Check out that concrete

If it wasn't for the local geology, the Romans wouldn't have had volcanic ash, without the ash, they wouldn't have had concrete, and with out the concrete none of this would have been possible, those clever Romans!

I, Culina

August 26th 2008
It seems like I’m writing more on travel than Baedeker at the moment and it’s only going to get worse in the next couple of months, so be warned! Rome this time, ‘I, Culina’ and ‘Sallus Aumonius’ (Sally A.) had only three days and nearly three millennia of history, it’s going to be one hell of an Italian job. Day one, first things first, I got the whole ‘when in Rome’ business ... 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

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