A Huge bonfire

That's me in the foreground, if that helps with perspective

November 5th 2004
The scent of burning firewood hung in the air as screaming crowds gave their support to these brave men of Ottery St. Mary. They held the large task of entertaining the city by carrying gigantic tar-filled flaming barrels on their backs through crowds of people, in honor of Guy Faulks Day (a traitor burned at the stake for trying to burn the House of Parliment in the 14th century). These barrels ... 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

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Georgia Copeland

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No, I don't mean that I am "a broad" as in Jersey slang for sizzling lady, I mean that I am "abroad." Yes, I'm overseas dear family and friends. After traveling to Britain in high school there was no squelching my dreams of living there in the future. I have dragged my flip flops through the suffocating swamp of paperwork, closed post offices, deadlines, "application fees," and nay-sayers and have emerged with a green glint in my winking eye and a prepatory Guinness in my belly. I send a huge hootin' hollerin' "hello" from the Southwest coast of England to those stumbling blocks in their de... full info

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