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Birth Of An Empire

August 14th 2009
And Poking Through The Remains With most of Rome covered over the previous two days, I'd left the big stuff for day three... and when I say big I mean huge!!! The Colosseum incites all the usual thoughts of ancient Rome at the first glance. The spectacles that entertained, the way society was structured and the brutal nature of it all is encompassed by the iconic structur ... 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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