Fly Over States and Pizza Parties (Catch-up for the neglected friends) July 20th 2006 I am trying to convince myself that updating my wayward friends on the goings-on of my life is less offensive in the blog form than as a mass email. You are visiting of your own interest, boredom or tendency to procrastinate via internet. And I am without the painful thought of my babblings ending up in the electronic trashcan in pieces with the million dollar international bank transfers and ma ... read more
Europe » Italy » Apulia 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