This Sceptred Isle ... This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm ... This England
August 4th 2013 If you have been paying attention ... it should come as no surprise that I would end my trip, where it began ... in London.
It is, for me, something of a homecoming, before my actual homecoming. A chance to visit what has been, and what remains, my favorite city on the planet (it also gives me the opportunity to quote Richard II, and who doesn't love that).
From Amsterdam, I took the Fas
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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 
