Outside the Parliament Building

Welcome to Belfast: Home of the Friendliest Terrorists

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February 23rd 2012
Last week was midterm break at Calderstones Secondary School, so Lindsay and I packed a change of clothes and flew 30 minutes to Belfast, Northern Ireland.<span><span> Last summer, I went to Dublin, Ireland.<span> I found Belfast to be a very different experience.<span> While Dublin was a bit of a tourist trap, Belfast was authentic and filled with recent history.<span&g ... 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