Side street Venice style

Wet wet wet

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November 11th 2012
Dear Max and Dominic, Have you heard about the city of Venice? In the middle of a shallow part of the sea on the coast of Italy a few muddy islands rise out of the water, and for 1300 years or so people have been living on them - not in shacks and baches but in palaces and huge buildings made out of heavy stone. Can you imagine what has been happening with all that weight on the mud in the midd ... 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