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The Gherkin, formally 30 St Mary Axe and previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London 's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. [10] With 41 floors, it is 180 metres (591 ft) tall [3] and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and ...
Area served. Virginia. Products. Cash crops, timber, tobacco. The London Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of London, was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N. [1]
Former premises in Threadneedle Street, in use from 1972 to 2004. London Stock Exchange Group plc is a United Kingdom-based stock exchange and financial information company headquartered in the City of London, England. It owns the London Stock Exchange (on which it is also listed), Refinitiv, LSEG Technology, [4] FTSE Russell, and majority ...
www .parliament .uk. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [d] is the supreme legislative body [e] of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. [3] [4] It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London.
AIM. AIM (formerly the Alternative Investment Market) is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange that was launched on 19 June 1995 as a replacement to the previous Unlisted Securities Market (USM) that had been in operation since 1980. It allows companies that are smaller, less-developed, or want/need a more flexible approach to governance to ...
The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. [1] The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno ...
Notting Hill Genesis’ primary purpose is to work in the community to provide decent and affordable homes for lower-income households. [1] It is one of the largest housing associations in South East England. It owns around 55,000 properties in London and a further 9,000 in the home counties and East Anglia, housing about 170,000 people.
London Missionary Society. Around 1900, the London Missionary Society produced a series of glass magic lantern slides, including this one, depicting the missionary efforts of David Livingstone. The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh ...