Alcatraz

Me in Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

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January 5th 2005
I visited the infamous prison on alcatraz island and am pictured here in one of the solitary confinement cells... nice. a guy called the 'bird man' spent over twenty years in this cell never meeting another human being. He was quite a clever guy though and spent the time learning foreign languages.... also in this picture is Ella MacPherson, a fellow Cambridge student who goes out with a friend of ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more