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piano, piano

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May 29th 2010
I've never written a blog before. Here it goes. Have you ever stepped up to a vending machine and you had to select what you wanted by selecting a combination of letters and numbers? And no matter what letter or number combination you plugged in, you still got this skunky chocolate bar that you didn't want. Well, that's kind of how some of my month in Europe has gone. Still, the good outweig ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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