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Places Facebook Hates
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Let me pose the important question first: Have you sold your Facebook shares? The company is collapsing, and its performance over the last m...
New World Art Capital: Athens
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If you are interested in art, then Athens should be the place to go to next. The art scene in Athens is booming. New cultural spaces open al...
Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment
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One of the things you do when in London is walking along the Thames. That will inevitably bring you to the Victoria Embankment where Cleopat...
Slow Travel: Walking From Somerset to India
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Parents like to remind their children to eat slowly. And slow cooking has progressed from being a fad to being a way of life. Time to think ...
Superhighway from Londinium to Isca
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A Roman road was uncovered in Puddletown Forest in Dorset. While the existence of the road was a well-known historical fact, it had been wel...
The Real Tower Bridge in London
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Everyone knows one of the most iconic buildings to be seen in London: The Tower Bridge. The Olympic Rings had been suspended between its two...
Why You Should Visit St Botolph-without-Aldgate in London
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The church of St Botolph without Aldgate had a curious show piece, a head in a glass case. The provenience of the head is a great mystery. D...
When Visiting London, Get an Oyster Card
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When visiting London, the first thing you should get is an Oyster Card from Transport for London (TfL). The card can be used on all public t...
Stonehenge Tourists 3,500 Years Ago
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Tourists in Stonehenge are not an invention of our times. Skeletons found by archaeologists suggest that there were visitors from all over ...
Drinking Tea at Buckingham Palace
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There are several ways you may go about getting your tea at Buckingham Palace. Apart from the obvious ways as a family member or a ruling h...
10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Come to London in 2012
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There are ten obvious reasons why you shouldn’t come to London in 2012, against only two reasons why you should. If you’re into betting, th...
More Pieces in The Puzzle of Stonehenge
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Sheffield University presented preliminary evidence on a further circle near Stonehenge found near the river Avon. After blue stone chips f...
St. Michael The Door Warden
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Besides many other jobs assigned to him by God, St. Michael is the foremost door warden. As such, his churches and chapels may often be fou...
Britannic's Lost Organ
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The ocean liner Britannic was the later built sister ship to the Olympic and the Titanic. Being unfinished at the start of the Great War, t...
Bruce Castle (and a Ghost)
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Bruce Castle is a misnomer; it is a manor house in Tottenham in London. But living up to a grand name, it has a history and a resident ghos...
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Light and Shadow in The Gardens
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Chatto & Windus published Christopher Lloyd: His Life At Great Dixter by Stephen Anderton. What started out as a biography of a great g...
The Isle of Glass
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Approaching through the dense September morning’s mist, St. Michael’s tower looms dark and brooding in the half darkness on the sunless isl...
A Room for Every Day of The Year
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Knole House in Kent is the family seat of the Sackville-West family. The house came into Sackville hands during the reign of Elizabeth I. T...
The Mystery of St. Sophie’s Treasure Heist Solved
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St. Sophie’s was a church in Dresden. Valuables found there during its destruction became known as St. Sophie’s treasure. The treasure was ...
Archaeologists Find The Tomb of Queen Edith
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German archaeologists were baffled and confounded by the find of Queen Edith’s remains. The remains were found in her grave in Magdeburg’s ...
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