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London - The Capital of England
1. ENGLAND
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Aleksinacka Gimnazija
2. London City
• London is the biggest city in Britain and in
Europe.
• London occupies over 620 square miles
• London has a population of 7,172,036 (2001)
• About 12 percent of Britain’s overall
population live in London
• London has the highest population density in
Britain, with 4,699 people per square
kilometer
3. The Queen
• The Queen is Head of State of the UK and 15
other Commonwealth realms. The elder
daughter of King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth, she was born in 1926 and became
Queen at the age of 25, and has reigned
through more than five decades of enormous
social change and development. The Queen is
married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and
has four children and eight grandchildren.
7. BIG BEN
• Big Ben is the massive bell inside the
clock tower, which weighs more than 13
tons (13,760 kg).
Each dial is 7 metres in diameter
The minute hands are 4.2 metres long and
weigh about 100kg
The numbers are approximately 60cm long
There are 312 pieces of glass in each clock dial
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10. Olympic Games
• London has hosted the Olympic
Games on two past occasions, in 1908
and 1948, with a third scheduled for 2012.
The planned 2012 Summer olympics will
make London the first city to have hosted
the modern Games of three Olympiyad.
London is the only city in the United
Kingdom to have ever hosted the
Olympics
12. Most Famous People of England
• Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus
and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light,
and three laws of motion.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet whose
body of works is considered the greatest in English
literature.He wrote dozens of plays which continue to dominate world theater 400 years later.
John Lennon
John Lennon was a musician and composer who was a member of the Beatles,
the biggest rock band of the 1960s
13. • Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a
soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's
most famous and celebrated Prime
Minister.
14. • Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was a British naturalist of
the nineteenth century. He and others
developed the theory of evolution. This
theory forms the basis for the modern life
sciences. Darwin's most famous books
are 'The Origin of Species' and 'The
Descent of Man'.