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"London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
London Bridge has been depicted in its several forms, in art, literature, and songs, including the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. The modern bridge is owned and maintained by Bridge House Estates , an independent charity of medieval origin overseen by the City of London Corporation .
Operation London Bridge was the funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II. The plan included the announcement of her death, the period of official mourning , and the details of her state funeral . The plan was created as early as the 1960s and revised many times in the years before her death in September 2022 .
"London Bridge is down." On September 8, 2022, this phrase went out along private channels to convey the news that Queen Elizabeth, the longest-lived and longest-serving monarch in British history ...
A London Bridge features in the traditional 17th century nursery rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. – Operation Lion – Operation Lion is the overarching plan for any royal death, of which ...
The first page of "London Bridge is Falling Down" from an 1815 edition. Tommy Thumb's Song Book is the earliest known collection of British nursery rhymes, printed in 1744. No original copy has survived, but its content has been recovered from later reprints. It contained many rhymes that are still well known.
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Newtrament is a musician, MC and DJ known for releasing an early UK electro/hip hop record - "London Bridge is Falling Down" - on Jive Records. [1] [2] It was based on the nursery rhyme (previously adapted by the reggae group Culture) with a political message that electoral politics were a sham. [3]