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2. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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   Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.

3. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - Wikipedia

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   The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The present building, opened in 1812, is the most recent of four theatres that stood at the ...

4. Covent Garden - Wikipedia

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   London. 51°30′45″N 0°07′21″W  /  51.5125°N 0.1225°W  / 51.5125; -0.1225. Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and ...

5. Royal Ballet and Opera - Wikipedia

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   The foundation of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden lies in the letters patent awarded by Charles II to Sir William Davenant in 1662, allowing Davenant to operate one of only two patent theatre companies (The Duke's Company) in London. The letters patent remained in the possession of the patentees' heirs until the 19th century.

6. The Royal Ballet - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. [1] It became the resident ballet company of the Royal Opera House in ...

7. Covent Garden tube station - Wikipedia

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   Covent Garden. Covent Garden is a London Underground station serving Covent Garden and the surrounding area in the West End of London. It is on the Piccadilly line between Leicester Square and Holborn stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1. [8] The station is at the corner of Long Acre and James Street and the street-level concourse is a Grade II ...

8. London Transport Museum - Wikipedia

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   The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, and is open to the public every day excluding over Christmas, [3] having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton , is the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site of historic artefacts that is open to the ...

9. Old Price Riots - Wikipedia

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   Cartoon of the riots by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. The Old Price Riots of 1809 (also sometimes referred to as the O.P. or OP riots) were caused by rising prices at the new Theatre at Covent Garden, London, after the previous one had been destroyed by fire. Covent Garden was one of two "patent" theatres in London in the nineteenth century, along ...