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Mount Etna

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April 3rd 2010
Saturday, April 3, we woke up fully rested after our long night of sleep, ready to see Mount Etna—Europe’s largest volcano! Neither of us knew too much about it, except before I left Tours my host family had me watch the French equivalent of a Bill Nye the Science Guy episode about Etna, which was mostly about the science behind volcanoes. We ate our hotel’s breakfast and attempted to chec ... 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