High St from Carfax Tower

Our Day of Educational Enlightenment

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April 22nd 2007
On Sunday Adam and I embarked on a little day trip out of London, destination - Oxford. I'm not 100% sure it's what I expected. Essentially what you've got are all these buildings kind of in amongst just a small rural city. Hard to explain - The whole uni side of things, the buildings and history were impressive, but the town of Oxford aside from all of that, was somewhat lacking. I think from ... 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