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July 2nd 2008
Having been back in the UK for a few weeks now its all feeling very normal. Most things are sort of the same as they were a couple of years ago but there are a few changes: • Some of the high street shops are using fatter mannequins (and people in general are looking bigger having got used to the smaller stature Asians), • 20 pound notes are different, • Petrol costs loads! (but in 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