Madame Butterfly

Favorite Week Number Two

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January 21st 2008
All last week was spent learning Italian all over again. Six hours a day for five days straight of Italian, Italian, Italian. We went on many “uscitas” or outings. One was to the soccer museum, which as can be guessed, was a bunch of uniforms, pictures, soccer balls, copies of trophies, and more uniforms. We went to the offices of “La Repubblica,” one of the biggest newspapers in Italy, an ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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