Olive Tree

Holiday Travels, TN, NC, Italy

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January 12th 2008
Happy New Years everybody!!! Hope you all had happy holidays, safe travels, and excellent new years celebrating! I had a splendid journey down to Tennessee to see alot of the family! The foothills of the Smokey Mountains was lovely as usual, and I thoroughly enjoyed the q.t. with the fam! Then I shot across North Carolina to visit my old stomping grounds on the Outer Banks and my friends t ... 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