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  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
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  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
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  • A cyclist passes a parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London. Its yellow coiled cable stretching from charging point to car. Source London is now the capital’s largest charging network. It has significantly boosted existing numbers of charge points operated by a range of different localised schemes. By 2013, Source London will total at least 1,300 charge points, more than the number of petrol stations currently in London, ensuring the infrastructure is in place for significantly more people and businesses to buy an electric vehicle. The creation of an electric vehicle network is in line with the Mayor’s pledge to promote quality of life by reducing pollution and CO2 emissions.
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  • A woman passer-by walks past a City cafe in sunlight on Abchurch Lane, EC4 in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter. A customer sits in the sunlit window enjoying the location's warmth, stretching and squinting into the sun. Strong shadows can be seen on the walls of this narrow medieval lane, first mentioned as Abbechurche Lane in 1291.
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  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • An aerial view of runners stretching on Fishmongers Hall Wharf in the City of London, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • London, UK. Sunday 13th April 2014. Competitors running in the main public event of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2014. These runners take part and raise huge sums fo money for charity organisations. Many runners at the later stages of the race suffer from cramp or other pain requiring stretching.
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  • London, UK. Sunday 13th April 2014. Competitors running in the main public event of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2014. These runners take part and raise huge sums fo money for charity organisations. Many runners at the later stages of the race suffer from cramp or other pain requiring stretching.
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  • London, UK. Sunday 13th April 2014. Competitors running in the main public event of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2014. These runners take part and raise huge sums fo money for charity organisations. Many runners at the later stages of the race suffer from cramp or other pain requiring stretching.
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  • London, UK. Sunday 13th April 2014. Competitors running in the main public event of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2014. These runners take part and raise huge sums fo money for charity organisations. Many runners at the later stages of the race suffer from cramp or other pain requiring stretching.
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  • London, UK. Sunday 13th April 2014. Competitors running in the main public event of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2014. These runners take part and raise huge sums fo money for charity organisations. Many runners at the later stages of the race suffer from cramp or other pain requiring stretching.
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  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • Two joggers stretch stiff muscles, on 2nd January 2017, in Regents Canal, central London, England.
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  • Seen through a window, a lady warms up during a lunchtime workout and stretches to echo an image of a man hanging from bars, seen outside a Fitness First gym, on 1st September 2016, in south London, England UK. Fitness First was started in 1993 and now have clubs in 16 countries.
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  • A Bulldog stretches beneath his owner in a central London cafe. The pet dog has had enough of sitting patiently and loyally at the feet of his owner who talks on the phone, seated at a table outside a cafe in Victoria in the capital. The Bulldog is a medium-sized breed of dog commonly referred to as the English Bulldog or British Bulldog. Other Bulldog breeds include the American Bulldog, Old English Bulldog (now extinct), Olde English Bulldogge, and the French Bulldog. The Bulldog is a muscular, heavy dog with a wrinkled face and a distinctive pushed-in nose. As a symbol however, the Bulldog represents the British people and Britishness - made famous by Winston Churchill during WW2.
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  • A man stretches a stiff leg beneath the columned architecture of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Water polo players stretch for the ball in the water during an August heatwave, on 20th August 1995, at Brockwell Lido, Herne Hill, London, England.
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  • A man wearing a suit spontaneously stretches his hamstring muscle of one leg on the Southbank, on 21st September 2018, in London England.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • Jeremy Hunter, a member of the Serpentine Swimming Club, stretches before swimming in the Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London, UK. The Serpentine Lake is situated in Hyde Park, London’s largest central open space. The Serpentine Swimming Club was formed in 1864 ‘to promote the healthful habit of bathing in open water throughout the year’.  Its headquarters were beneath an old elm tree on the south side of the lake, a wooden bench for clothing being the only facility.  At this time London was undergoing rapid expansion and Hyde Park was now in the centre of a densely populated built up area and provided a place of relaxation to its urbanised masses. Now, the club has its own (somewhat spartan) changing facilities and members are  permitted by the Royal Parks to swim in the lake any morning before 09:30.  They race every Saturday morning throughout the year, regardless of the weather.
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  • A lady shopper stretches to see down a lower-level floor in the northern Italian south Tyrolean city of Bozen-Bolzano. Seemingly falling over into the hole where supplies are lowered into the basement, the lady balances on one leg and holds her bag to steady herself.
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  • Having completed his urban run through the City of London the capitals financial capital, an office worker stretches against the exterior wall of his place of work, on 13th May, in London, England.
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  • A man stretches out his arms while beneath the shadows of tube kites cast on an exterior concrete wall of the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, on 5th August, in London, England.
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  • A workman paints black railings outside the National Portrait Gallery, on 23rd September 2016, in the central London borough of Westminster, England. An expandable barrier stretches across his working area of the pavement to avoid mishaps.
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  • As a jogger stretches, lunchtime spring crowds enjoy warm weather beneath the pillars at Cornhill Exchange in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial centre, dating back to first century Roman Britain. We see the classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building. At the top of Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, designed by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria). It’s the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It’s successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.
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  • A visitor to the Covent Garden area of the West End, stretches out his arms inside a multi-changing coloured archway off Long Acre, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
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  • Having completed his urban run through the City of London the capitals financial capital, an office worker stretches against the exterior wall of his place of work, on 13th May, in London, England.
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  • Young men stretch for the ball while playing Beach Volleyball beneath a palm tree, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A visitor to the Covent Garden area of the West End, stretches out his arms inside a multi-changing coloured archway off Long Acre, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
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  • Workers wait for a boat that will pick them up for their days work in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. While waiting, young and old do morning stretches. At approximately 6am workers start to gather here near the Star Ferry terminal. The Hong Kong skyline, dominated by the Bank of China building towers over Hong Kong Harbour in the morning light.
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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The <br />
brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic.
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  • Children play with Mahjong tiles at a night-club, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the Peoples Republic of China PRC, along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the Peoples Republic of China PRC in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kongs own handover.
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  • With colonial Portuguese architecture in the background, older women and a few men participate in a group exercise on an astroturf-covered sports ground, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the Peoples Republic of China PRC, along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the Peoples Republic of China PRC in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kongs own handover.
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  • Teenage girl students sit on the sports field during a lunchtime break at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. Giggling and smiling in their happy environment, the young women enjoy life in the UK, the children of skilled parents working in England. The Gyosei independent private school was the first of its type established in the country and shows the importance of Milton Keynes as a focus for Japanese investment.
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  • Teenage students play baseball on a summer's day at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. Running hard for a home-run, the teenager sprints on short grass as school mates sit waiting for their turn on the lawn. The Gyosei independent private school was the first of its type established in the country and shows the importance of Milton Keynes as a focus for Japanese investment.
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  • Seen reflected as a symmetrical image, smoking employees enjoy cigarettes and autumn sunshine in Leadenhall Street, on 12th September, in the City of London, UK.
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  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London. The two young men have been busking in this famous London landmark, their act having just finished requiring them to change back into their own clothes on a winter's day. One of them pulls his top over his head and his shadow against the wall behind makes a peculiar shape alongside his sidekick and an incidental woman, texting on her smartphone on the right. The wall belongs to the southern frontage of the National Portrait Gallery in Westminster.
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  • A tourist is surrounded by a flock of greedy gulls hovering above on London's Southbank, opposite the Westminster parliament. Echoing the birds' wings, the young lady has an arm outstretched and she entices the birds to flock around her head and the avian creatures swarm excitedly in the air above. In the background is the expanse of Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament and the tall clock tower containing the Big Ben bell.
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  • With hands outstretched and a nervous smile on her face, a 3 year-old goes head first down a slide in her local park in south London. The gradient helps the girl on her downward journey as the tentatively slides down with her fingers feeling the polished surface, her smiling, confident face reflected on the three sides of the slide's metal. Tall London plane trees rise above in this public London space.
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  • Three man on the corner of Bevis Marks and St. Mary Axe in the City of London, the capitals financial district aka the Square Mile, on 10th July 2019, in London England.
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  • Teenage students jump high on a basketball court to score a goal at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. Seen from an aerial perspective, we look down on these active and fit young men, whose sense of competition and fitness is played out below us. Leaping up to help win the ball that is about to be placed in the foreground basket, each of the seven boys try their utmost to help win or prevent the point, depending on the team members. The court looks new and well cared for at this ex-patriot school in the English Midlands
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  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Exhausted runner at the finnish area. London, UK.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her feet shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • During a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her hands shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
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  • Young indian dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Young indian trainee dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" as well as focusing on the gesture of the hands known as "katakamukh" at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Young indian trainee dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • The grand finale of a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
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  • Ganga Thampi a classical dance performer and teacher in a quiet moment of meditative yoga before a lesson at the highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Young indian dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071120_india_0108_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0302_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0299_1.jpg
  • Students and teachers have lunch and rest after an intense morning's  session of dance practice and routines  at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • A teacher adjusts a student's hand in the "mudra" (gesture) called "katakamukh" as well as teaching a  young dancer  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0090_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as nritya at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0073_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as nritya at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • During a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
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  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • People take their morning tai chi chuan exercise in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • Ballet dancers from the Ruggieri Dance Academy practice their positions in an unexpected urban environment prior to a performance at a local Summer event in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Ballet dancers from the Ruggieri Dance Academy practice their positions in an unexpected urban environment prior to a performance at a local Summer event in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Ballet dancers from the Ruggieri Dance Academy practice their positions in an unexpected urban environment prior to a performance at a local Summer event in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Ballet dancer from the Ruggieri Dance Academy practices her positions in an unexpected urban environment prior to a performance at a local Summer event in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Ballet dancer from the Ruggieri Dance Academy practices her positions in an unexpected urban environment prior to a performance at a local Summer event in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • British snowboarder Aimee Fuller at Core Collective gym on 13th July in London, United Kingdom.
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  • British snowboarder Aimee Fuller at Core Collective gym on 13th July in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Aimee Fuller working out in Holland Parking on 13th July 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Aimee Fuller working out in Holland Parking on 13th July 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Training and rehabilitation for GB snowboarder Matt McCormick on 27th July 2017 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  • Training and rehabilitation for GB snowboarder Matt McCormick on 27th July 2017 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  • Training and rehabilitation for GB snowboarder Matt McCormick on 27th July 2017 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  • Training and rehabilitation for GB snowboarder Matt McCormick on 27th July 2017 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • Pat Marden rreaches up to attend an arch of apples at the East Malling Research, Kent, England that provides science-based plant and food solutions to industry and Government. As a  Horticultural Technician Pat and her colleagues work for this organisation which is the principal UK provider of top-class horticultural research and development for the perennial crops sector. They have for example, genetically fingerprinted all 2300 apples and over 250 pears of the National Fruit Collection and used DNA markers called microsatellites to produce individual profiles for trees. Looking upwards we see Pat balanced on a tapering ladder to reach leaves and branches that form this feature in the laboratory gardens and which has eight similar arches.
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  • Breathing through her mouth, a lady wearing a bikini costume lifts her head supported with her hands to start another sit-up repetition during a morning exercise session at Brockwell Lido, Brixton South London. With other bathers also lying in sun on the warm poolside pavement, some white and another Rastafarian with dreadlocks, it's a largely mixed crowd ethnically. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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