Big Ben

London

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March 30th 2009
Mom and Dad’s European vacation finally arrived last week! I met them in London last Saturday and left them in Rome yesterday. It was so great to see them! I talk to them more via Skype here than I do back at Mizzou and don’t normally see them except for a couple times a semester back in the states, but it had been two and a half months since they dropped me off at the airport to fly here and ... 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