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LONDON LONDON London is the capital of Great Britain. It is the largest city in Europe and one of the largest cities in the world. London in the world. London lies on both banks of the river, Thames.

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Page 1: LONDON London is the capital of Great Britain. It is the largest city in Europe and one of the largest cities in the world. London in the world. London

LONDONLONDON

London is the capital of Great Britain. It is the largest city in Europe and one of the largest cities in the world. London in the world. London lies on both banks of the river, Thames. 

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The big clock of the London is Big BEN .But it’s really the bell of the clock. It’s the biggest clock bell in Britain.

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The Tower

This is the Tower of London. Hundreds of years ago it was a castle . Then it was a prison.

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Now the Tower of London is a museum.

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There are seven ravens in London . People say that this birds keep safe a Tower and the city.

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The Houses of Parliament A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom

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Trafalgar Square is the largest square in London and has been a central meeting place since the Middle Ages .

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Buckingham PalaceBuckingham Palace is the largest Palace in the world .

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It is also a residence of Queen Elizabeth II .

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The British Museum has one of the largest libraries in the world. In the reading room of the British Museum many famous men have read and studied.

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The gate of Hyde park

Hyde Park is King’s Park in the centre of London.

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In this Park there is the lake Serpentine . Also there is a famous speaker’s corner in it .

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The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square has one of the best pictures collections in the world . You can see here some outstanding pictures of the old Roman masters, Spanish Painters, English Painters and others.

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The Bank of England ,the central bank of the whole of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. It was established in 1694 to act as the English Government’s banker.

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LondonUniversity

University in London. The Boat Race is a rowing race on the River Thames. it is held every year at the end of march or at the beginning of April between teams from Oxford University and Cambridge University. Of the 34 traditional degree-granting universities in England, all except Oxford and Cambridge (see Cambridge, University of; Oxford, University of) were founded in the 19th and 20th centuries, many of them since World War II (1939-1945). In the mid-1980s full-time university students totaled more than 290,000 annuallyT: Thanks. And now will be our final game. I think