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London congestion charge
The London congestion charge is a daily fee for driving in central London, introduced by Mayor Ken Livingstone in February 2003 and operated by Transport for London.
London Convention (1884)
The London Convention was a February 1884 agreement between Britain and the South African Republic (Transvaal), replacing the 1881 Pretoria Convention and enlarging its self-government.
London County Council
The London County Council governed inner London from 1889 until 1965, building housing on an unmatched scale, running London's schools, and managing the Thames riverwall.
London derbies
London derbies: football matches between London clubs, including the North London derby (Arsenal v Tottenham), Dockers derby (Millwall v West Ham), and Chelsea v Tottenham; up to 28 London clubs and 10-15 major rivalries.
London dispersion force
The London dispersion force is the weakest intermolecular force, a universal attraction from temporary dipoles that grows stronger in larger, more polarizable atoms and molecules.
London Docklands
London Docklands: east London's former enclosed docks (West India 1802, London Dock 1805, St Katharine 1828), closed 1967–1981, regenerated from 1981 by the LDDC into Canary Wharf and new DLR-linked districts.
London Dreams
London Dreams (2009), also called by that English title only, is a Hindi musical drama directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, and Asin, about childhood friends turned rivals in London's music scene, released 30 October 2009.
London Dungeon
The London Dungeon is a Merlin Entertainments walk-through theatrical attraction at County Hall, South Bank, London, founded in 1974 by Annabel Geddes as a Tooley Street wax museum and moved from London Bridge in 2013.
London Eye
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is a 135-meter cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the Thames in London, opened in 2000.
London fare zones
London fare zones, also known as TfL zones, are the numbered zones, 1 through 9, into which London is divided for setting Tube, rail, and bus fares.
London Fields (film)
London Fields (2018) is Mathew Cullen's neo-noir thriller adapted from Martin Amis's 1989 novel, starring Amber Heard as clairvoyant Nicola Six. Plagued by lawsuits, it earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and a record-low box office opening.
London Film Museum
London Film Museum, formerly the Movieum of London, was a private London film museum founded by Jonathan Sands in 2008 at County Hall, moved to Covent Garden in 2012, hosted Bond in Motion from 2014, and its company entered liquidation in 2026.
London Fletcher
London Fletcher, born 1975, is a former NFL inside linebacker (Rams, Bills, Washington, 1998-2013) who played 256 straight games, made four Pro Bowls, won Super Bowl XXXIV, and holds the linebacker record for consecutive starts.
London fringe theatre
London fringe theater is the network of small, mostly independent theaters outside London's commercial West End, including pub theaters, which emerged in the late 1960s after censorship ended.
London Grammar
London Grammar: British electronic pop trio of Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman, and Dot Major, formed at Nottingham University in 2009. Albums If You Wait (2013, UK No. 2), Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (2017, No. 1), Californian Soil (2021, No. 1), The Greatest Love (2024).
London Hammer
London Hammer (London Artifact): iron-and-wood hammer found near London, Texas in 1936 by Max and Emma Hahn; promoted by creationist Carl Baugh as a pre-Flood relic in Cretaceous rock, but assessed as a 19th-century tool encased in a limestone concretion.
London Has Fallen
London Has Fallen (2016) is a Babak Najafi action thriller, sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler as Mike Banning protecting the US president during a terrorist attack on a London funeral; grossed about $206M worldwide on $60M and scored 28% with critics.
London in film
London in film: the cinematic representation of London from 1890s actualities (R.W. Paul, Birt Acres) through gangster, romantic, and dystopian traditions to current productions, plus London's role as a production center.
London Internet Exchange
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is a British not-for-profit, mutually owned organization founded in 1994 that operates Internet exchange points, with over 900 member networks and around 13 Tbps of peak traffic.
London Irish
London Irish, the Exiles, a London rugby union club founded in 1898; 2002 English cup winners, 2008 Heineken Cup semi-finalists; suspended and in administration June 2023 with debts over £30m, return announced 2025.
London Kills
London Kills is a British police procedural series created by Paul Marquess, following an elite London murder investigation squad, first broadcast by Acorn TV in 2019.
London Kills Me
London Kills Me is a 1991 British comedy-drama, Hanif Kureishi's directorial debut for Working Title Films, about a Notting Hill drug dealer needing shoes to take a waiter job; it starred Justin Chadwick and was poorly received.
London King's Cross railway station
London King's Cross railway station is a London terminus opened in 1852, now the southern end of the East Coast Main Line, serving Yorkshire and Scotland.
London Lamar
London Lamar is an American Democratic politician representing Tennessee's 33rd Senate district since 2022, after serving in the Tennessee House; she chairs the Senate Democratic Caucus and focuses on maternal health.
London Marathon
London Marathon (TCS London Marathon): annual 26.2-mile London road race since 1981, one of seven Abbott World Marathon Majors; venue of Sawe's 1:59:30 first official sub-2:00 and record charity fundraising exceeding £1 billion.
London Mechanics' Institution
The London Mechanics' Institution was an adult education institution founded in London in 1823 to teach working men science, surviving today as Birkbeck, University of London.
London Medical Papyrus
The London Medical Papyrus is an Egyptian medical and magical papyrus of the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty, held in the British Museum, with the earliest Semitic texts written in an Egyptian script.
London Mela
The London Mela is an annual South Asian music and culture festival in London, first held in Gunnersbury Park in 2003 and billed as Europe's largest outdoor Asian festival.
London Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a futures exchange founded in London in 1877 and the world center for industrial metals trading, owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing since 2012.
London Mithraeum
London Mithraeum, or Walbrook Temple of Mithras: Roman mithraeum built c. 240 CE in the City of London, discovered 1954, moved 1962, and redisplayed free beneath Bloomberg's headquarters in 2017.