London

@alberich · 2 years ago

St. James' Palace, though no longer a Royal residence, is most interesting; partly because the British Empire is officially represented abroad in its name, but chiefly, I think, because it is, like K...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

The Royal Mews

The Royal Mews is concealed from the Palace by the trees encircling the grounds, while a shrub-surmounted mound serves to screen it still more effectually. Just inside the Buckingham Palace Road ent...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Buckingham Palace

London may be called palatial, though, unlike many capital cities in Europe, it contains only one building that approaches one's idea of what a King's house should be - and that is Buckingham Palace;...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Victorian London

Such was London when Queen Victoria was crowned at the Abbey. Since the Great Fire it had increased in size to about seven miles from east to west, with a population of 1 1/4 millions, including t...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Georgian London

Portrait of King George III by Allan Ramsay With Soho and St. James' (dating from Charles II's time) was ushered in the era of squares, so characteristic a feature of the Queen Anne and Georgian per...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Wren’s Reconstruction of London After The Great Fire

St Paul's Cathedral by Raygee78 from Pixabay Our ancestors were not such slow-coaches or so deficient in energy as many people think, and no sooner had the Fire ceased, than plans for the new cit...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

The Fire of London

On Monday, September 3, 1666, as the good ship Rebecca , laden with a cargo of Spanish wine from Cadiz, reached the Nore, the signs of a mighty burning, five-and-forty miles away in the west, were p...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Stuart London

We can pretty well tell what London looked like at the time of the Restoration, from the appearance of certain old houses still with us; viz. No. 17, Fleet Street, opposite Chancery Lane; the old ten...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Tudor London

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein Taking it altogether, Tudor London was a distinct advance upon its medieval predecessor, and at the end of the dynasty began to assume that garb of picturesque...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Norman London

The first object of the Normans in a subjugated country was to make everything secure; so they put the city walls in thorough repair, and built the Tower. (For convenience I have grouped together Pl...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Saxon and Danish London

Saxon London was but Roman London despoiled. True, it was Christianized, and King Ethelbert had built the cathedral of St. Paul's. The citizens had contrived to bridge over the broad Thames with a...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Roman London

The Londinium of the Romans was what we should call a garrison town. A fortress on the site of the Tower marked its eastern limit, and Ludgate its western; while the river bounded it on the south, a...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

Imperial London

Here is the preface to a rare book, 'Imperial London', by Arthur H. Beavan, pulished in 1901: I have endeavoured to describe Imperial London in a series of sketches that will be interesting to the g...

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@alberich · 2 years ago

My Commute to Hell, Part 1

So. I used to work for a company in the East India Docks. London. At the time, I was sleeping on a friend's sofa in Woolwich, across the river in South East London. It was a difficult commute, becaus...

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@Esp130 · 2 years ago

Rocking+Shocking, "The show must go on"

Date: 02-06-2022 Thursday Author: Esp130 It’s our life where we can see many good things which makes us happy and many bad things happen without any sign which can provide us shocked. But its life an...

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@Ezelazra3 · 2 years ago

Would you like to travel by underwater train?

Technology has advanced so much that emerging projects can blow our minds. When I read news about new projects being developed, I am very surprised. Did they do that too? I read this kind of news with...

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@TheTopFive · 2 years ago

All About London

The city of London is the capital of the United Kingdom. It is both one of the world's oldest and most cosmopolitan cities, with a history spanning nearly two millennia. It is not just the country's l...

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@PVMihalache · 3 years ago

Proof of Beauty #2 - $London, the LONDON gift and HASHes of Horror

Proof of Beauty allows people to collect history in the form of NFTs, by creating memorabilia based on the hash attributes. The algorithm will consider all the attributes of the transaction and (suc...

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@bossideon · 3 years ago

London's HardFork : What to be expected from ether2.0

Etherum is the second most valuable asset in the crypto market although we can't judge tokens by their stability or even reliability because everything is abstract and merely unpredictable. Thus , a...

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@PVMihalache · 3 years ago

Upland Reverse Tea Party - Take me back to London!

Award winning article! The Upland Metaverse On 24th of February 2021 I joined the Upland metaverse. It was for the Publish0x writing competition and was the first ever about a game. I couldn't...

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@shesinlondon · 3 years ago

Life of a Top University Student During Covid in London

LSE , the London School of Economics and Political Science. Top university in Europe and second in the world in social sciences. Before I came to LSE, I was curious about how life is like at universi...

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@navegante · 3 years ago

The Beatles

I make a brief synthesis about the famous album of The Beatles crossing the pedestrian or zebra crossing as they say in other countries which has generated different comments and analyzes: On Augus...

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