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  2. Airline hub - Wikipedia

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    The primary hub of British Airways is Heathrow Airport in London. The hub-and-spoke system allows an airline to serve fewer routes, so fewer aircraft are needed. [3] The system also increases passenger loads; a flight from a hub to a spoke carries not just passengers originating at the hub, but also passengers originating at multiple spoke cities. [4]

  3. Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham - Wikipedia

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    Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (Armenian: Արա Վարդգես Դարզի; born 7 May 1960) is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.. Lord Darzi is an academic surgeon and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies.

  4. Yelp - Wikipedia

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    Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco. Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman.

  5. Greater London Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the metonym City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London, England.It consists of two political branches: an executive Mayor (currently Sadiq Khan) and the 25-member London Assembly, which serves as a means of checks and balances on the Mayor.

  6. Fair Play for Cuba Committee - Wikipedia

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    The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government, once Fidel Castro began openly stating his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.S. corporations.

  7. International Institute for Strategic Studies - Wikipedia

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    International Institute for Strategic Studies. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is an international research institute or think tank focusing on defence and security issues. Since 1997, its headquarters have been at Arundel House in London. [1] It has offices on four continents, producing data and research on questions ...

  8. Harris Federation - Wikipedia

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    Description. With 52 academies in London and Essex, the Harris Federation educates around 40,000 children, which is about 1 in 40 London children, and employs 5,000 staff. [2] Through its "Train to Teach Programme", it provides initial teacher training and inset for teachers from London and the South East. The sponsor is Philip Harris (Lord ...

  9. Inter-Parliamentary Union - Wikipedia

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    The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; French: Union Interparlementaire, UIP) is an international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and cooperation among its members; other initiatives include advancing gender parity among legislatures, empowering youth participation in politics, and sustainable development.