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Verona

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May 13th 2012
I have never been to Europe. As a child I was taken on many fantastic vacations, but crossing the Atlantic wasn't how any of them began. Once I moved out, my parents soothed their daughterlessness with frequent spectacular trips to Europe which I believe fueled my mother's incredibly inspiring decision to leave a career in law and start another as an art historian. To celebrate my graduati ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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