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• Genoa
  |Timezone:||[[Central European Time|CET]], [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1 ...obable that the flag of Genoa was adopted by [[England]] and the [[City of London]] in [[1190]] so their ships entering the Mediterranean would benefit from
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• The World Is Not Enough
  *[[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] — [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6 Headquarters *[[London|London, United Kingdom]]
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• Architecture
  ...and/or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the successful (and sometimes less than successful) design and implement ...e.swiss.re.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Four architectural styles in [[London]], [[England]], including the [[30 St Mary Axe|Gherkin]]. In 2004 this buil
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• Casino Royale (1967 film)
  ...Tarry, and played by [[John Huston]]) accompanies representatives of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[KGB]] and [[France|French]] secret service to On the way back to London, he survives another attempt on his life involving a remote-controlled dair
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• Europe
  ...[[Italian Peninsula]] contain their own complex features, as does mainland Central Europe itself, where the relief contains many plateaus, river valleys and b ...e influence of the [[Gulf Stream]]. The Gulf Stream is nicknamed "Europe's central heating", because it makes Europe's climate warmer and wetter than it would
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• Venice
  | Timezone || [[Central European Time|CET]], [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1 * Chambers, D.S. (1970). ''The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380-1580.'' London: Thames & Hudson. The best brief introduction in English, still completely
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• Roman cuisine
  ...he beverages stood beside the couches. All heads were oriented towards the central table, with left elbows propped on a cushion and feet at the outside of the *Mark Grant, ''Roman cookery: ancient recipes for modern kitchens''. London: Serif, 1999.
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• Chris Amon
  ...mber of the [[Ditton Road Flyers]], the social set named after the road in London where Amon shared an apartment with American [[Peter Revson]], Hailwood and ...n Racing]]. Fowell designed the car, the [[F101]], which featured a single central fuel tank, titanium [[torsion bar]]s and a forward driving position. Struct
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...r than pure gasoline propulsion, due to the much greater efficiencies of a central plant. Furthermore, coal is only one source of centrally generated power, a ...e £8 ($14) daily [[London congestion charge|congestion charge]] in central London. Hybrid divers also benefit from a discount in their insurance if they are
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• Rome
  |[[Time zone]]||[[Central European Time|CET]], [[UTC]]+1 ...al component of the city, flowing south through the western portion of the central zone.
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• Max Mosley
  | Birth place || [[London]], [[England]] ...many attended by [[Joseph Goebbels]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]. Max was born in London early in the [[Second World War]], in April 1940. In May, Sir Oswald, who h
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• Casino Royale (2006 film)
  ...and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The conference was held at [[noon]] in [[London]] at [[HMS President]], a [[Royal Naval Reserve]] station at [[St Katharine ...e posters with a suppressor attached. [[Felix Leiter]], Bond's long time [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] friend, whom Bond had previously first met (altho
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• Ancient Rome
  ...Forum Romanum panorama 2.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The [[Roman Forum]] was the central area around which ancient Rome developed.]] ...was probably founded sometime in the [[9th century BC]] by members of two central Italian tribes, the [[Latins]] and the [[Sabine]]s, on the [[Palatine Hill|
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• Lancia Delta
  ...front/rear torque-splitting Ferguson viscous-coupling-controlled epicyclic central differential. At the rear wheels is a [[Torsen]] (torque sensing) rear diff ...led with boost-drive management i.e. boost controlled by feedback from the central control unit on the basis of revs/throttle angle, mapping designed for ultr
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• Bicycle
  ...ing paramedics, who can often get to the scene of an incident in [[Central London]] more quickly than a motorised ambulance. ...of teenagers have got their first jobs delivering newspapers by bicycle. London has many delivery companies that use bicycles with trailers. Most cities i
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• Licence to Kill
  ...forcement Administration|DEA]] agent [[Felix Leiter]] (previously of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]), on their way to Leiter's [[wedding]]. Meanwhile ...number of similarities. This third Dalton film would have taken place in [[London]], [[Hong Kong]], as well as [[Tokyo]], and dealt with the aftermath of the
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• List of James Bond vehicles
  ...]] ||Unknown||Just before the entrance to Leeds Castle in a Car chase from London to Dover ...bsequent film, ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'', parked up in Q Branch back in London when Bond calls Q from Amsterdam.
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• Aluminium
  * [[Heat sink]]s for electronic appliances such as [[transistor]]s and [[Central processing unit|CPUs]]. ...rcus.jpg|thumb|right|The statue known as ''Eros'' in [[Piccadilly Circus]] London, was made in 1893 and is one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.]
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• 007 (disambiguation)
  ...nt of the international arm of the British Secret Service headquartered in London in a tall, grey building overlooking [[Regent's Park]]. Under the cover nam ...reign Manager for [[Kemsley Newspapers]], an organisation owned by the ''[[London Sunday Times]]''. Upon accepting the job, Fleming asked that he be allowed
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• Music of Italy
  ...th-central Italy, approximately between [[Pesaro]] and [[La Spezia]]. The central, northern and southern parts of the peninsula each share certain musical ch ...th the [[saltarello]]; the diatonic button ''organetto'' is most common in central Italy, while chromatic accordions prevail in the north. Many municipalitie
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