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Show The Birth of London No one cun suy when London began be-gan ; the beginning Is lost In the mists tf time. London Is first mentioned in a passage In Tacitus, a Roman historian his-torian whose uncle. General Aglcola, spent most of his active military career ca-reer In Britain. Tacitus describes the Roman London of A. D. 61 when It was sucked by Queen Boodicea the British warrior-queen. It Is one of the strangest thlnga In London's history, that she should first appear at the moment when she was sacked by a British queen, and that that queen's statue should now stand In a place of honor under the palace of Westminster, looking down the Thames. It Is strange, but It marks that peculiar position of London a the meeting place of tbe races out ot which tbe English people were made |