An old bronze pinecone

Arrivederci Roma

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September 14th 2008
The mark of any good conference is the feeling at the end of the Gala Dinner that no one is quite ready to leave. We certainly had that feeling this evening! But I get ahead of myself... This morning dawned way too early again after last night's evening dine around. It might not have been so bad, if I wasn't running both the morning session, and one of the breakouts! But it ended up being v ... 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