View from Saint Mary's Alter of the Sky

Feeling hot hot hot!

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September 9th 2006
Wow, so Rome is sweltering! Actually, well, OK today is bearable. But still it's unusually hot here-about 85-90 degrees farenheit which is 27 celcius. Wowza! Ok, so here's my latest updates: Live, from Rome, it's Mary Margaret! Ok, enough cheese. Wednesday, Davide took us to the Forum. Although I had been there last year, it is still just as breathtaking. It's very hard to be non-plussed by Ro ... 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