edinburgh university

the more facial piercings, the better the student...?

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October 14th 2008
I came up with this hypothesis in my seminario di greco yesterday afternoon, when i was staring , mesmerised, as one of the boys in the front row, perched keenly on the edge of his seat, hanging on every word the professor said, continually ran the metal ball from his tongue piercing in a gliding motion across his lips. I just about managed to tear my eyes away for long enough to notice he also ha ... 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