It was rude not to eat all the food at the emperor's dinner, so halfway through, people would go to the bathroom to throw up and make room for more food.

When in Rome...

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April 9th 2008
April 5, 2008 After eating breakfast, we felt confident enough to walk to the train station. We got on the train and then the metro without any problems! We headed towards the Colosseum for our first stop of the day. There were people walking around trying to get us to sign up for a tour. We knew we wanted to a tour of the Rome area, so we signed up. We went into the Colosseum and learned all a ... 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