Maya and I-behind a float describing the theme of "Italian Souvenirs"

Indulgences and doctors-a trip to the ER and a visit to Viareggio

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February 5th 2005
Saturday February 5, 2005 Ospedale Careggi-Pronto Soccorso Walk-in clinics, on-call doctors, nurse practioners, private doctors that attend to private needs. Although in Florence, with a pharmacy on every street corner, I have found all of my medications without prescriptions and a medical remedy or a bit of advice for just about any thing...I have had my first encounter with the socialist organi ... read more

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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