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London and County
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 '.
These were reorganised further when Greater London was formed out of Middlesex and the County of London in 1965.
Despite Connecticut's relatively small size, it features wide regional variations in its landscape ; for example, in the northwestern Litchfield Hills, it features rolling mountains and horse farms, whereas in the southeastern New London County, it features beaches and maritime activities.
In 1904 London County Council became concerned with the level of safety at the ground, and tried to get it closed.
Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Marquess, who was a member of the London County Council and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire.
The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.
Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.
Reform of the local government arrangements in the County of London and its environs was again considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.
Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

London and Council
Coeditors are J.D.H. Donnay, G. E. Cox of Leeds University, and Olga Kennard of the National Council for Medical Research, London.
The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The best English edition is by James Waterworth ( London, 1848 ; With Essays on the External and Internal History of the Council ).
In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.
The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.
Arms of the former Greater London Council
Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

London and proposed
It began in the 1948 paper, " On the Problem of the Molecular Theory of Superconductivity " where Fritz London proposed that the phenomenological London equations may be consequences of the coherence of a quantum state.
In 1953, Brian Pippard, motivated by penetration experiments, proposed that this would modify the London equations via a new scale parameter called the coherence length.
In 1938 Fritz London proposed BEC as a mechanism for superfluidity in < sup > 4 </ sup > He and superconductivity.
However, following the founding of the National Gallery, London in 1824, the proposed Picture Gallery was no longer needed, and the space on the upper floor was given over to the Natural History collections.
The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.
Map of London Heathrow Airport showing the proposed extension and third runway.
Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of Louisa Adams | Louisa Catherine AdamsWhile going back and forth between The Hague and London, he met and proposed to his future wife.
In 1730 Harrison created a description and drawings for a proposed marine clock to compete for the Longitude Prize and went to London seeking financial assistance.
The rebel barons suspected that the proposed baronial council would be unacceptable to John and that he would challenge the legality of the charter ; they packed the baronial council with their own hardliners and refused to demobilise their forces or surrender London as agreed.
In 1846, Pearson proposed with the support of the City Corporation a central railway station for London located in Farringdon that was estimated to cost £ 1 million ( approximately £ 71. 7 million today ).
* 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a " monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend ," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
* Writing under the pseudonym " Hirossa Ap-Iccim " in The Gentleman's Magazine, ( London ) July 1745, Hugh Jones proposed an octal system for British coins, weights and measures.
Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.
Three members of the band signed the proposed contract on this date, with the understanding that Feargal Sharkey and Michael Bradley would discuss negotiations to the contract with Seymour Stein in person in London.
At present the only tram system is Tramlink in south London, but others are proposed.
The second theory proposed by London and Palen is based on a sociocultural explanation of gentrification.
The community-network approach is the fourth proposed by London and Palen.
In August 1900, Yerkes decided to become involved in the development of the London Underground railway system after riding along the route of one proposed line and surveying the City of London from the summit of Hampstead Heath.
The idea of a metric system was proposed by John Wilkins, first secretary of the Royal Society of London in 1668.

London and vast
While listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange, the vast majority of Jardines shares are traded in Singapore.
Desperate for cash because of heavy debts incurred in London in the early postwar period, the Colorados lacked a source of funds except through the sale of the state's vast holdings, which comprised more than 95 percent of Paraguay's total land.
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.
Through his vast estates he was the richest man in England, and his great wealth, ostentatious display of it, autocratic manner and attitudes, enormous London mansion ( the Savoy Palace on the Strand ) and association with the failed peace process at Bruges combined to make him the most visible target of social resentments.
It was not until the sixteenth century that urban sprawl began to build over the adjoining fields, eventually taking over nearby villages such as Marylebone and Kensington, and gradually creating the vast Greater London that exists today.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, found himself accused of treason ; the day before the king's death his vast estates were seized, making them available for redistribution, and he spent the whole of Edward's reign in the Tower of London.
Nevertheless, this is still one of the greenest areas in Greater London, and it includes three rivers, part of the once vast Hounslow Heath, a country park formed from converted gravel pits ( Bedfont Lakes ), and one of London's first airfields, London Air Park at Hanworth, which is now a large and popular public open space.
In addition, they built Nelson's Column ( 1843 ) and the vast infrastructure project of the London brick sewer.
In the 14th century, when the Strand was paved as far as the Savoy, it was the vast riverside London residence of John of Gaunt, a younger son of King Edward III who had inherited by marriage the title and lands of the Dukes of Lancaster.
For air travel, Medway residents must use Kent's main airports Kent International ( Manston ) or Lydd but these lack extensive passenger facilities or routes, thus the London airports are used the vast majority of the time ( mainly Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted )
Encompassing a vast region nearly as large as Western Europe, the west contained a few thousand American pioneers and tens of thousands of Indians, most of whom had been allied to the British but were now abandoned by London.
Via Grosvenor Estates, the Duke is the richest property developer in the United Kingdom and one of the country's largest landowners, with vast estates in Oxford, Cheshire and Scotland, as well as large areas of Mayfair and Belgravia in central London.
After the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) the bombed out centres of many English towns and cities, such as Plymouth, Bristol, Coventry and London were reconstructed using vast facades of Portland Stone.
He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him ; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London had led deputations to the Duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripen and Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade ; and he was universally recognised as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement.
Doré signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year, and he received the vast sum of £ 10, 000 a year for the project.
His father, Samuel Joseph, an active political kingmaker, headed the vast family construction and development-finance company, Bovis, and was Lord Mayor of London in 1942 – 43.
A similar design is reused by Baxter and Arthur C Clarke in their novel Sunstorm, for the vast dome used to shield London from the Storm of the novels title.
Celia Fiennes, who in 1697 proceeded out of London along the Dover Road, wrote in her diary of stopping at " Shuttershill, on top of which hill you see a vast prospect ... some lands clothed with trees, others with grass and flowers, gardens, orchards, with all sorts of herbage and tillage, with severall little towns all by the river, Erith, Leigh, Woolwich etc., quite up to London, Greenwich, Deptford, Black Wall, the Thames twisting and turning it self up and down bearing severall vessells and men of warre on it ".

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