History
The Circus was constructed in the beginning of the 19th century, and was designed by John Nash.
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“Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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the truth of the new is never on the news
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the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
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