Party on the Hills

Post Exam Celebrations

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December 14th 2008
After last night I was afraid I might not be alive to write this., but thankfully I am because it has been a very exciting few days. I had my first Italian Oral exam on Thursday (grammatica latina) which went really well despite the circumstances. I found out at 19h the night before that the date was no longer on Friday, but in fact Tomorrow, at 9 o’clock, and I had been planning to have a whol ... read more

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna

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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