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		<title>London Deemed &#8220;Capital of the World&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a study commissioned by The Independent London is the &#8220;capital of the world.&#8221;
London has topped the most exhaustive comparison ever compiled of the worlds great cities in a finding that sees Britain&#8217;s capital outstrip global rivals as a centre of economic performance and cultural significance.
Of course there is some implication that the survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/12/22/london-deemed-capital-of-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Maybe, but America Learned it all from Britain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most recent public figure to decry American &#8220;imperialism&#8221; around the world. The London Times reports (&#8220;US is‘worst’ imperialist: archbishop&#8221;) on his interview on the topic. Interestingly he compares American foreign policy with British imperial policy and makes the claim that the United States is far &#8220;worse&#8221; than Britain was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/11/24/maybe-but-america-learned-it-all-from-britain/</link>
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		<title>The Demise of the British Pub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A slightly hyperbolic but nevertheless serious article in The London Times (&#8220;It’s your round: buy a pint and save a piece of Britain&#8221;) points out that the British pub is an institution under threat. I&#8217;ve read a bit about the pub in the formation of working class culture in Britain in the nineteenth century. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/11/24/the-demise-of-the-british-pub/</link>
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		<title>BBC NEWS: Duke opens Field of Remembrance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article (&#8220;Duke opens Field of Remembrance&#8221;) related to Remembrance Day activities in Britain the BBC quotes a veteran who makes the point of British war dead buried overseas in a very personal way. What also strikes me is that the burial of war dead overseas has clearly influenced the way that the British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/11/09/bbc-news-duke-opens-field-of-remembrance/</link>
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		<title>French Revolution in 21st Century Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian Francois Furstenberg compares the Bush presidency to the French Revolutionary period in The New York Times (&#8220;Bush’s Dangerous Liaisons&#8221;). Regardless of the political implications I think it is noteworthy the way that the French Revolution continues to be a lens through which contemporary politics and political clashes are understood.
Much as George W. Bush’s presidency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/10/29/french-revolution-in-21st-century-politics/</link>
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		<title>Daily Telegraph on the History of Royal Scandals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Telegraph gives a brief overview of the history of royal scandals as a background to the current instance of alleged blackmail against a royal.
The most prominent instance mentioned in the article is a prior case of blackmail against a member of the Royal Family:
In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son of the future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/10/28/daily-telegraph-on-the-history-of-royal-scandals/</link>
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		<title>Two Reviews of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend The Guardian publishes two reviews of Piers Brendon&#8217;s The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997.
The first review, by Maya Jasanoff, argues that the book:
is a compelling and spectacularly detailed retelling of imperial &#8220;rise&#8221; as well as fall, from Yorktown to Hong Kong. Not since Jan Morris&#8217;s Pax Britannica trilogy has anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/10/21/two-reviews-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-british-empire-1781-1997/</link>
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		<title>New British Memorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The London Times reports on a new British memorial to those who have been killed following the Second World War. The article notes that there is no monument like it on British soil, because the Commonwealth War Graves Commission stopped burying soldiers after the end of the Second World War.
The new memorial reminds me of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/10/13/new-british-memorial/</link>
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		<title>Travel Article about the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times travel section includes a narrative about journeying to the American First World War cemeteries in France, particularly the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.
It&#8217;s strange that a military graveyard should be so lovely, but lovely is the only way to describe the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, 26 miles northwest of Verdun. As exquisite as any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/09/29/travel-article-about-the-meuse-argonne-american-cemetery/</link>
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		<title>Cal Beats Oregon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Cal football game versus Oregon was nervewracking to watch. It was very back-and-forth (the Bears would score and then the Ducks, etc) but Cal pulled it out in the end. 
This is an image of one of the last plays of the game when it appeared as though Oregon might score and tie the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andrewpkeating.com/blog/2007/09/29/cal-beats-oregon/</link>
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