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Sunrise Over Rome- 1

Sunrise, Sunrise

February 7th 2008
Sam, Bridget, Jess, and I (along with about 10 others) woke up around 5:40AM today! We walked about 2 miles up a hill near the Vatican to watch the sunrise over Rome. (It was a good test for the good'ol femur of mine.) The sun was "scheduled" to rise at 7:15AM....and boy was it almost exactly on time! How do you predict that? It's beyond me, that's for sure! The dark, cold crawl out out of bed wa ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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