Tuesday 5 January 2016

How Geography Foreordained Britain to Become the Greatest Empire Ever

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Today's Trumpet Daily is a story about how a small, isolated, lonely, wind-swept cluster of North Atlantic islands became the biggest empire in world history—and did so in what some historians call a "fit of absent-mindedness."
But was it really an accident? Or was there an unseen hand, a powerful unrecognized force, working behind the scenes to ensure that this tiny nation became an unrivaled superpower?
How is it possible that the tiny nation of Britain became the most fantastic empire in history? And what important lesson must the United States learn from this history?

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