Pompeii

A day in the life of Pompeii

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September 16th 2005
Pompeii.........What can I say. Beautiful. I was not really expecting the city to be as intact as it was, but it was pretty amazingly perserved. I know a lot of people are turned off by the "bodies", but their were actually very intriguing to me. I know that probably sounds pretty weird, but they obviously aren't the actually the real bodies of the people. They are plaster casts. It's actual ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania » Pompei

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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