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Full English Breakfast or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

When I first moved to UK, a full dish of English breakfast seemed inedible. Don't get me wrong, I am not from a European country where they eat a pastry with a cup of coffee for breakfast, in Turkey, we have extensive  breakfasts  as well, but an English breakfast is a full-fledged meal, and a protein boost. I have spent my first months in UK eating eggs benedicts when I go out for breakfast, trying to find places where they make them with bacon, instead of ham. But then I began to see these places that serve all day full English breakfast, and it hit me. They did not expect you to eat that huge plate at the moment you wake up, you were allowed to go with it all day long. Then it became one of my favourite British dishes, there are not many as you might guess. The trick is that you shall not approach it as a morning snack, but instead as an half day event, and do not expect it to be followed by a lunch. The goodness of ...

Stonehenge: Why Bother to Visit a Stone Circle of 4000 Years?

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There are countless speculations on why and how the Stonehenge was built. Many questions have been asked but only a little portion of them were answered. Some believe it was a place of worship or a cremation cemetery (as the archeologists have found many cremated human remains in the surrounding pitch), some think it is an astronomical calendar for understanding the seasons, eclipses and solar events and some believe it was built for medical purposes. Although there are rumours about it being built by the extraterritorial beings or slaves who wished to please their masters, when we think of the circumstances in 3000 BC, the most reasonable explanation seems to be the volunteers who foresaw the need for such a structure. It is hard to understand with our 21st century perceptions, how did the Neolithic people built such a structure, by only using some simple tools and manpower. Though through scientific findings, there are some explanations available. First of all, Stonehenge was ...