Not a Gherkin

July.....

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July 30th 2007
Counting down! So, this would have been published a couple of weeks ago, however as I was stung by a crash on Travelblog, I've spent some time repairing that. Most of my Cambridge blog has reappeared, but not all of it, so that's a task as yet incomplete. I'll get to it eventually. Odds on Mum and Dad will have a copy of the text somewhere, so it might wait till I get home and dissembl ... 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