Orwell's House

I didn't get a tan from standing in the English rain...

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June 21st 2011
ah yes - more song lyric references.... Yesterday, for me, started out at the London Dungeons. It was a bit of a cross between a gruesome history lesson and a slightly more sophisticated haunted house than you will find in Houston around Halloween. It started out with a walk through a twisted corridor of mirrors that was effectively disorienting. We got lectures on the London fire and the pl ... 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