Hampton Court Palace

London

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August 3rd 2009
I visited the Henry VIII exhibition at the British Library yesterday morning. The historian David Starkey was the guest curator and thoroughly covered the monarch's early life, his break with the Church, and his marriages, divorces and murders. I walked along the Thames and took the tube to Hyde Park. Today I went to Hampton Court Palace with one of my friends from Cambridge and saw the half-Tudor ... 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