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Pompeii's preservation of art 1

Pompeii: Blast from the past

July 9th 2009
If I attempt to give a word to describe Pompeii, it would have to be right in the middle of amazing and eerie, which at this time, I hope the word mystifying will suffice. A walk through the streets of Pompeii, in which even some remnants of graffiti are still present on the main road, gives a person the sense of walking through a ghost town, a ghost town from the ancient world. Perhaps the most ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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