Me at Buckingham Palace

Gotta get out of this country!

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September 12th 2005
It was a pretty early wake up this morning as we had a full day of intense sightseeing to do. We re-boarded our hop on/hop off bus to make our way to Buckingham Palace, the Queen of England's residence. We watched the changing of the guards along with what seemed like a million other people. It was pretty boring and not very eventful. Afterwards everyone else wanted to take a tour of the insi ... 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