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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. De Botton is in the Maldives researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' about the world of Work, published in April 2009. Here he accompanies a fishing boat crew who use hand and line methods to land yellow fin tuna for export to the EU and in particular, Sainsbury's supermarket. Barefoot on the roof of the wheelhouse and with the top of his pen in mouth, he looks thoughfully into the distance to think of more great ideas for his best-selling book. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • Vacant desks and empty chairs are placed facing each other for a counselling workshop held for company employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Soon, employees of this seminar will arrive for a day's role-playing in this classroom setting where the office furnature makes a square to force participants to confront their opposite numbers. Jotter pads are provided for brainstorming ideas and concepts that help E & Y get the best out of their talented people. The room is otherwise empty as bright daylight floods through a window allowing positive thoughts and bright ideas to influence their thinking.
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  • As two strangers walk towards each other while distracted by their phones, work colleagues appear on a corporate billboard making eye contact, in a face-to-face meeting of ideas in an office workplace, on 13th September 2021, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief - that invention is the vital spark that drives the world's technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • Businessmen swap ideas while attending CeBIT, a technology fair exhibition, on 29th March 1996, in the Hannover Messe, Germany.
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  • A creative biscuit-making team exchange ideas in a private conference pod at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • A creative biscuit-making team exchange new marketing ideas in a private room at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • An Iranian stand for entrepreneurs demonstrating fun ideas at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • A detail of a notepad jotter with inspirational words on the top of each sheet of A5 paper. The words 'doodle, list, jot, collate, note down and create' help personnel at a counselling workshop make the right decisions during a day of ideas and creativity brainstorming, held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. An out of focus biro pen is placed diagonally on the paper that has been left on  office table furniture for arriving staff.
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  • A landscape of a pink door and brass letterbox and knocker with paint swatches of orange and yellow for future masonry colour choice ideas, at a property on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, on 8th March 2020, in London, England. One neighbour of number 24 would once have been writer George Owell (while still known as Eric Blair), who lodged at number 22 in this street during the winter of 1927.
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  • A local family discuss ideas and directions while walking uphill towards the houses of a nineteen-eighties, middle-class housing estate on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England
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  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority 'Can't evict our ideas'. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat - a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
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  • A creative biscuit-making team exchange new marketing ideas in a private room at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London.
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  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London.
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  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London.
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  • Well-known London Freemasons conspiracy protester stands on Westminster street corner as passers-by walk past.
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  • Airliners and grass promote the environment at engine manufacturer CFM stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • On the third anniversary of the UK leaving the European Union (EU), a pair of a youth's feet dangle from the roof above of a WW2 coastal defence light emplacement on the Thames Estuary seafront at Shoebury, Southend-on-Sea, on 31st January 2023, in Southend, England. In the 2016 EU Referendum, 39,348 voters  in Southend-on-Sea voted to Remain (41.9%) and 54,522 (58.1%) to Leave. The UK officially left the EU on 31st January 2020.
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  • An aerial view of pedestrians walking along the pavement and passing bollards in the City of London, aka The Square Mile, the capital's financial district, on 26th August 2022, in London, England.
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  • A man walks down Oxford Street carrying a message telling the public to wake up and that they're Satan's brainwashed cattle, on 13th January 2022, in London, England.
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  • A man walks down Oxford Street carrying a message telling the public to wake up and that they're Satan's brainwashed cattle, on 13th January 2022, in London, England.
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  • On the third anniversary of the UK leaving the European Union (EU), a pair of a youth's feet dangle from the roof above of a WW2 coastal defence light emplacement on the Thames Estuary seafront at Shoebury, Southend-on-Sea, on 31st January 2023, in Southend, England. In the 2016 EU Referendum, 39,348 voters  in Southend-on-Sea voted to Remain (41.9%) and 54,522 (58.1%) to Leave. The UK officially left the EU on 31st January 2020.
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  • A Christian man who frequents the West End carrying religious messages from the Bible, stands in front of a poster for Daniel Craig's last appearance as James Bond in the film 'Not a Day to Die', which has finally opened around the country, delayed after the Covid pandemic, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
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  • Seen from the rear, a Christian religious message stating that without Jesus Christ, we will burn in the lake of fire, is held by a young man who walks past a woman placing a Covid mask on her face, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-04-12-10-2021.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, a Christian religious message stating that without Jesus Christ, we will burn in the lake of fire, and is held by a young man who also wears a t-shirt message about Covid being the 'Mark of the Beast', in Trafalgar Square, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-01-12-10-2021.jpg
  • Post-it notes stuck to the window of a meeting room in an office on London Wall in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England.
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  • An employee and Post-it notes stuck to the window of a meeting room in an office on London Wall in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England.
    london_wall-09-21-08-2018.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
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  • A giant billboard describes the more traditional China - when the main mode of transport was the bicycle and Hong Kong was still a British colony. The reality underneath is a megacity on a scale of a megapolis. Cars pass-by and consumer goods are on ads in the distance. .Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first?and one of the most successful?Special Economic Zones (SEZs). It currently also holds sub-provincial administrative status, with powers slightly less than a province. Shenzhen was  named in 2012 as one of the 13 emerging megalopolises in China with a population of 10.3 million.
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  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Japanese lady delegate sits outside full-size mock-up the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Man touches scale model of A380 airliner displayed at the Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • An attractive female employee carries snacks through an exhibition hall during the Paris Air Show  at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Legs and scale model of an A380 airliner displayed at Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition Le Bourget
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  • Scaled seating of an A380 airliner is displayed at the Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • A delegate sends a text message from a mobile phone in a mock-up airliner cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • Chinese delegates man the Shanghai China Great Wall Industry Corporation stand at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • British couturier Margaret Howell holds a meeting takes place to discuss fabrics for the next fashion show at her studio
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  • A new hospital equipment concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's model at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • The 1-2-3 stop-fire changes a tap into a fire hose demonstrated by entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace
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  • A patient Malaysian entrepreneur awaits investment for his concept at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • The Walkodile for better child safety is demonstrated by an entrepreneur at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • Making life-changing calls at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
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  • An alphabetical guide awaits accountancy employees at the company's rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel, Docklands
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  • Employees watch motivational circus acrobats at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • Role-play and positive thinking at a counselling workshop held for company staff in Borough, Southwark.
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  • Role-play and positive thinking at a counselling workshop held for company staff in Borough, Southwark.
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  • The last person to leave the office is a conscientious lady employee of the biscuit and snack manufacturer United Biscuits at their UK headquarters at Hayes Park North near London England. Seen in a window surrounded bright ceiling lights, the female sits at her desk tying up loose ends before leaving for the day. As darkness falls outside, the red lights from tail lights streak across the picture and the green grass on a landscaped bank is lit by light posts. None of her work colleages have stayed on, preferring to depart to see their families at home on this winter night. Perhaps this career woman is single and an ambitious member of the team who can dedicate more time to her job..
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  • An executive peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of his staff who have congregated at an Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • A Christian man who frequents the West End carrying religious messages from the Bible, stands in front of a poster for Daniel Craig's last appearance as James Bond in the film 'Not a Day to Die', which has finally opened around the country, delayed after the Covid pandemic, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-09-12-10-2021.jpg
  • A Christian man who frequents the West End carrying religious messages from the Bible, stands in front of a poster for Daniel Craig's last appearance as James Bond in the film 'Not a Day to Die', which has finally opened around the country, delayed after the Covid pandemic, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-08-12-10-2021.jpg
  • A young man stands near Leicester Square holding a religious message telling the public to wake up, they are being brainwashed by Satan, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-05-12-10-2021.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, a Christian religious message stating that without Jesus Christ, we will burn in the lake of fire, and is held by a young man who also wears a t-shirt message about Covid being the 'Mark of the Beast', in Trafalgar Square, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-02-12-10-2021.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, a Christian religious message stating that without Jesus Christ, we will burn in the lake of fire, is held by a young man who walks past a woman placing a Covid mask on her face, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
    religious_placard-03-12-10-2021.jpg
  • As a woman carries her takeaway lunch, a woman of colour appears  on a corporate billboard, on 13th September 2021, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    workplace_billboard-03-13-09-2021.jpg
  • With the word 'Meet" in the background, two businessmen chat at a table outside a City bar, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 22nd June 2021, in London, England.
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  • Three Londoners stand connected by different forms of communication, in front of construction hoarding at Elephant & Castle, where the south London old shopping centre is being demolished, on 4th April 2021, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
    5g_conspiracy02-24-08-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
    5g_conspiracy01-24-08-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
    5g_conspiracy03-24-08-2020.jpg
  • An employee and Post-it notes stuck to the window of a meeting room in an office on London Wall in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England.
    london_wall-11-21-08-2018.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt338-05-03-2016.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt336-05-03-2016.jpg
  • A local Egyptian businessman looks thoughtfully into a setting sun while on sand dunes of a desert enviroment, near a village on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Hamdy Mosa has worked in the tourism industry all of his adult life and now heads a family business dependent on the industry, currently enduring a downturn in visitor numbers after recent terrorist activity.
    egypt335-05-03-2016.jpg
  • A local man and young Egyptian boy with his foal in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • A local man mentors a young Egyptian boy in the training of his foal in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Members of a Belgian boy scout troupe write on paper during a daytrip to Brussels, while one seperately looks elsewhere.
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  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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  • In the heart of the City of London, a caterpillar tracked crane tears down the walls of an old 70s office block close to St Paul's Cathedral, England. As a pedestrian walks past the blue hoardings that protect passers-by like him, the rubble is piled high before being removed as spoil to make way for an brand new construction that appears in an artist's impression picture on the right, above two site engineers wearing fluorescent jackets and hard hats. This is a scene of renewal in London's financial district. Of optimism and regeneration as businesses invest in new workplaces and replacing the tired, old offices that cannot accommodate new computer and server cabling technology.  ..
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  • Against orange evening light, a forest of high-rise cranes stand upright at the masive Canary Wharf development on London's Docklands, England. It is early evening and the crane drivers have left for the day, the day's shift have stopped work before resuming tomorrow. The silhouetted lines of each structure stand out clearly against the skyline before the regeneration of this region of East London grows upward. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Striding urgently are a group of rail commuters emerging from London Bridge main line station in central London along a station concourse. Marching in step, the strangers are on their way to work in the City of London or Southwark on the south bank of the Thames. They are all passing-by a mobile smoothie drink kiosk that has the slogan "Guaranteed to keep you going till lunch." London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
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  • Post-it notes are fixed to an office wall during a brainstorming session in central London.
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  • Long-after dark, a lady employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Working alone behind a closed door in a private workspace at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • Seen through a window as daylight fades, an employee works late at the United Biscuits Group offices, Hayes London
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  • A male chauffeur of African-descent makes a mobile telephone call at the Rolls-Royce chalet at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Spectators at the French Capgemini and Russian Defence Export chalets watch flying displays outide during the Paris Air Show
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  • Two military officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France
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  • Delegates watch flying displays outide during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • Delegates of the Moscow Khrunichev Space Center await new business at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
    paris_air_show56-20-06-2007.jpg
  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
    paris_air_show42-20-06-2007.jpg
  • Full-size mock-up of a Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) cockpit and cabin catering interior areas at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Young lady sits at the desk of aerospace alloys manufacturer Kumz during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • The Airbus family of jet airliners are mounted on a display board during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A young woman stands in front of a turbofan of engine manufacturer CFM during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A young lady perches on a stool outside an aircraft cabin mock-up during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Delegates at the French government-owned weapons manufacturer Nexter near nose-mounted helicopter cannon.
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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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  • Correspondents whisper before a Pratt & Whitney press announcement at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Rocket exhibitor at the Paris Air Show, June 2007.
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