How many guesses on the above? The West front of Westminster Abbey--the main entrance to any cathedral, the cathedral always being laid out in the shape of a cross, oriented west to east. Every king and queen of England has been crowned her for the last 900 years. It is chocked full of the famous dead: Dawin, Newton, Chaucer, Dickens, Handel, Queen Elizabeth I. And just for the British perspective on the American Revolution--remember John Andre, the guy who conspired with Benedict Arnold to sell secrets about the defenses at West Point? We hanged him as a spy. The British brought him home, buried him in Westminster, and put up a big monument. There you go.
I have to admit, it's very cool being down around Parliament and hearing Big Ben boom out the hours.
The streets definitely don't look like back home.
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