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Palermo... discovering our roots

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May 13th 2008
As our family, way back when, moved from Palermo Sicily, to New Orleans Louisiana USA, my brother requested that Sicily be a part of his Italian vacation. We passed two days in Palermo, and walked a good bit of the central and port areas. We woke up early to make it to the Cappuchin Catacombes. It was basically a crypt with preserved bodies and skeletons everywhere. Most of them were skeletons, bu ... 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