NEPAL Okhaldunga -- 07 Mar 2008 -- Regional staff of UNMIN's Electoral Assistance Office deploy to the remote district of Okhaldunga, 200km east of Kathmandu. UNMIN deployed 70 international District Electoral Advisers and 70 national language assistants to the districts of Nepal at the request of Nepal's Election Commission, who are responsible for all aspects of conducting the Constituent Assembly poll on 10 April 2008 -- Picture by Agnieska Mikulska | Lightroom Photos | UN
NEPAL Kathmandu -- 05 Dec 2009 -- Maoist propaganda posters featuring Marx, Mao,Stalin and Lenin. Thousands of these posters have been posted around Kathmandu. The Maoists are planning a series of demonstrations and declaration of various autonomous regions this December in yet another showdown with the government which took over in May 2009 after the then Maoist PM Prachanda resigned over a row with the president over who heads the Nepalese Army. The former rebels have been agitating to get more power or total state control since then, though so far without success -- Picture by Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
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The Caffe Trieste was started by Giovanni Giotta in 1950. Giotta had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy. Remembering the espresso houses of Italy, Giotta opened Caffe Trieste which is said to be the first coffee house on the West Coast to serve espresso drinks. The original Caffe Trieste in North Beach quickly became popular among the neighborhood's Italian residents. The CaffÈ Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement celebrities like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffe Trieste. Its is also the home of the Trieste Saturday Concert.
NEPAL Near Bhajura -- 26 Sep 2007 -- Staff from OHCHR-Nepal and UNMIN Civil Affairs on a joint trip to Bhajura - a remote district 500km west of Kathmandu - to meet local government and civil society. In the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Nepali political parties requested OHCHR-Nepal to monitor the human rights aspects of the Agreement, and OHCHR-Nepal focus this monitoring work in the districts. Non-military aspects of the ceasefire arrangements are conducted by UNMIN's Civil Affairs officers, who liaise with State and non-State actors. Their aim is to promote an atmosphere conducive for a free and fair election, especially in the rural areas where there has been a prolonged absence of the state -- Picture by Robel Mockonen | Lightroom Photos | UN
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Posters for candidates in the French parliamentary election 2012, displayed in the medieval village of Saint Guilhem le Désert, vallee de l'Hérault Languedoc, France.
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Fly Posters on the side of public toilets closed at the end of the holiday season at the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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Fly Posters on the side of public toilets closed at the end of the holiday season at the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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TUNISIA Tunis -- 23 Oct 2011 -- Manoubia Bou Azizi votes - the mother of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian man who set himself on fire in an act of protest which inspired the Arab Spring. Elections are being held here today (Sunday 23rd October 2011) and are the first free elections in three decades and also the first since the Jasmine Revolution ousted the dictator Ben Ali - triggering what is now known as the Arab Spring -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell/Lightroom Photos
German election poster, 1932. National Socialist (Nazi) Party political campaign. The large number 1 indicates position of Nazi Party in the voting list. People are flocking towards the large swastika to vote. Germany Fascism
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The Caffe Trieste was started by Giovanni Giotta in 1950. Giotta had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy. Remembering the espresso houses of Italy, Giotta opened Caffe Trieste which is said to be the first coffee house on the West Coast to serve espresso drinks. The original Caffe Trieste in North Beach quickly became popular among the neighborhood's Italian residents. The Caffé Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement celebrities like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffe Trieste. Its is also the home of the Trieste Saturday Concert.
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San Francisco; California; Caffe Trieste Roaster; Caffe Trieste; coffee beans; coffee; roaster; roastery; coffee roastery; north beach
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The Caffe Trieste was started by Giovanni Giotta in 1950. Giotta had emigrated to San Francisco, California, from the small fishing town of Rovigno, Italy. Remembering the espresso houses of Italy, Giotta opened Caffe Trieste which is said to be the first coffee house on the West Coast to serve espresso drinks. The original Caffe Trieste in North Beach quickly became popular among the neighborhood's Italian residents. The CaffÈ Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement celebrities like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffe Trieste. Its is also the home of the Trieste Saturday Concert.
