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November 26th 2010
A SCARY NIGHT We went to Cesarina’s for tea on the way home Imerio told me (which Im sure I had misunderstood) that it was going to be a Bruta of a night and see by that white streak in the sky it will snow. I was sure I had misunderstood, it was only the end of November and today had been sunny and the night was still and stars in the sky. We woke at 4am to the loudest thunder I had ever he ... 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