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First Day at the Bodleian Library

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May 12th 2008
We were jokingly told that we would be "well fed and watered" during the seminar here in Oxford. They weren't kidding. From steaks to quiches to cherry pie with clotted cream and baklava with raisins and pistachios, the meals are frequent and quite tasty. At meals we often discuss how rich the food is in England and France and Italy, but the life expectancy is so much longer in these places compar ... 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