I am at the Duomo again

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February 14th 2007
This week I had a couple of new experiences. For example I went to see Babel at a theater new the Duomo. Mauro and a couple of his friends invited me to go see it. The movie was in Italian but it was a good experience because I had seen the movie in English before I left so I could try and understand Italian from comparing it to the first time I saw it. The movie theater was int ... 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