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Straddling the Boundary

Oct.21, 2008 in Mark's Updates Leave a Comment

Our next stop was the Royal Observatory out in Greenwich.  This is where the G in GMT comes from since the Prime Meridian Of the World is referenced from this place.  It was a bit of a climb to the top but the view was pretty good – except it was cloudy when we were […]

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Nothing Beats a Beheading

Oct.21, 2008 in Mark's Updates Leave a Comment

Beheadings work better when the executioner is sober. No, we didn’t see any live beheadings, but we heard about lots of them on our tour of the Tower of London. The Tower is currently most famous for being the storage area for the Crown Jewels, but it’s got a lot more history than that. It […]

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