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Friday the 13th!

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June 14th 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008 Edinburgh, Scotland Are you superstitious? I don’t consider myself to be. I’m maybe a three on a ten point scale. At least that’s what I used to be. Today, maybe I’m a nine on the same scale. Why, you ask? Well, as we went to bed on Thursday night we told each other that tomorrow was Friday the 13th so we needed to “be careful.” That’s about as much conce ... 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