Improvision of trip to United Kingdom 🇬🇧
英国小记 🇬🇧
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Songs drift from the Scottish Highlands,
echoes of the Viking age,
while Edinburgh, draped in gray,
is brightened ☀️ by the colors of the Fringe.
Who shattered the peace
of the ancient Indian Empire 🇮🇳?!
Kanpur, 1857— splendent civilization turned to ash.
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Edinburgh castle
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And in 1984, Orwell warned:
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Big Brother whispered: dictatorship is the madness of humankind.
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The North Sea, serene and blue,
sings its grave, eternal hymn beneath the sun.
Newcastle, Durham, York slowly draw the silouette in the wind.
In the year 71, Constantine’s Rome raised its walls in Yorkshire.
By 866, Vikings claimed the land.
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The Sambles, York
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The Railway museum, York
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A century later, Anglo-Saxons marveled at its might.
Medieval streets, timbered houses leaning with time,
stained glass gleaming with colored light—
a weaving of cultures across centuries.
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Suddenly,
the gates of the world’s industry opened with steam.
Manchester,
city of labor, wisdom, and invention.
Here, Baby, the first stored-program computer, 1
breathed life into the digital age.
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Reynold library, Manchester
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Radical, restless, aflame with revolution,
she cradled politics,
incubated art,
married the ancient to the modern,
and dreamed of endless possibilities.
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People’s History Museum, Manchester
Big Ben, London
The Victorian sun never set on the empire.
Wealth and trade flowed down the Thames,
lifting London into the heart of the world.
Among cold steel and concrete,
warmth is found in the diverse, bustling markets,
Notting Hill, Chinatown…
In the great encyclopedia of the British Museum,
two million years, eight million treasures,
nourishes this land and the souls of its people.
Old and new entwine:
a power station reborn as Tate Modern,
recreated the Jurassic and Ancient Chronicles of the earth.
Here poets lingered,
legends were penned,
scientists were nurtured,
who created colorful miracles for humankind.
Once the empire of empires,
scarred by the smoke of industry,
laden with capital and reluctant to change.
Yet in such cold, damp rainy days,
where to console the wet body?
bookshops, tea, and carrot cake
seem to offer a brief moment to breathe,
a pause, a chance to dream.
--- Molly,
Brief Summary of This Post-industrial Capital " United Kingdom " ,
09/09/2025
Natural History Museum, London
Tate Mordern View Cross Thames, London
British Museum, Mexico Aztez mosaic mask, AD 1400-1621, London
Times tables and Geometry inscriptions, Babylon, 1900-1600 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
False Historical Narrative Hierarchy Explanation, Pitt River Museum, Oxford
Ivory carving crafts found in China(1827) and Egypt, Pitt River Museum, Oxford
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he Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
