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  Tourism - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The vocabulary of sport bears witness to this: rugby, football, and boxing all originated in Britain, and even Tennis, originally a French sport, was formalized and codified by the British, who hosted the first national championship in the nineteenth century, at Wimbledon.
However it was with cheap air travel in combination with the package tour that international mass tourism developed after 1963.
For the worker living in greater London, Brindisi today is almost as accessible as Brighton was 100 years ago.
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 Croydon - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Several railway stations give it communication with all parts of the metropolis, the principal railways serving it being the London, Brighton and South Coast and the South-Eastern and Chatham.
It was destroyed by fire, with the exception of the tower, on the 5th of January 1867, and was at once rebuilt by Scott on the old lines.
In 1596 Archbishop Whitgift founded the hospital or almshouse which bears his name, and remains in its picturesque brick buildings surrounding two quadrangles.
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 New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped.
He discovered Manhattan on September 11, 1609, and continued up the river that bears his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site where New York State's capital city, Albany, now stands.
Many of the city's ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.
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 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Stradvarius Violins
In addition, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius." Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself.
As people rediscover these instruments today, the knowledge of where they came from is lost, and the labels can be misleading.
A violin's authenticity (i.e., whether it is the product of the maker whose label or signature it bears) can only be determined through comparative study of design, model wood characteristics, and varnish texture.
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 Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
Retired detective Robert Taylor, employed by the programme, located Paris police records which record the body of a man taken from the Seine at this date.
A photograph exists which bears a strong resemblance to Le Prince.
It cannot be said with certainty that the Le Prince mystery has been solved, but it does now seem very likely that he died from drowning soon after his disappearance.
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 Bertrand Russell
Russell's contributions to logic and the foundations of mathematics include his discovery of Russell's paradox, his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is, in some significant sense, reducible to formal logic), his development of the theory of types, and his refining of the first-order predicate calculus.
Russell discovered the paradox that bears his name in 1901, while working on his
The paradox arises in connection with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
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