Mary, Al and I with our silly masks!

Carnevale?

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February 11th 2009
Our friend in Rome, Mary, had a going away party today. She is going to Austraila for six months and invited us to her house for the farewell. The only thing was, she told us we had to wear a mask. So that was interesting. We searched for a store to buy masks, and finally found one in a piazza behind Castel Sant’Angelo. There was some masks in the store that cost over 170 euros! But they w ... 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