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Ancona, Apiro, Frasassi, and Home

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August 12th 2015
I haven't posted in a while, because, well, I've just been having way too much fun in Italy! We've been learning all about the formation of the Italian Apennine mountain range, which is all limestone but depending on the age has subtle differences in the color, thickness of bedding, and composition including layers of chert, marls or shale. Last week we learned not only how to identify these diffe ... 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