London Conference. 1933 Failed financial reforms to end Depresion.

Otto I. 1815-67. German king of Greece 1832-62. Selected by London Conference. Deposed. Wittelsbach.

Abercrombie, Patrick. 1879-1957. British architect: Greater London town plan, 1943.

Admiralty Arch. 1910 London memorial to Q Victoria.

Alfred the Great. 849-99. Saxon King of Wessex 871-. Resisted Danes 877-79 (Edington) + 892-96. Captured London 886. First British Navy 897.

Bailey, Old. London Law Courts. Building 1907.

Baker, Benjamin. 1840-1907. English engineer: London Underground 1869. Forth Bridge 1882. Aswan Dam.

Birth Control Clinic. 1881 Amsterdam. 1921 London. 1916-23 US.

Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

Brute. Descendant of Aeneas, said to have founded New Troy at London..

Buckingham Palace. 1703. Rebuilt by Nash 1825. London residence of British sovereigns since 1837.

Camden Town Group. 1902-13. English Postimpressionist artists. London Group.

Cleopatra’s Needles. c1500BC Thutmose III. Gift of Egypt to Britain, US. Erected London 1878, NY 1881.

Coldstream Guards. 1650. Marched to London to restore Charles II.

Crystal Palace. 1851. Built for the Great Exhibition, London. First iron-framed. Burned, 1936. Paxton.

Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.

Delcassé, Théophile. 1852-1923. French statesman. Fashoda. Anglo-French Entente. Treaty of London.

Drury Lane. 1663. Oldest English theatre, London. Rebuilt 1674, 1812.

Evil May Day. 1517. London apprentices riot.

Fire of London. 1666. Four days. 87 churches. 13,200 houses. 100,000 homeless. Rebuilt in 10 years. 1136 fire was previously known as Great Fire of London.

Fleet Prison. 12C-1844. London debtors prison.

Fowler, John. 1817-98. English engineer: London Underground.

Freemasons. Secret fraternal organization based on guilds, chivalry, religious orders. 1717 London Grand Lodge.

Ghetto. Jewish area of cities, esp: 1556-1885 Rome; 1239 Valencia; 1462 Frankfurt; 1516 Venice; 1066-1291 Old Jewry, London; 1939 Warsaw.

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