Weston-Super-Mare

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July 20th 2021
The British seaside is a national institution: home of fish and chips, & buckets and spades & Amusement arcades. On a hot summer day we went to the seaside with Ian and his sister Emma. The town's name is thought to derive from a mixture of Saxon and Latin words. Weston probably started out as 'west tun', meaning 'the west settlement'. The words 'super' and 'mare' come from the Latin for 'on ... 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