Bird on a statue's head through a telescope on the Camera Obscura

I Like Birds: John’s big plan and how it was nearly spoiled

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June 20th 2011
The ghosts didn’t come to take us in the night, nor did the hotel burn down or any number of eventualities described to us the previous evening. I don’t think anything strange happened anyway, but if it had, I probably would have sleep through it. The Ben Craig Hotel served us well, comfortable beds, hot water and breakfast. Proper breakfast as well, not self served toast that had a tendenc ... 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