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Rump time, and visit to the ancients

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April 10th 2013
After deciding knee replacement was not critically necessary, decided to head over to Salerno and Paestum. The coast from Salerno to Paestum was the site of the Allied landing in September 1943. The joint British-American assault was designed to keep the Germans fighting rather than replenishing, to keep the German troops tied up so they could not be sentenced to help in Russia, and to give the Al ... 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