Herculaneum, Italy

A Month Long Exit

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June 11th 2009
This is my final entry for this online journal and details briefly the last month that I was in Europe. An hour after Brady left the Dublin Airport for Chicago; I took a flight from Dublin to Naples, Italy. For a number of reasons, including lack of sleep, changing of time zones, this was the most confusing flight I had taken because after dozing off I awoke and looked at my watch and thought t ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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