01st February 2007
It has often been said that London is not so much a large city as a vast coagulation of small villages. Fierce regional loyalties center on the district's soccer club or local pub. Many of London's Underground stations, and therefore the area in general, ...
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01st February 2007
The year is 1709. Famine ravages Europe as a severe and tenacious frost kills crops, fruit trees and livestock as far south as the Mediterranean coast.
In Prussia, the Black Death kills 300,000 people.
On July 8, the battle of Poltava makes Russia the...
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01st February 2007
In 1816, although only eight kilometers (five miles) from central London, Hampstead was enough of a remote, rural village for poet John Keats (1795-1821) to write the following about a visit there:
"To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very swe...
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