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Venice and Verona

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September 3rd 2010
Blog3: Venice It would be worth remarking at this stage about our photographer who hangs out of ferry windows, steps to the edge of mossy embankments and orders all humans out of the way. L likes to have no people, just the building in the shot which is a little difficult in Venice with 1000s of people everywhere, she waits for the moment or gives them the Julie Bishop stare, mea ... 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