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London
London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. The city has a population of around 8.5 million people, who speak in more than three hundred languages - more than in any other city in the world.
Whereas coffee houses didn’t become popular in many cities across the world until the 20th Century, London was well ahead of the time - Pasqua Rosee’s Coffee House opened in 1652, but was sadly burned down during the Great Fire of London.
Speaking of the Great Fire, it started in Pudding Lane on the 2nd of September 1666 and burned for three whole days. It destroyed the houses of 88% of London’s inhabitants as well as 87 churches and of course the old St Paul’s Cathedral. Amazingly though, official records show that only eight people died in the fire! It should be noted however that scholars have recently suggested there were actually a few hundred deaths which weren’t put in the records. One thing that did survive though was wine and cheese belonging to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who had buried the goods in his garden to escape the flames!
One of the most recognisable sights in London is that of the Elizabeth Tower, the clock tower which houses the famous bell Big Ben. The entire nation set their watches to the chimes of the bell, which is kept accurate by a whole team of engineers. However, in 1995 a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of one clock face and the weight of them put the time back by five