Images Dated 23rd February 2005

The King and Queen leave Dover for Paris. Their Majesties shaking hands with the

The King and Queen leave Dover for Paris.
Their Majesties shaking hands with the officers of the Royal Yacht.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) British ruler; king of Britain 1936-1952; last emperor of India 1936-1947; brother of Edward VIII; son of George V _1895-1952
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother, the Queen Mum) British queen; wife of George VI 1923; mother of Elizabeth II; eponym of ships Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2 _1900-2002

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Constructing a gas pipeline, Russia

Construction of a gas pipeline, Russia, 1982. This pipeline is now completed and it carries gas from the Urengoy fields in Siberia. Urengoy produces the most gas in Russia, accounting in 2000 for over a third of its national output

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Centrifuge training for cosmonauts

Centrifuge training at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre in Russia. The centrifuge simulates the forces experienced due to acceleration at launch so that the cosmonaut can be assessed for his ability to work in such environments. When Vostok 1, the first manned space rocket, took off, the acceleration produced a force on its cosmonaut of 5Gs, meaning that he felt five times as heavy as he would on Earth. This training centre is named after the first man to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin. It opened in 1960

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