Images Dated 21st April 2006

Northern Corries at dawn

Northern Corries at dawn. View looking west just before sunrise across Coire an t-Sneachda (hollow area) to Coire Lochain. The ridge separating the two hollows is is the Fiacaill Ridge. The flat area at left is the Cairngorm plateau. A corrie or cirque is a semi-circular hollow with a steep headwall. They are a feature of local mountain glaciation. In the Quaternary, the hollows may have been wholly or partly filled by small glaciers or may have acted as the source area for larger valley glaciers. Photographed in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, in November

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A couple watches fireworks explode over Kew Gardens in London

A couple watches fireworks explode over Kew Gardens in London, England, where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 80th birthday with a private family dinner April 21, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor - GM1DSLAVNOAA

History, Europe, Industrial Revolution, Steam Engines, Fuel, Shovelling Coal, Stoker

History, Europe, Industrial Revolution, Steam Engines, Fuel, Shovelling Coal, Stoker, Clocks, Efficiency, Frank Lillian Gilbreth, Hand, Laborers, Shoveling, Shovels, Stokers, Stop, Timing, Watches, White Background, Nobody, Horizontal, Colour Image, Illustration, Single Object, One Person, Dorling Kindersley Prints, 71558788

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