She did it

Pisa and Lucca

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March 12th 2009
And so my semester began slowly ebbing away my sanity. I have a 50 page thesis due at the end of the semester and I have 15 pages done so far. For those of you who don't know, writing is the bane of my existance and it takes me forever to get a paper finished. Mainly because I procrastinate. Writing feels like I'm pulling out my teeth with a pair of rusty pliers. On top of that I have all of the p ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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