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Stirling

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March 26th 2008
A Tale of a Castle, a Jail and a Bridge After returning from Dublin, I decided to embark upon another journey, but this one was much shorter and much closer to Edinburgh: Stirling. Stirling is about an hour from Edinburgh by train and has played an important role in Scottish history, which tied into many of the places that I visited while in Stirling. It also ended up being a very pr ... 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