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Venice

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September 24th 2005
(Posted on October 11th by Kim) Venice is the city of my dreams- the answer to my friends in high school who asked “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?” I never imagined that I would actually go, though. This was Hartley, Texas, population 300 where several people in my graduating class had never even left the panhandle, much less the state of Texas. But on September ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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