london

     

Lonon (pronunciation (help·info); IPA: /ˈlʌndən/) is the largest urban area and capital of England and the United Kingdom. An important settlement for two millennia, London's history goes back to its founding by the Romans. Since its settlement, London has been part of many important movements and phenomena throughout history, such as the English Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the Gothic Revival. The city's core, the ancient City of London, still retains its limited mediaeval boundaries; but since at least the 19th century the name "London" has also referred to the whole metropolis which has developed around it. Today the bulk of this conurbation forms the London region of England and the Greater London administrative area, with its own elected mayor and assembly.

Trivia about london

  • In May 1998 this metropolis of 7 million voted to start electing its mayor for the first time
  • This city's iconic Routemaster vehicles were just shy of 50 years' service when they were retired in 2005
  • This city's King's Road & Carnaby Street were hot scene of '60s fashion
  • 22 Jermyn Street, The Savoy & The Covent Garden are all hotels in this city
  • This capital is linked to the North Sea via the Thames River
  • It's the city where the pussy cat went "to look at the queen"
  • Celebrated for his diary, Samuel Pepys was born on Feb. 23, 1633 in this world capital
  • Heathrow Airport
  • In 1957 Mary Quant opened her Bazaar Boutique on the King's Road in this city
  • Handel wrote "Messiah" in about 3 weeks while living in this city
  • Among this capital's 32 boroughs are Tower Hamlets, Hackney & Westminster
  • Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital
  • Located on the Thames River, it's been Europe's largest city since around 1700
  • This city has been a port since the Roman period
  • In book 13 country boy Tom arrives in this metropolis, where the climactic action takes place
  • Long before it was a capital, this city on the Thames River was a communications center
  • Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city
  • University of Westminster
  • Assassin James Earl Ray was arrested in this capital city June 8, 1968 by Scotland Yard detectives
  • This city precedes "Fog" in the name of a brand of raincoats
  • Matthew Bourne set his innovative new production of "Cinderella" in this city during the Blitz
  • I hope to train at Guy's Hospital in this world capital to become a better doctor -- & it's near some good pubs
  • Benjamin Disraeli, at Parliament Square
  • The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower in this capital is the U.K.'s tallest building
  • Charing Cross, a traffic square near the Thames, is usually regarded as this city's center
  • Sir Robert Peel organized this city's police force in 1829 & they've been nicknamed for him ever since
  • Nicole Farhi, who married playwright David Hare, is called the "Donna Karan of" this world capital
  • Regent's Park,St. James's Park,Hyde Park
  • The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower on the Thames River is this capital city's tallest building
  • Camilla Parker Bowles was born Camilla Shand on July 17, 1947 in this world capital
  • The Boar's Head Tavern is one of many Shakespearean settings in this city
  • You can rest up at the Churchill, Claridge's or the Ivanhoe Suites, hotels in this city
  • This British city's zoo in Regent's Park claims that its reptile house, opened in 1849, was the world's first
  • In 1800 the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons was chartered in this city
  • Kensington Gardens,the Old Vic Theatre
  • The most famous structure designed by George Dance the Younger was this city's Newgate Prison
  • The only surviving manuscript of "Beowulf" is in a research library in this capilal city
  • A marinated flank steak:___ broil
  • Platfprm 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station in this city is the place where Harry Potter boards the train to Hogwarts
  • The Dorchester & the Savoy
  • Twiggy
  • Westminster Abbey
  • After this city's "Great Fire" of 1666, Nicholas Borbon opened one of the first fire insurance companies
  • Each November a parade starts at the Guildhall in this city when a new lord mayor takes office
  • Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life"
  • Elvis Costello was born in this world capital on Aug. 25, 1954
  • Begun in September 1940, the German bombing of this capital was known as the Blitz
  • In the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds", invading Martians attack this capital city of England
  • Claiming he was innocent, Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701 in this English capital for murder & piracy
  • You'll find the original Hard Rock Cafe on Old Park Lane in this capital city
  • The pamphlet was first printed in this city in 1848 in German, not English
  • The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden
  • This city's Bakerloo subway line opened March 10, 1906
  • In the '80s this city's Old Vic Theater was refurbished by salesman "Honest Ed" Mirvish
  • Many scholars believe that the Celts called it "The Wild Place"; now this wild place is a city of over 7 million
  • Nearly 13,000 homes & 100 churches were destroyed in this city's Great Fire of 1666
  • The plight of the poor was shown in works like "Horrible" this city & "The Bitter Cry of Outcast" this city
  • The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in this European capital in 1928
  • Thousands died in 1952 in a notorious smoggy event in this European capital
  • Covent Garden Hotel,The Dorchester
  • A 1936 fire in this city destroyed the prefabricated Crystal Palace
  • Heathrow
  • The first word of "Bleak House" is this city; the next paragraph begins, "Fog everywhere"
  • The well-known Drury Lane Theatre in this capital city is equally well-known for its ghosts
  • Most of this capital's drinking water comes from the Thames River with smaller amounts from the River Lee
  • General Benedict Arnold
  • Johnson's first major poem was called this, like the city he loved
  • Charlie Chaplin, 1889
  • The Summer Olympics are set to open in this city
  • The Harlequin Suite at this city's Dorchester Hotel goes for 5,400 pounds a day (that's about $9,000!)
  • In 1908 in this city U.S. flag-bearer Ralph Rose caused controversy by not lowering the flag when passing the king
  • The film titled "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was first shown in this world capital November 4, 2001
  • Last name of actor twins Jeremy, seen on "Party of Five", & Jason, seen in "Jason and the Argonauts"
  • Kenneth Branagh & Anthony Hopkins once trod the boards at this city's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  • John Opie, the "Cornish Wonder", was tutored but hyped as an unschooled genius in this capital in 1781
  • City that was the starting & ending point of Phileas Fogg's 80-day trip around the world
  • Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s
  • Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life"
  • In the swinging '60s Carnaby Street in this city became a center for the "mod" look
  • From Westminster Bridge, William mused, "Earth has not anything to show more fair" than this city
  • Like the British city of the same name, this Ontario city lies on the Thames River
  • You're looking at the Houses of Parliament in this city
  • "Bleak House" begins on a murky afternoon in this city, with "fog everywhere"
  • On July 3, 1450 peasant leader Jack Cade entered this capital in triumph; by July 12 he was dead
  • 1666: A great fire destroys much of this capital city
  • LSE doesn't mean "Let's See Europe"; it's this city's school of economics & political science
  • This world capital was the site of the world's first Hard Rock Cafe
  • Same city:LHR or LGW
  • The international headquarters of the Salvation Army is in this world capital
  • King Charles II personally helped battle the fire that raged in this city in September 1666
  • Dame Margaret Rutherford saw the ghost of theatre manager John Buckstone in this city's Haymarket Theatre
  • When we're near the sign seen here, it's time to go tubing in this city
  • Marble Arch,Mayfair,Madame Tussaud's
  • Thomas addressed the Blitz in "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in" this city
  • In the 13th century a duty of one farthing was assessed on coal unloaded at Billingsgate in this city
  • "Bleak House" opens in this city, where, "at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor"
  • "In every voice... the mind-forged manacles I hear", says William Blake's grim poem about this capital city
  • This city's original Chinatown in the Limehouse District was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WWII; a new one sprang up in Soho
  • In "Pride and Prejudice", Mrs. Bennet says, "The country is a vast deal pleasanter" than this city
  • Billingsgate, a term for foul language, comes from the name of an old fish market in this world capital
  • Jack's "capital" surname(6)
  • The Tate Gallery & the Tate Modern are in this city
  • Daphne DuMaurier
  • Johann Christian, also known as John Christian, moved to this capital city in 1762
  • Karl Marx & Michael Faraday are both buried in this city's Highgate Cemetery
  • A Haydn symphony of 1795 & a Vaughan Williams one of 1914 are both nicknamed for this city
  • Shelley wrote, "Hell is a city much like" this one--"a populous and smoky city"
  • "Dial 'M' For Murder" takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital
  • In December 1952 a toxic fog gripped this capital city, causing hundreds of deaths
  • A symbol of the millennium, the big wheel seen here is officially known as this British city's "Eye"
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Freud worked & lived at Berggasse 19, Vienna, from 1891 to 1938, when he fled from the Nazis to this world capital
  • Celebrated on November 9, Lord Mayor's Day honors the mayor of this city
  • A.A. Milne,1882
  • The YMCA was founded in this world capital in 1844
  • On July 27, 2012 the Summer Olympics will open in this world capital
  • Edmund Spenser
  • In the early 1700s there were 550 coffeehouses in this city, including Edward Lloyd's
  • The U.N. General Assembly held its first meeting on January 10, 1946 in this European capital
  • In 1908 the marathon was extended to end before this city's royal viewing area, establishing today's distance
  • The "Great Exhibition" of industry opened at the Crystal Palace in this city May 1, 1851
  • Asserting "This flag dips to no earthly king", the U.S. delegation refused to do so at this city's Olympics in 1908
  • Disraeli described it as "A nation, not a city"
  • Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining "the knowledge", mental maps needed to get a license
  • In "The Razor's Edge", Elliott throws elegant parties at Claridge's in this European capital
  • The philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, is kept in a glass case at University College in this British city
  • De Gaulle's June 18, 1940 broadcast in this city asking for France's leadership led to a death sentence in a French court
  • Mark first visited this city in 1872; in 1999 Shania played the Prince's Trust concert in Hyde Park there
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • The Imperial War Museum
  • In 2003 Mayor Ken Livingstone of this metropolis introduced a tax of 5 pounds on cars entering the city center
  • Those wild office parties at The Economist take place in this city
  • While still a teenager, Gandhi left India & traveled to this capital to get his law degree