In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

These included storms, the first tram, visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Hastings Marathon Race and the pier fire of 1917.

* March 29 – The first London Marathon starts with 7, 500 runners.

The World Marathon Majors series includes the five most prestigious marathon competitions at the elite level – the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City marathons.

The London Marathon ( branded Virgin London Marathon for sponsorship reasons ) is a long-distance running event, one of the world's largest, held in London, United Kingdom.

Since 2010, the race has been sponsored by Virgin Money, as the Virgin London Marathon.

The 32nd London Marathon took place on 22 April 2012, and the 33rd is planned for 21 April 2013.

In addition to being one of the top five international marathons run over the distance of 42. 195 kilometres, the rounded metric conversion of the traditional distance of 26 miles and 385 yards ,( 26 miles and 385 yards ), the London Marathon is generally regarded as a very competitive and unpredictable event, and conducive to fast times.

London is one of the top five world marathons that form the World Marathon Majors competition ) with a $ 1 million prize purse.

In 2002, Lloyd Scott completed the marathon wearing a deep sea diving suit that weighed a total of, with each shoe weighing ; he also set a record for the slowest London Marathon time.

In 1924, the 42, 195 meters long Marathon became the standard that is today, based on the distance for the 1908 London Marathon from Windsor Castle to the White City stadium in London.

Competitors during the 1990 London Marathon

With neighbouring Greenwich Park, Blackheath is also well known as the start point of the London Marathon.

The Marathon from these London Olympics played an important part in the development of the modern marathon race.

* Deena ( Drossin ) Kastor, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist in the marathon and winner of the London Marathon in 2006

* Samuel Wanjiru, 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon Champion, 2009 London Marathon Champion, 2009 Rotterdam Half Marathon Champion, 2009 New York Marathon Champion

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* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 2011 – A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.

* 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.

* 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.

* 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

* 1980 – Paul London, American wrestler

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

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* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.

* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

* Michael Angold, The Byzantine Empire, 1025 – 1204: A Political History, second edition ( London and New York, 1997 )

* Robert Nisbet Bain, The First Romanovs 1613 – 1725 ( London, 1905 ; reprint, New York, 1967 ).

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

London Dry gin is usually distilled in the presence of accenting citrus elements, such as lemon and bitter orange peel, as well as a subtle combination of other spices, including any of anise, angelica root and seed, orris root, licorice root, cinnamon, almond, cubeb, savory, lime peel, grapefruit peel, dragon eye, saffron, baobab, frankincense, coriander, grains of paradise, nutmeg and cassia bark.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to as Kew Gardens, comprises 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England.

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

The Lord Mayor is also the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy, which represents the Sovereign in the City of London ( other counties usually have Lord Lieutenants, as opposed to Commissions ), and annually attends the Treloar Trust ( named after Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor in 1906 ), in Hampshire.

Late in the nineteenth century, Bachelor of Surgery degrees ( usually ChB ) began to be awarded with the ( MB ), and the mastership became a higher degree, usually abbreviated ChM or MS in London, where the first degree was MB, BS.

Beside the main event, always in England and usually in London, it has supported similar events elsewhere, including Milan ; South Korea, and Prague.

After the Armada the Earl was seen riding in splendour through London " as if he were a king ", and for the past few weeks he had usually dined with the Queen, a unique favour.

The London underground is nicknamed " The Tube " A nickname is " a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name ", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name.

It was displayed in the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 and Paris Exhibition Universelle in 1855, but was usually kept in a bank vault.

A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities ( cities, planets, persons, corporations ), or non-unique instances of a certain class ( a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation ).

The nine largest institutions of the federal university, usually termed the colleges, are Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King's College London, the London Business School, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science and University College London ( UCL ).

The Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 ( three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L ' Anse aux Meadows in 1960 ), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum ( usually called in English the Tartar Relation ), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian dealer named Enzo Ferrajoli de Ry.

Located to the west of the historic Roman and Mediaeval City of London, the West End was long favoured by the rich elite as a place of residence because it was usually upwind of the smoke drifting from the crowded City.

As Second Lord, his official residence is Number 11 Downing Street in London, next door to the residence of the First Lord of the Treasury ( a post usually, though not always, held by the Prime Minister ), who resides in 10 Downing Street.

# Dispersion ( usually named after Fritz London ), which is the attractive interaction between any pair of molecules, including non-polar atoms, arising from the interactions of instantaneous multipoles.

The Lord Mayors and Provosts of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, City of London and York have the further right to be styled " The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor " ( or Provost ), although they are not members of the Privy Council as this style usually indicates.

Childe always wore his wide-brimmed black hat, which he had purchased from a hatter in Jermyn Street, central London, as well as a tie, which was usually red, a colour chosen to symbolise his socialist beliefs.