Hanging out

"I got to touch the Duomo!"

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September 13th 2008
So today was cool. It started out literally, cool. For once it was a comfortable day without the impossible heat. So instead of going to the Chianti area for a wine festival, I went to the markets in San Lorenzo with Eden and Maxann. We ended up walking through the entire thing and stopping at each stand that had scarves. We were hunting for the best buy that we could find and when we thought we f ... 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