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Alpini and Flourene again

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May 25th 2010
Hummmm, where to start? I suppose I will go in cronoglogical order and recount some of the excitement of this weekend... There was no school on Friday or Saturday on account of the Alpini. Who are the Alpini? And why would we get school off? Well, the Alpini are an important branch of the Italian military who really have more of a historical importance nowadays. There is lots more inf ... 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