I really like this picture

All the people, so many people

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October 17th 2005
People are so amazing. The other night at dinner I met a Swedish man who walked from Zurich, Switzerland to Assisi, Italy. It took him 35 days. I am so amazed by this. And I wish I had done that. Then I met another man at breakfast who was a shepherd in Corsica. His whole life was to look after 500 sheep. The stories and passions and the experiences of all these people blows me away. The very th ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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