisbon, Portugal. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew.
    portugal_lisbon-61-13-07-2016.jpg
  • The 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval district of Alfama, in Lisbon, Portugal. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew.
    portugal_lisbon-55-13-07-2016.jpg
  • The 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval district of Alfama, in Lisbon, Portugal. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew.
    portugal_lisbon-56-13-07-2016.jpg
  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's passengers are on the Sun deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. One of the ship's photographers has passed around a ship's circular life ring buoy through which one busty blonde lady has posed for a photograph and is about to pass it on to her nearest neighbour. She is wearing a garish pink and yellow bikini and is holding the life-saving device so that only her breasts are showing, obscuring her face. We see the name of the ship, Ecstasy, around the ring and the plastic ropes are falling on the lady's cleavage, forming circles around her bosoms. In the background, another cruise traveller (traveler) wears a straw sun hat and is also sitting on a blue sun lounger. We see exposed, tanned skin and it looks baking hot with the tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The line calls its ships The Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Docked at a quay and overlooked by a landscape of street lighting and posts, the cruise liner Costa Magica awaits its passengers after their excursion to the Portuguese capital, on 12th July, 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. The ship is enormous, at 105,000 tons and carrying 2,720 passengers. <br />
Debuting in 2004 as a sister ship to Costa Fortuna, it is built on the same platform as the Destiny-class of the Carnival Cruise Lines. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • The propellers of a C-130 Hercules and a Lockheed Martin JASSM cruise missile exhibit at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. The AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is a low observable standoff air-launched cruise missile developed in the United States. It is a large, semi-stealthy long-range weapon of the 2,000 pounds (910 kg) class. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, two of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's female passengers are at a small circular pool on the Sun Deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. The two girl friends frolic around the poolside exposing, tanned skin under a baking hot tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The young lady in the pool wears a bikini featuring a patriotic Stars and Stripes and cups her hands to coax her friend to too but she sits reluctantly on the edge. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
    carnival_pool_girls05-07-1996.jpg
  • Cruise ship passengers prepare for a morning scuba-diving in the blue waters off Cancun, Gulf of Mexico.
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  • The public enjoy a hot evening on the grass that overlooks a Viking cruise ship and the Cutty Sark during a June heatwave in Greenwich Park, on 16th June 2022, in London, England. Greenwich Park is a former hunting park and one of the largest single green spaces in south-east London.
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  • A lady office worker sits at her desk near the romance of a poster for a cruise holiday.
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  • Two obese parents and their normal weight child sit with their backs to the viewer on the edge of a pool on the open deck of the Fun Ship Ecstasy belonging to Carnival Cruises, as it sails through the Gulf of Mexico. The two adults and the girl wear bathing costumes and their tanned skin is exposed to the sun. They are sitting on the rectangular pool-side tiles taking in the atmosphere and the blue water that they're facing. We see the comparison of healthy youth and oversized adulthood, the parents' wide posteriors dwarf the normal size of their child.
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  • Cruising poster for one particular boating excursion on Lake Windermere.
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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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  • Vacation tourists interact with holiday resort cut-outs, on 15th May 1996, on Key West, Florida, USA.
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  • Looking eastwards (downriver) from Waterloo Bridge to the Southbank and the City of London, a burst of sunlight shines across river traffic, from the top of the One Blackfriars skyscraper, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
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  • Looking eastwards (downriver) from Waterloo Bridge to the Southbank and the City of London, a burst of sunlight shines across river traffic, from the top of the One Blackfriars skyscraper, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
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  • Looking eastwards (downriver) from Waterloo Bridge to the Southbank and the City of London, a burst of sunlight shines across river traffic, from the top of the One Blackfriars skyscraper, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
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  • Boating crew at Gay's Staithe on Barton Broad, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve. Gay's Staithe lies along the western arm of Barton Broad known as Limekiln Dyke, once a calling point for wherriy boats carrying corn, coal and reeds for the thatching industry and named after Billy Gay whose trading wherry business operated from here.
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  • The view from a BOAC VC-10 airliner of an African landscape taken in 1970 using a primitive Kodak Brownie.
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  • In mid-flight over Greater London, we see a passenger?s view of a turning airliner's wing and the capital's dusk landscape below at a low altitude. As the starboard (right) wing dips, the Virgin Atlantic Airbus banks and a long exposure blurs the city lights below. A small curved portion of the passenger window, red engines and the Union Jack colours are seen. As aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. 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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  • In mid-flight between Hamburg in Germany and London Heathrow, we see a passenger?s view of a climbing airliner's port wing and the hazy German landscape below at a high altitude. The sky above reflects its soft blue hue on the upper surface of the left wing but the air below is a soft pink, a rural patchwork of fields and villages. As an example of aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. 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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  • Steps on the boardwalk in the old passenger Tilbury cruise terminal, Essex.
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  • A rusting and peeling gantry in the old passenger Tilbury cruise terminal, Essex.
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  • Construction sheeting hides work on riverside office properties while a 'City Cruise' tour boat passes beneath the Millennium Bridge which crosses the Thames river, on 19th October 2021, in London, England. London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years coincided with the Millennium in 2000. It was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as 'Synchronous Lateral Excitation'.
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  • Construction sheeting hides work on riverside office properties while a 'City Cruise' tour boat passes beneath the Millennium Bridge which crosses the Thames river, on 19th October 2021, in London, England. London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years coincided with the Millennium in 2000. It was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as 'Synchronous Lateral Excitation'.
    millennium_bridge-02-19-10-2021.jpg
  • Royal faces from an old empire with a three year-old Maria Theresia and a portrait of some of her 16 children (incl Marie Antoinette) with a modern day Austria outside Schloss Schonbrunn (palace) on 27th June 2016, in Vienna, Austria. The cruise line image is for the Viking Line whose tourists are inside the nearby royal apartments. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Royal faces from an old empire with a three year-old Maria Theresia and a portrait of some of her 16 children (incl Marie Antoinette) with a modern day Austria outside Schloss Schonbrunn (palace) on 27th June 2016, in Vienna, Austria. The cruise line image is for the Viking Line whose tourists are inside the nearby royal apartments. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma.
    vienna_schonbrunn-06-27-06-2016.jpg
  • Royal faces from an old empire with a three year-old Maria Theresia and a portrait of some of her 16 children (incl Marie Antoinette) with a modern day Austria outside Schloss Schonbrunn (palace) on 27th June 2016, in Vienna, Austria. The cruise line image is for the Viking Line whose tourists are inside the nearby royal apartments. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma.
    vienna_schonbrunn-05-27-06-2016.jpg
  • Three 'Thames City Cruises' tour boats are moored downriver from the former warehouses of Butler's Wharf on the river Thames, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
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  • A 'Thames City Cruises' tour boat heads downriver after passing beneath Tower Bridge on the river Thames, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-24-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Construction sheeting hides work on riverside office properties while an open deck tour boat passes beneath the Millennium Bridge which crosses the Thames river, on 19th October 2021, in London, England. London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years coincided with the Millennium in 2000. It was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as 'Synchronous Lateral Excitation'.
    millennium_bridge-07-19-10-2021.jpg
  • Construction sheeting hides work on riverside office properties while an open deck tour boat passes beneath the Millennium Bridge which crosses the Thames river, on 19th October 2021, in London, England. London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years coincided with the Millennium in 2000. It was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as 'Synchronous Lateral Excitation'.
    millennium_bridge-06-19-10-2021.jpg
  • Having just disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship at the port of Miami, Florida, two tourists carry and pull their baggage along to a waiting coaches that will transport them for onward journeys. Comically they also wear wide sombrero hats bought in Cancun during their vacation around the Gulf of Mexico, the destination of this popular cruise line whose base is Miami. Stitched with garish colours the souvenirs provide shelter from the overhead tropical sun though the woman of this couple chooses to hang hers over a shoulder and keeps her original hat on her head. This may be the couples' honeymoon or just a special annual holiday away from the kids or a humdrum lifestyle where the weather is far from the intensity of Florida, a favourite resort for Americans not liking foreign travel.
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  • Comic entertainer with glitzy backdrop performs a stand-up routine on stage during cruise ship voyage.
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  • From a low angle, we see a greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis who awaits his passenger to arrive off a flight from Turkey. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the man holds up a name board to attract the attention of the man who is a member of a cruise ship's crew that is due to sail from the sea port of Dover. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
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  • A Kratos BQM-177i drone target at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Based upon the U.S. Navy’s BQM-177A, the BQM-177i meets the international community’s need for highly dynamic, high-subsonic, sea-skimming, anti-ship cruise missile threat emulation. Capable of speeds in excess of Mach 1 and altitudes above 35,000 feet, the BQM-177i is ideally suited for missions that include testing surface-to-air weapon systems, such as those on naval vessels.
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  • Tourists explore tourist sombrero trinket shops during their cruise ship excursion at Cancun.
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  • Crowds of visitors and locals gather on the terrace of an Ocean Drive cafe in Miami Beach. It is early evening and we see the blurred people moving about over the picture during a time-exposure of a few seconds. The colours of ambient neon lights that these streets are well-known for have become very vivid with bright pinks and reds a main feature of this scene. A menu board listing cocktail drinks prices stands on the sidewalk. Candles have been lit in glass jars on table tops. Ghostly, blurred Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze against the fading sky of early evening. This is a vibrant district of tropical Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed. Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality.
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  • Holidaymakers wait in turn to be loaded aboard the Princess Anne, an SR.N4 Hovercraft during its turnaround at Ramsgate.<br />
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The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe  Nautical 4)[1]  hovercraft (also known as the Mountbatten class hovercraft) was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft  built by the British Hovercraft Corporation  (BHC). BHC was formed by the merger of Saunders-Roe  and Vickers Supermarine in 1966. Work on the SR.N4 began in 1965 and the first trials took place in early 1968. The SR.N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two cabins besides a two-lane automobile bay which held up to 30 cars. Cars were driven from a bow ramp just forward of the cockpit / wheelhouse. The first design was 40 metres (131 ft) long, weighed 190 long tons (193 t), was capable of 83 knots (154 km/h) and could cruise at over 60 knots (111 km/h). The SR.N4's operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000, when the Channel Tunnel made their service unprofitable.
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather beneath umbrellas on the roof of Ocean Terminal to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. A cruise liner is moored s small distance away but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering on the top floor of the shopping mall which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • During a time-exposure of a few seconds, the ambient neon and natural evening light of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive are mixed together to give an atmospheric mood of vitality, bustle and excitement in this tropical city. The vertical-aligned name of the famous Colony Hotel is seen through the darkened window of an SUV (4x4). Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality. Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze, blurring during the exposure and making them ghostly against the fading sky of early evening. This is vibrant district of Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed.
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  • From an airliner passenger seat, bright sunshine causes lens flare during a flight across the English Channel between Paris and London. We see out at a cruising altitude across the clouds that blanket the ground below. The curve of the Airbus window makes for a corner along the right-hand side of the image.
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  • The hydraulic arm of a Fiat-Hitachi caterpillar digger frames the 17th Century dome of St Paul's Cathedral during the redevelopment of the southbank in central London. Standing on a pile of rubble it sits idol during a break in reconstruction project that transformed Bankside from an unlandscaped are to a smart walkway in time for the Millennium of 2000. An aircraft en-route to City Airport flies overhead and a Police river patrol boat cruises past too.
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