Playing with the Pigeons

The Sinking City

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June 9th 2008
When coming to Italy I knew there were places that I definitely wanted to go and things that I had to see. For me, Venice was a place that I didn’t really care if I got a chance to visit or not. I don’t know why I didn’t care if I went, but I just didn’t. When I was in Switzerland half of my roommates went to Venice for the day, and when I came home they showed me pictures of the car-le ... 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