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2 Nights in the City that Spawned Our Modern World

August 20th 2008
Florence (Firenze, in Italian) of course. This is the birthplace of the Renaissance, and hometown of Michelangelo (the painter/sculptor, not the ninja turtle). This is a city packed with ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art. It is also a thriving modern city, though not a very big city. Of course Florence’s most important contribution to civilization and the modern world is not its influen ... 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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Chelsea and David Lilleness

Team Little Kiss

Hi Friends and Family, First off, we want to thank Brett Meier for that nickname (The Little Kisses), although like any eight-year-old boy, he said it in a taunting manner and with voiced indignation, what Brett didn't anticipate was that David and I actually liked the nickname! We are going to dare to go where no school-aged-boy has gone before and represent "cooties" with honor! We are a little over a month out until our European Vacation, hopefully with adventures enough to make even Clark Griswold jealous (although Chelsea hates frivolous destruction, so we hope to keep that to a ... full info

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