Glasgow
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Glasgow is a lovely city. In the time I spent there, I saw a few things that were really cool/worth talking about, but didn’t merit an entire blog post. Haggis! Liechtenstein! Sectarianism! Read on!!! #1 – A Really Mean Simulator 🛵 Perhaps it’s just because its inventor Sir Clive Sinclair died literally yesterday (at time…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
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Context! Britain as a whole has never had a good reputation for food, and this is especially true of our neighbours to the North. I actually think this is pretty unfair, but a long essay about why I think Yorkshire puddings and shortbread are genuinely top tier eats would be really boring to read. Also…
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