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Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the IMO, in 2024, has 176 Member States and three Associate Members. [5] The IMO's primary purpose is to develop and maintain a comprehensive regulatory framework for shipping and its remit today includes maritime safety , environmental concerns, legal matters , technical co-operation, maritime security ...
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 ...
430. Hadrian's Wall ( Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. [1] Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now ...
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]
London Stock Exchange ( LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. As of August 2023, the total market value of all companies trading on the LSE stood at $3.18 trillion. [3] Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
Domesday Book ( / ˈduːmzdeɪ / DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror. [1] The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name Liber de Wintonia, meaning "Book of Winchester ...
Map showing the grants provided for in the Charter of 1606. The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commodities to Great Britain and create a buffer preventing total Spanish control of the North ...
London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s, he observed, documented and described the state of working people in London for a series of articles in a newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, which were later compiled into book form. Mayhew went into deep, almost pedantic detail concerning the ...