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Springbok captain Francois Pienaar receives the Webb Ellis Cup from President Nelson Mandela - 1995 Rugby World Cup Final

Rugby Union - 1995 World Cup Final - South Africa 15 New Zealand 12
Springbok captain Francois Pienaar receives the Webb Ellis Cup from South Africa President Nelson Mandela at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.
24/06/1995

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Trophy

Computer artwork of ATLAS detector at CERN

Virtual reality in physics. Computer-generated wire-frame drawing showing a cut-away view of the ATLAS particle detector to be built at the CERN European particle physics laboratory. The ATLAS experiment will service two accelerator rings; the proposed Large Hadron Collider (dark blue pipe) and the existing Large Electron-Positron ring (grey and yellow). A figure (red) is shown in the lower right for scale. This image was made using CERN's VENUS virtual reality system. It is used to check engineering designs for fit and position before any component is actually manufactured; this process is called virtual prototyping. Compare with space-filled version, T490/163

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France-Nuclear Testing-Rainbow Warrior

The French frigate "Vandemaire" (foreground) shadows "Rainbow Warrior" (R) and "Greenpeace" (L), two ships of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, and the Cook Island schooner "Te Ka toa" (2nd-R) 30 August 1995 at the edge of the exclusion zone declared around the French nuclear testing site, Mururoa Atoll. France conducted 193 underground and atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in French Plynesia between 1966 and 27 January 1996. The first "Rainbow Warrior" ship, the Greenpeace's flagship, was bombed by the French secret service in 1985 on its way to protest nuclear testing in the Pacific. / AFP PHOTO / MARCEL MOCHET

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