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Lom, Norway Lom is a municipality in the county of Oppland, Norway. It is famous for its extensive history, for having one of the few remaining stave churches in Norway, and for lying in the midst of the highest mountains in Northern Europe.
Loma baseball club Loma Baseball Club is a semi-professional baseball team which competes in the Pen-Del League, located in Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. Currently, LOMA is owned by Larry Haban and managed by Mike Whitaker, who also plays on the team.
Loma Bosa Loma Bosa is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Omo Zone, Loma Bosa is bordered on the south by Gofa Zuria, on the southwest by Melokoza, on the west by Isara Tocha, on the northwest by Mareka Gena, on the north by the Kembata Alaba and Tembaro Zone, on the northeast by Boloso Sore, on the east by Kindo Koysha, and on the southeast by Offa; the Omo River separates Loma Bose from Isara Tocha and Mareka Gena.
Loma Linda University Founded in 1905, Loma Linda University (LLU) is a private, Christian, coeducational, health sciences university located in Southern California 60 miles east of Los Angeles close to San Bernardino and near beaches, mountains, and the desert. LLU is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's system of higher education.
Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda University Medical Center is located in Loma Linda, California, United States, and is a part of a complex housing the various campuses of Loma Linda University. Loma Linda University is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Lomaiviti The Lomaiviti (IPA: []) archipelago of Fiji consists of seven main islands and a number of smaller ones. They cover a total area of 411 square kilometers, and had a population of 16,214 at the last census in 1996.
Lomaiviti (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Lomaiviti Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Lomaivuna Namosi Kadavu (Open Constituency, Fiji) Lomaivuna Namosi Kadavu Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Lomandraceae Lomandraceae Lotsy is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. According to Conran's classification in Kubitzki system, it consists of some 14 genera and about 180 species from Australasia, southeast Asia, South and North America and the Pacific Islands.
Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve The Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve is a Nature Reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, that covers an area of 6,536 acres in the Guanacaste Province, 15 kilometers southwest of Bagaces. The Barbudal Lomas are ignimbritic plateaux which end in rocky cliffs that rise to 125 metres above the Tempisque River.
Lomas de Lachay The Lomas de Lachay is a national reserve in the foothills of the Huaral Province in Lima. The reserve is located 105 km (65 miles) north from the capital Lima and features a unique mist-fed ecosystem of wild plant and animal species.
Lomas de Zamora Lomas de Zamora is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, located next to the border of Buenos Aires City and within the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires. It has a population of 591,345 as per the .
Lomas Verdes Lomas Verdes is a mid-class neighborhood located in the county of Naucalpan de Juárez, in the state of Mexico. This urban development was founded in the later 60´s and is located close to the in 1957 founded Ciudad Satélite.
Lomatia Lomatia is a genus of 12 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. Within the family, they have been placed, alone, in their own subtribe, Lomatiinae according to Johnson & Briggs 1975 classification of the family and subsequently in Flora of Australia (1995).
Lomavren language Lomavren is an mixed language, spoken by the Lom people, or Posha, in Armenia, Southern Caucasus, Azerbaidjan, Eastern Anatolia, Syria. It appeared at the contact between the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the proto-Romani ancestors of the contemporary Lom and Roma people and the Armenian language.
Lomé Peace Accord The Lomé Peace Accord was a peace agreement signed on 7 July, 1999 between the warring parties in the civil war that gripped Sierra Leone for almost a decade. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah signed with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader, Foday Sankoh, granting Sankoh a position in the transitional government as well as amnesty for him and all combatants.
Lomba, Cape Verde Lomba (also in Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo), Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Lonba), is a village and a cove located approximately 8 km east-northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. Lomba are linked the road linking with Coxo and the island capital and a remote road linking to ChĂŁ das Caldeiras.
Lombard The term Lombard refers to members of or things related, directly or indirectly, to the Lombards (Longobardi), a Germanic tribe that dominated northern Italy and adjoining areas from the 6th to 8th centuries. Uses of the term include:
Lombard banking Lombard banking refers to the historical use of the term 'Lombard' for a pawn shop in the Middle ages, a type of banking that originated with the prosperous northern Italian region of Lombardy (hence the name).
Lombard language The term Lombard refers to a group of related varieties spoken mainly in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and GraubĂĽnden). However, the two main varieties (Western Lombard or Insubric and Eastern Lombard or Orobic) are so different and not mutually comprehensible, so they are often considered as separated languages.
Lombard League The Lombard League was an alliance formed around 1167, which at its apex included most of the cities of northern Italy (although its membership changed in time), including, among others, Milan, Piacenza, Cremona, Mantua, Bergamo, Brescia, Bologna, Padua, Treviso, Vicenza, Verona, Lodi, and Parma, and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano. The League was formed to counter the Holy Roman Empire's Frederick I, who was attempting to assert Imperial influence over Italy.
Lombard League Party The Italian politician Umberto Bossi used the resonance of the name of the Lombard League when in 1984 he founded a regional political party currently led by Giancarlo Giorgetti (national secretary) and Roberto Castelli (national president). It is one of the parties forming the Lega Nord.
Lombard rhythm The Lombard rhythm or Scots snap is a rhythm associated primarily with Baroque music, generally consisting of a stressed sixteenth note or semiquaver followed by a dotted eighth note or quaver. This effects a reverse of the dotted rhythm normally used in notes inégales, in which the longer value precedes the shorter.
Lombardi Award The Rotary Lombardi Award is awarded annual to the best college football lineman or linebacker. The Rotary Lombardi Award program was approved by the Rotary Club in Houston in 1970 shortly after the death of Vince Lombardi.
Lombardo (family) Lombardo, the name of a family of Venetian sculptors and architects; their surname was apparently Solaro, and the name of Lombardo was given to the earliest known, Martino, who emigrated from Lombardy to Venice in the middle of the 15th century and became celebrated as an architect.
Lombardo Boyar Lombardo Boyar (born December 1, 1973 in El Paso, Texas) is an American character actor and has been active in television, animation, cinema, and video games since 1996. Some of Boyar's notable performances include rief part as convenience-store robber Ramon Garcia on Fox's 24 and a starring role as burglar Eddie Tesoro in the movie P.
Lombards The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, whence comes the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe that entered the late Roman Empire. In northern Italy they founded a state, the Kingdom of the Lombards, which was eventually absorbed by the Carolingian Empire (see Kingdom of Italy).
Lombardy Hotel The Lombardy Hotel located at 111 East 56th Street (between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue in New York City. Built in the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, silent film star Marion Davies, and it still feels like a grand New York apartment house.
Lombre are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Lombre in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Lombroso Lombroso or Lumbroso is the name of a famous Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two spellings of the family name are doubtless due to different readings of the Hebrew-alphabet "לומברוזו".
Lomcevak A Lomcevak is an aerobatic maneuver that can be performed by an aircraft. The word originates from the Czechoslovakian aerobatic pilot Ladislav Bezák's mechanic, who at a 1958 air show in Brno, Czechoslovakia jokingly called Bezák's tumble maneuvres "Lomcevaks" when asked by journalists what they were.
Lome (woreda) Lome (also spelled Lume) is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq Shewa Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Lome is bordered on the south by the Koka Reservoir, on the west by Ada'a Chukala, on the northwest by Gimbichu, on the north by the Afar Region, and on the east by Adama.
Loment A loment is a type of modified legume that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds. Being a legume, it is dry at maturity and is dehiscent, meaning that is will split open at maturity.
Lomer Gouin Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, PC (March 19 1861 – March 28 1929) was born in Grondines, Quebec. He served as Liberal Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Lomi salmon Lomi salmon (more commonly known as lomi-lomi salmon) is a side dish, a kind of ("da kine") fresh tomato salad mixed with diced raw salted or smoked salmon seafood typical of Polynesian islands believed to have origin around the Hawaiian Islands. It is typically prepared by mixing raw salted, diced salmon with tomatoes, sweet gentle Maui onions, as substitute or to add color green onions, and flakes of hot red chili pepper, with crushed ice.
Lomié Lomié is a town in the Lomié District in the Upper Nyong division of the East Province of Cameroon. An article in the Mail & Guardian Online describes it as having "no telephone connection to the outside world, and a single access road that is little more than a forest trail".
Lomilomi massage Lomilomi, (Hawaiian: masseur, masseuse) is the word used today to describe Hawaiian massage, traditionally called lomi (Hawaiian: To rub, press, squeeze, massage; to work in and out, as the claws of a contented cat).
Lomita Railroad Museum Opened in 1966 by Irene Lewis, the Lomita Railroad Museum is a small museum in Lomita, California, devoted to the steam engine period of Railroading. On display are a 1902 Baldwin Locomotive, a Southern Pacific tender, a 1910 Union Pacific caboose, and a Santa Fe caboose.
Lomná River (Polish: , Cieszyn Silesian: ) also known as (Polish: , Cieszyn Silesian: ) is a 17 km long river in FrĂ˝dek-MĂstek District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is the left tributary of the Olza River, to which it enters in Jablunkov.
LomnickĂ˝ štĂt LomnickĂ˝ štĂt (LomnickĂ˝ peak) is one of the highest and most visited mountain peaks in the High Tatras mountains, in Slovakia. Connected by cable car to Tatranská Lomnica, its summit is 2634 metres above sea level.
Lomo (food) Lomo is a Spanish cured meat made from a pork tenderloin. In its essentials, it is the same as Cecina, the Spanish air dried cured smoked Beef tenderloin: a very lean and generally tasteless cut of meat, cured and then left to air-dry for several weeks, but has more in common with chorizo in its seasoning, and Cecina is then smoked wheras Lomo is not.
Lomonosov (lunar crater) Lomonosov is a lunar crater that is located just behind the western limb of the Moon. It is almost attached to the east-northeastern outer rim of the larger Joliot crater, and overlays the southern rim of the Maxwell crater.
Lomonosov Gold Medal The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist.
LoMac, Dallas, Texas LoMac (From Lo M[a]ckinney Avenue) is a name invented on one internet forum for the two-way stretch of McKinney Avenue south of Oak Grove and north of Woodall Rodgers in the Uptown area of Dallas, Texas (USA). It lies south of the Cityplace neighborhood and along the north and west sides of the State Thomas neighborhood.
Lon A. Scott Lon Allen Scott was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on September 25, 1888 on a farm near Cyprus Inn in Wayne County, Tennessee.
Lon Cohen Lon Cohen is a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout and Robert Goldsborough. Cohen is a newspaper editor and/or journalist near the top of the fictional New York Gazette, which in the Wolfe novels is a major New York daily newspaper.
Lon L. Fuller Lon Luvois Fuller (1902-1978) was a noted legal philosopher, who wrote The Morality of Law in 1964, discussing the connection between law and morality. Fuller was professor of Law at Harvard University for many years, and is probably more important in American law for his contributions to the law of contracts.
Lon McEachern Lon McEachern (pronounced "Ma-CAIR-en") is a poker analyst who provides play-by-play commentary on The World Series of Poker. McEachern, who graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in communications, is also the host of FOX network’s “On the Pole.
Lon Morris College Lon Morris College is a private junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, United States, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Lon Morris is an accredited two-year institute of higher learning, which provides instruction in the arts and sciences with a core curriculum emphasizing liberal arts.
Lon Nil Lon Nil was a Cambodian politician and brother of Prime Minister Lon Nol. While King Norodom Sihanouk was on a trip abroad in Beijing, China, on March 18, 1970, Prince Sirik Matak assisted Prime Minister Lon Nol, in organzing a vote of the National Assembly to depose Siahnouk as head of state and to himself emergency powers.
Lon Non Lon Non was a Cambodian politician and brother of Prime Minister Lon Nol. He served in the National Assembly of Cambodia and supported his brother Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in deposing Norodom Sihanouk as head of state.
Lon Simmons Lon Simmons is an American baseball and football broadcaster, and is currently broadcasting part-time for the San Francisco Giants. His radio career began in Elko, Nevada, and he first announced baseball for a semipro league in Marysville, California.
Lon Warneke Lonnie Warneke (March 28, 1909 - June 23, 1976) was an American right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed the "The Arkansas Hummingbird". Lon played for two teams, the Chicago Cubs and the St.
Lonach Highlanders The Lonach Highlanders is an unofficial British regiment, made up of men from the Strathdon area of Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Unlike the Atholl Highlanders, the Lonach Highlanders have never been presented with colours, and cannot be considered as part of the British Army – or indeed as an independent military force.
Lonappan Nambadan Lonappan Nambadan (born 13 November, 1935) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Mukundapuram constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) political party.
Loncomilla River The Loncomilla (in mapudungun: "Gold of the Chief") is a river, tributary of the Maule river, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile. The Perquilauquén and Longavà rivers join to form the Loncomilla.
Londer Tsaava Londer Tsaava was the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers in Exile, which forms part of the Georgian government-in-exile now based in Kodori, Georgia. In this capacity, he served as the government-in-exile's second highest ranking official, and also had a period as de facto leader.
Londo Mollari Londo Mollari, played by Peter Jurasik, is a fictional character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. A member of the Centauri race, Londo Mollari was the first Centauri ambassador to the space station Babylon 5.
London London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. An important settlement for around two millennia, London is today one of the world's most important business and financial centres, and its influence in politics, culture, education, entertainment, media, fashion, sport and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the key global cities.
London 1966/1967 London 1966/1967 is an album by the Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. although the music was recorded in 1967 for the film Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, not much of it made it onto the soundtrack; the entirety of the music was not officially released until 2005.
London 2012 Olympic youth ambassadors There are 30 London 2012 Olympic youth ambassadors. During London's bid to the IOC to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, London's delegation was in the final phase of a secret initiative to help win the right to host the games.
London and Birmingham Railway The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom from 1833 until 1846, at which date it became a constituent part of the London and North Western Railway. The 112 mile (180km) long railway line that the company built between London and Birmingham was, when it opened in 1838, one of the first intercity railway lines in the world, and the first railway line to be built into London.
London and Brighton Railway The London and Brighton Railway (L&B) was incorporated in 1837. It ran from a junction with the London & Croydon Railway (L&C) at Norwood - which gave it access from London Bridge, just south of the River Thames in central London to the South Coast at Brighton.
London and Bristol Company The London and Bristol Company came about in the early 1600’s when English merchants had begun to express an interest in the Newfoundland fishery. Financed by a syndicate of investors John Guy, himself a Bristol merchant, visited Newfoundland in 1608 to locate a favourable site for a colony.
London and Croydon Railway The London and Croydon Railway (L&C) was incorporated in 1835, and the line to West Croydon opened on 5 June 1839. Much of the route follows the alignment of the former Croydon Canal, which was closed by Act of Parliament in 1836.
London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee was established in 1924 to advise the Minister of Transport on issues concerning traffic and transport in the London Traffic Area. It was abolished in 1965.
London and Lancashire Life Building, Montreal The London and Lancashire Life Building was built in 1898 by architect Edward Maxwell for the London and Lancashire Life Association of Scotland. The Beaux-Arts structure was later as the head office for Lord Beaverbrook, the New Brunswick-born magnate and later British Minister of Supply under Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It existed from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.
London and North Western Railway The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main Line.
London and South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1840 to 1923. Its ultimate network extended from London to Plymouth via Yeovil, Exeter and Okehampton with branches to Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and Torrington and Padstow and Wadebridge — a territory in which it was in direct competition with the Great Western Railway — and, via Basingstoke, Winchester and Southampton, along the Dorset coast to Bournemouth and Weymouth.
London art scene The defining moment for the contemporary London art scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work.
London Academy of Radio Film and Television London Academy of Radio Film and Television or TV as it is sometimes known as and LARFT is located in London, UK. Taught by celebrities and industry figures, anyone can take a course and begin a new career in radio, film or TV.
London Action Resource Centre The London Action Resource Centre (LARC) claims to be a "collectively run building providing space and resources for people and groups working on self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change".Mission statement taken from LARC website.
London Agreement (2000) The London Agreement, or formally the Agreement dated 17 October 2000 on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents, is a patent law agreement concluded in London on October 17, 2000 and aimed at reducing the cost of translation of European patents granted under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents, commonly known as the European Patent Convention (EPC).
London Ambulance Service The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is the largest ambulance service in the world that does not directly charge its patients for its services. It responds to medical emergencies in London, UK with the 400 ambulances London Ambulance Service: Facts & figures at its disposal.
London Apprentice London Apprentice is a hamlet approximately two miles south of St Austell, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom,in the historical parish of St Austell. It was located at a cross-roads on the road from St Austell to Pentewan, and had a blacksmith shop as well as a small inn.
London Array The London ArrayLondon Array official site is an offshore wind farm planned for the outer Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom. With its 1Â gigawatt capacity, it is expected to become the world's largest offshore wind farm.
London Assembly The London Assembly is an elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget. The Assembly was established in 2000 and is headquartered at City Hall on the south side of the River Thames close to Tower Bridge.
London Assembly constituencies Greater London is divided into fourteen territorial constituencies for London Assembly elections, each returning one member. The electoral system used is Additional Member System without an overhang and there are, therefore, a fixed number of eleven additional members elected from the London-wide constituency.
London Autonomists The London Autonomists were a London based Autonomist collective/ commune active in the 1980s. Amongst other things they helped organise Class War newspaper in 1983 and the Wapping Autonomy Centre, Wapping Wall, London E1: August 1981 - March 1982
London Avenue Canal The London Avenue Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, used for pumping rain water into Lake Pontchartrain. The Canal runs through the 7th Ward of New Orleans from the Gentilly area to the Lakefront.
London bullion market The London bullion market, is entirely different from, but often confused with the London Metal Exchange. Only base metals are traded at the London Metal Exchange (LME), while gold and silver are traded by members of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), loosely overseen by the Bank of England.
London bun A London bun is also known as a candlegrease bun due to the white sugar icing that is used atop this finger shaped or elongated bun made of rich yeast dough that is flavored with either currants or caraway seeds.
London Bach Society The London Bach Society is a society devoted to performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with small, professional forces, using period instruments in order to obtain an authentic style of interpretation.
London Belongs to Me London Belongs to Me (also known as Dulcimer Street) is a 1948 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on the novel of the same name by Norman Collins.
London Beth Din The London Beth Din is the Beth Din of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal body in London, England. In its capacity as Court of the Chief Rabbi, it is historically the supreme halakhic Authority for several commonwealth countries and additionally is consulted by Batei Din throughout Europe.
London Blues London Blues is a novel by Anthony Frewin first published in 1997 about Soho in the late 1950s and early 1960s and in particular about the early days of pornographic movie production in Britain. London Blues is a mystery novel in that it describes not just the dangerous life but also the disappearance of a young photographer in the wake of the Profumo affair.
London Book Fair The London Book Fair is a large book-publishing trade fair held annually, usually in March, in London, England. While not as large as the immense Frankfurt Book Fair, held each October, the London Book Fair has grown in size and importance in recent years, and '23,000 publishers, booksellers, literary agents, librarians, media and industry suppliers from over 100 countries' now attend the fair.
London Boots Ichi-go Ni-go London Boots Ichi-gĹŤ Ni-gĹŤ (ăăłă‰ăłă–ăĽă„1号2号, meaning "London Boots #1 #2") are a Japanese comedy duo (kombi) that originally performed manzai-style stand-up, but now are mainly known for their TV appearances and as hosts of a handful of off-the-wall variety shows. The two members are Atsushi Tamura (田村淳) and RyĹŤ Tamura (田村亮), and though they have the same surname, there is no relation and they in fact come from very different backgrounds.
London Borough of Redbridge The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in North East London, England. The name comes from a bridge over the River Roding; it was made of red brick, unlike other bridges in the area made of white stone.
London Boys The London Boys were a German-based, British dance pop duo comprising of Edem Ephraim (born 1 July 1959 in London) and Dennis Fuller (born 19 June 1959 in Jamaica), both of whom were killed in an Alpine car accident on January 21, 1996. They traveled in Austrian Alps on a dangerous mountain road, and another car was trying to pass at the opposite side of the road.
London Bridge (Lake Havasu City) The London Bridge, currently located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona was originally constructed in London, England in 1831. By 1962, the bridge was not structurally sound enough to support the increased load created by the level of modern traffic crossing it and it was sold by the City of London.
London Buddhist Centre The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in Bethnal Green, London is part of a local network of Buddhist businesses and organisations within the Bethnal Green area. This mandala includes Buddhist communities, shops, a restaurant and cafe, an arts centre and a holistic health centre.
London Burkers The London Burkers were a group of active body snatchers, operating in London, apparently modeled on the activities of the notorious Burke and Hare. They came to prominence in the year 1831 for murdering victims, to sell to anatomists, by luring and drugging them at their dwelling in the northern end of Bethnal Green, near St Leonard's, Shoreditch in London.
London Buses London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages bus services within Greater London. Most services are provided by private sector bus operators, although this is not particularly obvious to passengers, as buses are required to carry similar red colour schemes and conform to the same fare scheme.
London Buses route 15 London Buses route 15 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The regular service on route 15 is currently contracted to East London and operated with modern double-decker buses.
London Buses route 15 (Heritage) London Buses route 15 (Heritage) is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom operated only by Routemaster buses. The service is currently contracted to East London and is a short working of the regular route 15.
London Buses route 614 London Buses route 614 is a Transport for London bus route that runs between Queensbury in north London and Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Despite this extremity, oyster cards are only accepted up until Barnet but Oyster pay-as-you-go is not allowed on the service.
London Buses route 9 London Buses route 9 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The regular service on route 9 is currently contracted to Transdev London and operated with modern double-decker buses.
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