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Venice!

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May 30th 2007
Glass and silk. And apparently weird Marti Gra masks are the big things sold here in Venice. I did end up buying some Venitian glass...now I just need to make sure it doesn't get destroyed over the next 2 weeks! Yesterday, Tuesday May 29th So, we arrived at our 'London Hotel' sometime in the evening yesterday after our short stop in Milan. When we entered the area of our hotel Shan said she n ... read more

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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