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London Monarchs
London Monarchs: British professional American football team in the WLAF and NFL Europe, 1991-1998. Won the first World Bowl 21-0 over Barcelona Dragons at Wembley; folded as the England Monarchs in 1998.
London Museum of Water & Steam
The London Museum of Water & Steam, formerly the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, is an industrial museum in Brentford, London, housing Victorian steam water-pumping engines.
London Musicians' Collective
The London Musicians' Collective (LMC) was a London membership organization, active from 1976 until March 2008, that promoted free improvisation and experimental music through concerts, festivals, and the radio station Resonance FM.
London Naval Treaty
London Naval Treaty: 1930 agreement by Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy extending Washington Treaty naval limits to cruisers, destroyers, and submarines; second 1936 treaty followed without Japan.
London Naval Treaty ratification crisis
The London Naval Treaty ratification crisis (ロンドン海軍軍縮条約問題) was Japan's 1930 political conflict over ratifying the London Naval Treaty, which was ratified despite Naval General Staff opposition, wounding Prime Minister Hamaguchi.
London North Eastern Railway
London North Eastern Railway is a publicly owned British train operator running intercity services from London King's Cross to Yorkshire, North East England, and Scotland since 2018.
London on da Track
London on da Track (London Tyler Holmes, born 1991) is an Atlanta hip-hop producer and rapper behind Rich Gang's "Lifestyle", Young Thug's Slime Season era, and Ariana Grande's "Positions", with his own label L.I.V.
London Overground
London Overground is a suburban passenger rail network in Greater London that carries more than 3 million passengers a week over 113 stations, operated by Transport for London since 2007.
London Paddington station
London Paddington station is a mainline railway terminus in Westminster, London, opened in 1854 and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the Great Western Railway terminus.
London Palladium
The London Palladium is a Grade II listed, 2,286-seat West End theatre at 8 Argyll Street, London, designed by Frank Matcham and opened 26 December 1910. Owned by LW Theatres, famed for variety, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, over 40 Royal Variety Performances, and its annual pantomime.
London penetration depth
The London penetration depth is the distance over which a magnetic field decays as it enters a superconductor, set by the superconducting electron density and typically tens of nanometers.
London Post Office Railway
The London Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail, was a 6.5-mile driverless underground railway that carried mail between London stations and sorting offices from 1927 to 2003.
London postal district
London postal district: the 1856 General Post Office division of London into ten districts (EC, WC, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) under Rowland Hill; NE and S abolished in 1866; basis of modern London postcodes.
London Power Tunnels
London Power Tunnels is a two-phase National Grid program of deep-bore electricity cable tunnels beneath London: 32 km in north London built between 2010 and 2018, and 32 km more in south London completing in 2028.
London Protocol (1830)
London Protocol of 3 February 1830: British-French-Russian conference protocol declaring Greece an independent state with the Acheloos-Spercheios border, a Sovereign Prince (Leopold declined; Otto of Bavaria followed), superseding the 1827 Treaty of London and 1829 autonomy protocol.
London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 during the Times lock-out, publishing essays, reviews, and poems twice a month.
London Review of International Law
The London Review of International Law is an online-only, peer-reviewed academic journal on international law, published by Oxford University Press since 2013 and edited by Martin Clark, Stephen Humphreys, and Tor Krever.
London Road (film)
London Road (2015) is a British verbatim musical drama directed by Rufus Norris, adapted from the 2011 National Theatre stage musical by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork about the Ipswich community's reaction to the 2006 murders of five women, starring Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, and Tom Hardy.
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics (LSE) is a specialist social-science university in central London, offering more than 40 undergraduate programs to students from over 140 countries.
London Scottish F.C.
London Scottish F.C., rugby union club founded 10 April 1878 in London for Scottish expatriates; based at Richmond Athletic Ground, record 224 international caps, Championship side after 1999 administration and 2011 promotion.
London sewer system
The London sewer system, or London sewers, drains London's wastewater through a network built by Joseph Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works between 1859 and 1875.
London Southend Airport
London Southend Airport is a single-runway airport in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, about 45 miles east of London, serving European leisure flights, with easyJet reopening a base there in 2025.
London Spy
London Spy is a 2015 five-part BBC Two miniseries written by Tom Rob Smith, directed by Jakob Verbruggen, starring Ben Whishaw, Edward Holcroft, Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling; a gay love story and espionage mystery inspired by the Gareth Williams case.
London Stadium
London Stadium, formerly the Olympic Stadium, is a multi-use venue in Stratford, London, built for the 2012 Games, home to West Ham United and UK Athletics, with 62,500 football capacity and a £323m conversion cost.
London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport, also known as Stansted Airport, is a single-runway international airport and London's third-busiest, owned by Manchester Airports Group since 2013 and the largest base of Ryanair.
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is the United Kingdom's principal stock exchange, tracing its origins to Jonathan's Coffee House in 1698 and now part of LSEG.
London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a London-listed financial markets group spanning trading, clearing, indices, and data, which acquired Refinitiv in a $27 billion deal completed in 2021.
London Straits Convention
The London Straits Convention (Лондонская конвенция 1841 года) was an 1841 agreement, signed in London by six powers, closing the Bosporus and Dardanelles to foreign warships in peacetime.
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra (LSO): British symphony orchestra founded 1904 by players leaving Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra, self-governing co-operative, first concert 9 June 1904 under Hans Richter, resident at the Barbican, famed for film scores and LSO Live.
London System
London System: 1.d4 opening for White with dark-squared bishop on f4 before e3 (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4, ECO D02). A universal setup playable against nearly any Black defense; named after the 1922 London tournament, formerly the Mason Variation.