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Stonehenge, Slag Heaps and a Lack of Vowels

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May 6th 2006
Back in London where Brooke and Ric spoke English, as did many other people, we hired a car and set out on Ric’s scenic tour of the English country side. Funnily enough this started out in Slough, where we laughed about “The Office” and passed the signs for Staines where we laughed about the Ali G movie - by this point we are starting to wonder if there is a media or literary reference to ev ... 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