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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (or The Isambard Kingdom of Brunel) is a kingdom and microstate in central Europe, entirely surrounded by Luxembourg. The kingdom is the last of the four Isambard Kingdoms, and is populated entirely by the Isambard people, a race of tiny people.
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Contemporary locations bear Brunel's name, such as Brunel University in London, and a collection of streets in Exeter: Isambard Terrace, Kingdom Mews, and Brunel Close. A road, car park and school in his home town of Portsmouth are ... named in his honour, along with the town's largest pub. Although not of any real architectural merit, the Brunel shopping centre in Bletchley, Milton Keynes is named after him.
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As early as summer 2003, acta and Andrew Kelly of Bristol Cultural Development Partnership were planning a community play to celebrate the life of one of the city’s most influential denizens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. This grew out of the City’s bid to become Capital of Culture in 2008.
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"If in anything Stephenson showed a littleness of feeling it was about Brunel. He (Stephenson) was too much given to do as others did about him, to look upon railways and engines as belonging to himself alone and that no one else had a right to meddle with them. Forgetting that he himself was the follower of Trevithick, Jessop and Chapman, the helpmate of James, Birkenshaw, Booth and others, he could not bear coolly anything which was not of his school. He never forgave Brunel for taking another gauge. In a speech at Tamworth on the occasion of the opening of the Trent Valley Railway, George Stephenson said that he considered the atmospheric 'humbug from beginning to end. But,' he went on, ''it is not the only humbug; the Broad Gauge is another misconception just as erroneous.' " "But," the writer of this article concludes, "whatever Stephenson might choose to say.
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The most famous picture of Isambard is of him standing dwarfed by the launching chains of the Great Eastern. But look at him again with his management team around him - cigar still in view.
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There is a statue of Brunel in Temple Place, a small crescent on Victoria Embankment near The Temple. On your Brunel tour, this can be used as an excuse to visit the Temple Church with its knightly effigies. The Inner Temple is one of the most peaceful spots in London, and it is hard to believe that it is yards away from Fleet Street/the Strand.
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