Map of London
London : (GENERAL INFORMATION)
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Population à 7,825,200
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Climate à London
has a temperate oceanic climate. He is considered by most
to be the economic center of Europe. The population of London is about 12
million and growing. Generally speaking, the climate in London England is
temperate, and in the summer it rarely gets too hot. There is precipitation
almost all year long, although the amount varies from month to month.
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Envoirement
à The
report looks at how the environment has changed over the last decade, and uses
a series of indicators to illustrate the changes in the state of the
environment within eight themes: Climate change, Flood risk, Water quality,
Water resources, Waste, Air quality, noise and transport, Biodiversity, and Landscape
and green infrastructure.
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London to Sabadell à
London is more bigger and richer than
Sabadell. London have more people, and he is the capital of Great Britain.
Guy Fawkes
The name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of
provincial English
Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Fawkes was born and educated in
York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a
recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the
Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch
reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met
Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.
Harrods
It’s a department
store, it’s in London, Brompton Road.
The
store occupies 20,000 m2 site and has over one million (90,000 m2)of selling space in over 330
departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the
size with50,000 m2 of selling space.
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London
was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of
the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September
1666.
The fire gutted the medieval City
of London inside the old Roman
City
Wall. It threatened, but did not reach, the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums.
It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the
buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes
of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.
The death toll is unknown but traditionally thought to have been small, as only
six verified deaths were recorded.
The Tower of London
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic
castle on the north bank of the
River Thames in
central London, England. It lies within the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the
City of London by the open space known as
Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the
Norman Conquest of England. The
White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by
William the Conqueror
in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London
by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison since at least
1100, although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early
in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is
a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of
defensive walls and a
moat.
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham,
(born 2 May 1975)
is an English
association footballer who plays for
Los Angeles Galaxy. He has played for
Manchester United,
Preston North End,
Real Madrid,
Milan, and the
England national team for which he holds the appearance record for an
outfield player.
Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with
Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17.
During his time there, United won the
Premier League title six times, the
FA Cup twice, and the
UEFA Champions League in 1999.
He left Manchester United to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons,
clinching the
La Liga championship in his final season with the club.
In January 2007, it was announced that Beckham would leave Real Madrid for the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy,
signing a five-year contract with them on 1 July 2007. While a Galaxy
player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010.
On 20 November 2011, he joined an elite group of players to have won
three league titles in three different countries, when Los Angeles won
their third
MLS Cup.
Leo Messi
Lionel Andrés Messi
, (born 24 June 1987) is an
Argentine footballer who plays in
La Liga for
FC Barcelona and is the
captain of the
Argentina national team, mainly as a
forward.
By the age of 21, Messi had received
Ballon d'Or and
FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year in 2009 he won both the
Ballon d'Or and
FIFA World Player of the Year, and won the inaugural
FIFA Ballon d'Or in
2010 and
2011.
He also won the 2010–11
UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, after
Johan Cruyff,
Michel Platini and
Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after
Michel Platini. His playing style and small stature have drawn comparisons to
Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".
Messi has won five
La Liga titles and three
Champions League titles. In 2012, Messi made
UEFA Champions League history by becoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7–1 win against
Bayer Leverkusen.
With two goals in the next round against
A.C. Milan, he matched
José Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single
UEFA Champions League season.
He also became the first player to top-score in four successive European Champion Clubs' Cup campaigns.
He set the world record for most goals scored in a season during the 2011–12 season, with 72 goals.
Messi was the top scorer of the
2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the
FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the
Copa América tournament the following year. In
2008, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the
Argentina Olympic football team.
