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The name comes from the Yoruba word Olodumare. Olodum is widely credited with developing the music style known as samba reggae and for its active participation in carnaval each year.
Amy Winehouse was a singer-songwriter from Southgate, north London.. London is famous for its rock scene, and was the starting point of some of the greatest 60s and 70s artists such as David Bowie, Iron Maiden, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Renaissance, Fleetwood Mac, the Sex Pistols, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen and popular 90s acts like Blur and Coldplay.
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.
London was formed in 1978 by Lizzie Grey, Nikki Sixx and Dane Rage (real name Dane Scarborough). The three met when Sixx and Rage were recruited to play bass and drums for Sister, the band that Grey was in with Blackie Lawless.
Taurean Waller-Prince (/ ˈ t ɔːr i ə n / TOR-ee-ən; [1] born March 22, 1994) [2] is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
A tablet from c. 65 AD, reading "Londinio Mogontio"- "In London, to Mogontius" The name of London is derived from a word first attested, in Latinised form, as Londinium.By the first century CE, this was a commercial centre in Roman Britain.
The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district [note 1] that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world. [2]
London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. ...