Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

* 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.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

In the course of the 19th century similar groups were founded in a number of countries, including the " Oblates of St Charles ", established in London by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.

* " Site of Selkirk's camp identified ", from The Times ( London ), 17 September 2005.

" Station X ", " London Signals Intelligence Centre " and " Government Communications Headquarters " were all cover names that were used during the war, and the latter ( GCHQ ) was adopted for the successor peacetime organisation that still bears this name.

Also in 1987, Bronski Beat and Somerville did a reunion concert for " International AIDS Day ", supported by New Order, at the Brixton Academy, London.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 1909.

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.

" Berk " ( often used to mean " foolish person ") originates from the most famous of all fox hunts, the " Berkeley Hunt " meaning " cunt "; " cobblers " ( often used in the context " what you said is rubbish ") originates from " cobbler's awls ", meaning " balls " ( as in testicles ); and " hampton " meaning " prick " ( as in penis ) originates from " Hampton Wick " ( a place in London ).

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

* Seyffert, Oskar, " Dictionary of Classical Antiquities ", London: W. Glaisher, 1895.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

* Breuer J, Freud S, " Studies in Hysteria ", Vol II of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud ( Hogarth Press, London, 1955 ).

Memorial to " Daniel De-Foe ", Bunhill Fields, City Road, London.

* Bell, A. Melville ( 1967 ), " Visible Speech ", London: Simpkin Marshall ; rpt in facsimile in B. Collins and I. Mees ( 2006 ), " Phonetics of English in the 19th Century ", London: Routledge.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

Mariano Egaña, Chilean Minister in London, acting on the criticism that Robles ' song was receiving, asked Carnicer to compose a new hymn with Bernardo de Vera's original text.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with Irving Berlin's song, ' Puttin ' on the Ritz '.

In the liner notes of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, Nancy In London, Sinatra states that she was " scared to death " of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: " Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?

In an interview with Alan Titchmarsh, Judi Dench, who performed the role of Desirée in London, commented on the context of the song.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.

This was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London.

The first zoo hippo in modern history was Obaysch who arrived at the London Zoo on May 25, 1850, where he attracted up to 10, 000 visitors a day and inspired a popular song, the Hippopotamus Polka.

In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.

The song includes puns based on London Underground names, and includes the lyric " You ’ re harder to understand than Mornington Crescent!

Idle performed the song at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 12 August 2012.

While in London, they recorded the second, more commercially successful, version of their hit song " Soudan " ( also known as " Oriental Jass ").

In May 2007, he accompanied Robyn Hitchcock and Ruby Wright in performing the song " Gigolo Aunt " at a tribute for Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett in London, which he did on mandolin .< ref >

The group's lone promotional performance in conjunction with the album occurred on 19 April 1996, when Downes and Payne appeared with guitarist Elliott Randall on the Virgin FM radio programme Alive in London to play the song " Never ".

* " London ", a song by Ray Davies on the album The Storyteller

* " London ", a song by μ-Ziq on the album Lunatic Harness

* " London ", a song by Pet Shop Boys on the album Release

* " London ", a song by Queensrÿche on the album Rage for Order

* " London ", a song by Third Eye Blind on the album Third Eye Blind

Time Out London states, " As translated onto screen, story is wretched: the jokes are relentlessly crass and objectionable ; the song ' n ' dance routines have been created in the cutting-room and have lost any sense of fun ; Fellini-esque moments add little but pretension ; and scenes of a real open-heart operation, alternating with footage of a symbolic Angel of Death in veil and white gloves, fail even in terms of the surreal.

* The Rich Kids had a hit song with, and an album named, " Ghosts of Princes in Towers " which made reference to the Princes and drew on rumours of their haunting the Tower of London.

* Judy Garland recorded a studio version of the song for her " London Sessions " with Capitol.

* Adrian Evans wrote the song " London Waterloo ", which is dedicated wholly to the station