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  • A twelve year-old girl visiting the London branch of the Apple Store in London's Regent Street, is listening intently to digital music on a green iPod Nano. She is concentrating on the music playing through her headphones and resting her elbows on the desk top furniture. In front of her is a price list for this audio gadget. telling us that is costs £129.  The girl's hair is parted in the middle of her head and she wears a clip to keep her hair from her face. Over her shoulders is a display of headsets on a rack and in the background an older lady is also listening to music through another device.
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  • A young man whistles to a tune that he is listening to through headphones. It is 1989 and the Walkman is the toy of choice for the urban young - the first portable music device that helped change the way society took their taped music out and about - and years before the Apple iPod. It worked but one had to press the foam pads into the ears to drown out background city noise plus the cassette tape often snagged and twisted, ruining the product.
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • Listening intently to a speech given by the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London's town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor's predictions for growth and prosperity.
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  • Man listening to mp3 music walks past a sunglasses shop featuring three hats suspended from the store window ceiling.
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  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
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  • Man listening to mp3 music walks past a sunglasses shop featuring three hats suspended from the store window ceiling.
    hats_window08-17-06-2014.jpg
  • Listening intently to a speech given by a city dignitary before Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke MP, the then-Chancellor in John Major's Conservative government of 1994, these city and financial dignitaries have feasted well in the old Guildhall, the City of London's town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the capital. Wearing formal banquet attire, these chiefs of industry appear to be an all-male audience though there were also women sat at tables during the Banker's Dinner held every in June when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech known as the Mansion House Speech hosted by the Lord Mayor, which takes its name from his official residence nearby. They concentrate on the speech to hear the Chancellor's predictions for growth and prosperity.
    guildhall_banquet03-16-06-1994.jpg
  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
    RB_105-05-05-1994.jpg
  • Audiience listening to seminar at a graduate expo fair where company job recruiters meet young people starting work
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  • Before continuing to the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, Amira Elfadil, Secretary General of the National Council of Child Welfare listens to speeches inside the 4 sq km camp Abo Shouk refugee camp, which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons, on the outskirts of Al Fasher, Sudan.
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  • Two ground support staff of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team listen to a health & safety brief.
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  • Two RAF pilots listen to flight-briefing by 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team for whom they want to join after the candidate process.
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  • School and college leavers listen to seminar given by an accountancy lecturer at a company's London headquarters
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  • A crowd of workers listen to speeches by their trade union during a council strike in Liverpool. A sea of faces looks towards us, their expressions serious and concerned at the loss of their jobs and livelihoods. Their trade union has organised this meeting out in the open air in the city centre, a protest against unfair reduction of earnings and an erosion of working conditions. These people are English Liverpool council workers recently made redundant and have gathered in the city centre to express their willingness to act againist their former-employers.
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  • Car workers gather to hear from a union representative during a union meeting during the scheduled rest break in the German BMW-owned Rover production factory in Cowley, Solihull, England. Employees listen to news and  employment terms and conditions. Motor car production has taken place at Cowley near the city of Oxford, England for over ninety years. The car factory is known today as Plant Oxford and is now owned by BMW and has been extensively redeveloped. It remains the largest industrial employer in Oxfordshire employing more than 4,300 people.
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  • School and college leavers listen to seminar given by an  accountancy lecturer at a company's London headquarters
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  • Woman listens to online content via her phone, walks over the southern end of London Bridge, on 2nd September 2021, in London, England.
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  • A young man listens to his phone in the City of London, the capital's financial district also known as the Square Mile, on 6th April 2017, in London, England.
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  • A US citizen listens spellbound to Barack Obama's inauguration speech. Along with other members of expatriate 'Democrats Abroad' party supporters, she holds the American flag during Obama's swearing in as the United States' 44th President, after his Nov 08 election victory as America's first African American Commander in Chief. The location is The Texas Embassy Texmex bar in central London, England. Similar events were held by Democrats Abroad around the world but in England, Obama's election to the White House excited Britain's political and cultural landscape during a deep economic recession. .
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  • A doubtful-looking miitary officer from an unknown foreign state (possibly Kuwait) listens to an explanation from a western genleman at the BAE Systems corporate exhibition chalet during the Farnborough Air Show, on 20th June 2002, at Farnborough, Hampshire, England.
    farnborough_officers-20-07-2002.jpg
  • Young woman listens to mp3 music beneath a poster girl for Burberry sunglasses they call Eyewear, in a sunlit London street. Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories.
    burberry_sunglasses16-29-09-2011.jpg
  • Tired African-American lady listens with sleeping dughter to latest news during overnight election night in London
    obama_election_night25-05-11-2008.jpg
  • Tired African-American lady listens with sleeping dughter to latest news during overnight election night in London
    obama_election_night24-05-11-2008.jpg
  • Tired African-American lady listens with sleeping dughter to latest news during overnight election night in London
    obama_election_night23-05-11-2008.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflection of street woman, waiting for City of London bus.
    woman_symmetry05-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflection of street woman, waiting for City of London bus.
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  • Mothers and children and symmetrical reflection of street woman, waiting for City of London bus.
    woman_symmetry01-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Strangers walking in City of London street with banking offices inbackground.
    city_people02-07-02-2014.jpg
  • British Army Gurkha soldier instructs his men during an exercise on Salisbury Plain, the army's infantry training ground.
    army_instructor01-05-08-1996.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflections of street people, waiting for a City of London bus.
    woman_symmetry07-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflections of street peoople, waiting for City of London bus.
    woman_symmetry03-26-02-2014.jpg
  • A man plugged in to earphones walks past a large poster for the iPhone 5 on the wall of a Carphone Warehouse retailer.
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  • A tour group organised by WalkLondon stop by a sphinx to hear about the ancient Egyptian obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, on the Embankment WC2. Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux-Egyptian sphinxes cast from bronze that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). These Sphinxes appear to be looking at the Needle rather than guarding it. This is due to the Sphinxes' improper or backwards installation.
    walk_london_tour02-27-01-2013.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc138-03-06-2014.jpg
  • A woman walks past a phone network supplier's ad for the Apple iPhone 5c
    apple_ad04-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Purple corporate logo on lecture threatre carpet of London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road.
    met_london_university99-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university94-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university88-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university86-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university78-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university77-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Two pilots the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team discuss finer points of aerobatic flying in crew room.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london02-05-06-1989.jpg
  • A flight nurse examines a lady from the Native American Reserve at San Carlos, Arizona, from where she is to be taken from the rural Arizona airstrip by  twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance, to hospital for treatment. The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe. It was referred to by some as "Hell's Forty Acres," due to a myriad of dismal health and environmental conditions. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
    san_carlos01-07-01-2000.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university98-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university97-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university96-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university95-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university93-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university87-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university82-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university79-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young man studies at workstation in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university74-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university73-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university72-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university71-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university70-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
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  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university68-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Young men study at workstations in communal area at London Metropilitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university67-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Purple corporate logo on lecture threatre carpet of London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road.
    met_london_university100-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university90-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Pilot members of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team in post-training flight briefing during winter training.
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  • A tour group organised by WalkLondon stop to hear about London's still working gaslight outside the Savoy Hotel in Carting Lane WC2 - and said to be powered by sewer gas.
    walk_london_tour01-27-01-2013.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university85-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Tuition for students in Henry Thomas lecture theatre at London Metropolitan University's Holloway Road campus.
    met_london_university76-02-11-2010.jpg
  • Some of the 100,000 members of the Civil Service 'Public and Commercial Services Union' (PCS) stage a picket line outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, a day of industrial action 'The claim for the union is a 10% pay rise for everyone, with a minimum pay of £15 an hour, with no cuts to terms and conditions', on 1st February 2023, in London, England.
    civil_service_strike-09-01-02-2023.jpg
  • President and CEO of 'Boeing Commercial Airplanes', Stanley (Stan) Deal, is seen during the press conference in which the US commercial aircraft manufacturer announced an order by Azerbaijan Airlines for new 787 Deamliner airiners, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. The US aviation manufacturer is recovering from a financial downturn following the series of 737 Max crashes.
    farnborough_airshow-50-20-07-2022.jpg
  • A male pedestrian wearing heaphones and the image of a mythical male hero, believed to be Icarus, on the side of a retailer's construction hoarding in Mayfair, on 26th April 2022, in London, England. Icarus was a minor character in Greek Mythology, famous for not surviving the transition from boyhood to manhood, he was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and Daedalus attempted to escape from Crete by means of wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax.
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  • Londoners on smartphone calls walk past a CCTV camera and a construction hoarding - a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall.
    river_hoarding11-10-04-2014.jpg
  • 2008 Formula 1 world champion driver Lewis Hamilton attends a press conference hosted by aircraft sponsor Bombardier whose Learjet he uses.
    farnborough_air_show07-14-07-2008.jpg
  • The rider of a motorbike who has been stopped by City of London Police, talks to officers at the roadside in the Square Mile, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    bus_journey04-06-08-2020.jpg
  • An elderly Apache lady patient receives specialist care from a dedicated air ambulance service for Arizona's Native Americans, on 25th August 1998, at Phoenix Native American reservation Hospital, Arizona, USA.
    native_american-25-08-1998.jpg
  • A notice for the Samaritans helpline and an empty stone seat on Blackfriars Bridge, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    samaritans_seat-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • With the Houses of Parliament over the far side of the Thames river, a tour group pauses to hear about the capital from their leader on the Southbank, on 12th September 2017, in London, England.
    southbank_people-01-12-09-2017.jpg
  • A businessman holds a conversation in the noisy city while also ignoring a Wet Paint sign, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
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  • A businessman holds a conversation in the noisy city while also ignoring a Wet Paint sign, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
    wet_paint-21-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A businessman holds a conversation in the noisy city while also ignoring a Wet Paint sign, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
    wet_paint-20-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A woman adjusts her hat on the south side of London Bridge in Southwark, central London
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  • Carers and elderly people from a nearby residential home take a daily walk to the seafront in Frinton, UK. As part of a daily walk, some important exercise for these still active pensioners, the uniformed staff take their charges out towards the seafront from the warmth of their home left behind. Walking slowly towards the promenade in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. Some may be just unfit and others perhaps slightly confused or suffering from dementia or possibly just old and tired from the hardships after Britain at war. By 2050 the percentage of people worldwide over 65 years will have doubled.
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  • A long-distance detail of London's telecommunications BT Telecom Tower. The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower, the London Telecom Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) tall, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 191 metres (627 ft). In 1962, the BT Tower overtook St Paul's Cathedral to become the tallest building in London. Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country, as part of the British Telecom microwave network.
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  • City of London office workers pass one of a pair of leaning figures by Anthony Gormley entitled Parralel Field (1990), part of Sculpture in the City, a summer street art exhibition in the Square Mile, the capital's financial district. Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE, RA (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture near Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998.
    city_gormley06-09-07-2013.jpg
  • A view of the green Yorkshire moors countryside looking down from a nearby hill to the top secret intelligence-gathering base of RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. One sees the surreal-looking white radomes in the shape of golf balls - each containing a satellite dish - that are dotted across the science-fiction landscape. Many of these are used for signals interception from communications satellites and are commonly thought to be part of the ECHELON and PRISM eavesdropping projects by the NSA, a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network. Other parts of this notorious  site are thought to be used by the Space Based Infrared System employed by the US National Missile Defence program. The base has attracted significant levels of protest from anti-nuclear and pacifist groups.
    menwith_hill-18-05-2001.jpg
  • A 'Bodil' passive eavesdropping transmitter from Bulgaria powered by a phone line, an exhibit in 'Haus 1' the ministerial headquarters of the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany, the GDR. Built in 1960, the complex now known as the Stasi Museum. Before the fall of the Wall, it was a 22-hectare complex of espionage whose centrepiece is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security, Erich Mielke who considered their role as the 'shield and sword of the party', conducting one of the world's most efficient spying operations against its political dissenters during its 40-year old socialist history. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. Here at the Stasi HQ alone 15,000 were employed plus the many regional stations. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
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  • Edwardian houses in south London dominated in the distance by the MI6 Intelligence building at Vauxhall.
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  • Edwardian houses in south London dominated in the distance by the MI6 Intelligence building at Vauxhall.
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  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, briefs his pilots in the briefing room at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
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  • Usually played in pairs for morning and evenings calls to prayer, preludes, and processions, two western nuns following Tibetan-Buddhism play their Rag-Dung (brass trumpets) in a garden at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. One nun looks across to check finger positions of her fellow-player and they are sat cross-legged on the lush grass surrounded with flowers and tall plants. The Rag-Dung is the most spectacular of Tibetan ritual copper horns and some are up to twenty feet long. With a deeply resonant sound it is relatively easy to play. Those following this branch of Buddhism arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
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  • A carer from an elderly peoples' residential home bends down to speak to an old lady who has been taken out for her daily walk in the fresh-air. The lady however cannot walk but seems to be enjoying her daily constitutional from the comfort of her wheelchair that the nursing specialist kindly pushes along a promenade in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. With her hankie tucked in her sleeve she also seems to be slightly confused as if she might be suffering from a dementia or possibly just old and tired from the hardships after Britain at war. By 2050 the percentage of people worldwide over 65 years will have doubled.
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  • A couple watch Senator John McCain giving a hearfelt speech, conceeding defeat on a live CNN TV screen that is broadcasting live from Phoenix, Arizona the senator's conceeding speech immediately after the TV channel called Obama's victory in the 2008 US presidential elections. A life-sized cut-out of Barack Obama stands to the screen's left and the new President smiles towards the camera but his adversary, John McCain looks across the London pub as if talking to the young couple who sit without expression in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night42-05-11-2008.jpg
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