please empty your brain below

One piece of pedantry only, thanks.
It's Brownlee brothers.
The Crystal Palace burnt down at Sydenham, not Hyde Park.
... an historic .....
Thanks to a very obscure school assignment a long long time ago I know Barrie actually paid for the Pan statue. There's a bunch of them all over the world including one here in a nice park downtown in Brussels.
...and I think Great OrmOnd still get the cash.
Marble Arch is at the north-eastern, not north-western corner of the park
There was only one winner of the men's triathalon - Alistair Brownlee. The other brother didn't even win silver.
The Great Exhibition was in 1851.
Kevin is correct - Section 301 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 gave GOSH a right to a royalty in Peter Pan indefinitely
have been hanged
Wasn't it Eric Sykes that was arrested..?
Tyburn Tree
Whitehall is not now called Rotten Row.
Damn. Someone has beaten me to the overpedantic 'an historic'.
There's no hyphen in Triathlon (and [@ Madison] only one a). Lower case would be more suitable for the opening letter.
Glad to know King Billy got his hands dirty putting in that drive
Noon update:
Any number of comments accepted, but only one piece of pedantry per comment, thanks.

While GOSH does get royalties from Peter Pan, that's not because it's still in copyright. Section 301 is quite clear that "copyright in the work expired on 31st December 1987". A proposed correction:

"… his eponymous book, royalties from which still, by a special legislative provision, benefit Great Ormond Street Hospital even though copyright in the book expired in 1987."
Also Peter Pan is a play, not a book.
The play is still in copyright in the USA, where copyright lasts 95 years from publication, which for Peter Pan was in 1928.
http://www.gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/copyright.

And copyright in the UK was restored in 1996, when the term was extended from 50 years from the author's death to 70 years, expiring again in 2007 (although the perpetual right to royalties still remains)
I can find no evidence to support the assertion that the fictional Bill Sikes, or the late Eric Sykes, were ever arrested in Hyde Park for pickpocketing or anything else
oh, and royalties are (not is) !
Isn't 'an historic' hypercorrection? The OED thinks it should be a historic. Unless DG really is a cockney geezer who likes to drop his Hs in speech.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/a-historic-event-or-an-historic-event
was it not William III who planned Rotten Row?
... which was the world's first artificially lit highway.
The Great Exhibition entertained the world here in 1851 before the Crystal Palace was rebuilt at Sydenham, where it was destroyed by a fire in 1936.
subsequently (or later) burned down. To say 'eventually' implies the fire at Crystal Palace (1936) was an awaited event
The 2012 Olympic triathlons started and finished in Hyde Park, but was not entirely in the Park as the cycling course went to Buckingham Palace and back
As far as the last sentence is concerned, "As far as 2012 is concerned" is a misuse of the "As far as X is concerned" phrase. It should probably just read "In 2012".
The Royal Parks Constabulary only policed the park between 1974 and 2005. They were originally named the Royal Park Keepers, which were founded in 1872 (not 1867), two years after Charles Dickens died and over thirty years after he wrote of the character Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist.

The separate constabulary was abolished in 2005, to be replaced by the Royal Parks Operational Command Unit of the Metropolitan Police
I would like to second lockedintheattic's motion that 'an historic' is hypercorrection. (And silly.)
Tens of thousands of people were hanged at Tyburn, not hundreds.
2004 shouldn't be wholly excluded. The met took over policing from 1 April 2004.
Similarly, the met policed it up until 31 March 1993.
You can't copyright a royalty.
The qualifier 'London' is perhaps unnecessary. The reader really should know where the 2012 Olympic games were held, and if not, should be able to guess it was London given the use of Hyde Park.
Rotten Row was England's first artificially lit highway. Probably not the world's?
William III wanted a safe route to St James's Palace apparently
That's time up, thanks!
Marathon not of course in the park, but only after the route was changed from East End
Erm. Just one more, now that the 'green' ones have appeared: repetition of the word famous.










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