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    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British...
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  • Look up blitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to: Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military...
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  • Blitz is an upcoming historical drama written and directed by Steve McQueen and starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman and Stephen Graham...
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    The London Blitz are an American football team based in Finsbury Park, North London, England, who compete BAFA National Leagues Premier Division South...
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    The Blitz Kids were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in Covent Garden, London in 1979–1980, and are credited with launching...
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    the bombed sites left by the London Blitz of the early 1940s, and as such held symbolism for Londoners, celebrated in "London Pride", a patriotic song written...
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    revealed numerous parts of the London Wall. At 00:15 on 28 August 1940, during the pre-wave of bombing before the Blitz, buildings and parts of the wall...
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    she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and...
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  • Blitz is a 2011 British action thriller film directed by Elliott Lester, written by Nathan Parker, and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan...
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    The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid...
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  • The London Monarchs were a professional American football team in NFL Europe and its predecessor league, the World League of American Football (WLAF)....
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    The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British...
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    "London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II. Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941...
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    Blitz in Covent Garden, helping launch the New Romantic subcultural movement in the late 1970s. Today, the annual London Pride Parade and the London Lesbian...
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  • original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2010. "1984 Table of Merit". London Blitz. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2013...
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  • Battle of Britain in 1940, and, later, during the early days of the London Blitz. It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020 by Lionsgate....
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    always a guarantee of safety however; on 11 January 1941 during the London Blitz, a bomb penetrated the booking hall of Bank Station, the blast from which...
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  • The Blitz. Marks and Spencer, 2002 Air Raid Precautions homefront website Amy Helen Bell, London was ours: Diaries and memoirs of the London Blitz (IB...
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    the United States. Since 2024, the series has three sub-series: the NFL London Games in the United Kingdom, which have been in place since 2007; the NFL...
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    Tredegar Square (category Squares in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    /trɪˈdiːɡər/ is a well-preserved Georgian square in Mile End, within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The square has a garden in the centre with lawns...
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    from being able to identify their targets by sight, such as during the London Blitz of 1940. In coastal regions, a shoreside blackout of city lights also...
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  • The Empty Child (category Television episodes set in London)
    travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) arrive in 1941 during the London Blitz, where they find that the city has been terrorised by a strange child...
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    Reginald Blomfield, but retaining the statue of Britannia. During the London Blitz it was the only building in the Circus to be damaged, with a few window...
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    mounted. It began with the bombing of London for 57 successive nights, an era known as "the Blitz". East London was targeted because the area was a centre...
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    people trapped under destroyed buildings in civil defence service in the London Blitz Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949), 12 January 1945 for rescuing people...
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  • Alice by Heart (category Musicals set in London)
    originally presented by London's Royal National Theatre in 2012. The musical takes place in 1941, in the debris after the London Blitz of World War II. The...
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    continued to run until the mid-1970s. Both the London Bridge stations were badly damaged by bombing in the London Blitz in December 1940 and early 1941. The shell...
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    Bromley (redirect from Bromley, London)
    1904. Like St Peter and St Paul's, St Mark's was heavily damaged in the London Blitz of 1941. Only the tower survived intact. On 3 June 1952, the Duchess...
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    observed in individuals in fear for their lives; a case occurred during the London blitz, and a case of fear of a storm while sailing, etc. Haemolacria – blood...
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    household of his mother. His wife died during World War II, a victim of the London Blitz. He remarried in 1942. He moved to Provender House in Faversham, Kent...
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