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San Diego’s Chicano Park: History in Murals and Concrete

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     I went to San Diego’s Chicano Park to see the beautiful murals. What I found is a park that is beautiful, but not in the way parks are traditionally beautiful. Its beauty is not in huge expanses of rolling hills like Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, or disappear-from-the-city beauty like New York’s Central Park.      […]

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600 Years of the Lympstone Church Tower

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On September 24th 2009 the tower of the Lympstone Parish Church celebrated it’s 600th birthday. To put that in some sort of comprehension, that’s 6 years before the Battle of Agincourt, which, 200 years later, Shakespeare describes in his play Henry V. I don’t think that I comprehend that amount of time, so as a […]

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