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The Sun Has Set Somewhere

September 15, 2021 – 3:41 am

“El imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol.” or ‘the sun never set on your empire’ was a remark attributed to a loyal courtier of the Holy Roman Empire Charles V. His possessions spanned the globe. Philip II gambled its power on the Spanish Armada. Filthy weather in the Channel thwarted his desire […]

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60 Years Under QEII

June 3, 2012 – 10:28 am

Less than a week after my birth Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ascended the throne at a time of transition of the British Empire into the Commonwealth and the UK celebrated her sixty year of ruling Britain, even though Her sovereign nation has shrunken across the globe to Great Britian and Occupied Ulster as well as the […]

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