Spanish Steps

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September 28th 2011
I woke up with blood all over my sheets from my elbow; the band-aid obviously wasn’t good enough. I cleaned it and took a look: it was pretty bad and I couldn’t really straighten my arm. I would give it a day and if it didn’t get better, I would see a doctor (I am posting this 3 days after the incident. Good news, my elbow is healing. It still hurts to lean on it and straighten all the way, ... 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