National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery and Camden Town

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July 7th 2008
Happy belated 4th of July to everyone back in the States! I had a really fun 4th of July celebration, but in a very English way so I'm not quite sure if it counts. Details of that to come in a few. I mentioned in my last post that for Reporting the Arts we are assigned to go see two pieces a week and are encouraged to go see additional things on our own. Our first two assigned pieces were to go ... 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