London
About London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the site of the national government and parliament for centuries. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire. Since 1965 it has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.
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Invented 1817, really fashionable in London, 1818, disappeared by 1819. You can find articles by the 1830s going, "God, you remember the dandy horse? That was weird, wasn't it?"
from 263: No Such Thing As Millipede Lipbalm, 2019-04-05 at 00:03:17 · read transcript
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Did you read about the amphibious machine he invented? The Terequius. Yeah. It was basically one of those things that you get on the Thames in London, wasn't it? A duck ribbiter. It was built for prairies. It was like a wagon that could ride you along the prairies but then it transformed into a boat at the click of a button or the erection of a sail, I guess, once it hit the water.
316: No Such Thing As a Leg Made from Milk, 2020-04-10 · listen
The queen's men um she's got a treadmill that 18 horses can walk or run on at the same time and I think the big question is could they put Humpty together again um but there were there were theatrical shows in London where they they would have live horses on stage in theatres in Drury Lane so they would have a massive stage obviously and then they did a huge spectacular show in 1902 which was I think it was Ben her it was.
191: No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel, 2017-11-10 · listen
It is, it has been claimed that it's affecting property prices that having a street called Fanny Hands Glane. The thing is, it was just named in the 19th century by a man named John Hands after his wife Fanny. No. There's nothing rude about it. Do you know in London, just down the road from here, there's a place called Knight Rider Street. Oh, nice. Very cool. Do you know who it's named after?
307: No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera, 2020-02-07 · listen
What? Big field. I saw people on London. On Twitter, they were sort of, they was asked, does anyone know of field names that might not be logged or just, is there one near you? A lot of people responded, my favorite one was from a guy called Tim, who said, we have a first humpie and a second humpie so named as they're both humpy, and one is in front of the other.
No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow, 2019-08-09 · listen
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