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Monday Afternoon Diversion: Welcome to London

By Kevin Robinson in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 30, 2012 8:00PM

With the 2012 Rain Games Summer Olympics underway, we're all hearing a lot about London. What we're not hearing about is the City of London, which is the city inside of London, and which is in fact, older than England (which is a country inside of a country, but that's another story). This short video explains wonderfully the difference between London and the City of London and how they came to be.