climbing to the top of the duomo in Milano

flying buttresses, a small view of the incredible human artistic act of creating one of these many such architectural structures...layers and layers of carved marble, point on point, arch next to arch....years and years and thousands of hands in one effort

I’VE WALKED PASSED IT A MILLION TIMES AND NEVER ACTUALLY GONE IN

March 26th 2005
Pavia and Milano March 26, 2004 When I was a teacher, I once had a conversation with several teachers that helped me understand the difficulty I was having with some of my students. We talked about the different perspective and character that develops in the children of families whose ancestors chose to immigrate to the United States and the children of families who were forced, commonly th ... 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

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