suitof armour, toleto

Tired and stinky

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March 6th 2007
well I have just arrived in barcelona after a 6 hour train ride, which was more or less uneventful, not like the last one. But more on that later. this train ride was broken up into pieces of reading my cheezy John Grissam novel, which has made more than a couple of people mistake me for an American, listing to music and staring blankly and the spanish countryside as it rolled on by. My last ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more