William and Mary College

From Sea to Shining Sea

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August 17th 2008
Well this will be the last blog from the US - we have driven down to Williamsburg from Richmond - only an hour or so and into yet another part of the American personality. We then flew to Miami from Washington DC. Altogether we have driven about 5000 miles in the US and flown about 10000 miles including Hawaii. Bizarrely the blog is getting harder to write even though every day is filled with diff ... read more

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more