An artist has posted on social network site Reddit a set of images made
by splicing scenes of London taken from Google Map's Street View and
18th-century landscape paintings. The collection of images by Shystone includes this composite using Canaletto’s 1749 painting of Westminster Abbey and how the same scene looks today.
Let’s do something good for the world: close our taps, take faster shower and try to save as water as possible!
How you can help?
Pledge your support this World Water Day adding your name to WATER AID Uk
online form or tweet your support for a world where everyone,
everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. They’ll
display your name, or ‘watergraph’, on our giant, interactive waterfall
for everyone to see. On 19 and 20 March in London’s Canary Wharf,
your name will be sent cascading down our waterfall, alongside
thousands of others to help raise awareness of the water and sanitation
crisis.
Every minute, every day, people suffer and lives are lost needlessly
because of a lack of safe water and sanitation. Help the world end this
global crisis and transform lives.
The London St Patrick’s Day Parade and
Festival is now in its 13th year and attracts over 100,000 people. It
has become a destination event, which showcases the best of Irish music,
song dance, culture and arts.
The Mayor of London organised an amazing
big parade on Sunday 16th March in Trafalgar Square. The theme for this
parade is “World of Dance” to invite everybody to dance and celebrate
the rich heritage of dance within Irish culture. The parade will feature
spectacular pageantry, wonderful floats, marching bands from across the
UK, sports clubs and Irish dancing schools.
The as-yet unsexed triplets were born to five-year-old Sumatran
tigress Melati, on Monday 3 February 2014, after a 106-day pregnancy.
Three of the world’s rarest tigers have been born at ZSL London Zoo,
with zookeepers capturing their first moments on hidden cameras. The
as-yet unsexed triplets were born to five-year-old Sumatran tigress
Melati, on Monday 3 February 2014, after a 106-day pregnancy.
Three of the world’s rarest tigers have been born at ZSL London
Zoo, with zookeepers capturing their first moments on hidden cameras.
The first cub arrived at 12.28 am, the second at 12.59am and the last
was delivered at 1.18am. Everything was monitored using a remote camera
technology and the animals have been observed 24/7. London Zoo staff
never left alone the Sumatran tigress Melati during this period. They
have been able to observe their eyes opening and their tentative first
steps.
Born in the early hours of the morning and arriving within an hour of
each other, the first cub arrived at 12:28am, the second at 12:59am,
and the last was delivered at 1:18am, with keepers monitoring the whole
birth using remote camera technology but they don’t know whether they’re
boys or girls.
With wild Sumatran tiger numbers
estimated to be as low as 300 individuals, the cubs represent a huge
achievement not just for ZSL London Zoo but for the global breeding
programme of this critically endangered species.
Source: ZSL London Zoo
If you are planning a short stay in London, don’t miss the opportunity to see with your own eyes this beautiful spectacle of nature. Plan your trip to London today and visit the tigers!
