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An iconic double-decker bus flashes through London's popular Piccadilly Circus.
Photograph by Gillian Fisher, My Shot
The Edwardians, Victorians, the new Elizabethans. • Chaucer, Dickens, Shakespeare. • Churchill. • The Beatles. • As the crow flies, it's 900 miles from Land's End in southwest Cornwall to John o'Groats in northeast Scotland, yet this storied archipelago is a historical heavyweight whose politics and literature, arts and architecture have done as much as those of any nation to shape our world. • The smorgasbord that is Britain is as rich as its justly famous breakfasts—and every bit as gratifying.
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