Vindolanda

Hadrian - A Rockin' Emperor

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July 9th 2014
Today we saw several sections of Hadrian's wall. Pretty cool that they made a 135 kilometer wall across Britain. We stopped at Vindolada, a former Roman outpost and village was steeped in history. The ruins there were awesome to see and are still being excavated to find history and evidence from more than a thousand years ago. Our favourite thing was to see was that the Roman's also like to hav ... 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