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LONDON – Shrek’s Adventure – PoppyTrolls is a 2016 American computer-animated musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam. The film is directed by Mike Mitchell with a screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – Big Ben – Tower Bridge – St. Paul’s CathedralBig Ben and Westminster Palace – Officially called Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the Palace of Westminster. Completed in 1858, the tower holds the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world and [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – T-RexLet's go to the world famous Museum of Natural History in London and let's visit the DINOSAURS Exhibition. The exhibition features the most famous creature of all dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus rex. At three-quarters the size of a life-size T.r [...]
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LONDON – Arsenal FC – 4 FA Cup wins – Cup 2020The 2020 FA Cup Final, known officially as the Heads Up FA Cup Final, was the final match of the 2019–20 FA Cup and the 139th final of the FA Cup. It was played at Wembley Stadium, London, England on 1 August 2020 due to being delayed due to t [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – HopeA stunning 25.2-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling takes centre stage in the spectacular space, giving visitors the opportunity to walk underneath the largest creature ever to have lived. The Museum has named the female [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – SmilodonSmilodon was more robustly built than any extant cat, with particularly well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long upper canine teeth. Its jaw had a bigger gape than that of modern cats, and its upper canines were slender and fragile, bei [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – Mary AnningMary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector. Her lifetime was a constellation of firsts. She was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, in the southwest English county of Dorset. Lyme Regis is now part of what is now called the Jura [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – Woolly MammothWoolly mammoths roamed parts of Earth's northern hemisphere for at least half a million years. They were still in their heyday 20,000 years ago but within 10,000 years they were reduced to isolated populations off the coasts of Siberia and Ala [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – VelociraptorAs portrayed in the Jurassic Park movies,Velociraptor was recreated at twice its actual size and closely modelled on Deinonychus. Though this was seen as unscientific at the time, soon after the first film was released, a dinosaur of the same [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – Tyrannosaurus RexTyrannosaurus lives up to its reputation as one of the most fearsome animals of all time. Its powerful jaws had 60 teeth, each one up to 20cm (8 inches) long and its bite was around 3 times as powerful than that of a lion. Bite marks found on [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – TriceratopsWith its 3 horns, a parrot-like beak and a large frill that could reach nearly 1 metre (3 feet) across, the Triceratops skull is one of the largest and most striking of any land animal. The horns could have been used to fend off attacks from T [...]
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LONDON – The Natural History Museum – DiplodocusIn 1905 a cast of a Diplodocus skeleton was donated to the Museum by the wealthy businessman Andrew Carnegie, based on the original specimen in the Carnegie Museum in the USA. King Edward VII had requested a copy of the newly discovered dinosa [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – Marvel – Black PantherBlack Panther is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in Fantastic Four #52 (cover-dated July 1966 [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – Marvel – Spider ManThe fictional character Spider-Man, a comic book superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and featured in Marvel Comics publications, has appeared as a main character in multiple theatrical films and made-for television films. Bitten by a [...]
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LONDON – Arsène Wenger 1996-2018 – Arsenal FCIn the summer of 2018 Arsene Wenger left Arsenal after 22 years in charge. Arsene Wenger is the longest serving manager in Premier League history. He won the league three times and lifted the FA Cup on seven occasions. In a statement on Arsena [...]
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LONDON – London Eye – Tower of London – Buckingham Palace – City of London CrestThe City of London is a city, county and a local government district that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st centur [...]
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LONDON – Madame Tussauds – London Eye – Tower of London – Buckingham PalaceImmersed in history, London's rich seams of eye-opening antiquity are everywhere. The city's buildings are striking milestones in a unique and beguiling biography, and a great many of them – the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben – ar [...]
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BIRMINGHAM – Sea Life – OtterTwo rescued Alaskan sea otters have been found a new home at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham in a new scheme to protect the species. In a UK first, the pair will become residents at the attraction's new multi-million pound marine re [...]
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LONDON – Tower of London – King James II Helmet.Mounted with buff coat III.1306. An harquebusier's armour comprising a pot, breastplate, backplate and long elbow guantlet. The whole is decorated with punched, engraved and formerly gilt bands of trophies. The faceguard is fretted and decorat [...]
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LONDON – Tower of London – Armour for Man and Horse of King Henry VIIIThis armour was originally silvered and gilt, traces of the silver remaining. It is engraved and stippled with scents in the lives of St George and St Barbara, the patron saints of England and Aragon, and with roses and pomegranates, the badge [...]
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