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Nothing too Remarkable

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October 29th 2005
as the title of this entry should tell you, I haven't been up to a whole lot lately. I think I'm getting use to Rome, and so stuff that might have been exciting to me a month ago now just seems common place. I did go and see the Pope. that's worth writing about. laura has this priest friend who scored us tickets to a papal mass. and this wasn't just any papal mass, oh no. it was a canoniza ... 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