Cathedral Ruins

St. Andrews

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May 25th 2005
I went to Scotland over the Easter Holiday for 5 nights and 6 days. I took the train from Chester to lovely St. Andrews Scotland, where I met my friend Laura who attends St. Andrews University. The university was founded in 1403 and is the 3rd oldest in Britain, so St Andrews was a college town almost a century before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, and it looks it. It is a gorgeous little town b ... 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