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Iemanjá, Rio de Janeiro 2007
VR Photo:AYRTON
All the preparations to the big party are moving on at Rio. Because of a strong religious believe of brazilians, lots of them dress in white and at 18:00 hs go to the Copacabana beach to pray for Iemanjá, also know as Sea’s Queen. She’s a symbol of God’s Mother in the African culture that came to Brazil during the slavery times.
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Berlin Marathon
VR Photo: Michael Stoß
Sept 30 2007
In Berlin Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia broke the world record when he won the Berlin Marathon.
40.000 people participated in the Marathon and more than a million people followed the runners on the rute trough Berlin.
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US Protests at Apec meeting Sydney
VR Photo: Peter Murphy
Sept 8 2007
US Flag burning at protests at the APEC meeting in Sydney
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Sziget Festival 2007
VR Photo: Sandor Boros
Aug 21 2007
The 15th Sziget festival in Budapest Hungary took place last week.
Like last year a team of Panorama photographers from US, France, Netherlands, and Hungary have documented the festival.
Visit http://www.sziget2007.com/ for more than 70 panoramas from the festival
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Minneapolis Bridge Collapse from air
VR Photo:
Edward S. Fink BigEyeInTheSky.com
Aug 3 2007
Wednesday Aug 1 a bridge over Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed.
The deathtoll according to todays reports is 5 and 8 missing while at least 60 are injured.
Ed Fink a specialist in aerial panoramas from Minneapolis took this panorama over the bridge the morning after the collapse.
Because of a temporary flight restriction over the bridge he could not get closer.
CNN report
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Hongkong Queen's Pier Protests
VR Photo: Tommy Poung
July 31 2007
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Tyne Cot cemetery VR Photo: Philip Giles
31st July 2007 is the 90th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Passchendaele (or Third Ypres)
The Battle of Passchendaele was one of the largest battles of the first World War , and became symbolic of the horrific nature of the WWI. The battle is commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial (and the Menin Gate in Ypres), the largest cemetery for Commonwealth Forces in the world.
Germany lost approximately 270,000 soldiers, while the British Empire forces lost about 300,000,
Recently the last known surviving British soldier from World War One, Harry Patch, 109 years old, visited the site where he fought 90 years ago.
Wikipedia Tyne Cot
Passchendaele
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Pan American Games 2007 Opening Ceremony of Pan American Games 2007
VR Photo: AYRTON
July 13 2007
The 2007 Pan American Games opened on Friday with a ceremony at the Maracana Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The games continues until July 29 and around 5,500 athletes from 42 countries participate in more than 40 sports, including all sports at the Summer Olympics.
Search Google for latest News on Pan 2007
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Rostock G8 Demonstrations
3 panoramas
VR Photo: Michael Stoß
Saturday June 2, 2007
View Michael Stoß report from the G8 demonstrations in Rostock.
The demonstrations in Rostock ahead of the G8 meeting was supposed to be a peace full demonstration but it ended in one of the most violent demonstrations in many years.
The fighting continued until late afternoon. 430 police officers and 520 participants were injured, many of them seriously.
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Election in Syria
VR Photo: Willy Kaemena
Friday June 1, 2007
In Damascus people are celebrating the
re-election of President Bashar Assad for 7 more years.
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Trafalgar Square with Turf - second day
VR Photo © Will Pearson
Trafalgar Square Photoshop cleaned
VR Photo © Will Pearson
Trafalgar Square 11.14 second day
VR Photo © Keith Martin
May 25 2007
The Trafalgar Square in London was on the 24 and 25th of May covered with Turf.
Read more at BBC
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Cannes Festival
VR Photo © Thierry Blondeau
Monday May 21
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May 1 in Aarhus Denmark
VR Photo © Hans Nyberg
First of May was celebrated at Tangkrogen in Aarhus where the Danish Socialist leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt was the main speaker.
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Virginia Tech Victims remembering ceremony
VR Photo
© Alan Kim | The Roanoke Times
Alan Kim is a staff photographer with The Roanoke Times.
He was one of the first photographers in place at Virginia Tech at the School shootings on April 16.
His images from the event has gone all around the world.
Classes resumed at Virginia Tech on Monday April 23, one week after shootings left 32 students and professors dead.
A ceremony on the Drillfield included a ringing bell for every victim and a release of white balloons.
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April 21
The Red Bulll Air Race at Botafogo Beach, or Guanabara Bay
gathered 1 million people on the beach
The arrangers call it "the biggest sport event in Brazilian history"
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French Election
Vr Photo © Gilles Vidal
Socialist Ségolène Royal speaks in Toulouse April 19
Sunday April 22 French people will vote for the presidential elections 2007.
12 Candidates, and alone two will be retained for the second turn.
The favourites are the Socialist Ségolène Royal, the leader of the right center Francois Bayrou, and the right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. Unless as in 2002 Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-hand side, creates a surprise
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March 30 A fire haunted the Hollywood Hills where the famous Hollywood sign is on Friday
Two teen-age boys has admitted that they had started the fire.
VR Photo © Bryant Arnett
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Demonstration in Toulouse against Airbus plans to cut 10.000 jobs
Friday Mars 16 2007
At the Airbus plants in France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. protests continued Friday against the company management's plan to cut 10,000 jobs and sell six plants in Europe
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro has started. View the special Carnival page with Fullscreen VR by AYRTON
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Element 21 at the 2007 PGA Golf Show in Orlando, Florida.
Photo© Elizabeth Gentile Evergreen Studios
February 5 2007
Today February 5, 36 years ago Apollo 14 landed on the moon. See the panoramas at my Apollo Missions page
It was during this moon landing that Alan Shepard performed his famous Moon Golf Shots.
Last year as an anniversary celebration to this , the Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin hit a golf ball into space from the orbiting International Space Station, 220 miles above the earth, using an e21 gold-plated 5 iron.
This PR stunt went around the world and was a large succses for the Delaware company Element 21
The girl in the panorama is E21 President/CEO Dr. Nataliya Hearn.
The PGA Merchandise Show is the world's largest golf industry trade exhibition
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Street poet in Berkely CA
Photo © Patrick Cheatham CheathamLane
January 23 2007
Zach Houston is a young poet/artist who interacts with the public by going to them -- most recently at the Berkeley Bowl Marketplace in Berkeley, California.
With a sign "Poems About Anything" he asks passers-by to give him a subject about which he'll compose a poem, right on demand. While people are shopping, he types their poem on his portable typewriter, then delivers their poem to them as they leave the store. Many times they leave him a small donation.
Zach is currently also taking part in a show called 'Spaces in Conflict' at the brand new gallery "Samespace" in Oakland, California.
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Gulf Cup Football
Opening match between Oman and UAE
Photo © Mahmood Rashid
More panoramas at Interactive Media, Dubai
The 18th Arabian Gulf Cup Football Tournament
ABU DHABI 17 - 30 January 2007, Zayed Sports Stadium, Abu Dhabi
The tournament was inaugurated by:
HH Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
President of the United Arab Emirates
Click to View fullscreen panorama
On 30th Jan 2007 the UAE won the final match against Oman by 1-0. Both teams played the opening match of the tournament and again faced each other in the Final.
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The Human Zoo
Click to View fullscreen panorama
Photographer © Ben Nelson
January 17 2007
During january 2007 a group of humans are locked into a primate exhibit in Adelaide Zoo to be viewed by the public.
The concept is as the Human Zoo website says:
This project aims to
• Create awareness of the closeness of humans to their primate cousins
• Provide a platform for research on animal behaviour and enrichment
• Raise awareness for the conservation needs of primates in the wild
• Raise funds to build Australia's largest chimpanzee exhibit at Monarto Zoological Park in South Australia
This panorama was made on 14 January and the participant this week are group 2, Lisa, Zak, Lucas, Lee, Steven and Michele
Make a Donation to the Zoo
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MACWORLD 2007
Click to View the Panoramas from my special MacWorld feature
January 10 2007
The MacWorld expo started Yesterday in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The Macworld exhibit hall opens on Tuesday, January 9 at 11:00 a.m. and runs through Friday, January 12
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Rockefeller Center, NYC - 74th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony
8:58 PM - November 29, 2006
The tree which has 30,000 colored lights, comes from Colorado and weighs 9 tons.
The event was hosted by NBC "Today" and many celebrities performed like Martina McBride, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Bette Midler and Sting.
Read more:www.happynews.com
VR Photo Jook Leung
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Protests in Cairo after sexual harassments in streets
November 18, 2006
Recently, Egyptian blogs, television and newspapers reported that groups of men had roamed the streets during a weekend and attacked young women — actually chased them down the street. Several witnesses and victims reported about what had happened
VR Photo Waleed Nassar
NY Times article
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Halloween Party - Frankenstein
Nov 1 2006, VRPhoto © Ben Pape www.unique-perspectives.biz
Halloween as celebrated in US can be large parties arranged by whole cities as last weekend in Madison Wisconsin where 35,000 people gathered in the streets. However there are many privately arranged parties like the Pape family party in Omaha. They have arranged this party since 1996. Everything has been arranged and built by Ben and his family.
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Protests in Taiwan against President
VR Photo: Walker Young
September 9 2006
90.000 people protested in Taipei Saturday against their president who is accused for corruption.
Read at Washington Post
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Motorcycle Rally in Italy
On Sunday 9 July Italy' s biggest annual Motorcycle Rally drew about 20 thousand enthusiast from all over Europe.
The very special feature of this Rally is that it has been the very first in the world to allow motorcycles to enter inside the Sanctuary named Madonnina dei Centauri" ("Our Lady of Centaurs") situated in a small town in northern Italy named Castellazzo Bormida.
The Bishop of Alessandria performed the mass in the Sanctuary of MADONNINA DEI CENTAURI Castellazzo Bormida with blessing to the participants.
Official site of Moto Club MADONNINA DEI CENTAURI Internazionali.
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FIFA World Cup 2006
Panoramas from cities around the world
Today's technological developments makes it possible to follow any event like the Football World Cup almost anywhere in the world not just at home on TV but together with other football enthusiasts.
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Václav Havel
former Czech president until 2003 has published a new book which has been a big hit with Czech readers.
Today he signed it in a small book store in Prague.
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| June 25 Nicole Kidman Wedding
NICOLE KIDMAN got married today in Sydney to Country Singer Keith Urban. Peter Murphy was there along with thousands of fans who tried to get a glimpse of the couple or some of the famous guests.
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| June 23 Sankt Hans - Midsommer Bonfire
In Denmark St Hans is celebrated with bonfires in every village and along the coastline.
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June 06 After Czech Election The election in the Czech Republic ended in chaos with no real winner.
This demonstration Tuesday is asking the prime minister to resign. Read More
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| June 2 Czech Election Communist Party Rally
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin PRAGUE360
Czech Election starts today. Panorama was made Thursday June 1 at a Communist meeting at the Muzeum in Praque Read More
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| Rolling Thunder rolls through WashingtonDC on Memorial Day VR Photo:Wayne Heil
May 28 ROLLING THUNDER®, INC. is an organisation who fights for the veteran's rights and the POW/MIA Meaning the Prisoners of War and those who are still Missing in Action.
It was started in 1987 by Vietnam Veteran Artie Muller and a couple of his friends who got the idea of organizing a Motorcycle Ride to Washington DC to demonstrate for the veterans and for freedom of all POW/MIAs
First ride was held in 1988 with 2500 motorcycles driving to Washington.
This year more than 100.000 motorcycles participated according to the NEWS site from the United States Department of Defense Read More
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May 28 Lincoln Memorial at Memorial Day
VR Photo:Wayne Heil
Monday was Memorial day in United States and thousands of people visited the Lincoln Memorial
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May 27 Fleet Week 2006 in New York
VR Photo © Jook Leung
Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Kearsarge man the rails as the Kearsarge passes lower Manhattan en route to Pier 90 for Fleet Week 2006.
The USS Kearsarge is a 844 foot long, 40,500 ton WASP class multipurpose amphibious assault ship.
Launched in 1992, she supports a Marine landing force of more than 2,000 troops. Read More
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May 23 New Orleans 9 months after Katrina
VR Photo by Alfonso Bresciani
9 months after Katrina the levees which protects these areas from being flooded has still not been fixed. The hurricane season is now approaching again... Read More
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| May 22 International Museum Day in Moscow
VR Photo by Andrey Ilyin
The International Museum Day is held on 18 May. This day many museums and historic-museum sites are open free-of-charge till late at night.
The panorama was made at the Historical Museum in Moscow.
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| May20 Apple Store - New York -The Cube
VR Photo Jook Leung
Jook Leung was at the opening of the new Apple Store in New York in The General Motors Building (767 Fifth Ave.),
More panos at Jooks site
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May20 Romanian Parliament meeting
VR Photo Stefan Micsik
The Romanian Parliament Palace is said to be the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon
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May 20
Moscow People - Marchenko-Squaw and Jazz
VR Photo by Andrey Ilyin
The next in Andrey's series of Moscow portraits
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May 11, Moscow People - Oleg Buryan
VR Photo by Andrey Ilyin
Andrey Ilyin, VR Photographer in Moscow has started a project which he calls "NEW Moscow Ethnography- interesting people in their environments."
First is the artist Oleg Buryan, Read about him
Be sure to return and see more
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May 1.
WOMEN ONLY METRO IN RIO VR Photo AYRTON
Last week a new law was introduced in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The law reserves special subway carriages for women during the rush hours in the crowded Metro in Rio. The law was passed to give women rights to avoid sexual harassments from male passengers. |
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CPE PROTESTS IN FRANCE Since March 7 millions of people across France have protested against the new job laws, CPE. This panorama was made April 4 when the largest protests took place all over France
VR Photo Guillaume Dupuy
View more panoramas by Guillaume Dupuy from the protests in Paris.
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 Airbus 380 delivered to Singapore Airlines pano 1
Airbus 380 delivered to Singapore Airlines pano 2
VR Photo: Gilles Vidal
Oct 15, 2007
The first Airbus 380 was delivered today
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 Fell Point Festival in Baltimore
VR Photo:Andras Freyno
Baltimore Oct 7, 2007
41st Annual Fells Point Fun Festival
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 Jazz festival in Damascus Syria
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 American Pets on 4th July Parade
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
VR Photo by Andras Frenyo
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 Prague Marathon 2007
Sun, 13 May 2007 09:56
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin
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 NEW ORLEANS Jazz Festival
VR Photo © Andras Freyno
Andras Freyno has been in New Orleans for the 37th Jazz & Heritage Festival.
You can also visit JazzFestBLOG.com created by Alicia Ault and Kay Christy, for a blog about the festival were you can also see the panoramas in Flash version.
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 AIDAdiva baptism in Hamburg
20. april 2007
More than 200.000 people visted the ship baptism of AIDAdiva.
VR Photo Bernd Dohrmann www.360Bilder.de
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 The French Election
April 18
Nicolas Sarkozy speaks in Toulouse
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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 Dubai Int'l Arabian Horse Championship 2007
April 14
VR Photo by Rana Mahmood
Interactive Media, Dubai
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The Niagara Arts Cultural Center
James Neiss, Staff Photographer at Niagara Gazette, has made a series of panoramic portraits from The Niagara Arts Cultural Center in Niagara Falls, NY.
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 Guantanamo Cell
A mock prison cell resembling David Hicks' living conditions at Guantanamo Bay began its Australia-wide public tour today in Sydney. SMH
VR Photo © Peter Murphy
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 Stop EPR Toulouse March 17
With 40.000 people in Rennes, 8.000 in Lyon, 5.000 in Toulouse, 5.000 in Strasbourg and 4.000 in Lille, they are on the whole 62.000 people who mobilized this Saturday March 17 against the project again nuclear engine EPR envisaged at Flamanville (France). VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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 US Sen John Edwards Campagne
Former Sen. John Edwards at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
Edwards' children joined him to begin his '07 College Tour.
VR Photo © Tom Lassiter
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 Walk In Their Shoes
Hundred of shoes of all sizes representing the hundreds of thousand of Iraqi civilians, and thousands of US soldiers killed the past 4 years of the war. The shoes bear the tags of the name, age, and the place of death. This peaceful protest is organized on Saturday, Mar 17, 2007 by the CodePink's local Monterey chapter, a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement.
VR Photo © Val T. Hoang
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 Airbus fires 10000 people.
In Toulouse 10-15000 people, both politicians and workers, demonstrated against the plans to fire up to 10000 people from the Airbus factories throughout Europe.
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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 Chinese New Year Parade in SF
Over 100 units participate in the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year 2007 Parade. A San Francisco tradition since just after the Gold Rush, the parade continues to delight and entertain the many hundreds of thousands of people that come to watch it on the street
VR Photo © Val T. Hoang
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 Niagara Falls Prophet Isaiah Robertson
James Neiss, Staff Photographer at Niagara Gazette, NY has made a panorama story about the Carpenter, Artist & Prophet Isaiah Robertson
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 Queen Mary 2 and
Elisabeth 2 on visit in Sydney
Feb 20 2007
VR Photo © Peter Murphy
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 Hot Balloon Festival in Philippine
VR Photo © firefly.ph
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 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit
VR Photo © Mark Houston www.360michigan.net
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 Christmas in Prague
Flying above Old Town Square!
The Old Town Square is decked out and jam-packed again for christmas. The stalls are lining the square, selling chestnuts, roasted pastries, hot wine, christmas sausages, and of course some gifts and stuff.
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin www.PRAGUE360.com
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 Etna Eruption
Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Last eruption started on Nov 5. Michel du Chesne from Panoflex was trekking at Mt Etna on Nov 6 when he captured the lava stream.
VR Photo Panoflex
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 Support Meeting for Robert Redeker threatened to death for writing about the “the violence of Islam”
Robert Redeker has lived with police protection since September when he wrote an article, published in Le Figaro, about the threats from Islamic fundamentalism.
Wednesday Nov 15 he appeared at a meeting in Toulouse where many of the most well known French authors participated for his support.
He is seen in the panorama surrounded by Bernard-Henri Lévy, the writer Pascal Bruckner, the owner of Charlie Hebdo Philippe Val, the scenario writer Claude Lanzmann, the Mohamed journalist Sifaoui, the mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc.
Read his article
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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 The Bosnian Pyramids in Visocica
Is this a real pyramid?
Some people believe so. Dean from Virtual Hawaii visited Bosnia and made some panoramas from the place.
VR Photo Dean Karamehmedovic
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 Nov 16 INDOOR SNOW DOME
Europas most modern indoor-ski arena opened last month near Hamburg.
Here are some details / facts: indoorambit size is 23.000 m? , experience area 3.500 m? ,
2.000 m? for gastronomy , 600 m? congress & incentive flat and 350 m? for Nordic Sports.
VR Photo Bernd Dohrmann www.360Bilder.de
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WALKING WITH AIDS
A panoramic documentary by Mickael Therer
for MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
Mickael Therer www.360days.com who last year made the documentary panoramas from Mali has been in Mozambique to document the struggle to defeat Aids. Read the interview with Mickael at VRMAG
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 Aug 28 MALABAR - PRAGUE
The "Summer Letná" festival in Praque features the spectacular French event and theatre group Malabar
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin www.PRAGUE360.com
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 Aug 23 THE 11TH TRADITIONAL ERASMUS KNIGHT'S TOURNAMENT
with international participants from Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic and Serbia - 20th august 2006.
VR Photo Bostjan Burger www.burger.si
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 Aug 23 The Sandworld 2006 Event in Travemünde, Germany.
Facts: 9000 tons of sand, 10000 square meters and max high up to 12m
VR Photo Bernd Dohrmann www.360Bilder.de
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 Aug 23 Anti Missile Protests
Protests against the possible construction of an anti-missile base, by the United States, in the Czech Republic.
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin www.PRAGUE360.com
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| The Sziget 2006 Music Festival in Hungary has started.
 Andras Frenyo has this year help by a full team of panorama photographers, Krisztina Imre (Hungary), Mickael Therer (Belgium) and Gilles Vidal (France) - who are covering the event.
Remember to have a look the panoramas from Budapest also
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 Protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine took place several places during the last weekend. Largest in Sydney and London but also smaller ones in Copenhagen, Stockholm, US, Switzerland, France and Poland.
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 China Organ SaleVR Photo
VR Photo Jeffrey Martin www.PRAGUE360.com
A few dozen participants of Falun Gong assembled in front of the Chinese Embassy in Prague to protest both the persecution in China of Falun Gong followers, and the organ harvesting which has been coordinated with the scheduled killings going on in China. The protestors sat for twenty four hours on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Embassy on one of the hottest days so far this year in the Czech Republic.
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Étape July 11 - 13 Cyril Dessel, crosses the mythical top of the Pyrenees, Col du Tourmalet (2115m); at the end of the day
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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 PIXIES IN PRAGUE July 13
The Legendary band from USA, Pixies, played to a sardine-can-packed Akropolis, in Prague on their European tour
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 Princess Anne visits Sydney Harbour July 13
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 Konzert für Europa 2006
Koncert in the park of Schönbrunn in Vienna
VR Photo Helmut Schierer
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 June 14 Flag day at Fort McHenry - Baltimore
VR Photo by Andras Frenyo
Read more about the flagday
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 June 10 Honfest in Baltimore
VR Photo by Andras Frenyo
Honfest is a unique Baltimore festival with food, fun and music for all! Read more
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 June 10 Fashion Week in Rio
VR Photo by AYRTON
In Rio there is a Fashion Week with shows from the best of Brazilian designers.
Read more at www.fashionrio.com.br/
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 May 28 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006, Dubai
VR Photo by Rana Mahmood
Interactive Media, Dubai
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Kinetic sculpture race in Baltimore
VR Photo by Andras Frenyo
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April 10
Solar Eclipse in Egypt VR Photo Bob Yen
Solar Eclipse in Turkey VR Photo Jacques JOFFRE
The total Eclipse on March 29 was captured by several VR Photographers
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| King of Spain Juan Carlos visits Toulouse
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
Gilles Vidal VR Photographer from Toulouse is presented in an article in liberation.fr with a panorama from the visit of king Juan Carlos of Spain
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March 29
Flood in Czech Republic Sazava River
VR Photo by Jeffrey Martin
Links: Read BBC about it
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March 26
Greek Independence Day in Baltimore
VR Photo by Andras Frenyo
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March 7-23
The French are protesting. View Gilles Vidal's panoramas from Toulouse.
More from Toulouse March 27
VR Photo Gilles Vidal
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ISSUE 27 is online
From this issue
 BRUSSELS, THE CROSSROAD OF EUROPE
As the European capital, the 1000-plus year old city of Brussels is home to the European Commission and the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU).
 HOMEMADE GOAT CHEESE, APPLE, AND VEGGIE PIZZA
It seems there’s a blog for everything under the sun these days, and food blogs are extremely popular, with many of them offering up photos of the blogger’s daily dishes.
and much more.......
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