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This is Mommy: Look both ways before crossing the street.

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April 1st 2007
With how many times John and Eleanor pushed the button on their toy fire truck that said "This is mommy, look both ways before crossing the street"...you'd think I'd get the idea. Here's the story: Thursday morning I was asked to do a story-telling for 2 classes of second graders. Our director's daughter was in the second group, so the director of syracuse and several other visitors from ot ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more