Pre-Mark; Remembrance Sunday in Edinburgh Photo 2

Pre-Mark; Remembrance Sunday in Edinburgh

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November 23rd 2008
The Sunday before Mark arrived was Remembrance Sunday here in Scotland. Kind of our equivalent to Remembrance Day on the 11th, it falls on the Sunday before the 11th here. I'd wandered around a couple of days before, taking some picutres and enjoying the seemingly mild autumn weather. The Sunday itself was bitterly cold, which I always think is suiting. It seems right that you should be shiver ... 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