University College London
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University College London is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is regarded as one of the worlds leading research universities. UCL also makes the claims of being the third-oldest university in England. In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a charter in the same year. UCL has its campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London. UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within there are over 100 departments, institutes. In 2015/16, UCL had around 38,300 students and 12,000 staff and had an income of £1.36 billion. UCL ranks highly in national and international league tables and its graduates rank among the most employable in the world, UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble
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The Wilkins Building in 1956
Emergency department
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The emergency department is usually found in a hospital or other primary care center. In some countries, emergency departments have become important entry points for those without means of access to medical care. The emergency departments of most hospitals operate 24 hours a day, griswold also equipped police and fire vehicles with medical supplies and trained officers to give emergency care while en route to the hospital. Today, a hospital has its emergency department in its own section of the ground floor of the grounds. As patients can present at any time and with any complaint, triage is normally the first stage the patient passes through, and consists of a brief assessment, including a set of vital signs, and the assignment of a chief complaint. Most emergency departments have an area for this process to take place. Most patients will be assessed at triage and then passed to another area of the department, or another area of the hospital. Conversely, patients with serious conditio
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The emergency department is often a frontline venue for the delivery of emergent medical care.
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An example of emergency room signage, at a California hospital
Fitzrovia
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It is characterised by its mixed-use of residential, business, retail, education and healthcare, with no single activity dominating. The historically bohemian area was home to such writers as Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw. The neighbourhood is classified as above-averagely deprived, and parts of it have the worst living environment in the according to a government report. In 2016 the Sunday Times named the district as the best place to live in London, Fitzrovia is probably named after the Fitzroy Tavern, a public house situated on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill Street within the district. Until the end of the 19th century the area now includes Fitzrovia belonged to the Duke of Grafton and his family, their surname is Fitzroy. The name was adopted during the years initially by and later in recognition of the artistic. The name Fitzrovia was recorded in print for the first time by Tom Driberg MP in the William Hickey gossip column of the Daily Express in 1940. The writ
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Charlotte Place, on the border of Camden and Westminster
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Map featuring the Fitzrovia area (see north of Tottenham Court Road), 1804
London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concent
Edinburgh Medical School
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Moira Whyte has been head of the school since 2016. It was established in 1726, during the Scottish Enlightenment, and is one of the oldest medical schools in the English-speaking world and it ranked 21st in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013–14 and 22nd in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2014. According to a Healthcare Survey run by Saga in 2006, the schools main teaching hospital. As of 2013 the school accepts 190 European Union medical students per year, admission is very competitive, with an acceptance rate of 11. 5% for the 2012–13 admissions year. The matriculation rate, the percentage of people who are accepted who choose to attend, is 71% for the 2012–13 admissions year, the school requires the 3rd highest entry grades in the UK according to the Guardian University Guide 2014. The medical school is associated with 3 Nobel Prize winners,2 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and 1 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chem
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University of Edinburgh Medical School
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Plaque on the site of the first Royal Infirmary
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Former site of the University's Botanic Garden at Shrubhill
Charles Bell
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Sir Charles Bell KH FRS FRSE FRCSE MWS was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, neurologist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. He is also noted for describing Bells palsy and his three older brothers included John Bell, also a noted surgeon and writer, and the advocate George Joseph Bell. Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh on 12 November 1774, a son of the Rev William Bell, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, Bell grew up in Edinburgh, attending the High School and Edinburgh University, where he took his medical degree in 1798. He was a member of the Royal Medical Society as a student and he conducted his surgical training as assistant to his elder brother John Bell. He and his brother were artistically gifted, and together they taught anatomy, Bells career was characterized by the accumulation of quite extraordinary honours and achievements - and by acrimonious disputes unusual even by th
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Sir Charles Bell
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The Maniac by Charles Bell (1806)
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Opisthotonus (Tetanus) by Charles Bell (1809)
Middlesex
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Middlesex is a historic county in south-east England. It is now entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and its area is now also mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in other neighbouring ceremonial counties. It was established in the Anglo-Saxon system from the territory of the Middle Saxons, the largely low-lying county, dominated by clay in its north and alluvium on gravel in its south, was the second smallest county by area in 1831. The City of London was a county in its own right from the 12th century and was able to exert control over Middlesex. Westminster Abbey dominated most of the financial, judicial and ecclesiastical aspects of the county. As London grew into Middlesex, the Corporation of London resisted attempts to expand the city boundaries into the county, in the 18th and 19th centuries the population density was especially high in the southeast of the county, including the East End and West End of London. From 1855 the so
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The County of Middlesex
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Map of Middlesex, 1824. Note: west is at the top.
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Map in 1882 shows complete urbanisation of the East End
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
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Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland KG, PC was an English peer, landowner, and art patron. He was born Hugh Smithson, the son of Langdale Smithson of Langdale, Yorkshire and he changed his surname to Percy when he married Lady Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, on 16 July 1740, through a private Act of Parliament. The title Earl of Northumberland passed by special remainder to Hugh Percy, as Elizabeths husband, when her father died, who had been created 1st Earl of Northumberland in 1749. In 1766, the earl was created 1st Duke of Northumberland and was created Baron Lovaine on 28 June 1784, the Louvain family of Brabant, which married the Percy heiress, was the origin of the Percy family of England. He was created a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1756, Sir Hugh and Lord Brooke were the most important patrons of Canaletto in England. Smithson made a Grand Tour and was in Venice in 1733, in 1736 he became one of the two vice presidents of the
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Northumberland Row, site of the ancient Smithson house in Tottenham High Cross.
Act of Parliament
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Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament. Act of the Oireachtas is an equivalent term used in the Republic of Ireland where the legislature is known by its Irish name. It is also comparable to an Act of Congress in the United States, a draft Act of Parliament is known as a bill. In territories with a Westminster system, most bills that have any possibility of becoming law are introduced into parliament by the government. This will usually happen following the publication of a paper, setting out the issues. A bill may also be introduced into parliament without formal government backing, in territories with a multicameral parliament, most bills may be first introduced in any chamber. However, certain types of legislation are required, either by convention or by law. For example, bills imposing a tax, or involving public expenditure, are introduced into the House of Commons in the United Kingdom, Canadas House of Commons, conversely, bills p
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A graphic representation of the legislative procedure in the United Kingdom.
King George VI
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George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth, known as Albert until his accession, George VI was born in the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, and was named after his great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his life in the shadow of his elder brother. He attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy, in 1920, he was made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, in the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame. Georges elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death of their father in 1936, however, later that year Edward revealed his desire to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. B
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Formal portrait, c. 1940–46
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Four kings: Edward VII (far right), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V (far left), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII (rear), and Albert, later George VI (foreground), c. 1908
Central Middlesex Hospital
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Central Middlesex hospital is in the centre of the Park Royal business estate, on the border of two London boroughs, Brent and Ealing. CMH is a hospital of Imperial College School of Medicine. There are 214 beds on site in general medicine, general surgery, urology including orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, oral surgery, obstetrics, CMH has recently been rebuilt, using the proceeds of land sales and a PFI project. The old buildings were demolished, to be replaced by modern and accessible new ones, including the ACAD Centre, much of the original site has been sold for complementary mixed-use redevelopment, including residential accommodation. Keith Moon and Nicky Hopkins were born at the hospital, the hospital featured in the film 28 Days Later, with the protagonist Jim waking up in a deserted ACAD Centre. The £62.5 million Brent Emergency Care and Diagnostic Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal, the scheme was designed by HLM Architects in association with Avanti Architect
West Middlesex University Hospital
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West Middlesex University Hospital is an acute NHS hospital in Isleworth, west London, operated by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It serves patients in the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, the hospital has over 400 beds. The hospital offers all of the associated with a district general hospital including Accident and Emergency, Acute Medicine, Care of the Elderly, Surgery. In 2003 West Middlesex University Hospital opened its new main building following a £50 million refurbishment and it is now a modern. This houses A&E, critical care, operating theatres, clinical imaging, outpatients, the hospital is a teaching hospital of Imperial College School of Medicine and a member of the Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Partnership. It also has a volunteer program. Undergraduate students from the American university are also allowed to complete internships at WMUH, december 2011, West Middlesex was awarded full accreditation by UNICEF as a Baby
University College Hospital
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University College Hospital is a teaching hospital located in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is associated with University College London. The hospital has 665 in-patient beds,12 operating theatres and houses the largest single critical care unit in the NHS, the Accident & Emergency department sees approximately 80,000 patients a year. It is a teaching hospital and a key location for the UCL Medical School. It is also a centre for medical research and part of both the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre. The hospital is located on Euston Road in the Fitzrovia area of the London Borough of Camden, the nearest London Underground stations are Euston Square and Warren Street, with Goodge Street nearby. The urology department moved to University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, formerly the Heart Hospital and it soon became known as University College Hospital.
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Hospital building, opened 2005
UCL Medical School
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UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical education research unit. UCL has offered education in medicine since 1834, Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospital merged their medical schools in 1987 to form University College & Middlesex School of Medicine. The London School of Medicine for Women was established in 1874 by Sophia Jex-Blake, in 1998 The Royal Free & University College Medical School was formed from the merger of the two medical schools. On 1 October 2008, it was officially renamed UCL Medical School, in appreciation of the historic beginnings of UCL Medical School, its student society has retained the name RUMS and runs clubs and societies within University College London Union. The medical school is one of the largest in the country with an intake of 330 students. Undergraduate teac
Samuel Courtauld (art collector)
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Samuel Courtauld was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector. He founded the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1932 and, after a series of gifts during the 1930s, Samuel Courtauld took charge of the firm from 1908 as general manager and as chairman from 1921 to 1946. Courtauld was the son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe, and he was educated at Rugby School. After he finished school he went to Germany and France and studied textile technology to prepare to work in the family business, in 1901, he became director of one of the factories, then in 1908 the CEO of all plants of the company. He became interested in art after seeing the Hugh Lane collection on exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1917, however, his career as a collector started in 1922 following an exhibition of French art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Courtauld was one of the first collectors to display interest in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, during the
Fellow of the Royal Society
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As of 2016, there are around 1600 living Fellows, Foreign and Honorary Members. Fellowship of the Royal Society has been described by The Guardian newspaper as “the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar” with several institutions celebrating their announcement each year. Up to 60 new Fellows, honorary and foreign members are elected annually usually in May, each candidate is considered on their merits and can be proposed from any sector of the scientific community. Fellows are elected for life on the basis of excellence in science and are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRS, see Category, Fellows of the Royal Society and Category, Female Fellows of the Royal Society. Every year, Fellows elect up to ten new Foreign Members, like Fellows, Foreign Members are elected for life through peer review on the basis of excellence in science. As of 2016 there are around 165 Foreign Members, who are entitled to use the post-nominal ForMemRS, see Category, Foreign Members of the Royal
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The entrance to the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace, London
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The President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
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Mace granted by Charles II
Charles Dodds
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Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet MVO FRS FRSE FRCP LLD was a British biochemist. He was born in Liverpool in 1899, the child of Ralph Edward Dodds, a shoe retailer. The family shortly moved to Leeds, then to Darlington and then to Chesham, Bucks, from there he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London in 1916, spent one year in the army in 1917, and qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1921. He died at Sussex Square in Paddington, London on 16 December 1973, in 1924 he was appointed to the new Chair of Biochemistry at the University of London which was started in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology at the Middlesex. Three years later, he was appointed Director of the recently completed Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry and he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1929 Birthday Honours. In 1941 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and his proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Alan William Greenwood, James Kendall and Guy Freder
Private Finance Initiative
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The private finance initiative is a way of creating public–private partnerships by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital. PFI has also used simply to place a great amount of debt off-balance-sheet. PFI has been controversial in the UK, the National Audit Office felt in 2003 that it provided good value for money overall, however, more recently the Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee found that PFI should be brought on balance sheet. The Treasury should remove any perverse incentives unrelated to value for money by ensuring that PFI is not used to circumvent departmental budget limits and it should also ask the OBR to include PFI liabilities in future assessments of the fiscal rules. It is a sub-set of a broader procurement approach termed Public Private Partnership, a public sector authority signs a contract with a private sector consortium, technically known as a Special Purpose Vehicle. This consortium is typically formed for the purpose of providing the PFI.
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George Osborne
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Ciutat de la Justicia
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University Hospital Coventry
Euston Road
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Euston Road in Central London, England, runs from Marylebone Road to Kings Cross. The road is part of the London Inner Ring Road and forms part of the London congestion charge zone boundary, traffic increased when major railway stations, including Euston, opened in the mid-19th century and led to the roads renaming in 1857. Euston Road was widened in the 1960s to cater for the demands of motor traffic. The road contains several significant buildings including the Wellcome Library, the British Library, the road starts as a continuation of the A501, a major road through Central London, at its junction with Marylebone Road and Great Portland Street. It meets the end of Tottenham Court Road at a large junction where there is an underpass. The road ahead to Islington is Pentonville Road, the road is part of the London Inner Ring Road and on the edge of the London congestion charge zone. Drivers are not charged for travelling on the road, but may be if they turn south into the zone during it
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Euston Road at its junction with St. Pancras Road, April 1965.
John Loughborough Pearson
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John Loughborough Pearson RA was a Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency unrivalled in his generation, Pearson was born in Brussels, Belgium on 5 July 1817. He was the son of William Pearson, etcher, of Durham and he soon moved to London, where he became a pupil of Philip Hardwick, architect of the Euston Arch and Lincolns Inn. Pearson lived in central London at 13 Mansfield Street, and was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1880, holy Trinity, Westminster, and St Marys, Dalton Holme, are notable examples of this phase. St Peters, Vauxhall, was his first groined church, in these he applied the Early English style to modern needs and modern economy with unrivalled success. He was enlisted by Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet to develop the first of what now are known as The Sykes churches near Sledmere, initially Pearson restored the churches at Garton, Kirkburn
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St Mary's Dalton Holme
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St. Matthew's church,
Landscove, South Devon
Eastern Promises
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Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian-American gangster film directed by David Cronenberg, from a screenplay written by Steven Knight. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel and it tells a story of a Russian-British midwife, Anna, who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old Russian prostitute who dies in childbirth. As Anna tries to protect the baby, she is enmeshed deeper into the criminal underworld, principal photography began November 2006, in locations in and around London. Eastern Promises received positive reception, appearing on several critics top 10 films lists for 2007. The film has won awards, including the Audience Prize for best film at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film received twelve Genie Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, Mortensen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Anna Khitrova, a British-Russian midwife at a London hospital, finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Ta
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Theatrical release poster
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Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin in the film.
Kaupthing Bank
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Kaupthing Bank was a major international Icelandic bank, headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland. All the non-Icelandic assets and debts remained with the now defunct Kaupthing Bank, prior to its collapse it also allegedly loaned money to various parties with the purpose of buying Kaupthing shares. Prior to its collapse, Kaupthing Bank operated in thirteen countries, including all the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and it was seventh largest bank in the Nordic countries in terms of market capitalization. The bank had employed over 3,300 people with 36 retail branches in Iceland, as of 31 December 2007, the bank had a total assets of €58.3 billion. In 2006, it ranked number 1,006 on Forbes Global 2000 The same year and that year Kaupthing Bank had net earnings of €812 million, compared with €986 million in 2006. About 70% of the operating profit originated outside Iceland, on 9 October 2008, following a major banking and financial cri
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is a practice of architects, urban designers and masterplanners established in 1986 and practicing out of London. Alex Lifschutz and Ian Davidson met working on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters for Foster and Partners, after the death of Ian Davidson in 2003 the practice became Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands with Paul Sandilands as Director. In 2013, the practice finalised designing a new house for Bonhams in London. In August 2011 Delancey and Qatari Diar, working with Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, beat rival developers to purchase the 2, foyles flagship store, Charing Cross Road, London - longlisted for the 2015 Stirling Prize. C. Seven Civic Trust Awards and Office Architect of the Year from Building Design in 2011, in 2012 the practices Tsvetnoy Central Market project won the Society of British Interior Design inaugural Best Interior Design Award. Vogue Russias Store of the Year, Interior Design Magazines award for best retail interior. In
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OXO Tower viewed from the north bank of the Thames
Gothic architecture
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Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture and its characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the cathedrals, abbeys. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings, for this reason a study of Gothic architecture is largely a study of cathedrals and churches. A series of Gothic revivals began in mid-18th-century England, spread through 19th-century Europe and continued, largely for ecclesiastical and university structures, the term Gothic architecture originated as a pejorative description. Hence, François Rabelais, also of the 16th century, imagines an inscription over the door of his utopian Abbey of Thélème, Here enter no hypoc
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The interior of the western end of Reims Cathedral
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Overview of Reims Cathedral from north-east
Romanesque art
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Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century, or later, depending on region. The preceding period is known as the Pre-Romanesque period, Romanesque art was also greatly influenced by Byzantine art, especially in painting, and by the anti-classical energy of the decoration of the Insular art of the British Isles. From these elements was forged a highly innovative and coherent style, outside Romanesque architecture, the art of the period was characterised by a very vigorous style in both sculpture and painting. In illuminated manuscripts, for which the most lavishly decorated manuscripts of the period were mostly bibles or psalters, more originality is seen, as new scenes needed to be depicted. The same applied to the capitals of columns, never more exciting than in this period, colours, which can be seen as bright in the 21st century only in stained glass and well-preserved manuscripts, tended to be very striking, and
Listed building
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A listed building or listed structure, in the United Kingdom, is one that has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The statutory bodies maintaining the list are Historic England in England, Cadw in Wales, Historic Scotland in Scotland, however, the preferred term in Ireland is protected structure. In England and Wales, an amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Owners of listed buildings are, in circumstances, compelled to repair and maintain them. When alterations are permitted, or when listed buildings are repaired or maintained, slightly different systems operate in each area of the United Kingdom, though the basic principles of the listing remain the same. It was the damage to caused by German bombing during World War II that prompted the first listing of buildings that were deemed to be of particular architectural merit. The listings were used as a means of
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Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the British monarch, listed Grade I.
Historic England
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Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked with protecting the environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments. The body was created by the National Heritage Act 1983. Historic England has a remit to and complements the work of Natural England which aims to protect the natural environment. Historic England inherits English Heritages position as the UK governments statutory adviser and this includes archaeology on land and under water, historic buildings sites and areas, designated landscapes and the historic elements of the wider landscape. It monitors and reports on the state of Englands heritage and publishes the annual the Heritage at Risk survey which is one of the UK Governments Official statistics and it is tasked to secure the preservation and enhancement of the man-made heritage of England for the benefit of future generation
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Swindon Office and home to their Archives.
Wellcome Library
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The Wellcome Library is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome, whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcomes interest was the history of medicine in a sense and included subjects such as alchemy or witchcraft. Since Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936, the Wellcome Trust has been responsible for maintaining the Librarys collection, the library is free and open to the public. Henry Wellcome began collecting books seriously in the late 1890s, using a succession of agents and dealers, and by travelling around the world to gather whatever could be found. Wellcomes first major entry into the market place at the auction of William Morriss library in 1898. His interests were international and the broad coverage of languages. When Henry Wellcome died, the bulk of his estate and his collection was bequeathed to a body of trustees, a programme of sorting and rationalising therefore, was begun, which lasted throu
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The National Gallery
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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the century to 1900. The Gallery is a charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the collection is free of charge. It is among the most visited art museums in the world, after the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum, unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, after that initial purchase the Gallery was shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which comprise two-thirds of the collection. It used to be claimed that this was one of the
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West Middlesex Hospital
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West Middlesex University Hospital is an acute NHS hospital in Isleworth, west London, operated by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It serves patients in the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, the hospital has over 400 beds. The hospital offers all of the associated with a district general hospital including Accident and Emergency, Acute Medicine, Care of the Elderly, Surgery. In 2003 West Middlesex University Hospital opened its new main building following a £50 million refurbishment and it is now a modern. This houses A&E, critical care, operating theatres, clinical imaging, outpatients, the hospital is a teaching hospital of Imperial College School of Medicine and a member of the Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Partnership. It also has a volunteer program. Undergraduate students from the American university are also allowed to complete internships at WMUH, december 2011, West Middlesex was awarded full accreditation by UNICEF as a Baby
John Raymond Hobbs (Professor)
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John Hobbs was born in Aldershot. He was the son of four male children of a soldier’s family. His family moved around due to his father’s career in the British Army. The family eventually settled in his fathers home town of Plymouth in the county of Devon, during the Second World War, John, along with his three brothers Frederick, William and Dennis, were evacuated from blitz-torn Plymouth to Penzance. He left school at 16 and worked as a laboratory assistant. After National Service, John used the money he had saved from his army sergeant’s pay to put himself into Plymouth, within 9 months, gaining a state scholarship to study medicine, where he chose the Middlesex Hospital in London and won 7 prizes. In 1970 he was appointed as Professor of Chemical Pathology at Westminster Medical School, in the early 1970s Professor Hobbs’s Westminster team were doing ground breaking work. In 1970 the world’s first successful intended stem cell transplant for a fatal human disease. In 1971 the first
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Professor John Hobbs
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Bone marrow harvest
Open House London
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Open House London is an event which promotes appreciation of architecture by the general public. It is a part of the organisation Open-City and is best known for its annual Open House Weekend which is an event held on one weekend each September throughout London since 1992. The event forms a London version of the European Heritage Days, during the Open House Weekend many buildings considered to be of architectural significance open their doors for free public tours. Heritage Open Days is an event covering the rest of England. The Open House event in London is usually held on the weekend in September. The 2010 event featured over 700 buildings, neighbourhood walks, architects talks, cycle tours, Open House Weekend attracts tens of thousands of people. Outside of the Open House Weekend, Open-City organises other projects including year-round tours, lectures and they also run Green Sky Thinking Week, a programme focused on sustainability held in April of each year
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Visitors to
30 St Mary Axe, widely known also as the Gherkin, one of the weekend's most popular venues.
Eastman Dental Hospital
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The Eastman Dental Hospital is a specialist hospital for dental treatment located in London, United Kingdom, and a part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It is based on Grays Inn Road in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, in 2009 there were more than 22,000 orthodontic appointments at the hospital, making its orthodontic department one of the largest in the UK. The hospital is part of both the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre, in 1926, George Eastman donated £200,000 for the establishment of a specialist dental and oral health clinic for the benefit of poor children of Central London. The Eastman Dental Clinic was constructed between 1928 and 1930 to the design of Sir John Burnet and Partners and was opened on 20 November 1931 by the American Ambassador, until 1947/48, the clinic was integrated into the Royal Free Hospital. Afterwards, as an independent institution, it was established as the postg
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Eastman Dental Hospital
Hospital for Tropical Diseases
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The Hospital for Tropical Diseases is a specialist tropical disease hospital located in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is associated with University College London. It is the only NHS hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases, in addition to specialists in major tropical diseases such as Malaria, Leprosy and tuberculosis. It also provides an infectious disease treatment service for UCLH and it was founded on 8 March 1821 on board an ex-naval ship and moved onto dry land as the Dreadnought Seamens Hospital in 1870 as part of the Royal Greenwich Hospital. The management of infectious disease moved in 1919 near to Euston Square, in central London, after several moves during the Second World War, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases was re-established under the newly formed NHS in 1951 at the site of the St Pancras Hospital. Finally, in 1998 it moved into new premises within UCLH.
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Blue plaque on the wall of UCL's union building: SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. This building housed the LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE and the HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES 1920-1939. GREENWICH
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
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The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery is a neurological hospital in London, United Kingdom and part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was the first hospital to be established in England dedicated exclusively to treating the diseases of the nervous system. It is closely associated with University College London and in partnership with the UCL Institute of Neurology and it supports the Sir William Gowers Epilepsy Assessment Unit at the National Society for Epilepsy Centre at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. The NHNN also runs The National Brain Appeal, a charity dedicated to supporting the Hospital for the funding of equipment, buildings, the hospital is located on Queen Square in the Bloomsbury area of Central London. The current name, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, came into use in 1988 and it was merged in 1948 with the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, which in turn owed its foundation in 1866 to a German,
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National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery main entrance and Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
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Established in 1874, its motto is Audient surdi mutique loquentur. The hospital specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, the Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital was founded in 1874 by Lennox Browne, Llewellyn Thomas, Alfred Hutton, George Wallis and Ernest Turner. The hospital initially opened in Manchester Street, but demand for its services was such that in 1875 it moved to its current location on Grays Inn Road. In January 1942 the hospital was amalgamated with the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat in Golden Square to form The Royal National Throat Nose, in April 2012, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust took over management of the hospital from the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. Professor Ronald Hinchcliffe was a consultant at the hospital in the 1960s, edith Whetnall led the way in treating the deaf. Healthcare in London List of hospitals in England Official Site
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Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
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University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, named The Heart Hospital until refurbished and renamed in 2015, was a specialist cardiac hospital located in London, United Kingdom until 2015. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is associated with University College London. After the 2015 refurbishment the hospital provided thoracic surgery, and the UCLH urology department moved there. Before the 2015 refurbishment the Heart Hospital conducted over 1,000 surgical heart operations each year, had 95 in-patient beds and it treated around 1,700 new outpatients,5,500 follow-up outpatients and 1,200 inpatients each year. It was a centre for research, home to the UCL Centre for Cardiology in the Young, and part of the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre. It is a hospital for the UCL Medical School. The National Heart Hospital was founded in 1857 in Margaret Street by Dr Eldridge Spratt, in 1913 new premises were constructed in the current location
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The Heart Hospital in March 2015
UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre
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The UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre is a biomedical research centre based in London. Calls for expressions of interest in applying for Biomedical Research Centre status were released by the National Institute for Health Research in April 2006, all NHS providers in England were eligible to apply in collaboration with academic partners. UCLH and UCL made a joint application for Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre status, an international expert Selection Panel then reviewed the Pre-Qualifying Questionnaires and identified a shortlist, which included UCLH/UCL. Shortlisted candidates were invited to submit full applications by 13 October 2006. The UCLH/UCL application was successful and the UCLH/UCL National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre was established in April 2007, in June 2009 the Centre was part of a consortium that won £1. A study co-funded by the Centre was published in May 2010 which established that premature babies experience incr
UCL Partners
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UCL Partners is an academic health science centre located in London, England. In July 2007 the then Health Minister Lord Darzi recommended the establishment of a number of health science centres in the UK. Key strategic appointments were made in summer 2009, including Professor David Fish as Managing Director, an alliance between UCL, UCL Partners, Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital was announced in October 2009. The UCL Partners academic strategy and key research priorities were agreed in November 2009, barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust agreed to join UCL Partners in April 2012. In May 2013 UCL Partners was officially designated as one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks established by the NHS in England, the governing body of UCL Partners is UCL Partners Ltd, a company limited by guaranteed. The governance arrangements consist of, A board led by an independent chair, an executive group comprising the four chief executives of the four NHS Trust
Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican R
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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