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   book info     excerpts:   Chapter 10:  THE MARGINS OF THE TETHYS OCEAN – THE JURASSIC PERIOD  The Jurassic Period, named after the Jura Mountains on the borders of France and Switzerland, lasted for around 60 million years, from 208 Ma to 146 Ma.
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  The first Roman invasion of Britain was by Julius Caesar. At that time the south-east of England was occupied by various tribes that had arrived earlier from Continental Europe.   London sits in the Thames Basin, a bowl of chalk about two hundred m
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   book info     excerpts:        Above one of the many grand marble staircases within the east wing of Burlington House, the great Palladian mansion on the north side of London’s Piccadilly, hangs a pair of huge sky blue velvet curtains, twisted and
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    Ecclesiastical History of the English People   -  731 AD  -  Bede - link to full text
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 There is evidence of human occupation around what is now London as far back as half a million years ago, but early inhabitants would have drifted southwards with the coming of the last Ice Age. Humans returned as the climate improved, probably follo
  The Saxon port of Lundenwic   When Londinium was abandoned [by the Romans], the Thames and its tributaries continued to be used for carrying and communication. The early Saxons were seafarers and did not possess the knowledge of how to maintain roa
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   House of Plantagenet  -  history
   House of Tudor  -  history
   House of Stuart  -  history
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   link to entire film video    (The action moves from a performance of the play,  Henry V , in 1600, transitioning to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, then back to the play.)  A panorama of London in 1600 is shown and then the viewpoi
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  London plane tree        The trees along the Victoria Embankment, from Blackfriars to the Houses of Parliament, were the first in the city to be systematically planted in a recognisably modern scheme. While there are other, older planes in the capi
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    Buckingham Palace  -  link to website
    Westminster Abbey  -  link to website
    Burlington House  -  link to website     Royal Academy of Arts    Linnean Society    Geological Society    Royal Astronomical Society    Royal Society of Chemistry
    Churchill War Rooms  -  link to website
    Tower of London  -  link to website
    Kew Gardens  - link to website
    The British Museum  -  link to website
    St. Paul’s Cathedral  -  link to website
    Natural History Museum  -  link to website
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