Hogwarts, Beatlesmania and Last days in Edinburgh! 046

Hogwarts, Beatlesmania and Last days in Edinburgh!

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May 25th 2011
This will be my last entry before I leave for my two-week Ireland/Scotland trip before returning home on June 11th. Last Friday, I went on a Literary Pub Tour. The tour consisted of two actor/tour guides arguing back and forth over what Edinburgh's literary world had been about: Enlightenment/academia vs saloons, drinking, sex and the life of the common man. In the end, it was decided that ... 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