His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

TfL owns and operates the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, a museum that conserves and explains London's transport heritage.

In his DVD commentary, Jeunet explains that he originally wrote the role of Amélie for the English actress Emily Watson ; in the original draft, Amélie's father was an Englishman living in London.

* 1930 Fritz London explains van der Waals forces as due to the interacting fluctuating dipole moments between molecules

' And as his own character Corinthian Tom explains in Life in London, ' A kind of cant phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the other, and you will scarcely be able to move a single step, my dear JERRY, without consulting a Slang Dictionary, or having some friend at your elbow to explain the strange expressions which, at every turn, will assail your ear.

In those days, the Stationers ’ Company in London jealously guarded its monopoly of printing, which partly explains the delay between the date of the University ’ s Letters Patent and the printing of the first book.

In " Lie to Me ", Angel explains that, in 1860 when he was still Angelus, he became obsessed with Drusilla, a beautiful young Catholic woman who lived with her parents and two sisters in London.

The bestiary explains that while in residence at the Tower of London, the elephant enjoyed a diet of prime cuts of beef and expensive red wine, and is claimed to have died in 1257 from drinking too much wine.

There have been a few documentaries about parkour on major television networks. Jump London is a 2003 documentary which explains some of the background to parkour and culminated with Sébastien Foucan, Johann Vigroux, and Jérôme Ben Aoues demonstrating their parkour skills.

A 1791 London publication explains the Mesmer ’ s theory of the vital fluid:

The alter ego tells Peter that what explains the whole situation was perhaps the result of something that happened in the Jack London novel, The Star Rover.

The Doctor explains to Rose that he is an alien and the fake Mickey was an Auton, controlled by a signal from the London Eye.

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George Rudé ’ s Paris and London in the 18th Century explains the popular protests and revolts of Paris and London during the 18th century.

The Doctor explains that the coordinates were set for Sarah's time but the linear coordinates were off, so they could be miles from London.

When the Doctor explains the way Nancy operates to feed the children of London he says " I don't know if it's Marxism in action or a west end musical.

A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ) and its constituent companies ; this page explains the principal systems that were used.

In one of the very few letters in which he ever complained of Meynell, Thompson told Patmore of his distress at having had to leave London before this new friendship had developed further: ``

These lampoons include appealing to the authority of " a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London " and " the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa " ( who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706 ).

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

In 1691, an article in the London Gazette mentioned John Lofting, who held a patent for a fire engine: " The said patentee has also projected a very useful engine for starting of beer, and other liquors which will draw from 20 to 30 barrels an hour, which are completely fixed with brass joints and screws at reasonable rates ".

With the advent of the Union and the demise of Jacobitism, access to London and the Empire opened up very attractive career opportunities for ambitious middle-class and upper-class Scots, who seized the chance to become entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and soldiers.

In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship, that they created " false German hopes as in regards to British friendship and caused a reaction against it in England, where public opinion is very naturally hostile to the Nazi regime and its methods ".

He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.

Before 1700, London brewers sent out their beer very young and any aging was either performed by the publican or a dealer.

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.

The Meissner effect does not cause the field to be completely ejected but instead the field penetrates the superconductor but only to a very small distance, characterized by a parameter λ, called the London penetration depth, decaying exponentially to zero within the bulk of the material.

In 1839, London coffee merchants Wm Burnie & Co described St Helena coffee as being of “ very superior quality and flavour ”.

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a " term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident.

A description of the very first report of the UHI by Luke Howard in the late 1810s said that the urban center of London was warmer at night than the surrounding countryside by 3. 7 ° F.

Though England is not very well known for making whisky there were distillers previously operating in London, Liverpool and Bristol until the late 19th century, after which production of English single malt whisky ceased until 2003.

Despite his nominal retirement, Jardine was still very much active in business and politics and built a townhouse in 6 Upper Belgrave Street, then a new upscale residential district in London near Buckingham Palace.

* May 31 – The Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster, London was started, and its bells ring for the very first time.

Mazzini, together with a few Italian friends, moved in January 1837 to live in London in very poor economic conditions.

In 1851 The Illustrated London News said that it " seems to exhibit the peculiar beauties of Carnarvon Castle without its inconveniences " and in 1858 Sir George Gilbert Scott called it " the largest and most carefully and learnedly executed Gothic mansion of the present " and that it was " the very height of masquerading ".

In this period, Dalí's main patron in London was the very wealthy Edward James.

For example in England, the City of London and the Isles of Scilly are the two sui generis localities, as their forms of local government are both very different from those of elsewhere in the country ( for historical and geographical reasons ).

Water towers are very common around London suburbs.

Although unpopular at first they proved very successful in cutting crime in London, and by 1857 all cities in the UK were obliged to form their own police forces.

Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for a very successful 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.

Despite Henry's very vocal misgivings, the two were married on 6 January 1540 at the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.