James Watt at Heriot-Watt University

Fleeing the Country

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July 26th 2007
You may have heard about all the floods that hit England recently. Well, as you can tell from the title of my blog, I live in Gloucestershire, which was the worst hit in the recent crisis. I personally didn’t have any flooding (just mushy ground) where I live, but the water treatment plant for a few hundred thousand people was flooded, so we didn’t have any running water for over a week. No ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland

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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