The house in Hampstead where John Keats wrote his most famous poems and met his love, Fanny Brawne
A 16th century pub on Hampstead Heath that inspired Keats, Dickens, and Stoker
John Keats' most famous poem, written while in resident at the Keats House, perhaps while sitting at the Spaniards Inn
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.