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Day Three - No S. Sherlock, We're the NoGoHolmesies

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December 26th 2009
Everybody got a break yesterday when we got to sleep in. Today we were up earlier, but not by much. We met in my room for breakfast at 9:00. We wanted to get to the Vue Cinema early because we were anticipating big crowds for the highly publicized, sure-thing blockbuster movie "Sherlock Holmes". Not only was this a movie about a British hero and written by a local Edinburgh lad, but based on ... 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