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3 days ago · THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge, the county town, and since 1951 a city, owes its position to the crossing of two natural lines of communication.
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2 days ago · 1885–present: One. Cambridge is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Daniel Zeichner of the Labour Party. [n 2] Centred on the university city of Cambridge, it is one of the country's oldest continuously constituted constituencies. It was created in 1295 and returned two Members of ...
4 days ago · Since Cambridge is one of the most ancient of European universities, it is not surprising that its origins are obscure. Much legendary lore has been accumulated on the subject, especially in the course of the disputes in the 16th and 17th centuries, as to the relative seniority of Cambridge and of Oxford.
4 days ago · The city of Cambridge: Medieval history. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1959. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
3 days ago · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
5 days ago · East West Rail is a strategic aim to establish a new main line railway between East Anglia and South Wales. [5] [6] The immediate plan is to build (or rebuild) a line linking Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keynes (at Bletchley) and Bedford, largely using the trackbed of the former Varsity Line.
3 days ago · To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. Turn over a new leaf. Edmund Burke, letter to Miss Haviland; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
