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"Stopping all stations to COCKFOSTERS... Please mind the GAP..."

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December 21st 2008
The heading of this page hightlights a couple of the first things I head when I arrived in London. I jumped on the tube from Heathrow Airport to meet Louise and Alex in Hammersmith. The female voice over on the tube said... "This is a Piccadilly line train stopping all stations to Cockfosters..." being human, I giggled to myself. What a funny name for a suburb! Gold!! Then at every station "Please ... 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