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I am finally in Oxford

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October 1st 2005
I have finally made it to Oxford. I have been traveling around the UK for the last couple of weeks with my parents. We started out in Oxford and drove up to Edinburgh, Scotland via the Lake District and Glasgow. Then we went to Dover and saw the white cliffs and took a ferry over to the north coast of France for a day. We then spent a day in London seeing all the touristy things, and then we e ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more