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Sunday, 29 January 2012

LONDON (Part 3)


MUSIC
London is also home to many orchestras and concert halls, such as the Barbican Arts Centre (principal base of the London Symphony Orchestra), Cadogan Hall (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) and the Royal Albert Hall (The Proms). London's two main opera houses are the Royal Opera House and the Coliseum Theatre. Visit Royal Albert Hall and you can found the UK's largest pipe organ!


SPORTS
London has hosted the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1948. In July 2005 this city was chosen to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, which make London the first city in the world to host the Summer Olympics three times!
London was also the host of the British Empire Games in 1934. London's most popular sport is football and it has fourteen League football clubs, including five in the Premier League: Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur.

EDUCATION
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University, or simply Cambridge) is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in the United Kingdom, and the seventh-oldest globally.
The university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge that was formed in 1209, early records suggest, by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk. The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In addition to cultural and practical associations as a historic part of British society, they have a long history of rivalry with each other.
Academically Cambridge ranks as one of the top universities in the world: first in the world in both the 2010 and 2011 QS World. Graduates of the University have won a total of 61 Nobel Prizes, the most of any university in the world!

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