'Road Signs' from the Trenches of WWI

Lazy in London

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October 11th 2009
For reasons that elude me, I was groggy, grumpy and sloth-like the next morning. Total mystery. I had an idea for what I wanted to do that evening, but not much on the agenda for the morning. Or mid-morning as the case might have been when I finally got up. I decided to head in a vaguely southern direction and across the Millennium Bridge. It was thankfully Dementor-free. The weather was less t ... 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