Today we visited the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey. While the Tower was fascinating, the crown jewels are beautiful and the history is amazing, Westminster Abbey is awe inspiring. There are graves and plaques for every king, queen, poet, playwright, scientist, engineer, soldier and statesman you've ever hear of and then some.
It is huge and impressive beyond compare (well we visit Notre Dame in a couple months...we'll see), and it is simply wonderful.
In the section where scientists are found are Newton, Darwin, Lister, Wilberforce, Hershel, Green, Stokes, a plaque for Joule, Watt, and a dozen others. A walk through this building is literally a stroll through a thousand years of the British Empire carved in stone.
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