The Oregon-based cartographer chose to depict London in 1666 – the year of the Great Fire – and made his creation from covers of the book ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ by Daniel Defoe.
To represent the
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Chocolate Soup
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Tags: Dinner In The Spiegel Tent!
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This Week London Found Uranus (heehee)
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via londonist.com
23rd December 1690: At Greenwich Royal Observatory, astronomer John Flamsteed catalogues what he believes to be a star as ‘34 Tauri’. It would later transpire that this is the first recorded sighting of the planet Uranus.
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The New Bus For London [Pictures]
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London’s Best And Worst Christmas Decorations
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The Royal Barge is Revealed
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via telegraph.co.uk
It will be the jewel in the crown of the most spectacular event ever seen on the River Thames.
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The boat’s design will echo the richly-decorated royal barges of the late 16th and early 17th century used
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Christmas on Regent Street
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