One of the most prestigious American universities, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Named after its first benefactor John Harvard.
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Harvard University
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Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
The "Queen's Head Inn", owned by the family of John Harvard, founder of Harva...
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Thomas Arnold
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Tobias Matthay
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1 memorial
Tower Hamlets College students
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Dositey Obradovich
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1 memorial
Blewcoat School
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1 memorial
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Blow-up bridge
NW1, towpath
'Blow-up' bridge At 3am on 2 October 1874, the boat 'Tilbury', carrying gunpowder to a quarry in the Midlands, exploded, demolishing the ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Sir Francis Drake
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
6 memorials
1 memorial
Sir Horace Cutler
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