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21 hours ago · The number 39 is seen at the foot of a flight of steps, a reference to John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, while the 10 is the door number from 10 Downing Street. The 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins opening the ceremony. A two-minute film Journey along the Thames, directed by Boyle and produced by the BBC, opened the ceremony.
21 hours ago · The Union Jack [note 1] [3] [4] or Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom. The Union Flag was also used as the official flag of several British colonies and dominions before they adopted their own national flags. The flag continues to have official status in Canada, by parliamentary resolution, where it is known as the ...
21 hours ago · Worthing is the second most densely populated local authority area in East and West Sussex, with a population density in 2011 of 33.83 people per hectare. [49] Worthing underwent dramatic population growth both in the early 19th century as the hamlet had newly become a town and again in the 1880s.
21 hours ago · Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP for Beaumaris 1794–1796 and Denbighshire 1796–1840, who became deaf after contracting erysipelas in 1826, and had a large tongue which impeded speech. [39] Sir Alexander Hope , MP for Dumfries Burghs 1796–1800 and Linlithgowshire 1800–1834, who lost an arm and was left permanently lame after being wounded in the Flanders Campaign in 1795.
