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The distribution of seats in the new parliament was entirely between the two major parties; no other 'party candidates' or 'independent' candidates were elected.
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A Luftwaffe incendiary raid on London on the night of 29/30 December destroyed the hammerbeam ceiling, leaving only the walls of Guildhall intact.
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Our engraving from 'The Illustrated London News' depicts the 'hustings' in London, or to be correct, Surrey and Kent!
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At the entrance to the 'Parlour,' the historic hub of the Bank, appears the motto “Sic vos non vobis” - "thus we labour but not for ourselves."
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Funded mostly by private donations, the single largest contribution was made by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia who contributed £12,000, over a quarter of the total raised.
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The Lord Mayor of the City of London is a civic office that traces its history back to the mediaeval London of 1189.
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The capital city of the province of Free State, South Africa, it was until the surrender of the Boers at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902, the capital of Orange Free State.
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Although a sledging party set a new record for the farthest north reached, the expedition was in grave danger of failure.
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Located at the mouth of the River Lea, at its confluence with the River Thames at Bow Creek, the Thames Iron Works straddled the Lea where it divided Middlesex and Essex.
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From 1914 his presidency would be dominated by the question of 'peace or war?'
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Having discarded their red tunics for khaki, they camouflaged their distinctive white horses with khaki dye.
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"Large meeting of settlers and Maoris at a native village near Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand."