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La Princesse

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La Princesse is a 15-metre (50-foot) mechanical spider designed and operated by French performance art company La Machine. [1]

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Aerial work platform

An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as an aerial device, elevating work platform (EWP), bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.

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Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is the irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions.

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Artichoke (company)

Artichoke, also known as the Artichoke Trust, is a London-based British company and registered charitable trust that stages arts spectacles and live events.

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BBC North West Tonight

BBC North West Tonight is a regional news programme covering North West England and the Isle of Man.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.

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Concourse House

Concourse House was a 1960s high-rise tower block in the city of Liverpool, England, designed by the architect Richard Seifert.

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Crane (machine)

A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally.

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Cultural depictions of spiders

Throughout history, spiders have been depicted in popular culture, mythology and in symbolism.

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Cunard Building

The Cunard Building is a Grade II* listed building in Liverpool, England.

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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Euro

The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union.

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European Capital of Culture

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension.

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Forklift

A forklift (also called lift truck, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances.

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François Delarozière

François Delarozière (born 1963) is the art director of La Machine, a French company which is a collaboration between artists, designers, fabricators and technicians and which specialises in producing giant performing machines, often creatures.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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La Machine (production company)

La Machine Ștefan de la Humor is a Ilie Nervosu’ production company based in Nantes, France, which is famous for La Princesse, a 50-foot mechanical spider constructed in Nantes, France.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Memories of August 1914

Memories of August 1914 was a five-day outdoor performance art event featuring giant marionettes, and took place in Liverpool, England, from 23 to 27 July 2014.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million.

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Nantes

Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Performance art

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.

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Phil Redmond

Philip Redmond CBE (born 10 June 1949) is an English television producer and screenwriter from Huyton, Lancashire.

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Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the titular character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Queensway Tunnel

The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead.

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Richard Seifert

Richard Seifert (born Reubin Seifert, 25 November 1910 – 26 October 2001) was a Swiss-British architect, best known for designing the Centrepoint tower and Tower 42 (previously the NatWest Tower), once the tallest building in the City of London.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Royal de Luxe

Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company.

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Salthouse Dock

Salthouse Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool.

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Sea Odyssey: Giant Spectacular

Sea Odyssey: Giant Spectacular was a three-day outdoor performance art event featuring giant marionettes, that took place in Liverpool, England, from 20 to 22 April 2012.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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TaxPayers' Alliance

The TaxPayers' Alliance is a right-wing British pressure group and think tank formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Royal Albert Dock Liverpool

The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England.

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The Sultan's Elephant

The Sultan's Elephant was a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant, a giant marionette of a girl and other associated public art installations.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Princesse

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