State Dining Room

Yachting royally

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April 27th 2016
Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236I hate having to say goodbye at breakfast, but James started telling my table about our own primaries, and that was enough for me.I took a city bus out to Leith to see the Royal Yacht Britannia, which is now moored permanently there. I have a vague memory of it coming to Seattle sometime in the early '80s. It was decommissioned in 1997 and was the last of a long line ... 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