Awards ceremony

the Grand Prix... (or... the Emotional Roller-coaster)

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July 18th 2010
Woke up this morning to rain! This is a big deal, as the temperature dropped about 20 degrees down to... well... roughly 20 degrees. While the consistentlz hot and sunny weather has been lovely, to my mind, 42 degrees was a little much and it was certainly time for a change. We rehearsed this morning for our Romantic class, and rehearsal went really well. We were the last ones to compete in ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Gorizia

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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