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Happy New Year!!

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January 2nd 2007
Happy New Year!!! Side-trip destination: Edinburgh, Scotland Just because it's close and just because I could, I got a flight to Edinburgh to spend New Years Eve. I figured why not! Unfortunately due to terrible weather (40 mile/hour winds causing rain to fall horizontally) the Hogmanay celebrations including fireworks were cancelled. But I didn't mind because Alex had organised to go to his ... 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