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  City of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It goes north, becomes the border with the London Borough of Hackney, then east, north, east on backstreets, meeting Norton Folgate at the border with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
In some places the financial district extends slightly beyond the political boundaries of the City to the north and east, into the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington, and informally these locations are seen as part of the "Square Mile".
Today it is included wholly in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, and statute requires that it not be divided between two neighbouring areas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_London   (2306 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It lies at the southern end of Pegasus Bay, in the middle of the east coast of the South Island, between Banks Peninsula and the Canterbury Plains.
The city is bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean coast and the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote rivers, in the south and south-east by the volcanic slopes of the Port Hills, and in the north by the Waimakariri River.
These first inhabitants were thought to have been followed by the Waitaha who are thought to have migrated from the east coast of the North Island in the 16th century.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Christchurch   (2068 words)

  
 Boris Johnson MP: #Dream of Rome Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sophisticated families had him in their dining rooms: "Imagine the frisson of horror if you went to dinner in Islington and looked up to see a marble rendition of Blair or Thatcher." You'd think it was a joke; but to the Romans it was drop-dead serious.
But, for all the ideas in the book, all the portraits of Roman life, and all the garum, it was one single word in one single line that filtered back into my mind after I had closed the book.
Those who support this theory contend that increasing aridity is the reason for the recorded advance of desert conditions into areas under cultivation in Roman times in the north and more recently (since the late 1960s) in the south.
www.boris-johnson.com /archives/2006/03/dream_of_rome_book.php   (9086 words)

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