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Making History in the Belly Button of the World

July 2nd 2005
Those of you on my email lists probably could have seen this blog coming, but even had I not been fanatical about getting everyone I know to sign the One or Live 8 petitions, I would still have to write about this concert. Because this day stands out as the single greatest event I have ever participated in, and just as I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and where I was on September 11, 2001, I w ... 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

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"As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.... If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden) So I did it, escaped the conformity of the corporate ratrace while I still had my youth and sanity, to see the world with my own two eyes and embrace all its beauty and ugliness. Central America to Europe to Southeast Asia in 2005; 2006 will find me ex... full info

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