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The Millennium Dome, frequently referred to simply as The Dome, is a large dome shaped building on the Greenwich peninsula in south-east London, England. The name was officially changed to The O2 when O2 plc (now Telefónica O2 Europe...
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Trafalgar Square is a square in central London that commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars. The original name was to have been “King William the Fourth’s Square”, but George Ledwell Taylor...
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The ship is named after the short shirt worn by the fleet-footed witch featured in the poem Tam o’ Shanter written by Robert Burns. She was designed by Hercules Linton and built in 1869 at Dumbarton in Scotland, by...
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The Tower of London is a landmark in central London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, just outside the City of London. It is still officially known as Her Majesty’s Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London, although...
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The Queen’s Gallery is a public art gallery located at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (i.e. those works owned by the Queen “in trust for the...
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