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North America » United States » Texas » League City November 11th 2011

Well its been a few days since I have been on, So im going to recap the last 20 days. On Oct 24th and 25th I kept roaming around in Rome, went to the Colosseum. Learned some cool facts...next to the Colosseum use to be a colossal statue of Nero nearby it. This statue was huge and people used it as a place to meet, They would say lets meet at the Colossal and so they believe the Colosseum was derived from that. Another little fact was that there use be sand that filled the bottom of the Colosseum and the word sand in Latin is Arena, thats why arena is used now days. I also did a walking tour to the Vatican that lasted a few hours. I ended Rome with a bang and leaving ... read more




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