At the Lakeside

Draw Down the Stars: Out into the Country

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April 30th 2011
It is often said that a picture tells a thousand words, but a picture of the stars from the top of a hill in Kielder tells you absolutely nothing. Unless complete blackness tells you something. The light from some of those stars has travelled for billions of years to reach us, but only a select few would see it, and only a special kind of camera would be able to preserve it. As good as our digi ... 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