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Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London

Apr 212010

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares of gardens and biology glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper, who succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the name of the methodicalness that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex. It is an internationally essential biology research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £56 million for the assemblage ended 31 March 2008, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost 2 million visits in that year. The gardens are a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Created in 1759, the gardens celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2009.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London GPS coordinates: 51° 28′ 28.8″ N, 0° 17′ 43.68″ W

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National Portrait Gallery, London

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Apr 172010

The National Portrait Gallery is an art room in London, England, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait room in the concern when it opened in 1856. The room moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin’s Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery.

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It has been swollen twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) also has various satellite outstations located elsewhere in the UK, mostly for aristocratic portraits. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The room is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

National Portrait Gallery, London GPS coordinates: 51° 30′ 33.73″ N, 0° 7′ 39.84″ W

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British Library, London

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Mar 162010

The British Library (BL) is the national accumulation of the United Kingdom. The accumulation is one of the world’s largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and such more. Its book assemblage is second only to the American Library of Congress. The Library’s collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial added assemblage of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

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As a jural deposit library, the BL receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, including all foreign books distributed in the UK. It also purchases many items which are only published outside Britain and Ireland. The British Library adds some three million items every year.
The Library is a non-departmental open body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is located on the north side of Euston Road in St Pancras, London, between Euston railway send and St Pancras railway station.
British Library, London GPS coordinates:51° 31′ 46″ N, 0° 7′ 37″ W

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St Stephen, Walbrook London

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Oct 302009

St Stephen, Walbrook is a small church in the City of London, part of the Church of England’s Diocese of London. It is located in Walbrook, next to the Mansion House, and nearby to Bank and Monument Underground stations.

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In the second century A.D. a temple of Mithras stood on the bank of the River Walbrook, a stream running crossways author from the City Wall nearby Moorfields to the Thames. The foundations of this temple were discovered when Bucklersbury House was built in 1953-1957, and they are preserved to this day.
A Saxon church of the 7th century stood on this site and the River Walbrook is now culvert ed beneath it. It originally stood on the west bank of the River Walbrook, but was rebuilt around 1439 on the east side. The 15th century building, destroyed in the Great Fire of author of 1666, contained a memorial to the English composer John Dunstaple. The wording of the epitaph had been recorded in the early 17th century, and was reinstated in the church in 1904, some 450 years after his death. In 1670, St author Sherehog was merged. Nice London tourist attractions.
St Stephen, Walbrook London GPS coordinates: 51° 30′ 45.46″ N, 0° 5′ 23.71″ W

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Shakespeares Globe Theatre, Southwark

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Oct 262009

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, which officially opened in 1997, is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the southward bank of the River Thames.

Shakespeare's Globe

It is approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre. Jack Shepherd’s ‘Prologue Production’ of The Two Gentlemen of metropolis starring Mark Rylance as Proteus, opened the Globe to the theatregoing public in August 1996, a assemblage before the formal opening Gala.
The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by the playing company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, to which Shakespeare belonged, and was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613. The fire was caused by a accident with a cannon during a production of Henry VIII. The theatre was rebuilt by June 1614 (the exact opening date is not known), but was officially closed by push of Puritan opinion in 1642 and demolished in 1644 .
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Shakespeares Globe Theatre, Southwark GPS coordinates: 51° 30′ 29″ N, 0° 5′ 50″ W

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30 St Mary Axe, London

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Oct 162009

30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London’s main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004. It is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, with 40 floors. Its construction symbolized the start of a newborn high-rise construction boom in London.
The antiquity was designed by Lord Foster, his then business partner Ken Shuttleworth and Arup engineers, and was constructed by Skanska of Sweden in 2001–2004.

30 St Mary Axe

The antiquity is on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, the office of a global marketplace for ship income and shipping information. On 10 April 1992 the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb close to the Exchange, seriously harmful the historic Exchange antiquity and neighbouring structures.
Whereas most buildings hit extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, this was not possible for the Gherkin since a forbid had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, and then having a push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a stone stairwell and a disabled persons’ lift which leads the traveller up to the forbid in the dome.

30 St Mary Axe, London GPS coordinates: 51° 30′ 52″ N, 0° 4′ 49″ W

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