In the Spirit for Carneval

Ahhhh, Venice!

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March 6th 2011
It’s my fifth week in Italy and, now that Terry is here, time is flying by. He arrived on Friday and met us in Venice, Bride of the Sea, Queen of the Adriatic. It was Carneval so there were tens of thousands of people walking the streets. In fact, when I was attempting to lead a group of students to a mask making seminar, we were caught in a narrow street in a huge crowd of people and no one ... 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