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Story of the Eiffel Tower

Foundations of the Eiffel Tower

“Les fondations de la Tour Eiffel, maçonneries” by Pierre Petit - http://www.photo-arago.fr/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=27MQ2JWLXGR. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_fondations_de_la_Tour_Eiffel,_ma%C3%A7onneries.jpg#/media/File:Les_fondations_de_la_Tour_Eiffel,_ma%C3%A7onneries.jpg

Construction of the Eiffel Tower, 21 August 1888. Completion to 2nd level.

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View of the Eiffel tower and the grounds of the Exposition Universelle on the Champs de Mars with Seine and the Pont d'Iena in the foreground, Paris, presumably taken from a tethered balloon above the Trocadero, 1889.

"Eiffel tower at Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889" by Neurdein - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a13663. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons 

American soldiers watch the French flag flying on the Eiffel Tower, ca. 25 August 1944

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Eiffel Tower Fire Works New Year Celebration

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Foundations of the Eiffel Tower

"Les fondations de la Tour Eiffel, maçonneries" by Pierre Petit - http://www.photo-arago.fr/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=27MQ2JWLXGR. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_fondations_de_la_Tour_Eiffel,_ma%C3%A7onneries.jpg#/media/File:Les_fondations_de_la_Tour_Eiffel,_ma%C3%A7onneries.jpg

Construction of the World Trade Centre, New York, underway in late 1969.

"Twin Towers under construction" by Ericshawwhite - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twin_Towers_under_construction.jpg#/media/File:Twin_Towers_under_construction.jpg

Columns of Hoover Dam being filled with concrete, February 1934 (looking upstream from the Nevada rim)

"Damforms" by Bureau of Reclamation photographer - http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g5000/photolab/gallery_detail.cfm?PICIDTYPE=7260. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damforms.jpg#/media/File:Damforms.jpg

Golden Gate Bridge Trusses.

« Golden Gate Bridge trusses, HAER CA-31-14 » par Jet Lowe — Historic American Engineering Record; Library of Congress HAER CAL,38-SANFRA,140-14Cette image est disponible sur la Prints and Photographs division de la Bibliothèque du Congrès des États-Unis sous le numéro d’identification hhh.ca1355.Ce bandeau n’indique rien sur le statut de l’œuvre au regard du droit d'auteur. Un bandeau de droit d’auteur est requis. Voir Commons:À propos des licences pour plus d’informations.العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/−. Sous licence Domaine public via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Gate_Bridge_trusses,_HAER_CA-31-14.jpg#/media/File:Golden_Gate_Bridge_trusses,_HAER_CA-31-14.jpg

Tower Bridge, London Under Construction

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Important events that changed the world

Baba Gurgur is a large oil field near the city of Kirkuk which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927.

It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discovery of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia in 1948. Baba Gurgur is 16 kilometres north-west of Arrapha and is famous for its Eternal Fire at the middle of its oil fields.

Image: G. Eric and Edith Matson - G. Eric and Edith Matson, Matson Photographic Collection, Library of Congress. CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

This is the official photo of Mandela casting his vote in the 1994 elections. It was the first time Mandela had voted in his life. It was taken at Ohlange School, Inanda, Durban by the IEC's official photographer, Paul Weinberg. It is one of only two images of this event.

Paul Weinberg - direct donation from Author 14 October 2009, 19:07:42 (original upload date). CC BY-SA 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Apollo 11 liftoff. July 16, 1969, 9:32 a.m. EDT, Launch Complex 39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Image by NASA, public domain. CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Ghandi on the Salt March

"Marche sel" by Yann (talk) - Scanned by Yann (talk).. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Apple I On display at the Smithsonian. 

"Apple I Computer" by Ed Uthman - originally posted to Flickr as Apple I Computer. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_I_Computer.jpg#/media/File:Apple_I_Computer.jpg

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted at a police station after her arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Parks, a seamstress, boarded a bus headed for home. When a white man boarded, four black passengers were asked to stand in back. Parks refused. She was arrested for breaking Alabama’s segregation laws. A yearlong boycott of the Montgomery bus system, in response to Parks’ arrest, ended only after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. (Library of Congress)

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Queen Victoria's funeral procession

Russell & Sons - http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2916459/queen-victorias-funeral-procession-windsor-february-1901. Public Domain.

The Beatles arrive in the United States for the first time, 7 February 1964

United Press International, photographer unknown - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c11094. Public Domain.

Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall, London on the day he broadcast the news that the war with Germany was over.

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Cropped image of gathering at Red Fort in Delhi, India, on the occasion of the first Independence of India, 15 August 1947.

"Cropped first indian independence day red fort" by Scanned by Yann, please see File:Film Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya Samiti.jpg - File:Indian_Independence_Day_at_the_Red_Fort.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. The photo shows a part of a public photo documentation wall at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

"Thefalloftheberlinwall1989" by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thefalloftheberlinwall1989.JPG#/media/File:Thefalloftheberlinwall1989.JPG

Sir Alexander Fleming, who is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928

"Alexander Fleming 3" by Calibuon at İngilizce Wikibooks. Licensed under CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

JFK Assassination. Polaroid photo by Mary Ann Moorman taken a fraction of a second after the fatal shot.

"Moorman" by Mary Ann Moorman (Mary Krahmer) - Public domain. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moorman.jpg#/media/File:Moorman.jpg

Pearl Harbour. US damaged Ford Island, with the flames of the USS Shaw in the background.

"PearlHarbor brennende Flugzeuge" di USN - Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-19948, now in the collections of the National Archives. [1]. Con licenza Pubblico dominio tramite Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PearlHarbor_brennende_Flugzeuge.jpg#/media/File:PearlHarbor_brennende_Flugzeuge.jpg

Atomic cloud over Hiroshima (from Matsuyama)

"Atomic cloud over Hiroshima (from Matsuyama)" por 509th Operations Group - A photograph that was taken from "Enola Gay" flying over Matsuyama, Shikoku. Licenciado sob Domínio público, via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima_(from_Matsuyama).jpg#/media/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima_(from_Matsuyama).jpg

RMS Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on 2 April 1912.

"RMS Titanic 2" by Robert John Welch (1859-1936), official photographer for Harland & Wolff - http://www.nocturnar.com/forum/historia/279221-historia-del-titanic-fotos-de-epoca.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

9/11 World Trade Center Attack

9/11 WTC Photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/911pics/7835973648. CC BY 2.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

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Wimbledon ladies 1910

Times have changed! We are busy creating the story of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and had to share this image we came across. This is British tennis player Dora Boothby in action during a match at Wimbledon in 1910. She had won the tournament in 1909 but lost in 1910 to Dorothea Lambert Chambers.

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1908 Before it was Times Square it was Longacre Square.

We couldn't resist sharing this image we found whilst creating our Times Square story for Pixxcell. Can't wait to it the whole story on the interface once we've launched!

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Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace

To celebrate the Queen turning 89 years old we have picked out a selection of images of HRH at Buckingham Palace that capture some landmark moments from years gone by.

The Queen is set to become the longest ever reigning monarch in British history. On September 9 2015, she will pass the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Buckingham Palace has calculated that Queen Victoria reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes, taking into account 63 years, 15 leap days, additional months and days and the precise timings of her accession and death.

Queen Elizabeth II will enter the history books when she overtakes Victoria during September 9 2015. This takes into account 63 years plus 16 leap days, additional months and days and the timing of George VI's death.

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Christening Of Queen Elizabeth II. Royal family portrait on the occasion of the christening of Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, later Queen Elizabeth II, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29th May 1926. Left to right: Lady Elphinstone, Duke of Connaught, Queen Mary, King George V, Duchess of York and baby, Duke of York, Countess of Strathmore, Earl of Strathmore and Princess Mary the Viscountess Lascelles. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Silver Jubilee. The future Queen Elizabeth II waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, with her younger sister Margaret and her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary, on the occasion of their Silver Jubilee, 6th May 1935. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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George VI Coronation. King George VI (1895 - 1952) (right) and Queen Elizabeth with Queen Mary (centre), Princesses Elizabeth (left) and Margaret Rose (1930 - 2002) and members of the extended Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their Coronation ceremony.

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Painting Princesses. 22nd June 1940: Princess Margaret Rose (1930 - 2002) and Princess Elizabeth (right) working on paintings in the school room of Buckingham Palace, London.

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Royal Family. May 1942: King George VI with his family at Buckingham Palace. Left to right - Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002), Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and King George VI.

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Princess Elizabeth of England (future queen Elizabeth II) young wearing girl scout uniform (she is a member of the Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides) in 1943

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Royal Stamps. July 1946: Princess Elizabeth looking through her stamp collection in the State Apartments at Buckingham Palace.

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Working Princess. 19th July 1946: Princess Elizabeth working at her desk in Buckingham Palace.

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Royal Engagement. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947.

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20th November 1947. Buckingham Palace, London. The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh showing the Princess looking radiant after the wedding at Westminster Abbey.

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Wedding Mass. 20th November 1947: Crowds gathered around the Victoria Monument in front of Buckingham Palace, London, on Princess Elizabeth's wedding day.

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Spectators Use Periscopes. Two women using periscopes to see over the crowd outside Buckingham Palace on the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, London, 20th November 1947.

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Royal Couple. 20th November 1947: Princess Elizabeth and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh waving to a crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London shortly after their wedding at Westminster Abbey.

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Baby Prince Charles. Princess Elizabeth poses with her baby son Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, after his christening, 15th December 1948.

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HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, 12th March 1953. The Queen is shown wearing the Diamond Diadem, the sash, badge and star of the Order of the Garter, and the Greville Chandelier earrings.

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Coronation Balcony. Queen Elizabeth II on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after her Coronation ceremony with (left to right); Prince Charles, Princess Anne and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Buckingham Palace, London , England, 15th June 1961, Prior to a banquet in honour of the President of the United States, HRH Queen Elizabeth II ( second right) with Prince Philip ( far left) together with American President John F, Kennedy ( far right) and his wife and First Lady Jacqueline.

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Smiling Queen. 10th June 1966: Queen Elizabeth II smiling at a Colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards during a presentaion of colours ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.

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Silver Wedding. 20th November 1972: Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with their children (left to right); Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne celebrating their silver wedding anniversary at Buckingham Palace.

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Queen Elizabeth II with the Apollo 11 astronauts at Buckingham Palace, 1970. Left to right: Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin.

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Queen With Canadians. Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace with a group of indigenous Canadians, during their visit to the UK in 1973.

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Queen And President. Queen Elizabeth II with US President Jimmy Carter in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, London, 10th May 1977. Carter and other NATO heads of state are attending a dinner at the palace during the 1977 London summit.

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Silver Jubilee. 28th June 1977: Queen Elizabeth II with Princess Anne, Earl Mountbatten (1900 - 1979) and the Duke of Edinburgh on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during her Silver Jubilee.

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Queen, Charles And Diana. The Queen On The Balcony Of Buckingham Palace With The Prince And Princess Of Wales On Their Wedding Day With Their Pageboys Lord Nicholas Windsor And Edward Van Cutsem, And One Of Their Bridesmaids Clementine Hambro.

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Queen Pope Buckingham Palace. Historic Meeting Pope John Paul II, Head Of The Catholic Church, Visiting The Queen, Head Of The Church Of England, At Buckingham Palace.

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Queen Rain Trooping Grimace. The Queen Suffers A Downpour Of Rain During The Final Salute At Buckingham Palace, After The Trooping Of The Colour Ceremony. She Rides Sidesaddle On Her Horse 'burmese' Which Was A Gift To Her From The Canadian Mounted Police.

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Queen Elizabeth II presents US President Ronald Reagan with an honoury Knighthood on June 14, 1989 at Buckingham Palace in London. Left to Right are Ronald Reagan, Queeen Elizabeth II, and the President's wife Nancy Reagan.

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Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe visit to the UK. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is greeted by Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, London during his State Visit to England in May of 1994.

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The Queen And Prince Philip With President Bill Clinton And His Wife Hillary At Buckingham Palace

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Queen With The Emir Of Qatar. The Queen With The Emir Of Qatar, Sheikh Hamed Ibn Khalifa Al-thani, At Buckingham Palace.

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Queen Profile Smiling. The Queen At Buckingham Palace During A Visit By The President Of Singapore.

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The Prince of Wales raises his glass in response to a toast from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, during a reception in his honour on the eve of his 50th birthday at Buckingham Palace on November 13th, 1998 in London, England.

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President Obama And The First Lady Meet The Queen. US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama pose for photographs with Queen Elizabeth II during an audience at Buckingham Palace on April 1, 2009 in London, England.

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The Wedding of Prince William with Catherine Middleton. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, HRH Queen Elizabeth II (2nd from R) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (R) greet crowd of admirers from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011 in London, England.

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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh look at the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Royal Wedding of Their Royal Highnesses Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is pictured after recording her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth, in the State Dining Room at Buckingham Palace in central London, on December 10, 2014.

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A very short story about McDonalds, officially opened 60 years ago on April 15th 1955

Although the McDonalds officially started on April 15th 1955, the McDonalds story started a long time before that in Hollywood, when brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald worked as handymen at motion-picture studios. In 1937 their father opened "The Airdrome", a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) in Monrovia, California. Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents. In 1940, Maurice and Richard ("Mac" and "Dick") moved the entire building 40 miles east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed "McDonald's Bar-B-Q". Here they established a streamlined system with a small menu of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie.

In 1952 they grew to bigger premises and shortened the name to 'McDonalds'.The staple of the menu was the 15 cents hamburger.

In 1954 Multimixer salesman Ray Kroc visited McDonalds in San Bernadino intending to sell the brothers more mulitmixers. 52 years old Kroc was fascinated by the operation. Talking to the McDonalds brothers he learnt that they were looking for a nationwide franchising agent. Kroc had an epiphany and decided there and then that his future lay in hamburgers.

Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15th with the attention grabbing golden arches, designed by architect Stanley Meston in 1953, making their debut. First day takings were $366.12.

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The Neon Arches. Exterior view of Ray Kroc's first McDonald's fast food restaurant with its neon arches illuminated at night, Des Plaines, Illinois.

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1956 A McDonald's drive-in fast food restaurant, which advertises 15-cent hamburgers.

In 1958 McDonalds sold its 100th Millionth hamburger. By now there were 34 restaurants. In 1959 Kroc opened 68 new restaurants, bringing the total to 102. The 100th restaurant to open was in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.

In 1961 McDonalds opened the 'Hamburger University' in the basement of the Elk Grove Village restaurant in Illinois. Graduates received Bachelor of Hamburgerology degrees.

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McDonald's really began to take off in the early 1960s. In 1961 Kroc bought out the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million, with the aim of making McDonald's the number one fast-food chain in the country.

In 1965, McDonald's celebrated its 10th anniversary by going public. Common shares were offered at $22.50 per share. By the end of the first day's trading, the price had risen to $30. A block of 100 shares purchased for $2,250 in 1965 was worth over $5.7 million as of year-end market close on December 31, 2010. In 1980, the McDonald's Corporation became one of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Throughout the 60s it continued to grow and expanded overseas into Canada and Puerto Rico. In 1968 the Big Mac was created and added to the menu nationwide.

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Marines Collect Toys for Tots; From left are Stephen McKee, 4, his brother Terry, 5, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McKee of Golden; Carl Reed, vice president of McDonald's and Marine Capt. John J. Lowery. In background from left are Sgt. D. E. Weybright, S.Sgt. G. E. West, S.Sgt. F. M. Kennedy, and Sgt. R. D. Wilson. The 'Toys for Tots' drive opened Wednesday. Youngsters in the Denver area were urged to bring usable toys to any one of the 20 McDonald's restaurants that are serving as pickup stations. There will be no way to repair broken ones. Each contributing child will receive a certificate for free hamburger and French fries. Marines will take toys to the approximately 20,000 youngsters in 30 hospitals, orphanages and other institutions in north Colorado.

In 1968, McDonald's opened its 1,000th restaurant and shortly after, in 1972, surpassed $1 billion in annual sales.

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This picture taken in August 1970 shows the 'Speedee' McDonald's in Downey, California. It was the third restaurant built by the McDonald brothers Dick and Maurice and has been designated a national landmark. It celebrated its 50-year anniversary on August 18, 2003

By 1976, McDonald's had served 20 billion hamburgers, and sales exceeded $3 billion.

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The Jacksons At McDonalds on May 7th, 1973

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Hugh Carter gets Big Mac cooking lesson from McDonald's manager Paul Tuma.

In 1974 the first Ronald McDonald house was opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1973 Fred Hill, a football player with the Philadelphia Eagles, had the need for such a facility when his child was being treated for leukemia in The Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. Hill's dilemma led to the first Ronald McDonald House.

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Behind the scenes at one of the growing number of McDonald's Restaurants in March 1979.

In 1978 McDonalds opened up its 5000th restaurant in Kanagawa, Japan and in 1979 the Happy Meal made its debut.

Ray Kroc sadly died on January 14th In 1983. By then McDonalds restaurants were in 32 different countries and by the year end had 7778 restaurants.

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Not convinced. A woman tries a McDonalds hamburger in King Street, Hammersmith, August 1981.

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A restaurant in Canada, Jan 31 1986,

After experiencing a dip in the early and mid nineties McDonalds made efforts to reinvigorate their menu and increase their healthy options. It wasn't long before things started looking upwards again

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US President Bill Clinton stops for a crispy chicken sandwich, fries and a large diet coke at McDonald's after he and Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore joined together to address the people of Monroe, Michigan 15 August 2000. Clinton is returning to Washington after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, 14 August 2000, in a speech during which he praised Gore and bid farewell to the Democratic Party.

In 2005 McDonalds celebrated its 50th birthday. In 2011 it opened up restaurants in Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Old McDonald's restaurant in Downey USA. The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant in the world is now the drive-up hamburger stand in Downey, California, USA. It was the third McDonald's restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953.

Currently they have restaurants in 199 countries.

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The story of the Titanic in pictures

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A visual journey of the ill fated liner that struck an ice-burg on the morning of April 15th 1912 and sank, taking with her over 1500 passengers and crew.

In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay (President of the White Star Line) and Lord Pirrie (Chairman of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders) dreamed up the idea to build luxurious ocean liners as a way for the White Star Line to compete in the transatlantic passenger market. A total of three ships were planned: The Olympic, Titanic and the Britannic. The next year was spent doing extensive design work. On July 30, 1908, authorization was given to build the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic. The name Titanic is derived from Greek mythology and means gigantic. In 1911, the order was placed for the third ship Britannic. The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.

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Above: The Titanic and Olympic on the stocks, Belfast, 20 October, 1910, the day the Olympic was launched. She was the largest vessel in the world until the launch of the Titanic.

The keel for the Titanic was laid on March 31, 1909. A cost of £3 million for the first two ships was agreed.

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Above: Bird's eye view from the top of a gantry of Olympic, older sister of the Titanic and build using the same methods and design. Olympic was launched on 20 October, 1910. She was scrapped in 1935 after striking and sinking the famous Nantucket lightship off the eastern coast of the United States.

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Above: The massive anchor of Titanic is transported to its destination in Belfast by horsedrawn cart. The centre anchor was the largest ever forged by hand and weighed nearly sixteen tons.

Titanic was launched at 12:15pm on 31 May 1911. 22 tons of soap and tallow were spread on the slipway to lubricate the ship's passage into the River Lagan.

The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted out.

Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m).

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Above: The Titanic on trials in Belfast Lough. The surveyor signed an "Agreement and Account of Voyages and Crew", valid for twelve months, which declared the ship seaworthy.

During Titanic's construction, 246 injuries were recorded, 28 of them "severe", such as arms severed by machines or legs crushed under falling pieces of steel. Six people died on the ship while she was being constructed and another two died in the shipyard workshops and sheds. Just before the launch a worker was killed when a piece of wood fell on him.

Above: RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. The two White Star Liners in Belfast seen together for the last time, 3rd February 1912.

The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. The aim was to convey an impression that the passengers were in a floating hotel rather than a ship; as one passenger recalled, on entering the ship's interior a passenger would "at once lose the feeling that we are on board ship, and seem instead to be entering the hall of some great house on shore". Passengers could use an on-board telephone system, a lending library and a large barber shop. The First Class section had a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a squash court, a Turkish bath, an electric bath and a Verandah Cafe.

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Above: The First Class gymnasium on board the Titanic, photographed in March 1912.

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Above: The elegant splendour of First Class parlour suite B57.

Above: The swimming pool for first class passengers only. Above image from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284933/Titanic-II-Australian-tycoon-unveils-plans-replica-doomed-vessel.html

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The second-class promenade on the boat deck.

The Titanic left for Southampton on 10th April. After a journey lasting about 28 hours she arrived into Southhampton at about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port's Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengers and the remainder of her crew.

Above: Leaving Southampton.

The last photograph of the Titanic as she prepared to cross the Atlantic

All is on course and excitment builds in New York for the return trip.

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Above: An advertisement for the British luxury passenger liner Titanic, part of the White Star Line's fleet, announces that the ship is set to sail on April 20th, 1912 at 12 Noon, 1912. Ticket prices and berth descriptions are provided.

What they didn't see...

The Iceburg that sank the Titanic appeared out of the darkness on the evening of the 14th April.

At 11:40pm on 14 April, the lookout spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. The First Officer ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.

Above: Captain Edward John Smith, who went down with his ship

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Above: A copy of the last message sent by Edward Smith from the Titanic which tells of passengers being put into lifeboats.

At 2:20am, two hours and forty minutes after she struck the iceberg, the Titanic's rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship began to break in two between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before sinking. For many years it was generally believed the ship sank in one piece; however, when the wreck was located many years later, it was discovered that the ship had fully broken in two. All remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of 28 °F (−2 °C). Almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other causes within 15–30 minutes. Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more people.

Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded was near enough to reach her before she sank. A nearby ship, Californian, which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist. Around 4am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic's earlier distress calls.

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Above: Survivors of the Titanic disaster nearing the 'Carpathia', in a lifeboat. The arrow points to Joseph Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line.

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Above: Latitude 41' 46N and longitude 50' 14W, the place where the Titanic sank.

The initial reports coming from the Carpathia confused, leading the American press to report on 15 April that Titanic was being towed to port by the SS Virginian.

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Later that day, confirmation came through that Titanic had been lost and that most of her passengers and crew had died.

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Above: Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster with the headlines: Titanic Disaster - Great Loss of Life.

Carpathia docked at 9:30 p.m. on 18 April at New York's Pier 54 and was greeted by some 40,000 people waiting at the quayside in heavy rain. Titanic's 214 surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line's steamer SS Lapland, where they were accommodated in passenger cabins and taken back to England.

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Above: Survivors of the Titanic disaster on board a tug, arriving at Plymouth.

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Above and below: 167 surviving crew members of the Titanic are taken ashore from the SS Lapland on board the paddle steamer Duchess of York, before landing at Plymouth, 29th April 1912. The men had previously been rescued by the Carpathia and taken to New York.

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Above: Survivors of the Titanic disaster at Millbay Docks in Plymouth, 1st May 1912.

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Above: Relatives wait on a railway platform as survivors of the Titanic arrive at Southampton, 29th April 1912.

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Survivors of the Titanic disaster are greeted by their relatives upon their safe return to Southampton.

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Above: Titanic Crew Survivors. Portrait of a group of surviving crewmen from the RMS Titanic, 1912. Pictured are, front row, from left: Ernest Archer, Frederick Fleet, Walter Perkis, George Symons, Frederick Clench; second row, from left: Arthur Bright, George Hogg, (?) Moore, Frank Osman, Henry Etches.

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Above: Titanic Memorial, London. The Lord Mayor of London arriving at St Paul's Cathedral, London, for the memorial service for the victims of the Titanic disaster.

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Objects Exhumed Of Titanic In France On December 15, 1992.

The last living survivor was Millvina Dean from England, who at only nine weeks old was the youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May 2009. A special survivor was crew member Violet Jessop who survived the sinkings of both Titanic and Britannic and was aboard Olympic when she was rammed in 1911.

Massive thanks to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

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A brief history of the Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, UK

Discover the story of Leavesdon Studios along with some classic ‘behind the scenes’ moments from the blockbuster movies made there.

  Leavesden Aerodrome was constructed in 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, by the De Havilland company who were responsible for producing what would become known as the Mosquito fighter craft and the Halifax bomber. Due to lack of space at their existing Hatfield base, De Havilland acquired the site to build the super-sized aerodrome needed to produce the huge number of planes on order.

Above: 'Mossies' (the Mosquito) on the line at Leavesden. 

As a result, by the end of the war, Leavesden Aerodrome was the largest factory in the world.

Post war, the aerodrome was acquired by Rolls-Royce who used it as a factory producing engines for airplanes and helicopters. In time, Leavesden was also a general aviation airfield for civil flying organisations. Eventually Rolls-Royce departed during 1992/93 before the airfield's final closure in 1994.  Unable to find a new owner, Leavesden Aerodrome was left disused. 

Until in 1995 the new James Bond film 'GoldenEye' found itself studio-less...

Pinewood Studios were the traditional home to the Bond films but the studios were fully booked and couldn’t accommodate the new 007 instalment. Eon Productions found out about the disused aerodrome and it became the home of Goldeneye. 

Above: Goldeneye (1995): Derek Meddings puts the finishing touches on his Siberian landscape.

A succession of major feature films quickly made use of the site, including George Lucas’s Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace.

The large studio warehouses suited all the requirements for the huge sets that were needed for the long awaited prequel. 

This was followed by Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.

Some of the film was shot on location in a specially constructed village but the tree which forms a large part of the narrative was entirely made and shot at the studios.

 Then in 2000 Leavesden Studios became home to Harry Potter.

Above: The model of Hogwarts Castle. It's been used for all eight of the Harry Potter films. 

The studios were filled with magical sets over the ten years of filming the blockbuster series. 

A row of ten houses was created to film scenes outside Privet Drive. 

Above: Building Hogwarts.

Other productions made use of the studios during breaks from filming the Harry Potter series. The Dark Knight (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Inception (2010) all filmed scenes at Leavesdon.

Above: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page filming scenes from Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’.

In 2010, once filming for Harry Potter had come to a (sad) end, Warner Bros announced a plan to buy and redevelop the site to upgrade the studio facilities to the tune of  £100m+. 

In March 2012 The Making Of Harry Potter studio tour opened and is now home to many of the series' most iconic sets, props and costumes.

In 2013, almost twenty years after the complex was converted from aerodrome to film studios (and over a year since the completion of work on the newly refurbished studios) the site was officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. 

Below: On show were props from Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. The studios make Warner Bros. the only Hollywood film studio with a permanent base in the UK.

The first film to shoot at the newly refurbished studios was Edge of Tomorrow. Though the studios are privately owned, space is available to rent to any film company and is not limited only to Time Warner productions. The studios are now one of the largest and most state-of-the-art secure filming facilities in the world.

Below: Emily Blunt filming scenes for Edge of Tomorrow.

In 2014, two years after planting a flag in the UK with the opening of Warner Bros, a further expansion of its facilities was announced with three new soundstages and an additional 100,000 square feet of office space. On the same day filming started for Tarzan, due to be released in 2016.

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On 10th April in...

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1888 The Eiffel Tower under construction in Paris, France. No. 4 in a series of 11. Théophile Féau captured the construction of the tower by taking photographs from the tower of the Trocadero at 15 day intervals.

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1912 The Titanic leaves Southampton bound for New York. The Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage but on the night of 14th April 1912 struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic and the 'unsinkable' ship went down with 1522 passengers and crew less than 3 hours later.

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1934 Tramcar Collision. The wreckage after two tramcars collided on London's Embankment, injuring six people.

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1939: Crowds march through the streets of Dublin to commerate the Easter Rising, the armed uprising of Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.

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1941: Members of the Nazi Afrika Korps on desert patrol, leading the Axis offensive in Libya.

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1943 Tank making. Russian tanks in their winter white camouflage being assembled at a Ukrainian plant.

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1944 Bombs Away. An American B25 Mitchell bomber blasts a Japanese warship just off the north west coast of New Zealand. The ship was eventually sunk off New Hanover. The bomb dropping is circled.

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1945 Princess Elizabeth Drives an Ambulance. Now Queen, Elizabeth drove an ambulance during her wartime service in the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) as she began to undertake public duties.

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1947 The Lie-Detector. A crowd studies the interpretation of the brainwaves of Mr W G Carradine (in the chair), an Assistant Regional Officer of the Minstry of Supply during a demonstration at Imperial College, London of the Edissen Divert Recording Electro-Encephalograph, which has come to be known as the lie-detector.

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1947 Glass-Blower. A worker at Glass Developments Ltd in Didcot making glass animals shaped out of hot, pliable glass.

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1951: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), originally Frances Gumm, in London.

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1954 Meccano Set. Two men examining a fairground ferris wheel made out of Meccano at the Toy Manufacturer's Fair in Brighton.

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1954 Toy Heaven. Shiny new toys on display at the Toy Manufacturers' Fair at Brighton.

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1957 Demonstrating an underwater camera. Two women in a glass tank at the British Photo Fair, National Hall, Olympia, London, taking photographs of people watching them with underwater cameras in order to demonstrate the equipment.

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1961 US Missile. A US Air Force TM-76 B Mace tactical range ballistic missile blasts out of a prototype hard site at the US Air Force Missile Test Centre at Cape Canaveral.

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1967 Academy Awards. Exterior of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, where a line of valets stands with their backs to the camera during the 39th Annual Academy Awards, Santa Monica, California. Crowds sit in bleachers awaiting the arrival of celebrities.

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1972 General Idi Amin, Ugandan Dictator, born 1925 pictured playing with the Uganda Air Force band. Idi Amin seized power in 1971 and was responsible for the murder of thousands of Ugandans and the expulsion of thousands of Asians during his tyranny. He was forced into exile in 1979 after an invasion of Tanzanian forces.

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1975 Patchwork A La Mode. Model Ellen Liu wears a woollen two-piece patchwork knit outfit with a matching hat and scarf. The outfit was designed and made in Hong Kong and is part of fashion show held at Hong Kong House in London.

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1984 A-ha In London. Norwegian pop group A-ha posed in London on 10th April 1984. From left to right: Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket and Pal Waaktaar.

1992 New PM. The new British Prime Minister John Major poses with Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten outside Number 10 Downing Street, one day after his victory in the general election.

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1898 Acton, London. A vehicle passes through Acton during the first tour of the Automobile Club of Great Britain (later the Royal Automobile Club or RAC). The passengers are Sir John Richard Somers-Vine and Carter of the Daily Mail.

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1904 The England Football team. An informal photograph of the England team on the steps of St Enoch's hotel in Glasgow following the International match against Scotland which England won 1-0, 9th April 1904. Left-right: Steve Bloomer (Derby County), Jones, Bernie Wilkinson (Sheffield United), Alex Leake (Aston Villa), Alf Common (Sheffield United), Fred Blackburn (Blackburn Rovers), Jock Rutherford (Newcastle United), Alfred Davis (linesman), Vivian Woodward (Tottenham Hotspur), Herbert Burgess (Manchester City), Sam Wolstenholme (Everton), Bob Crompton, captain (Blackburn Rovers), and Stanley Shute Harris (Cambridge University). The photograph was taken by RP Gregson, an influentual member of the Football Association Committee. It was noted at the time 'snow was falling, the light was bad, it was six o'clock in the evening - a magnificent testimony to the skill of the photographer'. Gregson was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and was to take the official team photographs for a number of years at the beginning of the 20th century

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The coolest Poodle ever? 1926: A Champion corded Poodle at the Kensington Canine Society's Open Championship at Crystal Palace

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1931: The Great Western Railway lost property office at Park Royal, London.

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1931 The Ocean Air Field that never was. Edward B. Armstrong in front of the model of a ocean air field which should be built in the Atlantic Ocean 250 km from New York City. Armstrong was a Canadian born engineer and inventor who in 1927 proposed a series of "seadrome" floating airport platforms for airplanes to land on and refuel for transatlantic flights. While his original concept was made obsolete by long-range aircraft that did not need such refueling points, the idea of an anchored deep-sea platform was later applied to use for floating oil rigs

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1949 Princess Elizabeth And Prince Charles. The picture was taken in Princess Elizabeth's private sitting room at Buckingham Palace

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1949 Demonstrating Yoga. Ballet dancers, Sir Paul Dukes, Pamela Fawn and Julia Warrack, during a yoga demonstration.

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1949. Wembley, London. England 1 v Scotland 3. Scotland's third goal is scored by Lawrie Reilly. The beaten England goalkeeper is Frank Swift.

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1949 Record cleaner. A man with two recording machines wearing a hat and using a brush to clean the records.Thornton Heath, England.

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1956 Hot Air Dryer. Miss Olivia Black demonstrates the new foot-operated 'stethoscope' hot-air dryer for hands and face at the 4th Factory Equipment Exhibition in Earl's Court, London.

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1956 Luggage at Paddington. Part of a contingent of 1000 West Indian immigrants with their luggage at Paddington Station in London. This is the largest single group to arrive in Britain since immigration from the Caribbean began in the early fifties.

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1958 Early crash test dummies. Anthropomorphs, man made men being made by American aviation experts. With rubber skins they are of human size, weight and shape with electronic equipment in their chests and stomach cavities to record information of use to pilots during high speed bail out.

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1964 The first colour flight simulator comes into operation in Britain, for the VC 10 and Boeing 720.

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1964 The massive computer required for the first colour flight simulator for the VC 10 and Boeing 720.

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On 8th April in...

Check out some more rare historical photos taken on this day in history.

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1929 Jose Raul Capablanca Playing Against England 40 Best Chess Players, Selfridges, London.

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1930 Railplane at test track station, Milngavie, West Dunbartonshire. We aren't sure if this photo was taken on April 8th but it was such a great image we thought we'd include it anyway. Between 1929-1930, Scottish engineer George Bennie (1892-1957) built a monorail railplane test track at Burnbrae, Milngavie, above an existing London & North Eastern Railway station. His idea was to have passengers travel by railplane and freight traffic to continue using the land rails, in an effort to speed up passenger services on the railways. Officially launched on 8th July 1930, the railplane was powered by large propellers at each end, making it capable of a top speed of 120 mph. However, due to his inability to find further financial backing, Bennie's revolutionary monorail system progressed no further than the test track at Milngavie, and he was declared bankrupt in 1937.

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1932 Footie visual Aid. Patients and nurses at Moorfields Eye Hospital listen to the England v Scotland international football match on a wireless loudspeaker and the aid the ground illustrated on a blackboard.

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1933 Cool dive. During an April heatwave boys are diving into the Thames, from a lamp-post on the Embankment at Vauxhall. Big Ben can be seen on the skyline.

1936 Now that's an Easter Egg! Two little shoppers in London's Oxford Street with a pair of large Easter eggs and two cartons tied up with string.

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1936: New roadsigns being stored at the RAC sign factory at Victoria, London.

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1939: A baby in Oudtshoorn, Cape Province in South Africa, sitting in a pile of Ostrich eggs with the Ostrich stood behind.

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1939 Lloyd's Gazette. Linotype machines in the printing department of Lloyd's New building, where the 200 year old Lloyd's Gazette is printed.

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1942 Nightingale Rides Again. A carriage, once used by nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, passes through a damaged section of St Thomas' Hospital, London after the building was hit in an air-raid, 8th April 1942. The carriage is part of the Hospital's museum collection and has recently been repaired after being damaged in an earlier raid. In the background, the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben can be seen across the Thames.

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1943, A group of young girls are shown how to do a New Services hairstyle at a Lodon school of hairdressing during World War Two

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1961 JFK And Macmillan. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963) American President with British Prime Minister Sir (Maurice) Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986) outside the White House in Washington.

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1963 Silver For Beatles. British pop group The Beatles holding their silver disc. Left to right are, Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr, George Martin of EMI and John Lennon (1940 - 1980)

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1967 Britain wins Eurovision for the first time! Vienna. British pop star Sandie Shaw celebrates her victory with the song 'Puppet on a String'.

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1975 Harry Worth And Linda Bellingham. Portrait of comedian Harry Worth, with actress Linda Bellingham sitting on his lap, appearing in the play 'Norman, Is That You?' at the Phoenix Theatre, London

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1975 The Coppola Family. American film director Francis Ford Coppola stands with his family, holding three Oscars for his film, 'The Godfather, Part II,' during the 47th Annual Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles, California. Clockwise, from left, his wife, Eleanor, his parents, Pennito and Carmine, and sons, Roman and Gian Carlo.

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1991 Leo Bircher Balancing An Entire Newspaper Page On A Tooth Brush At Zurich In Switzerland.

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1911 H.G Ponting. Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1912. Dr. Simpson inflating one of his balloons during an experiment.

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1913 Crowds gather round a W H Smith van which was overturned by a motor bus in Fleet Street, London

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1923 Pram Race. Mrs Edwards, one of the five contestants taking part in the London to Brighton Perambulator Walking Race, passing two policemen at Crawley.

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1925 Excercise shoes. A woman putting on a pair of shoes with springs attached to the soles, for exercising along the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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1927 TV Transmission. The director of electro-optical research at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Doctor Herbert Ives, beside a television receiving the first inter-city broadcast.

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1930 Nursery School. Schoolchildren at an open air school in Brackenhill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

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1933 Brave young climber. Untroubled by the height, or a gale which is blowing, 12-year-old Irene Jackson of Barrow-in-Furness climbs the peak Dow Crag, near Ambleside in Lakeland, her first climb.

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1933 Legal Beer In Washington. Jubilant crowds clamour for newly-legalized 3.2% beer as the first cases arrive in Washington D.C. shortly after midnight.

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1934 Repairing Big Ben In London.

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1937 A zoo assistant feeding a baby Madagascar Boa Constrictor through a funnel at London Zoo.

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1938 Nita Dalton, leader of ladies' saxophone band The Silver Sax Six, plays her instrument on Margate Beach.

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1943 Locals Only. A fishmonger in Eltham checking identity cards to ensure that the shop only serves local people.

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1945: War torn bridge. The Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine in Cologne in ruins at the end of World War II.

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1948 Stunt tractors. Two Fordson Tractors demonstrate their operating stability during a display for foreign buyers of British mechanised farming implements staged by the Ford Motor Company at Langley Park.

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1954 Prince's Pet. Prince Charles plays with a corgi on the terrace of the Royal Lodge at Windsor, 7th April 1954.

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1959 Paint Your Own Spleen. An artist paints the internal organs of a medical teaching model at a factory in West Molesey, Surrey, which normally produces dummies for shop window displays.

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1961 Lighting Cables. Studio D at the new Elstree Studio centre. Built on the site of the old film studios, the centre will provide ATV with the most modern equipment in the country.

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1967 Sit Down Skis. Two new catamaran dual-ski vehicles and a single surfboard called a 'Sitz-Ski' making their debut at Cypress Gardens in Florida.

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1981 Learning the ropes. Members of the Metro police Emergency Task Force have to know the ropes- and to make sure they do; they're put through routine training procedures twice a month. Here Constable Ken Kinsman walks down a wall from the 7th storey of the Toronto Fire Academy on Eastern Ave.

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1895: England team group prior to the match against Scotland played in Liverpool on the 6th April 1895. Back Row, Left to Right, N. L. Jackson, L.V. Lodge, J. Reynolds, J. Reid referee, J. Holt, J. W. Sutcliffe, Ernest Needham, J. Crabtree, R.E. Lythgoe, and C. J. Hughes. Front Row, William I. Bassett, Stephen Bloomer, John Goodall, R.C. Gosling and S. Smith.

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1917: Declaration of war. President Wilson tells the assembled houses of Congress of the break with Germany. Votes in House of 373 to 50 and 82 to 6 in the Senate, in favour of war

1932: Margot Frank (1926 - 1945), elder sister of Anne Frank, in Frankfurt am Main

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1933: The men who repair some of the wiring frames on which the hops in Cateringbury, Kent grow, wearing stilts to enable them to reach the top of the poles.

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1935: Champion Typists! Fifty of the best female typists in the British Isles compete for the title of Champion Typist for 1935 and a cash prize of 100 guineas, at the Hotel Russell, Russell Square, London.

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1936: Swan in a car! A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car.

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1940: Piles of shells being produced at the Ministry of Supply factory in Northern Ireland.

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1992: A Pro-Choice rally in Washington, DC

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1965: Virtual Reality! A trainee train driver in a replica of a 100mph electric locomotive driver’s cab. The simulator has a television screen onto which a film of the journey is projected.

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1966: Brides on bicycles! Cycling to the church, fashion models, Lawrence Candley, Virginia Northrop, Jean Ollis and Nicky Hunt.

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1966:The Stones Return. The Rolling Stones at London Airport on their way home after a tour of Denmark

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1967. Amsterdam. Pop star and ace guitarist Jimi Hendrix appearing on a Dutch TV. show.

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1972: Fashion model Ika posing with Mary Quant’s new collection of shoes.

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1974 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple performing live onstage during the California Jam tour, swinging smashed guitar around head on US tour

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1925: The first flying cinema. A projector being loaded aboard a plane for the first flying cinema trip.

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1951: New bear triplets. The bears, born in London Zoo make their first public appearance. Ahhhh…

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1954: Scandalous Simone! British actress Simone Silva (1928 - 1957) posing topless with the American star Robert Mitchum (1917 - 1997) during the Cannes film festival. Having been elected ‘Miss Festival’, Simone Silva was asked to leave the festival after her semi-nude pose which resulted in one photographer breaking his arm and another his leg in the rush for pictures.

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1955: Politics And Prayer. A man kneels in prayer outside Number 10, Downing Street in London, following the announcement of the resignation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill

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Women painting their legs to look like they’re wearing stockings, ca. 1940s

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