London
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Welcome to London
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Information on London
London is famous for fish and chips The population is 8,63 million people (2015)
London is in England, Europe
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Big Ben
The Big Ben is the tallest clock tower in the world.
It was built between 1097 to 1099.
The clock is 7 feet and 6 inches tall.
The Big Ben was supposed to be named Victoria after the queen Victoria,but londoniers stared calling it Big Ben and it just stuck.
The London eye (ferrets wheel )
The London eye recieves more visitors per year than the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza.It's 443 feet tall, it was built in 1998.You can see up to 40 KM in each direction ( that's as far as the Windsor Castle on a clear day.)
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WINDSOR CASTLE
- Windsor Castle is the oldest castle in the world
- The castle is ground covered 52,609 square meters ( 13 acres)
- There were more than one million visitors to the castle between 2010 and 2011.
- The great fire at Windsor Castle startedo on November 20 1992 .It took 15 hours nod 1.5 million gallons of water to the fire out.
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Tower Bridge
More than 400 men help built the bridge.It was built between 1886 and 1894. It 244 meters long and 65 meters high .The first world wide Olympic Games they were on the tower bridge for diving.4000 people use it to sight see every day.
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Madame Toussaud
Madame Toussaud is a wax museum,it was built 1835. Madame Toussaud has different locations Amsterdam,Las Vegas,New York City,Hong Kong and Copenhagen and the original is in London.Youg Marie's first sculpture was François Voltair,she made it at the age of 16.It takes six months and more than 250 precise measurements and photographs and 2,400 pounds of wax to make each of Madame Toussaud 's portraits.
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SOURCES
- http://thewindsorcaper.com/awesome-windsor-castle-facts/
- http://www.bigbenfacts.co.uk/facts/
- https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/articles/10-things-you-didnt-know-ab...
- https://www.madametussauds.com/SiteImages/Assets/9/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20F...
- http://www.goldentours.com/travelblog/facts-about-madame-tussaud-museum
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