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| | London travel guide - Wikitravel |
 | | London went from strength to strength and, with the rise of England to first European, then global prominence, the city became a great centre of government, industry and culture. |
 | | London's long association with the theatre, for example, can be traced back to the English Renaissance (witness the Rose Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe) and great playwrights, like Shakespeare, who made London their home. |
 | | London is easily the largest city in the United Kingdom, eight times larger than its second largest city, Birmingham, and ten times larger than the third, Glasgow, and dominates the economic, political, and social life of the United Kingdom (much to the annoyance of people in "the provinces" - i.e. |
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