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In London Below the various familiar names of London all take on a new significance: for example Knightsbridge becomes " Night's Bridge ", a stone bridge whose darkness takes its toll in human life ; The Angel, Islington is an actual angel.
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London and Below
The series is set in " London Below ", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as " London Above ".
Despite his fiancée's protests he decides to help her, but that unfortunately also means that he suddenly ceases to exist for regular people and becomes real only to the denizens of ' London Below ', whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of ' London Above '.
He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all, find a way back, and help Door survive as she is hunted down by hired assassins.
London Below is a parallel world in and beneath the sewers.
* Richard Mayhew-a young businessman, who discovers the world of London Below one day after helping the injured Door recover in his flat.
* Door – A young woman from London Below, the daughter of a noble family who were all murdered shortly before the beginning of the story.
* Hunter – A warrior of London Below ; her feats are legendary.
* The Angel Islington-An actual angel dwelling in the sewers of London Below.
Its duty is to watch over London Below, though ( or maybe because ) it failed at its previous task: guarding the city of Atlantis.
Below this building Gunnersbury station serves the Richmond branch of the District line and the London Overground to Stratford.
In Neil Gaiman's television serial and novel Neverwhere, the Great Beast of London is said to be a bull that ran into the Fleet while it was still partially open to the air, and vanished underground into the depths of London Below, growing huge and fat off the sewage.
The display was organised by Art Below, which is unrelated to the official Transport For London art program, and there is controversy over whether it should have been shown.
* Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ( 1997 ) is set partly in real London, and partly in an alternative " London Below ".
The Angel Islington is an actual angel dwelling in the sewers of London Below in the Neverwhere TV series and book by Neil Gaiman.
Below the bridge, the natural river flows over the Middlesex Filter Beds Weir, marking the boundary with Leyton and providing the supply for the former East London Waterworks Company.
Below the lowest office floor, the design was broken by an open podium, which was designed to provide elevated pedestrian access via the City of London Pedway Scheme.
Below the region level and excluding London, England has two different patterns of local government in use.
*" Below the Convergence: Voyages Towards Antarctica 1699 – 1839 " ( W W Norton Co Ltd, London, 1977 ), Alan Gurney.
London and various
The London Universe devoted its centenary issue last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress during the last one hundred years.
A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.
In 1899, as part of a reform of local government in the County of London, the various parishes in London were reorganised as new entities, the ' metropolitan boroughs '.
Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).
The second paragraph is largely derived and paraphrased from the words that Aradia, the messianic daughter of Diana, speaks to her followers in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, London: David Nutt ; various reprints.
Today it has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, and various dioceses throughout Egypt, as well as outside Egypt, in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and London, where potential clergymen and other qualified men and women are taught many subjects, among which are theology, church history, missionary studies, and Coptic language.
By late September 1945 the Thomases had left Wales and were living with various friends in London.
During the next three years, she continued her battle to qualify by studying privately with various professors, including some at the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and the London Hospital Medical School.
At Wallington he worked on " England Your England " and in London wrote reviews for various periodicals.
However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).
His first assignment was aboard the collier Freelove, and he spent several years on this and various other coasters, sailing between the Tyne and London.
As such, various commentators speculated that the team may relocate in the future, perhaps to Los Angeles, California, or even London.
Fluent in both French and English, young Ribbentrop lived at various times in Grenoble, France, and London, before travelling to Canada in 1910.
In 1845 Marx and Engels visited the leaders of the Chartists, a socialist movement in Britain, using the trip as an opportunity to study in various libraries in London and Manchester.
He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin.
The earlier lines of the present London Underground network were built by various private companies.
The show follows various London Underground employees in their day-to-day roles.
The history of public transport authorities in London details the various organisations that have been responsible for the public transport network in and around London, England from 1933 until 2000 and have used the London Transport brand.
While the various colonies in Australia were either sparsely populated or penal settlements or both, executive power was in the hands of the Governors, who, because of the great distance from their superiors in London and the resulting very slow communication, necessarily exercised vast powers.
As secretary to the board, Pepys was entitled to a £ 350 annual salary plus the various gratuities and benefits – including bribes – that came with the job: he rejected an offer of £ 1000 for the position from a rival, and moved to official accommodation in Seething Lane in the City of London soon afterwards.
Stephen threatened to execute Geoffrey unless the baron handed over his various castles, including the Tower of London, Saffron Walden and Pleshey, all important fortifications because they were in, or close to, London.
London and familiar
William Sansom writes only about Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords.
Today, Lloyd's of London remains the leading market ( note that it is an insurance market rather than a company ) for marine and other specialist types of insurance, but it operates rather differently than the more familiar kinds of insurance.
The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid 20th century.
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 is a homosexual love story which also returns to matters familiar from Forster's first three novels, such as the suburbs of London in the English home counties, the experience of attending Cambridge, and the wild landscape of Wiltshire.
She also became familiar with city life and the Tudor Court after being sent to live in the London household of Anne Gainsford at Codnor Castle at the age of twelve.
Barker's accomplishment involved sophisticated manipulations of perspective not encountered in the panorama's predecessors, the wide-angle " prospect " of a city familiar since the 16th century, or Wenceslas Hollar's " long view " of London, etched on several contiguous sheets.
The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres ( Neichatel, 1770 ), translated as A Tour to London 1772 ; Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765.
His interest in the theatre and journalism made him a familiar sight around London.
The writers decided to change the book's setting from London to Chicago because they were more familiar with the city and it also had a " great alternative music scene ", according to Pink.
It was on this occasion that Kruger, referring to the London Convention, spoke of Queen Victoria as a kwaaje Vrouw ( angry woman ), an expression which caused a good deal of offence in England at the time, but which, to any one familiar with the homely phraseology of the Boers, obviously was not meant by President Kruger as insulting.
By the early years of the 18th century, " Italian night scenes " presented versions of Commedia traditions in familiar London settings.
Pantaloon was familiar enough to London audiences for Shakespeare to refer to him at the turn of the 17th century as the exemplar of an elderly man, " the lean and slippered Pantaloon ".
The academy was modeled after the Royal Society of London and Academie Royale des Sciences in Paris, France, which some of the founding members were familiar with.
In London, Lamb became familiar with a group of young writers who favoured political reform, including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt.
In the mid-1970s Frederick met and married Hiroko Asada, née Kuzusaka, who was a familiar figure among Japanese society in London ( she brought a son from her previous marriage, Ko Asada ).
Following his pardon Blood became a familiar figure around London and made frequent appearances at Court, where he was employed to advocate in the claims of suitors to the Crown.
Though Dickens deplored the cost, the building is one of the most familiar landmarks of London.
The stages of Dorothy's plight-the coming to herself in the London street, the sense of being cut off from friends and the familiar, the destitution and the cold-enact the nightmare in which one may be dropped out of respectable life, no matter how debt-laden and forlorn, into the unthinkable pit of the beggar's hunger and the hopelessly declassed.
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