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  London (England) - Search View - MSN Encarta
London has one of the most extensive urban railway systems in the world; in addition to the Underground railway, there is a network of suburban railways covering London and the surrounding region.
London is also the home of the British Academy, which promotes historical, philosophical, and philological studies; the Royal Academy (of fine arts); the Royal Academy of Engineering; and the Royal Society, devoted to the encouragement of the sciences.
London’s prosperity was temporarily affected by the Black Death of 1348-1349, a bubonic plague epidemic that killed up to one third of the entire population.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761574117__1/London_(England).html   (8052 words)

  
 London - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Greater London includes the area of the former county of London, most of the former county of Middlesex, and areas that were formerly in Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire.
Little is known of London prior to AD 61, when, according to the Roman historian Tacitus, the followers of Queen Boadicea rebelled and slaughtered the inhabitants of the Roman fort Londinium.
During the Victorian era, London acquired tremendous prestige as the capital of the British Empire and as a cultural and intellectual center.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-londoneng.html   (1777 words)

  
 Whitechapel, London, England
Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in London, England in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
London, a socialist, thought it worthwhile to explore conditions in the leading city of the nation that had created modern capitalism.
The Royal London Hospital[?], home to Joseph Carey Merrick[?] ("the Elephant Man") in his final years, is situated opposite Whitechapel tube station and is a prominent local landmark.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wh/Whitechapel.html   (456 words)

  
 Thomas Pynchon’s evocation of London in Gravity’s Rainbow--Literary London conference--Gary Thompson
Not much in the opening is specific to London, but the atmosphere is highly referential, with evacuation, total flout, steam engines and coal smells, the movement through old wood smells and tarry ropes into an underground much like those used during the Blitz.
Even the railways move underground, into more dirty and brown and industrialized sections of the city, stopping “under the final arch.” World War II-era propaganda films stress pulling together to defy Hitler, but it is entirely plausible, a generation later, to entertain (via a willing suspension of disbelief) the narrator’s conjecture of paranoia.
The most significant use of London, then, is as the starting point for the literal and symbolic use of the city as the most significant of human technological creations, set against the natural world in a postmodern pastoral which is employed for both literary and rhetorical purposes.
www.svsu.edu /~glt/LitLondon.html   (2226 words)

  
 BREAKING NEWS: London Hit By Explosions In Metro Stations - News by InformationWeek
LONDON — The center of the British capital was largely shut down for most of the day following a series of apparently coordinated attacks on its transportation network.
Many mobile phone networks in London failed to cope with volume of calls that were made in the immediate aftermath of the bombings with a number of networks failing to connect and being slow in forwarding text messages.
Although the FTSE 100 index of shares traded on the London Stock Exchange collapsed on the news of the bomb blasts, losing 200 points from its opening at 5,229.60, the index steadily regained ground during the afternoon.
informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165700430   (771 words)

  
 Newsvine - LONDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
London's police chief said Friday the threat of a terror attack in Britain is growing and warned that the Christmas holidays were an especially dangerous period.
U.S. stock futures edged higher ahead of the release of a key inflation gauge on Friday, with some well-received results in the technology sector also likely to shape sentiment on the last trading day before Christmas.
U.S. stock futures leaned higher on Thursday in what could be thin pre-holiday trading, with results from Nike Inc. and a second look at third-quarter growth in the U.S. likely to feature.
london.newsvine.com   (1856 words)

  
 London Underground A60 Stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The A60 Stock is a class of sub-surface train run on the London Underground, which was built in 1960 by Cravens of Sheffield for the extension of the electrification to Amersham.
The A62 Stock is a batch of almost identical units, built in 1962 to replace elderly stock on the Uxbridge line.
A distinctive feature of these stocks is the 'transverse' seating throughout: the seats are oriented across the car's width as opposed to the standard longitudinal layout, where the seats follow the sides of the carriage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Underground_A60_Stock   (739 words)

  
 London Terror Drills on 7/7
A fictional "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's underground took place at exactly the same time as the bomb attack on July 7, 2005.
One should not at this stage of the investigation draw hasty conclusions regarding the mock terror drill of a terror attack on the London underground, held on the same day and at the same time as the real time attacks.
One would expect that it be addressed in a serious and professional fashion by the police investigation and that the matter be the object of a formal clarification by the British authorities.
www.lonelantern.org /london_terror_drills.html   (2109 words)

  
 CD Baby: G COMMITTEE: OFF THE BLOCK VOLUME 2
G COMMITTEE was formed in 2005 when Carlton "B BABS" Thomas, James "G GUTTA" Kline, and Jarell "PEETY WEE STRAW" Thomas, decided to get "OFF THE BLOCK" and in the studio.
After the death of his grandfather, Edgar London, Sr., Kline was without a father figure or a clue on how to conduct himself as a young man. He became troublesome, fighting in school, talking back to his mother, and stealing things from the kids in the neighborhood and surrounding areas.
G. Gutta began to focus more on sharpening his rhyming skills and managed to sneak into local nightclubs on Friday nights and rap against the local heavyweights.
cdbaby.com /cd/gcommittee   (918 words)

  
 London Underground Q38 Stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Q Stock consisted of various District Line trains built from 1923 (G Stock) until the mid 1930s, originally built with manually operated sliding doors.
The majority of the trailer cars were rebuilt for use with either the R Stock, being converted into Driving Motor cars and reclassified R38 Stock, or for use as trailers with the CO / CP Stock.
The conversion to R stock was helped by the fact that one end was designed to be easily convertible to a driving cab, including the provision of driver's doors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Underground_Q_Stock   (435 words)

  
 London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
I suppose an alternative is for the London Underground to sponsor staring competitions where you could be given an incentive for staring out the person opposite you.
Apparently so, as the London evening papers and the Mirror took great joy in reporting that Cameron managed to talk his way out of getting a fine for not having a ticket on the Tube.
Apparently London Underground received a load of requests to change the names of Tube stations (most recently in the news was the move to change Arsenal back to Gillespie Road) But they very rarely change them.
london-underground.blogspot.com   (5455 words)

  
 Londonist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mayor and Transport for London outline importance of transport for the future of London and the UK "The essential projects for Transport for London include completing the rebuilding of the Tube through the PPP, the building of Crossrail, and expanding the bus network by a further 40 per cent."
They know what CDs they want in their stockings, but more than that, they know that the greatest gift you can give them is making fun of a famous Austinite on national television.
Not only do observers believe the prime minister's stock is damaged at home due to the war in Iraq, they find the conflict and his close alignment with the United States have harmed his reputation in the Middle East.
www.londonist.com   (3149 words)

  
 CULG - East London Line
The East London Line is the only LU line that was planned and built as a main-line railway, but its history goes much further back than that.
The Underground companies, and later LU, never served Liverpool Street from the East London Line, as the through service had ended at electrification, but regular goods traffic came from there until 1962 and occasional passenger services were to run until 1966 when the link was severed.
The line is currently operated by 4-car A stock trains (using units with both cabs equipped); these are part of the Metropolitan Line fleet and exchanged with that line on a regular basis.
www.davros.org /rail/culg/eastlondon.html   (2076 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: London's Underground: Books: John Glover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The London Underground: A diagrammatic history by Douglas Rose
London's underground is facing huge challenges in the 21st century - how to upgrade life expired infastructure and equipment; how to handle increasing passenger numbers; how to maintain accountability within the commercial environment; how to operate with greater efficiency.
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
www.amazon.co.uk /Londons-Underground-John-Glover/dp/0711029350   (493 words)

  
 CD Baby: UNDERGROUND CARTEL: Dropzone EP
UNDERGROUND CARTEL was put together by UK hiphop producer Kruze and is the first collaboration of what is intended to be many, involving emcees from all over the world.
This release for the summer of 2004 celebrates collaboration & talent of global underground hiphop, with subject matter addressing media dumbing down on an international scale, hiphop being blamed for a rise in gun crime internationally & also giving positive messages of battlin thru the struggle.
It has been seen generally as a way forward for underground artists to break out and move forward in a spirit of co-operation.
www.cdbaby.com /ugcartel   (489 words)

  
 Amazon.com: City Secrets: London: Books: Robert Kahn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The secret energy of London is discovered not only through details on new, hip locations, but also by exploring the favorite hidden hangouts of historical personalities.
LONDON, of the City Secrets series of travel guides, is a little gem that will easily fit into a pocket of your travel vest as you set out to explore what is arguably the world's greatest city.
LONDON is a delightful and uncommonly intelligent sightseeing resource for those of us who've been to the city often enough to have exhausted the usual tourist activities and are left with making silly faces at the Buckingham Palace guard to try and crack his reserve.
www.amazon.com /City-Secrets-London-Robert-Kahn/dp/1892145073   (2184 words)

  
 The London of Sherlock Holmes
The first stop for any visitor to London - Holmes fan or not - must be the Sherlock Holmes Museum, an evocation of No. 221-B, even to the 17 steps to the first-floor rooms that were reputably occupied between 1881-1904 by the Great Detective and his faithful friend Doctor Watson.
When he came to London in the late 1870's, Holmes lived around the corner on Montague Street, near where Conan Doyle himself lived when he moved to London.
All it takes is reservations (and a tie for gentlemen) and there you are, being soberly served as if you were Prime Minister Gladstone, who came for the rolling steamers of roast beef or lamb ready to be cut to one's specifications.
www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk /library/londonwalk/londonwalk.htm   (1913 words)

  
 London Underground - Wikimedia Commons
English: This is a gallery with pictures of the London Underground.
The internal doorways (without doors) comes from when the District line included provision for 1st class pasengers - 1st class was split into two sections (smoking and non-smoking) and the rest of the carriage was for 3rd class passengers.
London's underground trains come in two different sizes - the smaller 'tube' trains and the larger 'mainline' size trains.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/London_Underground   (258 words)

  
 Preservation Of London Underground Surface Stock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The museum has located at its depot at Ealing Common depot an R49 DM car 22679 along with a four car unit of Q stock that is being restored to operational condition - the unit comprises of Q38 DMs 4416 and 4417, Q23 DM 4184 and Q35 trailer car 08063.
The railway owns three coaches of Metropolitan Railway 1899 Ashbury built bogie stock that were hauled by both steam and electric locomotives, and were also part of the batch of such coaches that were converted to EMU cars by the Metropolitan Railway they are numbered 394, 368 and 412.
A fourth vehicle of similar stock but built by Cravens in 1900 is also here, like the others it was used as hauled stock but spent a period converted to a driving motor brake coach for both the Met and later LUL until converted back to hauled stock with the other cars in 1940.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~gsgleaves/metdis.htm   (385 words)

  
 World News London
NEW YORK - French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said that despite recent tensions, France and the United States would always be united whenever their essential liberti...
London, Oct 20: Gold spiked above the key $600 level on an unexpectedly large cut in Opec oil product, but fell back on Friday after oil failed to hold onto gains, traders said.
London exhibition celebrates the history of video games
archive.wn.com /2006/10/21/1400/worldnewslondon   (598 words)

  
 Therese McKeon :: p h o t o g r a p h y
The faces, the music, the underground, and the behind the scenes.
From London to Yosemite, it’s not the camera you’re using but the approach you take to your subject that matters most.
.: c o l l e c t i o n s :: g a l l e r y :: c o n t a c t s :.
www.theresemckeon.com   (146 words)

  
 Sabine FBX-SOLO in London Underground
In the latest drive by London Underground to improve customer service and safety standards, Surrey-based communications systems experts, Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd., will install 601 FBX-SOLO SL-820 Feedback Exterminators® into many of London's subway stations.
Part of a sophisticated multi-channel, wireless public address system, underground staff carry flush-mount lapel microphones and transmitters, and have the ability to select the zone in which they broadcast, regardless of where they happen to be located at the time.
A l l  R i g h t s  R e s e r v e d  ©;  2 0 0 1  S a b i n e,  I n c.
www.sabine.com /newsite/SOLO-underground.htm   (392 words)

  
 See How They Run: Timezones and Transport
Transport Plans for the London Area : progress reports on 200 schemes.
London Connections map of tubes, trains and trams: new version by JonE and old version by Jim Mangles
London Underground Railway Society - hold a monthly meeting and produce a monthly booklet
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7069   (768 words)

  
 British police give details of suspected bombers' movements
Then later in the day, a train station in Luton, north of London, was shut down and police began probing a car parked in the lot.
All the London underground explosions that morning happened on trains that travelled through King's Cross.
In the bloody aftermath of the explosion of the bus, police found a gruesome clue: the detached head of a man. This, according to Israeli experts who have experience in such things, was a telling clue that he was the person closest to the explosion.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/07/12/london050712.html   (1419 words)

  
 Bakerloo Line
Stock: 7-car trains of 1972 MK2 stock, refurbished, consisting of: 4 car units (CM-T-T-CM), numbered 3231-4231-4331-3331 to 3267 etc (except 3249 and 3257); 3 car units (CM-T-M), numbered 3531-4531-3431 to 3567 etc except 3539.
The cab in the 33xx cars is no longer used; thus, a train on this line would be formed like this: CM-T-T-CM + M-T-CM, e.g.
Units 3264-3267 and 3564-3567 modified from 1972 MK1 stock (ex Northern Line).
world.nycsubway.org /eu/uk/london/bakerloo.html   (141 words)

  
 London Bordello
Expats party as Australian football charges into London -
Dobbyn to perform at NZ memorial ceremony in London
London exhibition celebrates the history of video g
archive.wn.com /2006/10/22/1400/londonbordello   (490 words)

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