Me in an olive tree

Happy Thanksgiving!

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November 26th 2005
Happy Thanksgiving! November 25, 2005 Hello! How are you all doing? So guess what I did last Sunday… I picked olives! Black olives to be exact. Did you know that only black olives are used to make olive oil? I thought that was weird, I had always thought it was green olives they used. Sunday was really cold, but that didn’t make picking olives any less fun. School has been tolerable t ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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