CNN Site Map for Section Europe (Galleries) for May - 2012
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- 2012-05-31Prince Charles and Princess Anne in the sand at Holkham Beach during the summer of 1957.
- 2012-05-31In 1952 "Teddy Boys" were just starting to appear -- these guys were snapped in London in 1955.
- 2012-05-30The new royal barge "The Gloriana" preparing for launch on the River Thames, London, England. "The Gloriana," which will be crewed by 18 oarsmen, will lead the flotilla of over 1000 river craft carrying Queen Elizabeth II on June 3, 2
- 2012-05-29A car is crushed by falling rubble from a building in Carvezzo, Italy following the 5.8-magnitude earthquake on May 29, 2012.
- 2012-05-28The Honourable Lady Margaret Rhodes is one of the queen's closest relatives and a childhood playmate. She describes in her book, "The Final Curtsey," how the grownups played silly games such as 'Are you there Moriarty?' Two people
- 2012-05-25Now in its 13th year, the SacroExpo in Kielce, Poland is one of the world's largest exhibitions of sacred art and religious items, including life-size models of the late Pope John Paul II. The population of Poland is 90% Catholic.
- 2012-05-24The Northern Ireland peace process was signed in 1998 but paramilitary murals -- this one for the Ulster Volunteer Force -- still cover Belfast walls.
- 2012-05-24Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip wave to the crowd from Buckingham Palace on June 2, 1953.
- 2012-05-22Dozens of torch bearers have put their prized mementos up for sale on eBay, with sellers seeking up to ￡100,000. In some cases the money has been offered to charity.
- 2012-05-21While many Eurovision acts slide into obscurity, some have gone on to international stardom. The contest's biggest success story is Swedish four-piece ABBA. Virtually unknown outside of Sweden before the 1974 contest, their winning song "Waterlo
- 2012-05-21Kruse recently organized the Copenhagen Sustainable Fashion Summit. She says: "I have worked in the fashion industry for nearly 20 years, and it is a wonderful and exciting industry, but it is also one of the largest and most polluting in the world.&
- 2012-05-21A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook northern Italy on Sunday, killing at least seven people and destroying centuries-old landmarks including the clock tower in Finale Emilia.
- 2012-05-20A rescuer walks near the town hall in Sant'Agostino village after a powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated Northeast early on Sunday, May 20.
- 2012-05-17Poland declared independence in 1918 following more than 120 years when it came under Russian, Prussian, and Austrian rule. Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 sparked the Second World War, during which six million Poles died, including the ma
- 2012-05-16General Ratko Mladic, center, commander of Serbian forces in Bosnia, arrives at Sarajevo airport on August 10, 1993 to negotiate the withdrawal of his troops from Mount Igman.
- 2012-05-15French President Francois Hollande pays his respects after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Tuesday, May 15.
- 2012-05-11The Orbit Tower at London's Olympic Park was unveiled by the city's mayor Boris Johnson.
- 2012-05-09Prince Albert, later King George VI, proudly sits for a photograph with his young daughter and future monarch, Elizabeth.
- 2012-05-07Russian police detain a protester during a rally in Moscow on Sunday, May 6, the eve of Vladimir Putin's return as president.
- 2012-05-06Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande won France's presidential runoff election on Sunday, May 6. In his victory speech, he promised to be a president for all of France.
- 2012-05-04'The Boat Project' is made up of more than 1200 wooden objects donated by people across south east England.
- 2012-05-04Britain's Ministry of Defence is to place ground-to-air missiles on an apartment block in Bow, East London. The building was formerly the Bryant and May match factory.
- 2012-05-01Angeliki Papathanasopoulou was killed days after Greece got its first bailout, when the bank she worked in was torched during protests. She married Christos Karapanagiotis -- her partner of 13 years -- in September 2009, nine months before she died.