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Growing in more ways than one ...

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September 8th 2006
Geo: 40.8979, 14.7266Pompeii! I was so excited to go today! But it turned out to be nothing special. Hot, dusty ... it must be unbearably hot visiting this place in August. Terrible! Being an excavation of a city, it was quite repetitive. How many baths and houses can you look at? I spent 2.5 hours there ... a similar experience could've been had in 30 minutes. Though I did miss th ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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